Approved Spring 2016 Courses
All courses below are approved for credit toward the Global Studies major and appear in the Registrar’s course listings for Spring 2016. This list was compiled on October 6, 2015 and changes could occur in course offerings between when this list was generated and the start of the Spring 2016 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.
You must read this carefully:
Many departments have special topic numbers. These are denoted by an asterisk in our course lists. 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.
Don’t forget, you can petition to have a class count for major credit. For courses taken as part of a study abroad program, please see the Study Abroad page.
Core Courses
GLBL 210 Global Issues
JOMC 446 Global Communication and Comparative Journalism
MUSC 146 Introduction to World Musics
POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics
RELI 181 Modern Muslim Societies
SOCI 111 Human Societies
GLBL Courses
GLBL 89H FYS: Special Topics (Beg, Borrow, and Steal: The Political Economy of Aid, FDI, and Corruption)
This course examines how politics and economics condition different countries’ path towards and experience with foreign aid, foreign investment, and corruption. In doing so, the course will examine the effect of political conditions on economic outcomes and the effect of economic conditions on political outcomes. Through the exploration of the academic literature, popular (including non-Western) media, and policy briefs, students are encouraged to critically examine the prevailing views on these topics and to build the analytical and communication skills necessary to contribute to some of the most salient policy arenas facing our world today.
GLBL 193 Global Studies Internship
Department consent required.
GLBL 196 Independent Study
Permission of the instructor. Reading and research on special topics in global studies.
GLBL 210 Global Issues
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 course is for Phillips Ambassadors only.
GLBL 381 Great Decisions
Eight evening guest lectures, with a discussion session after each, on eight issues in current foreign policy. May be repeated for credit.
GLBL 390 Current Topics in Global Studies*
It is fashionable to speak of a “globalized” world these days, but how did this world come into being and what does the term exactly mean? More specifically, while the global movement of commodities, information and services seems mostly rather unrestrained these days, why is the movement of people often subjected to rigorous controls and restrictions? Indeed, why does one need a “passport” to travel across borders? What are borders? How are they established? What is a “citizen”? What is a “migrant” or “immigrant”? What are the differences between “empire” and “nation-state”? Or “subjects” and “citizens”? What are “global” institutions? Why do people seem to cling onto their “national identity” as a primary marker of their own identity in this increasingly globalized world? What are the obligations, if any, of the developed countries to the developing world and why? How are these questions related to each other?
GLBL 394 Great Decisions and International Relations
Pre- or corequisite, GLBL 381. This course links the Great Decisions lecture series with readings and analyses of international relations.Its purpose is to provide the students on the Great Decisions coordinating committee with a practical and intellectual engagement with United States foreign policy and global issues.
GLBL 450 Social Change in Times of Crisis: Knowledge, Action, and Ontology
Examines dominant, alternative, and emergent narratives of change and the future from around the world. Takes as a premise that we live in a period of multidimensional crises characterized by uncertainty and conflict about how to pursue sustainable economic, ecological, political, social, and cultural projects.
GLBL 691H Honors in Global Studies
Permission of the instructor. Preparation for writing the honors thesis.
Theme Courses
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, NATION STATES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
AAAD 315 Political Protest and Conflict in Africa
ANTH 280 Anthropology of War and Peace
ANTH 319 Global Health
ANTH 590 Special Topics in Anthropology*
ANTH/ASIA 375 Memory, Massacres, and Monuments in Southeast Asia
ANTH/FOLK 130 Anthropology of the Caribbean
GEOG 452 Mobile Geographies: The Political Economy of Migration
GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe
GEOG/PWAD 453 Political Geography
GLBL 390 Current Topics in Global Studies*
HIST/ASIA 276 Modern Middle East
HNRS 352 Seminar in Social and Behavioral Sciences
JOMC 446 Global Communication and Comparative Journalism
MUSC 390H Honors Seminar in Music*
PLCY/ENEC 372 Global Environment: Policy Analysis and Solutions
POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI 190 Undergraduate Seminar*
POLI 231 Latin America and the United States in World Politics
POLI 239 Introduction to European Government
POLI 431 African Politics and Societies
POLI 433 Politics of the European Union
POLI 438 Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe
POLI 450 Contemporary Inter-American Relations
POLI 235 Politics of the Soviet Union and its Sucessor States
POLI 236 Politics of East-Central Europe
POLI 238 Contemporary Latin American Politics
POLI/EURO 442 International Political Economy
POLI/PWAD 443 American Foreign Policy: Formulation and Conduct
POLI/PWAD 444 Seminar on Terrorism
POLI/PWAD 469 Conflict and Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia
POLI/PWAD/SOCI 260 Crisis and Change in Russia and East Europe
PWAD 350 National and International Security
RELI 181 Modern Muslim Societies
SOCI 111 Human Societies
SOCI 121 Population Problems
SOCI 290 Special Topics in Sociology*
GLOBAL ECONOMICS, TRADE, DEVELOPMENT
ANTH 320 Anthropology of Development
ECON 434 History of Economic Doctrines
ECON 461 European Economic Integration
ECON 465 Economic Development
ECON 468 Principles of Soviet and Post-Soviet Economic Systems
ECON 469 Western and Asian Economic Systems
ECON 560 Advanced International Economics
ECON/EURO/PWAD 460 International Economics
ENEC 490 Special Topics in Environmental Science and Studies*
GEOG 458 Urban Latin America: Politics, Economy, and Society
GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe
GEOG/PWAD 453 Political Geography
GLBL 390 Special Topics in Global Studies*
POLI/EURO 442 International Political Economy
SOCI 290 Special Topics in Sociology*
GLOBAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT
ANTH 147 Comparative Healing Systems
ANTH 151 Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture
ANTH 319 Global Health
ANTH 470 Medicine and Anthropology
ANTH 490 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology*
ENEC 490 Special Topics in Environmental Science and Studies*
ENVR 600 Environmental Health
GEOG 434 Cultural Ecology of Agriculture, Urbanization, and Disease
HNRS 352 Seminar in Social and Behavioral Sciences*
PLCY/ENEC 372 Global Environment: Policy Analysis and Solutions
PLCY/HPM 565 Global Health Policy
POLI/ENEC 254 International Environmental Politics
SOCI 469 Medicine and Society
TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES, IDENTITIES, ARTS
ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 147 Comparative Healing Systems
ANTH 280 Anthropology of War and Peace
ANTH 320 Anthropology of Development
ANTH 490 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology*
ARTH/ASIA 456 Art and Visual Culture of South Asia
COMM/PWAD 574 War and Culture
ENGL 364 Introduction to Latina/o Studies
GEOG 452 Mobile Geographies: The Political Economy of Migration
GLBL 390 Special Topics in Global Studies*
JOMC 446 Global Communication and Comparative Journalism
MUSC 146 Introduction to World Musics
MUSC 258 Musical Movements: Migrations, Exile and Diaspora
RELI 121 Introduction to Religion and Culture
RELI 428 Religion and Anthropology
RELI/ASIA 285 The Buddhist Tradition: Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka
SPAN 344 Contemporary Latin America: Mexico, Central America, and the Andean Region
SPAN 345 Contemporary Latin America: The Caribbean and the Southern Cone
WMST 124 Sex and Gender in Society
Area Courses
AFRICA
AAAD 101 Introduction to Africa
AAAD 201 The Literature of Africa
AAAD 301 Contemporary China-Africa Relations
AAAD 315 Political Protest and Conflict in Africa
AAAD 318 Politics of Cultural Production in Africa
AAAD 320 Music of Africa
AAAD 412 Regional Seminar in African Studies
AAAD 414 Senegalese Society and Culture
AAAD 487 Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies
ARTH 255 African Art and Culture
GLBL 390 Special Topics in Global Studies*
HIST 279 Modern South Africa
HIST 390 Special Topics in History*
POLI 431 African Politics and Societies
WMST 289 Women and the Law in Africa and the Middle East
ASIA
ANTH 330 Melancholy Japan: Myth, Memory, and Everyday Life
ANTH 490 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology*
ANTH/ASIA 375 Memory, Massacres, and Monuments in Southeast Asia
ASIA 331 Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia
ASIA 333 The Mahabharata: Remembered, Reimagined, Performed
CHIN 252 Introduction to Chinese Culture through Narrative
CHIN 562 Post-Mao Chinese Urban Culture and Arts
GLBL 390 Special Topics in Global Studies*
HIST/ASIA 288 Japan in the 20th Century
JAPN 375 The Culture of Modern Imperial Japan, 1900–1945
JAPN 490 Topics in Japanese Language & Literature*
POLI 190 Undergraduate Seminar*
LATIN AMERICA
ANTH 490 Undergraduate Seminar in Anthropology*
ANTH/FOLK 130 Anthropology of the Caribbean
GEOG 259 Geography of Latin America
GEOG 458 Urban Latin America: Politics, Economy, and Society
GLBL 390 Special Topics in Global Studies*
HIST 143 Latin America since Independence
HIST 242 United States-Latin American Relations
HIST 175H Honors Seminar in Latin American History*
JOMC 447 International Media Studies
MUSC 147 Introduction to Latin(o) American Music
POLI 231 Latin America and the United States in World Politics
POLI 238 Contemporary Latin American Politics
POLI 434 Politics of Mexico
POLI 450 Contemporary Inter-American Relations
PORT 270 Modern Brazilian Literature in English Translation
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 352 Rahtid Rebel Women: An Introduction to Caribbean Women
MIDDLE EAST
ARTH 290 Special Topics in Art History*
HIST 490 Special Topics in History*
HIST/ASIA 276 Modern Middle East
POLI 190 Undergraduate Seminar*
RELI 64 First-Year Seminar: Reintroducing Islam
RELI 181 Modern Muslim Societies
RELI 584 Qur’an as Literature
RELI 581 Sufism
SOCI 419 Sociology of the Islamic World
WESTERN EUROPE/EUROPEAN UNION
ARTH 152 History of Western Art II
ECON 461 European Economic Integration
FREN 350 Advanced Oral and Written French
GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe
GERM 280 20th-Century German Philosophy and Modern Youth Cultures
GERM 302 German Languages and Culture
GERM/CMPL/JWST/RELI 270 (GERM/CMPL) 239 (JWST/RELI) German Culture and the Jewish Question
HIST 390* Special Topics in History
HIST/JWST/PWAD 262 History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the Europ
ITAL 335 Themes in Italian Film
ITAL 398 Undergraduate Seminar in Italian
POLI 239 Introduction to European Government
POLI 433 Politics of the European Union
POLI 438 Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe
POLI 190 Undergraduate Seminar*
ROML 56 First-Year Seminar: Italians in Search of Harmony
SPAN 340 Cultures of Contemporary Spain
RUSSIA/EASTERN EUROPE
HIST 162 Russia under the Last Tsars and Soviet Commissars
JWST/PLSH 412 20th-Century Polish Literature and Culture
POLI 235 Soviet/Post-Soviet Politics
POLI/PWAD/SOCI 260 Crisis and Change in Russia and East Europe
RUSS 274 Russian Literature after 1917