•  Speak, write, and read at an intermediate to advanced level in a language of the Middle East/South Asia. 
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of the history and culture of the Middle East/South Asia. 
• Apply critical thinking skills and demonstrate English writing skills.  

2012 

• Demonstrate broad familiarity with medieval and early modern history, societies, and cultural and religious traditions.
• Demonstrate detailed knowledge of at least one historical period and culture.
• Assess and correctly use primary and secondary sources to develop complex and original ideas presented in clear, well-organized essays.    

2012 

• Demonstrate analytical skills and extensive experience with the tactics of problem solving and logical thinking. Graduates will have the ability to ask all-important questions and perform suitable quantitative analysis.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of rigorous mathematical proof.

• Demonstrate analytical skills and extensive experience with the tactics of problem solving and logical thinking. Graduates will have the ability to ask pertinent questions and perform suitable quantitative analysis.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of rigorous mathematical proof.

• Express, assess, and defend analyses of linguistic data or societal concerns related to language use, with clarity and rigor in standard written academic English;
• Effectively analyze the structure of languages, as manifested in their phonological, morphological, syntactic, and/or semantic systems; and
• Effectively utilize a standard scientific research methodology appropriate to linguistic analysis.

2012 

• Demonstrate practical functionality in all four aspects of the Japanese language, i.e., in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
• Utilizing a thorough knowledge of foundation-level Japanese grammar and vocabulary, comprehend and respond appropriately to spoken commands and announcements, to medium-length spoken accounts of sequences of event and other similar narrations, and to speech used in commonly occurring situations in daily and academic life.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to the cultural styles of Japane

• Language. Students will demonstrate an ability to operate in Italian, i.e. communicate orally and in writing, demonstrate an awareness of appropriateness of communication with respect to situation and register, be able to write a cogent essay according to appropriate disciplinary standards.
• Culture.

• Explain the causes and consequences of key phenomena in International Relations.                                
• Understand the strengths and weaknesses of different disciplinary approaches to the study of International Relations.

• Factual Knowledge. Students will demonstrate a basic grasp of important people, places, and events in the past. They will be able to identify the who, what, when, where, why, and historical significance of key actors and moments in history.

• Language. Students will demonstrate an ability to operate in German, i.e. communicate orally and in writing, demonstrate an awareness of appropriateness of communication with respect to situation and register, be able to write a cogent essay according to appropriate disciplinary standards.
• Culture.