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    Foreign Policy Academy

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    Applications for the Hoya Summer High School Sessions are closed, but you can still explore your academic passions with the Pre-College Online Program. Study anywhere, anytime, on your schedule.

    Combining lectures, talks by policymakers, visits to a number of foreign Embassies, crisis simulations, and group discussions, Georgetown's Foreign Policy Academy introduces you to the many components that inform and create U.S. foreign policy. Throughout your time in the program, you'll develop your critical thinking and interpretive skills while examining key international crises and world leaders' responses and policy choices in a global arena. You'll also analyze the factors that affect the decision-making process and theories and methods used to formulate and implement policies.

    By the time you complete the program, you'll have a deeper understanding of American foreign and defense policy, the complexities of terrorism threats, the influence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and think tanks, strategies for aid and democracy-building, and the underpinnings of foreign commerce and trade policies.

    Estimated Tuition:

    $7,700

    Price includes tuition, housing, and meals. Commuter Student tuition is $5,800.

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    How You'll Benefit

    • Learn from and engage with guest lecturers, including influential policymakers, leaders, Georgetown faculty, and foreign service professionals
    • Conduct case studies
    • Participate in simulation exercises and panel presentations
    • Receive a Certificate of Participation upon successful completion

    Program Format & Subject Areas

    As a student in the Foreign Policy Academy, you'll spend your time engaged in a combination of class sessions, field trips, hands-on workshops, group discussions, and extracurricular activities. Throughout the program, you'll have the opportunity to explore the following subject areas:

    • Theoretical frameworks of foreign policy formulation
    • State and USAID Policy
    • Think tanks and NGO Influence
    • Second-track diplomacy
    • Counter-intelligence and terrorism
    • World conflicts
    • International political economy and trade policy
    • Religion and foreign policy
    • Careers in foreign policy
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