The minor in Global Studies, designed and supported by the Ball State Global Engagement Committee and the Rinker Center for Global Affairs, integrates broad perspectives of coursework and global agency to complement other university majors and minors.
Immersing yourself in different cultures and parts of the world is at the core of the minor in Global Studies. Applying this multicultural, multidisciplinary knowledge and experience to your major, other minors, and future career is the goal of the global studies minor.
By focusing on global processes like politics, economics, our societies, and the languages we speak, you’ll learn to engage more with the global community as a citizen of the world.
What You Will Learn
- How to critically engage with and analyze the macro-processes of the world
- How to actively apply major-specific knowledge to a global context
- How to compete in the global workplace of the 21st century
Required Courses
Total Credits required (18-20 credits)
Students who are minoring in Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Chinese, or in the Arabic Language, Religion, and Culture minor will need to have at least 9 unique credits that have not been used to count toward that minor.
ML Required Course (3 credits)
- ML 101 Going Global: Tools for Exploring Languages and Cultures
- ML 101 is intended to be taken at the beginning of the Global Studies minor in parallel with other requirements.
Required Language Courses (6-8 credits)
- Students must take two courses at Ball State within the following language prefixes: AR, CH, FR, GER, JAPA, or SP
- No prior language experience: Take 101 and 102 in AR, CH, FR, GER, JAPA, or SP
- Prior language experience: Take course and subsequent course determined by results of Department of Modern Languages and Classics language placement exam. 100-300 level courses including 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, and 302.
Core Categories (9 credits)
- Cultural Competencies (3 credits)
- Global Contexts (3 credits)
- Communication and Impact (3 credits)