Because of vast communications networks, global trade, the Internet, rapid travel, and other factors, we now live in ONE WORLD. 

                    Are we acting as...                                                                  

                           responsible global citizens

                                                         and respectful neighbors? 

         Our world is fascinating, intensely interconnected, rapidly changing, unstable, and often violent.  Somehow, we need to come to grips with our world and work towards stability and peace.  Global Studies majors will have that opportunity!  The following questions are germane.

    Abbey on Iona with Ancient Celtic Cross

• Do you love to travel?

• Do you love language and learning about other cultures and places?

• How will citizens within Third World nations elevate their standard of living?           

• Do you wonder about benefits and costs of globalization?

• Are we at the point in the evolution of global civilization to create a workable global government – one that   recognizes state sovereignty but seeks true global governance? 

• How will the European Union and the development of China affect global trade over the next 20 years? 

• What is the International Court of Justice and how does it function?

• What do you know about the operation of the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank?

         Students having a serious interest in world cultures: global literature, entertainment, music, art, and sports, world history, world governments, global resources, languages, global governance, global bioethics, international business, international law, global treaties, conduct of the United Nations and other international governing bodies, and a wide variety of other global activities are encouraged to carefully consider a major or minor in GLOBAL STUDIES. 

Grinding flour, east of Po, Burkina Faso