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Program Sample Plan

Program name: Global Studies B.A.
Sub-plan: Africa
Sample Plan: Africa
Total Credits: 117.0
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Year 1 - Fall Semester: 16.0 cr
Language (a language appropriate to their chosen regional concentration ) :5.0 cr
Freshman Composition :4.0 cr
LE (Biological Sciences) :4.0 cr
LE (Arts/Humanities) :3.0 cr
Year 1 - Spring Semester: 15.0 cr
Language (a language appropriate to their chosen regional concentration ) :5.0 cr
GLOS 1015W - Globalization: Issues and Challenges : 4.0 cr : GP, WI
POL 1025 - Global Politics : 3.0 cr : SOCS, GP
LE (Mathematical Thinking) :3.0 cr
Year 2 - Fall Semester: 14.0 cr
Language (a language appropriate to their chosen regional concentration ) :5.0 cr
GLOS 3144 - Knowledge, Power, and the Politics of Representation in Global Studies : 3.0 cr
LE (Writing Intensive - Lower Division) :3.0 cr
LE (Literature) :3.0 cr
Year 2 - Spring Semester: 14.0 cr
Language (a language appropriate to their chosen regional concentration ) :5.0 cr
GLOS 3145 - Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism : 3.0 cr
LE (Environment) :3.0 cr
LE (Technology and Society) :3.0 cr
Year 3 - Fall Semester: 14.0 cr
AFRO 3432 - Modern Africa in a Changing World : 3.0 cr : HIS, GP
Thematic Breadth Course 3.0 cr
LE (Physical Sciences) :4.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
Year 3 - Spring Semester: 15.0 cr
GLOS 3970 - Topics in African Area Studies : 3.0 cr
Thematic Ways of Knowing Course 3.0 cr
Thematic Elective Course 3.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
LE (Writing Intensive - Upper Division) :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Fall Semester: 16.0 cr
AFRO 3431 - Early Africa and Its Global Connections : 3.0 cr : HIS, GP
Thematic Elective Course 3.0 cr
Thematic Elective Course 3.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
Elective :3.0 cr
Year 4 - Spring Semester: 13.0 cr
GLOS 3981W - Capstone Seminar : 3.0 cr : WI
LE (Diversity and Soc Justice US) :3.0 cr
Elective :4.0 cr
GLOS 3970 - Topics in African Area Studies : 3.0 cr