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Meaningful Engagement across Difference SIS Undergraduate Opportunities

Whether students have academic, professional, or personal interests in deepening their understanding of how to effectively engage across differences in ways that strengthen community and justice during their undergraduate education, SIS offers a range of opportunities. Meaningful engagement with difference comes in the classroom and beyond in the form of living communities, student clubs, and workshops. While thematic areas like “Global Inequality and Development” offer a path toward deeper knowledge of access and opportunity, the ethos of service and justice at SIS offer experiential opportunities to contribute to systems that promote equality for all.

Students will find a range of ways to build skills of intercultural communication and leadership to create more inclusive communities both in and out of the classroom. With future sights on careers in international affairs, these skillsets will be invaluable for the next steps in their journeys.

35 percent

of SIS undergrads identify as U.S.-born students of color

Latinos En Acción

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Latinos En Acción Brings AU Latine Community Together

Elizabeth García, SIS/BA ’27, shares how the Latinos En Acción organization at AU is fostering an inclusive environment for the Latine community on campus and beyond.

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Course Spotlight

Migration and DevelopmentSpring 2025 Taught by Professor Tazreena Sajjad

This course provides students with informed views on migration issues. It introduces several important topics that should be in the minds of (current and future) policymakers when approaching and designing migration-related policies. While taking a mostly economic approach to the issues of migration and economic development, the course offers a variety of viewpoints from different social sciences, and from different perspectives. (SIS 340-001)

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Professor Spotlight

Professor Jordanna Matlon will teach SIS 340-001 Anthropocene and Crises of Captialism in the Fall 2024 semester.

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Funded Opportunity: Flagship Scholarship

The Flagship Scholarship is for LGBTQ undergraduate students and includes funding as well as leadership development and connection to a community of scholars and alumni. Application opens in September and closes in December each year. 

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Regional Courses Offerings

SIS has increased undergraduate regional course offerings, especially in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. 

A list of regional course offerings across AU is now available. Cross-check this list with the course schedule to identify courses offered during a term.

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Connecting Students to Diplomacy

Isabel Leong, SIS/BA ’27

Chief of Logistics, Ask A Diplomat

We learn about aspects of the IR field we would not normally be exposed to.

Ask A Diplomat offers students a unique chance to engage with diplomats and cultural representatives from embassies. It is a valuable opportunity for students from all backgrounds interested in international relations, giving them exposure to unique cultures and global perspectives in a hands-on way. It’s an enriching way to get involved in global conversations.

Learn more about Ask A Diplomat.