Global Studies BA Approved Courses Spring 2021
All courses below are approved for credit toward the Global Studies undergraduate major and appear in the Registrar’s course listings for Spring 2021. This list was updated on November 6, 2020 and changes could occur in course offerings between when this list was generated and the start of the Spring 2021 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
ANTH 142 Local Cultures, Global Forces
COMM 82 FYS: Food Politics from an Organizational Communication Perspective
ENEC 201 Environment and Society
ENGL 141 World Literatures in English
GEOG 120 World Regional Geography
GEOG 121 Geographies of Globalization
GEOG 130 Development and Inequality: Global Perspectives
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 Global Politics
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 290.001 Margins of Nation: The Chinese State and Taiwan/Xinjiang/Hong Kong/Overseas Chinese
GLBL 290.002 Contemporary World Problems (part of Carolina Away course offerings)
GLBL 381 Great Decisions
GLBL 394 Great Decisions and International Relations
GLBL 450H Social Changes in Times of Crisis: Knowledge, Action, and Ontology
GLBL 481 NGO Politics
GLBL 483H Comparative Health Systems
GLBL 692H Honors in Global Studies
GLBL 700 Introduction to Global Studies Research & Theory
GLBL 701 Political Economy
GLBL 710 Monitoring and Evaluation
Theme Courses
INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, NATION STATES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
AAAD 101 Introduction to Africa
ANTH 319 Global Health
GEOG 435 Global Environmental Justice
GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe
GEOG 480 Liberation Geographies: The Place, Politics, and Practice of Resistance
GLBL 450H Social Change in Times of Crisis: Knowledge, Action, and Ontology
GLBL 481 NGO Politics
HIST/PWAD 207 The Global Cold War
HIST 276 The Modern Middle East
MUSC 291 Music and Politics
POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLI/PWAD 150 International Relations and Global Politics
POLI 238 Politics of the Global South: Latin America
POLI 239 Introduction to European Government
POLI 252 International Organizations and Global Issues
POLI 435 Democracy and Development in Latin America
POLI 438 Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe
POLI 448 The Politics of Multilevel Governance
POLI/PWAD 459 Trans-Atlantic Security
POLI 471 Contemporary Political Thought
RELI 181 Modern Muslim Societies
SOCI 111 Human Societies
SOCI 121 Population Problems
GLOBAL ECONOMICS, TRADE, DEVELOPMENT
AAAD 212 Africa in the Global System
BUSI 611 International Development
ECON 450 Economics of Health Care
ECON 454 The Economics of Population
ECON 460 International Economics
ECON 469 Asian Economic Systems
GEOG 428 Urban Social Geography: “Cities in a Globalizing World”
GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and the Geographies of Pan-Europe
PLAN 574 Political Economy of Poverty and Inequality
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 318 Human Growth and Development
ANTH 319 Global Health
ANTH 446 Poverty, Inequality, and Health
ANTH 470 Medicine and Anthropology
ENEC 325 Water Resource Management and Human Rights
ENEC 330 Principles of Sustainability
ENVR 600 Environmental Health
GEOG 435 Global Environmental Justice
GEOG 457 Rural Latin America: Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources
GLBL 483H Comparative Health Systems
PLCY 565 Global Health Policy
SOCI 469 Health 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
ANTH 259 Culture and Identity
ANTH 429 Culture and Power in Southeast Asia
CMPL 143 History of Global Cinema
COMM 574 War and Culture
MEJO 442 Gender, Class, Race, and Mass Media
MUSC 146 Introduction to World Musics
RELI 121 Introduction to Religion and Culture
SPAN 344 Latin@ American Cultural Topics
WGST/SOCI 124 Sex and Gender in Society
Area Courses
AFRICA
AAAD 101 Introduction to Africa
AAAD 212 Africa in the Global System
AAAD 214 Africa through the Ethnographic Lens
AAAD 320 Music of Africa
AAAD 403 Human Rights: Theories and Practices in Africa
AAAD 421 Introduction to the Languages of Africa
AAAD 487 Intellectual Currents in African and African Diaspora Studies
ARTH 255 African Art and Culture
ASIA
ASIA 231 Bollywood Cinema
ASIA 331 Cracking India: Partition and Its Legacy in South Asia
CHIN 150 Introduction to Chinese Civilization
CHIN 252 Introduction to Chinese Culture through Narrative
CHIN 354 Chinese Culture through Calligraphy
JAPN 162 Japanese Pop Culture
LATIN AMERICA
AAAD 260 Blacks in Latin America
GEOG 457 Rural Latin America: Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources
HIST 142 Latin America under Colonial Rule
POLI 238 Contemporary Latin American Politics
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
ARAB 337 Borders and Walls in the Arab World
HIST 276 Modern Middle East
RELI 181 Modern Muslim Societies
RELI 581 Sufism
WESTERN EUROPE/EUROPEAN UNION
ARTH 152 History of Western Art II
ENGL 278 Contemporary Irish Writers
FREN 350 Current Societal Issues: France and Beyond
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
ITAL 343 Italian Culture Today
ITAL 398 Undergraduate Seminar in Italian
POLI 438 Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe
POLI 630 Political Contestation in 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