Bachelor of Global and International Studies carleton.ca An abiding strength of Carleton University is its long tradition of study and research focusing on international problems and perspectives. As Canada’s Capital University, Carleton offers faculty and students opportunities uniquely linked to its location in Ottawa by providing access to a wide range of national and international institutions, associations and agencies. Carleton’s Bachelor of Global requirement and an international wide variety of topics related to and International Studies (BGInS) experience requirement are global and international studies as program takes advantage of included so that you can graduate well as specialists in a number of Carleton’s strengths and location not only with new knowledge different world regions. Carleton to provide an undergraduate and skills, but also a transformed is home to the Arthur Kroeger education in global and worldview. College of Public Affairs (the international issues that can give administrative home of the BGInS The program has been approved you an advantage in today’s job program), the Norman Paterson by the Ontario Universities market. The program has four School of International Affairs Council on Quality Assurance interconnected components. The (the pre-eminent graduate school and is awaiting approval from core course sequence provides of international affairs in Canada), the Ontario Ministry of Training, all students with a common and numerous other departments, Colleges and Universities. multidisciplinary foundation in schools and institutes with an global and international studies. The Carleton advantage international focus, including the The 12 specializations cover Over 80 faculty members from Institute of African Studies and specific international and global the Faculty of Arts and Social Institute of European, Russian and themes or geographical areas, Sciences and the Faculty of Eurasian Studies. Programs as giving you the opportunity to Public Affairs participate in the varied as geography, film studies, focus your studies according to BGInS program. These faculty and religion also offer credit your interests. A second-language members include experts in a courses taught at international locations. CARLETON UNIVERSITY The capital advantage at the world in and through the Core courses Where better to study the world nation-state. They address issues All BGInS students are required and the relationships among its relating to economics, law and to take the core course peoples than Ottawa, the national politics, the international state sequence, which provides them capital of Canada? The seat of the system, and associated issues of with a strong multidisciplinary Canadian federal government, trade, human rights and conflict. foundation in global and the city is home to many of Scholars with a “global” focus look international studies: the country’s internationally- primarily at the shifting meanings FIRST YEAR oriented institutions, including the of identity and belonging in the ■ Global History Department of Foreign Affairs, global community, especially in ■ International Law and Politics Trade and Development. Ottawa the face of the many changes wrought by globalization. They ■ Ethnography, Globalization and is a thriving cosmopolitan centre Culture where you will find a multitude draw upon insights from the of embassies, consulates, humanities (literature, religion, SECOND YEAR international agencies, scientific history and the arts) to look at ■ Ethics and Globalization and cultural institutions, the world outside and beyond the ■ Globalization and International and national and local non- state, while problematizing the Economic Issues governmental organizations distinction of state and society in ■ Global Literatures multiple ways. (NGOs), as well as a large THIRD YEAR concentration of globally oriented The BGInS program is the first in ■ Conceptualizing the Global and high-tech firms. Canada to emphasize both global International System and international approaches to ■ Places, Boundaries, Movements, Global and international the study of the world. It places and Global Environmental perspectives these two viewpoints in creative Change The BGInS program draws upon tension with each other, allowing FOURTH YEAR the two distinct but interrelated students to acquire a nuanced ■ Honours Seminar in Global and understanding of the world in concepts of the “international” International Studies and the “global.” Scholars with an which we live. “international” focus tend to look Specializations Specializations allow students to acquire deeper knowledge in one Studying the world from Carleton University area of global and international studies which interests them. “The Institute of African All students entering the BGInS program must select one Studies has given me specialization at the time of diversity within my admission, although it is possible education. I have been to change specializations after lucky to participate in the entering the program. Nine of study abroad course that the twelve specializations are went to South Africa to thematically defined, while the learn about healthcare, other three are defined in terms and an exchange year and of geographic areas of the placement course with a world. Half the specializations professor at the University of are multidisciplinary, drawing on several academic disciplines to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. explore a theme or geographic The opportunities and area; the rest of the specializations experiences are incredible!” are disciplinary, exploring the global and international Alana Dunbar, BA/14 in dimension of a single academic African Studies and English discipline. The following list will (photo taken on Jambiani give you an idea of the focus of Beach in Zanzibar) each specialization; disciplinary associations and sponsoring academic units for each specialization are also indicated. CARLETON UNIVERSITY AFRICA AND GLOBALIZATION (Multidisciplinary; Institute of Studying the world from Carleton University African Studies) African peoples, cultures, societies, places and histories have been deeply affected by the global world, while also actively contributing to it. In this multidisciplinary specialization you will study a wide range of issues as they apply to Africa, including democratization, human rights, international development, cultural change, migration and refugees, colonialism and postcolonialism, and social justice. You will also acquire an understanding of the larger issues of the politics of development and the relationship “My professors in Global Politics (GPOL) gave me the tools and between the global north and experiences that put me a step ahead of the competition, and as south. This specialization is a result I started working with the United Nations Development administered by the Institute of Programme (UNDP) in Bangladesh right out of my undergrad. I’ve African Studies, which is the only since gone on to consult independently for UNDP and pursue my stand-alone, degree-granting, institute devoted to the study of ambitions in public service, social action and writing, drawing all Africa in Canada. along from the toolbox of skills GPOL helped me to develop. The GPOL community of alumni has also been invaluable, giving me EUROPE AND RUSSIA IN THE contacts across the globe and a good number of friendships too!” WORLD (Multidisciplinary; Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Tyler Amos, BA/13 in Global Politics Studies) Europe and Russia have played and continue to play an important identity politics. The specialization At Carleton, students pursuing role in shaping the world. Taught is championed by the Institute of the Global Development by top experts in their fields, European, Russian, and Eurasian specialization will gain a students in this interdisciplinary Studies, one of Canada’s oldest multidisciplinary perspective on specialization will study the area studies programs that works this broad and important field region’s history, society, politics, closely with Carleton’s Centre for by taking foundational courses economics, language, and European Studies, a European in anthropology, economics, culture, placing them in a broader Union Centre of Excellence. geography, and political science. The program’s core courses global context. The program’s GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT geographic scope is unique in (Multidisciplinary; Department of together with a rich selection treating Europe, Russia, and Economics) of electives will help students Eurasia together, highlighting understand the way the world the considerable social, cultural, According to the executive is unfolding in the face of economic, and political ties summary of the “White Paper” increasingly urgent challenges that span the region. You may on International Development from climate change to human focus your studies on particular Studies in Canada published security to global epidemics. This countries, a set of countries, or by the Canadian Association specialization will be of particular regional institutions such as the for the Study of International interest to students who aspire European Union. You may also Development (CASID) and to work on development study thematic issues that affect the North-South Institute in issues in various government the region such as migration, October 2003, “the study of departments, non-governmental transnational civil society, trade, development provides a window organizations (NGOs), and certain EU enlargement, foreign policy, on the world