ClassInfo - Spring 2017 Global Studies Classes

Spring 2017 | GLOS 3145H Section 001: Honors: Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism (49965)

Instructor(s): Ajay Skaria
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

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM

UMTC, West Bank

Anderson Hall 370
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Spring 2025
(Tentative) Spring 2024
(Tentative) Spring 2023
(Tentative) Spring 2022

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 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/49965/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 18 January 2011

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