GLBL 296

Fall 2013 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 2013
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
54532	Lecture-Discussion	AA	4:00PM -4:50PM	MW	1028 Lincoln Hall	Bui, L	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/26/13-10/18/13 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: The Politics of Food Section Info: This seminar considers the complex interplay of political, economic, and social forces behind the food that appears on our tables or at the window of a fast-food drive-through. This course examines food as both a global concern and as an individual choice.
54534	Lecture-Discussion	CC	4:00PM -5:50PM	T	331 Gregory Hall	Ramprasad, V	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/21/13-12/11/13 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Understanding Natural Res..... Section Info: Understanding Natural Resource Governance in Developing Countries The goal of this seminar is to provide a foundation of natural governance theory and understand how these theories influence natural resource management. This course will introduce students to key theories and approaches that are pertinent to the governance of natural resources in the developing world.
58754	Lecture-Discussion	EE	3:30PM -4:45PM	TR	G46 Foreign Languages Building	Salo, K	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/26/13-10/18/13 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Cities & Insurgent Citizenship Section Info: Cities and Insurgent Citizenship Practices in a Globalizing World In this seminar students will discuss how cities work as strategic sites, between the local and global, where intensifying transnational movements of money, goods, ideas and persons are unsettling universalistic notions of national citizenship. Specifically, they will, firstly, read recent urban planning literature that views cities as a collage of many, different and endlessly open public spaces and, secondly, explore how progressive planning professionals and social movements strategically contest global processes privatizing public property.
61853	Lecture-Discussion	FF	2:00PM -3:50PM	R	152 Wohlers Hall	Kilgore, J	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/21/13-12/11/13 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Sweatshops or Opportunity?.... Section Info: Sweatshops or Opportunity? Exploring the Human Rights, Governance and Development Implications of the Global Workplace. This course will examine the changing world of work and its implications for human rights, governance and development. Throughout the course we will be examining to what extent corporations, consumers, national governments, and international organizations bear responsibility for monitoring and regulating this global process.
62473	Lecture-Discussion	TW	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	307 Gregory Hall	Wedig, T	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/21/13-12/11/13 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Technology and Social Mvmts Section Info: This course examines the use of technology by social movements in order to affect change at the local, national, and global levels. We will focus on the role of internet-based communications tools such as social networking in overcoming resource disparities, the effectiveness of virtual protest, and the subversion of mainstream content by opposition groups. The course will include theoretical, case study, and research elements.