Bachelor of Arts - Global Studies with Sustainability (C900)

The challenges facing today’s world are profoundly international. From the migrant crisis to global warming, contemporary challenges require graduates who bring a global perspective and broad skills to the workplace. This BA Global Studies with Sustainability will equip students with a broad range of skills to become an active participant in a crucial time of change. Students will study some of today’s most pressing issues from the migrant crisis to global warming and they’ll acquire a global perspective to face contemporary challenges. Housed in the School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, the campus hub for interdisciplinary teaching, this course combines a broad, flexible education across the humanities and social sciences with a spine of modules dedicated to developing students' knowledge of the climate crisis and the role of sustainability in responding to it. This is an amazing place to study a course like this one. Since its foundation Essex has had a distinctly international character. The departments include academics specialising in many diverse regions of the world, so students experience the very best of the University’s expertise in global issues.