Global Studies Registration Guide: Fall 2025

ADVISING/REGISTRATION PERIOD

Advising for Fall 2025 begins Monday, March 24 with registration start Monday, March 31 for current seniors. 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

  1. Courses by Concentration: Go to Concentration pages on this website for Fall 2025 attributed elective course lists. 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.  

  2. 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).

  3. Fall '25 Senior GS 400 Seminar with Jeff Hass Tuesdays 7-9:30 pm.                          Our Darker Angels: Collective Violence, The theme is collective violence. Humans are compassionate, creative, fun-loving, weird—and also violent. The form and degree of violence changes across place, time, and institutional context. Violence can be physical or symbolic. It can be targeted or almost random. Elites and average people can use violence. It might be a glue, or the glue, holding us together as well as splitting them apart. This course will explore different sources and expressions of violence in an attempt to find some structure and logic behind the madness. Tentative topics include different forms and organization of violence: everyday violence; war in its various incarnations; political repression; performative and privatized violence; and violence used for purposeful extermination. Readings and discussions about violence will take up half of the semester.

  4. Gateway Courses: Majors who have not yet completed the gateway courses should register for at least one of the following: a. The required GS 290 Introduction to Global Studies  b. GS/GEOG 210 Planet Earth: People and Place or PLSC 240 Introduction to Comparative Politics.

  5. Internships and Independent Studies:  If interested in a GS 388 Internship or GS 390 Independent Study, please consult with your GS advisor and the GS Program Coordinator.