Degree Requirements:
There is a total of 31 credit hours of 5/6000 coursework required.
Within the 31 credit hours, you must complete:
- CORE coursework (7 credits):
- INR 5938 – Seminar in International Affairs (3) – fall only
- INR 5935 – Colloquium (1) – fall only
- INR 5012 – Problems of Globalism (3) – spring only
- Careers in IA (code to be added later) (0) – spring only
- DEVELOPING WORLD coursework (6 credits):
- These are courses focusing on the developing or post-communist world
- (i.e. outside of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.)
- These are courses focusing on the developing or post-communist world
- DEPARTMENTAL coursework (9 credits):
- You must choose a departmental concentration from one of the participating departments
- At least nine (9) – but no more than eighteen (18) – hours in one of the participating departments.
- You must choose a departmental concentration from one of the participating departments
- ELECTIVE coursework (9 credits):
- PASS COMPREHENSIVE EXAM, COMPLETE A DIRECTED INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH (DIR) COURSE, OR SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND THESIS
Outside of the 31 credit hours, all students must satisfy the foreign language requirement for the MA degree, even if they choose to graduate with an MS degree.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE requirement:
- Coursework through the 2000 level, including CLEP. (i.e. SPN 2220, FRE 2220, GRE 2220)
- Above intermediate level on the FSU Placement exam (Min scores: Spanish (46), French (48) German (44))
- 12 semester hours in a single foreign language, with an average grade of at least 3.0
- 4 years of a single language in high school
- Passing the Graduate Reading Knowledge Exam (GER 5069, ITA 5069, POR 5069, RUS 5069, SPN 5069)
- If the first language is not English: minimum scores on TOEFL (80) or IELTS (6.5)