The International Relations (IR) program is a hallmark of Tufts undergraduate curriculum. Inherently interdisciplinary, the program draws faculty and courses from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and natural sciences, requiring students to engage world problems from multiple perspectives. IR majors study regional history, economics, politics, and culture, global health, nutrition, and the environment, the causes and consequences of war and the conditions of peace, the spread of ideas through global practices and behaviors including human rights and migration, and how individuals perceive themselves in their relationships to the world through prisms such as gender, class, religions, race, and ethnicity. Many students will take classes at Tufts graduate school of international relations, the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, which is the oldest and one of the most distinguished schools of international relations in the United States.The growing interactions between, and integration of, peoples, governments, firms, organizations and ideas lie at the center of international relations today. As are the political, economic, and social consequences of and backlash against these trends. The Globalization concentration examines these disparate but interconnected phenomena through a variety of lenses, issue areas and levels of analysis, focusing on the strategies employed by international actors navigating the complexities of the 21st century world.
