29 classes matched your search criteria.

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 1015W Section 001: Globalization: Issues and Challenges (60641)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Freshman Full Year Registration
Meets With:
HIST 1015W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed, Fri 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Willey Hall 175
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Increased global interconnections over past 50 years. Impact of information revolution on human rights, economic inequality, ecological challenges, and decolonization. Comparative cases from Asia, Africa, Latin America, or Middle East.
Class Description:
History 1015W is an account of the significant developments in global history since roughly the beginning of the 20th century. Through lectures, class readings, writing exercises, and section discussions, we will cover economic, political, social, and cultural developments that have shaped our world. Our course is intended to give you a basic framework of events and processes so that you will be able to situate yourself in complex strands of contemporary change, from the transformations underway in the Arab world, to the dilemmas of European integration, to the problem of American power, and China's ongoing political and economic transformations. These subjects cannot be understood without reference to processes of imperialism and decolonization, the rise of mass democratic states with universal suffrage, the emergence of global media systems, and the ongoing self-invention and adaptation of finance capital to new regions of the globe. As this is a writing intensive course, the course will pay close attention to improving students? writing skills, in the context of a variety of in-class and at-home assignments.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60641/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
12 November 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 1015W Section 002: Globalization: Issues and Challenges (60646)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Freshman Full Year Registration
Meets With:
HIST 1015W Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 255
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Course Catalog Description:
Increased global interconnections over past 50 years. Impact of information revolution on human rights, economic inequality, ecological challenges, and decolonization. Comparative cases from Asia, Africa, Latin America, or Middle East.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60646/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 1015W Section 003: Globalization: Issues and Challenges (60647)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Freshman Full Year Registration
Meets With:
HIST 1015W Section 003
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon 12:20PM - 01:10PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 225
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Course Catalog Description:
Increased global interconnections over past 50 years. Impact of information revolution on human rights, economic inequality, ecological challenges, and decolonization. Comparative cases from Asia, Africa, Latin America, or Middle East.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60647/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 1015W Section 005: Globalization: Issues and Challenges (60651)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Freshman Full Year Registration
Meets With:
HIST 1015W Section 005
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue 09:05AM - 09:55AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 230
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Course Catalog Description:
Increased global interconnections over past 50 years. Impact of information revolution on human rights, economic inequality, ecological challenges, and decolonization. Comparative cases from Asia, Africa, Latin America, or Middle East.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60651/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 1015W Section 007: Globalization: Issues and Challenges (60653)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Freshman Full Year Registration
Meets With:
HIST 1015W Section 007
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Thu 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 330
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Course Catalog Description:
Increased global interconnections over past 50 years. Impact of information revolution on human rights, economic inequality, ecological challenges, and decolonization. Comparative cases from Asia, Africa, Latin America, or Middle East.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60653/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 1015W Section 008: Globalization: Issues and Challenges (60654)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Freshman Full Year Registration
Meets With:
HIST 1015W Section 008
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Thu 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Course Catalog Description:
Increased global interconnections over past 50 years. Impact of information revolution on human rights, economic inequality, ecological challenges, and decolonization. Comparative cases from Asia, Africa, Latin America, or Middle East.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60654/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3145 Section 001: Theoretical Approaches to Global Studies (47114)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLOS 3145H Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 310
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Social, political, economic, cultural, historical processes shaping contemporary global phenomena. Topics may include nationalism, colonialism, cultural production, environmental sustainability, globalization of economy, migration/diasporas, global conflict/cooperation.
Class Description:
What are the most effective means of studying contemporary international relations? How helpful are theories describing, evaluating and predicting international relations? Under what conditions is theory most illuminating? This course will address these questions through an examination of alternative, interdisciplinary approaches to and explanations of contemporary international relations. Our analysis will center on competing efforts to investigate what the international system is and should be, as well as how events in that system should be analyzed.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
35% Final Exam
40% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: participation and writing
Class Format:
25% Lecture
75% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
30 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47114/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 August 2010

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3145H Section 001: Theoretical Approaches to Global Studies (48836)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Honors
Meets With:
GLOS 3145 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 310
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Theoretically informed introduction to the social, political, economic, cultural, and historical processes shaping contemporary global phenomena. Topics may include nationalism, colonialism, cultural production, environmental sustainability, globalization of the economy, migration and diasporas, global conflict and cooperation.
Class Description:
What are the most effective means of studying contemporary international relations? How helpful are theories describing, evaluating and predicting international realtions? Under what conditions is theory most illuminating? This course will address these questions through an examination of alternative, interdisciplinary approaches to and explainations of contemporary international relations. Our analysis will center on competing efforts to investigate what the international system is and should be, as well as how events in that system should be analysed.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
35% Final Exam
40% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: participation and writing
Class Format:
25% Lecture
75% Discussion
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
30 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48836/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
18 January 2011

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3303 Section 001: Environment and Development in the Third World (53726)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GEOG 3379 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Thu 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
West Bank Skyway AUDITORIUM
Course Catalog Description:
Concepts for analyzing relations between capitalist development and environment in Third World. Historical geography of capitalist development. Case studies. Likelihood of social/environmental sustainability.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53726/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3305 Section 001: Life for Sale: Global Debates on Environment, Science, and Society (68405)

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:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Biopiracy, vaccine trials, use/abuse of genetics, genetically modified organisms. Who determines direction of scientific/medical research. Impact on social thinking/practices and on globalization of science. Global economics of science.
Class Description:
This course examines some of the most hotly debated topics in biomedicine, the sciences, and the environment today. We will look at issues such as the patenting of plant, animal, and human genes and cells, vaccine trials, genetically modified organisms, environmental waste, commerce in body parts, genetic research, global warming, and more from the perspective of what makes these issues controversial, who benefits and who does not, who determines the direction scientific and medical research takes, how these topics are presented to society, and what is their larger impact on social thinking and practices.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68405/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 November 2011

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3402 Section 001: Human Rights Internship (51910)

Instructor(s)
Susan Atwood
Nancy Pearson
Class Component:
Lecture Workaround
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 430
Course Catalog Description:
Hands-on experience at organizations engaged in promoting/protecting international human rights. Students work 100 hours in non-governmental organization. Substantive background on human rights laws/procedures, organizational theory/management information about human rights organizations.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51910/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3550V Section 001: Honors Course: Supervised Research Paper (49632)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Honors
Meets With:
GLOS 3981W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Wed 02:30PM - 04:25PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
Course Catalog Description:
Supervised research paper.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49632/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3550V Section 002: Honors Course: Supervised Research Paper (68783)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Honors
Meets With:
GLOS 3981W Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
Course Catalog Description:
Supervised research paper.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68783/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3701W Section 001: Population in an Interacting World (54855)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GEOG 3381W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
West Bank Skyway AUDITORIUM
Course Catalog Description:
Comparative analysis/explanation of trends in fertility, mortality, internal and international migration in different parts of the world; world population problems; population policies; theories of population growth; impact of population growth on food supply and the environment.
Class Description:
The aim of this course is to provide students with a multi-disciplinary understanding of and appreciation for human population phenomena and problems in different parts of the world and at different geographic scales ? from the local to the global. This involves an investigation of the different components of population change - fertility, mortality and migration of human populations - and an engagement with different, often competing, explanations of these population phenomena that have been offered by social scientists. One of the major learning objectives is to create an awareness that in order to understand and explain population phenomena and problems in different places and countries of the world we have to become knowledgeable about the economic, political, social, cultural and environmental context within which these take place and the importance of the nature of interactions between different parts of the world. Throughout the course, particular emphasis is placed on understanding and critically reflecting on a) contemporary population problems at the global, national and local scale, including the world population explosion, both dramatic decline and persistence of high levels of fertility in parts of the developing world, record-low fertility and population aging in highly industrialized countries, the HIV-AIDS epidemic and major health problems, environmental disasters and population health, increasing levels of international migration, refugee crises, massive rural to urban migrations in the less developed world; b) policies adopted to address these problems such as family planning policies to reduce fertility levels and immigration policies; and c) the gender dimension of contemporary population problems and policies. In addition, students will learn about basic sources, measures, and methods of representation used in the study of human population phenomena, and gain basic skills and experience in data analysis, interpretation, and writing research reports.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54855/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 December 2010

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3900 Section 001: Topics in Global Studies -- (Trans)Nationalism & the Postcolonial Imagination (59595)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Transnationalism, a broad concept that encompasses the myriad national allegiances and increased mobility typical of a world rendered smaller by globalization, challenges the fundamental compartmentalization of the globe brought about by early twentieth-century Imperialism. Colonialism and the different iterations of post-colonialism aided in reaffirming many of the structural divisions, such as First World-Third World, that pervaded imperialist mindsets. This course examines the conditions of possibility for the emergence of transnationalism through a study of texts, films, and visual art rooted in an array of geopolitical contexts. In so doing, we will examine the viability of traditional theories of Nationalism and discuss why the European Nation-State is poorly suited for the challenges that transnational realities present. We will thus be dealing with controversial questions: What are the inherent exclusions and false assumptions embedded within European Nationalism? What is the optimal political organization for a world defined by movement, multiplicity, and instability? Can the cognitive map radically separating the colonized and the colonizer finally be redrawn?
Grading:
10% Midterm Exam
10% Attendance
25% Class Participation Other Grading Information: 40% Essays, 15% Research Paper.
Exam Format:
Open ended essay questions.
Class Format:
35% Lecture
50% Discussion
15% Small Group Activities
Workload:
100 Pages Reading Per Week
25 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: occasional films to be viewed outside of class, 3 shorter essays and 1 larger research paper, occasional reader response papers.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59595/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
24 October 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3900 Section 002: Topics in Global Studies -- The Politics of Human Rights in Mexico (68408)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLOS 5900 Section 002
SPAN 3510 Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
TAUGHT IN SPANISH
Class Description:
Mexican performance on human rights issues is not good, but it is an issue that has been in the public debate for at least the past two decades. This course seeks to help students understand contemporary human rights politics in Mexico from the local perspective. The focus of the course will be the politics of human rights in the country rather than human rights institutions or the human rights movement or organizations. Regarding that perspective, the analysis will be driven by the idea that human rights performance of the country is the result of the tension between two processes: the development of a robust human rights movement and the Mexican State's response to issues and claims about human rights. The course will focus exclusively on contemporary Mexico, from the late sixties to 2012, reflecting the emergence of human rights discourse in a sustained manner in Mexico since the Student Movement of 1968 and the repressive reaction of the State against socialist armed groups in the seventies. To analyse human rights politics we will look at several illustrative human rights conflicts of the last two decades. 1. The student movement and the socialist armed movement against human rights violations and the failed attempt at transitional justice.. 2. Indigenous rights: The Zapatista movement and the constitutionalization of indigenous rights. Incomplete recognition. 3. Women's rights, feminicide and the decriminalization of abortion. Impunity and progressive isolation. 4. Human Rights as public policy: The National Human Rights Program and the Office of the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner. 5. The Criminal Justice system and torture: human rights organizations, judicial reform and impunity. 6. Victims? rights: Movimiento por la Paz con Justicia y Dignidad, national security, human rights reform and victims? law. The course will be taught in Spanish, so a proficient understanding of spoken and written Spanish is required. The required papers can be written in English or Spanish.
Grading:
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation Other Grading Information: 60% papers (each paper is 30%); Graduate Students: 50% papers (each paper is 25%); 15% In-class Presentation; 20% Class Participation; 15% Special Project
Class Format:
30% Lecture
20% Film/Video
30% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
10% Student Presentations
Workload:
50-60 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: 2 papers
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68408/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 November 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3900 Section 003: Topics in Global Studies -- Global Political Economy (68410)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
SOC 3090 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 245
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Manifestations of the new global economy are everywhere. From the jeans you buy at your favorite shopping mall to the placemats you purchase at Target, most of the items we consume here in the United States are made somewhere else. Global commodity networks link consumers of fresh green beans in Britain with farmers, pickers, and exporters in Zambia. And it isn't only products that have "gone global," it is also people. Thanks to immense economic inequalities, upper and even middle class families in Europe, Japan and the U.S. enjoy the cheap and plentiful labor of Eastern European, Filipino, and Honduran nannies, housecleaners, and gardeners. The location and character of work is also changing: no longer can a skilled Detroit autoworker or Minnesota aircraft mechanic expect to find work in the U.S.; rather, most of these jobs have relocated to Mexico, Brazil, or China, where equally skilled workers are employed at a fraction of the cost. How did this new global economy come to be and what forces are responsible for these changes? Course organization and requirements: This course is based on lectures, films, an occasional guest speaker and considerable in-class discussion. From the outset, I want you to know that (a) this course is very reading intensive, and (b) I expect you to do all of the readings all of the time. Active participation in this class is very important and counts for 15% of your grade. But more than how it "counts" -- participation in the form of engaging with the texts and other materials we use in class, and with your fellow students, is the best way for you to grasp the theoretical perspectives, empirical information and critical thinking skills that are the primary pedagogical goals of this class. In other words, well after this class is over, I want you to be able to utilize the perspectives and knowledge you have acquired during the course to understand changes in the global economy. In this course, we will focus on the changes that have taken place in the global economy over the last seventy years, and the economic theories, institutional changes, and technological developments that have undergirded them. Our mode of exploration will be both historical and contemporary. We will examine the movement away from the relatively regulated national economies of the 1940s and 1950s to a more fully integrated global economy; changing patterns and organization of production and consumption; and the rise of neoliberal ideology, policy and global governance institutions. Some of the substantive topics we will explore include the globalization of mass consumption, the transformation of work associated with new information technologies, and the cultures of the "new" capitalism.
Grading:
10% Attendance
10% Journal
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: 24% Written Homework (commentaries), 16% Special Projects (2 exercises),30% Final take-home Exam
Class Format:
35% Lecture
10% Film/Video
30% Discussion
15% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations
5% Guest Speakers
Workload:
80-100 Pages Reading Per Week
6-8 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
12 Homework Assignment(s)
Other Workload: 3 Special Projects
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68410/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3900 Section 004: Topics in Global Studies (68412)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
HIST 3487 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 120
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Modern era from 1800. French conquest, bureaucratic, social, and economic changes. Vietnamese nationalism and adoption of communist ideologies. First Indochina War (1945-54) with France. Second Indochina War (1955-75) with US. US efforts to contain the spread of communism during Cold War paranoia. US intervention in the neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia. Grading: Two midterms (30%), Discussions/Class Activities/Quizes (15%), 2 Movie Responses (15%), Research essay (20%), Final (20%).
Grading:
15% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
10% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Short answer, essay
Class Format:
50% Lecture
30% Discussion
20% Other Style videos
Workload:
60-70 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68412/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
13 November 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3900 Section 005: Topics in Global Studies -- What is Equality? (68601)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLOS 5900 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management 1-149
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Claims to equality are constitutive of politics today. It is most often in the name of equality that groups struggle against economic and political disparities, or demand various rights. A certain equality is even institutionalized in modern democracies?all citizens are formally equal. And yet, equality is also one of the most difficult concepts of our times. This may be in part because it is simultaneously about difference and sharing. Difference: after all, where there is identity, as is presumed for example in a conservative understanding of the family, there is no need for any concept of equality. Sharing: where there is nothing in common, as is presumed for instance in the mainstream understanding of the terrorist, there is again no need for any concept of equality. Because of the difficulty of thinking sharing and difference together, the question of equality has occasioned the most intense debates. What is political equality, and can it be sustained by the democratic rights that we exercise as citizens? What is economic equality, and can it be sustained within a capitalist order? How else can we think of equality, if not in these terms? Where does our demand for equality spring from? How can we think of any equality between profoundly different entities?not just apples and oranges but, say, the human and the animal? How are conflicting demands for equality to be reconciled in a way that recognizes, to begin with, the equality of these demands? This course will attend to these and many other related questions through readings of modern thinkers and political actors?including but not limited to John Locke, Jean Jacques Roussseau, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Mohandas Gandhi, Hannah Arendt, CLR James, Frantz Fanon, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranciere. The course will be discussion based. Evaluation will be on the basis of participation in discussions, and one final essay.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68601/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3900 Section 006: Topics in Global Studies -- History of Modern Israel/Palestine (69206)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
HIST 3512 Section 001
JWST 3512 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-109
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Topic Title: History of Modern Israel/Palestine: Society, Culture, and Politics
Class Description:
Beginning with a survey of Palestine in the nineteenth century, this course examines the origins of Zionism and Arab Nationalism, Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine, the development of Jewish and Arab national cultures in the British Mandate, the formation of the Israeli nation after 1948, the Arab-Israeli wars, and the development of the Palestinian movement. Particular attention will be paid to the diversity of Israeli and Palestinian society and culture, and the relations between the diverse communities in Israel/Palestine in the 20th century. As one of the most controversial subjects of the modern world, students will confront many contested accounts and interpretations of history that often serve the political aims of one of the many sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yet in understanding these opposing viewpoints and competing versions of history, students will be better equipped to analyze why the conflict in Israel/Palestine has remained so difficult to resolve.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69206/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 November 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3969 Section 001: 20th Century India (69571)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
HIST 3489 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management L-118
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
India under British hegemony in 1914 through Mahatma Gandhi/nationalist movement. World War II. British departure, creation of India/Pakistan. Nehru. Indira, Rajiv Gandhi.
Class Description:
At the beginning of the 20th century, India was a British colony; now, in the second decade of the 21st century, it is widely regarded a rising economic and political power. This has been a tumultuous period, marked amongst other things by: the largest and most powerful nonviolent movement anywhere in the world, which under the leadership of Gandhi led to India's independence; the bloody partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan; the consolidation of a parliamentary system that has seen India emerge as the world's largest democracy; transformations of caste that, while they have not dislodged the upper castes, have seen the increasing assertion of power by the lower castes, especially the former untouchables; the emergence of new forms of Hindu and Muslim identity, and relatedly the increasing power of the BJP, the Hindu nationalist party; the rise of India as an economic power is likely to see it soon become the seventh richest nation in terms of private wealth, even as close to a quarter of the population continues to suffer from severe poverty. This course will track the processes that have led to the making of contemporary India by paying special attention to 20th century Indian civic life and nationalism. Specifically, it will explore how Indian national and political identities have been constantly roiled by the mobilizations of both marginal groups (lower castes, women, peasants, and Muslims) seeking equality, and how the Indian state, Indian nationalism and even everyday life has been shaped by these mobilizations. Throughout, the course will stress the broader implications of these social processes--the way that these processes illuminate the workings of civic life and national identities not just in India, but elsewhere too. Through the course, students will hopefully become familiar with various debates and issues in contemporary India. We will start every class with a 10-15 minute discussion session devoted to student reports on and analysis of Indian websites devoted to contemporary politics, society, economics and culture. (You will be expected to spend some time before every class visiting one or more from the list of websites I will provide) The rest of the class will be devoted to discussion and lecture of assigned readings, which will include the writings both of those actively involved in the social transformations being studies, and the writings of scholars and intellectuals now reflecting on these changes.
Grading:
40% Reports/Papers
40% Journal
20% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Evaluation will be on the basis of three components: daily journal responses (40%), final essay length paper of approx. 2500-3000 words (40%); and class participation (20%).
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
50% Lecture
50% Discussion
Workload:
60 Pages Reading Per Week
1 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69571/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 December 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3981W Section 001: Major Project Seminar (47564)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLOS 3550V Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Wed 02:30PM - 04:25PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Students formulate research questions, select topic, and develop/produce 25-30 page paper.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47564/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3981W Section 002: Major Project Seminar (68411)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLOS 3550V Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Students formulate research questions, select topic, and develop/produce 25-30 page paper.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68411/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 3993 Section 001: Directed Study (47940)

Instructor(s)
No instructor assigned
Class Component:
Directed Study
Credits:
1-5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
College Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
UMTC, West Bank
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Guided individual reading or study.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47940/1133

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 4221 Section 001: Globalize This! Understanding Globalization Through Sociology (68409)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
SOC 4321 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 155
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Globalization of organizations, political relations, and culture. Dependency, world systems theories. Growth of international nongovernmental organizations, their impact on state policies and civil society. Expansion of international norms. Globalization of popular culture.
Class Description:
From the factories of Shenzhen to the high plateaus of La Paz to the trading floors of New York City, people from around the world are becoming increasingly interdependent. This course offers an overview of the processes that are forcing and encouraging people's lives to intertwine economically, politically, and culturally. We will start with the most basic questions: What is this thing called globalization? Is it at all new? What are the forces behind it? Second, we will explore the idea that this latest era of globalization is marked by dramatic transformations in the ways we work, do politics, play, and communicate. Moreover, we will look into the ideas that capitalism has changed significantly, that the division between rich and poor has intensified, and that the sovereignty of governments and the basic rights of people are being challenged. We will learn about a few key actors, such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization, and understand their main objectives and effects. We will discuss the world of immigration, of fast-moving finance capital and Hollywood/Bollywood cultural products, and the slower moving domains of everyday life, as they are experienced in Jamaica, the U.S., Mexico, India, Bolivia, Argentina, and South Africa. Along the way, we will look at globalization from below, or social movements working to bring about social change (within and across national boundaries) by contesting the worst effects of economic, political, and cultural globalization. In all, this course will use a number of texts, films, lecture, discussion, and student debates, to help us become fluent in the different scholarly concerns on globalization and its many social forces, connections, and imaginations.
Grading:
Other Grading Information: papers, research projects, quizzes, attendance
Class Format:
25% Lecture
75% Other Style guided discussion
Workload:
~75 Pages Reading Per Week
~25 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: (two 2-4 page papers, three 5-8 page papers)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68409/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
28 March 2011

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 4305 Section 001: Society and the Environment: A Growing Conflict (69419)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
SOC 4305 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
Course Catalog Description:
Societal causes/cures of ecological problems such as global warming, species extinction, and resource exhaustion.
Class Description:
Environmental sociology studies the interaction of society and the environment. Global climate change, the source of increasing weather disasters as well as species extinction, is the major social and ecological problem of our era. The current rapid climate change is caused by human activity, the burning of oil and gas (fossil fuels), which emit greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Human society must rapidly reduce its use of oil and gas and create a sustainable society in order to lessen this disaster. We have the technology and capacity to accomplish this task, but so far, only a few countries have accomplished significant reductions. This course focuses on the social causes and cures of climate change using exemplary case studies drawn from around the world.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
25% Final Exam
24% Special Projects
5% Quizzes
21% Written Homework
Exam Format:
essay
Class Format:
60% Lecture
40% Discussion
Workload:
40 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
7 Special Project(s)
7 Homework Assignment(s)
5 Quiz(zes)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69419/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 December 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 4910 Section 001: Topics in Global Studies -- Mass Media & Society (68791)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
SOC 4090 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 235
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary every semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Topic prereq - Soph or above or instr consent
Class Description:
This course provides a broad survey of sociological perspectives regarding the role of media (television, radio, printed press, film, and the Internet) in society. The course will examine historical media developments, theoretical frameworks used to analyze media audiences, producers, and effects, the impact of media in popular culture, their role in shaping social memories and the relation between media and violence, including terrorism and genocide.
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
10% In-class Presentations
Class Format:
50% Lecture
15% Film/Video
20% Discussion
15% Small Group Activities Small Group Work.
Workload:
40-60 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
Other Workload: 1 Short Essay
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68791/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
5 November 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 5900 Section 001: Topics in Global Studies -- What is Equality? (68602)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLOS 3900 Section 005
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Wed 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management 1-149
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Proseminar. Selected issues in global studies. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:
Claims to equality are constitutive of politics today. It is most often in the name of equality that groups struggle against economic and political disparities, or demand various rights. A certain equality is even institutionalized in modern democracies?all citizens are formally equal. And yet, equality is also one of the most difficult concepts of our times. This may be in part because it is simultaneously about difference and sharing. Difference: after all, where there is identity, as is presumed for example in a conservative understanding of the family, there is no need for any concept of equality. Sharing: where there is nothing in common, as is presumed for instance in the mainstream understanding of the terrorist, there is again no need for any concept of equality. Because of the difficulty of thinking sharing and difference together, the question of equality has occasioned the most intense debates. What is political equality, and can it be sustained by the democratic rights that we exercise as citizens? What is economic equality, and can it be sustained within a capitalist order? How else can we think of equality, if not in these terms? Where does our demand for equality spring from? How can we think of any equality between profoundly different entities?not just apples and oranges but, say, the human and the animal? How are conflicting demands for equality to be reconciled in a way that recognizes, to begin with, the equality of these demands? This course will attend to these and many other related questions through readings of modern thinkers and political actors?including but not limited to John Locke, Jean Jacques Roussseau, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Mohandas Gandhi, Hannah Arendt, CLR James, Frantz Fanon, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Ranciere. The course will be discussion based. Evaluation will be on the basis of participation in discussions, and one final essay.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68602/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 November 2012

Spring 2013  |  GLOS 5900 Section 002: Topics in Global Studies -- The Politics of Human Rights in Mexico (69508)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Seminar
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Meets With:
GLOS 3900 Section 002
SPAN 3510 Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Proseminar. Selected issues in global studies. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
TAUGHT IN SPANISH
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69508/1133

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