Return to top of the page. The MacArthur Program approaches international studies from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. Through workshops and seminars the Program promotes study and research on issues of globalization, society and the ecosphere, war and institutions of violence, and identity and social power. The Program seeks to investigate how these issues intersect with justice and human rights, as well as social and economic sustainability. Interdisciplinary workshops and seminars designed especially for MacArthur Scholars provide a forum for faculty to share their research and experience with students.
Students likewise receive guidance and encouragement in their own research and interests.
At the same time, coursework introduces students to issues in and methodologies of research and fieldwork. Students may take courses for academic credit and apply them toward a minor in development studies and social change. Return to top of the page. The Center's current mission is to be an international, national, and local center of interdisciplinary research and training in the philosophy of science and empirical studies of science. The Center has served the international and national communities as the setting for workshops leading to many of the most important publications in the philosophy of science, many of which have been published in the Center's distinguished series Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science.