The interdisciplinary graduate minor in Global & National Security Policy (GM-GNSP) is intended to existing graduate students in other disciplines or departments who wish to supplment their disciplinary knowledge with their choice of interdisciplinary global & national security-focused policy courses. 

The graduates will get grounding in policy analysis and writing skills in the core course, then choose electives for which substantive global or national security content courses to which they can apply their policy analysis skills. Thus, students can sample GLNS courses or concentrate in a thematic area of GLNS courses. Graduates will receive a transcribable credit for the graduate minor but may wish to stay and complete the entire Professional Master of Science coursework.

This graduate minor is ideal for students of UNM’s Master of Public Policy, Political Science, or History Master/PhD degrees to signal to future employers their thematic concentration in global and national security policy in addition to their grounding in their home field. Some courses they take for their main degree may count toward the graduate minor.

This graduate minor is also ideal for graduate students in STEM fields, especially engineering or cybersecurity, who wish to supplement their technical education with coursework in national security technology policy.