<p>I’m planning to major in international relations (pursuing a career in Global Development or perhaps Human Rights). Are there a lot of student internship opportunities at Harvard?</p>
<p>It just seems like cities such as New York and Washington, D.C. would have far more opportunities than Greater Boston.</p>
<p>Great questions that I would love answers to as well…</p>
<p>From what I know, there is no general “international relations” concentration at Harvard, though there might be something close (?)</p>
<p>I don’t know about internships specifically, but there are many programs that could lead to internships. Harvard has several human rights programs that are run out of different schools (Law, KSG); it also has many well-connected professors and lecturers who can provide internship opportunities. For example, Marshall Carter at KSG has been named the new chairman of NYSE but will continue to lecture at KSG. David Ellwood, the dean of KSG, was in the Clinton administration.
International relations is one of the subfields within the Government Department.</p>
<p>Yes, there isn’t an exact IR concentration, but you can easily pursue such interests in Government, or Social Studies (each has an International Relations “track”); in fact, most concentrations here afford you the flexibility to take IR/IR-related courses. </p>
<p>The University Committee on Human Rights Studies, <a href=“http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/”>http://www.humanrights.harvard.edu/</a> has lots of information on pursuing Human Rights at Harvard, and it even publishes a “Human Rights at Harvard Course Guide” each year, detailing all Human Rights courses offered at all the Harvard schools – and seeing how, as an undergraduate you are allowed to cross register at graduate schools, there are many academic opportunities in Human Rights.</p>
<p>The KSG has the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy <a href=“Harvard Kennedy School”>Harvard Kennedy School, and it runs numerous term time and summer internship programs. It is also possible to work in research with the Professors there. </p>
<p>You could also look into the Center for International Development <a href=“http://www.cid.harvard.edu/”>Center for International Development;
<p>As for extra-curriculars, things like the International Relations Council have activities in International Affairs and Human Rights; there are many, many activist groups if that’s what you’re into – you can pretty much be involved in HR everywhere. </p>
<p>Just so you know, one of Harvard’s Rhodes Scholarship recipients this year is a Special Concentrator in “Human Rights in International Development”, so it IS possible to design such a concentration if you so desire.</p>