Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (also called the Fletcher School) is the oldest graduate school of international relations in the United States. It is one of the eight schools and colleges that comprise Tufts University. The Fletcher School, along with the School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering occupies the university's main campus in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts. In 2004, the school enrolled approximately 400 full-time students (excluding Ph.D. candidates not enrolled in courses) and employed 31 tenured or tenure-track faculty.
Degree programs
Founded by what was then-Tufts College in conjuction with Harvard University in 1933, the Fletcher School offers multi-disciplinary instruction leading to the degrees of master of arts, master of arts in law and diplomacy (MALD), and doctor of philosophy. Students In 2000, the school launched the Global Master of Arts Program (GMAP), a year-long combined residency and Internet-mediated master's degree program for mid-career professionals. The school does not award undergraduate degrees.
The Fletcher School currently has formal joint degree programs with the other Tufts schools including Arts and Sciences, Engineering, the School of Medicine and Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and_Policy, and the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Beyond Tufts, the school also maintains joint degree programs with Harvard Law School, the Dartmouth College's Tuck School of Business Administration, the Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Institut Superieur des Affaires/HEC School of Management in France.
The school is home to various research programs, institutes, and centers dealing with human rights and conflict resolution, international business relations, international security studies, human security, international environmental affairs, media and communication, and technology.
Organization and faculty
The Fletcher School is under supervision of a dean, appointed by the president and the provost, with the approval of the Trustees of Tufts College (the university's governing board). The dean has responsibility for the overall administration of the school, including faculty appointments, curriculum, admissions and financial aid, student affairs, development, and facilities. Unlike other graduate schools of international relations at other universities, the Fletcher School has a separate faculty, its own budget, and its own set of government documents. There are, however, a few professors who hold joint appointments with departments in the School of Arts and Sciences. Furthermore, Fletcher professors occasionally offer courses in the College of Liberal Arts or allow undergraduates to enroll in the graduate classes. The undergraduate international relations program, the largest major in the College, has its offices in the Cabot Intercultural Center, the main building of the Fletcher School complex.
The full-time Fletcher faculty comprise economists, international lawyers, historians, and political scientists who hold the academic ranks of professor, associate professor, assistant professor, and lecturer. All faculty members hold terminal degrees in their respective fields (Ph.D's in the case of historians, political sciences, and economists; and JD's and LLMs in the case of lawyers).
External links
- The Fletcher School website
- The Fletcher Ledger (student publication)
- The Fletcher Forum on World Affairs (student publication)
- The Edwin Ginn Library (Fletcher's library)
