Specialization Opportunities

Global Studies master’s students may add career-enhancing degrees/certificates or graduate specializations to their coursework.  

While pursuing a master’s in Global Studies, they may apply: 

  1. to earn a concurrent degree in a separate MA program
  2. to earn a certificate
  3. to pursue a graduate specialization 

*The University of Oregon Graduate School governs procedures for earning MA credentials. 

 

Concurrent Degree Programs (you must apply and be accepted to each program) 

  • Appropriate Dispute Resolution
  • Environmental Studies 
  • Geography 
  • Interdisciplinary Studies 
  • Law (JDMA): This four-year program is for students interested in combining an MA in Global (International) Studies with a JD in Law. This program provides a background in legal theory and instruments sensitive to social, cultural, economic, and political realities. Future lawyers concerned with international human rights, asylum, immigration, or public interest law benefit from this course of study. 

Graduate Certificates: (Certificate declaration required)