Global Studies Minor
Explore current issues, history, and languages of specific regions and countries around the world. Engage with theories and perspectives on political, economic, and social dynamics of globalization.
Why Minor in Global Studies?
Champlain is committed to ensuring that every student receives an education that includes a global perspective. Through our 15-credit Global Studies minor, students can design their own program, including their Core and travel abroad experiences, in a way that emphasizes and extends the globally aware, culturally diverse, and critically sophisticated aspect of their education.
- Act locally, while thinking as a global citizen.
- Explore current issues, history, and languages of specific regions and countries around the world.
- Engage deeply with theories and perspectives on cultural diversity including race, class, gender, and nationality within local and global contexts.?
- Analyze political, economic, and social dynamics of globalization that will impact you in your professional life and future career.
- Critically reflect on your social, cultural, and intellectual experiences while studying abroad through an interdisciplinary examination of the concept of global citizenship in the Global Studies Senior Seminar.
Courses in the Global Studies Minor
NOTE: 9 of the 15 credits required for this minor must be unique to the minor. A student cannot count more than 6 credits to both his/her major program of study (or another minor) and the Global Studies minor.
- Complete one 3-credit course about the specific region/area where the international experience takes place, or a faculty-led travel course. For international students studying at Champlain College who pursue a Global Studies minor, any 200-level COR course would fulfill this requirement.
Choose three of the following courses:
- ART 220: Cultural Immersion Through the Fine Arts Seminar
- ART 330: Ceol Na Heirann: Cultural Immersion Through Music
- ART 380: Advanced Art History: Special Topics
- BUS 310: International Business and Macroeconomics
- COM 270: Intercultural Communication
- COR 204: Theoretical Perspectives
- COR 302: Field Methods
- CSI 320: Global IT and Ethics
- EHS 300: Community Advocacy and Inquiry Abroad
- ENG 335: Cultural Immersion Through Irish Lit: The Dublin Literary Experience
- ENP 310: Environmental Justice
- FLM 280: Irish Culture through Film
- HIS 210: Legacy of World Civilization I
- HIS 315: Modern Irish Social History
- HIS 415B: Northern Ireland
- INT 330: International Relations
- SCI 155: Global Environmental Earth Sciences
- WRT: 335 Writing the City
- Any LAN 100-level, 200-level, or 300-level course (or language course sequence)
- Any Core course with a TVL designation
- Additional regionally-focused course approved by the Global Studies Faculty Advisor
- Additional globally-focused course approved by the Global Studies Faculty Advisor
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