The Department of Global Studies launched in August 2022, when the Global Studies major merged with the Department of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature. In August 2024, the Arabic and Japanese programs joined the department.

We are in the process of further integrating our internationally focused courses and degree programs, building upon the strengths of each program’s curriculum, faculty, and staff in order to provide students with a larger and more unified academic course of study and community of peers in interdisciplinary language and global studies. We are excited about what the future holds. Come grow with us!

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.