28 classes matched your search criteria.

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 1112 Section 001: Globalization and Social Justice (58406)

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
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 108
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How and why did the term "globalization" become commonplace, what it describes. Uses questions of social justice to explore portrayals of globalization in popular media and culture.
Class Description:
This course explores the complexities and contradictions that attend to the phenomenon of globalization, and how globalizing forces affect movements for social justice in various localities. In some respects, the economic interconnectedness and free flow of capital throughout the world has produced grave social inequalities that run counter to concepts of justice and fairness. On the other hand, digital communications have allowed for social justice movements to work together and consolidate their resources more than ever before, making some aspects of globalization crucial components of the defense of human rights. This course will investigate this ambivalent relationship between globalization and social justice by focusing on topics as diverse as sports and global soccer, efforts to reclaim urban spaces from capitalist expansion, the nationalist movement in Catalonia, water shortages in Bolivia, and migrant communities in rural Iowa.
Class Format:
60% Discussion
25% Small Group Activities
15% Guest Speakers
Workload:
80 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
3 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58406/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 November 2014

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3143 Section 001: Living in the Global (59931)

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
 
01/19/2016 - 02/28/2016
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 225
 
02/29/2016 - 03/05/2016
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
 
03/06/2016 - 05/06/2016
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 225
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Contemporary condition of global connectedness. Ways our habits, tastes, and experiences involve a stream of encounters with the global. Terrains of interconnection, including tourism, music, the Internet, and mass culture.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59931/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3145 Section 001: Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism (47537)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
GLOS 3145H Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 210
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. prereq: 6 cr in social sciences including 1015W or GEOG 1301 or HIST 1012 or HIST 1018 or POL 1025 or instr consent
Class Notes:
Spring 2016: This course introduces students to intellectual debates on colonialism and the rise of capitalism, development and globalization, state power and violence, and the production of wealth/prosperity and poverty/inequality, as these practices have unfolded unevenly and relationally around the world. For more information on this course, please visit: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mgoldman+GLOS3145+Spring2016
Class Description:


Spring 2016: This course introduces students to intellectual debates on colonialism and the rise of capitalism, development and globalization, state power and violence, and the production of wealth/prosperity and poverty/inequality, as these practices have unfolded unevenly and relationally around the world. We start from the assumption that in order to adequately address questions of poverty and wealth, war and peace, global warming and environmental sustainability, and social equity and justice, we need to better understand their historical bases, as well as interrogate the ways we typically debate these ideas. We will do so through close readings of course materials, lectures, guest speakers, films, and weekly discussions in (relatively) small groups. The goal of the course is to better understand the roots of various forms of global inequality, how certain aspects persist and/or evolve, some are stamped out, while some endure to become common sense. This course, and this major, focus as much on the historical legacies of today's large-scale social "problems" as on the ways in which certain ideas become more believable than others, backed and supported by our modern institutions. We will think through what this tells us about the ways we generate knowledge about the world, emphasizing some practices and moments while erasing or making invisible many other aspects of social reality. We hope that the course will get us all to think about the way we see the world (and what problems we choose to focus on) and understand how it affects how we think about changing it.

Concretely, the texts of the course pose the following questions: how could a Belgian King and his nation in the early 1900s commit brutal atrocities in the African Congo? Why was he considered a humanitarian back home, and how did such practices trigger gross social inequalities between Africa and Europe, on the one hand, and the rise of a European-enriched global economy, on the other? How did the nation-state emerge as the dominant political form, how did large swathes of humanity in Southeast Asia successfully avoid being ruled by nation states, and what does this teach us about governance and people's ability to sustain themselves and resist abusive forms of power? Why is it that when we speak of "Africa," it is almost in terms of a moral dilemma and as a site of insurmountable problems?

Why do many of our political and development institutions think this way, and how can we work our way out of such narrow thinking and practices? What have been some of the longstanding political relations between the U.S. and countries in Latin America, and what are the many ways in which such political dominance has been challenged, and transformed? And finally, what is terrorism, a ‘war on terror', and how can we think about this difficult-to-comprehend phenomenon of ‘suicide bombing' in ways that can help us see through current political (and intellectual) messes?


By discussing these and other questions, we will be "doing theory," or thinking through concrete questions and processes in order to grapple with more general questions about modernity and its discontents, in ways that can prepare us for subsequent Global Studies courses, as well as for challenges in the world.


Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47537/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 December 2015

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3145H Section 001: Honors: Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism (48983)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Honors
Meets With:
GLOS 3145 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 210
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. prereq: 6 cr in social sciences including 1015W or GEOG 1301 or HIST 1012 or HIST 1018 or POL 1025 or instr consent
Class Notes:
Spring 2016: This course introduces students to intellectual debates on colonialism and the rise of capitalism, development and globalization, state power and violence, and the production of wealth/prosperity and poverty/inequality, as these practices have unfolded unevenly and relationally around the world. For more information on this course, please visit: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mgoldman+GLOS3145+Spring2016
Class Description:


Spring 2016: This course introduces students to intellectual debates on colonialism and the rise of capitalism, development and globalization, state power and violence, and the production of wealth/prosperity and poverty/inequality, as these practices have unfolded unevenly and relationally around the world. We start from the assumption that in order to adequately address questions of poverty and wealth, war and peace, global warming and environmental sustainability, and social equity and justice, we need to better understand their historical bases, as well as interrogate the ways we typically debate these ideas. We will do so through close readings of course materials, lectures, guest speakers, films, and weekly discussions in (relatively) small groups. The goal of the course is to better understand the roots of various forms of global inequality, how certain aspects persist and/or evolve, some are stamped out, while some endure to become common sense. This course, and this major, focus as much on the historical legacies of today's large-scale social "problems" as on the ways in which certain ideas become more believable than others, backed and supported by our modern institutions. We will think through what this tells us about the ways we generate knowledge about the world, emphasizing some practices and moments while erasing or making invisible many other aspects of social reality. We hope that the course will get us all to think about the way we see the world (and what problems we choose to focus on) and understand how it affects how we think about changing it.

Concretely, the texts of the course pose the following questions: how could a Belgian King and his nation in the early 1900s commit brutal atrocities in the African Congo? Why was he considered a humanitarian back home, and how did such practices trigger gross social inequalities between Africa and Europe, on the one hand, and the rise of a European-enriched global economy, on the other? How did the nation-state emerge as the dominant political form, how did large swathes of humanity in Southeast Asia successfully avoid being ruled by nation states, and what does this teach us about governance and people's ability to sustain themselves and resist abusive forms of power? Why is it that when we speak of "Africa," it is almost in terms of a moral dilemma and as a site of insurmountable problems?

Why do many of our political and development institutions think this way, and how can we work our way out of such narrow thinking and practices? What have been some of the longstanding political relations between the U.S. and countries in Latin America, and what are the many ways in which such political dominance has been challenged, and transformed? And finally, what is terrorism, a ‘war on terror', and how can we think about this difficult-to-comprehend phenomenon of ‘suicide bombing' in ways that can help us see through current political (and intellectual) messes?


By discussing these and other questions, we will be "doing theory," or thinking through concrete questions and processes in order to grapple with more general questions about modernity and its discontents, in ways that can prepare us for subsequent Global Studies courses, as well as for challenges in the world.


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/48983/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 December 2015

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3219 Section 001: History of Capitalism: Uneven Development Since 1500 (69628)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
HIST 3419 Section 090
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 230
Course Catalog Description:
Economic inequities in contemporary world. Long-term economic developments in Africa, Asia, Europe, North/South America. Study of economic development. Introduction to key concepts.
Class Description:
This course traces the origins and development of capitalism from the sixteenth century English countryside to contemporary China. We examine how social and political institutions and relations configure in different places and in different ways the economic and market behavior of social classes, how goods are produced, the social division of labor (who produces what and for whom), and long-term economic outcomes. The course examines these issues in a variety of socio-political and national contexts, taking examples from Asia, Europe, and the Atlantic World (Europe, America and East Africa) to study the different forms taken by agricultural production (peasants, capitalist farmers, slave-based commodity production) and manufacturing (household handicrafts, industrial capitalism, and slave-based manufacturing). The course will also examine different approaches to the study of the origins of capitalism proposed by the classical economists (Smith, Malthus,, and Marx) as well as contemporary neo-classical and Marxist theories of how the modern world economy came about. The course does not require an understanding of economic principles or language, and is accessible to those who have had no exposure to economics.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69628/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 May 2012

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3303 Section 001: Environment and Development in the Third World (70213)

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
Meets With:
GEOG 3379 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue 05:00PM - 07:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 210
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. prereq: Soph or jr or sr
Class Description:
This course has three objectives: (a) to advance students' knowledge of the dynamics of capitalism as a global system, its insatiable appetite for resources, and effect on human development; (b) to give students analytical tools to understand the relationship between this expansive system, its enormous productive and destructive capacity (social and ecological); (c) to enable students to gain substantive knowledge about how this system impacts on Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the social and ecological struggles in those regions. Topic covered include: Dynamics and patterns of economic development; Uneven global consumption of natural resources; Poverty and over-consumption as the twin sources of environmental degradation; Population and development, Urban environment in the South; Gender-class and environmental struggles; waste and the global commons. Teaching methods: There are lectures and one discussion session per week. Several students will lead each weekly discussion of current environment/development topic. We watch and critique several documentaries. Authors include: Bina Agarwal, Barry Commoner, Michael Watts, P. Blaike; Dharam Ghai; David Harvey. Intended audience: Social and natural science undergraduates.
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
25% Reports/Papers
5% Special Projects
10% Class Participation
Class Format:
60% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
Workload:
45 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
1 Special Project(s)
Other Workload: Writing involves summaries of some of the readings for the course.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/70213/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 November 2014

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3305 Section 001: Life for Sale: Global Debates on Environment, Science, and Society (67382)

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
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 04/17/2016
Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 415
 
04/18/2016 - 04/23/2016
Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 135
 
04/24/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed, Fri 11:15AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 415
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. prereq: At least soph
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67382/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3402 Section 001: Human Rights Internship (51556)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
Instructor Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 03/06/2016
Mon 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 260
 
03/07/2016 - 03/12/2016
Mon 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 240
 
03/13/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon 01:25PM - 03:20PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 260
Course Catalog Description:
Hands-on experience at organizations engaged in promoting/protecting international human rights. Work 100 hours in non-governmental organization. Substantive background on human rights laws/procedures, organizational theory/management information about human rights. prereq: dept consent
Class Description:
This course is designed to offer students a practical, hands on experience in human rights advocacy including an internship in one of the many organizations in the Twin Cities area that are engaged in promoting and protecting international human rights. A student is required to work 8 hours per week (total of 100 hours for the semester) in a nongovernmental organization. Work Load To complete this class, students are required to: attend and participate in class; complete the required readings; complete the required 100 hours at the site placement; make a 5 minute in-class presentation about the internship placement; turn in weekly memos to the instructor and the site supervisor; participate in the group NGO project, and turn in a 3-page reflection paper at the end of the internship.
Grading:
Other Grading Information: 50% Site Supervisors Evaluation 20% Group NGO Projects 15% Quality of Weekly Memos 5% Class Participation and In-Class Presentation on internship 10% 3 page reflection paper
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51556/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 November 2011

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3412 Section 001: What is Equality? (68061)

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
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 120
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Course explores debates about equality. Equality has many dimensions--e.g.: economic, social, political. These forms cannot be reconciled. Liberal democracies affirm the principle of political equality but defend, even in principle, social and economic inequalities. Animal rights add another wrinkle: very few of those who fight for these rights would claim political equality for animals.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68061/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3422 Section 001: 20th-Century Europe From the End of World War II to the End of the Cold War: 1945-91 (69641)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
HIST 3722 Section 090
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
West Bank Skyway AUDITORIUM
Course Catalog Description:
Social, economic, political, and cultural impacts of WWII. Division of Europe, communist regimes in Eastern Europe, cooperation in Western Europe, impacts of modernization. End of Cold War.
Class Description:
This is the second of two courses that deal with the history of Europe in the twentieth century. It covers the period from the end of the Second World War to 1991. Emphasis is upon the political and economic recovery of Western Europe, the way in which Europe became divided during the Cold War, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe, efforts at European cooperation and integration, changes in society and culture as well as the problems that arose from the division of Europe as a result of great power rivalries. Consideration will be given to the reasons for the division of Europe and the causes for the end of this division in 1990. Readings are around these themes with a text to provide narrative continuity. The readings for the course are:

Tom Buchanan, Europe's Troubled Peace. 1945 to the Present. Second edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.

Hartmut Kaelble, A Social History of Europe 1945 - 2000. Recovery and Transformation after Two World Wars. Berghahn Books, 2013.

Kristin Ross, Fast Cars, Clean Bodies. Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture. MIT Books, 1996.

Dan Stone, Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe Since 1945. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Grading:
essays 50 %
presentation 10 %

final examination 40 %
Class Format:
85 % lecture
15 % discussion and presentations
Workload:
weekly reading 75 pages
two 2.000 word essays

one oral group presentatio
n
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69641/1163
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/jauneslu_HIST3722_Spring2016.pdf
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
25 November 2015

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3550V Section 001: Honors Course: Supervised Research Paper (49711)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
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
Honors
Meets With:
GLOS 3981W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
Course Catalog Description:
Supervised research paper. prereq: dept consent
Class Notes:
Please contact the Global Studies Adviser at glosuga@umn.edu for a permission number.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49711/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3550V Section 002: Honors Course: Supervised Research Paper (59584)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
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
Honors
Meets With:
GLOS 3981W Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 710
Course Catalog Description:
Supervised research paper. prereq: dept consent
Class Notes:
Please contact the Global Studies Adviser at glosuga@umn.edu for a permission number.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59584/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3613V Section 001: Honors: Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating (69701)

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
Honors
Meets With:
SOC 3613V Section 001
SOC 3613W Section 001
GLOS 3613W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-105
Course Catalog Description:
Food issues from sociological perspective. Cross-cultural differences in how groups/societies think about/relate to food.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69701/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3613W Section 001: Stuffed and Starved: The Politics of Eating (69700)

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
Meets With:
SOC 3613V Section 001
SOC 3613W Section 001
GLOS 3613V Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Hanson Hall 1-105
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Food issues from a sociological perspective. Cross-cultural differences in how groups/societies think about and relate to food.
Class Description:
Hamburgers and a Coke, rice and beans, collard greens, wonton soup, creme brulee ? What meanings and feelings do these foods conjure up, and for whom? Where are their key ingredients produced? Who prepares these dishes, and who eats them? This course is built on two key premises: first, that the production, distribution, and consumption of food involves relationships among different groups of people, and second, that one can gain great insights into these social relations and the societies in which they are embedded through a sociological analysis of food. Among the themes this course will explore are the different cultural and social meanings attached to food; class and diet; food, culture and body image; the industrialization of agriculture; the global food economy; the debate over genetically modified food; and movements toward a more sustainable agriculture. The general objective of this course is to teach you how to view the world of food and agriculture from a sociological perspective. A more specific objective is to get you to think analytically about something that is so ?everyday? that most of us take it for granted: where our food comes from, why we eat the way (and what) we do, and the kind of social relationships involved in our encounters with food. Students can expect to read between 40-70 pages a week (of interesting reading!), produce one short paper and one longer (12-15 page) research paper on a course-related topic, and participate in several out-of-classroom exercises (which will include some write-up) during the course of the semester. The course is heavily discussion based, and active participation is required.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69700/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 April 2014

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3643 Section 001: Islam and the West (69630)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
HIST 3546 Section 001
RELS 3714 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 03/11/2016
Mon, Wed, Fri 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 135
 
03/21/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed, Fri 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
Course Catalog Description:
Cultural/intellectual trends that have defined fundamental differences between Islam and the West. Development of historical, philosophical, and intellectual mindset of both spheres. Factors that have contributed and continue to contribute to tension, anxiety, and hatred between the Muslim world and Europe and the United States.
Class Description:
The tension, anxiety, and hatred between Islam and the West have historical, philosophical, and ideological roots. "Islam and the West" examines those roots and looks for common ground. The course is divided into three parts. Part one studies the principles and beliefs of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims in the context of the pre-Islamic civilizations of the Mediterranean world. Part two studies the interaction between great medieval thinkers, concentrating on the fateful decision that each made: Muslim theologians set a spiritual course for Islam while Western theologians supported reason as well. Part three discusses the development of events in the Middle East from W.W.I to the present, which includes, among other things, the division of the Middle East into nation-states, Pan-Islamism, the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, 9/11, and the Arab Spring.
Grading:
12% Final Exam
27% Reports/Papers
36% Quizzes
3% Attendance
12% In-class Presentations
10% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: Book Report
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
50% Lecture
20% Film/Video
10% Discussion
20% Student Presentations
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
4 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
1 Book Report(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69630/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 April 2013

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3701W Section 001: Population in an Interacting World (53859)

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
Meets With:
GEOG 3381W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 250
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:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53859/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3705 Section 001: Transnational Migration: Networks of Power and Places (67383)

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
Meets With:
SOC 3505 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 220
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How migration affects sending/receiving societies. How transnationalism or cross-border social/economic relations of individuals/households is maintained/perpetuated. Current debates on transnationalism at this stage of globalization. prereq: Soph, jr, or sr
Class Description:
How is transnationalism or cross border social and economic relations maintained and perpetuated? How are these relations affecting identity? How is current transnationalism different from earlier migration? Is this gendered, and if so, how and why? The objective of this course is to explore these questions through theoretical and case study based literature on the subject. The first part of the course provides a historical overview on migration over the last two centuries. The second section centralizes identity in terms of transnational or dispersed communities. The aim of this section is to introduce the complex web of culture, agency and structure in play when dealing with migration. The third section presents case studies on the social and economic relations of transnational communities. The nature of family connections across borders and the economic ties of those who migrated with their families in the home country is discussed. The role of gender in these relations is also explored. The final section of the course deals with the role of the nation-state in transnational migration.
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
30% Written Homework
10% Class Participation
Class Format:
50% Lecture
20% Film/Video
30% Discussion
Workload:
65 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67383/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 April 2013

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3900 Section 001: Topics in Global Studies -- The New Global Economy (69702)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 04:30PM - 05:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 614
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
The New Global Economy
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69702/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3942 Section 001: History of Modern Israel/Palestine: Society, Culture, and Politics (69629)

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:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
HIST 3512 Section 001
JWST 3512 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 270
Course Catalog Description:
History of Zionism/Israel. Arab-Jewish conflict, tensions between religious/secular Jews. Relationships between Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, Russian, Ethiopian, Arab citizens. Israeli cultural imagery. Newsreels, political posters, television shows, films, popular music.
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.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
30% Reports/Papers
15% Class Participation
Class Format:
70% Lecture
15% Discussion
15% Small Group Activities
Workload:
50-80 Pages Reading Per Week
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69629/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
15 November 2013

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3981W Section 001: Major Project Seminar (47926)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
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
Meets With:
GLOS 3550V Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 35
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Students formulate research questions, select topic, and develop/produce 25-30 page paper. prereq: dept consent
Class Notes:
Please contact the Global Studies Adviser at glosuga@umn.edu for a permission number.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/47926/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3981W Section 002: Major Project Seminar (59583)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
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
Meets With:
GLOS 3550V Section 002
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue 04:00PM - 06:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 710
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Students formulate research questions, select topic, and develop/produce 25-30 page paper. prereq: dept consent
Class Notes:
Please contact the Global Studies Adviser at glosuga@umn.edu for a permission number.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59583/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 3993 Section 001: Directed Study (48271)

Instructor(s)
No instructor assigned
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
1-5 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
UMTC, West Bank
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Guided individual reading or study. Prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48271/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 4315 Section 001: Never Again! Memory & Politics after Genocide (69055)

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
Meets With:
SOC 4315 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 25
Course Catalog Description:
This course focuses on the social repercussions and political consequences of large-scale political violence, such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Students will learn how communities and states balance the demands for justice and memory with the need for peace and reconciliation and will address cases from around the globe and different historical settings. prereq: Recommended Soc 1001 or 1011V
Class Description:
This course focuses on the social repercussions and political consequences of large-scale political violence, such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Students learn how communities and states balance the demands for justice and memory with the need for peace and reconciliation and addresses cases from around the globe and different historical settings. These will include the Holocaust, the legacies of State terror in Latin America, the aftermath of Stalinist mass violence in Eastern Europe and American First Nations' struggles for memory and justice.
Grading:
See syllabus
Class Format:

This course will be conducted as a combined lecture and discussion course. Students will also participate in online discussions, attend one field trip, and do regularly in-class exercises (such as role-playing of diverse constituencies involved in post-atrocity scenarios).

Workload:

In addition to active participation in discussions, regular reading of aprox. 30-40 pages per week and posting of discussion questions which will be shared with the class through Moodle, students will be required to complete short in-class writing based on the readings, write two 4-5 page, critical essays, complete one mid-term exam and an end of semester essay.

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69055/1163
Syllabus:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/abaer_SOC4315_Spring2016.pdf
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/abaer_SOC4315_Fall2019.pdf (Fall 2019)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
10 November 2015

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 4344 Section 001: Europe and its Margins (67820)

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
Meets With:
ANTH 4344 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 02/14/2016
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
 
02/15/2016 - 02/20/2016
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
 
02/21/2016 - 05/06/2016
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 115
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Europe and its margins, an anthropological/ethnographic perspective. Key topics in the study of Europe and European Societies. Ethnography, fiction, film. prereq: One course in [ANTH or GLOS]
Class Description:
This course seeks to shed light upon the constitution of the mythical, yet world-historically significant entity called "Europe" by focusing, less on present-day political boundaries than on regions and landscapes--forests, mountains, marshes, islands--that have been thought of at various times as marking Europe's inner and outer cultural and geographical limits. In charting the shifting imaginaries of such marginal spaces, it aims to engage too with the production of cultural and historical knowledge and the formation (and occasionally the subversion) of identity-claims. Readings draw upon a variety of historical, literary and ethnographic sources, with a view to exploring the interplay between physical geography, imagination and cultural memory, along with the forms of literary and scholarly writing developed in and in relation to marginal lands. The course concludes by relating these themes to the reconfigured political geography of post-socialism and European integration.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67820/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
27 April 2012

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 5403 Section 001: Human Rights Advocacy (60376)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Meets With:
LAW 6058 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Wed 02:30PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 230
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Theoretical basis of human rights movement. Organizations, strategies, tactics, programs. Advocacy: fact-finding, documentation, campaigns, trial observations. Forensic science. Human rights education, medical/psychological treatment. Research project or background for case study. prereq: Grad student
Class Description:
This 3-credit seminar will study the histories, philosophies, and activities of human rights activists and organizations. The course examines the theoretical basis of the human rights movement, the principles underlying key organizations in the human rights field as well as their strategies, tactics, and programs. The class provides an opportunity to put in perspective students' previous experiences as interns or staff with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the human rights field. The class will use case studies and other participatory methods to understand and to evaluate the work of human rights activists. We will learn about tactical methods including fact-finding and documentation of violations, normative campaigns, the use of social networking, and discuss the effectiveness and consequences of each method. The class will consider critiques of human rights practice including cultural relativsm and the asymmetries of power that affect relationships among human rights advocates. Students will consider the basic organizational structure and fundraising needs of NGOs. Students will design and present a research project based on their selection of in-class topics. Readings include material on the history of NGOs; roots and development of the human rights movement; analysis of key NGOs; advocacy within international institutions; and reports and publications from NGOs working in the field.
Grading:
20% Reports/Papers
20% Class Participation Other Grading Information: 30% oral presentation; 30% group project
Class Format:
15% Lecture
75% Discussion
10% Group Work
Workload:
60-100 Pages Reading Per Week
30 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: 3 short papers and 1 oral presentation; group advocacy presentations.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60376/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 April 2012

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 5900 Section 001: Topics in Global Studies -- Human Rts Theory & Practice: Intl Rel Perspective (70365)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
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:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 03/11/2016
Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 135
 
03/21/2016 - 05/06/2016
Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 205
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Proseminar. Selected issues in global studies. Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
Topic Title: Human Rights in Theory and Practice. An International Relations Perspective This course focuses on the emergence and development of the international human rights regime and explores its influence in practice on human rights processes at the domestic level. Why have states created an international regime that limits their own ability to control their domestic decision-making? Why have they continued to develop this regime over time? On the other hand& so what? Has the international human rights regime had a meaningful impact on state behavior or domestic human rights dynamics? For a longer description of this topics course, please see: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?aanayamu+GLOS5900+Spring2016
Class Description:
Topic Title: Human Rights in Theory and Practice. An International Relations Perspective
This course focuses on the emergence and development of the international human rights regime and explores its influence in practice on human rights processes at the domestic level. Why have states created an international regime that limits their own ability to control their domestic decision-making? Why have they continued to develop this regime over time? On the other hand… so what? Has the international human rights regime had a meaningful impact on state behavior or domestic human rights dynamics?
The basic assumptions of the course is that the international human rights regime has been constituted by the interaction between different actors at the international sphere (notably, but not only states) and that its existence has not been inconsequential. The goal of the course is not to describe, but more importantly to analyze and explain the emergence, development and influence of the international human rights regime, using the theoretical and conceptual tools provided by the discipline of International Relations. The course, on the other hand, considers the international human rights regime as an ideal "object of study" to think about the main disciplinary discussions and debates - those related to actors, norms, institutions, interests, principles, power and identities.
The course also seeks to apply the theoretical and analytical tools to the concrete cases of the Inter-American human rights regime and the UN Treaty Bodies and, particularly, the human rights situation in a specific country - Mexico. Looking at a country like Mexico is interesting and telling because, like many other countries in Latin America and other regions of the world, a) it is characterized by a "low quality" democracy; b) it has made numerous (binding) commitments to uphold international human rights norms; c) it has had a very intense (and quite often difficult) interaction with the organs of the international human rights regime and international NGOs; d) it strongly desires to be an accepted member of "the club" of respected, democratic, "civilized" nations; d) and yet… violations of human rights (sometimes severe and systematic) continue to be pervasive.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/70365/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
12 November 2015

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 5993 Section 001: Directed Studies (60192)

Instructor(s)
No instructor assigned
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
1-4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
UMTC, West Bank
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Guided individual reading or study. Open to qualified students for one or more semesters.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60192/1163

Spring 2016  |  GLOS 5994 Section 001: Directed Research (60193)

Instructor(s)
No instructor assigned
Class Component:
Independent Study
Credits:
1-4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
UMTC, West Bank
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Qualified students work on a tutorial basis. Prereq instr consent, dept consent, college consent.
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/60193/1163

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