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Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Global Studies |
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GS 195 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Global Studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-8
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GS 196 - Field Studies
Individualizes student placement for field study as related to global studies.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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GS 197 - Independent Study
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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GS 200 - Politics of Everyday Life
Looks at contemporary political life by recognizing the public, historical, and political dimensions of daily life. Examines American and California government and politics by analyzing historical and political events that affect people’s daily lives. Focuses on domestic and global influences and their interaction on the laws and structures that govern people’s lives.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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GS 206 - Understanding Globalization
Globalization is an uneven process. It is the intensification of economic, political, social and cultural relations across international borders. Students will understand the history and the key features of the pro and anti-globalization debates. They will follow how popular struggles for social justice and equity have shaped the global order.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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GS 210 - United States in World History
Seeks to place the historical experience of the United States in a comparative and global framework. Compares selected themes in US history (colonial experience, revolution, slavery, racial conflict, industrialization) with similar experiences elsewhere in the world. Focuses attention on US interaction with other regions of the world through immigration, imperialism, and the emergence of the United States as a global superpower.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 214 - Global History I: Ancient Times to 1500
Explores the history of humankind from the early city states of the Middle East through the advent of global connections around 1500. Focuses on the major civilizations (China, India, Middle East, Americas, Europe) as expressed through the arts, religion and trade relations.
General Education: C2 Humanities:Lit, Philosophy, Lang other than Eng
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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GS 215 - Global History II - World History Since 1500
Explores the history of humankind from roughly 1500 to 2000. Highlights the processes of globalization on the diverse populations of the world as expressed through the arts, religion, intellectual discourses, economic activity, and cultural self determination. Explores issues of the rise of European domination and the era of revolutions and independence movements.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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GS 225 - Global Voices
This course examines the global issues and topics through analysis and interpretation of works of art, film, literature, and performance from around the world. Many of the works present the perspectives of those who are caught in the challenging world of “global flows and disjunctures”, where people, ideas, money, and technologies move quickly around the world, but in unequal and random ways that cause poverty, violence, social dysfunction, and humanitarian crises…
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Area A1 with C- or better)
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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GS 230 - World Religions
This class will introduce students to a number of religious traditions in their classical and contemporary practices. Through academic study of religion, students consider how various disciplines approach the myths, stories, symbols, rituals, ideas, and ethical practices of these religions. This introduction will provide a framework within which to reflect on one’s own experiences. Traditions include: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 240 - Introducing International Relations
Introduction to important theoretical approaches to the analysis of international relations as they relate to security, global justice and foundations for a peaceful world. A review of basic international relations concepts and methods is integrated with applications of these approaches to a number of historical and contemporary issues in global politics including: the causes of war, international institutions, globalization, nuclear weapons proliferation, terrorism, and human rights.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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GS 251 - Intro to Global Economics
Covers basic micro and macroeconomic principles in relation to policies and real-world case studies from gender, ethical, and global perspectives. Students learn key economic concepts that affect their lives, along with the social/cultural contexts of major economic thinkers who coined those economic principles. It presents social scientific methods of inquiry in multiple social science lenses. Students learn feminist, environmental, and Global South perspectives.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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GS 280S - Globalize This
If you ask most people where globalization occurs, they will tell you ‘out there’ - not in the US. We consider how local problems are set in systems of inequity and discrimination, linking the US to their expression elsewhere. As a Service Learning course, students will volunteer in organizations, link local and global dimensions of problems and consider meaning of service.
General Education: DGSS General Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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GS 300 - Major ProSeminar
Students acquire a basic foundation in globalization and social theories and methods through exploration of current issues. Required entry into the Global Studies major.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GS 206 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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GS 311 - US Foreign Policy in Asia/Latin America
Focus on U.S. foreign policy in select countries in South or Central Asia, Asia Pacific, and Latin America as well as selected developing countries. Pays particular attention to U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military relations.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 316 - Approaches/ Global Histories
Examines the application of historical approaches to themes related to past and contemporary societies. This course focuses particularly on global histories, which set historical problems beyond the frame of nations or regions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GS 214 or GS 215 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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GS 317 - Global Migrant Workers
Examines how globalization, global labor migration, global supply chains, multinational corporations and global civil society organizations have affected working conditions and labor rights around the world from the late 20th to early 21st centuries. Emphasizes social, political and economic effects of globalization and outsourcing on workers in the U.S., Mexico, and Asia Pacific. Explores the abuses, challenges and opportunities for migrant workers.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 318 - Comparative and Mixed Methods
Focuses on case-oriented approach which compares cases treated as holistic entities. It interprets specific cases and addresses historical specificity in a small number of cases (such as countries, communities). It explores combined strategies including variable-oriented analyses supplemented with case studies, and case studies reinforced with quantitative analyses, as well as global social phenomena explored within their contexts using a variety of data sources and multiple conceptual lenses.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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GS 320 - Global Issues & 3rd World
Identifies and critiques various important global issues that have particularly adverse effects on the Global South countries. Students comprehend, analyze, and evaluate the role played in the Third World or Global South by the more powerful states, corporations and civil society of the First World or Global North.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 321 - Negotiation Simulations
Students gain negotiation skills and analysis through a series of “real world” crises in international conflict zones. Students learn dynamics of international negotiations and develop personal capacity to negotiate optimal outcomes.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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GS 322 - Dilemmas in Humanitarianism
This course critically examines theories and practices of humanitarianism - the principles of foreign intervention in situations of crisis, and in ‘weak,’ ‘failing,’ and post-conflict states. The course assesses the effects of humanitarian intervention on local realities and global relations in the post-Cold War period.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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GS 323 - International Law
The domain of international law encompasses a wide range of issues of global concern, such as human rights, disarmament, international crime, refugees, migration, problems of nationality, treatment of prisoners, the use of force, and the conduct of war. It also regulates the global commons, such as issues of environment, development, international waters, outer space, global communications and world trade. This course examines conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 325 - International Development
Offers a historical route through both grand theories and mini-narratives of international development, covering Modernization theory, Dependency Theory, the Basic Needs movement and the Human Development Index, ‘Anti-developmentalism,’ Sen’s capabilities approach and Nussbaum’s contributions to that framework, the neoliberal structural adjustment period, and its backlash. Students are challenged to question what is meant by ‘development,’ and to assess critically the ideas that have shaped approaches to international development in the 20th century.
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 4
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GS 326 - US Foreign Policy
An introduction to the institutions, processes, and debates of United States foreign policy. Examines the actors involved, both governmental and non-governmental, and offers an institutional and functional analysis of the national and international factors that shape U.S. foreign policy. Among the topics covered are: theories of how the foreign policy making process works; models of decision making process; tensions between democracy and foreign policy; the media and U.S. foreign policy; and current debates in U.S. foreign policy.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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GS 327 - US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
An examination of the significant events and underlying historical and political dynamics that continue to guide the conception and application of United States foreign policy towards the Middle East from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the current polarization of the region. Includes discussion of the major ideational and ideological trends in the United States that have shaped US foreign policy in the region.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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GS 329 - Middle East Conflict
This course seeks to provide an understanding of how international, regional, and intra-state conflicts have shaped contemporary political trends in the Middle East. Using a case study approach, this course will explore key concepts such as revolution, insurrection, regime change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, regional rivalry, great power intervention, and conflict management to facilitate comparative analysis of conflicts in the region.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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GS 330 - World Views
Introduces diverse religious, spiritual, philosophical, ideological, scientific, technological, and gender views or perspectives. Focuses on the similarities and differences between worldviews and how those people interact with the world. Students study the adverse effects of ethnocentrism, reflect on their own worldview, and empathize with people with differing worldviews.
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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GS 331 - Global Social Protest
Theoretical, and empirical understanding of emergence and processes of global unrest and global campaigns for social justice (Arab Spring, climate change), weighing opportunities and constraints in mobilizing against inequality.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 334 - Politics of Forced Migration
More refugees, internally displaced, stateless, and trafficked persons have been displaced in the last decade than ever before. This course takes an interdisciplinary analysis of causes and consequences of forced migration, and different ways local, regional and global institutions address it. Students will learn legal frameworks, read migrant memoirs, and analyze real-life scenarios of migration.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 335 - Comparative Governments and Politics
The main objective of GS 335 is to compare the dominant forms of government that have endured into the 21st century along with the political, economic histories, ideologies and institutions that have created them. The course emphasizes emerging powers particularly the rising influence of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) in the world. The political economic rise of emerging states, the changing nature of government, and related global political issues are examined.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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GS 339 - Sweat/Service/Solidarity
Analyzes worker agency (class, race/ethnicity, gender, place, religion), forms of labor organizing and protest from historical, political economy, U.S. and global perspectives. It traces the development of labor organizing and union strategies in the industrial and post-industrial periods in today’s global economy.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 339S - Sweat/Service/Solidarity SL
Analyzes worker agency (class, race/ethnicity, gender, religion), forms of labor organizing and protest from historical, political economy, U.S. and global perspectives. It traces the development of labor organizing and union strategies in the industrial and post-industrial periods and today’s global economy. Through real-life case studies, students earn upper-division service learning credits by servicing the needs of local labor unions and workers.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Junior or Senior Standing)
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 6
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GS 340 - Social Media and Global Communication
Social networking technologies have brought with them new types of mediated interaction: collaboration and consumption. Students will think critically about the influence of social networking technologies on political events and government policies, cultural norms, and social movements. They will develop media literacy through immersion in various social cyberspaces.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 342 - Economic Thought: History and Contemporary Interpretations
Explores political economy from historical, critical, global, and feminist perspectives. Students analyze relationships among economic systems and institutions, as well as cultural, political and social institutions, and a wide array of ideologies. Issues addressed include global economic crises, labor activism, labor migration, government, global civil society, poverty and inequality, imperialism and war, and cultural transformations.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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GS 343 - Global Film and Film Industries
The proliferation of film industries throughout the globe has challenged the west’s grip on representing the ‘other’ through cinema. Students will analyze films, television shows, and soap operas from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The course will also examine the economics of these film industries including the rise of Nollywood, and of ‘media cities’ throughout the Middle East.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 345 - Global Political Theory and Philosophy
Introduces students to selected political practice, theories and philosophies and discusses how, where, and when they have influenced intellectual thought and cultural practices in the past and the present. Explores political philosophies from different parts of the world and connects them to relative climates of social diversity, political dissent, and religious tolerance. Examines the relationship between political thought and the problem of identification-individual, cultural, and national.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 349 - The West and Arab and Muslim World - Soliya Connect
The Soliya Connect Program uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. Through dialogue, students discuss culture and everyday life and controversial topics ultimately arriving at a better understanding of other cultures and perspectives. A media module on current events is the final project.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2-4
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GS 350 - Global Gender Issues
How are gender roles and sexual hierarchies produced, reinforced, and challenged in local and transnational contexts? We consider how global capitalism, religion, and cultural politics affect beauty, love, reproduction, and labor and will evaluate the effects and discourse of multicultural transnational feminist and sexual rights movements. The goal of this class is to familiarize you with some key debates and to engage you in critical discussion. Focus on Global South.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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GS 351 - Global Econ: Theory & Ethics
This intermediate-level course covers two components: 1. the fundamental principles of neoclassical micro and macro economics; 2. the global, gender and inter-disciplinary perspectives to examine the values and critique the assumptions of neoclassical framework. Focusing on ethical implications, we examine real-life applications, case studies and responses from feminist, Global South, informal economy, environmentalist, and other alternative perspectives.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 355 - Feminism and Militarism
Working with gender theories of the body, nation, and militarized culture this course considers US and international feminist perspectives on militarism and peace activism. We will look at analyses, histories, current debates, and activist strategies for peace including antiwar activism, efforts at globalizing women’s rights discourse through UN mechanisms relating to peace building, and international criminal tribunals, and films that engage these questions from perspectives inside and outside.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 360 - Relig’n/Violence/Peacemaking
Considers cases and theories of religious violence and inter-religious conflict, particularly Christian, Jewish, and Muslim; reflecting on ethno and religious nationalism, and terrorism. The course considers religious peace-building, sources for reconciliation, theological arguments for nonviolence, and the role of religious actors in protracted conflicts.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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GS 362 - Global Literatures
Examines intercultural communications through a global/historical lens that encompasses encounters in colonial, post-colonial, and global contexts. A series of novels, essays, and short stories are read in which the authors project their sense of individual and collective identities formed through the diverse experiences of globalization Examines relationships between author/audience and student/text in a cross-cultural dialog.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
University Requirement: GWAR Graduation Writing Assess
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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GS 370 - Global Political Economy
Examines origins of global economy. Analyzes and evaluates the interrelationship among global, political, and economic conditions. Studies global economy through 1) historical development, 2) current patterns of changes, 3) effects of globalization on the quality of life, 4) solutions and alternatives to inequity, and 5) the students’ place in the global economy. Examines major structures, processes, and effects of evolving global economy.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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GS 379 - Ethics of Corporate Social Responsibility
Students explore the ethics and responsibilities of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a western concept applied globally since the 1990s. Historical contexts and events that gave rise to this corporate response to public concerns about labor standards and working environment are examined in multiple perspectives and case studies. CSR intent to enhance business-society relations is measured against realities in the workplace and NGO standards on workers and the environment in global economy.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
General Education: UDD Integrated Social Sciences
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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GS 380S - Building an Int’l NGO
Students explore interactions among inter-governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and grassroots organizations working locally and across borders on current issues of local and global import. Students examine various types and categories of international organizations and apply practical knowledge gained through service learning at local organizations to building mock international NGOs, from the ground up, in teams.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 6
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GS 385 - Global Ecology
Integrates study of earth systems with social systems by examining global natural and social systems. Combines perspectives, concepts, and methods of physical, biological, and social sciences in a holistic analysis and evaluation of issues related to resource access, use, pollution, and conservation by human communities locally and globally.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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GS 390 - Global Politics
Introduces students to the main political concepts and ideologies of global politics. Explores the global realm of: 1) interstate and transnational political relations; 2) Western and non-Western schools of thought about international politics; 3) gendered discourses of international relations including contributions from women, especially Global South; 4) environmental politics; and 5) the structure and role of intergovernmental organizations and 6) global security discourses.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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GS 395 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Global Studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1-4
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GS 396 - Field Studies
Individualizes student placement for field study as related to Global Studies.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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GS 397 - Independent Study
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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GS 400 - Capstone Proposal Seminar
Students research and develop a capstone proposal. They will complete major elements of a graduation e-portfolio. The portfolio provides evidence that a student is making satisfactory progress toward meeting Global Studies Major Learning Outcomes.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GS 300 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2
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GS 401 - Capstone Seminar
Students synthesize, research, and write a Capstone project that integrates: 1) course-based and experiential learning completed for the major; 2) a major research paper that demonstrates knowledge of theoretical, methodological, and philosophical undercurrent of intellectual production in Global Studies.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GS 400 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2
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GS 403 - Directed Reading
Student and faculty member in consultation select topic of study, reading list, and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 1-4
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GS 445 - Capstone Seminar
Students research and develop a Capstone project over one semester that demonstrates knowledge of theoretical, methodological, and philosophical components of an intellectual product in Global Studies and an application to a real-life global issue or phenomenon. They will also synthesize MLO outcomes completed for the Global Studies major.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GS 300 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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GS 497 - Indep Study: Capstone
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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GS 595 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in global studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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GS 596 - Field Studies
Individualizes student placement for field study as related to global studies.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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GS 597 - Independent Study
Student and faculty member select topic of study and number of credits.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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