"Since its establishment in 1930, the Department of Diplomacy has produced over 100 ambassadors, several foreign ministers and many political, business and academic leaders. Students are given comprehensive training in diplomacy, current affairs, economics, cultural affairs, international trade, and political science, along with regional studies with particular focuses on Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Russia and Eastern Europe, European Union, South Asia, Middle East, Africa, North America,Latin America and Australia, New Zealand and the Oceania. Students are encouraged to develop fluency in a second foreign language."