Global Studies is an interdisciplinary program that provides students with the opportunity to develop their knowledge of the world and the major contemporary issues facing humanity. Students in this major gain an in-depth understanding of global issues, processes, and systems, and the various implications of globalization.

About the program

As interactions between nations, societies, and cultures grow, so do the responses to these interactions. The global studies major allows students to study such interactions and their outcomes. Involving historical and contemporary material, the program provides students with the tools they need to make sense of the world they live in and to understand how it has become so. The goal of the course is to focus students on issues that are relevant to them while providing intellectual flexibility.

Core Curriculum in Global Studies

The undergraduate Global Studies curriculum offers an interdisciplinary major that draws on subjects from the social sciences, humanities, and professional schools. It gives students the opportunity to explore issues of global significance, their application to specific geographic areas, and the differential impact of these global dynamics in different regions of the world, through engagement with critical issues of the movement of money, people, and ideas on a global scale.

All students typically study the following subjects: Cultural Production and Everyday Practices, Political Economy and Environmental Change, Human Rights and Justice, Global Health, and Mobile Populations.

You will be introduced to new ways of thinking about the world. You will gain a deep understanding of contemporary issues and challenge your assumptions about how the world works.

Degree programs in Global Studies

The graduate program in Global Studies is a two-year program. The MA provides students who wish to pursue a career in the civil sector (broadly defined) with a broad academic background and some guidance in applying academic training to practical experience. In the master's program, students attempt to make sense of globalization and understand the forces that drive it. The master's program examines globalization from a variety of thematic, theoretical, and disciplinary perspectives. The program looks at globalization through a wide range of topics such as ethnicity, cultural diversity, gender, migration, conflict, political economy, security, conflict, and sustainable development, with gender and environmental aspects are taken into account throughout the courses. A bachelor's degree in a related field is required.

The Global Studies postgraduate program is theoretically rich and empirically grounded. Students will explore both abstract and concrete expressions of the globe across the world. Courses are designed to be historically grounded, geographically global, and relevant to contemporary problems. The degree has the objective of training professionals to be diplomats, officials of international organizations such as the United Nations and the European Union, experts and advisers from international entities, (NGOs, Consulting), and managers of international projects in the Administration.

Career Pathways

There are a wide variety of potential career paths for a global study major. You can work for the government, for a nonprofit organization, work in international education, or work for the State Department.