Online Bachelor of Arts Degree in Global Affairs

You’ll use real-world case studies and analysis to learn how global decisions are made and how they impact communities around the world. This will help you gain a deeper understanding of how global challenges like human rights, security, diplomacy and economic systems are connected.

You’ll build applicable skills in thematic and regional analysis, international law and global decision-making. Through learning how to evaluate policies, you’ll come to understand their impact so you can contribute informed solutions to complex global challenges.

Prepare to explore the drivers behind conflict and cooperation on a global scale. You’ll study everything from national security to international negotiations so you can learn how to assess risk and contribute to solutions that promote stability and peace.

You’ll develop the ability to design research, analyze data and turn complex information into clear insights. With these skills, you’ll be prepared to make informed decisions and support strategic planning in government, nonprofit and global organizations.

Through virtual internships and experiential learning opportunities like the Global Accelerator, you’ll apply what you learn in real-world settings. You’ll build confidence and gain practical knowledge while staying flexible with your schedule.

This fully online BA in Global Affairs is designed to fit into your busy schedule. You’ll have due dates each week, but you complete your work around your schedule. This way, you can keep up with your other responsibilities while continuing to move forward with your education. Prepare for a career with global impact without putting your life on hold.

This course assists students in understanding the context in which the United States interacts with the rest of the world and the effects this has on the US in return. It traces the history and evolution of the United States’ involvement in global affairs and why and how what happens in the world matters for the US and vice versa. Issues may include security, globalization, peace and conflict, trade, human rights, health issues, the environment, terrorism, food, technology, international diplomacy, and other intermestic issues. May be applied toward the Core Curriculum requirement in Language, Philosophy and Culture.

A comparative examination of the diverse forms, goals, styles, and practices of government in democratic and authoritarian states. Several major polities will be studied in detail. Topics may include political development and modernization, dependency and development, conflict, civil wars, coups and terrorism.

This course is a survey of public international law. This course introduces the student to the constantly developing framework of international law and its cross section with global politics. Emphasis is on the foundations and substantive rules of international law and national politics. Topics may include the legal analysis of laws of war, war crimes, terrorism, human rights, economic exchange and natural resources, and international institutions.

This course introduces students to a range of methodological approaches relevant to studying global problems and international relations. Students will study relevant background debates in the philosophy of the social sciences, explore different methods and methodologies of GLA, consider examples of contemporary research designs associated with global problems and international relations, and learn how to craft their own research questions to address real world issues. The course will include a range of different quantitative and qualitative approaches and may include discussions on advanced topics, such as measures of central tendency and dispersion, regression, and problems of description and inference, comparative case studies, content analysis, and discourse analysis, etc.

This course provides an overview of theoretical debates and conceptual frameworks for the study of international relations. It examines a range of theoretical models important to explaining how the world works including but not limited to, classical and structural realism, liberalism, global society/complex interdependence/liberal institutionalism, Marxism/dependency, constructivism, and critical theories including feminism and post-modernism. The course also may introduce frameworks for the study of foreign policy decision making such as bureaucratic and organizational politics, and small group politics.

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This course introduces students to a range of methodological approaches relevant to studies of global problems and international relations. Students will study relevant background debates in the philosophy of the social sciences, consider examples of contemporary research designs associated with global problems and international relations, and learn how to craft research questions that address real world challenges. Course may include a range of methodological approaches including quantitative methods (e.g., measures of central tendency and dispersion, regression, and problems of description and inference, etc.), qualitative methods (e.g., comparative case studies, content analysis, and discourse analysis, etc.).

This course offers students an opportunity to closely examine the causes, dynamics, and dilemmas associated with conflict on the modern global stage. Issues under discussion may include intra- and interstate conflicts; nationalism and conflict; economic, social, and political costs and implications of conflict; national and international approaches to conflict resolution, reconstruction, and development; human rights principles and questions of international law and justice; debates about humanitarian interventions; population displacements; the range of security concerns and responses by government actors and institutions; and the viability of nation states in protecting individuals, groups, and institutions of governance.

A comparative examination of the political systems of selected Southeast Asian countries and their efforts to deal with political, economic, and social change. Countries studied may include Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

This course is designed as an inter-disciplinary course offering that provides students with greater cross-cultural knowledge and understanding through a real-world international experience prior to graduation. The experience may be an internship, service learning, or research project.