Spring 2024  |  GLOS 3145H Section 001: Honors: Global Modernity, the Nation-State, and Capitalism (51987)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
Honors
Enrollment Requirements:
honors, soph, jr or sr
Meets With:
GLOS 3145 Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024
Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 350
Enrollment Status:
Open (13 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course provides an introductory overview of core theories and concepts that prepare students for successful completion of the Global Studies curriculum. In this half of the Global Studies core course sequence, students will investigate questions pertaining to the emergence of global modernity, capitalism, and the nation-state, with particular focus on theoretical concepts and institutional forms. Drawing on a wide range of interdisciplinary sources including critical theory, philosophy, and texts from the social sciences, these questions may include: How did reason and culture emerge as key concepts in modernity, and how were they associated with transformations in time and space? How did the nation-state become a dominant political unit in the West, and how do postcolonial African states challenge its structure? What is the relationship between the Western liberal tradition, secularity, and violence? What are the histories and internal dynamics of the capitalist economy? Students will meet twice a week for lecture and attend a weekly recitation section with assignments that include short writing exercises, a group project, and midterm and final examinations. This course will contextualize and trouble aspects of the global that are easily abstracted and taken for granted, while giving students the conceptual vocabulary and critical skills to prepare for subsequent Global Studies courses. Prereq: Honors soph, jr, or sr Units: 3.00
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/51987/1243
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
18 January 2011

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