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 | 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 |