GLBL 296

Fall 2011 All Classes

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Global St Foundation Seminar

Credit: 1 hours.

Examination of current controversies and larger ethical issues in today's global society. Topics could include: immigration, global environmental debates, and population issues.

May be repeated in the same or separate terms to a maximum of 3 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: GLBL 100.

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GLBL 296 class schedule data for fall 2011
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
58754	Lecture-Discussion	BB	4:00PM -4:50PM	MW	166 Wohlers Hall	Bui, B	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/22/11-10/14/11 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Human Rights in a Global ..... Section Info: Human Rights in a Global Context The course will not only introduce students to substantive topics within human rights but will provide an opportunity to further develop critical thinking, oral presentation, research, and writing skills. Lastly, the course is designed to encourage discussion and to raise many more questions than it will answer. The goal is to provide students with some of the necessary tools to investigate, research and think critically about human rights as a critical component of our global society.
54535	Lecture-Discussion	GR	4:00PM -5:50PM	T	113 Davenport Hall	Rosas, G	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/17/11-12/07/11 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Current Conflict on the Mexico Section Info: Current Conflict on the Mexico-U.S. Border This seminar explores the complex problems and on the ground struggles of the contemporary Mexico-U.S. borderlands. Undocumented migration, the militarization of border policing, the drug war, vigilantism, and other conflicts will be explored through critical scholarly interpretations, media, film and documentaries.
54534	Lecture-Discussion	MJ	5:00PM -5:50PM	W	G30 Foreign Languages Building	Jovanovic, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/11-12/07/11 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Global Approaches to Urban... Section Info: Global Approaches to Urban Change and Life in the City The focus of this course will be the global experience of modern city life. How do urban planners, sociologists, and citizens understand the contemporary urban condition? What do we mean by everyday terms such as public space, world city and metropolis? How does the city exist within the frameworks of global capitalism, intellectual networks, and digital culture? Avoiding the perils of term papers and in-class exams, this course will make use of books, articles, films, and a popular HBO TV series to discuss politics of space, urban development, and the right to the city.
54532	Lecture-Discussion	MM	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	G20 Foreign Languages Building	Manalansan, M	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/22/11-10/14/11 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Food & Globalization Section Info: Food is an important medium of global processes and flows. This course will provide students with theories, concepts,and methods to enable them to critical understand contemporary issues of global hunger, food security, and transnational food politics. Utilizing materials from history, anthropology, sociology, geography, political science, and other social science disciplines, the course will enable students to pursue more advanced research interests about the global dimensions of food, production, distribution, and consumption.
54533	Lecture-Discussion	TB	2:00PM -3:50PM	R	108 English Building	Barnes, T	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/17/11-12/07/11 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Truth Commissions in ... Section Info: Truth Commissions in Comparative Perspective There is a great need for undergraduate students to be introduced to the moral and logistical complexities of efforts to mobilize memory in the service of justice on an international scale. This course should be of interest to undergraduates interested history, sociology, politics and law.