The Global Studies minor prepares students to be global participants and citizens, enhancing their understanding of a complex world. Connections between people, cultures, and nation-states are ever evolving and becoming more relevant in every facet of life. This interdisciplinary minor explores globalization and the global relationships that affect politics, economics, culture, the environment, and broader society, both here at home and around the world. Working with a team of associates at home and/or across nation-states requires respect, understanding, and appreciation for diverse values and experiences.
A Global Studies minor will enhance workforce skills and/or better prepare students for post-graduate research and scholarship. Employment opportunities in business, development work (government), the travel industry, communications, health sciences, and other fields include opportunities and positions that require a better understanding of global processes and conditions.
After meeting the core requirements of ANT 201 and GEO 102, students can choose from classes in anthropology, business, economics, geography, history, political science, recreation studies, and sociology.
Field Experiences
A variety of study abroad and field experiences are available to students to enhance their understanding of globalization and global processes. Interested students should consult the minor coordinator.
Learning Outcomes
- Exhibit a critical understanding of the ideas, value systems, practices, and social formation of a culture or society other than students’ own or of a global system.
- Adapt and apply an understanding of various worldviews, experiences, and power structures.
- Form the tools to take informed and responsible action to address ethical, social, and environmental challenges in global systems and evaluate the local and broader consequences of individual and collective interventions.
- Use knowledge of the historic and contemporary role and differential effects of human organizations and actions on global systems to develop and advocate for informed, appropriate action to solve complex problems in the human and natural worlds.
- Apply interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches, including foreign language skills and international experience, to critical analysis of issues of international, comparative, and/or global significance.
- Analyze social institutions, economy, and business issues that affect global issues.
Learning outcomes are devised from the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Global Learning Value Rubric.