Other Courses of Interest
Fall 2022 Other Courses of Interest for Global Studies MA Students*
*Course listing is merely a selection of those courses previously taken by Global Studies MA students or otherwise shared with our program as they may suit the interests of our MA students. This list is not meant to be exhaustive or otherwise imply these are the only acceptable elective courses.
GLBL 413: Socialist and Decolonial Ecologies
Instructor: Dr. Mark Driscoll
Tuesday-Thursday, 11:00am-12:15pm
GEC 1009
This course will focus on the relation of capitalism and anthropogenic climate change and feature Marxist and Indigenous critiques of capitalism’s responsibility for climate change. We will feature an interdisciplinary lens – philosophy, feminist geography, cultural anthropology, socialist economics – that will analyze how the anthropocentric subject of the Enlightenment separated itself from its natural environment.
AAAD 403 – Human Rights: Theories and Practices in Africa
Tuesday-Thursday, 9:30am-10:45am
Hamilton 423
Instructor: DR. EUNICE SAHLE
ASIA 427 – Cold War Culture in East Asia: Transnational and Intermedial Connections
Tuesday-Thursday, 12:30pm-1:45pm
Hanes Art Center 215
Instructor: DR. JONATHAN KIEF
ASIA 469: Asian Economic Systems
Tuesday-Thursday, 9:30am-10:45am
Gardner 308
Instructor: DR. STEVEN ROSEFIELDE
ASIA 725- Critical Approaches to Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Tuesday, 3:30pm-6:00pm
New West 103
Instructor: DR. YARON SHEMER
ANTH 701- Theory and Ethnography
Tuesday, 9:30am-12:00pm
Alumni 308
Instructor: DR. CHRISTOPHER NELSON
GEOG 429- Urban Political Geography- Durham, NC
Monday, 3:35pm- 6:35pm
Carolina Hall 204
Instructor: DR. NINA MARTIN
GEOG 435- Global Environmental Justice
Tuesday- Thursday, 12:30pm-1:45pm
Carolina Hall 220
Instructor: DR. SARA SMITH
GEOG 451- Population, Development, and the Environment
M-W-F, 1:25pm-2:15pm
Carolina Hall 220
Instructor: DR. CLARK GRAY
GEOG 453- Political Geography
M-W-F, 12:20pm-1:10pm
Carolina Hall 220
Instructor: DR. SCOTT KIRSCH
GEOG 803- Urban Geography
Tuesday, 3:30-6:30pm
TBD
Instructor: DR. NINA MARTIN
PLCY 716- Politics and Public Policy Theory
Monday, 8:30am-11:00am
Cobb 24
Instructor: DR. REBECCA KREITZER
POLI 431- African Politics and Societies
Tuesday- Thursday, 9:30am-10:45am
Murphey 115
Instructor: DR. LUCY MARTIN
POLI 433- Politics of the European Union
Tuesday-Thursday, 2:00-3:15pm
Murphey 115
Instructor: DR. GARY MARKS
POLI 435- Democracy and Development in Latin America
Tuesday-Thursday, 11:00am-12:15pm
Murphey 115
Instructor: DR. JONATHAN HARTLYN
POLI 438- Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe
Tuesday-Thursday, 12:30pm-1:45pm
Caldwell 105
Instructor: DR. MILADA VACHUDOVA
POLI 442- International Political Economy
Monday-Wednesday, 2:30pm-3:45pm
Gardner 210
Instructor: DR. CAMERON BALLARD-ROSA
POLI 447- Immigrant Integration in Contemporary Western Europe
Tuesday-Thursday, 3:30pm-4:45pm
Gardner 210
Instructor: DR. RAHSAAN MAXWELL
POLI 448- The Politics of Multilevel Governance
Tuesday-Thursday, 5:00-6:15pm
Murphey 112
Instructor: DR. LIESBET HOOGHE
POLI 452- Africa and International Conflict
Monday-Wednesday, 1:25pm-2:40pm
Hamilton 452
Instructor: DR. NAVIN BAPAT
POLI 469- Conflict and Intervention in the Former Yugoslavia
Tuesday-Thursday, 12:30pm-1:45pm
Murphey 112
Instructor: DR. ROBERT JENKINS