GLBL 298

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Global Studies Seminar Abroad

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Credit: 3 OR 6 hours.

Seminars introduce students to aspects of globalization through a case study of a particular location abroad. On campus, students explore historical and contemporary aspects of the location abroad to prepare for their field visit. Abroad, students engage with local resources and people to better understand how the local site contributes to and is impacted by relevant global processes under focus. Course activities will include a field site visit abroad, discussions, lectures, short essays, student presentation, and final projects. Topics vary according to site location and instructor expertise.

May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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GLBL 298 class schedule data for fall 2023
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
54878	Online	MT	3:00PM -5:00PM	TR	n.a.	Gathogo, M	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/16/23-12/06/23 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Kenya:Culture, History, & Dev Section Info: This course explores the diverse cultures of Kenya as well as Kenya's socio-economic realities within a historical context. The course will examine cultural traditions that ground the life experiences and current realities of the Kenyan people as well as the structures, systems, and orders that (re)produce social and economic inequality. To complement topics of interest, students will travel to Kenya where they will engage with, among others, people of different socio-economic classes, diverse cultural groups, and different community-based organizations. To enrich their experience, excursions that vary between quiet, rural, vibrant urban settings, and more remote rural locations are planned. Participants are required to have at least one semester of Swahili. This course is suitable for students interested in history, anthropology, social justice, environmental sustainability, development, diversity, and global integration.
78502	Lecture-Discussion	NA	3:00PM -5:50PM	W	2049 Natural History Building	Alvarado, N	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/16/23-12/06/23 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Migration in Costa Rica Section Info: This course explores the link between migration and urban informality within the context of Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica; Students will spend time in La Carpio, the largest migrant informal settlement in Central America, working with community members on construction and/or pedagogical projects while learning from their everyday experiences as racialized migrants in Costa Rica, building their own city within a city, and negotiating forms of recognition by state authorities. Through the lens of the discipline of geography and by personally experiencing the case of Nicaraguan migrants in La Carpio, students will learn to read how race is spatialized and how places are racialized, along with the consequences of these processes for marginalized communities around the globe. At the opposite end of the migration spectrum, we have highly profitable forms such as tourism and the return of the wealthy to the historical districts of the city. This course also explores Costa Rica's neoliberal tourism industry along the coasts and the waves of gentrification shaping downtown districts, along with the material and social inequalities these create. While relying heavily on hands-on experience, the course is also meant to be theoretically informed to provide students with the analytical skills to have a critical understanding of key contemporary issues including migration, urbanization, informality, citizenship and politics, sustainable development, environmental justice, tourism, and gentrification.
54875	Lecture-Discussion	RA	7:00PM -10:00PM	W	1068 Lincoln Hall	Akresh, R	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/16/23-12/06/23 Special Approval: Departmental Approval Required Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Economic Development in Africa Section Info: This course seeks to investigate current and past approaches to the "Africa development problem" and challenge preconceived notions of development and globalization in the context of Benin; students will examine impacts on local individual actors and the variety of ways in which these realities are navigated.