Core Courses
GLBL 210 Global Issues (required)
ANTH 142 Local Cultures, Global Forces
ARTH 150 World Art
DRAM 117 Perspectives in World Drama
ENEC 201 Environment and Society
ENGL 141 World Literatures in English
ENGL 265 Literature & Race, Literature and Ethnicity: La Vida Locs
GEOG 056 FYS: Local Places in a Globalizing World
GEOG 120 World Regional Geography
GEOG 121 People and Places
GEOG 130 Geography of the Developing World
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 181 Later Islamic Civilization and Modern Muslim Cultures
SOCI 111 Human Societies
SOCI 121 Population Problems
WMST 281 Gender and Global Change: Militarization and Transnational Latino/a Literature
GLBL Courses
GLBL 193 Global Studies Internship (Michal Osterweil)
Internship in a sponsoring organization whose work or mission is meaningfully connected to a global studies topic.
GLBL 196 Independent Study
Permission of the instructor. Reading and research on special topics in global studies.
GLBL 210.001 Global Issues in the 20th Century (Erica Johnson)
GLBL 210.002 Global Issues in the 20th Century (majors only) (Jonathan Weiler)
(ANTH 210, GEOG 210, HIST 210, POLI 210) (3). Survey of international social, political, and cultural patterns in selected societies of Africa, Asia, America, and Europe, stressing comparative analysis of 20th-century conflicts and change in different historical contexts.
GLBL 281 Phillips Ambassadors
This academic course is mandatory for Phillips Ambassadors.
GLBL 381 Great Decisions (Michal Osterweil)
Eight evening guest lectures, with a discussion session after each, on eight issues in current foreign policy. May be repeated for credit.
GLBL 390.001 Colonization, Migration, National Identity (Michael Tsin)
GLBL 390.002 Capital, Nature, Commons (Mark Driscoll)
GLBL 486 Sports and Globalization (Jonathan Weiler)
This course explores some of the many interesting relationships between sports and globalization. We will begin by looking at the emergence of modern sporting cultures globally as an outgrowth of the industrial revolution and the influence, imperial and otherwise, of British and later American cultural norms. We will use sports to look at themes of race, poverty, gender, nationalism and other issues related to tensions around globalization. We will also examine major events like the Olympics, World Cup and the global spread of particular sports, notably soccer and baseball. Our goal will be to delve into sports both as important social and cultural practices in and of themselves and also to better understand some of the larger social, cultural and political forces shaping globalization.
GLBL 490 Paradigms of Development, Paradigms of Change (Michal Osterweil)
This course seeks to explore paradigms of development and social justice. It asks how experiences of global, as well as domestic development and service connect to social change projects and paradigms. By deliberately juxtaposing questions of global development with an investigation of approaches in community organizing—both through course material and service learning assignments—the course encourages students to develop a more critical understanding of the relationship between development projects and social change or emancipatory frameworks. The course will briefly go through the history of development paradigms, from modernization theory to alternative development approaches, emphasizing the changing understandings and theories that went behind them. It then asks how notions of development relate to paradigms of community development, including community organizing and resistance paradigms. What is the difference between an organization working from a community organizing perspective, and one that speaks about community development? What can we learn from historical and contemporary examples, both in the US and elsewhere? This course combines service-learning, with a community-research component, offering students the ability to not only reflect on their own experiences working with and serving a community organization, but also encouraging research into, and potentially dialogue about, the very models those organizations are using, as well as diverse volunteer/service models that have been employed in domestic and international development projects. As such the students will be intentionally placed with organizations with diverse models/mission statements, as long as they fit within a community organizing/community development or community empowerment rubric.
GLBL 691H Honors in Global Studies (Michal Osterweil)
Permission of the instructor. Preparation for writing the honors thesis.
Theme Courses
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, NATION STATES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
ANTH 319 Global Health
ANTH 360 Latin American Economy and Society
ANTH 375 Memory, Massacres, and Monuments in Southeast Asia
ASIA/HIST/PWAD 281 The Pacific War
COMM 390* Selected Topics
ENST/PLCY 372 Global Environment: Policy Analysis and Solutions
GEOG 452 Mobile Geographies
GEOG 453 Political Geography
GLBL 390* Special Topics in Global Studies
HIST 276 Middle East in the Modern Era
HIST 577 United States Foreign Relations
HNRS 352 Seminar in Social and Behavioral Sciences
MUSC 390H* Honors Seminar in Music
POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI 231 Latin America/U.S. in World Politics
POLI 236 Politics of East-Central Europe
POLI 238 Latin American Politics
POLI 239 Introduction to European Government
POLI 433 Politics of the European Union
POLI 442 International Political Economy
PWAD 350 National and International Security
PWAD 352* Special Topics
RELI 181 Later Islamic Civilization and Modern Muslim Cultures
RUES 469 Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia
SOCI 111 Human Societies
SOCI 121 Population Problems
SOCI 274 Social and Economic Justice
SOCI 290* Special Topic
WMST 388 The International Politics of Sexual Reproduction
GLOBAL ECONOMICS, TRADE, DEVELOPMENT
ANTH 320 Anthropology of Development
ANTH 465 Economic Anthropology
ANTH 468 State Formation
ECON 434 History of Economic Doctrines
ECON 460 International Economics
ECON 461 European Economic Integration
ECON 465 Economic Development.
ECON 469 Western and Asian Economic Systems
ECON 560 Advanced International Economics
ENEC 490* Special Topics
GEOG 428 Urban Social Geography: “Cities in a Globalizing World”
GEOG 453 Political Geography
GEOG 458 Urban Latin America
GLBL 390* Special Topics
POLI 442 International Political Economy
GLOBAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
ANTH 147 Comparative Healing Systems
ANTH 151 Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture
ANTH 238 Human Ecology of Africa
ANTH 319 Global Health
ANTH 470 Medicine and Anthropology
ENEC 370 Agriculture and Environment
ENEC 490* Special Topics
ENEC/PLCY 372 Global Environment: Policy Analysis and Solutions
ENGL 268 Literature, Medicine, and Culture
ENVR 600 Health and Environment
GEOG 434 Cultural Ecology of Disease, Agriculture, and Urbanization
GEOG 457 Rural Latin America: Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources
HNRS 352 Is There Dinner? Toward Understanding an Endangered Species
PLCY 590* Special Topics
SOCI 469 Medicine and Society
WMST 388 The International Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health
TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES, IDENTITIES, ARTS
ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 147 Comparative Healing Systems
ANTH 259 Culture and Identity
ANTH 320 Anthropology of Development
ANTH 435 Consciousness and Symbols
ANTH 440 Gender and Culture
ANTH 477 Visual Anthropology
ARAB 150 Introduction to Arabic Culture
ARTH/ASIA 456 Art and Visual Culture of South Asia
COMM 574 War and Culture
GEOG 056 FYS: Local Places in a Globalizing World
GEOG 452 Mobile Geographies
GLBL 390* Special Topics
GLBL 490* Special Topics
JOMC 446 International Communication and Comparative Journalism
MUSC 146 Introduction to World Musics
RELI 121 Introduction to Religion and Culture
RELI 428 Religion and Anthropology
SPAN 344 Contemporary Latin America: Mexico, Central American and the Andean Region
SPAN 345 Contemporary Latin America: Caribbean and the Southern Con
Area Courses
AFRICA
AAAD 101 Introduction to African Civilization
AAAD 201 African Literature
AAAD 214 Ethnography of Africa
AAAD 301 Contemporary China-Africa Relations
AAAD 318 Politics of Cultural Production in Africa
AAAD 320 Music of Africa
AAAD 412 Senegalese Society and Culture
AAAD 414 Senegalese Society and Culture
AAAD 421 Introduction to the Languages of Africa
AAAD 487 Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies
ANTH 238 Human Ecology of Africa
ARTH 255 African Art and Culture
GLBL 390* Special Topics in Global Studies
HIST 279 Modern South African History
WMST 289 Women and the Law in African and the Middle East
ASIA
ANTH 375 Memory, Massacres and Monuments in Southeast Asia
ASIA 147 Understanding Western Experience in East and Southeast Asia
ASIA 261 India Through Western Eyes
CHIN 252 Introduction to Chinese Culture through Narrative
CHIN 354 Chinese Culture through Calligraphy
HIST 134 Modern East Asia
JAPN 161 Geisha in History, Fantasy, and Fiction
KOR 151 Education and Social Changes in Contemporary Korea
LATIN AMERICA
ANTH 360 Latin American Economy and Society
GEOG 259 Latin America
GEOG 457 Rural Latin America: Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources
GEOG 458 Urban Latin America: Politics, Economy, and Society
GLBL 390* Special Topics
HIST 143 Latin America Since Independence
JOMC 447 Mass Communications in Mexico
POLI 231 Latin American/U.S. World Politics
POLI 238 Contemporary Latin American Politics
PORT 270 Modern Brazilian Literature
PORT 275 Portuguese and Brazilian Fiction
PORT 388 Portuguese, Brazilian, and African Identity in Film
SPAN 330 Cultural History of the Hispanic World
SPAN 344 Contemporary Latin America: Mexico, Central America and the Andean Region
SPAN 345 Contemporary Latin America: The Caribbean and the Southern Cone
WMST 388 International Politics of Sexual Reproductive Health
MIDDLE EASt
ARAB 150 Introduction to Arab Culture
ASIA 224 Introduction to Iranian Cinema
HIST 276 Modern Middle East
HIST 490* Special Topics
RELI 064 Re-introducing Islam
RELI 180 Introduction to Islamic Civilization
RELI 181 Modern Islamic Civilization
RELI 480 Modern Muslim Literature
RELI 581 Sufism
WESTERN EUROPE/European Union
ART 152 History of Western Art
DRAM 289 Contemporary Irish Drama
DTCH 405* Topics in Dutch Culture
ECON 461 European Economic Integration
FREN 350 Advanced Oral and Written French
FREN 398 Contemporary Identities in European Cinema
GERM 302 Language and Culture: Immigration to Germany from 1955-Present
GERM 350 Modern German Literature
GERM/POLI/SOCI 257 Society and Culture in Post-War Germany
HIST 259 Women in Europe Since 1750
HIST 262 History of the Holocaust
HNRS 353 Seminar in Historical Analysis
ITAL 335 Topics on Italian Film and Culture: Social Issues in Italy from the 1960s-Present
ITAL 398 Undergraduate Seminar in Italian
POLI 239 Introduction to European Government
POLI 433 Politics of the European Union
PORT 388 Portuguese, Brazilian and African Identity in Film
ROML 056 FYS: Italians in Search of Harmony
SPAN 340 Cultures of Contemporary Spain
russia/EASTERN EUROPE
HIST 162 Russia 1861-Present
RUSS 274 Russian Literature from 1917 to the Present