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Global Studies Major

Foundations

Overview

All majors are required to take a set of foundation courses which introduce a variety of global issues and the skills necessary to analyze these issues from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The specific goals of the foundations requirement are to:

  • establish a basic understanding of the contemporary international system and how it is analyzed;
  • provide an introduction to the major world regions and their current environmental, political, economic and social conditions;
  • initiate development of foundational knowledge sets and skills expected of Global Studies graduates, including critical analyses of world events and global processes, group research, and cross-cultural understanding.

Foundations Courses

  1. GLBL 100 (3 hrs) Introduction to Global Studies
  2. Global Studies Seminars (3-4 hrs)
    (3) GLBL 296 Global Studies Seminars (3 hrs)
    OR
    (1) GLBL 298 Global Studies Seminar Abroad AND (1) GLBL 296 Global Studies Seminar  (4 hrs)
  3. Global Studies Core Requirement (12 hrs)

Global Studies Core

Four courses must be selected from the approved course list in consultation with the Global Studies advisor; they must include no more than one course each from the following departments: Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology.

Global Studies Core Approved Course List

Anthropology
  • ANTH 230  Sociocultural Anthropology  
  • ANTH 260  World Ethnography  
  • ANTH 268  Images of the Other  
Economics
  • ECON 220 International Economic Principles
  • ECON 420  International Economics
  • ECON 450  Development Economies   
Geography
  • GEOG 204  Cities of the World   
  • GEOG 210  Contemporary Social & Environmental Problem
  • GEOG 310 Political Geography
History
  • HIST 258  20th Century World to Mid-Century
  • HIST 259  20th Century World from Mid-Century
  • HIST 274 US & World Since 1917    
Political Science
  • PS 241  Comparative Politics in Developing Nations
  • PS 280/281  Introduction to International Relations
  • PS 282  Governing Globalization
Sociology
  • SOC 226  Political Sociology
  • SOC 229  Religion and Society
  • SOC 261  Gender in Transnational Perspective   
  • SOC 270  Population Issues        
  • SOC 350  Technology & Society
  • SOC 364  Impacts of Globalization
  • SOC 367 Globalization Dynamics Debate