主要
Students must apply and be accepted into the IS Program in order to become an IS major. Once accepted into the program, majors should use the 主修课程计划 to plan their curriculum.
IS专业有五个组成部分:
- 修读IS专业核心课程
- 选择浓度
- 学习一门(或两门)语言
- 出国留学
- 完成高级研讨会或论文
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The application will ask you to choose one of our four concentrations; to list your primary thematic and/or geographic interests, and the languages you speak and/or intend to study; and to write two short essays, one about an urgent global issue and one about why you want to be an IS major.
你在信息系统专业申请中给出的回答是我们录取学生进入该专业的最重要因素, but your grades and the courses taken your first semester play a role as well. 为你的申请做准备, we encourage students to read about the IS major requirements and talk with current IS majors; you might consider starting with our Peer Advisors, or with members of the 国际电子游戏正规平台 Student Association. Be sure you understand the major’s requirements for coursework and language proficiency.
我们鼓励新生参加一到两个学期的课程，这些课程涉及国际问题和/或由is教员授课. Your application will ask you to list a faculty member who can give you a reference, 所以我们鼓励你去认识一位教员, rather than simply list the professor who gave you the best grade of the semester. There are no specific courses you need to have taken to apply for the IS major, 但是你需要完成一些入门课程，这些课程也属于大学核心课程的要求, and others that will give you a good foundation for our program. 以下是我们为一年级学生推荐的课程:
- 整整一年的语言学习
- A comparative politics course in the 政治 science department (this will count toward your IS major);
- 经济学原理 (this will count toward your IS major);
- An interdisciplinary "Complex Problems" or "Enduring Questions" course in the BC Core that has a strong international dimension; some Fall 2020 examples include "Geographies of Imperialism"; "Planet in Peril"; "Violence and Representation in the African Diaspora"; "Beyond Price: Markets, 文化, Values"; "Making the Modern World"; "Environmental Migrations."
- 其他能激励你的课程!
Remember that the IS major is just one part of your University experience; we understand that your first semester may not put primary focus on IS-related courses, 但是，学习上面的一些内容将帮助你确定你是否对这些主题感兴趣，以及你是否准备好在我们提供的严格的学术课程中茁壮成长.
核心课程
到底在哪里?? 全球历史基础
INTL 2202 +讨论部分
3 credits; fall semester of sophomore year
到底在哪里?? 全球文化和政治地理基础
INTL 2204 +地理工作室/实验室
3 credits; fall semester of sophomore year
国际关系概论
INTL 2501 +讨论部分
4 credits; spring semester of sophomore year
一门指定的比较政治学课程
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3 credits; any semester
经济学原理
ECON 1101 +讨论部分
4 credits; any semester
Students with a score of 5 on both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics AP exams may skip ECON 1101, but they are required to take another 经济学 elective (ECON 2xxx) in its place. Students with a score of 5 on either AP Microeconomics or Macroeconmics, 但不是两者都有, are required to complete the IS core Economic requirement through 经济学原理 (ECON 1101).
一门经批准的经济学选修课
ECON 2xxx，或在适当的经济学先决条件下，ECON 3xxx
3 credits; any semester after 经济学原理. If you'd like to apply a 3000-level Econ course to this IS major requirement, 请与教授确认. (靠
伦理、宗教和国际政治
INTL 5563 +讨论部分
4 credits; usually taken after studying abroad
浓度
IS majors focus their interests in one of four interdisciplinary concentrations, in which they will take two foundations courses and four electives from an approved list.
合作与冲突
这种集中考虑了有关国际事务中合作与冲突电子游戏正规平台的基本理论和实证问题, 包括世界大战的起因, 革命, and 恐怖主义; the consequences of international and domestic actors’ attempts at reconciliation; the role of arms control, 情报, 国际机构, 全球治理, and grand strategy; and sources of state and individual security and insecurity. 每场战争都是独一无二的, 每一次和平都不一样, and students will have ample opportunity to study historic and contemporary cases from around the world. 同时, 学生将接近战争, 和平, 和安全作为一般的社会现象，并检查跨案例和理论观点的共同特征和动态.
道德与社会公正
这种集中考虑与当代国际事务有关的伦理的宗教和世俗框架, as well as specific areas of international politics where ethical questions are likely to arise, 包括主权, 恐怖主义, 调解, 人权, 经济正义, 以及在战争或人道主义干预中使用武力. 学生将有机会探索宗教的作用和社会正义的动机在国家和非国家行为体之间的互动.
全球文化
This concentration considers two dimensions of culture-making and community in a globally connected world. 在“工作中的文化”集群中, 学生考查专业的文化生产, 对文化进行批判性探究，既是一种复杂的意义创造活动，也是全球经济的核心商品. 在“文化与社会运动”组, students examine how communities and projects for change form through cultivating and deploying shared social, 文化, 宗教, 政治, 经济资源. 全球文化集中者可以选择完成一个1学分的选修实习，无论是在文化产品的创造或在基层动员和其他参与方法的全球重要性和文化代表性的问题.
请注意专注于全球文化的专业和未成年人应该只参加那些预先批准的选修课程 (“工作中的文化”或“文化与社会运动”). 学生可将课程摘要及/或课程大纲寄交本科生教务主任(教授. (靠) before the first week of that class (and ideally during registration period).
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这种集中考虑政治和经济之间的相互作用，决定国家之间的相互作用, 市场, 和社会, 无论是在发达国家还是在发展中国家. 学生将获得对经济的理解, 政治, and moral stakes in international public policy issues and develop the ability to analyze policy choices. A central focus of the concentration is improvement in human well-being, 特别是, 虽然不完全如此, 在发展中国家, 包括在非洲, 亚洲, 太平洋和拉丁美洲. 学生选择集中强调政治经济学(PE)或发展电子游戏正规平台(DS)的集群。.
请注意:主修政治经济与发展电子游戏正规平台的专业和未成年人可以参加PE或DS集群批准的选修课程，并将其计入自己的集群. 学生可将课程摘要及/或课程大纲寄交本科生教务主任(教授. (靠) before the first week of that class (and ideally during registration period).
语言要求
All students completing the IS major, regardless of school (MCAS, CSOM, Lynch, etc.)必须具备一门现代外语的高级熟练程度或两门现代外语的中级熟练程度. This is a more strenuous requirement than the MCAS minimum, and it must be met by all majors.
高级熟练程度可以通过以下几种方式来证明:
- 成功完成第三年第二学期的现代外语课程(e.g. 西班牙语或法语CCRII，或第三年俄语第二部分.)
异常:阿拉伯语和汉语课程的学分是其他课程的2倍, so the IS Program considers advanced proficiency to be reached after the Intermediate I course is completed.
- 成功完成一学期的现代外语课程(超过高级水平), 用那种语言教学.g. 法语3000级或以上)
- Earning a 5 on an AP exam, or a 700+ on an SAT subject test, in a modern foreign language;
- demonstrating advanced proficiency to a faculty member in one of BC’s language departments. (That faculty member must certify a student's advanced language proficiency in an email to Ms. 帕特里夏·乔伊斯 在IS项目办公室.)
注意:语言课程，以任何方式计算在你的主要或次要语言能力要求必须采取的成绩，不能取及格/不及格. (Such courses taken pass/fail through Spring 2020 will be honored.)
中级熟练程度可以通过几种方式来证明:
- 成功完成第二学期现代外语中级课程(成绩及格).
- Earning the following minimum scores on an AP language exam or SAT Subject Test:
Chinese (AP4/SAT650) French (AP3/SAT550)
德语(AP4/SAT600)意大利语(AP3/SAT550)
日语(AP4/SAT650)韩语(AP4/SAT650)
现代希伯来语(AP4/SAT650)西班牙语(AP3/550)
- Demonstrating intermediate proficiency to a faculty member in one of BC’s language departments. (That faculty member must certify a student's intermediate language proficiency in an email to Ms. 帕特丽夏·乔伊斯.joyce@mackinbridges.net]在IS项目办公室.)
注意:语言课程，以任何方式计算在你的主要或次要语言能力要求必须采取的成绩，不能取及格/不及格. (Such courses taken pass/fail through Spring 2020 will be honored.)
注:中级以上语言教学课程, 比如CCR, may not be used as IS electives; but subject courses taught in a foreign language may be used as electives where applicable, 如果得到DUS/Director的批准.
Also note: Effective after the end of the spring 2020 semester, 语言课程，以任何方式计算在你的主要或次要语言能力要求必须采取的成绩，不能取及格/不及格. Pass/Fail arrangements with faculty made before summer 2020 will be honored.
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高级研讨会/论文
大四学生可以选择参加一个学期的高级电子游戏正规平台研讨会，或者和一名教师一起写一篇为期一年的高级论文，以完成他们的信息系统专业.
IS majors are expected to study abroad for a semester, but are not required to do so. Nearly 90% of our majors study abroad for a summer, semester, or year. Those who do not—either because they are international students at BC, 或者经济方面, 个人, or athletic reasons—can take advantage of other opportunities to engage with international students, 运用他们的语言技能, and meet people and groups from around the world (through the 全球参与门户网站, 例如).
常见问题
Enrollment in the major is by competitive application, submitted in early February of freshman year. Transfer students who enter BC in their sophomore year may apply during the summer.
我如何申请IS专业?
Enrollment in the IS minor is open to all students who file a course plan, which outlines how they will meet the minor's requirements, before the end of the Drop/Add period in October of their junior year. We also welcome declarations of the IS minor in freshman or sophomore year. We encourage prospective IS minors to read about the minor requirements and visit with a Peer Advisor or faculty advisor to help the craft their course plan. When completed, the course plan should be submitted to Ms. 帕特里夏·乔伊斯 in Gasson 104.
我如何注册IS辅修课程?
Increased investment from the University has allowed the IS Program to expand to its current maximum of 105 students per year. 在六年的时间里, the number of students accepted has risen from 88 students in the class of 2016 to 95 in the class of 2019, 到2022届的105人. At present that corresponds to a major cohort of about 280 students in total (across three class years).
有多少人被这个专业录取?
Yes. Both IS majors and IS minors have a language proficiency requirement, but they differ:
All IS majors, regardless of their school (MCAS, CSOM, LSOE, CSON), must demonstrate advanced proficiency in one modern foreign language or intermediate proficiency in two modern foreign languages by the time of their graduation. Advanced proficiency will be met by taking at least two courses beyond the intermediate level of a modern foreign language.
All IS minors, regardless of school (MCAS, CSOM, LSOE, CSON), must demonstrate intermediate-level proficiency in one modern foreign language.
是否有语言能力要求?