flags in front of the UN

Since 1966, students from all UW System campuses and other universities have participated in this six-credit program. Students spend the first week at UW-Milwaukee in an intensive study of international relations, foreign policy, and international organizations. (Students are responsible for Milwaukee accommodations, which are NOT included in program fees.) The Seminar then moves to Washington for one week and on to New York City for another three weeks. In Washington and New York, students attend regular briefings with diplomats representing countries from around the world, along with experts from international organizations, think-tanks, and mass media outlets. The last week is left open for student research.  In Washington, DC, students stay in the city center—a short distance from the National Mall’s monuments and museums and the nightlife of the Adams-Morgan and Georgetown neighborhoods. In Manhattan, students live in New York University dorms—walking distance or short subway rides from Central Park, Midtown, Greenwich Village, Soho, Little Italy, Chinatown, and Wall Street. New York’s architecture, museums, restaurants, theaters, shopping, and nightlife are unmatched anywhere on earth. 

The program focuses on foreign policymaking and international organizations—especially the United Nations—within the larger context of ruling regimes and global power relationships. Theories of international conflict and international economic policymaking are the foundation for understanding the core issues of international relations: war, terrorism, arms control, human rights, international economic relations, and environmental conservation. 

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.