PGS is an interdisciplinary program designed to provide students with a way to understand the origins, challenges, and ethical problems of the contemporary world through a social justice lens. PGS is an interdisciplinary program meant to layer knowledge about global politics, society, economics, and culture and relies on courses covered by a variety of disciplines in order to build expertise in a variety of global issues and their social justice implications. The PGS faculty board (Douja Mamelouk, Robert Zens, Farha Ternikar, Elliott Bazzano, Yunus Sozen) developed a new course of study in Middle East and North Africa.