Global and Regional Studies Program

For more than 50 years, UVM’s Global and Regional Studies Program (GRS), previously known as the Area and International Studies Program, has provided insights into the connections between people and place, labor and migration, identity, conflict, and solidarity in multiple areas across the world. Drawing from distinct and overlapping traditions and disciplines, GRS students have learned about, researched, and visited various locations and contexts.

Rather than simply providing a window through which you can observe other regions of the world, the GRS programs engage with cultural, political, economic, environmental, and social issues both specific to and in common with various regions. Within GRS there are a number of minors and areas of concentration students can focus on during their advanced studies, including political-economic, human-environment, and humanities, or in regional programs focusing on Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Russia.

Through this program students will be prepared to enter exciting careers in government, the non-profit sector, law, business, cultural production, journalism, education, advocacy, and social services.