Fall 2008 Security Leadership Program Applications are now CLOSED

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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.

 

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.

 

The Student Ambassador Program is an outreach initiative aimed at teaching high school students about international cultures and current events through lectures, open discussion, simulations, and geography games. Program participants develop and present 30 minute interactive lessons on international topics of their choice at area high schools. Student Ambassadors gain invaluable experience performing intensive research, teaching, and making public presentations while providing a vital civil service to the community by stimulating high schoolers to learn more about global issues..

 

The Undergraduate Research Colloquium offers undergraduates who study international affairs and relations a forum to acquire feedback on their research.  Faculty, graduate students, and other undergraduates informally critique and offer suggestions to undergraduate researchers, who are invited to present their projects throughout the year in various stages.

 

For more information on participation in CITS student programs, please email Christopher Tucker at c.tucker@cits.uga.edu