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Global Futures

Welcome to the Future.

OUR TRANSFORMATION FROM INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES TO GLOBAL STUDIES IS MORE THAN A NAME CHANGE. AS A GLOBAL STUDIES PROGRAM, WE ARE COMMITTED TO PROVIDING YOU WITH A BROAD AND ALSO NUANCED UNDERSTANDING OF OUR INTERCONNECTED WORLD, AND TO EXPLORING THE DIVERSITY AND RICHNESS OF CULTURES.

Introducing our new course: Global Futures!

In this core Global Studies (GS) course, students will develop a broad understanding of our interconnected world by exploring a series of global issues that may include but are not limited to: border crossing and forced migration, climate change, human rights, inequality, or war and conflict. We will study these issues and their interrelated qualities from a variety of perspectives and intellectual frameworks. Students will situate major developments in a historical and cultural perspective and identify and understand discipline-specific methodologies as well as the benefits and challenges of a transdisciplinary approach. Throughout the semester students will attain a shared, critical vocabulary and theoretical expertise that will enable them to bring together the range of approaches -quantitative, qualitative, mixed, -used in other GS courses. Students will also hone argumentation and communication skills for their post-graduation careers, and different forms of community engagement in global contexts.

 

Course Attributes: AS LCD; AS SSC; FA SSC; AR SSC; EN S    

L97 GS 3020

Section 01 - Global Futures

INSTRUCTOR: LINHARD

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Global Futures Grants

Global Studies offers five “Global Futures” Grants of up to $2,000 each year. We aim to support projects that require cross-disciplinary approaches and transnational perspectives.  All faculty and graduate students across Arts & Sciences are encouraged to apply. Our goal is to support global projects that do not fit within traditional disciplines. 

    FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OUR GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

    Applications for AY 2023-24 will be available in the fall.