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An interdisciplinary approach to understanding global issues.

For more than 50 years, ¶¶Òõ̽̽’s Global and Regional Studies Program (GRS), previously known as the Area and International Studies Program, has provided insights into the connections between people and place, labor and migration, identity, conflict, and solidarity in multiple areas across the world. Drawing from distinct and overlapping traditions and disciplines, GRS students have learned about, researched, and visited various locations and contexts.

Rather than simply providing a window through which you can observe other regions of the world, the GRS programs engage with cultural, political, economic, environmental, and social issues both specific to and in common with various regions. Within GRS there are a number of minors and areas of concentration students can focus on during their advanced studies, including political-economic, human-environment, and humanities, or in regional programs focusing on Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Russia.

Through this program students will be prepared to enter exciting careers in government, the non-profit sector, law, business, cultural production, journalism, education, advocacy, and social services.

Opportunities to Explore

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Going Places

Our students excel, earning Fulbright Scholarships, studying at top graduate programs, and securing cutting-edge business and humanitarian roles. They become everything from political scientists in the Middle East to anthropologists researching the Yoruba religion or bicycles in Colombia.
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Cultural Immersion

Nearly all GRS majors study abroad for a semester or year between sophomore and senior year. Many also engage in internships and service-learning at global organizations and universities. Often, credits earned abroad can be applied toward the GRS major or minor.
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Making Connections

We bring scholars, political figures, artists, and activists to campus, strongly encourage our students to study abroad, offer a broad range of internships, and sponsor faculty-led study courses to sites around the world.