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Fall 2018  |  GLOS 3900 Section 001: Topics in Global Studies -- Global Islamophobia (33989)

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
Meets With:
GLOS 5900 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Social Sciences Building 609
Enrollment Status:
Closed (15 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
FFI - http://classinfo.umn.edu/?asalamha+GLOS3900+Fall2018
Class Description:
"We don't want Muslims in our country." "All Muslims should leave." "Muslims are terrorists." Throughout the world, anti-Muslim activists and politicians have been been increasingly attacking Muslims and Islam. And, international organizations have reported human rights violations against Muslims worldwide. Recently, in the United States, there have been calls to ban Muslims, as well as register American Muslims. In France, Muslim women are prohibited to wear a headscarf in high school
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nd in Myanmar, a genocide against Muslim minorities is currently underway. While anti-Islamic discourses have a long history in many societies worldwide
​ (including Muslim-majority countries)​
, the courseseeks to explore the global rise of these discourses since September 11, 2001. The course examines the cultural, political, and historical origins of Islamophobic discourses that cast Muslims as "violent," "hateful," and "uncivilized."
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The course explores
Muslim minorities in Western societies
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as a case study of how a minority group comes into formation and becomes adversely targeted.
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course examines how discrimination is not a simple straight-forward act, but occurs alongside
​images
of a despicable and threatening "other
​" in our midst.
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One goal of the course is to understand the pernicious yet complex ways in which discrimination is justified and normalized in society. Students will write a human rights strategy memo contemplating ways to limit or eliminate discrimination and - at the end of the course - students will participate in a simulation of the United Nations Security Council.

Grading:
30% Participation (includes attendance, blog discussion, individual in-class discussion of readings, and general participation)
20% Debate (Simulation) (4-7 minute speech)
20% Strategy Memo (class discussion of memo ideas, the sharing of comments, and grading based on honor).
30% Simulation of the Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council

*This grading scheme is not final, as the instructor intends to consult with students in the beginning of the course.
Exam Format:
There are NO exams in this course.
Class Format:
The course is discussion-based. It includes lectures, blogs, activities, and in-class discussion.
There are no textbooks in the course. All readings are anticipated to be available on Canvas.
Workload:
20-30 Pages Reading per Week (excluding the last two weeks, considering the simulation and the final week wrap-up)
1 Debate
1 Strategy Memo
1 Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council Simulation
15-50 words of Blog Writing Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33989/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
24 April 2018

Fall 2018  |  GLOS 3900 Section 002: Topics in Global Studies -- Social Movements & Human Rights (34407)

Instructor(s)
Danielle Dadras (Secondary Instructor)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 430
Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 20 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
FFI - http://classinfo.umn.edu/?hakyemez+GLOS3900+Fall2018
Class Description:
From civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter to second-wave feminism to queer activism to anti-colonial revolutions to anti-imperialist autonomy uprisings, social movements have been mobilizing the rights language to seek redress for the past wrongdoings of states as well as to envision alternative futures freed from the racialized, classed, and gendered domination. As a universalizing and factoid discourse, rights mediate between the domain of value judgments (political and moral) and the domain of legal judgments. Rights are at once political and legalistic. While the rights language provide social movements with the tools to gain visibility, legitimacy, and intelligibility, it simultaneously situates them within a law-bound framework of justice. Through readings from critical legal studies, anthropology of law, and human rights, this course will explore how contemporary social movements draw upon and are drawn into the rights language in their search for justice with a special attention to the continuing tension between the emancipatory potential of rights claims and the political restraints inherent to such claim-making.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Jr, Sr, or grad students.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34407/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 April 2018

Fall 2018  |  GLOS 3900 Section 003: Topics in Global Studies -- Global LGBTQI Studies: Homophobias & Human Rights (34625)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:
5 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 20
Enrollment Status:
Open (9 of 19 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Topics vary each semester. See Class Schedule.
Class Notes:
FFI - http://classinfo.umn.edu/?edurbana+GLOS3900+Fall2018
Class Description:
This interdisciplinary course covers key concepts and debates in Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI) Studies using intersectional and transnational frameworks of analysis attentive to racism,(settler) colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Topics include tourism, migration, health, human rights, art an d cultural production. Rather than being an introduction to LGBTQI cultures in different regions of the world, this course exposes students to scholarship about the production and circulation of Western identity categories and to forms of activism that go beyond state recognition of LGBTQI identities.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Global Studies juniors and seniors.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34625/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 July 2018

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