Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies

Global Studies offers a degree with contemporary as well as historical globalizing trends as the central organizing theme. It provides an undergraduate major that is distinctive in its emphasis on transnational processes and interactions that bring the world together across traditional national boundaries. The major includes two introductory gateway courses, as well as an upper-division core course series that provides an introduction to global culture and ethics, global ideologies and world order, global economy and development, and global racial justice. Thanks to elective requirements, youll have an opportunity to take additional courses offered by other departments and programs in the university both in global issues and in one particular region of the world (Africa, the Middle East, South/Southeast Asia and the Pacific, East Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, or North America).

The Global Studies major requires three years of language study. This requirement is consistent with the program's belief that language study is essential to the study of the global and the international, whether it leads to greater facility in a single language or broadened familiarity with the way two different languages can open windows on the world.