Global Communications Track

The Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies through the Global Communications track focuses on the relevance of language, culture, and identity in understanding innovations in and applications of technology, media, communications, information science and technology transfer. This track will allow students to build technical competencies while also grounding them in a broader understanding of technology’s impact on human lives.

This track affords a range of options that allow students to prepare for careers in fields such as marketing, international business, advertising, information technology, new media, and translation.

Global Communications track core courses focus on:

• fundamental issues in intercultural communication, communication technologies, and information systems - at the interpersonal and group levels
• the vital and changing role that language plays in establishing community, identity, and social being in a process of global reorganization
• the global role of technology in expediting changes in writing, communication and cultural transformation
• how changes in language and technology emerge in narrative and representational forms within globalized systems of mass media and representation
• information in economic and social development in developing countries, i.e. the digital divide
• communication challenges that constitute and complicate global experience and ways to repond to these in a manner that demonstrates competence as global communicators

Students in the Global Communications track who complete at least 21 credits of elective courses offered through the School of Information Studies (SOIS) will be awarded the Global Studies degree jointly by the UWM College of Letters and Science and the School of Information Studies.

Click here for a listing of the course requirements for the Global Communications track, or contact a Global Studies Advisor.