Undergraduate Program
Global Studies was established as an interdisciplinary major within
the Global and International Studies Program in 1998. 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. It is one of the first programs in the
nation to offer a degree with contemporary as well as historical
globalizing trends as the central organizing theme.
The major includes two introductory gateway courses in global
history, culture, and ideology and on global socioeconomics and politics
and is built around three upper-division core courses that provide a
coherent introduction to global culture and ethics, global ideologies
and world order, and global economy and development. Through its
elective requirements, the major also affords students an opportunity to
take additional courses offered by other departments and programs in
the university: three in global issues and another three 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,
which can be fulfilled all in one language or by taking two years of one
language and an additional year of a second language. 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.
The Global Studies major provides a well-rounded liberal arts degree
that will help prepare students for a variety of careers in the
international arena. It will also help prepare students for further
graduate study in international affairs, international business, peace
and world order studies, area studies, and the emergent global civil
society.
Bachelor of Arts—Pre-Global Studies (Requirements - PDF)
Bachelor of Arts—Global Studies (Requirements - PDF)