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 2021
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
70589	Lecture-Discussion	CF	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	106 David Kinley Hall	Fogelman, C	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/23/21-10/15/21 Section Title: Frontier, Heartland & Empire Section Info: This seminar is an examination of the interlinked ideas of American frontier, heartland, and empire. How have these symbolic ideas mutually reinforced and altered one another, and what material outcomes have they created throughout the last five-plus centuries? Using readings from across the social sciences and humanities, the first part of this seminar will explore the development of The Frontier and The Heartland as ideas. We will then examine the ways those symbolic ideas have led to material outcomes, in the U.S. and far beyond.
58754	Lecture-Discussion	D	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	143 Armory	Schrag, D	Part of Term: A Date Range: 08/23/21-10/15/21 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.
54534	Lecture-Discussion	LDE	12:00PM -1:50PM	W	113 Gregory Hall	Kennedy, S	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/18/21-12/08/21 Section Title: Local Dimen. of Environ Change Section Info: Full Section Title: Local Dimensions of Global Environmental Change This course examines the role of local political-ecological contexts in shaping the impacts of and responses to global environmental change. Draws on international case studies to explore themes such as urbanization and city environments, climate change, energy and natural resource management, and food systems. Explores the role of local institutions, planners, social movements, and the private sector in both creating and addressing global environmental challenges. Designed for students interested in international environmental planning, sustainable development, environmental justice, and environmental policy and management. Credit will not be given for this section of GLBL 296 (Fall 2021, CRN 54534, section LDE) if credit was given for UP 199 (Fall 2019, CRN 72448, section SK) or UP 246 (all terms, all CRNs/sections).
68696	Lecture-Discussion	MP	6:00PM -6:50PM	T	1064 Lincoln Hall	Williams, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Section Title: Post Genocide Transnat Justice Section Info: This course will examine the role of transitional justice in post-genocide societies. Transitional Justice refers to the measures countries use to address past human rights violations. Topics covered include: truth commissions, local trials, international tribunals, remedies, and memory studies. This class will explore contemporary challenges in human rights law and the impact of globalization on international justice.