Introduction to International and Global Studies.

Catalog description

The first of a two-seminar series, to be taken during a student’s first fall semester as a major. This course will teach students how to best utilize the IGS multidisciplinary degree program. Students will be introduced to the program’s respective stakeholder disciplines (Anthropology, Economics, History, Foreign Languages, International Business, and Political Science) and will be introduced to research methodologies in each stakeholder discipline. Students will conduct preliminary research on a global or international topic of their choice and will present their findings at the end of the course. This course must be taken at St. Mary’s University, and it is a pre-requisite for IGS 5399 .