Overcoming the most significant challenges facing the world today - such as climate change, resource scarcity, violent conflict and discrimination - requires the understanding of multiple perspectives and the integration of knowledge. To gain the skills needed to address these challenges, students in the program draw on the expertise of faculty in a number of carefully selected fields.

Coursework includes an introduction to globalization and the methods used for discovering solutions to contemporary global problems, a four-course concentration that reflects the student?s research interests, foreign language training to achieve intermediate proficiency and a culminating project that proposes solutions to a global problem within a local context.

Our alumni have entered graduate degree programs in urban planning, human rights and global governance, become interpreters, served overseas in the Peace Corps and worked in the U.S. Department of State.