Academic Program Proposal

Date Proposal Activated	Institution and Proposal	Degree Awarded	Academic Program Name	Objection Deadline
	University of Maryland, College Park Proposal	Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)	Global and Foreign Policy	7/12/2025
Global and Foreign Policy Program Description
The learning outcomes for the program are as follows: <br> <br>1. Analyze the complexity and range of historical and contemporary global and foreign policy and policymaking challenges. <br> <br>2. Explain how foreign and global policymaking institutions, processes, and structures shape policy solutions and outcomes. <br> <br>3. Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of one or more global and foreign policy challenges and solutions, by applying insights and frameworks from different disciplines while engaging relevant policymaking processes. <br> <br>4. Interrogate how identities - including national, caste, ethnic, gender, racial, religious, socio-economic, political, and beyond - and their intersections shape global and foreign policy challenges and solutions. <br> <br>5. Examine the role of values, ethics, justice, access, and the structural and systemic sources of (in)equality in and across global and foreign policy domains. <br> <br>6. Utilize appropriate research tools, analysis, writing, and presentation skills to assess global and foreign policy challenges, and apply these techniques to an experiential learning endeavor to better understand the dynamics of policymaking. <br> <br>7. Demonstrate a minimum of basic proficiency in a second world language.