Class Schedules

Your Toolbox

International Studies
Carnegie Hall, Room 409
651-696-6050
651-696-6151 fax

Fall 2013 »      Spring 2014 »     

Fall 2013 Class Schedule - updated May 19, 2013 at 03:56 pm

Number/Section  Title
Days Time Room Instructor
 
INTL 110-01  Introduction to Intl Studies: Globalization - Homogeneity and Heterogeneity
TR 03:00 pm-04:30 pm CARN 305 Ahmed Samatar
*First day attendance required*
INTL 111-01  Intro to International Studies: Literature and Global Studies
MWF 09:40 am-10:40 am CARN 404 David Moore
*First day attendance required*
INTL 111-02  Intro to International Studies: Literature and Global Studies
MWF 10:50 am-11:50 am CARN 404 David Moore
*First day attendance required*
INTL 190-01  Mediterranean, Baltic, Black: Seas, Identities and History
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 404 Igor Tchoukarine
*First Year Course only* In a passage from his travel account The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean, the travel writer Paul Theroux encapsulates – in a lyrical nutshell – the core focus of this course. In his words: “And that was my first Mediterranean epiphany, the realization that life on these shores bore little relation to what was happening five miles inland […] That hinterland was not my subject […]. My concentration was the edge of this body of water, the ribbon of beach and cliff, and all the people who shared it, used and misused it.” In concert with this approach, this course will explore the role of bodies of water in the cultures, economies, and politics of coastal and island societies around the Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Seas and engage in critical analysis of concepts such as identity (i.e., how relationships to the sea have shaped identities), nation, territories, and borders.

Through the course’s broad temporal scope (encompassing the period from the 16th century to the present) and multidisciplinary nature (in addition to texts on current affairs, we will read seminal texts from historians such as Fernand Braudel, literary figures such as Tomas Tranströmer, Predrag Matvejevic, and Miguel de Cervantes, social scientists such as Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner), we will be able to trace continuities and discontinuities between past and contemporary challenges in these regions.

This course does not require specific prior knowledge.



INTL 202-01  Global Media Industries
MWF 02:20 pm-03:20 pm CARN 404 Zeynep Gursel
*Cross-listed with MCST 202-01*
INTL 245-01  Intro to Intl Human Rights
TR 09:40 am-11:10 am CARN 204 James von Geldern
 
INTL 282-01  Introduction to International Public Health
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 206 Christy Hanson
 
INTL 285-01  Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe
MWF 09:40 am-10:40 am CARN 208 Nadya Nedelsky
 
INTL 294-01  Representing the World As It Is: Histories and Theories of Ethnographic Film
M 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 404 Zeynep Gursel
*Cross-listed with ANTH 294-02 and MCST 294-01* How can an experience of the world as it is be represented? What are the promises and challenges of transcultural filmmaking? This course will explore what has been called ethnographic, cross-cultural and transcultural cinema from several points of view. We will look at ethnographic film in terms of its geo-political, anthropological and cinematic origins, and then delve into its various forms and contemporary manifestations. We will examine some of the major films of the canon of ethnographic cinema, the shifting forms and representational strategies linked to technological and ideological transformations, and several types and styles of filmmaking including: salvage ethnography, observational film, self-reflexive film, autoethnography, indigenous media, and performative and hybrid forms of transcultural filmmaking.
INTL 294-02  Beyond Nations: New Approaches to Comparative History
W 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 404 Igor Tchoukarine
*Cross-listed with HIST 294-05* This course will introduce students to a variety of historical works built on comparative and transnational frameworks, which question traditional paradigms (such as the nation as locus of historical investigation). Articles and book excerpts illustrating these new approaches will guide our investigation, but students will also be engaged in broader methodological questions and archival issues. This course will also not be restricted to a particular geography, although examples will generally be drawn from North American, European and Eurasian contexts, and mostly from American and French historiography. Meets global and/or comparative history requirement.
INTL 301-01  Power and Development in Africa
TR 09:40 am-11:10 am CARN 404 Ahmed Samatar
*Must have Sophomore standing*
INTL 325-01  China, Russia and Central Europe in Transition
MWF 01:10 pm-02:10 pm OLRI 243 Gary Krueger
*Cross-listed with ECON 325-01*
INTL 362-01  Culture and Globalization
W 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 05 Dianna Shandy
*Cross-listed with ANTH 362-01*
INTL 367-01  Postcolonial Theory
MWF 01:10 pm-02:10 pm CARN 404 David Moore
*Cross-listed with ENGL 367-01*
INTL 372-01  Post-Nationalism: The European Union
TR 03:00 pm-04:30 pm CARN 404 Igor Tchoukarine
 
INTL 394-02  Oceans in World History
MWF 10:50 am-11:50 am MAIN 010 Karin Velez
*Cross-listed with HIST 394-03; Meets global and/or comparative history requirement* Between 1450 and 1850, people started to venture farther outward into oceans that had previously been understood as dangerous and hostile environments. This course takes the Age of Sail as a starting point to track changes in human approaches to boundless waters. We will consider two questions in particular: How have oceans functioned as a means of global integration rather than division? How are historians using oceans to further the study of world (versus regional) history? Readings will cover and compare the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and address themes of diaspora, port cities, banditry, trade, and imperial encounters.
INTL 477-01  Comparative Environment and Development Studies
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 105 William Moseley
*Permission of instructor required; cross-listed with ENVI 477-01 and GEOG 488-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on the first day of class with the permission of the instructor*
INTL 485-01  Senior Seminar: Confronting Global Hatred
M 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN Nadya Nedelsky
*Seminar will meet in Carnegie 411*
INTL 494-01  Senior Seminar: Order and Chaos in Global Affairs
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm HUM 111 James von Geldern
*Seminar will meet in Carnegie 411*

top of page »

Spring 2014 Class Schedule - updated May 19, 2013 at 03:56 pm

Number/Section  Title
Days Time Room Instructor
 
INTL 112-01  Intro to International Studies: Globalization, Media, and Cultural Identities
TR 09:40 am-11:10 am CARN 404 STAFF
*First day attendance required; course to meet in Carnegie 411*
INTL 114-01  Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct
MWF 10:50 am-11:50 am CARN 404 James von Geldern
*First day attendance required*
INTL 115-01  Introduction to International Studies: World Travel
MWF 09:40 am-10:40 am CARN 404 Igor Tchoukarine
*First day attendance required*
INTL 225-01  Comparative Economic Systems
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 305 Gary Krueger
*Cross-listed with ECON 225-01*
INTL 245-01  Intro to Intl Human Rights
MWF 01:10 pm-02:10 pm CARN 404 Wendy Weber
 
INTL 272-01  The Post-Soviet Sphere
MWF 02:20 pm-03:20 pm CARN 404 Igor Tchoukarine
*Cross-listed with RUSS 272-01*
INTL 294-01  INTL Topics Course
TR 03:00 pm-04:30 pm CARN 404 STAFF
 
INTL 294-02  HIV/AIDS: The history, politics and evolution of a pandemic
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 206 Christy Hanson
The course will explore the progression of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, mapping the political and social responses that followed its geographic spread across the world. The ethics and human rights debates that dominated global discussions across time will be explored. Regional and country variance in the disease-patterns as well as government responses to the pandemic will be deconstructed. Students will be introduced to the evolution of scientific understanding of the virus, and how it impacted public health approaches. The role of civil society in making HIV/AIDS a global funding priority will be discussed.
INTL 300-01  Advanced Feminist/Queer Theories and Methodologies
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm MAIN 011 Corie Hammers
*Cross-listed with ENGL 394-04 and WGSS 300-01*
INTL 317-01  Writers and Power: The European East in the 20th Century
W 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 404 Nadya Nedelsky
 
INTL 333-01  Economics of Global Food Problems
MWF 08:30 am-09:30 am CARN 304 Amy Damon
*Cross-listed with ECON 333-01 and ENVI 333-01*
INTL 352-01  Transitional Justice
TR 01:20 pm-02:50 pm CARN 404 Nadya Nedelsky
 
INTL 368-01  Sustainable Development and Global Future
TR 09:40 am-11:10 am OLRI 301 Roopali Phadke
*Cross-listed with ENVI 368-01; first day attendance required; ACTC students may register on the first day of class with the permission of the instructor*
INTL 380-01  Paradigms of Global Leadership
M 07:00 pm-10:00 pm CARN 404 Ahmed Samatar
 
INTL 384-01  Langston Hughes: Global Writer
TR 08:00 am-09:30 am CARN 404 David Moore
*Cross-listed with AMST 384-01 and ENGL 384-01*
INTL 488-01  Senior Seminar: Thinking on a World Scale
TR 09:40 am-11:10 am David Moore
*First day attendance required*

top of page »