GLBL 296

Fall 2014 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 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
54534	Lecture-Discussion	A	4:00PM -4:50PM	TR	1060 Lincoln Hall	Kohli, T	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/20/14-12/10/14 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: People in Motion Section Info: People in Motion: Understanding International Migration..... This course will focus on the social, economic, political and cultural impact of movements of people beyond their national borders. The objective is to understand the theoretical and practical implications for a globally mobile population through an inter-disciplinary lens. Case studies will be used to examine the strengths of a deeply interconnected world; how it can be challenged by the notion of keeping the nation-states intact and; what should be expected for the future of migrant populations.
54533	Lecture-Discussion	B	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	1066 Lincoln Hall	Grim-Feinberg, K	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/20/14-12/10/14 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Children's Rights Section Info: Children's Rights..... This course will focus on ethics, debates, and policies that are relevant when working with children around the world. We will look at the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and discuss some of the latest interdisciplinary research on childhood and children's rights. Topics include child labor, sexuality, political conflict, and war. We will examine how these play out in different cultural, political, geographic, and historical contexts. Students will draw connections between these issues and their own experiences and aspirations in working with young people in a globalized world.
58754	Lecture-Discussion	D	4:00PM -4:50PM	TR	119 English Building	Schrag, D	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/25/14-10/17/14 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Politics of Belonging Section Info: The Politics of Belonging: Perspectives on Community, Citizenship, Nationalism, and Migration in Europe..... This class will examine the socio-political realities of Europe from the local, regional, national, and trans- national levels. The course poses the questions: what cultural features, identities, historical genealogies, and wide- ranging distinctions have been contained in the concept of Europe; and what is at stake in the current processes of inclusion and exclusion found at various levels of community-formation in Europe? Through ethnographic, sociological, and historical texts we will examine past and current processes of negotiating cultural, economic, and political boundaries within a unifying, expanding, and globalized Europe. This will include examining issues of post-socialism and immigration in relation to notions of European identity, citizenship, and social belonging. We will also look at some of the religious-secular tensions which have been prominent in public discourse since the 1990s. In the final part of the course, Germany will serve as our case study for investigating the dynamics of EU expansion, integration, pluralism, cultural memory, and identity?particularly in regard to the experience of the Turkish Diaspora in Germany.
54535	Lecture-Discussion	E	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	1022 Lincoln Hall	Friedman, J	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/25/14-10/17/14 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Internationalization of Educ Section Info: Internationalization of Education: Theory & Practice..... This course examines how internationalization occurs primarily through the nation-building and socializing aspects of education. We will examine the process of internationalization and differentiate it from 'Globalization', deconstructing this contested term. Using specific case studies we will explore the how nation's cope with the forces of internationalism through their educational systems, and the ways in which educational policy simultaneously strives for internationalization while subscribing to nationalistic forces resisting interdependence through 'domesticization'.
54532	Lecture-Discussion	F	3:00PM -3:50PM	TR	126 Wohlers Hall	Bui, L	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/25/14-10/17/14 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Politics of Social Media Section Info: The Politics of Social Media..... This seminar considers how electronic and online social media influence society, politics, and culture in a global perspective. The first two weeks of the course will look at the history of communications and transportations technologies. Students will gain a broad historical framework for understanding how these technologies have shaped society and politics in previous eras of human history. The third and fourth weeks of the course will ask students to consider the cultural and social impact of online social media in a contemporary setting. Topics may include, emerging patterns of social interaction (both online and in real time), online avatars, e-commerce, public relations, online dating, cyber-bullying, cyber-surveillance and issues of privacy, and political mobilization via social media. The last four weeks will situate social media like Facebook and Twitter in the context of global politics. Topics will include media access in authoritarian countries like North Korea and China, the role of social media in protest movements like the Arab Spring, the use of social media in terrorism and counter-terrorism operations, the rise of the surveillance state, and the impact of social media technologies on human rights and emerging democracies.