These functional concentrations will have applicability to the region and countries of China, Japan, and Korea. Demonstrated additional expertise through coursework concentrated in a second sub-region of Greater Asia in addition to East Asia to include either South Asia or Southeast Asia. Demonstrated writing and presentational expertise on the above topics in the form of written papers and oral presentations. One form of fulfilling this requirement can be through the writing of a thesis.
A special emphasis will be placed on maintaining a tradition in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown of encouraging students to submit finished pieces of written work to professional conferences and to professional journals for publication. Understanding and engagement in the professional and academic networks related to Asia and U.
Active participation in research assistantships, internships, employment in universities, schools, think-tanks, NGOs, IOs, government, and private sector organizations related to Asia and U. Security Studies Program students may enroll in Consortium courses which are not offered at Georgetown University and are pre-approved by the Director of Graduate Studies. Students interested in taking a course through the Consortium need to consult with their academic advisor prior to initiating the Consortium Course Approval process.
Grades for approved Consortium courses will appear on the Georgetown SSP transcript and will count towards graduation requirements. However, it is important to note that the Consortium course grade will not be included in the cumulative GPA. Please do not contact the Georgetown professor to seek approval or to determine if space is available in a course.
Please note that Consortium students are sometimes not enrolled till the day before class begins, or until the first day of classes. SSP Courses. The course has three main objectives: The course seeks to provide students with a basic understanding of the major theories and concepts used in security studies.
Students survey theories of war and peace — and the related dynamics of deterrence, coercion, cooperation, and intervention — in order to give them general frameworks for analyzing international security issues in any era. The course examines the origins of the major interstate conflicts of the past century, including World War I, World War II, and the Cold War, in order to give students both historical grounding and an appreciation of the applicability of theory to evidence.
The course aims to introduce some of the key security challenges of the post-Cold War era and the 21st century, in order to give students a foundation for exploring contemporary security problems in greater depth in subsequent SSP courses.
SEST Grand Strategy and Military Operations SEST seeks to engage students at the nexus of policy, grand strategy, and military operations to create an understanding of how nations compete in the international system.
Students should leave this course with a better understanding of: The theories that have governed the conduct of war and the formation of strategy from ancient to modern times.
The components of good strategy-making, including the different tools of national power, and how nations combine them to advance their interests. The difference between grand strategy, strategy, and operational art. Civil-Military relations, their changing dynamics, and the impact they have on creating and implementing grand strategy. Since that time, the SFS has continued to develop an innovative approach to graduate education for professional careers in international affairs.
In a continually changing and unpredictable world, the overarching mission of the School is to prepare women and men to be creative leaders with a commitment to service and an understanding of the ethical component of global affairs.
In order to achieve this mission, the School works to ensure that our graduate students have the proper substantive understanding of the international system and the necessary skills to thrive in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors of international affairs. The Master of Science in Foreign Service MSFS is a broad international relations degree, providing students the opportunity to have a grounding in core courses that cross the critical disciplines of international relations, history, and economics before focusing in a particular concentration.
The Master of Arts in Security Studies SSP affords students the opportunity to explore the field of security in-depth, covering issues from intelligence and defense analysis to emerging issues such as the perils of peace operations or the intricacies of information warfare. CCAS is the only academic center in the United States focusing exclusively on the Arab world, and it has been doing so with distinction since The Master of Arts in Asian Studies MASIA was established to meet the demands for rigorous academic study of Asia through a combination of regional expertise and functional skills in a degree program that prepares students for leadership in a variety of fields.
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