Repository: UIHistories Project: Planning Report - Future of International Programs (1968) [PAGE 11]

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SI \IUS o r EXISTING INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

The following de ription of international programs at the University of Illinois is meant to include programs operative as of the spring of 1 S>68. PI s T expansion or new programs will be discussed in Part III of this report A. COLLEGE AND DEPARTMENTAL COURSE OFFERINGS The extent of instructional programs and courses, wholly or partly internationally oriented, varies between colleges and departments. The College of Fine and Applied Arts stresses that all students be familiar with the arts in developed countries of Western civilization and to a lesser extent with the Orient. T h e Department of Advertising stresses an international approach to the teaching and practice of communication, requiring students to take a multi-national viewpoint in as many subject areas oi communications as possible. T h e Department of Journalism integrates knowledge of foreign media systems into undergraduate and graduate instruction programs and encourages majors to follow area study minors. The Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations reports that all courses are both interdisciplinary and cross-national. The various social science and humanities (especially language) departments have traditionally offered, as part of their regular curricula, )Un with an international component. Indeed, course offerings of some departments, such as geography, history, French, art, music, etc., are by their nature international. Other departments offer graduate majors with an international and/or comparative component, e.g., international economics, comparative education, comparative literature, etc. The Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Commerce and Business Administration, with assistance from the area Studies centers, have added special regional instruction to their social ience offerings (e.g.,

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