Global Studies Courses- Fall 2022

Take a class around the world with the Global Studies department! Global Studies is offering an array of courses that focus on different regions, religions, and cultures around the world. Next semester includes specific topics on India and Brazil. See below for more class information!

Global Studies 370 01: Immigrant Young Adults

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Thursdays, 8:30-11:15am
Professor Kara Cebulko

CRN: 1416
*Fulfills Diversity Core
No Prerequisites

In this class, we focus on young adulthood, and what it means to be a young adult today – and especially for children of immigrants. But young adulthood is shaped by young people’s earlier experiences. Thus, in this course, we think a lot about how schooling shapes the children of immigrants’ lives as they navigate the road to adulthood. Many Americans feel the pressure to do well in school and to go to college. For immigrant young people, this pressure can feel particularly acute. Indeed, they know that their families’ made sacrifices to come to the US, so that they – the children – might have opportunities their parents’ didn’t have in their home countries. How do young immigrant children experience their parents’ sacrifices? What role so schools play in immigrant young persons’ journeys in “becoming American?” And how do immigrant young persons’ interactions with teachers and peers at school shape not only their opportunities, but their understandings of race, identity, and belonging in the United States?

Global Studies 370 02: Social Inequality in India & the South Asian Diaspora

Wednesdays, 11:30-2:00pm
Professor Trina Vithayathil

CRN: 2501
*Fulfills the Diversity Core
No Prerequisites

Explore the intersections of caste, gender, and class in the worldʼs largest democracy, as well as the South Asian diaspora! This interdisciplinary course in Sociology, Global Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies explores caste, class, and gender in contemporary India and among the South Asian diaspora. We will focus on how caste and gendered violence operate, and contextualize these processes historically. Against the rise of Hindu nationalism and racial and Brahmanical capitalism, we will examine social, political, and economic life in India and how communities are organizing to resist local, national, and global systems of domination. We will also focus on the South Asian diaspora, with attention to communities in the US and the Persian Gulf.

GST 370 03 Black Brazil: Racism & Resistance

Wednesdays, 8:30-11:00am
Professor Ana Cláudia São Bernardo

CRN:1418
No Perquisites

This course investigates Brazil’s unique history of race and racism. We will use a chronological approach to access documents that expose the main events marking this history. These documents include news articles, policies, documentaries, and creative pieces (film, music, literature). By the end of the course, students will understand the importance of Brazil’s history of race in the Global Scenario.

In 1575, when the Ottoman empire was at its height, the astronomer Taqi ad-Din founded an observatory at Galata (now part of Istanbul, Turkey). This painting of the time shows the astronomers with their equipment, which includes a globe, a sand glass for timing, items for drawing, and all kinds of sighting devices.

GST 379: Islamic Philosophy & Science

Tuesdays, 8:30-11:00am
Professor Bilal Ibrahim

CRN: 1420
*Fulfills the Philosophy Core
No Perquisites

This course introduces major developments in medieval Islamic philosophy and science and their relation to the modern Middle East. We examine central innovations and problems in Islamic intellectual history, and their conceptual and historical relations to developments in other parts of the world, including Europe and China. Topics include innovations in Islamic astronomy, cosmology, alchemy, and theology.