Bachelor of Arts Global Studies

The Global Studies Program takes advantage of emerging information technology to give students and professors the opportunity to use the vast resources of the World Wide Web. The program provides a flexible integration of skills and competencies that prepares students for a variety of international careers as well as graduate studies in business, technology, education, social science, government, media and law. In short, the program provides students with the ability to think and act "globally."

The global environment in which economics, culture and technology converge is diverse, changing, complex and interdependent. By combining a variety of disciplines, this program provides a framework in which to understand and effectively negotiate global realities, whether they are economic, political, cultural, or ecological.

The program gives students practice in using Internet technology, applying cultural understanding and exploring and developing potential markets for their ideas and talent. Students in this program learn to use global communications and information technologies to conduct research in a variety of electronic databases.

Global Studies majors become knowledgeable in the cultures and practices of the world's communities. Graduates understand the roles that ecology, gender, race, class, religion and ethnicity play in cultural environments and apply their understanding to everyday interactions among diverse cultures. Graduates also produce a portfolio that enables them to integrate the skills they have acquired and apply them to the solution of a real-world problem.

This portfolio includes individual projects and a final, full-length project.