Global Studies Minor
(18 credit hours)

Today’s era of globalization produces new opportunities as well as challenges. The successful university graduate will need a new set of skills and knowledge bases—including the life-changing experience of studying abroad—in order to understand, maneuver in, and contribute to this increasingly complex world. Marian University’s Global Studies students learn to think critically and address a wide variety of global issues in an ethically conscious manner.

Our unique Global Studies (GLS) minor makes a powerful addition to any major in the liberal arts or professional studies. The GLS minor requires 18 hours including:

• GLS 101 (Global Perspectives)
• Two GLS 380 interdisciplinary Global Issues Seminars
• Six additional hours of foreign language study (continuing in same language)
• A minimum of three credit hours of approved study abroad experience.
• Optional: GLS 360 Global Studies Internship

Study Abroad

Once you join the Global Studies program, you’ll need to get a passport. All GLS students will go abroad, for a summer or semester’s study, or for one of Marian University’s faculty-led, three-credit “Maymester” trips. LFCGS works in close coordination with Marian University’s director of Study Abroad to ensure that you will obtain an exciting and rewarding study abroad experience.

Global Studies Student Bloggers

Elizabeth Enas is an English major at Marian University who is doing a semester study aboard.
Notice: You will be directed off the Marian University web site.

Global Studies Internships
(Optional)

The Richard G. Lugar Franciscan Center for Global Studies pursues student internship opportunities that focus on developing global knowledge and expertise for Global Studies students. Globally focused internships (GLS 360) can be located in Indiana, around the nation, or abroad. Overseas internships can be combined with a semester or summer study abroad program.