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CORE 190 Link to CORE 150
MASTER Syllabus
CORE 190G Gender
and Globalization Prof. Margarita Rose
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CORE 190H Global Health Issues
and Problems
This Core course will present an overview of issues
and problems in global health from the perspective of many different
disciplines. Subjects that will be discussed in this course will
include: recent history of global health; health care systems and their
financing; international organizations and funders of global health; the
political ecology of infectious diseases; environmental health and safe
water; demography of health and mortality; measures of disease burden
and priorities in health; AIDS/HIV and its prevention; and women’s
reproductive health and HIV/AIDS.
Although the course with explore the multiple
ramifications of disease-social, physical, economic, political ,
ethical-in both developed and underdeveloped countries, particular
attention will be made on AIDS/HIV epidemic, exploring its cultural,
social, economic, ethical, historical, epidemiological, political,
psychological, sexual, public health and policy dimensions. Students in
this course will learn the consequences of this unprecedented epidemic,
since HIV/AIDS is the leading infectious cause of adult death worldwide.
Students will learn that poverty and cultural, sociological reasons have
been instrumental in causing these horrendous consequences.
Students will learn that HIV/AIDS is a world wide
health problem, affecting people in the United States, Western Europe,
Latin America and Caribbean, Asia, and Africa. However, students will
learn the various reasons for the fact that two-thirds of all people
living with HIV are found in Africa, a region that contains only 10% of
the world’s population.
Dr. Hengameh Hosseini
CORE 190R Contemporary Global Issues
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Course Description
I. Course Objectives
This course attempts to examine some of the most pressing issues in the
world today by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. The course is
divided into three major sections. The first section introduces students
to fundamental approaches in five core disciplines: History, Political
Science, Economics, Anthropology and Geography. The second section
examines global issues in regions such as Europe, Latin America, Asia,
Africa and the Middle East. In examining these regions, students are
encouraged to think about global issues through an interdisciplinary
lens. We examine questions such as: how does power influence the
behavior of states? What can we learn from a country’s culture? What
role have multinational corporations played in global economic
integration? What does a reading of spatial interaction in geography
tell us? The third and final section of the course focuses on analyzing
contemporary global problems such as international terrorism, nuclear
proliferation, human rights and ethnic conflict. The rationale for
developing an interdisciplinary approach to contemporary global issues
is to help students learn about core concepts in five major disciplines
and then apply those concepts to an understanding of historical,
political, cultural and economic issues in different regions of the
world. This course is all about trying to form connections between world
events and the multiple contexts that inform them.
II. Course Requirements
There are two required textbooks for this course:
• Sheldon Anderson, Jeanne A.K. Hey, Mark Allen Peterson, Stanley W.
Toops, and Charles Stevens. eds. International Studies: An
Interdisciplinary Approach to Global Issues (Westview Press, 2008).
• Scott Sernau, eds., Contemporary Readings in Globalization (Los
Angeles: Pine Forge Press, 2008).
A number of additional readings will be posted on WebCT.
• Class participation is actively encouraged. You will be expected to
participate in small group discussions, which will be held regularly
during the course of the semester.
• Reading the New York Times is highly recommended.
• You are expected to DO the required reading.
Dr. Ayesha Ray |
| CORE 191 Global History since 1914:
Link to Master Syllabus (with links there to individual syllabi)
Current Catalog Description:
To increase the student’s knowledge and understanding of the interaction
among the
Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia during the twentieth century and
beyond. Students
will examine worldwide issues, including nationalism; imperialism;
alternative political
structures like Fascism and Marxism; World War II; decolonization; the
Cold War era;
and ongoing problems of human rights, technology; and economic
globalization.
History Dept. (Prof. Dan Curran, Prof. Donald Stevens, Mr. Howard Fedrick,
Prof. Paul Zbiek, Prof. Brian Pavlac, Dr. Cristofer Scarboro, Ms. Sandra Kase,
Dr. Ian Wendt) |
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CORE 197 Global
Social Issues:
This course surveys the major social issues of the contemporary world.
While global citizens are united in the types of issues they face in the
21st century, they are sharply divided in their experiences
of and attitudes towards those issues, as a consequence of regional
particularities of social structure, cultural norms and values, and
position in the global economic hierarchy. Topics examined in this
course may include: global economic stratification and local
manifestations of inequality; demographic challenges of fertility,
migration, and urbanization; global health systems and problems of
access, cost, and chronic disease; the changing economics of food and
water; ethnic and religious conflict; environmental issues of pollution,
desertification, and climate change. For each issue, students learn
about its major social, cultural, economic, political, and historical
dynamics though both cross-national comparisons and in-depth regional
study, with each issue having a different regional/national emphasis.
Part 1: Issues of
Inequality
- Global economic
stratification, local consequences (emphasis on Middle East)
- The global
assembly line (emphasis on southeast Asia)
- Health
disparities and the global health economy (emphasis on sub-Saharan
Africa)
Part II. Issues of
conflict
- crime and war
(emphasis on Central America)
- religious and
ethnic conflict (emphasis on Northern Africa)
Part III. Issues of
environment
- urbanization /
food, and water (emphasis on South America)
- demographic
transition: fertility and migration (emphasis on Europe)
- Ecological issues
(emphasis on China, Australia)
Dr. Bridget Costello |
