- Global Thematic Courses
- At least one elective course in each of the following Global Thematic Areas, each from a different department:
- Global Systems and Histories
- Global Circulations and Movements
- Global Places and Events
- At least one elective course in each of the following Global Thematic Areas, each from a different department:
- Global Engagement Areas
- Language Immersions: 6 credits of language study
- May be completed on-campus, through advisor-approved off-campus studies coursework, or a combination of the two.
- May be completed with more than one language. Advisors will work with off-campus studies staff to assess the rigor of off-campus language study when approving programs for this requirement.
- Off-Campus Education, completed via one of the following:
- One semester of off-campus study in a country other than the U.S.; U.S.-based programs may be approved by the student’s Global Studies advisor on a case-by-case basis.
- An advisor-approved, short-term off-campus study program (3-6 credits)
- A globally-focused internship approved by the CGS Director.
- Analysis and Reflection:
- Interdisciplinary Studies 210
- 2 credits of approved coursework in Interdisciplinary Studies 400
- Approved Analysis and Reflection course, chosen from Film and Media Studies 340, Politics 331, Environmental Studies 321, or English 376
- Language Immersions: 6 credits of language study
- Capstone Project and Assessment
- Student learning assessment consisting of:
- Integrative essay
- E-portfolio
- Outgoing interview with faculty advisor
- Student learning assessment consisting of:
Global Systems and Histories Electives
Note: Not all of the courses listed below are offered regularly. Students should consult the current course schedule to see which courses are available.
Some Special/Variable Topics courses not otherwise listed below may be applied to these categories. If applicable, such categories will be noted in the course description.
Anthropology 101 Becoming Human: An Introduction to Anthropology
Anthropology 201 Fundamentals of Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology 203 Introduction to Environmental Anthropology
Anthropology 217 Language and Culture
Art History 210 Museums and the Politics of Display
Art History 211 Monuments and Memorials
Art History 325 Inventing Egypt
Art History 357 Art of Colonial India
Chemistry 305 Global Chemical Cycles
Chemistry 388 Environmental Chemistry and Engineering
Classics 130 Ancient Mythology
Classics/Religion 171 Apocalypse: Ancient and Modern Visions of the End
Economics 277 Global Environmental and Resource Issues
Economics 448 International Finance
English 376 Studies in Colonial and Anti-Colonial Literature (all offerings)
Environmental Studies 327 Biodiversity
Film and Media Studies 340 Globalization, Culture, & Media
French 315 French Fried: Stories of Franco-American Exchange
French 320 French Beyond France
Gender Studies/Global Literatures/ Indigeneity, Race, And Ethnicity Studies 320 Trauma & its Aftermath: Narrative, Witnessing & Remembrance
Geology 125 Environmental Geology
Geology 229 Geology and Ecology of Soils
Geology 301 Hydrology
Geology 312 Earth History
Geology 405 Volcanoes and Solid Earth
Geology 415 Terroir
History 155 Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Natural Resources in Global Environmental History
History 217 Decolonization in Africa
History 219 Nation Creation: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century
History 220 Ottomania! History, Politics, and Memory of the Ottoman Empire
History 226 Meet the Ancient Greeks
History 227 Meet the Romans
History 231 Oceans Past and Future: Introduction to Marine Environmental History
History 250 New Worlds, New Empires: North America 1600-1800
History 277 Revolutionary Europe; Democracy Rising
History 278 Twentieth-Century Europe
History 314 The Colonial Moment in Africa
History 344 China in Revolution
Indigeneity, Race, And Ethnicity Studies 105 Introduction to Indigeneity, Race and Ethnicity Studies
Indigeneity, Race, And Ethnicity Studies/Religion 270 Race and Religion
Indigeneity, Race, And Ethnicity Studies 305 Continental Philosophy, Postcolonial Theory, and the Palestinian Question
Physics 105 Energy and the Environment
Politics 147 International Politics
Politics 228 Political Ecology
Politics 255 Gender, Race, Environment
Politics 320 The Politics of Global Security
Politics 330 Indigenous Feminisms in the Americas
Politics 331 The Politics of International Hierarchy
Politics 362 Food, Culture, Politics
Politics 363 Genealogies of Political Economy
Politics 370 Pipelines & Dispossession
Politics 375 Global Energy Politics
Religion 110 Religion and the Senses
Religion 116-118 Special Topics: Comparative Studies in Religion (all offerings)
Religion 207 Islamic Traditions
Religion/Anthropology 224 Anthropology of Religion
Religion/Anthropology 225 Global Christianity
Religion 236 Comparative Scriptures
Religion 304 Muslim Bodies
Religion 325 Religion and Politics in East Asia
Rhetoric, Writing, & Public Discourse 342 Rhetoric and Capitalism
Sociology 325 Sociology of Disasters
Sociology 329/Environmental Studies 329 Environmental Health
Sociology 340 Economic Sociology
Sociology 353/Environmental Studies 353 Environmental Justice
Sociology 369 Social Stratification
Global Circulations and Movements Electives
Note: Not all of the courses listed below are offered regularly. Students should consult the current course schedule to see which courses are available.
Some Special/Variable Topics courses not otherwise listed below may be applied to these categories. If applicable, such categories will be noted in the course description.
Anthropology 313 Communism, Socialism, and the Environment
Anthropology 325 Anthropology of New/Digital Media
Anthropology 330 Resistance and Refusal
Anthropology 360 The Cultural Politics of Science
Art History 143 Buddhist Art in Asia
Art History 353 Blackness and the Arts
BBMB 430 Infectious Disease
Biology 130 Conservation Biology
Biology 212 Natural History of the Inland Northwest
Biology 288 Plants and Peoples
Biology 327 Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Chemistry 100 Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Science
Chemistry 305 Global Chemical Cycles
Classics 205 Women and Nature in the Ancient World
Economics 448 International Finance
English 245 Native American Literatures
Environmental Studies 305 Water in the West
Environmental Studies 308 (Re)Thinking Environment
Film and Media Studies 340 Globalization, Culture, & Media
Film and Media Studies 345 The Middle East in Cinema & Media
French 310 Translation: Theory and Practice
Gender Studies/Global Literatures/Indigeneity, Race & Ethnicity Studies 320 Trauma & its Aftermath: Narrative, Witnessing & Remembrance
Geology 130 Weather and Climate
German Studies 310 Migration and Identity in Contemporary Germany
German Studies 339/Environmental Studies 339 Writing Environmental Disaster
Global Literatures 325 Imagining Community through Contemporary Japanese Fiction and Film
Hispanic Studies 427 Crossing Borders: Latin American Narratives of Migration
Hispanic Studies 446 Indigenous Performativity in the Andes
Hispanic Studies 456 Discourses of Dictatorship: Testifying Against Torture in Guatemala and Argentina
History 127 Islamic Civilization I: The Early and Medieval Islamic World
History 128 Islamic Civilization II: The Modern Islamic World: The Ottomans to Arafat
History 160 Troy & the Trojan War
History 204 Syria: From Ruin(ation) to Restoration
History 214 Sex in the Casbah: Sex, Gender & Islam
History 217 Decolonization in Africa
History 230 International Relations of the Middle East
History 232 Changing Landscapes: Introduction to Terrestrial Environmental History
History 235 The Arab Spring in Historical Context
History 275 Modern European Imperialism
History 287 Colonial Latin America
History 314 Colonial Moment in Africa
History 320 Alexander and the Hellenistic World
History 322 History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
History 329 Rights, Revolution, and Empire: France 1789-1815
History 331 A Tale of Two Cities - Carthage & Rome
History 332 Conversion, Crusade, and Conquest: European Cultural Encounters, c. 400-1600
History 348 Horseriders and Samurai: Comparisons in Early Modern East Asia
History 364 Sugar, Sex, & Slavery: The History of the Black Atlantic
Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies 220 Settler Colonialism & Native Resistance
Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies 225 Race, Class, Violence
Philosophy 116 Cosmopolitanism
Philosophy 137 Skepticism, Relativism, and Truth
Philosophy 227 Concepts of Nature in Modern European Philosophy
Philosophy 318/German Studies 318 Hannah Arendt as Political Thinker
Physics 103 Sound and Music
Politics 110 Global Politics of Migration
Politics 125 Indigeneity as a Political Relation
Politics 232 Politics of Globalization
Politics 322/Environmental Studies 322 The Anthropocene
Politics 334 The U.S.-Mexico Border: Immigration, Development, and Globalization
Politics 345 Indigenous Politics
Politics 359 Gender and International Hierarchy
Psychology 230 Social Psychology
Psychology 317 Perspectives on Disgust
Religion 115 Consuming Divinity: Religion and Food
Religion 203 What is Religion?
Religion 217 The Qur’an
Religion 219 Modern Jewish Thought
Religion 220 Introduction to Christian Thought
Religion 223 Religion and the Spirit of Capitalism
Religion 307/FMS 307 Mediating Religions
Religion/Music 310 Hearing Islam
Religion 321 Islamic Mysticism
Sociology 230 Social Psychology
Sociology 267 Race and Ethnic Group Relations
Sociology 278 Social Movements and Social Change
Sociology 337 Seminar in Cultural Sociology
Sociology 353/Environmental Studies 353 Environmental Justice
Theater and Dance 210 World Theater
Global Places and Events Electives
Note: Not all of the courses listed below are offered regularly. Students should consult the current course schedule to see which courses are available.
Some Special/Variable Topics courses not otherwise listed below may be applied to these categories. If applicable, such categories will be noted in the course description.
Anthropology 206 Anthropology and Europe
Anthropology 220 China Now
Art History 144 Divine Faces, Ritual Spaces, Sacred Places: Hindu Art and Architecture in South and Southeast Asia
Art History 146 Art of India
Art History 351 Los Angeles: Art, Architecture, Cultural Geography
Art History 352 Art/Environment
Art History 356 The Taj Mahal and Beyond: The Art and Architecture of Mughal India
Chemistry 100 Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Science
Chemistry 102 Chemistry in Art
Classics 139 Greek and Roman Intellectual History
Classics 217 Classical Foundations of the Nature Writing Tradition
Art History/Classics/History 224 Greek and Roman Art
Classics 319 Landscape and Cityscape in Ancient Rome
Environmental Studies/German 335 Romantic Nature
Film and Media Studies 305 Global Comics
French 300 Cuisine et gastronomie
French 305 Paris dans tous ses états
Geology 340 Volcanoes
Global Literature 223/Japanese 423 Youth in Precarious Japan
Global Literatures 225 Human-Nonhuman Dynamics
Global Literatures 301 Chinese Literature and Film Adaptation
Global Literatures 305 Youth and Revolution in 20th Century Chinese Literature and Culture
Global Literatures 325 Imagining Community through Contemporary Japanese Fiction and Film
Global Literatures 338 Undoing the Japanese National Narrative through Literature and Film
Hispanic Studies 427 Crossing Borders: Latin American Narratives of Migration
Hispanic Studies 444 Decolonial Strategies in Latin(o) America
History 211 The World Wars in Africa
History 214 Sex in the Casbah: Sex, Gender & Islam
History 218 Africa to 1885
History 329 Rights, Revolution, and Empire: France 1789-1815
History 333 Never-Ending Revolution? The French Experiment, 1789-2002
History 339 Modern Germany: Imagining a Nation?
History 355 Pacific Whaling History
Indigeneity, Race, And Ethnicity Studies 305 Continental Philosophy, Postcolonial Theory, and the Palestinian Question
Indigeneity, Race, And Ethnicity Studies 325 Afro-Pessimism and Its Critics
Music 299 Music History III
Politics 114 Introduction to African Politics
Politics/History 120 History and Politics of Mexican Food
Politics 228 Political Ecology
Politics 308 Middle East Politics
Politics 335 The Politics of the Body-Land Territory
Religion/Anthropology 153 Religion and Native America
Religion 170 The End Times
Religion 205 American Islam
Rhetoric, Writing and Public Discourse 360 The Rhetoric of Social Protest: Exploring the Arab Spring
Sociology 220 Latin@s in the United States
Sociology 271 Asian Americans in Contemporary Society