GLOS 3143 is also offered in Fall 2023
GLOS 3143 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2022 | GLOS 3143 Section 001: Living in the Global (54772)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
Open (28 of 35 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- 'Living in the Global' is an interdisciplinary humanities course that examines human life and culture in and under globalization and asks students to consider how their own experiences, identities, and practices are embedded in systems of power. Topics vary, but have included: cultural foundations of social justice, humans and the environment, place, labor and capital, and forced migration. These themes are explored through poetry, novels, feature films, documentaries, visual art, philosophy, and critical theory.
- Class Description:
- This course is a small, upper-level seminar that begins with a simple enough question: how do we experience, understand, and value place in the context of our present moment and its unprecedented access to the "global"? During the first half of the course, we will attend to just what "place" is, to the role it plays in the constitution of our lives. We will try to get our heads around the fact that it is impossible to think of a life - or of anything, really - that is not "in" a place. We will think about all the ways that place contributes to a sense of self and other, and how place inheres in our senses of belonging and connection. We will wonder, how and why do we come to value a place? We will attend to all the means by which we can describe place, in terms of psychological states, moral judgments, and objective, sensory facts. In the second half of the course, we will ask what it might mean to be attentive to the world as a collection or variety of places? Can we imagine what these places share? We will examine how the multiplication of technologies that allow travel and movement enable both the experience of new places, but also the alienation that inheres in homesickness, in the feeling of being "out of place." We will move across readings in literature, philosophy, geography and anthropology, and students will construct for themselves an accounting of place in their own lives. The spirit of the class is exploratory, speculative, and open; our goal is to come to a more profound and perceptive understanding of the many worlds we inhabit.
- Grading:
- 40% Journal
20% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 10% Lecture
40% Discussion
40% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
- Workload:
- 100 Pages Reading Per Week
25 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: Writing will consist primarily of journaling and moodle posts.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54772/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 12 November 2018
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2022 Global Studies Classes