Courses

Global Studies: Politics and Governance

The concentration is comprised of eight units selected from at least three departments and in the following categories

  • Diplomacy and World Order

    • Two units, chosen from:

      • ANTH328 Anthropology of Human Rights

      • ENVR366International Environmental Law

      • GEOG320 Power, Space, and Territory: Geographies of Political Change

      • HIST215 United States and the World Since 1945

      • HIST249 Cold War Europe, 1945-1991

      • HIST290 British Empire and the World

      • HIST341 History and Memory: WWII in East Asia

      • PLSC250 Intro to International Relations

      • PLSC350 American Foreign Policy

      • PLSC353 International Security

      • PLSC359 Global Governance

      • RHCS359 Media and War

  • Economic Integration or Interdependence

    • Two units, chosen from:

      • ECON105 Introduction to Global Economics

      • ECON210 The Economics of the European Union

      • ECON211 Economic Development in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

      • ECON230/ENVR230 Environmental Economics

      • ECON310 International Trade and Finance

      • HIST390 Food and Power in Africa and Asia

      • ENVR345/ENVR345 Global Sustainability: Society, Economy and Nature

      • GEOG370 Geographies of Economic Development and Globalization

      • PLSC351 Globalization

      • SOC306 Social Change in a Global Perspective

      • SOC335 Feast and Famine: Inequalities in the Global Food System

  • Regional Courses

    • Two units focused on the same world region selected from regional courses or study abroad.

  • Additional Concentration Electives

    • Two units chosen from the areas above.