Abstract:

To improve the quality of human resources in Indonesia, especially in the domain of social and political sciences, and to meet the need of work market, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) Universitas Brawijaya (UB) provides an undergraduate program of Srata-1 with 2 Departments and 6 Study Programs consisted of:
1) Sociology;
2) Communication Science;
3) Psychology;
4) International Relations;
5) Politics, and
6) Governmental Studies.

There are also postgraduate programs namely Master in Communication Science, Master in Social Science (with 5 concentrations: Sociology of Development, Poverty Studies, Psychology, International Relations, Politics and Governmental Studies, and Doctoral in Sociology).

The vision of FISIP UB is being a leading faculty with international standard, possessing entrepreneur characteristic in the field of social and politic, as well as playing an active role in building the nation through education, research, and community service.

To support vission and mission of FISIP UB for being world class faculty in UB, since 2004 FISIP UB has established 7 cooperations with overseas institutions such as: a double degree program with the University of Canberra, Univerity of New Castle Australia and The University of Wyoming; an internship program with Voice of America, Indonesian Representative for United Nation in New York, Indonesian Embassy in India, and a research collaboration with University of Portmouth and Jawarhal Nehru University.

In 2016, FISIP UB plans to open international class for Communication Science and International Relations study program. This project is considered as a model to challenge the institution for being world class faculty. Previously, we have already started the English Class Study Programs namely Communication Science and International Relations. In those English Classes, we used English as teaching instruction. We have explored several international cooperations during the running of the program. As a result, we gain many precious experiences enable us improving English classes to become an International program.

Those new experiences on international cooperation raise our confidence to become a world-class faculty, although we are still quite young faculty. In eleven years we have started to conduct several International cooperation such as; intership, exchange faculty members and students, participation in seminars and academic meetings, exchange of academic materials and other information, special short-term academic programmes, exchange of administrative managers/coordinators, and joint cultural programmes.

Keywords:

Experiences, international, cooperation.