Global Studies

Terms offered: Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2020, Spring 2019
This course is designed as an introduction to Global Studies. Using a social science approach, the course prepares students to think critically about issues of international development, conflict, and peace in a variety of societies around the world. As such it provides students with a basic theoretical introduction to the impact of global interaction as well as an opportunity to explore such interaction in a variety of case studies.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session
Global Studies 10B serves as an introduction to the Global Studies curriculum. Global Studies 10B introduces students to global issues through the lens of the humanities, such as art, literature, film, and culture. The topic of Global Studies 10B will vary from year to year, depending on the instructor. Students in each iteration of this course will learn about salient global interactions from a variety of cultural perspectives.
Critical Issues in Global Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course is designed as an introduction to Global Studies. Using a social science approach, the course prepares students to think critically about issues of international development, conflict, and peace in a variety of societies around the world. As such, it provides students with a basic theoretical introduction to the impact of global interaction as well as an opportunity to explore such interaction in a variety of case studies.
Introduction to Global Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment is limited to 15 freshmen.
Freshman Seminar In Global Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course focuses on the history of global interaction, with a particular emphasis on the relationships between states and societies. Though it begins with a brief exploration of antiquity, it emphasizes world developments since the 15th century. The purpose of the course is to gain a better understanding of the rise and decline of states, empires, and international trading systems. Taking a panoramic view of the last 500 years, it explores the ways in which disparate places came closer together, even while it seeks to explain how those places maintained their own trajectories in the face of outside intervention.
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Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Summer 2024 Second 6 Week Session, Summer 2023 Second 6 Week Session
This course focuses on benchmarks of the history of various nations and civilizations. It begins with the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese, but emphasizes world developments since the 15th century. The purpose of the course is to gain a better understanding of the rise and decline of states, empires, and international trading systems. Therefore, political and economic structures and developments as well as military factors will be presented along with the more traditional historical perspectives.
Survey of World History: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022
This course will examine data science ideas in the context of Global Studies. The class will teach students to work actively with data and to interpret and critique their analyses of data. Students will learn to leverage data science skills in relation to explicit ways of knowledge creation; utilize tools in basic data literacy, including misuse of statistics, intentional and unintentional; examine ways of text and natural language processing concepts through cases related to different areas of Global Studies specifically, and social sciences generally; examine complex factors that influence the way we learn, build and interpret data. Topics vary by instructor.
Data Science and Global Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018
This course examines whether the convergence between the ‘new Right’ and the ‘new Left’ has successfully addressed the central challenge of contemporary global development studies. It asks students to assess the multiple, nonlinear, and interconnected paths of change in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East that are now taking place. It explores the context of intensified global integration and capitalist development. Students will consider what changes in this context mean for larger social change, especially given ongoing global economic crises and rapidly evolving relations.
Global Development: Theory, History, Geography: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course will look at peace (and conflict) in a wide variety of formats and contexts, and will examine both the theories that seek to explain peace and the practices that compose it. The course is structured around a series of modules, each dealing with a different facet of peace and/or conflict.
Approaches to Peace and Conflict: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course offers an introduction to ways of thinking about, and visualizing, “the global” over time. People from different societies and cultures have been drawn together as a result of processes that can best be conceived of as “flows” of people, capital, ideas and goods. Using a panoramic lens, we will explore a series of interactions, analyzing the wide-ranging effects of those interactions and the artifacts they produced. By studying a variety of encounters, we will cultivate a broader sense of how the “global” has been defined and experienced through the lens of cultural interaction. Globalization itself is not a new phenomenon; it can be traced back centuries if not millennia.
Global Societies and Cultures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course examines whether the convergence between the ‘new Right’ and the ‘new Left’ has successfully addressed the central challenge of contemporary global development studies. It asks students to assess the multiple, nonlinear, and interconnected paths of change in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East that are now taking place. It explores the context of intensified global integration and capitalist development. Students will consider what changes in this context mean for larger social change, especially given ongoing global economic crises and rapidly evolving relations.
Global Development: Theory, History, Geography: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This course, required for students in the Global Studies major, will teach students to identify and evaluate arguments, explain conflicting evidence, interpret tables, charts, and graphs and evaluate the ethical implications of scholarly work. Students will explore how research questions are framed and developed and learn how to determine which method and approach is best suited to answering a particular research question.
Critical Thinking In Global Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Required prerequisite for all students intending to enroll in GLOBAL H195. Course provides an introduction to interdisciplinary research strategies for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data. Course integrates the study of the fundamental theories of social science with the practical techniques of social science research methods.
Honors Methodology and Theory: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course will analyze emerging trends, patterns, and problems associated with the phenomenon of globalization. Particular attention will be given to world economic and social integration, ethno-religious nationalism and identity politics, domestic politics, and foreign policy. Special emphasis is placed on the prospects of peace and world order in the post-cold war era.
Global Change and World Order: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course seeks to introduce Global Studies majors to the regions of Europe and Russia and its significance to the larger study of the globe. The course will be divided into three parts based on the three concentrations within the Global Studies major: Society and Culture, Development, Peace and Conflict. Each of these sections, examines key topics for understanding the region and its relationship to other parts of the globe.
Europe/Russia In Global Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course will provide students majoring in Global Studies with an introduction to Africa and its significance to the globe. We will address issues related to Africa that span all three concentrations of the major (Society and Culture, Development, Peace and Conflict). In particular, we will focus on the following four themes:conflict, identity, development and technology.

Africa In Global Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
This course seeks to introduce Global Studies majors to the region of Latin America and the Caribbean and its significance to the larger study of the globe. The course will be divided into three parts based on the three concentrations within the Global Studies major: Society and Culture, Development, Peace and Conflict. Each of these sections, examines key topics for understanding the region and its relationship to other
parts of the globe.
Latin America In Global Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course provides Global Studies majors with an introduction to the Middle East region, broadly defined. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, joining the fields of history, political science, anthropology, religious studies, economics, and Middle Eastern studies. Students will be introduced to major historical themes in the study of Middle Eastern societies that are relevant in understanding contemporary intellectual debates and the origins, nature, and trajectory of war and peace in the region. Focusing on the 20th century, the course explores how the modern Middle East evolved politically, socially, and economically into a region burdened by webs of power and influence.
Middle East In Global Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course provides students with an introduction to Asia in global context. The course employs a Global History approach, which emphasizes national histories as a part of a series of global processes. It explores how countries in Asia, regardless of their diverse cultures, have been drawn into the development of global capitalism. This course addresses all of the Global Studies major’s concentrations, i.e. Societies and Cultures, Development, Peace and Conflict.

Asia In Global Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018
This course examines the origins of South Asian conflicts. It draws on contemporary case studies from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. Domestic developments will be covered in detail, and will also be situated in the larger context of global interactions and governance. Regional issues, such as nuclear proliferation and terrorism, are addressed, as are other contentious issues such as the status of Kashmir, the spread of identity-based conflicts, and gender-related violence.
Conflicts In Regional Perspective: Asia.: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021
This course uses the analytic of globalization and an interdisciplinary approach to provide an overview of contemporary India, focusing mainly, though not exclusively, on urban India.
Students will be introduced to the debates surrounding colonial modernity, as an earlier globalizing era, this serving as background for considering contemporary India. Topics covered include: the Indian middle class,
urban life, Hindu nationalism and other social movements, the postcolonial public, expressive culture, the changing nature and role of casts. No background on India is required.
Globalization In India: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course considers issues of Global Development within Latin America . Students will explore a variety of topics, depending on current research and/or the instructor. Issues that this course might consider include, but are not limited to: poverty and inequality, environmental conditions and sustainability, as well as migration.

Latin American Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course analyzes the ecological, socio-economic and policy challenges and opportunities facing the rural population of Latin America in today’s globalized economy. After a critique of the impacts of conventional, agro-export development models of agricultural development (green revolution, non-traditional export crops, biotechnology, biofuels, etc.) the elements of a sustainable agroecological development path are discussed, a path that emphasizes: farmers empowerment, local production for food sovereignty, poverty reduction, cultural identity and natural resource and biodiversity conservation. Technical, institutional, policy and market requirements for sustainable agriculture are also analyzed in detail.
Perspectives For Sustainable Rural Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
There are environmental implications to how we pursue development. There are debates, emerging from unequal distribution of environmental impacts and unequal distribution of wealth, about how to respond to environmental crises. In this course, we will look at the history of economic development, the emergence of environmental awareness and the history of the politics of the environment. We will look at contemporary debates over our economic model, energy, agricultural production, and rural and urban development. Finally, we will analyze the types of public policies being implemented to address environmental concerns, as well as their impacts. We conclude by reflecting on how we, as a society, need to rethink development.
Development and the Environment: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2022
International migration has been growing rapidly. In this course, we will examine global migration patterns and factors that drive migration - from violence to lack of economic opportunity to environmental conditions. We will also examine conditions in receiving countries that generate demand for immigrant labor, and transnational social networks that help facilitate migration. Immigration has transformed receiving countries into multicultural societies, straining traditional notions of national identity, and increasingly producing a nativist backlash. We will examine recent immigration policy and explore laws, policies and agreements with regard to migration, how migration impacts economic development, and human trafficking.
Global Migration: The Political Economy of Displacement: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
This course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of international development education. Through the use of lectures, discussions, and multimedia presentations, students will examine three core themes: 1) the purpose of education; 2) how contemporary development policy conceptualizes education; 3) education as a tool for social transformation. To the extent possible, the course draws connections between theory and practical case studies of international education programs, policy statements, and initiatives.
Education and International Development: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 First 6 Week Session, Spring 2024, Summer 2023 First 6 Week Session, Fall 2021
What is globalization? What are the implications of living in a "global world" for education? How can education be used as a tool to promote global social justice and prosperity? In this course, we will address these and other related questions through collective reading assignments, class discussions, and online collaboration through our learning platform (bSpace or other).
Education in a Global World: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
The course investigates key aspects of political transition including the following concepts: power­sharing and transitional governance; legitimacy, stability and the conundrum of first elections; constitution ­making processes and the transitional sequence itself. The course will also examine debates concerning democratization and cultural aspects of governance in the Arab World and the Horn of Africa.
New Approaches to Crisis In the MENA: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2021
This course explores the nature of interpersonal and group conflict, resolution, and their relationship to culture. The course examines the intersection between conflict and race and ethnicity in particular, with an emphasis on the major racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Other dimensions of diversity such as gender, class, and sexual orientation in conflict situations are also explored. The goal is to apply this understanding to resolving intercultural conflicts through mediation.
Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022
Inspired by the changed meaning of international conflict and the expanding mission of conflict resolution in the post-cold war era, this course will study the contemporary context and issues of conflict by examining the evolution in thinking about conflict, the resolution, and their application in practice.
International Conflict: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
This course will investigate the special issues involved with facilitating resolution of cross/multicultural conflicts. Topics will include cultural contrasts (e.g., values, communication, and problem solving styles), mediator (facilitator/negotiator), credibility, cultural (including gender) contributions to conflict resolution and unique ethical dilemmas. Course includes field immersion, conflict resolution process evaluation and design, and the opportunity to participate in mediation of a cultural mediation.
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Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
Advanced multidisciplinary research in current issues and topics related to Global Societies and Cultures. This Global Studies course will focus on specific issues related to various societies and cultures around the world, with appropriate comparative material included. Topics will change depending on the instructor teaching.
Special Topics in Global Societies and Cultures: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024
"Recent World History Through Film" examines the recent history of the world through the lens of popular, critically-acclaimed, and international films. Some of the films’ makers purport to be telling the “truth” about world history, while others base the films only loosely on historical facts or circumstances. Course objectives are to develop a deeper understanding of recent world history by engaging with and analyzing a range of films. Prior knowledge of world history is not required. What is required is to be open-minded yet critical and to view these films as an avenue for finding out more about events, places, and global historical phenomena.
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Terms offered: Fall 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2018
This course studies Muslim-Jewish relations as they developed in the Middle East and North Africa from the rise of Islam to the present day. It analyzes how ethnic and religious boundaries were both drawn and transgressed in historical settings including Arabia in the time of Muhammad, Islamic Spain, the Ottoman Empire, and modern Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, and Israel. It asks how this shared cultural heritage is remembered and mobilized in the contemporary world, shedding light on the current state of Muslim-Jewish relations not only in the MENA but in Europe and the US as well. Films, memoirs, scripture, and historical works form the basis of our inquiry.
Jews and Muslims: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 3 Week Session, Summer 2023 3 Week Session
This course examines South Korean and Japanese culture through the lens of contemporary film from 2000-2023. We use film as an entry-point to examine diverse topics in South Korean and Japanese culture including the rights and welfare of girls and women, spirituality and religion, urban and rural life, nature and the environment, wealth, poverty and inequality, family and society, employment and work-life, education and school experiences, ethnic diversity and responses to it, war and peace, immigration and emigration including diasporic communities, human resilience, natural disaster and responses to it, and human rights.
Contemporary South Korean and Japanese Society and Culture Through Film: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2017 First 6 Week Session
This course will study a wide spectrum of opinions and views on the issue of “comfort women.” Students will approach this topic in the context of wartime sexual and gender-based violence at a time when an imperial order was the norm. Students will also probe shifting narratives of wartime responsibilities in the post-war Japanese and Korean societies. Students will engage in issues of reparations, legal accountability, historical memories, truth and justice, apology and forgiveness, and reconciliation both at the personal and structural levels, by directly interacting with the conflict parties who represent such diverse positions. This is a summer study abroad course in Tokyo and Seoul.
Contentious History and Memory: Comfort Women Issues in Japan and Korea: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course examines the diversity and complexity of Muslim women’s lives and faith around the world. It explores changing constructions of gender and sexuality in the Islamic world over time; the interactions between Muslims and travelers, colonial administrators, the modern state, and local and transnational feminist, secularist, and Islamist movements; and, generally, continuing challenges to the very notion of what a “Muslim” is. The course draws on primary source texts as well as ethnography, literature, film, and media.
Gender, Sexuality, and Islam: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2022, Spring 2021
Advanced multidisciplinary research in current issues and topics related to Europe and/or Russia. This Global Studies course will focus on specific issues related to the region with appropriate comparative material included.Topics will change depending on the instructor teaching the course.
Special Topics In Europe/Russia: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Advanced multidisciplinary research in current issues and topics related to Africa. This Global Studies course will focus on specific issues related to the region with appropriate comparative material included. Topics will change depending on the instructor teaching the course.
Special Topics In Africa: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Advanced multidisciplinary research in current issues and topics related to Asia. This Global Studies course will focus on specific issues related to Asia with appropriate comparative material included.Topics will change depending on the instructor teaching.
Special Topics In Asia: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Advanced multidisciplinary research in current issues and topics related to China. This Global Studies course will focus on specific issues related to China with appropriate comparative material included. Topics will change depending on the instructor teaching.

Special Topics In China: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Summer 2024 3 Week Session, Fall 2021, Summer 2021 3 Week Session
This course explores special topics in Global Peace and Conflict Studies. Though topics will vary from semester to semester, this course will focus on specific issues of current research, whether about conflicts or about finding peaceful solutions to those conflicts.
Special Topics: Global Peace and Conflict.: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course explores special topics, based on current research and interests and is focused on at least one global region. Using a social science perspective, students will engage in critical thinking about the way in which a particular region, or subset of a region, interacts with other states and societies.
Special Topics: Global Middle East: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course places the UN under the spotlight: history, culture and effectiveness and examines the organization’s key institutions in the context of a multipolar world. The course goal is to encourage students to think critically about the international system and the politics of global governance and to learn the necessary tools to research the United Nations and international organizations. The course is suitable for those interested in foreign policy, diplomacy, international relations and law and conflict management and resolution.
UN UNPlugged: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course will explore the philosophical evolution of human rights principles in the realm of political theory and the influence of such principles as they have transformed into a coherent body of law. We will focus specifically on issues in international human rights law; the approach will be both thematic and comparative. Topics will include but are not limited to: human rights diplomacy; the influence of human rights in international legal practice; cultural and minority rights; genocide and the world community; cultural relativism and national sovereignty; international law and international relations; individual and collective rights; migration, labor, and globalization; and national, international, and nongovernmental organizations.
International Human Rights: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2018
This course will describe the issues, policies and practices of counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency. Terrorism continues to increase in frequency and lethality. Insurgency too is more frequent and deadly (insurgency now is riskier than terrorism). The actors and methods increasingly overlap, so that terrorism and insurgency practically must be studied together. This course examines the concepts, history, motivations and methods of terrorism and insurgency, and ways in which the counter-terrorist and counter-insurgent side counter those motivations and methods, navigating the legal and ethical bounds.
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Terms offered: Spring 2018
This course teaches students how to analyse risks and security, to understand particular risks, to manage these risks from their root causes. Students will learn about risks from the global to the operational levels, from international conflict, natural risks, political instability, operational and logistical insecurity, physical site insecurity, transport insecurity, to information, communications, and cyber security. For instance, students will learn how to forecast political violence, control that violence, and co-opt political spoilers.
Global Security Risks: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
This course situates the civil discourse of democracy in the larger context of political discourse in general. It does so at two levels: one that is academic and philosophical, and another that is personal and experiential. The course offers content for both reflection and practice. The course explains why democracy is currently in the crisis it is in, what the central role of civil/political discourse is in the context of democratic governance, and how the revival and expansion of civil/political discourse is essential to the project of restoring trust in democratic institutions. The course is international and comparative, drawing on an array of examples of world political systems, societies, and cultures, including the US.
Political Discourse in the Twenty-first Century: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
This course is designed to provide a vehicle for undergraduate students interested in writing a major paper on a topic related to global studies. The paper should be approximately 30 pages in length. The student and faculty sponsor should agree upon the topic in advance.
Senior Thesis: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Interdisciplinary research seminar for students in Global studies. Intensive writing on research questions in social science and public policy best approached from an interdisciplinary perspective. Course assumes intermediate to advanced knowledge of central focus or topic of course. Weekly discussions and critiques of readings and assignments. Final paper or project required. Topic must be approved by instructor. Topics vary from term to term.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Honors students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in GLOBAL H102. The thesis work is reviewed by the honors instructor and a second reader to be selected based on the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports required.
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Terms offered: Spring 2022
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of Global Studies in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Field Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
Directed group studies of selected topics which vary from year to year.
Directed Group Study: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Prior to 2007
Faculty sponsor must approve expected workload and units. Enrollment restricted by regulations of the college.
Supervised Independent Study and Research for Undergraduates: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
This reading seminar, required of all MA students in Global Studies, will approach a particular topic in global studies each year. Covering a variety of themes, students will engage with the literature of the field, and begin to study the ways in which particular problems have been approached from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the social sciences.
MA Seminar for Global Studies: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
This course seeks to introduce Global Studies majors to the regions of Europe and Russia and its significance to the larger study of the globe. The course will be divided into three parts based on the three concentrations within the Global Studies major: Society and Culture, Development, Peace and Conflict. Each of these sections, examines key topics for understanding the region and its relationship to other parts of the globe.
Europe/Russia In Global Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023
This course examines the region of Latin America and the Caribbean and its significance to the larger study of the globe. The course will be divided into three parts based on the three concentrations within the Global Studies program: Society and Culture, Development, Peace and Conflict. Each of these sections examines key topics for understanding the region and its relationship to other parts of the globe.
Latin America In Global Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024
This course provides an introduction to the Middle East region, broadly defined. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, joining the fields of history, political science, anthropology, religious studies, economics, and Middle Eastern studies. Students will be introduced to major historical themes in the study of Middle Eastern societies that are relevant in understanding contemporary intellectual debates and the origins, nature, and trajectory of war and peace in the region. Focusing on the 20th century, the course explores how the modern Middle East evolved politically, socially, and economically into a region burdened by webs of power and influence.
Middle East In Global Context: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
Advanced multidisciplinary research in current issues and topics related to Asia. This Global Studies course will focus on specific issues related to Asia with appropriate comparative material included.Topics will change depending on the instructor teaching.
Special Topics In Asia: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course explores special topics, based on current research and interests and is focused on at least one global region. Using a social science perspective, students will engage in critical thinking about the way in which a particular region, or subset of a region, interacts with other states and societies.
Special Topics: Global Middle East: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022
This course will explore the philosophical evolution of human rights principles in the realm of political theory and the influence of such principles as they have transformed into a coherent body of law. We will focus specifically on issues in international human rights law; the approach will be both thematic and comparative. Topics will include but are not limited to: human rights diplomacy; the influence of human rights in international legal practice; cultural and minority rights; genocide and the world community; cultural relativism and national sovereignty; international law and international relations; individual and collective rights; migration, labor, and globalization; and national, international, and nongovernmental organizations.
International Human Rights: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
Directed study and research for graduate students in Global Studies. Primarily for graduate students engaged in an interdisciplinary exploration of Global Studies-related topics in subject matter not covered in available course offerings. The course will involve directed readings and writing of a report.
Directed Study and Research: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023
Group studies of selected topics which vary from year to year.

Directed Group Studies for Graduate Students: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Spring 2024
Individual conferences intended to provide directed reading in subject matter not covered by available seminar offerings.
Directed Reading: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2021
This course is intended to prepare Global Studies MA students to be instructors in interdisciplinary/multi-departmental courses. It will serve as a forum to discuss problems and create innovative solutions to these problems. Focusing on course construction and operation, specialists from various disciplines will discuss strategies for moving outside of their areas of specialization and into broader areas of Global Studies. Graduate students will be provided training in building their own interdisciplinary courses from the ground up. Organizing syllabi, preparing lectures, devising written assignments, leading discussion sections, constructing evaluative mechanisms and grading them, will all be covered over the course of the semester.
Professional Training: Teaching in Global Studies: Read More [+]