Global Studies - BA

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, you’ll 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).

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.

• Business

• Government

• Nonprofit organizations

• International Affairs

• Peace and World Order Studies

• International Business

• Area Studies

• English teaching programs abroad

• Invoca

• The Asia Foundation

• Our program was one of the first of its kind nationwide

• Our students take classes in at least 5 different departments to fulfill their major requirements

• Our program sends the most students on study abroad programs across the UC system

• History

• Economics

• Political Science

• Sociology

• Foreign Languages

• Culture

• Politics

• Climate change

• Sustainability

• Social justice

• Global perspectives

https://global.ucsb.edu/undergrad

https://global.ucsb.edu/undergrad/programs