IGC equips you with the competencies to address international challenges, promote cultural diversity, and communicate across cultures in online and offline contexts. The major combines two complementary pillars of study to actualize practical relevance: issues impacting today’s globally interconnected society–and professional communication. Specifically, you will better understand world cultures and arts, foreign relations and government, and contemporary concerns and trends; at the same time, you will build intercultural and digital communication skills. The major thus provides a strong preparation for navigating situations where cross-cultural cooperation, strategic problem solving, and digital interaction are essential for success.

The IGC major offers a threefold advantage: global perspective, practicality, and employment readiness. Unlike a traditional major, IGC features multidisciplinary richness, along with job market preparation training.

The requirements of the major comprises the following categories:

IGC Requirements

Thammasat University Requirements (required of all TU students)

The Specifics
While completing the IGC major, you will be studying:

• world arts and literature
• global histories and cultures
• contemporary challenges
• international government
• foreign policy and relations
• digital content, AI, and technology-mediated communication
• cross-cultural rhetoric and persuasion
• problem solving
• job market strategies

Altogether, the major integrates arts and humanities, social sciences and politics, and communicative competence to balance academic rigor and career readiness.

The Southeast Asian Studies Minor

Faculty of Liberal Arts students can add a minor in Southeast Asian studies to complement their study. The minor is optional.

• 1. Expand Your Perspective Beyond a Nation, Area, and Subject
  Because the major extends beyond a specific nation, you’ll gain wider insights about people, cultures, arts, and government across the world. So you’ll be able to see the interconnectedness among countries—from an international lens.

• 2. Gain Internationally Relevant Skills to Thrive in the Age of AI Disruption
  Beyond understanding global relations and cultures, you will build holistic communicative competence, from digital media, to presentational strategies, to intercultural communication. At the same time, you will practice information analysis, problem-solving, cross-cultural collaboration, and decision-making. These abilities are vital to meaningfully and critically engage with technology and the workplace.

• 3. Apply What You Learn to Real Life
  The major includes an applied learning course in every category of study so you can transfer your knowledge to real-world contexts.

• 4. Build Employment Readiness
  IGC provides workshop-based job market communication and career discovery courses, along with a two-semester internship.

• 5. Be a Part of Thailand’s First—and Only—Major of Its Kind
  IGC is the only major in Thailand to combine international studies with digital and intercultural communication, specifically geared to help you become a reflexive global citizen and competitive job candidate in today’s internationally and digitally interconnected world.

Because IGC fuses academic rigor with real-life application, our graduates can succeed in any field of work that values diverse collaboration, cultural insight, communication, digital fluency, information analysis, persuasion, decision-making, and problem-solving.

Here are potential fields our graduates can enter:

• International Affairs & Diplomacy
  Foreign affairs officer, diplomatic staff, international cooperation staff, policy assistant, consular affairs specialist

• Government & Public Affairs
  Policy analyst, public affairs officer, government relations advisor, public information officer

• International Organizations
  Program officer, project coordinator, partnerships officer, international development specialist

• NGOs & Social Impact
  Project developer and administrator, advocacy officer, campaign coordinator, development specialist, community engagement officer

• Global Business & Corporate Affairs
  International business development, global partnerships manager, project manager, international client relations specialist

• Professional Communication
  Communications strategist, public relations officer, corporate communications staff, copywriter, editor

• Digital Media
  Digital communications specialist, social media strategist, content developer, corporate writer

• Intercultural Communication
  Intercultural communications specialist, cross-cultural trainer, cultural liaison, international program coordinator, global engagement specialist, translator, interpreter

• Policy Development and Research
  Research analyst, policy analyst, policy developer

• Culture, Arts & Creative Industries
  Cultural program coordinator, arts and culture specialist, international arts manager, cultural relations officer, creative project coordinator

• Tourism, Hospitality & Events
  International events coordinator, conference manager, destination marketing specialist, global events communications, cultural coordinator

• Marketing & Brand Strategy
  International marketing specialist, global brand strategist, brand communications officer, market research analyst

• Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement
  Partnership manager, stakeholder engagement specialist, community relations officer, partnerships coordinator

• Emerging Digital & AI Industries
  AI communications specialist, digital strategy coordinator, technology communications specialist, digital transformation communicator

IGC is a new major that enlarges the interdisciplinarity of the British and American Studies (BAS) major by broadening the study of arts, cultures, history, politics and international relations, and technology on an international scale.

The BAS major will continue for students who began their first-year of study on August 3, 2026; they will be the final cohort. No new students will be admitted to BAS. Prospective students can now apply to IGC instead.

Because IGC emphasizes experiential learning, some IGC courses include international trips subsidized by the university so that you can gain international perspectives and experience.

The flexibility and breadth of the IGC major also allows for study abroad and international exchange. As an IGC student, you can study at one of our partner universities in Europe, America, and Asia–and pay the same tuition rate you would at Thammasat!

Our location puts you minutes away from major landmarks and world-class shopping.
IGC is housed at Tha Prachan Campus on the bank of the Chao Phraya River, where the modern Thai capital developed. So you’re minutes away from the Grand Palace, Wat Po, Wat Arun, the Golden Mount, the National Museum, and Khao San Road. Also nearby are a popular local market and riverside malls: Wang Lang, Tha Maharaj, and Icon Siam.

Getting around Bangkok and to the campus is, therefore, convenient. You can take the boat, the subway, or a free university shuttle!

For more information regarding the curriculum, please see our prospectus here.

Faculty and staff driving educational innovation in the B.A. in International Studies and Global Communication (International Program) within the Special Project SIP.

• Phone : 02-221-6111-20 (During office hours)
• Email : igcadmission@arts.tu.ac.th
• Website : https://sip.arts.tu.ac.th/igc-international-program/
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