BA in International Relations

The aim of the course is the education of professionals who are capable of understanding, analyzing the international sphere of politics, polity and policy at the level of system (IGO, INGOs, TNCs, MNCS and international knowledge organizations at global and regional level), states, individuals and groups (movements, parties, and networks).

With taking this course you will be capable of understanding principles and multilevel and regional governance system of the International relations, its trends and nature, challenges and risks.

You will be capable of:

• understanding organization and management of different type of organizations and institutions:
• External services at the system level: multilateral international rules, polity units and public policy making in main functional areas.
• Foreign policy service units (foreign policy ministries, departments of functional ministries, external diplomatic services, participating transnational level of external services at the level of states
• The world of transnational organizations, international movements and networks, their roles in regime formations and global, regional policymaking activities
• working in internal pubic service, non-profit and business organizations, networks, understanding their management structures, programming, projecting and other network and coalition building activities. You will be capable of fulfilling senior issues, team management and operation activities.
• intercultural communication and interactions with international individuals, groups, institutions using the tools, approaches and methodology of IR discipline in unilateral, multilateral, hard and soft, public and digital as well as complex diplomacy for understanding and influencing choices and behaviors of the partners.
• ethical behavior, for intercultural oral and written competencies presenting in new visualized, mediated and virtualized world.
• continuing your studies at master's level.

Specialized focus areas:

• Green Economy
• International Management
• European Union Studies

Overview of the classes:

• Generic competencies: Understanding Europe, Globalization & Social Problems, Politics & Comparative Politics, Global Political Theories, Intercultural Communication, Recent Global History, International Economics, Foreign policy and Foreign Office Services in the 21st Century, History of Diplomacy, International Law, Geopolitics & International Security Challenges, The Human Rights & Social Europe.
• International business service industry studies: Global Environmental Problems and Management, International Economics, European Governance: Recent Developments & Challenges, International Project Management, International Marketing & PR, HRM Services, International Investments & Trade, Corporate Social Responsibility.
• Disciplinary modules in field of IR: European Union Economic Area, Environmental and Alternative Economics, Environmental Policy and Governance, European Governance: Recent Developments & Challenges, Politics and Policies of the EU, Environmental Assessment and Planning, EU Regional Community Diplomacy & External Services, Sustainable Development and International Relations, Hard Diplomacy, Soft Diplomacy.

The KJU BA in International Relations Program's position:

The program is part of the KJU Budapest International Campus program and together with the Hungarian program is sustainably implemented.
The program is connected to KJU's strategic aims for cooperative education including work-based learning (WBL)
The program is connected to KJU's strategic aims for entrepreneurship education: to develop students for private, non-profit or social entrepreneurship.