Credits Required: 

Total semester credits: 120
Semester credits in the major: 46

You officially begin the major by enrolling in GS 300: Major ProSeminar where you work with the instructor to create or revise your Individual Learning Plan. That ILP maps out how you will achieve each of the Major Learning Outcomes designated below by successfully completing the listed courses or alternative assessment options. You conclude the major by completing the GS 400: Senior Capstone Capstone Seminar, which involves producing a publicly presented project that displays your cumulative learning in the major. [Learn more at http://CSUMB.EDU/capstone].

Major Learning Outcomes

MLO 1 Planning for global learning and careers

Ability to assess aptitude for pursuing a career in global affairs, identify career options, formulate career goals, comprehend Major Learning Outcomes of the Global Studies Program, and develop a comprehensive learning plan that fulfills the requirements for a career in global affairs ~ ability to demonstrate an understanding of research methods and skills needed for research design, data collection, information retrieval and analysis and reporting of research in Global Studies

Required Courses

  • GS 300: Major ProSeminar (4 units)

MLO 2 Understanding of globalization

Ability to comprehend and apply various concepts, sources of information and perspectives in the analysis and evaluation of the historical context, dimensions, contemporary conditions and effects of globalization as well as the alternatives proposed by the opposing global struggle for social and environmental justice ~ ability to comprehend, analyze and reflect critically upon the development, nature and effects of the contemporary global system of economic, political and social relations

 

Required Courses

  • GS 310: Genealogy of Globalization (4 units)

MLO 3 Understanding of major worldviews

Ability to analyze, compare, evaluate and appreciate a wide array of different philosophical, religious, ethical, political, economic and social views held by people around the world ~ ability to comprehend and evaluate the adverse effects of ethnocentrism upon intercultural communications and relations ~ ability to reflect critically upon own worldview and to empathize with people who hold worldviews that are different

 

Required Courses

  • GS 330: World Views (4 units)

MLO 4 Understanding of gender and violence in global life

Ability to comprehend, analyze, and evaluate the role of gender and violence in global life, especially in politics, war, peace, crime, economic inequality, environmental degradation, and ethical practices

 

Required Courses

  • GS 350: Gender/Violence in Global Life (4 units)

MLO 5 Language competency

Intermediate level competency in a language other than English

Required Courses

  • Complete four semesters of language, one-year study abroad or assessment at the intermediate level

MLO 6 Understanding of global political economy

Ability to comprehend, analyze and evaluate the origins and workings of the global economy, including the gendered and informal sectors of this economy ~ ability to demonstrate understanding of major structures, processes and effects of the evolving global economy ~ understanding of the global economy's historical development, patterns of change, effects on the quality of life and solutions and alternatives to economic inequity ~ ability to locate one's own place in the global economy

Required Courses

  • GS 370: Global Political Economy (4 units)

MLO 7 International Organizations and Service Learning

Ability to critically examine the structure, workings and politics of global governance and global civil society ~ ability to explore interactions between intergovernmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations and grassroots organizations working locally and across borders on current issues of local and global import ~ ability to complete upper division service learning requirement at local organizations and map activities in and through networks while engaging network analysis

 

Required Courses

  • GS 380S: Int'l Organizations & SL (4 units)

MLO 8 Global politics

Ability to comprehend and apply key concepts and theories in the analysis and critical evaluation of the historical development, structure and transformation of international politics, and in the analysis and evaluation of the nature and effects of contemporary global political processes and issues ~ ability to comprehend, analyze and evaluate gendered, radical and non-Western perspectives on the politics of North-South relations, global environmental issues, intergovernmental organizations and global security issues ~ ability to comprehend, analyze and evaluate policy-making and implementation

 

Required Courses

  • GS 390: Global Politics (4 units)

MLO 9 Understanding of earth, social systems and global life

Ability to comprehend, analyze and evaluate the effects of human activities on the planet (both its geosphere and biosphere) ~ ability to analyze global environmental problems from various political, economic and ecological perspectives ~ ability to critically evaluate the interrelationships between the planet's natural and social systems and their global effects

 

Required Courses

  • GS 385: Global Ecology (2 to 6 units)
  • Or an approved upper-division ENVS course; or an approved graduate course at the Monterey Institute of International Studies if student has a 3.5 GPA

MLO 10 Synthesis and evaluation of Global Studies learning

Ability to synthesize and evaluate the learning experiences associated with the Global Studies program and demonstrate through a cumulative portfolio that these experiences as well as the program's Major Learning Outcomes have been successfully completed in accordance with an approved learning plan ~ ability to design, undertake and present a research and writing project that demonstrates a firm grasp of the theoretical, methodological and philosophical aspects of critical intellectual inquiry

 

Required Courses

  • GS 400: Senior Capstone (4 units)

MLO 11 Electives

There are many facets to the Global Studies mosaic. We've designed the Global Studies curriculum so that you can learn more about those aspects of global affairs that interest you most. The program allows you to choose an area of emphasis through the completion of two elective learning outcomes.

Required Courses

  • Complete one:
  • GS 311: US/Foreig/Poli/Pac/Rim/3rd/Wrl (2 to 4 units)
  • GS 315: Global Hist: Worlds of Modern (4 units)
  • GS 320: Global Issues & 3rd World (4 units)
  • GS 326: US Foreign Policy & Empire (4 units)
  • GS 335: Comparative/Gov'ts & Politics (4 units)
  • GS 340: Global Media & Comm (4 units)
  • GS 345: Glob Politcal Theory/Philosphy (4 units)
  • GS 360: Religion/Violence/Peacemaking (4 units)
  • GS 362: Global Literatures (4 units)
  • GS 375: Ecological Political Economy (2 to 4 units)

MLO 12 Electives

There are many facets to the Global Studies mosaic. We've designed the Global Studies curriculum so that you can learn more about those aspects of global affairs that interest you most. The program allows you to choose an area of emphasis through the completion of two elective learning outcomes.

Required Courses

  • Complete one which has not been completed for MLO 12:
  • GS 311: US/Foreig/Poli/Pac/Rim/3rd/Wrl (2 to 4 units)
  • GS 315: Global Hist: Worlds of Modern (4 units)
  • GS 320: Global Issues & 3rd World (4 units)
  • GS 326: US Foreign Policy & Empire (4 units)
  • GS 335: Comparative/Gov'ts & Politics (4 units)
  • GS 340: Global Media & Comm (4 units)
  • GS 345: Glob Politcal Theory/Philosphy (4 units)
  • GS 360: Religion/Violence/Peacemaking (4 units)
  • GS 362: Global Literatures (4 units)
  • GS 375: Ecological Political Economy (2 to 4 units)

Concentrations