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GLST - Global Studies (Concentration)

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Program Electives

Global Circulations and Movements

AMES 226

GLIT 226

JPNS 226

Race, Class, and Gender in Japanese Film & Literature

ANTH-223

REL-223

Religion and the Spirit of Capitalism

ANTH-225

REL-225

Global Christianity

ANTH-313

Communism, Socialism, and the Environment

ANTH-325

Anthropology of New/Digital Media

ANTH-330

Resistance and Refusal

ANTH-360

The Cultural Politics of Science

ANTH-366

REL-366

Religion, Language, and Power

ARTH-143

Buddhist Art & Architecture in Asia

ARTH-353

Blackness and the Arts

BBMB-430

Infectious Disease

BIOL-130

Conservation Biology

BIOL-212

Natural History of the Inland Northwest

BIOL-288

Plants and Peoples

BIOL-327

Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles

CHEM-100

Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Science

CHEM-305

Global Chemical Cycles

CLAS-205

Women and Nature in the Ancient World

ECON-448

International Finance

ENGL-201

Shifting Grounds: Writing, Exile, and Migrancy

ENGL-245

Native American Literatures

ENVS-305

Water in the West

ENVS-308

(Re)Thinking Environment

ENVS-322

POL-322

The Anthropocene

ENVS-339

GERM-339

Writing Environmental Disaster

ENVS-353

SOC-353

Environmental Justice

FMS-307

REL-307

Mediating Religions

FMS-340

Globalization, Culture, & Media

FMS-345

The Middle East in Cinema & Media

FREN-310

Translation: Theory and Practice

FREN-335

Migrations

GEOL-130

Weather and Climate

GERM-310

Migration and Identity in Contemporary Germany

GERM-318

PHIL-318

Hannah Arendt as Political Thinker

GLIT-320

GNDS-320

IRES-320

Trauma & its Aftermath: Narrative, Witnessing & Remembrance

GLIT-325

Imagining Community through Contemporary Japanese Fiction and Film

HISP-427

Crossing Borders: Latin American Narratives of Migration

HISP-446

Indigenous Performativity in the Andes

HISP-456

Discourses of Dictatorship: Testifying Against Torture in Guatemala and Argentina

HIST-127

Islamic Civilization I: The Early and Medieval Islamic World

HIST-128

Islamic Civilization II: The Modern Islamic World: The Ottomans to Arafat

HIST-160

Troy & the Trojan War

HIST-204

Syria: From Ruin(ation) to Restoration

HIST-208

Latinx in the US: A History

HIST-211

The World Wars in Africa

HIST-214

Sex in the Casbah: Sex, Gender & Islam

HIST-217

Decolonization in Africa

HIST-224

Powerful Art/ifacts: Greece and Rome

HIST-230

International Relations in the Middle East

HIST-232

Changing Landscapes: Introduction to Terrestrial Environmental History

HIST-235

The Arab Spring in Historical Context

HIST-275

Modern European Imperialism

HIST-314

Colonial Moment in Africa

HIST-320

Alexander and the Hellenistic World

HIST-322

History of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

HIST-329

Rights, Revolution, and Empire: France 1789-1815

HIST-332

Conversion, Crusade, and Conquest: European Cultural Encounters, c. 400-1600

HIST-348

Horseriders and Samurai: Comparisons in Early Modern East Asia

HIST-364

Sugar, Sex, & Slavery: The History of the Black Atlantic

IRES-220

Settler Colonialism & Native Resistance

IRES-225

Race, Class, Violence

MUS-310

REL-310

Hearing Islam

PHIL-116

Cosmopolitanism

PHIL-137

Skepticism, Relativism, and Truth

PHIL-204

Mexican Philosophy

PHIL-227

Concepts of Nature in Modern European Philosophy

PHYS-103

Sound and Music

POL-110

Global Politics of Migration

POL-125

Indigeneity as a Political Relation

POL-200-A
Offered Spring 2026

ST: Politics of Carbon Finance

POL-232

Politics of Globalization

POL-275

Authoritarian Politics

POL-334

The U.S.-Mexico Border: Immigration, Development, and Globalization

POL-345

Indigenous Politics

POL-359

Gender and International Hierarchy

PSYC-230

Social Psychology

PSYC-317

Perspectives on Disgust

REL 108

Meditation Across Religious Traditions

REL-115

Consuming Divinity: Religion and Food

REL-203

What is Religion?

REL-217

The Qur’an

REL-219

Modern Jewish Thought

REL-220

Introduction to Christian Thought

REL-321

Islamic Mysticism

SOC-230

Social Psychology

SOC-267

Race and Ethnic Group Relations

SOC-278

Social Movements and Social Change

SOC-337

Seminar in Cultural Sociology

THDN-210

World Theater

Global Places and Events

AMES-227

GLIT-227

JPNS-227

City and Ecologies in Japanese Cinema and Literature

AMES-229

ENVS-229

JPNS-229

Ecocriticism in Japanese Literature and Film

ANTH-153

REL-153

Religion and Native America

ANTH-206

Anthropology and Europe

ANTH-220

China Now

ANTH-447-A

GEOL-410-A

Offered Spring 2025

ST: Nature’s Fury: Geologic Hazards, Human Responses, and Cultural Resilience

ARTH-144

Divine Faces, Ritual Spaces, Sacred Places: Hindu Art and Architecture in South and Southeast Asia

ARTH-146

Art of India

ARTH-224

CLAS-224

HIST-224

Powerful Art/ifacts: Greece and Rome

ARTH-351

Los Angeles: Art, Architecture, Cultural Geography

ARTH-352

Art/Environment

ARTH-356

The Taj Mahal and Beyond: The Art and Architecture of Mughal India

CHEM-100

Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Science

CHEM-102

Chemistry in Art

CLAS-139

Greek and Roman Intellectual History

CLAS-217

Classical Foundations of the Nature Writing Tradition

CLAS-319

Landscape and Cityscape in Ancient Rome

ENVS-335

GERM-335

Romantic Nature

FMS-305

Global Comics

FREN-300

Cuisine et gastronomie

FREN-305

Paris dans tous ses états

GEOL-120

Geologic History of the Pacific Northwest

GEOL-340

Volcanoes

GLIT-223

JPNS-423

Youth in Precarious Japan

GLIT-225

Human-Nonhuman Dynamics

GLIT-301

Chinese Literature and Film Adaptation

GLIT-305

Youth and Revolution in 20th Century Chinese Literature and Culture

GLIT-325

Imagining Community through Contemporary Japanese Fiction and Film

GLIT-338

Undoing the Japanese National Narrative through Literature and Film

HISP-427

Crossing Borders: Latin American Narratives of Migration

HISP-444

Decolonial Strategies in Latin(o) America

HIST-120

POL-120

History and Politics of Mexican Food

HIST-165

Pompeii, Beyond the Time Capsule

HIST-188

Introduction to Modern Latin America

HIST-211

The World Wars in Africa

HIST-214

Sex in the Casbah: Sex, Gender & Islam

HIST-218

Africa to 1885

HIST-329

Rights, Revolution, and Empire: France 1789-1815

HIST-331

A Tale of Two Cities - Carthage & Rome

HIST-333

Never-Ending Revolution? The French Experiment, 1789-2002

HIST-339

Modern Germany: Imagining a Nation?

HIST-355

Pacific Whaling History

IRES-305

Continental Philosophy, Postcolonial Theory, and the Palestinian Question

IRES-325

Afro-Pessimism and Its Critics

MUS-299

Musicology: Music Since 1900

POL-114

Introduction to African Politics

POL-228

Political Ecology

POL-308

Middle East Politics

POL-335

The Politics of the Body-Land Territory

REL-205

American Islam

REL-325

Religion and Politics in East Asia

RWPD-360

The Rhetoric of Social Protest: Exploring the Arab Spring

SOC-220

Latin@s in the United States

SOC-271

Asian Americans in Contemporary Society

Global Systems and Histories

ANTH-101

Becoming Human: An Introduction to Anthropology

ANTH-201

Fundamentals of Cultural Anthropology

ANTH-203

Introduction to Environmental Anthropology

ANTH-217

Language and Culture

ANTH-224

REL-224

Anthropology of Religion

ANTH-225

REL-225

Global Christianity

ANTH-246-A

Offered Spring 2025

ST: States of Incarceration

ANTH-347

Anthropology of the Body

ARTH-210

Museums and the Politics of Display

ARTH-211

Monuments and Memorials

ARTH-325

CLAS-325

Inventing Egypt

ARTH-357

Art & Architecture of Colonial India

CHEM-305

Global Chemical Cycles

CHEM-388

Environmental Chemistry and Engineering

CLAS-130

Ancient Mythology

CLAS-171

REL-171

Apocalypse: Ancient and Modern Visions of the End

ECON-277

Global Environmental and Resource Issues

ECON-448

International Finance

ENGL-376

Studies in Colonial and Anti-Colonial Literature

ENVS-325

SOC-325

Disasters

ENVS-327

Biodiversity

ENVS-329

SOC-329

Environmental Health

ENVS-353

SOC-353

Environmental Justice

FMS-340

Globalization, Culture, & Media

FREN-315

French Fried: Stories of Franco-American Exchange

FREN-320

French Beyond France

GEOL-110

The Physical Earth

GEOL-125

Environmental Geology

GEOL-229

Geology and Ecology of Soils

GEOL-301

Hydrology

GEOL-312

Earth History

GEOL-405

Volcanoes and Solid Earth

GEOL-415

Terroir

GLIT-320

GNDS-320

IRES-320

Trauma & its Aftermath: Narrative, Witnessing & Remembrance

HIST-155

Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral: Natural Resources in Global Environmental History

HIST-180

Antiqui-tea: Spilling the Ancient Mediterranean

HIST-188

Modern Latin America

HIST-217

Decolonization in Africa

HIST-220

Ottomania! History, Politics, and Memory of the Ottoman Empire

HIST-226

Meet the Ancient Greeks

HIST-227

Meet the Romans

HIST-231

Oceans Past and Future: Introduction to Marine Environmental History

HIST-250

New Worlds, New Empires: North America 1600-1800

HIST-277

Revolutionary Europe; Democracy Rising

HIST-278

Twentieth-Century Europe

HIST-280

The “Other” Greece & Rome

HIST-314

The Colonial Moment in Africa

HIST-332

Crusade, Conversion, and Conquest: European Cultural Encounters, c. 400-1600

HIST-344

China in Revolution

HIST-366

The Americas, 1968-1999: Dictatorship, Neoliberalism & Solidarity

IRES-105

Introduction to Indigeneity, Race, and Ethnicity Studies

IRES-270

REL-270

Race and Religion

IRES-305

Continental Philosophy, Postcolonial Theory, and the Palestinian Question

PHYS-105

Energy and the Environment

POL-134

Introduction to Environmental Racism

POL-147

International Politics

POL-275

Authoritarian Politics

POL-228

Political Ecology

POL-255

Gender, Race, Environment

POL-320

The Politics of Global Security

POL-330

Indigenous Feminisms in the Americas

POL-331

The Politics of International Hierarchy

POL-335

The Politics of the Body as Territory

POL-362

ENVS-362

Food, Culture, Politics

POL-363

Genealogies of Political Economy

POL-370

Pipelines & Dispossession

POL-375

Global Energy Politics

REL-110

Religion and the Senses

REL-116

Special Topics - Comparative Studies in Religion

(All offerings)

REL-117

Special Topics - Comparative Studies in Religion

(All offerings)

REL 176

Comparative Mysticism

REL-118

Special Topics - Comparative Studies in Religion

(All offerings)

REL-207

Islamic Traditions

REL-236

Comparative Scriptures

REL 275

Reading Buddhism

REL-304

Muslim Bodies

REL-325

Religion and Politics in East Asia

RWPD-342

Rhetoric and Capitalism

SOC-340

Economic Sociology

SOC-369

Social Stratification

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