What role does SHASS play in MITs approach to international education?
All of us at MIT, and all our peer institutions around the country, are alive to the demands of the globalizing economy and knowledge systems. Giving MIT students deep knowledge about languages and cultures of other countries, and engaging students in international opportunities, is a vital part of a 21st-century education and critical to the Institute’s leadership position. SHASS has a central role in this mission as much of MIT’s international education is housed in our school. The great majority of MIT faculty involved in international education are at SHASS; the school is home to Foreign Languages and Literatures, where students become fluent in the languages and cultures they need to be global citizens. All of the SHASS disciplines have an international flavor and many of our faculty have deep relationships abroad. They spend substantial research time in other countries, in libraries and archives, and interviewing people and forming cross-cultural partnerships. So, SHASS brings en
