The Global Security Studies (GSS) minor focuses on the global and international dimensions of security, war, conflict, and conflict resolution in the contemporary world. As an interdisciplinary program, the GSS minior is designed to help students explore the global, international, national, and human dimensions of security, conflict, and conflict resolution in contemporary international relations using the analytic tools provided in different social science disciplines.
The minor is administered by the International Relations Program and is open to all Syracuse University undergraduate students in good academic standing, with the exception of International Relations majors whose topic concentration is International Security & Diplomacy.
For a complete list of minor requirements, please visit the online Course Catalog.
For students who declared the minor prior to the Fall 2017 semester, please review prior program requirements in the archived online course catalog or speak with an academic advisor.
To declare a minor in Global Security Studies, please email IRMinors@syr.edu.
*Refer to the approved GSS course lists below for the official list of approved courses that will count toward the minor each semester.
Summer 2025
Summer 2023
Spring 2023
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Summer 2022
Spring 2022
Fall 2021
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Summer 2020
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
Summer 2019
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Summer 2018
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Summer 2017
Spring 2017
Fall 2016
Summer 2016
Spring 2016
Fall 2015
Summer 2015
Spring 2015
Fall 2014