Kevin1990

I'm currently an undergrad history major interested in military history, international security/strategic studies issues, as well as other closely related topics. I'm a soon to be junior eying grad school eventually and since I've long been wanting to to get published. So since I have a a few papers from my classes throughout my college career so far that I'm working on. I was wondering if anybody knew of any good undergrad journal's especially one's that take submissions in this area, where I could possibly be published? Thank you in advance btw,

I'll be taking stats at some point, not this semester but maybe the next? In terms of the focus of the methods and involved math for political science classes, none of the professors that I know of at my school who teach such courses have an IR focus.The prof that I know of who has an interest closest to IR who teaches such a course appears to be a comp man

They do have have a scope and methods class at my school for both undergrad and grad and I'm supposed to take such a course in a semester or so. I've dabbled in stats and mathamatics applied to poli sci in an upper division course I took last semester.

I'm still an undergraduate, however I was considering grad school for poli sci specifically IR or international security. With this, I was wondering what my math level should be at as well as what types of mathematics courses I should take?

Hi again sorry to check back on this thread so late, As I have i transferred schools for a number of personal and academic reasons so next semester I will be going to George Mason University in Fairfax VA, which I forgot to mention earlier Also addressing the points you have raised 1, Even though I have transferred institutions and started on somewhat of a new slate, I'm fairly confident I can obtain an even higher GPA then the two previous semesters. 2, I am worried about the GRE and LSAT(should I decide to go to law school), however during my freshman year I took many literature intensive courses and a couple of English courses that stressed older works of literature and their interpretations. 3, I was in the process of making some strong relations with a few of my professors at my old school and this is something I worry about doing at my new school which is a large, prominent, research university, but perhaps I can forge some ties since many fo the faculty who will be lecturing me are fairly open to their students as well as getting to know them. 4, In terms of foreign languages I had in fact finished a year of French at my old university, which my new institution of George Mason has also given me some language credit for. However, going into George Mason I'm not taking any languages this semester due to the fact I'm unsure what I want to take now, and my academic advisors at orientation told me I have a while to decide. Although I feel it's critical I choose soon since both of my majors History and Global Affairs require me to take a language extensively even though I have received credit for French like I said. Of the languages I'm considering taking, I'm thinking about preceding again with French, or another western language like German( as suggested), or taking a non-western one like Arabic, Farsi, or Russian both due to the fact that my area of study/topic of interest also deals extensively with these regions. In addition, I also have to choose an area concentration for my other major global affairs eventually. 5, About studying abroad, both my old and current institution strongly encouraged such and I was planning on going on at trip for academic credit that was a joint venture with the political science/business department to Russia during spring break of 2011, however I got into George Mason as a transfer instead. Although I will probably be attempting study aboard over the lengthy winter break or next summer, especially since my current school offers a wide variety of destinations that would be valuable to my area of interests. Lastly thanks for the advice. I had another important question to ask also in which I will post it later should I remember it again.

True I have a very long way to go both in experience and grades,however I think I am off to a very good start to both and like I said I should have a very solid gpa at the end of my undergrad career.

I'm currently a freshman at a small liberal arts college in West Virginia and I want to go to graduate school to seek a phd for ether military history, international relations/security studies, or law school with a specialty in international law. Also my current major is history/political science However, even though I have four years perhaps more to make a decision I'm in a dilemma as to what fields of study I should pursue when I get there, I'm torn between pursuing history, international relations/security studies, or the JD. Factors that are most important to me at this current time are 1) will I be able to find a job at a college or think tank that pays decently?, (2) will there be oppertunites in my field?, and (3) will the research oppertunites be there? I was planning for my area/topic of study to be 20th and 21st century wars and conflict Also the schools I'm currently considering for grad school mainly for the history and international relations/security studies are, King's College London George Mason University George Washington University American University Georgetown University Ohio State University Kansas State University Norwich University(for masters) My current college GPA is between 3.1-3.6 In terms of extracurriculars I'm currently an associate member of Phi Alpha Theta, and I will be attempting to join Pi Sigma Alpha, and I'm also a member of Sigma Tau Delta. I have also taken 1 upper division poli sci class in which I have received some research experience. Even though I don't have much now because it's still early in my academic career I should have a solid gpa and a good record after the 4 years.