The interdisciplinary International Studies major in the College of Liberal Arts will introduce a new course, “Global Studies through Global Data,” that works actively with data in the context of key issues in international studies and sustainable development such as environmental issues, climate change, economic growth, health, and well-being. With an overall aim to improve data literacy and quantitative reasoning approaches to sustainable development, students will learn to locate and clean global data from appropriate sources, use exploratory tools and statistics to analyze data, improve data visualization, and effectively communicate findings based on data.