So we would be setting out to do something ground-breaking, in integrating Global Studies with General Education and particularly in emphasizing *complexity, *quantitative skills, and *data.
There still remains plenty of room for other subjects that are not quantitative --Music of the Whole Earth, religion, even perhaps the noösphere. And there's plenty of room for enterprises and contributions that aren't fully global --that address local manifestations of global problems, or area studies questions. The point is that complexity is the issue, that it is possible to develop the skills and knowledge to make some sense of complex systems and human variety.
The connection to "International Studies" is that I want to provide students with opportunities to develop reasons to go abroad, to whet their curiosity about "how the world works", and to inspire some to go beyond the well-trodden paths of study abroad in protected settings.