Global Studies Registration Guide: Fall 2026

ADVISING/REGISTRATION PERIOD

Advising for Fall 2026 begins Monday, March 23 with registration start Monday,  March 30 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.

 

  1. BannerWeb Must Do: 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.

 

  1. Questions:  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. 

 

  1. Majors: Requirements for the major are listed here.   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 FALL 2026 COURSES

 GS 210 Planet Earth, People & Place, 2 sections/TR 10:30-11:45 or Noon-1:15

Introduces our earth as home to people and place through geographic approaches that analyze cultural, societal, economic, political, and environmental change. 

 GS 290 Introduction to Global Studies, 2 sections/MW 9-10:15 (Hass) or MW 10:30-11:45 (Howell)

Introduction to interdisciplinary methods and topics in Global Studies, through regionally diverse case studies and analyses. Topics may include identity, culture, geopolitics, war, environment, health, media, migration, and inequality. 

GS 400 Senior Seminar: Colonialism, Mondays 4:30-7 pm  (Loo)

Colonialism has been one of the most potent forces to reconfigure the modern world, reshaping political authority, economic life, and social relations on a global scale. It has operated through assertions of power by one group over people who did not consent to their rule and inaugurated enduring structures of inequality and violence. Although the age of formal colonialism was widely declared over with twentieth-century decolonization, neocolonial formations continue to shape political sovereignty, reproduce economic dependency, and sustain cultural hierarchies. This senior capstone approaches colonialism as a world-historical phenomenon, examining cases across regions and periods while engaging scholarship from history, anthropology, political theory, and related fields. Students will conduct independent research and write a substantial paper on a topic of their choice.

 4. Courses by Concentration 

Go to Concentration pages on this website for Fall 2026 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.  

 5. NEW GS electives for Fall 2026:

SOC 345:  Violence (Hass) 

Topics include different forms and organization of violence in global context: everyday violence; war in its various incarnations; political repression; performative and privatized violence; violence used for purposeful extermination; violence as property and as capital. Discussion-based. Pre-req Soc 101 or GS 290 or PLSC 240. GSCC,  GS Pol & Gov    

 SOC 303: Global Capitalism: Past, Present, Future (Payne)

Foundational texts on the origins and trajectory of the capitalist world system. Perspectives on colonialism and anti-colonial struggles, the development of ‘the West’ and underdevelopment of ‘the Rest,’ globalization and global commodity chains, transnational labor and social movements, the economic rise of East Asia, the social foundations of interstate conflict, and the challenges facing the future of global capitalism. Discussion-based. Pre-req Soc 101 or GS 290.   GS Pol & Gov

 HS 341: Comparative Health Systems (James)

Course examines the structures, financing mechanisms, and policy implications of healthcare delivery models in both developed and developing nations. Key case studies include the United States, France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, Ghana, Brazil, Coast Rica among others.  GSCC, GS Dev & Change

 ANTH 379 01:  ST:  Humanitarianism and Global Health (Sweiss)

Perspectives on Aid, Charity and Care in context of global conflict.  Interdisciplinary perspectives. GSCC 

 ANTH 379 02:  Medicine and War: Perspectives on Health, Healing, and Conflict (Sweiss)

Course examines the intersections of violence, war and biomedical healthcare from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches. We will critically examine specific case studies of political conflict, past and present, engaging  critical questions such as: what are the socio-cultural effects of war and political violence? How does violence restructure local healthcare regimes? How is emergency healthcare delivered and received in extreme conditions of crisis or instability? And what are the intimate, bodily effects of war for individuals, from civilians to healthcare workers to soldiers? With a strong emphasis on critical scholarship in medical anthropology, this course aims to advance student knowledge about the mutual constitutive relationship between global and local politics and human health.  GSCC

HIST 298:  Nazi Germany and Fascism (Kahn)

Taught under a different number then previously, this course still fulfills GS “regional” requirement and the world order and diplomacy req for GS Pol&Gov concentration! As always, course asks: How did Hitler turn democracy into dictatorship? How did the Holocaust happen? How did ordinary people become mass murderers? And how can we explain the resurgence of far-right extremism and neo-Nazism in Germany today? Throughout, course pays special attention to the strategies that ordinary people used to resist and survive fascist rule, even in the face of seemingly impossible odds. AIHT, GSWE, GSWD 

LLC 200:  Revolution (McCauley)

Examines motivations, practices, and outcomes of 20th and 21st century revolutions in Russia/Soviet Union, the Middle East, and France. Key texts are literary works and films that provide the language, imagery, and narrative drive that shape political revolutions and perpetuate their memory.  AILT,  GSCC    

 

  1. 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.