Applications should include a transcript, writing sample,
full resume or CV, and attached form.
View Fall '09 Syllabus
The Security Leadership Program (SLP) is a year-long nonproliferation and national-security focused fellowship. In SLP, students take part in weekly discussions and workshops devoted to a wide range of academic and policy topics. Students are trained in open-source research methods, making effective PowerPoint presentations, and the basics of writing grant proposals in addition to hearing talks on different issues in international relations. The first semester of SLP is spent in an intensive research-oriented course taught by Center researchers alongside guest lecturers who are members of the policymaking and academic national security community. The goal of the first semester of the program is to train outstanding undergraduates to work with Center researchers in the second semester on projects ranging from country assessment reports to international workshops and training seminars held for strategic trade control practitioners.
Security Leadership Program participants have gone on to positions in the United States government, the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency, trade-oriented consulting firms, large high-technology manufacturers, and academic institutions around the globe. Applications for the Security Leadership program are solicited in November and April for the following semester.
For more information on participation in CITS student programs, please email Christopher Tucker at c.tucker@cits.uga.edu
The Center for International Trade and Security is committed to including students in its research and outreach projects while encouraging them to pursue knowledge in their particular areas of interest. The Center firmly believes that the student-mentor relationship is mutually beneficial for both its researchers and its students at all levels with interest in international security and nonproliferation.
