Effective for fall 2025: This program is closed for admissions. Please contact the Graduate Studies Office to learn about alternative programs that might interest you, (grad@mnsu.edu).
Program Requirements
Common Core
This class will provide students pursuing a certificate in Global Solutions in Engineering and Technology with an opportunity to explore a set of topics related to achieving success either in advance of or following an international experience (internship, study abroad, etc.). Speakers will include faculty, graduate students, visiting researchers and industry members as well as student participants. Returning students will be required to participate in mentoring of students preparing for their international experience and provide written and/or oral presentations of various topics during the semester. This course is to be required either before or after participation in the international experience.
- Prerequisites:
- none
Restricted Electives
Discussion and analysis of contemporary issues in the field of cultural geography. Designed to allow in-depth focus on current problems/issues that geographers will encounter in their professional practice. Topics vary according to instructor.
- Prerequisites:
- none
Overview of the role of the United States in an increasingly globalized society with a focus on economic and political inequality, the class structure, the labor process, race and gender relations, the global dimensions of capitalism, and modern crisis tendencies.
- Prerequisites:
- none
Degree
Certificate
Major Credits
9
Total Credits
9
Locations
Mankato; Edina
Career Cluster
Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics