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Global Studies

Global Studies


IN THIS SECTION
  • Addictions Counseling
    • Addictions Counseling Minor
    • Certificate in Addictions Counseling
  • African and African Diaspora Studies
    • African and African Diaspora Studies Minor
  • Asian Studies
    • Asian Studies Minor
  • Environmental and Sustainability Studies
    • Environmental and Sustainability Studies
  • Ethnic Studies Minor
    • Ethnic Studies Minor
  • Gerontology
    • Gerontology Minor
  • Global Studies
    • Global Studies
  • Liberal Studies
    • Liberal Studies Major

Examine global processes and events and their effects.

Global studies is an interdisciplinary academic area that draws from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities, the sciences, and the arts to examine global processes and events and their effects at a local level. For decades, the world has been undergoing a sustained reorganization along economic, social, political, cultural, technological and environmental lines that cuts across national boundaries. Worcester State has also experienced an increased global connectivity, integration, and interdependence and witnessed the emergence of planet-wide issues such as climate change, poverty, new technologies, and entrenched wars. In response to these real-world events, global studies has emerged as a dynamic interdisciplinary academic field to study the forces shaping these complex processes.

The global studies concentration will help you understand trans-national phenomena and provide you with a solid background for decision making in an increasingly interdependent world community. You will be encouraged to connect your knowledge of a particular region of the world to larger transnational processes and to examine your identities in a global frame. The interdisciplinary concentration in global studies will help you develop skills to function in a global market and the depth of understanding necessary to be a responsible citizen of planet Earth.

Explore sample courses in this program.
GL-150 Introduction to Global Studies
This course analyzes the forces reorganizing the planet along economic, social, political, cultural, technological, and environmental lines across national boundaries.
3 credits
AB-102 Beginning Arabic II
A continuation of AB 101, designed for students to acquire additional vocabulary, grammar, and reading ability.
3 credits
AB-210 Intermediate Arabic I
Instruction in advanced rules of Arabic grammar and verb system and in advanced writing and reading.
3 credits
AR-118 Global Art History
Surveys the outstanding visual art from all cultures beginning in the prehistoric era to the late 19th century.
3 credits
BA-430 Administrative Practices and Management
Overview and analysis of human conduct in work-organization settings.
3 credits
BA-440 International Business and Management
Study and analyzation of the nature, structures, and strategies of international/global businesses. Examination of international markets, economic systems, value-chains, and core competencies of a firm.
3 credits
BA-494 International Marketing
With the rapid and continuous changes in global environment, the course examines the complex issues in international marketing faced by today’s managers.
3 credits
BI-112 Diseases and Mankind
Diseases of ancient and modern man; the impact on history, religion, science, art, and philosophy.
3 credits
BI-114 Plants and Human Affairs
Man’s dependence upon plants and their influence on civilization and its art, religions, literature, folklore, medicine, and human behavior.
3 credits
BI-117 Humans and the Environment
A survey of anthropologic environmental impacts and the underlying mechanisms involved. 3 lecture hours and 3 laboratory hours per week. Not open to biology or environmental science majors.
4 credits
BI-130 Field Biology
Study-abroad field biology course for non-biology majors. Course explores the intersection of human activities and environmental preservation, with a basic introduction to topics in organismal biology, biodiversity, and biogeography.
4 credits
BI-202 Principles of Ecology
Basic ecological theory relating to organism-environment interactions, population dynamics, and ecosystems. 3 hours of lecture and a 3-hour laboratory per week.
4 credits
BI-380 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
A theoretical and quantitative approach to species, genetic, ecosystem, and community diversity in the context of modern conservation biology principles. 3 lecture hours and 3 laboratory hours per week.
4 credits
BI-430 Field Biology
Study-abroad field biology course for biology majors. Course explores the intersection of human activities and environmental preservation, with an in-depth discussion of topics in organismal biology, ecology, biodiversity, and biogeography.
4 credits
CH-320 Environmental Chemistry
Chemistry of the atmosphere, soil, and natural water systems, air and water pollution, water treatment, hazardous wastes, and pollution control. Lab techniques including sampling and analysis of environmental media. Lecture and lab 3 hours per week.
4 credits
CM-350 Intercultural Communication
Introductory communication theory and practice across cultural groups defined by race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, nationality, politics, and economics.
3 credits
CM-390 Independent Media and Society
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of a wide range of media economically and politically independent of both corporation and the state. The course focuses on the relationship between independent media and corporate media as well as the role of independent media within social movements, cultures of resistance, and processes of social change.
3 credits
EC-210 Current Economic Issues
This course is designed to connect economic knowledge and theory acquired at the introductory level to current economic issues and policy. National and international topics of importance are considered. For example, pollution, trends in productivity, profitability and distribution, debt and deficits, patterns of investment, trade, and globalization, and the economic issues of race, gender, and poverty may be covered.
3 credits
EC-308 International Trade
Reasons nations gain by spatial specialization and exchange with other countries. Analysis of the mechanism by which international equilibrium is restored. Study of trade and foreign exchange policies.
3 credits
ED-339 Children's Literature: Multicultural Literature for PK-9
In this class, students read, discuss, and analyze children’s and young adult literature by people of diverse backgrounds including diversity in race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, ability, language, and country. Genres and formats may include fiction, nonfiction, biographies, novels in verse, graphic novels, fairy tales, fantasy, and wordless books. While children’s and young adult literature comprise the primary texts in this course, secondary sources from education, linguistics, English, history, sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, and communications provide context and theory to guide analysis.
3 credits
EN-167 Literature and Human Rights
An analysis of international creative writing dealing with the subject of human rights. Resource persons from different fields are utilized.
3 credits
EN-240 Survey of Postcolonial and Transcultural Literature
Introduction to literatures in English from formerly colonized countries in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and from the postcolonial diaspora.
3 credits
EV-320 Environmental Chemistry
Chemistry of the atmosphere, soil, and natural water systems, air and water pollution, water treatment, hazardous wastes, and pollution control. Lab techniques including sampling and analysis of environmental media. Lecture and lab 3 hours per week.
4 credits
GE-102 Human Geography
Introduction to human geography, emphasizing globalization, human-environment relations, and spatial patterns of population, development, economics, politics, urbanization, and culture.
3 credits
HC-202 Introduction to Global Health
The course introduces students to the main concepts of public health and the critical links between public health and social and economic development. Students get an overview of the determinants of health, how health status is measured, and the influences of various factors, including cultural, historic, geographic, social, economic, and political issues on the health of individuals and communities. The course also introduces students to key concerns regarding nutrition, reproductive health, infectious disease, and chronic diseases. The course is global in coverage but with an important focus on the developing world and on the health of the poor.
3 credits
HI-208 American Immigrant History
Survey of immigration. Topics such as old-world background, impact on the United States, nativism, cultural pluralism, religion, mobility, family and politics. Counts for Europe / United States in the history major.
3 credits
HI-248 Seminar on Globalization and Human Rights
A.I.D. program participants in their sophomore year explore globalization and human rights and issues of personal growth and academic development. Counts for global/thematic/methodological in the history major.
3 credits
HI-267 US-Latin American Relations
This course analyzes the political, economic, social, and cultural impact of the interactions between and among the governments and people of the US and Latin America. Counts for Africa / Latin America in the history major.
3 credits
HI-280 Introduction to African Diaspora History
Students learn about the development of the African diaspora and how it has shaped the world since antiquity. The course considers the movements, experiences, and exploits of ordinary people and celebrated figures of African descent through such topics as imperial expansion; slavery, resistance, and freedom; nationalism and the civil rights movement; and current global issues. Counts for global/thematic/methodological in the history major.
3 credits
HI-322 Nationalism
Examines the theories of nationalism and the development of the modern nation-state and its effect on global politics.
3 credits
HI-323 Empire
Theories and models of colonization, the reaction of colonized peoples, and the way historians analyze imperialism from 1400 to the 1920s.
3 credits
PO-120 Global Politics
An introduction to comparative politics and international relations. In this course, students learn how different countries around the world govern themselves and how they interact with each other. Topics may include democratic and non-democratic regimes, theories of war and peace, global political cultures, and intergovernmental organizations such as the United Nations.
3 credits

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