全球研究课程于1998年在全球和国际研究计划中成立，是一门跨学科专业。它提供的本科专业与众不同，其重点是使世界跨越传统国家边界的跨国过程和互动。它是美国首批以当代和历史全球化趋势为中心提供学位的课程。该专业包括两门有关全球历史，文化和意识形态以及全球社会经济和政治的入门课程，并围绕三门高等核心课程构建，这些课程对全球文化和伦理学，全球意识形态和世界秩序以及全球经济与发展。通过其选修要求，该专业还为学生提供了学习该大学其他系和课程提供的其他课程的机会：全球性问题中的三门，世界某个特定区域中的另外三门（非洲，
Global Studies offers a degree with contemporary as well as historical globalizing trends as the central organizing theme. It provides an undergraduate major that is distinctive in its emphasis on transnational processes and interactions that bring the world together across traditional national boundaries. The major includes two introductory gateway courses, as well as an upper-division core course series that provides an introduction to global culture and ethics, global ideologies and world order, global economy and development, and global racial justice. Thanks to elective requirements, youll have an opportunity to take additional courses offered by other departments and programs in the university both in global issues and in one particular region of the world (Africa, the Middle East, South/Southeast Asia and the Pacific, East Asia, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, or North America).<br><br>The Global Studies major requires three years of language study. This requirement is consistent with the program's belief that language study is essential to the study of the global and the international, whether it leads to greater facility in a single language or broadened familiarity with the way two different languages can open windows on the world.