This course empowers students to understand their lived experiences as global citizens. Over the semester, we will draw on a range of multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to learn how interconnected global challenges impact people’s everyday lives. This course covers a range of global issues, emphasizing local aspects of globalization related to poverty, health, development, environmental change, peace and conflict, migration, and intercultural relations. We will explore how globally interconnected processes impact our everyday lives, including the music we listen to, the products we purchase, and the food we eat.
Instructor: Dr. Catherine Studemeyer
Sections:
001: T/Th 10:05 am-11:20am CRN:23960
002: T/R 11:40am – 12:55pm CRN:23961
003: T/R 2:50pm – 4:05pm CRN: 26983
For Academic Bulletin Years 2023-2026: Fulfills GSS and VSR Requirement
For Academic Bulletin Years 2026-2027: Fulfills GSS and VSR Requirement
*** SPECIAL NOTE: Your Academic Bulletin Year can be found under Catalogue Year on DegreeWorks.
This interdisciplinary course introduces students to global economic relations through the lens of development, governance, and pressing global policy issues. Blending historical context, political analysis, and cultural insight, the course examines how goods, capital, people, and power move across borders—and with what consequences. Students explore the emergence of global trade, colonial extraction, and industrialization, followed by focused modules on measuring human development, debt crises, and the institutions of global economic governance, including the IMF, World Bank, and WTO. The second half of the course addresses contested dimensions of globalization, from free trade and protectionism to inequality, migration, digital economies, and illicit markets. Emphasis is placed on applied reasoning and quantitative literacy. Students interpret real-world datasets—such as historical GDP, trade flows, development indices, carbon emissions, remittance patterns, and tariff maps—to evaluate the assumptions, outcomes, and alternatives within global systems. Weekly assignments build skills in data visualization, modeling, graph interpretation, proxy estimation, and communicating about uncertainty.
Instructor: Dr. Carl Dahlman
Times: T/Th 10:05 – 11:20am
CRN: 26984
For Academic Bulletin Years 2023-2026: Fulfills ARP Requirement
For Academic Bulletin Years 2026-2027: Fulfills ARP Requirement
*** SPECIAL NOTE: Your Academic Bulletin Year can be found under Catalogue Year on DegreeWorks.
Global inequality is a critical challenge of the 21st century. Extremes of wealth and poverty underlie global differences of health, education, migration, employment, and many other dimensions of human life. How did these disparities arise, and what actions should be taken to address them? GLST 300 offers a global perspective on international development as a powerful set of practices and knowledge systems seeking to address poverty and inequality. In this course, we will investigate the history and record of the international development project. Throughout the semester, we will study different issues related to international development, including: urbanization and cities, economic and cultural globalization, migration and (im)mobility, population growth and resources, climate change and sustainability, and movements for social change. We will examine case studies from around the globe to consider how development actors address these major challenges facing the world today.
Instructor: Dr. Austin Crane
Times: T/Th 11:40am – 12:55pm
CRN: 19567
For Academic Bulletin Years 2023-2026: Fulfills Global Development & Sustainability Requirement
For Academic Bulletin Years 2026-2027: Fulfills Major Course Requirement
*** SPECIAL NOTE: Your Academic Bulletin Year can be found under Catalogue Year on DegreeWorks.
This course examines global patterns, processes, and politics of migration in a world of unequal mobility. Migration is one of the most significant forces shaping contemporary global politics, economics, and social change. Understanding global migration requires us to examine the ways in which population movements are connected to the political, economic, and social systems of nation-states, cities, neighborhoods, and individual households. This class will allow students to engage with key issues surrounding global migration, including: contemporary patterns of migration, the causes and impacts of displacement, the politicization of migrants and asylum seekers in receiving states, the global landscape of refugee camps, and the consequences of migration for national identity, citizenship, and everyday life. We will enlist a range of disciplines to help us analyze migration, including geography, anthropology, history, economics, and socio-legal studies. Our readings and discussion will include examples from the Global North and the Global South and will highlight relationships between poor and rich countries and regions.
Instructor: Dr. Austin Crane
Times: MWF 10:50 – 11:40am
CRN: 26985
For Academic Bulletin Years 2023-2026: Fulfills Global Thinking Requirement
For Academic Bulletin Years 2026-2027: Fulfills Major Course Requirement
*** SPECIAL NOTE: Your Academic Bulletin Year can be found under Catalogue Year on DegreeWorks.
**Cross-listed with FAME 308
Provides the foundation for the study of globalized film and media industries.
Instructor: Dr. Kelsey Cameron
Sections:
001: M/W 2:20-3:35pm CRN:26579
002: M/W 3:55-5:10pm CRN:26580
For Academic Bulletin Years 2023-2026: Fulfills Global Thinking Requirement
For Academic Bulletin Years 2026-2027: Fulfills Major Course Requirement
*** SPECIAL NOTE: Your Academic Bulletin Year can be found under Catalogue Year on DegreeWorks.
**Cross listed with History (HIST 492-003)
Recent debates about access to reproductive health care and rights have been strongly advocated for and contested in the United States and abroad. This course will explore from a historical perspective how medical, legal, and cultural institutions and individuals imposed and advocated for access to sexual reproductive controls and access across the United States and Latin America. This course will explore how people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives were surveilled due to their reproductive capabilities or lack thereof. Some of the topics that may be explored in this class are the intersections of medicine, criminality, surveillance, reproductive health technologies, medical experimentation, and population control.
Instructor: Dr. Alex Herrera
Times: T/TH 2:50-4:05pm
CRN: 23964
For Academic Bulletin Years 2023-2026: Fulfills Global Thinking Requirement
For Academic Bulletin Years 2026-2027: Fulfills Major Course Requirement
*** SPECIAL NOTE: Your Academic Bulletin Year can be found under Catalogue Year on DegreeWorks.