INTL 112-01 30442 |
Intro to International Studies: Globalization, Media, and Technology |
Days: M W F
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Time: 10:50 am-11:50 am
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Alix Johnson
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How has the experience of globalization been shaped, defined, and complicated by media? This course centers the role of media and media technologies in exploring how collectivities are formed, differences articulated, and encounters negotiated in an (unevenly) interconnected world. Today we tend to associate globalization with digital media, but from the newspaper reports of foreign correspondents to portrayals of cultural identity on soap operas and sitcoms, media have long informed understandings of the world and our varied places in it. Thinking about, through, and with media artifacts across a range of geographic contexts, we examine and interrogate dynamics of global exchange. Prerequisite(s): Open to first- and second- year students, or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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INTL 114-01 30443 |
Intro to International Studies: International Codes of Conduct |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: James von Geldern
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Can we all live by one set of rules? This course investigates the broad field of global studies by addressing fresh and age-old issues in international law from the personal to the global, including borders, sources and enforcement of international law, law of the sea, immigration and asylum, post-national federation, colonization, world order, and global citizenship. Readings include case studies, memoirs, fiction, and other texts focusing on individuals, cultures, and states. Open to first- and second-year students, or permission of the instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 202-01 30815 |
Global Media Industries |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: CARN 06A
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Instructor: Michael Griffin
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*Cross-listed with MCST 202-01*
Details
Global media collectively have tremendous influence in how many see and comprehend the world and therefore on the information and beliefs upon which they feel or act. While media are central to the continued production of a sense of "the world" at large or the "global" scale, media industries are situated geographically, culturally and institutionally. Even if they promise worldwide coverage or are multinational companies, there is much to be gained from studying how media are produced and distributed differently according to specific social, political, economic and historical conditions. This course considers media industries around the world with a focus on the relationships between the labor and infrastructures behind representations in a broad range of media (television, radio, cinema, news, telecommunications, internet).
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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INTL 225-01 30229 |
Comparative Economic Systems |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: CARN 05
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Instructor: Gary Krueger
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*Cross-listed with ECON 225-01*
Details
This course examines the workings of economic systems from the perspective of the incentives facing the firm and consumer. The course provides an introduction to the economics of information and organization which is used to evaluate resource allocation under the specific institutional environment of different economic systems. Our understanding of the incentive system is then used to evaluate the overall economic system. The focus of the course is primarily on the U.S., Japan and the former Soviet Union/Russia. As time permits the course may examine China, Germany and Central Europe. Counts as Group E elective for the Economics major. Prerequisite(s): ECON 119 or ECON 129. C- or higher required for all prerequisites.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 246-01 30453 |
Global Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health |
Days: M W F
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Time: 09:40 am-10:40 am
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Vanessa Voller
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In this course, learners will explore key topics in adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH). Topics will range from the impact of adolescent physical, sexual, and social development on sexual behavior to policy and programmatic issues influencing ASRH outcomes in low-resource communities around the world. Emphasis will be placed on the social, economic, environmental, behavioral, and political factors that affect adolescent's sexual and reproductive health outcomes. Important clinical topics such as contraception, adolescent pregnancy, abortion, and sexually transmitted infections will be discussed from the United States and international perspective. Upon successfully completing this course, learners will be able to identify a range of issues important to adolescent sexual and reproductive health and understand key policy topics pertinent to adolescent sexual and reproductive health both in the United States and around the world.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 253-01 30444 |
Comparative Muslim Cultures |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim
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*Cross-listed with ANTH 253-01 and RELI 294-03*
Details
This course examines the Qur'an and hadith, and other authoritative texts that ground Islamic jurisprudence, and explores the diverse ways in which Muslims have understood and interpreted these teachings in locations across the world (i.e. Indonesia, the Middle East, South Asia, Europe and the United States) and at various points in history.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism OR U.S. Identities and Differences
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 263-01 30447 |
Muslim Women Writers |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Jenna Rice Rahaim
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*Cross-listed with ENGL 263-01 and WGSS 263-01*
Details
Against the swirling backdrop of political discourses about women in the Islamic world, this course will engage with feminist and postcolonial debates through literary works by Muslim women writers. The course will begin with an exploration of key debates about women's agency and freedom, the Islamic headscarf, and Qur'anic hermeneutics. With this in mind, we will turn to the fine details of literature and poetry by Muslim women. How do these authors constitute their worlds? How are gendered subjectivities constructed? And how do the gender politics of literary texts relate to the broader political and historical contexts from which they emerge? Themes will include an introduction to Muslim poetesses and Arabic poetic genres, the rise of the novel in the Arabic speaking world, and Muslim women's literary production outside of the Middle East: from Senegal to South Asia, and beyond.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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INTL 282-01 30450 |
Introduction to International Public Health |
Days: M W F
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Time: 08:30 am-09:30 am
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Vanessa Voller
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This course introduces and explores the major health problems facing developing countries, and the main approaches to remediation. The course considers the social determinants of health, and the need for public health programs to address the root causes of health inequities as well as illness itself. Focus is at the country, international-organization, and donor levels. Attention will be given to major indicators, recent trends, policies, and metrics for monitoring progress. A case study, such as international tuberculosis control, will be used as an applied analysis.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 285-01 30451 |
Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky
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*Cross-listed with POLI 285-01*
Details
This course explores ethnic nationalism's causes and consequences in Eastern Europe. Drawing on several disciplines, we begin by examining the core concepts and theories in the contemporary study of nationalism. We then explore both the historical roots of Eastern European nationalisms, and their implications for democracy, minority inclusion, regional stability, and European integration.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 294-01 30454 |
Infrastructure and Inequality |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Alix Johnson
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Details
Infrastructure is infamously boring – as sociologist Susan Leigh Star once put it, ‘infrastructure’ is the term we give “the forgotten, the backgrounded, the frozen in place.” But as events of recent years have demonstrated – from the pipeline protests at Standing Rock, to Russian hacks on U.S. power grids, to concerns over Chinese construction in the Global South – infrastructure is a political project of vital importance. Infrastructure is a site where hopes and dreams are invested. It is also a place where unequal influence is laid bare. In this course we will consider infrastructure’s technical politics, tracing water pipes and railway networks; interstate highways and fiber-optic lines. Through close attention to the making, maintenance, and end user experience of these systems, we will practice reading the politics built into our built environments.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Course Materials
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INTL 294-01 30454 |
Infrastructure and Inequality |
Days: M W F
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Time: 01:10 pm-02:10 pm
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Room: CARN 404
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Instructor: Alix Johnson
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Details
Infrastructure is infamously boring – as sociologist Susan Leigh Star once put it, ‘infrastructure’ is the term we give “the forgotten, the backgrounded, the frozen in place.” But as events of recent years have demonstrated – from the pipeline protests at Standing Rock, to Russian hacks on U.S. power grids, to concerns over Chinese construction in the Global South – infrastructure is a political project of vital importance. Infrastructure is a site where hopes and dreams are invested. It is also a place where unequal influence is laid bare. In this course we will consider infrastructure’s technical politics, tracing water pipes and railway networks; interstate highways and fiber-optic lines. Through close attention to the making, maintenance, and end user experience of these systems, we will practice reading the politics built into our built environments.
General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Course Materials
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INTL 301-01 30455 |
Power and Development in Africa |
Days: T R
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Time: 03:00 pm-04:30 pm
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Ahmed Samatar
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*Cross-listed with POLI 201-01*
Details
In a notable turn around, a significant number of African societies, in recent years, have experienced both economic growth and renewal of the spirit of women and men acting as citizens. These are commendable achievements. Yet, old quotidian urgencies such as precarious personal safety, hunger, poor health, and political disorder are still prevalent. This is the dialectic of development. This course explores these contradictions. Most of the attention will be given to the concepts of power, politics, and development in contemporary Africa. The course concludes with each student submitting a research paper on a specific problem (e.g. environment, economic, social, cultural, political) confronting one country of the student's choice. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 352-01 30457 |
Transitional Justice |
Days: T R
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Time: 09:40 am-11:10 am
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Room: CARN 204
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Instructor: Nadya Nedelsky
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*Cross-listed with POLI 253-01*
Details
This course explores the rapidly evolving field of transitional justice, examining how and why regimes respond to wide-scale past human rights abuses. Drawing on examples worldwide, it asks why states choose particular strategies and examines a variety of goals (truth, justice, reconciliation, democracy-building), approaches (trials, truth commissions, file access, memorialization, reparation, rewriting histories), actors (state, civil society, religious institutions), experiences, results, and controversies. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Social science
Course Materials
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INTL 364-01 30459 |
Culture and Revolution |
Days: T R
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Time: 01:20 pm-02:50 pm
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Room: CARN 411
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Instructor: James von Geldern
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*Cross-listed with RUSS 364-01*
Details
This course examines the relationship between cultural and political change during three very different revolutions: France 1789, Russia 1917, Iran 1979. How do people change when governments are overturned? How do revolutions shape popular consciousness? Do people understand events as revolutionaries intend? To answer these questions, we will examine symbols and political ideologies, mass media, education, social identities, the culture of violence, popular participation and resistance, and other issues. Readings will include revolution-inspiring works of Voltaire and Rousseau, Marx and Lenin, Khomeini and the Koran. We will read sympathetic and antagonistic contemporary accounts, and look at popular culture to see how events were understood. Fashion and etiquette, comics and caricatures, movies and plays will be used.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Humanities
Course Materials
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INTL 489-01 30461 |
Senior Seminar: Capitalism and World (Dis)Order |
Days: M
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Time: 07:00 pm-10:00 pm
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Room: CARN 411
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Instructor: Ahmed Samatar
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Details
Capitalism, for many, is synonymous with the "natural" exchange of goods and services through "the free market." But fuller examination shows capitalism to be neither natural, free, nor limited to economic transactions. Capitalism more precisely is a historical social system and a way of being which now penetrates all forms of life: cultural, ecological, civic and more. This senior seminar aims to identify capitalism's origins and development, and interrogate its contemporary status. Thinkers such as Smith, Marx, and Braudel will loom, but readings will focus on works by Beaud, Weber, Tawney, Kotz, Wallerstein, and others. The course concludes with a significant research paper on a topic, relevant to the theme, of a student's choice. Prerequisite(s): Senior standing or permission of instructor.
General Education Requirements:
Internationalism
Distribution Requirements:
Course Materials
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