As an international direct student at USC, you’ll receive:

• Exclusive and rigorous academic coursework
• Priority access to in-demand courses that fit your interests
• Guidance from academic advisors and mentors
• Career development and networking opportunities
• Intensive classes with domestic students

As a global studies major, you will focus on themes relating to globalization while learning to appreciate the world’s diversity. To achieve this end, this major requires students to focus on a particular world region and to attain proficiency in a modern foreign language.

Students in the Global Studies Program will focus on one of four themes: global health, global conflict and security, global sustainability and development, and global cultures. These themes, along with the major components around which the degree program is structured, will prepare students for careers where an understanding of urgent global issues is required, and where an ability to work with people from a variety of cultures is indispensable.

The Global Studies major will equip you with a wide variety of skills important for workforce success. Some of those skills include:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Deep understanding of the institutions and processes that shape the world
• Cross-cultural knowledge and understanding
• Critical thinking and creative problem-solving
• Ability to formulate clear and persuasive messages
• Listening, clarifying, questioning and responding skills
• Ability to work well independently and collaboratively 

The potential career paths for a BA in Global Studies graduate are in:

• Civil service
• Human rights advocacy
• International sales
• Foreign service
• Import/Export
• Global business
• Social work
• World health organizations