Department of Global Affairs
Associate Director:
Kasey Swanke
The Global Affairs major provides students with a rigorous program of study that integrates knowledge, theory and methods of inquiry from many disciplines. It is grounded in a human-centered approach and focuses on global challenges to human flourishing such as climate change, increasing inequality and poverty, flows of refugees and migrants, human and civil rights violations and deadly conflict, and the policies and practices that address them.
Students can declare the Global Affairs major in their first year, and students declaring the major in their sophomore year can typically still finish the requirements on time. Students pair the major with a variety of other majors, supplementary majors, and minors on campus. With prior approval, students may satisfy up to six credits toward the electives requirement through study abroad programs. When necessary, students may satisfy a limited number of major requirements through other departments’ courses covering comparable content. These "waive-and-replace" instances are granted only with the permission of the Director of the Global Affairs major and are subject to strict limitations.
The Keough School of Global Affairs offers their courses under the subject codes of: Global Affairs (GLAF), and Keough School - Global Affairs (KSGA). The scheduled classes for a given semester may be found at classearch.nd.edu.