Global Studies Registration Guide: Spring 2026

ADVISING/REGISTRATION PERIOD

Advising for Spring 2026 begins Monday, October 20 with registration starting Monday, October 27, staggered for each grade level. Check your registration times. Advisor Meetings/Communications needs to include the following: 

  1. Connect with your GS faculty advisor well before your assigned registration time. Unsure who your GS advisor is? consult GradTracker, if GS is your first major.

  2. Your official faculty advisor must tag BannerWeb status to “Advised” before you can access registration. If you are a double major, and GS is not your first major, the advisor for your primary or first major will change your status to “Advised,” but you should still consult with your GS advisor or the Program coordinator. Students studying abroad should email their advisors but can also find detailed registration information on the Registrar’s Office Website: Registrar’s Office Website.

  3. For questions about registration, transfer credits, approval of courses for the major, and so forth please talk with your advisor before reaching out to the GS program coordinator. 

  4. Requirements for the major are listed here.   

  5. These requirements include a semester of study abroad relevant to the concentration within the major. Please consult with your GS faculty advisor before making a decision.

UPCOMING COURSES: Spring 2026


1. Global Studies gatewaycapstone courses available:

  1. GS 210 Planet Earth, People & Place
  2. 2 sections/MW Noon-1:15 or 1:30-2:45 with Finley-Brook
  3. Introduces our earth as home to people and place through geographic approaches that analyze cultural, societal, economic, political, and environmental change. 
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  5. GS 290 Introduction to Global Studies 
  6. 2 sections/MW 9-10:15 with Hass or MW 10:30-11:45 with Howell
  7. Introduces methods and questions of the international studies field through regionally diverse case studies and analyses. Topics may include identity, culture, geopolitics, war, environment, health, media, migration, and inequality. 
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  9. GS 400 Senior Seminar/Global Poverty & Inequality 
  10. Wednesdays 3-5:30 pm with Sandra Joireman
  11. Global poverty and inequality is a topic of intense debate and deep concern. Indeed, since the adoption of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals, the issue of global welfare has assumed a privileged place at the top of the international political agenda. Nonetheless, the problem continues to aggravate most regions of the world and in 2015 it was estimated that 41 percent of individuals in sub-Saharan Africa lived in extreme poverty (on less than US ($1.25 per day), while that number equaled 17 percent in South Asia; 4 percent in East Asia; and 4 percent in Latin America. 
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  13. 2. Internships and Independent Studies:  If interested in a GS 388 Internship or GS 390 Independent Study, please consult with your GS advisor and t he GS Program Coordinato
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  15. 3. Study Abroad: These requirements include a semester of study abroad relevant to the concentration within the major. (Please consult with your GS faculty advisor before making a decision).
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  17. 4.  Courses by Concentration
  18. Concentration course lists by attributed electives are assessible from red bars at top right for Spring 2026. GS majors must adhere to taking no more than three courses in any one department that will be applied toward a concentration. In addition to the courses listed in our schedules under the GS heading, consult listings under Anthropology, Art, Economics, English, Geography, History, Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Political Science, Religion, Sociology, or other departments for courses relevant to your concentration.