Requirements
Seventy-three credits are required for
the degree of doctor of philosophy in global affairs. All students must
complete 49 credits of course work, 3 credits of an internship, and 21
credits of dissertation research. In addition, students must pass the
46-credit review; pass a comprehensive examination; write, successfully
defend, and deposit a dissertation; and fulfill the language
requirement.
Course Requirements
Required Courses (12 credits)
Students must take at least one course from four of the following five topic areas:
1. Forms of Global Governance
26:790:521 Theories of Global Politics (3)
26:790:537 Global Governance (3)
2. Environmental Issues in Global Perspective
26:790:530 Environmental Politics and Policy (3)
26:790:538 Global Environmental Issues (3)
EvSc 615 Global Environmental Problems (NJIT) (3)
EPS 622 Sustainable Development (NJIT) (3)
3. Global Political Economy and Business
26:553:601 Theory of International Business (3)
26:553:602 History of International Business (3)
26:553:607 Global Political Economy (3)
26:790:541 International Political Economy (3)
4. The Global System in Historical Perspective
26:478:572 Evolution of the Global System (3)
5. Culture and Identity in a Global Context
26:790:511 Contemporary Political Theory (3)
26:790:542 Topics in Recent International Relations (3)
26:790:543 Problems of Comparative Politics (3)
Colloquium on Global Change and Governance (4 credits)
Students must complete two terms of the colloquium. Each 2-credit
sequence (26:478:570,571, 573,574) consists of a series of colloquia on
a topic or geographical area of current significance.
Methodology Requirement (3 credits)
Students must complete one of the following two courses:
26:790:533 Research Methods in Political Science (3)
26:834:561 Analytical Methods (3)
Dissertation Seminar (3 credits)
The Dissertation Seminar 26:478:703 is an advanced course restricted to
students who have passed the 46-credit review and the comprehensive
examination and are working on their dissertation proposals. Completion
of the methodology requirement is a prerequisite.
Concentration (15 credits)
Students must complete at least five graduate-level courses, for a
total of 15 credits, in any one of the following disciplines
represented by graduate programs at Rutgers-Newark: criminal justice,
global affairs, history, law, management, political science, or public
administration. These courses must be relevant to a student`s
dissertation.
Distribution (12 credits)
Students must complete at least four graduate-level courses, for a
total of 12 credits, in any discipline or disciplines other than the
concentration. These courses must have a substantial global affairs
component.
Internship (3 credits)
Students
must complete a one-term internship 26:478: 601, 602 at an
international organization, NGO, government agency, transnational
corporation, media organization, or other institution active in some
aspect of global affairs.
Dissertation Research (21 credits)
After passing the comprehensive examination (see below), students must
complete 21 credits of Dissertation Research 26:478: 701, 702, either
on a full- or part-time basis.
Comprehensive Examination
After passing the 46-credit review, students must complete a take-home
comprehensive examination testing their knowledge of the global affairs
issues covered in the core course topic areas.
Dissertations
Dissertations must be written in the field of global affairs. As such,
they must focus on (1) contemporary or historical transnational trends,
developments, problems, and institutions or (2) the interaction between
such trends, developments, problems, and institutions and local actions
or issues. Country case studies or comparative studies divorced from
global affairs as defined above do not qualify. Dissertations may be
interdisciplinary or written within a single discipline.
Dissertation Defense
A four-member faculty committee, consisting of the student`s
dissertation adviser and three other professors (usually from the CGCG
faculty) examine the completed dissertation at an oral defense.
Dissertation committees are chaired by the student`s dissertation
adviser who, together with the student, determines its composition. One
member of the committee may be from an institution other than
Rutgers-Newark.
Language Requirement
Students
must demonstrate, at any time during their course of study at
Rutgers-Newark, speaking, reading, and writing proficiency in one
modern language other than English, or reading knowledge of two modern
languages other than English.
