IGS Curriculum Statement
As an interdisciplinary program, IGS seeks to incorporate a variety of different approaches to better understand globalization and interactions across national borders. An IGS course, therefore, should help students gain insight into the ways that economics, politics, cultures, and the environment constrain and affect individuals, communities, societies, and nations on the global stage. Courses cross-listed in IGS may take a number of approaches to teach students about global issues, including...
- An exploration of a broad and significant process that affects multiple countries, possibly undertaken through the intensive study of a single country and its relationship to broad global processes.
- The in-depth study of a single country, dealing explicitly with the ways in which that country is transforming the international system.
- Regional or bi-national topics that offer significant insight into the cultural, economic, and political relations between societies and nations.
- In addition, IGS cross-lists a handful of courses that offer essential frameworks for understanding global processes
- With a few rare exceptions, all IGS courses must fit into one of the six areas for student specialization (Cultures, Identities and Encounters; Global Economy; Global Environment; Global Governance; Media, Communication and Arts; Inequality, Poverty, and Global Justice).