• INST 5445: Drug?War?Geopols?in?Americas

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course examines illegal drug commodity chains and international efforts to police the drug trade in the Americas. It approaches the drug war through a "critical geopolitics" framework, also covering broader themes such as international politics, livelihoods, development, environmental justice, the global economy, race-based discrimination, public health, and resistance movements. Dual listed with INST 4445. Cross listed with POLS 5445. Prerequisites: graduate standing.
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• INST 5455: Energy Security

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course evaluates the geopolitical and socioeconomic issues surrounding the roots of energy insecurity and the global challenge to provide adequate, affordable, and accessible energy. Topics of study include the questions of energy nationalism, climate security, import dependence and transportation insecurities, the future of fossil fuels and alternative energies. Cross listed with POLS 5455. Dual listed with INST 4455. Prerequisites: 9 hours of INST or POLS coursework, including INST/POLS 2310.
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• INST 5475: Pols?of?Nat?Resources?Lat?Amer

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course examines major trends in resource extraction, management, and conservation in Latin America, and the politics surrounding those trends, from theoretical, social, political, economic, and ecological perspectives and through a variety of grounded case studies. The theories and concepts we study are applicable to resource politics beyond Latin America. Dual listed with INST 4475. Cross listed with POLS 5475. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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• INST 5500: Landscapes of the Americas

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course trains students to interpret patterns and processes of contemporary landscapes of the Americas (North, Central, and South America) by viewing those landscapes historically. We investigate the relationship between landscape, politics, and economy, or, more generally, the relationship between landscape as a geographical form and cultural politics in the hemisphere. Students are introduced to research techniques and methodologies in historical geography. Dual listed with INST 4500; cross listed with GEOG 4500, INST 5500. Prerequisite: 6 credits of international studies or social science coursework.
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• INST 5555: Political Ecology

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Political ecology is a multidisciplinary field of study that emphasizes the role of politics, power relations, and inequality in the study of human-environment relations. In this course we will consider how political ecology can help us rethink environmental knowledge and problem solving in a variety of contexts locally and globally. Prerequisite: 9 hours of international studies or social science coursework.
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• INST 5560: Global Cities

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Globalization accelerates urbanization processes and creates a new type of city, the global city. This course introduces debates over global cities, urban culture, new urban landscapes, urban planning practices, and social disparity. It uses case studies on the cities around the world to explore the diversity of global city formation processes. Cross listed with GEOG 5560, dual listed with INST 4560. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or geography.
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• INST 5570: Cultural Geography

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course provides an overview of cultural-geographical approaches to cultural landscapes, places, and cultural politics, a foundation in key concepts (landscape, place, and culture), and some training in how to do research as a cultural geographer. Students learn the intellectual history of cultural-geographical concepts and methods, and develop their cultural-geographic perspective through US-based and international examples. Dual listed with INST 4570; cross listed with GEOG 4570/5570. Prerequisite: 6 hours in social science.
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• INST 5580: Gender & Global Change

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines the global intersections of gender and public policy through its analysis of five central themes: [1] international development discourse in practice; [2] feminized labor and migration; [3] women's unequal access to resources (including land ownership and education); [4] agricultural production and sustainability; [5] health, reproduction and mothering. Dual list with INST 4580. Cross list with WMST 5580. Prerequisite: 3-6 hours of WMST or INST courses.
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• INST 5582: 20C US Foreign Relations

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Studies Twentieth Century United States foreign relations with a focus on the Cold War period. Examines economic sources of policy decisions, elites and mass public opinion, as well as cultural, religious, ethnic racial and gender issues. Dual listed with 4582; cross listed with HIST 4582/5582. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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• INST 5590: Sustainable Bus Practices

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  A close look at what is happening in business practice today through the `lens' of sustainability. Business models and systems will be discussed and a framework proposed for assessing the ways in which principles of sustainability may be embedded within corporate strategy. Dual listed with INST 4590; cross listed with MKT 4590/5590. Prerequisite: advanced business standing.
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