Theme Courses

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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 Dr. Jonathan Weiler to receive GLBL credit. Do not assume you will receive GLBL credit for taking a special topics class if you have not petitioned Dr. Jonathan Weiler in advance.

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.

FYS = first-year seminar; ST= special topics; * = departmental approval for credit still necessary

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, NATION STATES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

AAAD 101 Introduction to Africa

AAAD 307 21st Century Scramble for Africa

AAAD 315 Political Protest and Conflict in Africa

AAAD 316 Policy Problems in African Studies

AAAD 498 Human Rights and Social Justice Movements in Africa

AMST 277 Globalization and National Identity

ANTH 130 Anthropology of the Caribbean

ANTH 280 Anthropology of War and Peace

ANTH 319 Global Health

ANTH 322 Anthropology of Human Rights

ANTH 360 Latin American Economy and Society

ANTH 375 Memory, Massacres, and Monuments in Southeast Asia

ANTH 449* Experimental Courses in Anthropology IV

ANTH 468 State Formation

ANTH 599* Experimental Courses in Anthropology IV

ARTH/HIST 514 Monuments and Memory

ASIA 243 Political and Economic Change in Asia

ASIA 457 Globalization in East Asia

ASIA 460 Sex, Crime, and Corruption in Asia

ASIA/HIST/PWAD 281 The Pacific War

COMM 376 Rhetoric of War and Peace

COMM 390* Selected Topics

ENEC/PLCY 372 Global Environment: Policy Analysis and Solutions

ENEC/PLCY 520 Environment and Development

ENEC/POLI 254 International Environmental Politics

ENGL 365 Migration and Globalization

GEOG 423 Social Geography

GEOG 435 Environment and Geography

GEOG 447 Gender, Space and Place in the Middle East

GEOG 452 Mobile Geographies

GEOG 453 Political Geography

GEOG 460 Geographies of Economic Change

GEOG 464 Europe Today

GLBL 390* Special Topics in Global Studies

HIST 215 Peace and War

HIST 276 Middle East in the Modern Era

HIST 292H* Special Topics

HIST 513 Imperialism and the Third World

HIST 570 The Vietnam War

HIST 577 United States Foreign Relations

HNRS 352 Seminar in Social and Behavioral Sciences

JOMC 446 International Communication and Comparative Journalism

LING 543 Language in Politics

MUSC 390H* Honors Seminar in Music

POLI 130 Introduction to Comparative Politics

POLI 131 Political Change and Modernization

POLI 190* Undergraduate Seminar

POLI 231 Latin America/U.S. in World Politics

POLI 235 Politics of the Soviet Union and its Successor States

POLI 236 Politics of East-Central Europe

POLI 238 Latin American Politics

POLI 239 Introduction to European Government

POLI 252 International Organizations and Global Issues

POLI 253 Problems in World Order

POLI 259 Evolution of the International System

POLI 260 Crisis and Change in Russia and Eastern Europe

POLI 273 Social and Economic Justice

POLI 431 Democratization in Africa

POLI 433 Politics of the European Union

POLI 435 Democracy and Development in Latin America

POLI 438 Democracy and International Institutions in an Undivided Europe

POLI 442 International Political Economy

POLI 443 American Foreign Policy: Formulation and Conduct

POLI 444 Seminar on Terrorism

POLI 450 Contemporary Inter-American Relations

POLI 457 International Conflict Processes

POLI 470 Social and Political Philosophy

POLI 471 Recent Contemporary Political Thought

PLCY 520 Environment and Development

PWAD 252 International Organization Global Issues

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

SLAV 306 Language and Nationalism

SOCI 111 Human Societies

SOCI 121 Population Problems

SOCI 133 Sociology of Politics

SOCI 290* Special Topics

SOCI 453 Social Change in Latin America

SOCI 481 Managing International Conflict

WMST 293 Gender and Imperialism

WMST 388 The International Politics of Sexual Reproduction

WMST 410 Comparative Queer Politics

GLOBAL ECONOMICS, TRADE, DEVELOPMENT

AAAD 212 Africa in the Global System

AAAD 307 The 21st Century Scramble for Africa

ANTH 103 Anthropology of Globalization

ANTH 144 Human Dilemmas

ANTH 299* Special Topics

ANTH 320 Anthropology of Development

ANTH 465 Economic Anthropology

ANTH 468 State Formation

ASIA 457 Globalization in East Asia/East Asianized Globalization

ASIA 460 Sex, Crime, and Corruption in East and Southeast Asia

ASIA 461 The Political Economy of Southeast Asia

ECON 267 Comparative Economic Systems

ECON 360 Survey of International Development of the Economy

ECON 434 History of Economic Doctrines

ECON 450 Economics of Health Care

ECON 454 The Economics of Population

ECON 460 International Economics

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

ENEC 490* Special Topics

GEOG 428 Urban Social Geography: “Cities in a Globalizing World”

GEOG 453 Political Geography

GEOG 458 Urban Latin America

GEOG 460 Geographies of Economic Change

GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms and the Geographies of Pan-Europe

GLBL 390* Special Topics

PLCY 520 Environment and Development

POLI 435 Democracy and Development in Latin America

POLI 442 International Political Economy

SOCI 290* Special Topics

SOCI 450 Theory and Problems of Developing Societies.

SOCI 453 Social Change in Latin America

GLOBAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT

AMST 499* Special Topics

ANTH 147 Comparative Healing Systems

ANTH 151 Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture

ANTH 238 Human Ecology of Africa

ANTH 312 From the Equator to the Poles: Case Studies in Global Environmental Change

ANTH 318 Human Growth and Development

ANTH 319 Global Health

ANTH 470 Medicine and Anthropology

ANTH 473 Anthropology of the Body and the Subject

ANTH 499* Special Topics

ANTH 512 Environmental Anthropology

ANTH 525 Culture and Personality

BIOL 262 Global Ecology: An International Perspective on Ecological and Environmental Problems

ENEC 225 Water Resource Management and Human Rights

ENEC 370 Agriculture and Environment

ENEC 490* Special Topics

ENEC 510 Policy Analysis of Global Climate Change

ENEC/GEOG 264 Biodiversity Conservation

ENEC/PLCY 372 Global Environment: Policy Analysis and Solutions

ENEC/PLCY 480 Environmental Decision Making

ENEC/PLCY 520 Environment and Development

ENEC/POLI 254 International Environmental Politics

ENGL 268 Literature, Medicine, and Culture

ENVR 600 Health and Environment

GEOG 237 Natural Resources

GEOG 269 Human-Environmental Interactions in the Galapagos Islands

GEOG 434 Cultural Ecology of Disease, Agriculture, and Urbanization

GEOG 435 Environmental Politics

GEOG 445 Medical Geography

GEOG 446 Geography of Health Care Delivery

GEOG 457 Rural Latin America: Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources

HNRS 089* First-Year Seminar

HNRS 352 Is There Dinner? Toward Understanding an Endangered Species

HPM 660 International and Comparative Health Systems

MHCH 610 Issues in Maternal and Child Health

PLCY 490* Special Topics

PLCY 565 Global Health Policy

PLCY 590* Special Topics

PUBH 510 Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health

SOCI 265 People and Environment in Southeast Asia.

SOCI 469 Medicine and Society

WMST 388 The International Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Health

WMST 610 Feminism, Sexuality and Human Rights

TRANSNATIONAL CULTURES, IDENTITIES, ARTS

AAAD 210 African Belief Systems: Religion and Philosophy in Sub-Saharan Africa

AAAD 284 Contemporary Perspectives on the African Diaspora in the Americas

AAAD/WMST 200 Gender and Sexuality in Africa

ANTH 102 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 103 Anthropology of Globalization

ANTH 123 Habitat and Humanity

ANTH 144 Human Dilemmas

ANTH 147 Comparative Healing Systems

ANTH 259 Culture and Identity

ANTH 280 Anthropology of War and Peace

ANTH 284 Culture and Consumption

ANTH 320 Anthropology of Development

ANTH 334 Art, Myth, and Nature: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

ANTH 429 Culture and Power in Southeast Asia

ANTH 435 Consciousness and Symbols

ANTH 440 Gender and Culture

ANTH 477 Visual Anthropology

ANTH 499* Special Topics

ANTH/FOLK 525 Culture and Personality

ARAB 150 Introduction to Arabic Culture

ARTH 153 Survey of South Asian Art

ARTH 155 African Art Survey

ARTH 157 Introduction to Latin American Visual Culture

ARTH/ASIA 456 Art and Visual Culture of South Asia

ARTH/HIST 514 Memories and Monuments

ASIA 147 Lost in Translation: Understanding Western Experience in East and Southeast Asia

ASIA 150 Asia: An Introduction

ASIA 455 Arabs in America

ASIA/RELI 183 Asian Religions

COMM 574 War and Culture

DRAM 486 Latin American Theater

ENGL 364 Introduction to Latina/o Studies

FREN 375 Francophone Studies

FREN 377 The Evolution of Frenchness since WWII

GEOG 056 FYS: Local Places in a Globalizing World

GEOG 447 Gender, Space and Place in the Middle East

GEOG 452 Mobile Geographies

GLBL 290* Special Topics

GLBL 390* Special Topics

GLBL 490* Special Topics

IDST 256 Global Cinema

JOMC 446 International Communication and Comparative Journalism

MUSC 146 Introduction to World Musics

MUSC 258 Musical Movements: Migrations, Exile and Diaspora

PWAD/SLAV 467 Language and Political Identity

RELI 121 Introduction to Religion and Culture

RELI 284 The Buddhist Tradition: East Asia

RELI 285 The Buddhist Tradition: Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka

RELI 328 Topics in Comparative Religion

RELI 428 Religion and Anthropology

SLAV 101 Introduction to Slavic Civilizations

SPAN 344 Contemporary Latin America: Mexico, Central American and the Andean Region

SPAN 345 Contemporary Latin America: Caribbean and the Southern Cone

WMST 124 Sex and Gender in Society

WMST 290* Women, Empire, and the Law in Africa and the Middle East

WMST 297 Women’s Spirituality Across Culture

WMST 410 Comparative Queer Politics