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. Hosted by Stanford Univeristy every April on Zoom.
  • For Hispanic Latinx Heritage Month 2021, a panel of Latinx professionals working in politics or government shared their experiences and fielded questions. Global Studies majors were featured.
• Travel Abroad
  • Professors Eagan (English) and Wing Brooks (Humanties) will be leading a trip to Sevilla, Spain in June 2026! Students will earn credit for ENG 45 (Studies in Fiction with a Spanish literature theme) and HUMN 11 (Culture and the Arts I: Ancient World to the Renaissance). For more information, contact Professor Eagan.
  • Consult the LPC Community Education website for trips run by Collette that will enrich your global cultural competency. The trips are open to the community-at-large, so you can enjoy them with relatives and other non-LPC students.
  • Consider planning ahead to study abroad through a CSU or UC. 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. To learn more, review this CSUEB slide show from a International Education Week panel on study/travel/service learning opportunities abroad. The recording provides even more information.
• Clubs
  • Please contact Professors Eagan or Thompson if you would like to form a Global Citizens club!
• Lectures
  • What global issues are you most interested in! Let us know, and we'll invite a speaker to come to campus!
  • In 2021, SJSU professor of performance studies Matthew Spangler joined us on Zoom to talk about how refugees and asylum-seekers are represented through the literary and performing arts. 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

• • In 2020, Stanford history professor Dr. Ana Minian came to campus to speak on her book 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.
  • Consider talking Global Cinemas (HUMN 4) if you want to learn more about other cultures through film!