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Statement of Purpose
This multidisciplinary major is one of the strongest international relations
programs in any American liberal arts institution. It requires students to
integrate the study of politics, economics, history, and foreign languages,
and it also sends students for at least a semester of study abroad for
first-hand exposure to a foreign society. The program increasingly builds on
the expertise of its faculty and Pomona's location on the Pacific Rim to offer
special strength in East Asian and Latin American studies.
In addition to fulfilling rigorous academic requirements, students are
encouraged to develop initiative and leadership skills. Majors are called upon
to arrange conferences, receptions, dinners, and student-faculty retreats, and
they present speakers in the International Relations Colloquium, an active
program that brings experts from government, the private sector, the media,
and academia to campus. Students also participate in issues of program
governance, including curricular issues.
The program is designed to give motivated students the core analytical skills,
the ability to synthesize different disciplinary approaches, the clarity of
expression, and the leadership skills needed to meet the challenges of a
rapidly changing world. Graduates of the program are attractive to a wide
range of employers and graduate schools. Common career paths include public
service, non-governmental organizations, business, law, and academia. Pomona
is one of the top 50 colleges and universities in the country in the
production of career diplomats.
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Measuring achievement
The two best indicators are the GPA in the major
and performance on senior thesis, which requires students to demonstrate a
capacity for independent work, analytic rigor, and ability to marshal
empirical information in support of an argument. At the top end of the scale,
one of 20 graduating seniors had a perfect 12.0 record in the 10 required
courses for the major (we did not include language courses in this calculation)
and five averaged 11.9, that is, one A- and the rest A. At the other end of
the scale we had two students (one a hold over from last year) who failed to
complete their theses and did not graduate, and several very marginal theses.
We are planning to institute more early warning measures in the proseminar to
detect these problems at an earlier date.
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