International Affairs Policy and Analysis (IAPA) provides students with the skills they need to tackle the international and foreign policy problems that they care about. As such, the curriculum offers significant flexibility. Students self-design a specialization drawing from courses across subfields of international affairs and select a Professional Competency Track composed of skills-based courses.

All IAPA students take three core courses. Between them, these courses teach students the foundational skills and knowledge to effectively analyze policy problems in international affairs. After completing their self-designed specialization and professional competency track, students compete a capstone Integrated Policy Exercise. This unique capstone experience requires students to create a portfolio of professional deliverables, such as a briefing deck and policy memo, that presents their analysis and actionable recommendations of their chosen international and foreign policy problems.