Global Studies Consortium

The Global Studies Consortium (GSC) is an international academic association of over 20 institutions of higher learning. It seeks to "promote and facilitate graduate teaching programs in global studies and to foster cooperation among them."[1] That cooperation includes exchange of materials and development of methods to survey outcomes,[2] annual meetings, and a student exchange program. GSC deals only with graduate level programs, and there is no comparable association for undergraduate degree programs in global studies.[3]

The GSC was founded at a meeting of representatives of university global studies programs held in February 2007 at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies of the University of California at Santa Barbara.[4] It has been influential in defining the new field of global studies.[3]

GSC is linked to global-e: A Global Studies Journal.[5]

Members

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The member programs of the GSC[6] are listed by continent below:

Africa

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Asia

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Australia

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Europe

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North America

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Student exchange program

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In 2014, GSC started an exchange program called Student Mobility Scheme.[7] As of 2016, four of the member institutions participate: American University in Cairo; Lomonosov Moscow State University; Shanghai University; and Sophia University.

Meetings

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The GSC has held meetings every year following the 2007 workshop at UCSB Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine where it was founded:[8]

  1. Tokyo Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, hosted by Sophia University, 17–18 May 2008. (At this meeting participants identified 5 main characteristics of global studies.)
  2. Leipzig Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, hosted by University of Leipzig, 17–18 October 2009
  3. Santa Barbara Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, hosted by University of California - Santa Barbara, 24–25 April 2010
  4. Shanghai Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, Hosted by Shanghai University, 17–18 June 2011 (This meeting was preceded by the China Forum on Global Studies.[9])
  5. Melbourne Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, hosted by RMIT University, Melbourne, 14–17 June 2012
  6. Moscow Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, hosted by Moscow State University, 20–23 June 2013
  7. Roskilde Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, hosted by Roskilde University, 18–22 June 2014[10]
  8. Cairo Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, hosted by the School of Global Affairs at the American University in Cairo, 4–8 June 2015
  9. Pittsburgh Archived 2016-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, hosted by the Global Studies Center and World History Center of the University of Pittsburgh, June 2016

References

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  1. ^ By-Laws, Global Studies Consortium
  2. ^ Lena Bader, et al. "University of Graz and Other Eighteen Universities' Curricula for Global Studies: Comparisons and Improvements." in Leonid Grinin, et al. Globalistics and Globalization Studies: Theories, Research & Teaching. p. 374
  3. ^ a b Mark Juergensmeyer, "Global Studies," pp. 727-737 in Helmut K. Anheier and Mark Juergensmeyer, eds. 2012. Encyclopedia of Global Studies. SAGE Publications.
  4. ^ "Global Studies Consortium: A network of graduate teaching programs on global studies," Orfalea Center website (accessed 2 February 2016)
  5. ^ "About global-e," global-e website Archived 2016-02-15 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 12 Feb 2016)
  6. ^ "Member programs of the Global Studies Consortium" GSC website Archived 2016-02-14 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 3 Feb 2016)
  7. ^ "Student Mobility Scheme," GSC website Archived 2016-03-12 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 26 February 2016)
  8. ^ "Meetings," GSC website (accessed 11 Feb 2016)
  9. ^ ""The 4th Global Studies Consortium Annual Meeting & China Forum on Global Studies," Shanghai University Center for Global Studies, 1 July 2011". Archived from the original on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  10. ^ "Annual Meeting Global Studies Consortium," hsozkult.de/
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