It currently offers Global Studies majors with Asian, European, Latin America and North America emphases, engaging classes are taught by dedicated professors with multi-international backgrounds. Our World Language programs are designed for students who want to enhance their occupational skills with linguistic and cultural training.

?You will find that you can conveniently complete a minor or a second major within four years while completing the University?s 120 credit requirement because its courses also satisfy the requirements of those majors and minors. The Global Studies Major at Winona State endeavors to study the interaction between the regional and global forces. Most of this integrating exercise occurs when you will take the capstone course called the Global Studies Seminar (GS 400) .

This major has two parts:

• Part I (Global Perspectives) provides students a general framework that organizes the different aspects of globalization.
• Part II (Regional Perspectives) offers students an opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge about one of the following regions of the world: Asia, Europe, Latin America, or North America.

Students can examine the impact of global developments on the region they choose to study, and conversely, the impact of regions in influencing global forces. The emphasis upon global-regional interaction is the distinguishing feature of this program.