# 2026-2027 Course Catalog
**Source**: https://catalog.illinois.edu/undergraduate/las/minors/global-markets-society/
**Parent**: https://catalog.illinois.edu/degree-programs/undergraduate_index/
*for the Undergraduate Minor in Global Markets & Society*
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The LAS **Global Markets and Society** Minor enables students at Illinois to gain interdisciplinary knowledge of global market-society relations through historical and global perspectives that emphasize the social, political, and economic forces that shape market institutions and practices. The minor requires 18-21 hours of coursework completed through six courses, *with a minimum of six hours at the advanced level (300- or 400-level)*. A professional development capstone experience course is optional and can be met by completing an internship or participating in a research experience and/or written project. The LAS Global Markets and Society Minor is open to undergraduate students in any major at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus.
## **Applications Requirements and Procedures**
Completion of 30 hours of undergraduate coursework by the end of the Spring semester of application.
Students are admitted by application into the LAS Global Markets and Society Minor. Interested students will be asked to demonstrate a commitment to the program through (a) completing an application to the program, including a written statement of goals for participation in the program and/or evidence of or commitment to participation in activities designed to enhance leadership, and (b) developing a program plan with the program coordinator and/or their academic advisor prior to admission.
Only students officially admitted into the LAS Global Markets and Society Minor may earn the minor.
*for the Undergraduate Minor in Global Markets & Society*
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Course List
| Code | Title | Hours |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [GLBL 270](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GLBL%20270 "GLBL 270") | Introduction to Global Markets and Society | 3 |
| Core Courses | | 6 |
| Choose 2 from the following list (Courses used in the core cannot be used again in your Specialization Track) | | |
| [CMN 211](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CMN%20211 "CMN 211") | Business and Professional Communication | |
| [CS 105](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CS%20105 "CS 105") | Intro Computing: Non-Tech | |
| [ECON 102](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ECON%20102 "ECON 102") | Microeconomic Principles | |
| [GGIS 205](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20205 "GGIS 205") | Business Location Decisions | |
| [HIST 259](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20259 "HIST 259") | 20thC World from Midcentury | |
| [PS 220](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20220 "PS 220") | Intro to Public Policy | |
| [PSYC 245](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PSYC%20245 "PSYC 245") | Industrial Org Psych | |
| [SOC 160](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SOC%20160 "SOC 160") | Global Ineq and Social Change | |
| Specialization Track | | 9 |
| Choose three courses in your track. At least 2 of the 3 courses must be at the 300- or 400-level. Alternate courses may be considered on a case-by-case basis. | | |
| Global Markets and Governance | | |
| [ANTH 368](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20368 "ANTH 368") | 'America' in the World | |
| [BADM 380](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=BADM%20380 "BADM 380") | International Business | |
| [GLBL 220](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GLBL%20220 "GLBL 220") | Governance | |
| [HIST 310](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20310 "HIST 310") | Global Capitalism in History | |
| [HIST 380](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20380 "HIST 380") | US in an Age of Empire | |
| [PS 180](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20180 "PS 180") | IntroPolitics of Globalization | |
| [PS 220](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20220 "PS 220") | Intro to Public Policy | |
| [PS 282](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20282 "PS 282") | Governing Globalization | |
| [PS 321](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20321 "PS 321") | Principles of Public Policy | |
| [PS 340](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20340 "PS 340") | Politics in Intl Development | |
| [PS 356](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20356 "PS 356") | Comparative Political Economy | |
| [PS 382](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20382 "PS 382") | Intl Political Economy | |
| [PS 384](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PS%20384 "PS 384") | Politics of Globalization | |
| Science, Technology, and Markets | | |
| [ANTH 374](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20374 "ANTH 374") | Anth of Science and Technology | |
| [ANTH 423](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20423 "ANTH 423") | Economic Anthropology | |
| [GGIS 204](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20204 "GGIS 204") | Cities of the World | |
| [GGIS 205](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20205 "GGIS 205") | Business Location Decisions | |
| [GGIS 438](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20438 "GGIS 438") | Geography of Health Care | |
| [GGIS 465](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20465 "GGIS 465") | Transportation &Sustainability | |
| [GGIS 479](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20479 "GGIS 479") | Advanced Topics in GIS | |
| [HIST 264](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20264 "HIST 264") | Technology in Western Society | |
| [INFO 202](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=INFO%20202 "INFO 202") | Social Aspects Info Tech | |
| [NPRE/ENVS 101](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=NPRE%20101 "NPRE/ENVS 101") | Introduction to Energy Sources | |
| [PHYS 150](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PHYS%20150 "PHYS 150") | Physics of Societal Issues | |
| [SOC 350](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SOC%20350 "SOC 350") | Technology and Society | |
| Global Encounters | | |
| [ANTH 104](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20104 "ANTH 104") | Talking Culture | |
| [ANTH 270](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20270 "ANTH 270") | Language in Culture | |
| [CWL 114](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CWL%20114 "CWL 114") | Global Consciousness and Lit | |
| [CWL 441](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CWL%20441 "CWL 441") | Themes in Narrative | |
| [HIST 221](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20221 "HIST 221") | Modern China | |
| [HIST 260](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20260 "HIST 260") | History of Russia | |
| [HIST 405](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20405 "HIST 405") | History of Brazil from 1808 | |
| [HIST 430](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20430 "HIST 430") | India from Colony to Nation | |
| Markets, Development, and the Environment | | |
| [ANTH 278](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20278 "ANTH 278") | Climate Change & Civilization | |
| [ANTH 379](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20379 "ANTH 379") | Medical Anthropology | |
| [ANTH 420](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20420 "ANTH 420") | Case Studies Global Heritage | |
| [ANTH 466](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20466 "ANTH 466") | Class, Culture and Society | |
| [ECON 411](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ECON%20411 "ECON 411") | Public Sector Economics | |
| [ECON 414](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ECON%20414 "ECON 414") | Urban Economics | |
| [ECON 450](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ECON%20450 "ECON 450") | Development Economics | |
| [ECON 482](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ECON%20482 "ECON 482") | Economics of the Digital Economy | |
| [ENGL 476](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ENGL%20476 "ENGL 476") | Topics in Literature and the Environment | |
| [ESE 200](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ESE%20200 "ESE 200") | Earth Systems | |
| [GGIS 101](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20101 "GGIS 101") | Global Development & Environment | |
| [GGIS 210](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20210 "GGIS 210") | Social & Environmental Issues | |
| [GGIS 287](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20287 "GGIS 287") | Environment and Society | |
| [GGIS 410](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20410 "GGIS 410") | Green Development | |
| [GLBL 250](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GLBL%20250 "GLBL 250") | Development | |
| [GLBL 350](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GLBL%20350 "GLBL 350") | Poverty in a Global Context | |
| [GLBL 450](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GLBL%20450 "GLBL 450") | Poverty Interventions and Evaluation | |
| [HIST 202](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20202 "HIST 202") | American Environmental History | |
| [SOC 364](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SOC%20364 "SOC 364") | Impacts of Globalization | |
| [SOC 373](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SOC%20373 "SOC 373") | Social Inequality | |
| [SOC 447](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SOC%20447 "SOC 447") | Environmental Sociology | |
| [SOC 470](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SOC%20470 "SOC 470") | Social Movements | |
| The Global Workforce | | |
| [ANTH 466](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ANTH%20466 "ANTH 466") | Class, Culture and Society | |
| [CMN 212](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CMN%20212 "CMN 212") | Intro to Organizational Comm | |
| [CMN 232](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CMN%20232 "CMN 232") | Intro to Intercultural Comm | |
| [CMN 412](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CMN%20412 "CMN 412") | Adv Organizational Comm | |
| [ECON 440](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ECON%20440 "ECON 440") | Economics of Labor Markets | |
| [GLBL 392](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GLBL%20392 "GLBL 392") | Int Diplomacy and Negotiation | |
| [HIST 480](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20480 "HIST 480") | US Work Class Hist Since 1780 | |
| [PSYC 245](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PSYC%20245 "PSYC 245") | Industrial Org Psych | |
| [PSYC 455](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=PSYC%20455 "PSYC 455") | Organizational Psych | |
| Analytical Approaches & Languages | | |
| [BTW 250](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=BTW%20250 "BTW 250") | Principles Bus Comm | |
| [BTW 261](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=BTW%20261 "BTW 261") | Principles Tech Comm | |
| [BTW 271](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=BTW%20271 "BTW 271") | Persuasive Writing | |
| [CMN 211](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CMN%20211 "CMN 211") | Business and Professional Communication | |
| [CMN 321](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CMN%20321 "CMN 321") | Strategies of Persuasion | |
| [CMN 323](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CMN%20323 "CMN 323") | Argumentation | |
| [CMN 411](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CMN%20411 "CMN 411") | Organizational Comm Assessment | |
| [CS 105](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=CS%20105 "CS 105") | Intro Computing: Non-Tech | |
| [ECON 202](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=ECON%20202 "ECON 202") | Economic Statistics I | |
| [FR 485](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=FR%20485 "FR 485") | French for the Professions | |
| [FR 486](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=FR%20486 "FR 486") | Commercial & Econ French II | |
| [GER 320](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GER%20320 "GER 320") | German for Business | |
| [GER 321](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GER%20321 "GER 321") | German for Economics | |
| [GGIS 379](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20379 "GGIS 379") | Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | |
| [GGIS 380](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20380 "GGIS 380") | Geographic Information Systems II | |
| [GGIS 473](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20473 "GGIS 473") | Digital Cartography & Map Design | |
| [GGIS 479](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=GGIS%20479 "GGIS 479") | Advanced Topics in GIS | |
| [HIST 391](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HIST%20391 "HIST 391") | Oral History Methods | |
| [HNDI 412](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=HNDI%20412 "HNDI 412") | Business Hindi | |
| [SOC 280](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SOC%20280 "SOC 280") | Intro to Social Statistics | |
| [SOC 380](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SOC%20380 "SOC 380") | Social Research Methods | |
| SPAN 142 | | |
| SPAN 202 | | |
| [SPAN 332](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=SPAN%20332 "SPAN 332") | Spanish and Entrepreneurship | |
| [STAT 200](https://catalog.illinois.edu/search/?P=STAT%20200 "STAT 200") | Statistical Analysis | |
| OPTIONAL Professional Development Capstone Experience (3 hours) | | |
| Choose one option in consultation with the Global Markets and Society minor advisor: | | |
| Internship or Field Experience in a market-focused organization | | |
| Research Experience with a faculty member | | |
| Analytical/Research Paper with faculty guidance | | |
| Credit is awarded for each of these three options on the basis of an analytical/research paper written by the student under the supervision of a faculty adviser | | |
| Total Minimum Hours | | 18 |
*for the Undergraduate Minor in Global Markets & Society*
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Students in the LAS Global Studies Global Markets and Society minor will be able to:
1. Identify how complex, interdependent global systems—natural, environmental, social, cultural, economic, and political—affect and are affected by the local identities and ethical choices of individuals and institutions.
2. Develop social scientific skills to explain these interconnections through data collection and analysis, building familiarity with academic literature, and written assignments.
3. Reinforce the practical importance of skills and knowledge from traditional liberal arts disciplines in business, government, non-profit, and non-governmental sectors.
4. Gain social awareness and cultural understanding of the ways in which markets, societies and associated institutions interact to produce outcomes at the local, national, and global levels.
5. Integrate the minor with their current major(s) to add depth and sophistication to their understanding of global interconnections with their primary academic/professional field. The minor will provide a foundation for increased complexity of engagement with interdisciplinary fields, projects, and intellectual inquiry.
*for the Undergraduate Minor in Global Markets & Society*
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