GLBL 296

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Global St Foundation Seminar

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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.

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GLBL 296 class schedule data for fall 2018
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
54536	Lecture-Discussion	AW	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	11 Psychology Building	Williams, A	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/22/18-12/12/18 Section Title: Women/Pop Cult Mid-East/NAfric Section Info: In this course we focus on representations of women created by women within popular culture, primarily in the MENA region and also other predominantly Muslim societies and diaspora communities. Academic and journalistic texts, images, videos, social media profiles and music will be critiqued for how they present the complexity of women’s roles and identities. Through readings, discussions, and a final project, students will seek to answer: What does it mean to be a woman in the modern Middle East or to be a Muslim woman in the world today? How are women’s various social, religious, and civic identities negotiated on a daily basis? How are women’s representations in popular culture and self-representations being read and received by local and global audiences?
70589	Lecture-Discussion	CF	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	136 Davenport Hall	Fogelman, C	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/27/18-10/19/18 Section Title: Global Homelessness Section Info: This course investigates the problem of global homelessness. Based on the concept of “surplus people,” the seminar investigates the contemporary production of people without adequate housing. Among the questions we will address are these: What is the process by which housing is constructed in a given place, and what social, political, and economic relationships does that create, change, or shape? What is the relationship between political and economic globalization and homelessness? What factors can ameliorate the problem of homelessness?
58754	Lecture-Discussion	D	9:00AM -10:50AM	F	104 English Building	Schrag, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/22/18-12/12/18 Section Title: Pol of Belong: Nat/Pop in Euro Section Info: This course investigates what is at stake in various processes of European inclusion and exclusion (e.g. the EU, Euroscepticism, citizenship, normative understandings of “European-ness,” etc.). A theme throughout this course will be the ideological construction of a European other (an imaged “not-Europe”) and internal and external othering processes. Special emphasis will be given to studying nationalist populism in Europe (in comparison to the United States) and its relation to neoliberal capitalism, religion, nativism, immigration, and globalization. Restriction(s): Restricted to Global Studies major(s).
70608	Lecture-Discussion	JS	2:00PM -3:50PM	T	325 David Kinley Hall	Scheirer, J	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/27/18-10/19/18 Section Title: Armed Non-State Actors Section Info: This introductory-level course provides a survey of the actors that pose the greatest challenge to the modern state-system, and who therefore account for a majority of contemporary armed conflicts. The course takes as its starting point Max Weber’s definition of a state as an organized political entity that has a monopoly on the use of force within a given territory, and imbeds it within in the context of the modern state system established with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. It then juxtaposes relevant armed non-state actors (ANSAs) against this standard and context. While the most common of these actors are rebel groups and terrorist organizations, the course also examines the existence of drug cartels, organized crime groups, bandits, and pirates, as well as those actors that align themselves with state governments, such as paramilitaries, private security companies/mercenaries, militias, and vigilante groups. Students will not only learn about these actors, but the interplay between them and states, between each other, and the challenges and threats they pose to domestic, regional, and international security. Upon completion of the course, students will have gained a more comprehensive understanding of world politics and the complex, interdependent forces at play in a variety of outcomes.