UMass Boston

Prepare to provide intellectual leadership as an academic or practitioners in nongovernment agencies, media, national governments, think tanks, and the private sector.

Combine interdisciplinary knowledge and hands-on research experience to become a creative global problem solver. Focus on solutions that matter most to individuals, communities, and nations: economic welfare and human development, ecological sustainability, peace, public health, education, human rights and political freedom, and the interrelationships among them.

Careers & Skills

Develop transdisciplinary skills in research design and methods and utilize creative, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding complicated issues facing humanity.

The interdisciplinary PhD Program prepares scholars and analysts to provide intellectual leadership as academics, researchers, or practitioners in nongovernment agencies, media, national governments, think tanks, and the private sector.

Program Strengths

Learn the structures of international governance and build management expertise for global policy challenges such as human security, environmental policies including climate change, health policies, and gender equity.

Learning Outcomes

• a solid theoretical foundation in the concepts of global governance and human security, and in the range of actors, systems, and patterns that compose our increasingly dynamic global system
• the ability to identify, assess, and address current and emerging human security issues in their geopolitical and governance contexts
• advanced academic skills in interdisciplinary research methods and design, across a variety of methodologies

Housed within the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security and Global Governance.

A Global Governance & Human Security MA is also offered.

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