While many of my classmates with social sciences degrees are anxious about their future jobs and careers, I am not one of them. The Development Studies program has helped to distinguish me from other graduate school applicants. Drawing on courses from departments of the Divisions of Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences, and from the Schools of Arts and Business, a complementary major in GLST encourages a breadth of study not normally encouraged by traditional majos. Through the selection of one of five issues concentrations, students develop the knowledge, the understanding, and the skills to identify and describe major world issues and explore and evaluate their potential causes and solutions. Thus equipped, students' academic preparation and career opportunities are enhanced, as is their readiness for life and work in the global community.
Global trends affect everyday lives.
A substantially different kind of world is being created as daily international communications link individual people, private organizations, businesses, professional organizations, and governmental agencies with counterparts in other countries as well as with the growing number of international organizations. Today's and tomorrow's networked world requires new knowledge, skills, and attitudes focused on understanding the dynamic nature of the context for international relationships. The Global Studies Program is designed to enable students to develop this new learning.