Students must work closely with a global studies adviser in room 232 Social Sciences Building. Students complete a course of at least three credits appropriate to their thematic concentration in consultation with a global studies adviser. Within each thematic concentration students choose appropriate courses in consultation with a global studies adviser. Coursework integrates humanities and social science perspectives on such phenomena as globalization, transnationalism, modernity, colonialism, nations and nationalism, ethnicity, and diasporic identities, by focusing on the ways that these produce and are produced by cultural forms. Students consider the political nature of cultural processes and the interrelated constitution of culture, power, and place.
Students examine mechanisms promoting conflict resolution and cooperation in a global context.
Students explore economic processes, the institutions that shape them, and local reaction to them. Coursework provides students with a better understanding of human population development, transnational migration, and the politics of identity in an increasingly interdependent world. Students investigate population growth, fertility, mortality and transnational labor and refugee migration in different parts of the world. Within each regional concentration students choose appropriate courses in consultation with a global studies adviser. Language Requirements Students complete at least two years of coursework in a language related to their regional concentration.