BA in Spanish and International Affairs in Boston United States | Northeastern University

This interdisciplinary program enables undergraduate students to gain insights into global affairs and international developments from the 19th century onward, exploring various cross-disciplinary frameworks for understanding international relations. These include studies of conflict, cooperation, power structures, civil society, transnational advocacy, global activism, cultural politics, linguistic diversity, religious differences, and governance systems encompassing democracy, authoritarian rule, social inequalities, and citizenship concepts. The Department of Cultures, Societies, and Global Studies serves as a vibrant academic hub dedicated to interdisciplinary exploration of culture's role in driving social transformation and innovation. Our research and teaching focus particularly (though not exclusively) on perspectives from the Global South - including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America - and their worldwide diasporas. In addressing humanity's pressing challenges, we seek sustainable development solutions by drawing from the historical knowledge, belief systems, intellectual heritage, and contemporary realities of the world's majority populations. This necessitates critically reassessing enduring Eurocentric paradigms that emerged alongside modern colonialism and nationalism, with their complex constructions of difference. We embrace expansive, inclusive understandings of languages and cultures as we work to comprehend, influence, and flourish in an increasingly interconnected world marked by growing social networks, economic interdependence, intellectual collaboration, and cultural blending.