Global Studies BA Approved Courses Spring 2020
All courses below are approved for credit toward the Global Studies undergraduate major and appear in the Registrar’s course listings for Spring 2020. This list was updated on October 7, 2019 and changes could occur in course offerings between when this list was generated and the start of the Spring 2020 semester. We cannot update this list with every course change that could occur so please make sure to reference the All Courses Approved for the Major page as well. Students can also find the Global Studies B.A. major requirements and course approvals on our Course Catalog page.
You must read this carefully:
Many departments have special topic numbers. All special topics classes require approval from Director of Undergraduate Studies in order to receive GLBL credit. Do not assume you will receive GLBL credit for taking a special topics class if you have not petitioned the Global Studies office. Petitions will no longer be accepted via e-mail and must be submitted through our new Course Credit Request System. This system also serves students seeking to request any other type of UNC course to count towards the GLBL major.
For courses taken as part of a study abroad program, please see the Study Abroad page.
Core Courses
GLBL 210 Global Issues & Globalization (required)
Two required, each from a different department:
ANTH 142 Local Cultures, Global Forces
ENEC 201 Environment and Society
ENGL 141 World Literatures in English
GEOG 120 World Regional Geography
GEOG 121 People and Places
GEOG 123 Cultural Geography
GEOG 130 Geography of the Developing World
GEOG 232 Agriculture, Food, Society
HIST 140 The World Since 1945
MUSC 146 Introduction to World Musics
PHIL/POLI/PWAD 272 Ethics of Peace, War, and Defense
POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI 150 International Relations and World Politics
RELI 180 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
RELI 181 Modern Muslim Societies
SOCI 111 Human Societies
SOCI 121 Population Problems
SOCI 124 Sex and Gender in Society
GLBL Courses
GLBL 193 Global Studies Internship
GLBL 196 Independent Study
GLBL 210.001 Global Issues & Globalization
GLBL 210.002 Global Issues & Globalization (majors only)
GLBL 281 Phillips Ambassadors
GLBL 381 Great Decisions
GLBL 394 Great Decisions and International Relations
GLBL 401H Paradigms of Development and Social Change
GLBL 413 Socialist and Decolonial Ecologies
GLBL 486H Sports and Globalization
GLBL 490.001 The Chinese Nation as an Imagined Nation
GLBL 490.002 Global Studies MA Research Methods Course
GLBL 490.003 Religion & Politics in Contemporary Russia
GLBL 692H Honors in Global Studies
Theme Courses
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, NATION STATES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
AAAD 101 Introduction to Africa
AMST 277 Globalization and National Identity
ANTH 319 Global Health
GEOG 435 Environmental Politics
GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe
HIST/PWAD 207 The Global Cold War
HIST 570 The Vietnam War
HIST 577 United States Foreign Relations
MUSC 291 Music and Politics
POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI/PWAD 150 International Relations and World Politics
POLI 238 Contemporary Latin American Politics
POLI 239 Introduction to European Government
POLI 431 African Politics & Societies
POLI 435 Democracy and Development in Latin America
POLI 438 Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe
PWAD 489 Empire and Diplomacy
RELI 181 Modern Muslim Societies
RELI 283 The Buddhist Tradition: India, Nepal, and Tibet
SOCI 111 Human Societies
SOCI 121 Population Problems
GLOBAL ECONOMICS, TRADE, DEVELOPMENT
BUSI 611 International Development
ECON 460 International Economics
ECON 469 Asian Economic Systems
ECON 560 Advanced International Economics
GEOG 428 Urban Social Geography: “Cities in a Globalizing World”
GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe
GLBL 413 Socialist and Decolonial Ecologies
POLI 435 Democracy and Development in Latin America
GLOBAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
ANTH 147 Comparative Healing Systems
ANTH 151 Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture
ANTH 319 Global Health
ANTH 446 Poverty, Inequality, and Health
ANTH 470 Medicine and Anthropology
ENVR 600 Health and Environment
FREN 305 Healthcare in France and the Francophone World
GEOG 435 Environmental Politics
GEOG 446 Geography of Health Care Delivery
PLCY 565 Global Health Policy
SOCI 469 Medicine and Society
TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES, IDENTITIES, ARTS
AAAD 284 Contemporary Perspectives on the African Diaspora in the Americas
ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 147 Comparative Healing Systems
ARTH 153 Survey of South Asian Art
COMM 574 War and Culture
GEOG 056 FYS: Local Places in a Globalizing World
GLBL 486H Sports and Globalization
MUSC 146 Introduction to World Musics
RELI 121 Introduction to Religion and Culture
RELI 284 The Buddhist Tradition: East Asia
SPAN 344 Latin@ American Cultural Topics
WGST/SOCI 124 Sex and Gender in Society
Area Courses
AFRICA
AAAD 101 Introduction to Africa
AAAD 201 African Literature
AAAD 214 Africa through the Ethnographic Lens
AAAD 320 Music of Africa
AAAD 421 Introduction to the Languages of Africa
AAAD 487 Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies
HIST 130 20th Century Scramble for Africa
POLI 431 Democratization in Africa
ASIA
ANTH 330 Melancholy Japan: Myth, Memory, and Everyday Life
ASIA 231 Bollywood Cinema
CHIN 252 Introduction to Chinese Culture through Narrative
CHIN 354 Chinese Culture through Calligraphy
HIST 134 Modern East Asia
JAPN 162 Japanese Pop Culture
LATIN AMERICA
AAAD 260 Blacks in Latin America
AAAD 460 Race, Culture and Politics in Brazil
HIST 142 Latin America under Colonial Rule
HIST 242 United States-Latin American Relations
POLI 238 Politics of the Global South: Latin America
POLI 434 Politics of Mexico
POLI 435 Democracy and Development in Latin America
PORT 388 Portuguese, Brazilian, and African Identity in Film
SPAN 344 Latin@ American Cultural Topics
MIDDLE EAST
RELI 180 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
RELI 181 Modern Muslim Societies
RELI 581 Sufism
RELI 584 The Qur’an as Literature
SOCI 419 Sociology of the Islamic World
WESTERN EUROPE/EUROPEAN UNION
ENGL 278 Irish Writing, 1800-2000
FREN 305 Healthcare in France and the Francophone World
GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe
GERM 302 Contemporary German Society
HIST 259 Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern Europe
HIST 262 History of the Holocaust
ITAL 398 Undergraduate Seminar in Italian
POLI 239 Introduction to European Government
POLI 438 Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe
PORT 388 Portuguese, Brazilian and African Identity in Film
SPAN 340 Iberian Cultural Topics
RUSSIA/EASTERN EUROPE
HIST 162 Russia under the Last Tsars and Soviet Commissars