BA Globalization Studies and International Relations

The Globalization Studies and International Relations Major is an interdisciplinary program that combines academic perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering to study, research, and create knowledge on global and trans-regional issues. This program’s central objects of study are the emerging changes wrought to human communities by both historic and on-going processes of globalization. Globalization has brought a new level of complexity to traditional issues emerging from the interaction of human groups, cultural traditions, environmental, legal, economic and technological. This complexity has changed both the character of the challenges and also enabled new potential for solutions to them. The curriculum in this major encourages students to become critical examiners and engaged researches of these interactions by focusing on global flows of commodities, traditions, diseases, knowledge, technologies, and people. They will also focus on how these flows impact existing social, economic, and political inequalities.