Globalization M.A.

Announcing a new interdisciplinary social science program:
M.A. in GLOBALIZATION & THE ENVIRONMENT

at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.  HSU is located
approximately 270 miles north of San Francisco, set between the Pacific
ocean and the majestic redwood groves of California's North Coast.

Globalization can be defined as an accelerating historical process that
increasingly integrates goods, services, ideas, culture, communication and
problems on a world-wide scale. A wide array of environmental concerns 
have
been altered or exacerbated as a result of this process. Moreover, efforts
to protect environmental and communal values have often been a key source
of resistance to the economic and political pressures in favor of
globalization. Students will have the opportunity to study the forces,
institutions, and actors promoting globalization and to better understand
its effects upon both human communities and their natural environments.
Students will also examine the varied responses to globalization exhibited
by governments, social and environmental movements, and local peoples.

This is a two-year, full-time (39 units) cohort program; students will 
only
be admitted for Fall 1999.

Graduate seminars will include Economic Globalization; Liberalization and
Resistance; Regions in Globalization: Environmental History, Geography &
Politics; Global Commons; International Indigenous Issues: Environmental
Threats & Challenges; Global Issues colloquium

The last semester of the program (Spring 2001) students will either work
full-time on researching and writing a masters' thesis or have a full-time
internship  (local  or outside the area).

Appication deadline: March 15, 1999

For further information, contact Selma K. Sonntag, Graduate Coordinator,
Dept. of Government & Politics, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
95521.  Tel: 707 826-3917.  Fax: 707 826-4496.  E-mail:
sks1@axe.humboldt.edu.  Or visit our website at;
http://www.humboldt.edu/~massglob