Global and International Studies Program
Division of Social Sciences
Humanities and Social Sciences 3042
Telephone: (805) 893-7860
E-mail: gisp@global.ucsb.edu
Website: www.global.ucsb.edu (will open in a new browser window)
Chair: Giles Gunn
Contents:
Richard Appelbaum, Ph.D., University of Chicago, Professor (international labor, global economic systems)
Giles B. Gunn, Ph.D., University of Chicago, Professor (global literature, critical theory)
Mark Juergensmeyer, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, Professor (global conflict, global religion and society)
Gurinder Singh Mann, Ph.D., Columbia University, Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair in Global and Sikh Studies (Sikhism, South Asian religion and society, global diasporas)
Dominic M. Sachsenmaier, Ph.D., Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiberg, Germany (global history, Chinese and European history)
Paul Amar, Ph.D. (Law and Society)
Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval, Ph.D. (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Kum Kum Bhavnani, Ph.D. (Sociology, Women’s Studies)
Marguerite Bouraad-Nash, Ph.D. (Political Science)
Juan E. Campo, Ph.D. (Religious Studies)
Benjamin J. Cohen, Ph.D. (Political Science)
Timothy Cooley, Ph.D. (Music)
Eve Darian-Smith, Ph.D. (Law and Society)
John Foran, Ph.D.(Sociology)
Nancy Gallagher, Ph.D. (History)
Lisa Hajjar, Ph.D. (Law and Society)
Mary Hancock, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Richard Hecht, Ph.D. (Religious Studies)
Jonathan X. Inda, Ph.D. (Chicana and Chicano Studies)
Fernando Lopez-Alves, Ph.D. (Political Science)
William Robinson, Ph.D. (Sociology)
Dwight F. Reynolds, Ph.D. (Religious Studies)
Rita Raley, Ph.D. (English)
Mayfair Yang, Ph.D. (Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies)
Graduate Programs
Master of Arts - Global and International Studies
The two-year M.A. program in global and international studies combines courses from the social sciences and humanities with practical training and real-world experience. Students typically spend the summer of their first year and fall quarter of their second year abroad, taking courses and doing internships with nongovernmental organizations, governmental bodies, or businesses. The program is currently exploring partnerships with other globally oriented educational institutions abroad, and a range of international NGOs, for study and intern placements. Students will also take two policy-oriented workshops designed to simulate real-life decision-making situations. Noncredit workshops will also be available for interested students, providing opportunities to learn about such practical matters as grant writing and foundation funding, tracking organizational finances, information management, and computer-based technologies.
The curriculum consists of three courses per quarter. The first year includes required courses on Micro/Macro Economics, Global Trade and Finance, Organizational Policy and Management, Global Organizations and Civil Society, Transnational Forces and Political Systems, Global Governance and World Order, and Theories of Intercultural Understanding. Students are also required to take a course on Research Methods in Global and International Affairs, participate in a policy analysis and exercise seminar, and attend a seminar that focuses on contemporary issues and internship preparation.
The second year allows students to choose courses that provide background in particular cultural/geographic regions, and focus on a career emphasis in either global social and economic development or global culture and human rights. Students are also required to take courses in an area specialization of their choice: East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, or Europe. The course on managing development Organizations, Non-Profits, and Other NGOs: Theory and Practice is also offered as an elective. The second year culminates with a required policy workshop.
In consultation with their advisors, students can select either Master’s Plan I (thesis) or Master’s Plan II (comprehensive exam). It is expected that most students will choose the former.
Optional Ph.D. Emphasis in Global Studies
The Global and International Studies Program also offers an optional Ph.D. emphasis for students pursuing the Ph..D. in anthropology, English, history, political science, religious studies, and sociology. To be eligible for admission to the Ph.D. emphasis, students must be admitted to the Ph.D. program in one of the departments choosing to offer this emphasis with their existing Ph.D. program and petition successfully to add the optional emphasis.
The student’s dissertation committee must have one member from a participating department other than the student’s own department. The student may also elect a global emphasis for his or her department field/area/specialization exam, if such an emphasis is offered within the department. The chair of the Coordinating Committee will determine when the student has successfully completed all of the requirements for the emphasis.
By “global” we refer to transnational economic, political, environmental, social, and cultural interactions and flows that operate at a global (i.e., trans-continental) scale. Global Studies views the world as comprised of increasingly interdependent processes, rather than as shaped exclusively or even primarily by the interplay of discrete nation-states.
Petitions for adding the emphasis can be made at any time in a student’s graduate career, but typically will be made after at least one successful year of study in the home department. Work completed prior to admission in the emphasis that meets emphasis requirements (as determined by the Ph.D. Emphasis Coordinating Committee) may be counted towards completion.
To satisfy the Ph.D. emphasis in global studies, students are required to take four one-quarter graduate level courses. One course is Global 201, the introductory gateway seminar, offered by the Global and International Studies Program. A second course is a capstone pro-seminar, typically taken when the student is nearing completion of his or her dissertation, in which students present their work-in-progress for critical feedback.
Two additional courses must be chosen from among qualifying global theory and global issues courses offered by these participating departments: Anthropology, English, History, Political Science, Religious Studies, and Sociology. These courses will be selected from an approved list of global theory and global issues graduate courses prepared by the Ph.D. emphasis Coordinating Committee each spring, for the following academic year. At least one of these two courses must be a global theory course, and at least one must be a global issues course. Courses will typically be taken for a letter grade. One will be taken from the student’s home department, and the other from one of the five other participating departments or the global & international studies program. The two seminars must be taken from different instructors. Courses that qualify during each academic year will be posted to the Global & International Studies Program website during early fall. Courses not listed on the website may occasionally be approved, on preition to the director of the Ph.D. Emphasis.
For additional information, please contact the graduate advisor in one of the participating departments or Global Studies.
