Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies
Lead Faculty:
Dr. Lorna L. Zukas
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 Learning Outcomes
- Analyze issues as they impact the global environment.
- Explain the varied experiences of different social groups
interacting with the global economy over the past several
hundred years.
- Analyze a global problem such as poverty, hunger, the spread of
disease, or environmental degradation from several disciplinary
perspectives.
- Evaluate scholarship on globalization for its veracity and
reliability.
- Describe the relationships between economic and cultural change
in regions of the globe.
- Describe the relationships between economic change and processes
of nation-state formation over the last several hundred years.
- Synthesize theoretical perspectives and empirical data into a
coherent argument.
Requirements
To obtain a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies, students must complete at least 180 quarter units as articulated below, 45 of which must be completed in residence at National University, 76.5 of which must be completed at the upper-division level, and the University General Education requirements. In the absence of transfer credit, additional general electives may be necessary to satisfy total units for the degree. The following courses are specific degree requirements. 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 students responsibility to find out about these additional requirements and to meet them.
Preparation for the Major
(1 course; 4.5 quarter units)
To fulfill upper-division unit requirement, students may select from the courses listed below:
Requirements for the Major
(10 courses; 45 quarter units)
To fulfill upper-division unit requirement, students may select from the courses listed below:
Core Requisite(s):
Upper-Division Electives
(6 courses; 27 quarter units)
To fulfill upper-division unit requirement, students may select from the courses listed below:
