Our 2022 graduates have been through a lot. Their freshman or sophomore year the pandemic hit and classes suddenly switched to emergency online teaching. Many of these students saw their plans to study abroad fall through again and again. Their internships became remote internships more often than not. Through it all, they have showed grace […]
Continue reading →Have you been wondering how to find work in the field of international studies that uses your talents and gives you joy? Are you wondering if graduate school is right for you? Do you want to build up your network of contacts with Baylor alumni who majored in international studies? Do you want to make […]
Continue reading →by Isabelle Zgorzelski In the middle of my second year at Baylor University, I knew I wanted to become more involved within my academics. I was an avid supporter of taking around sixteen to eighteen hours in academic courses among having both a double major and a double minor, but I wanted to dive deeper […]
Continue reading →by Emmy Frigo Talking with Sarah Yocum (’21) about her experience as an IST major and a student athlete (in track and field), she explained how she incorporates both International Studies and her sport into her post-graduate plans. Advantage-wise, Sarah says that because student athletes receive special tutoring, she is better able to understand classes […]
Continue reading →by Emmy Frigo Meredith Pratt (’21) is an international studies alumna who spent a summer in Italy on the Baylor in Tuscany study abroad program. Her experience there has helped form her future career choices, and Baylor’s study abroad availability and prowess actually helped her make the choice to come to Baylor in the first […]
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Each year the International Studies faculty vote to select two outstanding students to recognize at the Academic Convocation in the spring. This year, Leah Ash and Lauren McLane were the students who were selected for this honor. They were recognized at the Twenty-Ninth Annual J. Harry and Anna Jeanes Academic Convocation on Friday, April […]
Continue reading →by Emmy Frigo Erin Hudgins has many feathers in her cap. She is the first Baylor student to double major in public health and international studies, she is the president of Sigma Iota Rho, and she has already committed to Northeastern University for law school and a master’s in public health for the Fall of […]
Continue reading →When the Model United Nations team’s spring conference was canceled due to the pandemic, Dr. Rebecca Flavin designed a simulation to take the place of the conference. The members of the team formed task forces to study the many ways the pandemic affects the world and make recommendations to the United Nations General Assembly about […]
Continue reading →The Baylor Model Organization of the American States (MOAS) team chartered unfamiliar water this past week with the very first Washington Model Organization of American States (WMOAS) e-Model. On March 12, WMOAS officials cancelled the WMOAS conference in Washington, D.C. due to COVID-19 and announced that conference was going to take place online. Traditionally, the […]
Continue reading →Every winter, Baylor’s Department of Political Science invites the highest-achieving students majoring in political science or international studies to apply to attend a foreign policy conference hosted by a military academy. The faculty choose up to eight students to attend a conference at West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy, […]
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