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Global and Transnational Studies Minor

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Global and Transnational Studies offers students the opportunity to enhance their understanding of the world and the most pressing issues it faces. It combines essential global studies courses, a choice of a specialized focus area, intermediate study of foreign language, and study abroad. A minor in Global and Transnational Studies is ideal for students preparing for the broad range of professional careers and graduate programs of study that seek individuals with global proficiency, and for anyone who wishes to be an informed citizen prepared to engage with the challenges and opportunities of the modern world.

The global and transnational studies minor requires 24 credit hours of coursework.

Global Foundations (3 hrs.)

  • SOCI 202 Global Social Problems (3 hrs.)

Foreign Language (6 hrs.)

201 and 202 or equivalent in any foreign language*

Global Core (6 hrs.)

  • PLSC 152 Introduction to International Relations (3 hrs.)
  • SOCI 101 Introduction to Sociology (3 hrs.)

Global Focus Area (9 hrs.)

Choose one Global Focus Area and complete three courses within that area

Focus on Human Rights

  • PLSC 350 International Organizations and Law (3 hrs.)
  • PLSC 370 Women and Politics (3 hrs.)
  • SOCI 306 Social Movements (3 hrs.)
  • SOCI 373 Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care (3 hrs.)

Focus on Power and Poverty

  • HIST 258 Revolutions (3 hrs.)
  • HIST 385 Global Cold War (3 hrs.)
  • PLSC 350 International Organizations and Law (3 hrs.)
  • SOCI 302 Poverty and Inequality (3 hrs.)
  • SOCI 306 Social Movements (3 hrs.)
  • SOCI 373 Sociology of Health, Illness, and Health Care (3 hrs.)
  • WGST 101 Introduction to Women and Gender Studies (3 hrs.)

Focus on Human Diversity

  • COMM 332 Intercultural Communication (3 hrs.)
  • HIST 241 Muslim Societies Since 1500 (3 hrs.)
  • HIST 346 History of Modern China (3 hrs.)
  • PLSC 312 Islam and the West (Study Abroad) (3 hrs.)
  • PLSC 360 Islam and Politics in the Modern Middle East (3 hrs.)
  • PSYC 313 Cross-Cultural Psychology (3 hrs.)
  • SOCI 302 Poverty and Inequality (3 hrs.)

Study Abroad

All students are required to participate in a study abroad program. Students who believe that required travel would pose an extreme hardship may apply to substitute a globally relevant engaged learning activity, pending approval from the Global and Transnational Studies program director and steering committee.

*Equivalent TOEFL score may be substituted for non-native English speakers.