BA Global Studies at University of California, Berkeley

As interactions between states, societies, and cultures increase, so do the responses to these interactions multiply. The Global Studies major allows students to explore such interactions and their outcomes. By bringing in both historical and contemporary material, the major provides students with the tools that they need in order to make sense of the world in which they live—as well as understanding how it got to be that way.

Faculty: College of Letters & Science  |  Department: Interdisciplinary Social Science Programs  |  Duration: 4 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Berkeley, CA, United States

What you will study

Major requirements are organised as: Lower Division: All Concentrations (Global Studies, Economics, Survey of World History, Statistics, Foreign Language); Global Development Concentration (Concentration, Disciplinary Course: Anthropology, Disciplinary Course: Economics, Disciplinary Course - Environmental Economics & Policy, Disciplinary Course - Geography, Disciplinary Course - Political Economy); Global Peace & Conflict Concentration (Concentration, Disciplinary Course: Justice, Ethics, Peace & Conflict, Disciplinary Course: Society, History, Culture, Disciplinary Course: Economics, Inequality, Security, Critical Thinking/Methodology, Geographic Focus: Asia); Global Societies and Cultures (Concentration, Disciplinary Course: The Arts, Disciplinary Course: Historical Studies & Literature, Disciplinary Course: Philosophy, Theory, and Rhetoric, Critical Thinking/Methodology, Geographic Focus: Asia). Complete at least 1 of: AFRICAM 10B ARABIC 20B ARABIC 30 CHINESE 10 CHINESE 100A CHINESE 100B CHINESE 100XA CHINESE 100XB CHINESE 100YA CHINESE 100YB CHINESE 10B CHINESE 10BX CHINESE 10X CHINESE 10Y DUTCH 100 FILIPN 100B FILIPN N100B FRENCH 4 GERMAN 4 HEBREW 20B HINDI 100B ITALIAN 4 JAPAN 10 JAPAN 10B KOREAN 10 KOREAN 100A KOREAN 100AX KOREAN 100B KOREAN 100BX KOREAN 10B KOREAN 10BX PORTUG 103 PUNJABI 100B RUSSIAN 4 SPANISH 101 SPANISH 22 SPANISH 4 SPANISH N4 TAMIL 101B THAI 100B TURKISH 100B URDU 100B VIETNMS 100B AP: Chinese Language & Culture, score 5 AP: French Language & Culture, score 5 AP: German Language & Culture, score 5 AP: Italian Language & Culture, score 5 AP: Japanese Language & Culture, score 5 AP: Spanish Language & Culture, score 5 AP: Spanish Literature & Culture, score 5 IB: HL Albanian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Amharic A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Arabic A: Language & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Arabic A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Arabic B, score 7 IB: HL Armenian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Azerbaijani A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Belarusian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Bengali A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Bosnian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Bulgarian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Burmese A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Catalan A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Chinese A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Chinese A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Chinese B, score 7 IB: HL Croatian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Czech A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Danish A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Danish B, score 7 IB: HL Dutch A: Language & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Dutch A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Dutch B, score 7 IB: HL Estonian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Filipino A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Finnish A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Finnish B, score 7 IB: HL French A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL French A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL French B, score 7 IB: HL Georgian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL German A: Language & Lit, score 7 IB: HL German A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL German B, score 7 IB: HL Hebrew A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Hindi A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Hindi B, score 7 IB: HL Hungarian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Icelandic A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Indonesian A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Indonesian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Indonesian B, score 7 IB: HL Italian A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Italian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Italian B, score 7 IB: HL Japanese A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Japanese A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Japanese B, score 7 IB: HL Khmer A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Korean A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Korean A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Korean B, score 7 IB: HL Lao A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Latvian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Lithuanian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Macedonian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Malay A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Mandarin B, score 7 IB: HL Mod Greek A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Modern Greek A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Mongolian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Nepali A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Norwegian A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Norwegian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Norwegian B, score 7 IB: HL Persian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Polish A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Portuguese A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Portuguese A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Portuguese B, score 7 IB: HL Romanian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Russian A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Russian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL RUSSIAN B, score 7 IB: HL Serbian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Sesotho A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Sinhalese A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Slovak A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Slovene A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Spanish A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Spanish A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Spanish B, score 7 IB: HL Swahili A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Swahili B, score 7 IB: HL Swedish A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Swedish A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Swedish B, score 7 IB: HL Thai A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Turkish A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Ukrainian A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Urdu A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Vietnamese A: Lang & Lit, score 7 IB: HL Vietnamese A: Lit, score 7 IB: HL Welsh A: Lit, score 7

Career pathways

Graduates enter career areas including Business, Communications, Education, International, Law & Public Policy.

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