The Graduate Certificate Program in Global Studies

Graduate Departments and Research Centers at Binghamton University have joined their resources to form The Graduate Certificate Program in Global Studies. The Program builds on over twenty years of research, teaching, publication and conference activity in the field of interdisciplinary world studies. As a result of the international reputation the university has established in this area, it has attracted faculty, as well as graduate students, to programs and departments in both the humanities and the social sciences whose common interest is in both historical and contemporary research

Combining resources and faculty from the graduate programs and research activities of Africana Studies; Anthropology; Comparative Literature; English; History and Theory of Art and Architecture; History; Philosophy, Interpretation & Culture; Political Science; Sociology; The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; The Center for Research in Translation; The Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems and Civilisations; and The Institute of Global Cultural Studies, the program focuses on the study of social economy, power, environment, and culture over long-term historical time and through global space and the cultural politics of representation and language from interdisciplinary perspectives. Through courses, graduate seminars, faculty colloquia, and other activities, the collaborative Graduate Program in Global Studies seeks to offer students the opportunity to develop intellectual breadth as well as interpretive and analytical skills needed to further the study of global processes. At the same time, through interdisciplinary faculty workshops, the program seeks to explore modes of inquiry into global phenomena, examine disciplinary boundaries, and promote interdisciplinary research and teaching within world perspectives.

Description of Program Organization.

A total of 3 courses will be required for the global studies certificate. These include two courses from the list of designated courses outside of the student's department and a designated interdisciplinary Global Studies seminar. In order to encourage the development of interdisciplinary approaches, seminars normally will be team-taught by faculty from different disciplines. Topics will change. Parallel to the Global Studies seminar(s), there will be a faculty workshop designed to promote interdisciplinary research in global studies. Students will be welcome to participate, but the faculty workshop will not be a teaching seminar. Upon completion of program requirements students will be awarded a Certificate in Global Studies. Students from participating departments are encouraged to enroll. Students from throughout the university are welcome.

In addition to providing courses in participating departments, the program offers interdisciplinary seminars, workshops, and conferences designed to address issues of theory and method. The university library is especially well-equipped, both in serials and monographs, with resources appropriate to the program. Faculty involved in the Global Studies Program have close connections with colleagues in similar centers in other parts of the world.

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