About the Majors
Whether your interests are in questions of global justice, environmental activism, social psychology, artistic expression, philosophical aesthetics, or strategies of international politics, there is a major@LUC for you.
Majors @ LUC
Global Justice
Global Justice@LUC is concerned with the multifarious ways in which law and order are not exclusively a matter of domestic jurisdiction or even formal processes. Global threats, transnational patterns of crime and violence, contested and cosmopolitan ethics have all led to an increasing awareness of the global dimensions of conflict and the emergence of new norms and institutions at the universal, regional, and domestic level to settle disputes, combat impunity, and provide conditions for sustainable peace and security.
Human Interaction
Human Interaction@LUC begins with the assumption that the globalising world defies understanding through the isolated study of politics, law, economics, and hard and soft sciences. The international arena in which considerations of politics, economy, the environment—but also culture, religion, and society—intermingle in increasingly interleaving ways poses serious challenges for conventional methods of understanding human interaction.
International Development
International Development@LUC showcases our innovative partnership with the International Institute for Social Studies (ISS), which is a world-famous center for critical development studies at the graduate and post-graduate level. LUC is excited to bring this expertise into the service of undergraduate students interested in addressing this urgent global challenge.
Sustainability
Sustainability@LUC opens the doors for students to explore the natural and social scientific problems and processes that have changed the earth more deeply and extensively in the last decades than in any other period of history. All over the world, natural resources, environmental quality, and biodiversity are being outstripped by the ever-expanding ‘ecological footprint’ of human activities.
World Politics
World Politics@LUC recognizes that we live in an interdependent world. We are increasingly interconnected by means of mobility and communication; technology changes the rules of world politics and provokes the need for globally conscious responses to issues such as sovereignty and intervention, imperialism and colonialism, poverty and development, trade and inequality, national security and human security, nationalism and identity, culture and terrorism, health and environmental deterioration, migration and immigration.