The international curriculum at Tufts draws from a host of disciplines, permitting a flexible course of study without sacrificing the structure that defines academic rigor and excellence. This flexibility allows the Tufts student to tailor his or her education to meet personal interests or professional career goals. The collaborative nature of the interdisciplinary model allows students to choose from an array of related courses which will enhance their degree programs and enrich their overall academic experience.
Africa in the New World
The Africa in the New World (ANW) Interdisciplinary Program encourages students to explore Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas and globally through a range of perspectives. Particular emphasis is given to three intellectual currents: Diaspora studies, identity construction and globalization. ANW sponsors an annual Africa-Diaspora lecture series to showcase these themes.
Archaeology
Tufts offers a general interdisciplinary undergraduate major in archaeology, incorporating courses from the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences. Students in archaeology combine course work with firsthand experience in recovery, conservation, and interpretation of material remains. The archaeology program has affiliations with several summer field schools, including the Murlo excavation in Italy, the Talloires/Mt. Musièges excavation in France, the Old Sturbridge Village Field School, and the Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology.
Art and Art History
The wide range of courses offered by the department is designed to familiarize students with important artists, traditions and themes in world art and visual culture. Some courses focus on individual achievements, great artists and schools, while others explore significant periods, such as the Renaissance or the 1960s, or themes that cross time and cultures, such as the treatment of nature or the fear and destruction of images (inconoclasm and iconophobia). Artistic style and culture from a number of regions are explored, with course offerings such as Japanese Architecture, Contemporary Art in Africa, and Latin American Cinema.
Center for International Environmental and Resource Policy (CIERP)
Established in 1990 to support the growing demand for international environmental leaders, the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy's mission is to educate students to become policy and decision-makers who will keep environmental concerns at the forefront of the national agenda. Through the Center, students develop the skills necessary to formulate effective environmental strategies and solutions.
Classics
Classics at Tufts constitute an interdisciplinary study of the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, and Europe. The Department of Classics is dedicated to the study of Greek and Roman culture and to clarifying and assessing its continuing impact on contemporary life. The role of the individual in relation to contemporary society, as the study of Classics shows, can be examined through the history, archaeology, art, architecture, science, philosophy, religion, mythology, and especially through the literatures of Greece and Rome.
Dental Distance Education Program: Master of Science
In 2005, the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine launched a master's degree program through a long-distance learning format for dentists who want to further their education but cannot be physically present in the Boston area full time. This three-year program adheres to the same standards and requirements as all other master's degrees. The course work includes study of craniofacial pain, statistics, and epidemiology, review of scientific literature, technical writing and thesis work. Candidates have been enrolled from countries such as India, Italy, Canada and the United States.
Dental International Student Program
The Dental International Student (DIS) Program at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine began in 1956 to provide foreign-trained dentists with the education and experience required to practice dentistry in America. The program comprises five semesters of course work and clinical experience, including innovative courses in implantology and geriatric dentistry. Upon completion of the program, students receive a D.M.D. degree and are eligible for licensure to practice dentistry in the United States of America.
Drama and Dance
The Department of Drama and Dance provides a liberal arts approach to the creative, historical, and aesthetic dimensions of the theater arts. It fosters critical thinking and challenges the imagination in the study and performance of theater arts. Drama and dance have forever been powerful forces in the world, an imaginative mirror through which we can better understand psychology, politics, religion, and gender. The Drama and Dance department offers many study abroad opportunities, such as the British American Dramatic Academy, the London College of Fashion Design, and Tufts-in-Madrid, a strong theater program for students fluent in Spanish.
Economics
The mission of the department is to teach students to be critical thinkers and to use the discipline of economics to analyze important economic, political and social issues, ranging from international economic relations, development, growth, and income inequality, to education, housing and competition policy. Department courses, with continuing interaction with other scholars at Tufts and elsewhere, help mold future community leaders. Classes, collaborations, faculty research, and other study opportunities are available for students in the area of international economics.
Fletcher Degree Programs
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy offers a number of graduate degrees at the Masters and PhD levels. The keystone degree program is the Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD), in which students gain a broad knowledge of international affairs. Newer degrees like the Master of International Business (MIB) and the Master of Laws in International Law (LLM) are a response to growing interest in these specialized areas.
Fletcher Student Exchange Programs
The Fletcher School provides many opportunities for students to supplement their education with joint degree and exchange programs with some of the world's leading professional schools and graduate programs. Student can choose from six pre-approved programs in countries such as Switzerland or Germany, or contact a host institution of their choice and create their own program.
Food Policy and Applied Nutrition
Built around a high-quality, multidisciplinary teaching and research curriculum, the FPAN program seeks to equip students with the diverse skills and comprehensive knowledge base needed to make a successful impact on food policy and nutrition intervention worldwide. With its three fields of specialization, FPAN provides conceptual and analytical skills, as well as a solid foundation in applied statistics and research in the technical aspects of program planning, design, implementation, and evaluation.
Ghana Gold: A Corporate Social Responsibility Study Tour
The Ghana Gold program takes 16 students to Ghana for 12 days each January. Students are introduced to Africa through examination of the gold mining industry and a series of interrelated issues, such as globalization and Africa's place in the world economy. Participants will be challenged to think about strategies that may improve the lives of people living in mining communities. Post-tour activities include a spring semester colloquium and plans for civic engagement research.
Global Health Framework Interdisciplinary MPH
This three-year program funded by the National Institutes of Health links all the Tufts graduate schools around the topic of Global Health. The program, which was first held in September of 2006, promotes interdisciplinary education and research at Tufts through a series of workshops. It is designed to integrate Tufts courses with those of institutions in East Africa, and soon in South Africa, India, and other sites, using the curriculum co-development model.
Global Health MPH Concentration
The Global Health Master's Degree in Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine is designed for students who anticipate studying, identifying, and solving public health problems in a global environment. It seeks to provide students with an interdisciplinary set of skills; to prepare them to recognize biomedical, social, economic, and other factors that affect health; and to identify, design, monitor, and implement interventions that address health disparities. The concentration takes full advantage of the great breadth of global health-related courses and scholarship at Tufts.
Global Masters of Arts Program (GMAP)
The Global Masters of Arts Program at the Fletcher School is an intensive, year-long graduate program that combines three two-week residency sessions with Internet-mediated study and discussions to enable mid-career professionals to find better, more innovative solutions to global problems without leaving their current positions. GMAP helps participants understand the complex and nuanced intersections between the worlds of international business, international organizations and NGOs, and governments. GMAP II expands upon the groundwork laid in the first session, and comprises primarily professionals interested in security issues.
History
History majors may focus on World History as an area of concentration. Members of the History Department offer preparation at the M.A. level in regional fields encompassing Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, and at the Ph.D. level in three regional fields: Modern Spain, Modern South Asia, and East Asia in World Perspective. The department also offers preparation in the thematic fields that are comparative and interdisciplinary in approach. These fields and their standing faculty committees are as follows: Nationalism and Collective Identity; International and Intercultural Relations; Film, Media, and History; Labor and Social Movements; Gender and Sexuality; and Civil Society, the Public Sphere, and the State.
Innovative Curricula in Water & International Research
The Innovative Curricula in Water & International Research is a five-year NIH-funded "Roadmap" program. Its goal is twofold: to develop and implement a health and water curriculum in the new Tufts University Water: Systems, Science, and Society interdisciplinary program, and to create novel interdisciplinary Internet-based curricula linking Tufts University with East African public health educators, researchers, and institutions.
International Environmental Policy
UEP offers a dual degree program in International Environmental Policy in collaboration with the Fletcher School. This program provides an opportunity for a select number of highly qualified students to earn both a Master of Arts (M.A.) in urban and environmental policy and planning and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) at the Fletcher School. The program is designed to prepare students for careers in economic and development institutions, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations concerned with international problems affecting the physical environment such as acid rain, global warming, offshore oil drilling, soil erosion, deforestation, biodiversity, waterways pollution, and chemical contamination.
International Veterinary Medicine Certificate Program
The International Veterinary Medicine Certificate Program is a comprehensive, mentor-centered program for Tufts veterinary students. The program includes cross-cultural seminars, elective courses, international conferences and training opportunities, an international project, a thesis or a peer-reviewed publication, and a comprehensive oral final exam. Students in the certificate program can choose one of five areas of specialization: conservation medicine, veterinary public health, livestock production and development, veterinary diseases of international importance, or livestock in humanitarian assistance.
International Veterinary Medicine Signature Program
The International Program at Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is one of Tufts University's five Signature Programs. It is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in the field of international veterinary education, and for innovative approaches taken to support animal health in the developing world. The full and part-time faculties are joined by a large network of adjunct faculty based throughout the world and working in areas ranging from livestock health to wildlife conservation.
Joint & Exchange Programs with the Fletcher School
The Fletcher School allows students to supplement their education with joint degree and exchange programs with some of the world's leading professional schools and graduate programs.
Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance
The Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance (MAHA) is a one-year joint degree offered by the Friedman School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. In conjunction with the Feinstein International Center, the program was designed for mid-career professionals who have significant field experience in humanitarian assistance. Practitioners study humanitarian theories, programs, and policies.
Music
The Tufts Department of Music is committed to a vision of musical studies that recognizes the increasing globalization of music. In all of its activities -- graduate and undergraduate curricula in western music, world music, and composition; performing ensembles and its new community music programs -- the department seeks to create an environment in which the vast diversity of musical cultures in the United States and around the world is appreciated and valued.
Occupational Therapy International Programs
Through international collaboration, the Department of Occupational Therapy sponsors three unique study abroad programs in occupational therapy in Edinburgh, Scotland; Oxford, England; and Stockholm, Sweden. The Boston School of Occupational Therapy is affiliated with Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh, Oxford Brookes University and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
Romance Languages
The Romance languages all derive from the Latin spoken in different parts of the Roman Empire. Courses in French, Spanish, and Italian give students an understanding of the spoken and written language and promote the reading and appreciation of each nation's literature. Students may deepen their linguistic sensibilities and expand their horizons by studying, through a Romance language, a civilization different from but connected to their own. Students may major in French, in Spanish, or in Italian Studies, and may minor in Italian.
Summer English Language Programs
Just as Tufts encourages its students to study abroad, the university also hosts international students, graduates, and professionals through Tufts Summer English Language Programs. English classes are taught by dedicated instructors who use their imagination and experience to maximize students' learning potential. Class is complemented by a host of "real-world" activities like field trips and discussions that help students "live" the language as they learn it.
Sustainable Sweden Tour and Internships in Swedish Eco-Municipalities
Sweden is developing a growing number of "eco-municipalities" in which the principles of sustainable development are put into practice at the municipal level. For the past two years, Urban Environmental Policy and Planning students, with help from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Tufts Institute for the Environment, have arranged their own Sustainable Sweden tours and internships in a variety of eco-municipalities. Students then spend the second half of their internship in a U.S. municipality that has the potential to become an eco-municipality.
