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Program Description

The Global Studies program focuses on understanding connections between different parts of the world. Globalization, or the trans-national exchange of investments, commodities, people, politics, technologies, and cultures, is both a characteristic of the contemporary world and the culmination of large-scale, long-term social change. Although globalization at times seems dominated by new economic and political formations more powerful than the traditional nation-state, it has also mobilized new expressions of local and transnational discontent and resistance.

The UT Global Studies curriculum helps students understand the implications of global change, allowing the university community to confront what is occurring in our immediate locale by examining what is going on elsewhere. Bringing together faculty and students from diverse perspectives creates an interdisciplinary understanding of the disruption and integration resulting from changing configurations of nations, global processes, and identities.

Prerequisite & Requirements

Global Studies 250 is a prerequisite to the major in Global Studies which requires thirty (30) credit hours in the form of ten (10) courses. No course may be counted toward more than one (1) of the following categories. No more than three (3) credit hours may be taken under the 300-level. Courses are to be distributed in the following manner:

  1. Seven (7) core courses from the following list. A student may choose to concentrate in either global society and culture or global politics and economy. The requirements for either track will be five (5) courses in the primary track and two (2) courses in the secondary track.

    Approved List of Core Courses:
    1. Concentration I - Global Society and Culture:
      • Anthropology 315
      • Comparative Literature 202
      • English 331, 454
      • Geography 345
      • History 421
      • Musicology 290
      • Religious Studies 302, 333

    2. Concentration II - Global Politics and Economy:
      • Agricultural Economics 420
      • Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries 420
      • Geography 351
      • History 374
      • Political Science 350, 365, 470, 471
      • Retail and Consumer Sciences 421
      • Sociology 442, 446.

  2. Any two (2) courses from the following list of approved list of Regional Studies Courses
    • Anthropology 313, 316, 319
    • Asian Studies 471
    • Geography 373
    • Political Science 452, 456
    • Religious Studies 332, 373
    • Spanish 331, 401, 465

  3. One (1) upper division course from the following list:
    • Anthropology 410, 431
    • Geography 320, 340, 415
    • Philosophy 360
    • Political Science 401
    • Religious Studies 300
    • Sociology 331
    • any upper division modern foreign language course taught in the language of study.

Note that any courses taken to fulfil a core requirement cannot be used to fulfil a regional studies (b) or methods/foreign language (c) requirement.

Minor

Global Studies 250 is a pre-requisite to the minor in Global Studies which requires eighteen (18) credit hours, distributed in the following manner:

Six (6) courses, including two (2) courses from Track I (Global Society and Culture), two (2) courses from Track II (Global Politics and Economy), and the remaining two (2) courses may be taken from any of the above lists.