Report on Assessing MA Students in the International Studies Programme

The Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies held a brainstorming session during which Riwayda Khawalda, a former student in the program, discussed her report on assessing MA students in the international studies programme. The report was based on 86 interviews for International Studies alumni. The report consists of two parts: part one consists of a number of questions which aim at gathering personal information regarding these students in order to renew communications with them. And the second part contains questions which assess the MA programme in International Studies, including what they thought of the institutes’ activities, their thoughts of the comprehensive exam, thesis and two seminars; in addition to the extent to which these graduate students have gained from the MA programme in their academic and professional life. The interviews also included asking graduate students about the two concentrations in the programme: the forced migration and refugees concentration, and the diplomacy concentration. Furthermore, these alumni students expressed their wish to join the IALIIS Alumni.