MacMillan Center and YIRA

Information from the MacMillan Center Website:

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is the University's focal point for encouraging and coordinating teaching and research on international affairs, societies, and cultures around the world. It draws its strength by tapping the interests and combining the intellectual resources of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of the professional schools. The Center seeks to make understanding the world outside the borders of the United States, and the role of the United States in the world, an integral part of liberal education and professional training at the University. The Center provides eight undergraduate majors, including six focused on world regions: African, East Asian, Middle East, Latin American, Russian and East European Studies, and South Asian Studies. Two others are focused globally, one on International Studies and the other on Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. At the graduate level, the Center provides four master's degree programs. Three are regionally focused on African, East Asian, and European and Russian Studies and one is globally focused on International Relations. The Center also sponsors graduate certificates of concentration through its Councils on African, European, International, Latin American and Iberian, and Middle East Studies. Language training is an integral component of each of the degree and certificate programs. In total, 250-300 students are enrolled in these degree programs in any given year.

Beyond the twelve degree programs and other curricular contributions, the Center has numerous interdisciplinary faculty councils, centers, committees and programs. These provide opportunities for scholarly research and intellectual innovation and encourage faculty and student interchange for undergraduates as well as graduate and professional students. The home of one of the oldest interdisciplinary programs in International Relations, the Center is a founding member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), along with Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Georgetown and other institutions.

The Center's extracurricular programs deepen and extend this research-teaching nexus of faculty and students at Yale, with over 500 lectures, conferences, workshops, roundtables, symposia and film and art events each year. Virtually all of these are open to the community at large. Its flagship lectures, the Coca-Cola World Fund Lecture and the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies, bring a number of prominent scholars and political figures to the Yale campus. The Center reaches a large academic and public audience with a variety of publications including journals, monographs, working papers and books. Its Program in International Educational Resources (PIER) reaches out to the larger public, especially targeting educators at the primary and secondary (K-12) as well as college levels, with professional and curricular development training programs and services, in addition to teaching materials and electronic resources.

Link:
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/flash.htm