Why a Global Studies AA-T?

The Associate in Arts in Global Studies for Transfer (AA-T) provides the student with the skills to navigate today’s globalized world, where people of different cultures, nations, and worldviews are coming into contact more than ever before. The major will help students recognize and respond to this cultural interconnectedness through courses devoted to the study of cultures and societies, economic and political systems, geography, and language. Students will develop the skills of balancing personal and cultural beliefs with different ways of thinking, understanding and working through conflict, and increasing their comfort with cross-cultural interaction in their communities, work relationships, civic life, and travel experiences. Understanding the global dimensions of societal developments and challenges will boost students’ critical thinking skills and make them valuable assets to future employers.

What Can You Look Forward to?

• Career Support
  • Global Perspectives, Global Careers Fair for Community College Students, Stanford Univeristy! (Hosted on Zoom.) Coming up Sat., April 27, 10 am-4:15 pm. Register here by April 12!
  • For Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month 2021, a panel of Latinx people working in politics or government shared their experiences and asked questions. Global Studies majors were featured.
• Clubs
  • Please contact Professors Eagan or Thompson if you would like to form a Global Citizens club!
• Travel Abroad
  • For 2024 trips, students can consult the LPC Community Education website for trips run by Collette. They are open to the community-at-large.
  • Individual faculty sometimes lead trips that are not sponsored by the college. For example, in June 2023, Global Studies Coordinator Katie Eagan led a trip to Ireland, England, and Wales!
  • Students are also eligible to apply for trips originating out of other colleges. For example, check out summer trips through Foothill College and semesters abroad at Santa Barbara City College.
  • For International Education Week 2022, students were invited to attend a study abroad information session through Zoom, hosted by CSUEB. Transfer students to any CSU who hope to study abroad in the fall of their junior year should apply by February 15--you can always change your home university once you know where you are transferring. Remember that you can use your financial aid for study abroad, and in some locations, the cost of living and education is cheaper than it is in California! To learn more, review this CSUEB slide show from a IEW 2020 panel on study/travel/service learning opportunities abroad. The recording provides even more information.
• Lectures
  • What global issues are you most interested in! Let us know, and we'll invite a speaker to come to campus!
  • On Weds., Nov. 10, 2021, SJSU professor of performance studies Matthew Spangler spoke about how refugees and asylum-seekers are represented through the literary and performing arts, a topic he has explored extensively as an artist, critic, and teacher. Enjoy this video of the talk! His adaptation of The Kite Runner was on Broadway in 2022.

~The Kite Runner, play adaptation by M. Spangler
San Jose Repertory Theatre

• On Thurs., Jan. 30, 2020, Stanford history professor Dr. Ana Minian delivered an evening lecture on how Mexican migrants in the 1970s and 80s "found themselves caught between the [competing] economic interests" of Mexico and the US. Her book is Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration.

• Film screenings
  • Past film screenings have included Lionheart, The Anthropologist , Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Les Intouchables, and The Linguists.
• Art exhibits
  • The Art and Art History programs brought local Japanese-American painter Ema Kubo to LPC in the fall of 2019.
• Field trips
  • Let us know where you might like to go!