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 spring 2023
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
52241	Lecture-Discussion	CF	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	336 Davenport Hall	Fogelman, C	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/17/23-03/10/23 Credit: 1 hours 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.
62512	Lecture-Discussion	DS	3:00PM -4:50PM	W	1051 Lincoln Hall	Schrag, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/13/23-05/03/23 Section Title: Euro.Sustainability & Degrowth Section Info: This seminar will survey key issues related to renewable energy; decarbonization; environmental sustainability; green capitalism; and degrowth in Europe (including some relevant comparisons to the U.S., Japan, and countries in the Global South). The course will look at Europe’s environmental and energy concerns in relation to issues of EU identity and policy; market economics; energy and food security; and the mitigation of global environmental catastrophe.
60585	Lecture-Discussion	HS	3:00PM -4:20PM	W	1064 Lincoln Hall	Silverman, H	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/17/23-03/10/23 Credit: 1 hours Section Title: Food Wars Section Info: "Food Wars" is a course about food as a focus of conflict with examples drawn from around the world and over the past several centuries. Topics include the slavery-enabled rum trade, the Irish Potato Famine, Prohibition in the United States, the marketing dispute between Peru and Chile over ownership of pisco (a liquor), the controversial labor practices of the chocolate industry, banal cooking show competitions, why some Latin American countries are called "banana republics", and Coca Cola's domination of the world soft drink market. Students are asked to survey the range of global food in Champaign-Urbana by means of a study of the numerous food trucks on campus and to visit a local supermarket to analyze the international foods there. There are no exams.