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  • 3.00 Credits

    Geographic space mediates political action and is generated by it, and spatial forms are produced by governmental agencies that must respond or adapt to emerging patterns of political disruption and tendencies of social change. Students in this course learn to think about the relationship between politics and space at multiple scales and in global context. They also develop an inter-disciplinary approach to the sub-discipline of political geography in social and historical context, and, in that sense, develop a capacity to think and act as political geographers. Dual listed with INST 4013; cross listed with GEOG 4013/5013 and POLS 4013/5013. Prerequisites: 6 hours in social science, graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on the complex and checkered relationships between Western-inspired development and African cultures. Striking a balance among ethnographic case studies, theoretical lenses, and practical implications, understand what Euro-American efforts at foreign development, including contemporary globalization, look like from an African perspective. Provides an understanding of African expectations of development and developers. Cross listed with AAST 5050. Dual listed with INST 4050. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have grown exponentially in number and are often viewed as the new and best vehicle for international development. Focuses on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), in contexts of Western aid to post-colonial societies and the role they play in the international aid system. Understand INGOs from historical, global, and cultural perspectives. Dual listed with INST 4060. Cross listed with AAST 5060. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduces students to the global context of public health, to principles underlying global health, and to dimensions of public health particular to international settings. It examines major themes and policies in global health and analyzes health problems and varying responses to them in different parts of the world. Dual listed with INST 4100. Prerequisite: upper division or graduate standing.
  • 3.00 - 6.00 Credits

    Introduces students to different interdisciplinary approaches -perspectives, theories, and paradigms - within International Studies in order to explain the economic, historical, social, cultural, and political dimensions of international processes and issues. Students explore emerging trends in the global system and the most pressing challenges facing states, societies, and peoples. Prerequisites: graduate student status.
  • 3.00 - 6.00 Credits

    This course takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of human security within the field of international studies and global politics in order to explore the theories and processes that explain past and emerging patterns of behavior in the international system, as well as key aspects of local to global policymaking. Cross listed with POLS 5210.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Examines the European Union's history, institutional structures, and policy areas and explores the positive and negative effects of European integration. Dual listed with INST 4215; cross listed with POLS 5215. Prerequisite: POLS 1200 or POLS 1250 or POLS 2310 or permission of instructor.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores political challenges facing developing nations in the twenty-first century. The objective is to equip students from a broad range of backgrounds with a firm grounding in current development approaches and debates. Prerequisite: INST graduate standing.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Drawing upon case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, this course explores the gendered intersections of power and privilege through the lens of sex work, broadly defined as the exchange of intimacy for something of value, and trafficking, defined as coerced forms of sex work. Dual listed with INST 4240; cross listed with WMST 5240. Prerequisite: 3-6 hours of WMST or INST.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Designed to explore key issues to the historical development of Asian countries from both comparative and international political economy perspectives. Distinctive political, social, and economic characteristics of these nations will be analyzed. Dual listed with INST 4250. Prerequisite: 9 hours of international studies of Asian-focused courses.