CGS supports and collaborates with colleagues throughout the University to engage in interdisciplinary research and teaching of Social and Policy Sciences in Globalization.

Selected Activities

International Business Immersion Program International Business Immersion Program (IBIP): A course that focuses on agricultural markets by taking students from the seed to the shelf, ending with a onsite work at the European Union headquarters in Brussles, Belgium.

Transnational Workshop Series The Transnational Workshop Series: Directed by Jan Pieterse, an internationally recognized scholar of globalization and development, this twice monthly workshop links University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty in the social/policy sciences and humanities with counterparts around the world.

Prisms of Globalization Prisms of Globalization Symposium: Collaborating with Illinois CIBER, CGS' seminar on Prisms of Globalization will cover multi-disciplinary views of globalization, including sessions on Governance of the Global Society, Economic Forces in the Global Society, and Conceptualizing Global History.

Course Development

Seminar in Global Governance: Professor Edward A. Kolodziej, Director of the Center for Global Studies, is developing a new graduate seminar in global governance.