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The International Studies program provides students with the 21st-century skills needed to navigate our interdependent world and find employment in an increasingly globalized economy. Our graduates are dynamic, entrepreneurial, and responsible world citizens who can communicate, interact, and work across boundaries of all sorts — national, cultural, and socio-economic.

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  • Kacey Keith pursuing justice and peace in her career
    Kacey Keith pursuing justice and peace in her career
    Kacey Keith often encounters conflict when addressing structural and cultural harm through her work as a consultant, and she has an appreciation for people who are willing and prepared to face disputes head-on.Photo courtesy of Kacey KeithKacey Keith often encounters conflict when addressing structural and cultural harm through her work as a consultant with Honeycomb Justice Consulting.
  • I am Arts and Sciences: Alex LaGanke
    I am Arts and Sciences: Alex LaGanke
    When Alex LaGanke, staff attorney at Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, left her hometown of Cullman to attend UAB, she quickly started to see the world through a new lens.Alex LaGanke (left) walking at Railroad Park with Ron McKeithen (right) and University of Alabama Law Intern Allen Slater (center) after filing a petition for a client who was subsequently released in June 2021....
  • I am Arts and Sciences: Jolie Thevenot
    I am Arts and Sciences: Jolie Thevenot
    International studies alumna Jolie Thevenot is the executive director of the Japan-America Society of Alabama. Like many of her fellow students, Jolie Thevenot fulfilled a curriculum requirement to study a language during her freshman year at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.