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STIA offers concentrations in the following fields:

  • Environmental Studies, including Energy

  • Technology, Growth & Development

  • Biotechnology & Global Health

  • Science, Technology, & Security

Environmental Studies, including Energy

The Environmental Studies, including Energy subfield offers students a basic introduction to environmental science or global energy issues, as well as the political and economic factors that influence environmental or energy policy and the state of the global environment and supply of energy.

Core courses are also offered in related disciplines affecting the environment, such as demography, environmental history, business development,and energy resources management.

Students choosing this concentration should take advantage of courses in the area offered by the Biology Department and of activities sponsored by the Center for the Environment.

Technology, Growth & Development

The Technology, Growth & Development subfield allows STIA majors to explore policy and management issues arising from advances in technology, while acquiring essential skills in international business and economics. Courses address three main areas:

  • economics and business, including accounting, finance and marketing

  • technological elements of specific business areas, including information, biotechnology, energy, industry and agriculture.

  • business-government relations at the regional, nationl, and internatonal levels

STIA majors in this subfield may take courses offered by the SFS Program in International Business Diplomacy. When space is available and with the permission of the instructor, they may also take graduate level courses offered by the program in Communications, Culture, and Technology.

Biotechnology & Global Health

The Biotechnology & Global Health subfield is based on the belief that the health of the world is influenced as much by political, economic, cultural and social factors as by traditional issues of medicine and public health.

The challenges to health and society call for a new approach to the study of global health that recognizes the close relationship between health and international affairs, and gives equal prominence to the public and the private sectors. The concentration offers students a series of courses spanning a broad range of topics:

  • epidemiology

  • computational biology

  • health economics

  • biotechnology policy

  • medical bioethics

  • demography

  • the politics of international health

Science, Technology, & Security

This subfield focuses on how science and technology affect existing and emerging security policy in the context of international politics. Typical issues include:

  • Technology and military strategy
  • Nuclear proliferation, testing, and monitoring
  • Energy and security
  • Communications, intelligence, & security
  • The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, including biotechnological and chemical ones

  • Unconventional or emerging security threats, including terrorists, organized crime, narcotics traffickers, and low-level conflict.

When space is available, STIA majors in this subfield may take graduate courses in the Security Studies Program.

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Curricular Dean
Mini Murphy
Associate Dean
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Prof. Elizabeth Stephen
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