The Global Studies degree prepares students for graduate study in international studies, world affairs, policy studies, or cross-cultural studies, for professional study in law, or for service in governmental and non-governmental organizations; gives students a solid liberal arts background for positions that involve decision-making in a changing world; and draws on contemporary global trends as its organizing theme, and is distinctive in its comprehensive embrace of biological, cultural, economic, political, and social processes that render the contemporary world a seamless web.