{"id":8382,"date":"2020-02-07T12:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/?p=8382"},"modified":"2020-02-07T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T17:16:13","slug":"cate-mclaughlin-23-on-majoring-in-international-studies-and-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/news\/cate-mclaughlin-23-on-majoring-in-international-studies-and-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cate McLaughlin \u201823 on majoring in International Studies and Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cate McLaughlin has her eye on the globe. Growing up speaking some French with her mother and sisters in her hometown of Rehoboth, MA, McLaughlin actively sought out universities with strong foreign language and international relations programs. She quickly determined that URI was the perfect match for her because of a recent program implemented into the university\u2019s curriculum. As a subset of the Political Science department, URI now offers the International Studies and Diplomacy (ISD) program. This dual degree program offers students the chance to receive a B.A. in International Studies and another in one of five languages offered as a B.A., including French, German, Chinese, Spanish, and Italian. The program is meant to be completed in four years, though an option to earn a B.A.\/M.A. in five years is also offered.<\/span><\/p>\n

McLaughlin became one of the first freshmen in the major, declaring her language focus to be French. \u201cIt’s been really great,\u201d McLaughlin says. \u201cYou get support from all different departments, so it allows you to really weave your way through different disciplines. You learn from a lot of different disciplines and make connections all over campus. It really gives you a huge advantage.\u201d With her first semester in the ISD program now reaching its close, McLaughlin isn\u2019t stopping there. In an effort to expand her linguistic prowess, she\u2019s taking on a new challenge: double minoring in Arabic and Spanish. \u201cSpanish was kind of a last minute decision because I have experience working with people who only speak Spanish, so I wanted to keep learning it,\u201d she explains. \u201cI wanted to be able to communicate with them, and I know its importance in this country. There are also a lot of immigrants from Arabic-speaking countries who live in France. There\u2019s a lot you can do with both languages.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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With her plate stacked full and her future shining bright, McLaughlin looks forward to graduating in May 2023 with her B.A.s in International Studies and Diplomacy and French, as well as two minors in Spanish and Arabic. As for her future career, she hopes to go into either foreign service or immigration law, though she notes that her options are limitless thanks to the ISD program. To any students interested in the program, whether new or returning, McLaughlin has this to say: \u201cDefinitely join the ISD major, especially if you\u2019re studying a language. It forces you to get fluent in the language of your choice, and not many programs in the country do that. It allows you to be a really well-rounded person by studying so many disciplines and picking up so many more skills. The program is really helpful for people who don\u2019t know what they want to do yet because there\u2019s so many options to explore.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Cate McLaughlin \u201823 is pursuing our new dual major program, International Studies and Diplomacy (ISD), focusing on also earning a B.A. in French and two minors in Spanish and Arabic. “It allows you to be a really well-rounded person by studying so many disciplines and picking up so many more skills,” she says of the ISD major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1089,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[146,61,211,112],"class_list":["post-8382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-arabic","tag-french","tag-international-studies-and-diplomacy","tag-spanish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8382"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8406,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8382\/revisions\/8406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/artsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}