Your language instructor can provide information specific to the countries where your target language is spoken. IS majors who have studied abroad can give you first-hand knowledge of their own experiences. Dr. Krutky can help you assess how such a program would fit into achieving your own personal goals as they relate to the IS major. The seminar will be offered each spring and will be announced in the course schedule. It is usually team-taught by professors in departments associated with the major and topics vary from year to year.
Most students take the seminar in their junior or senior year.
Dr. Krutky usually knows the topics about a year in advance so that as a junior you could decide if the course to be offered that year or the one to be offered your senior year is closer to your interests. Some students take the seminar more than once since topics vary, counting the second offering as an upper division elective. Occasionally sophomores take the seminar if the topic is of interest since the course is not likely to be repeated. Baldwin Wallace makes provision for students to explore academic topics beyond those included in the normal course offerings through Independent Study. This program is described in the College catalog and may be appropriate for International Studies majors with special interests in a variety of areas.