Overview
Offered only online, the Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies degree 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 encourages students to apply cultural understanding and explore and develop 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, which graduates post on a website of their own design, includes individual projects and a final, full-length project.
Program Outcomes
Upon completion of the global studies program, students will be able to:
· Take the world as a major point of reference ("think globally").
· Know how to frame an appropriate online research project.
· Evaluate online information for its reliability and veracity.
· Analyze and synthesize current research about selected global issues.
· Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to begin participating actively in solving important global issues and problems ("act globally").
· Use global communications and information technologies and search engines effectively to conduct online research.
· Construct a sound argument in favor of a proposed solution to a real-world problem using theoretical constructs and empirical evidence.
· Clarify explicit linkages between culture, technology, and economics on global and regional scales.
· View a problem or situation from several disciplinary perspectives.
· Exercise cross-cultural awareness (awareness and comparison of the past and present diversity of ideas and practices to be found in human societies around the world).
· Explain the dynamics of global interactions and how they have changed over time.
· Analyze the roles that ecology, gender, race, class, religion, and ethnicity play in a variety of cultural environments and apply their understanding to everyday interactions among diverse cultures.
Requirements
To obtain a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies, students must complete at least 180 quarter units as listed below, 45 of which must be completed through National University and 76.5 of which must be completed at the upper-division level. In the absence of transfer credit, students may need to take additional general electives to satisfy the total units for the degree. Students should refer to the section on undergraduate admission procedures for specific information regarding admission and evaluation.
If the foreign language requirement is not completed in General Education, the equivalent must be completed as preparation for the Global Studies major either by testing or by satisfactorily passing two courses in one of the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish. Other languages are acceptable upon approval of the director of the program. If a student opts to take the elective course GLS 440, Study Abroad, additional fees, waivers, passports, visas, immunizations and other requirements may need to be fulfilled depending on the destination. It is the student's responsibility to find out about these additional requirements and to meet them.
Preparation for the Major
(1 course; 4.5 quarter units)
HIS 234 World Civilizations II *
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
* May be used to satisfy a general education requirement.
Requirements for the Major
(10 courses; 45 quarter units)
COM 385 Tale, Text and Hypertext
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
GLS 410 Gender Identity in a Global Context
(Prerequisite: ENG 240)
GLS 420 Ecological Revolutions: Economics, Technology and the Global Environment
(Prerequisite: ENG 240)
GLS 430 The Global Economy
(Prerequisite: ENG 240)
HIS 320 Culture, Capitalism and Technology in Modern World History
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
LIT 342 World Literature
(Prerequisites: LIT 100)
PHL 320 Comparative Religion
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
SCI 300 Geography: Mapping the World
SOC 328 Intercultural Thinking and Creativity
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
GLS 450 Global Studies Seminar and Final Project
(To be taken as final course in the major)
Portfolio requirement for GLS 450: Students must complete a final portfolio project under the supervision of a faculty member. Students need to keep all graded work from all previous courses for possible inclusion in the portfolio.
Upper-Division Electives
(6 courses; 27 quarter units)
To fulfill upper-division unit requirement, students may select from the courses listed below:
ART 329 World Art
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
GLS 310 Global Communications and Information Technology
(Prerequisite: ENG 240)
GLS 330 Film in an International Context
(Prerequisite: ENG 240)
GLS 440 Study Abroad
(Prerequisite: HIS 320)
HIS 325 Peoples and Places: Migration in Modern World History
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
HIS 434 The Modern World, 1500 to the Present
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101 and HIS 234)
HUM 501 Civic Culture and Global Awareness
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
LIT 345 Mythology
(Prerequisite: LIT 100)
MUS 327 World Music
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
PHL 375 Environmental Ethics
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
POL 320 Politics of Social Movements
(Prerequisites: ENG 100/101)
SCI 335 Environmental Science
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| This degree is offered online |