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Major Requirements Minor Requirements Honors Certification to Teach Social Studies Faculty Courses Return to Academics	Global Studies Major and minor offered Global studies is an interdisciplinary major designed to prepare students with new analytical frameworks for understanding “globalization” and for evaluating it critically. In the five core courses, students encounter key concepts and debates over global processes, political economy and cultural studies. These teach new models of knowledge that -focus on the rapid circulation and movements of capital, people, knowledge, cultural forms, commodities, environmental pollution, communications, finance and other aspects of 21st-century life. Global studies takes as a central premise the idea that global realities cannot be captured by one discipline or even one division of knowledge; rather, they require new approaches to knowledge that cut across fields like biology, economics, ethnic studies, literary theory and sociology. Students learn to view states, cultures, communities, economies and/or ecologies as embedded in larger global structural, cultural and natural contexts. The major asks students to choose two areas of the world and a topic or question that connects them or allows for comparison. Working closely with an academic advisor, students design their major around a problem or theme, which becomes the basis for an independent project in the senior year. It is recommended that global studies majors spend at least a semester abroad, gaining field experience in at least one of their areas of concentration. The courses taken abroad count -toward the relevant area of concentration and allow students to do field research toward the senior project. Major Requirements I. Core Courses 101. Introduction to Global Studies I: Political Economy. 102. Introduction to Global Studies II: Intercultural Studies. 290. Research Methods. 301. Theories of Global Political Economy. 302. Theories of Cultural Studies. 489, 490. SYE: Senior Project. 498, 499. SYE: Honors. II. Transnational/Comparative Courses Students are required to select two from a menu of courses that employ a global comparative or transnational approach in their design. Students may petition the global studies chair to count other appropriate courses. Anthropology 102. Cultural Anthropology. 205. Language and Human Experience. 304. Language, Culture and Society. 343. Famine. 350. Anthropology of Sex and Gender. 445. Magic, Religion and Myth. Biology 340. Conservation Biology. 380. Tropical Ecology. Economics 234. Comparative Economic Institutions. 236. Globalization Issues. 336. Economic Development. English 357. Postcolonial Literature and Theory. Environmental Studies 112. Global Climate. 253. Race, Class and Environmental Justice. 301. Pollution of Auquatic Systems 302. Issues in Air Pollution Fine Arts 235. Abstract Drawing: Uli and Other Art Forms. 325. The Museum as Cultural Crossroads. Gender Studies 201. Gender in Global Perspective. Geology 112. Global Climate. Government 105. Introduction to Comparative Politics. 108. Introduction to International Politics. 327. Politics of Development and Underdevelopment. 360. International Relations Theory. 362. International Law. 363. International Organizations. History 105. Early East Asian Civilization. 265. West Africa and the Diaspora. 330. New World Encounters, 1500-1800. 369. Pan-Africanism: Past, Present and Future Prospects. 372. European Identities, 1700-2000. Music 210. Musics of the World. Philosophy 103. Philosophy East and West: An Introduction 203. Ethical Theory. 327. Existential Philosophy. 332. Africana Philosophy. Physics 112. Global Climate Religious Studies 224. The Islamic Religious Tradition. 266. History of the Middle East Since 1914. Sociology 110. Global Problems. 187. Environment and Society. 235. Earning a Living: Work and Occupations in a Global Economy. 253. Race, Class and Environmental Justice. 271. Revolution. 275. Medical Sociology. 288. Dilemmas of Development. 310. Slavery, Race and Culture. 324. Corporate Takeover. 363. Women’s Movements in North America. 375. Environmental Movements. 378. "The Troubles" of Northern Ireland. 476. Globalization and Sustainability. III. Electives Three electives must be selected from each of two areas of study. The area studies that can be used to fulfill the major requirements are: African Studies Asian Studies Canadian Studies Caribbean and Latin American Studies European Studies Native American Studies United States Cultural and Ethnic Studies IV. Language Global studies majors are expected to study a second language. Students should consult with their advisor or the chair of global studies on how to fulfill this requirement. Minor Requirements The global studies minor consists of five courses. Students must take GS101, 102, either 301 or 302, and two courses approved for the transnational/comparative electives in global studies. Honors To receive honors in global studies, students must achieve a minimum GPA of 3.5 in the -major and 3.2 overall and submit for evaluation a project of substantial length. Further details may be obtained in the department office. Certification to Teach Social Studies Students seeking initial certification as a 7-12 -social studies teacher in New York can major in global studies; they must complete the United States studies option of the major as well as the educational studies minor. Under the U.S. studies option, the major integrates all required topics for certification in 7-12 social studies. Global studies majors intending to complete student teaching after graduation in the University’s Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification Program must complete the educational studies minor in education (or its equivalent) as undergraduates. Consult the Education section of this Catalog and/or speak to the coordinator of the teacher education program in the education department as early as possible. Professors Eve Walsh Stoddard, A.B., Mount Holyoke; Ph.D., UCLA Professor of English and Global Studies and Chair of the Department Martha Chew Sanchez, B.A., M.A., University of Texas ( El Paso); Ph.D., New Mexico Assistant Professor of Global Studies John Martin Collins, B.A. Wesleyan; M.A., Ph.D., Minnesota Assistant Professor of Global Studies Ganesh Kailas Trichur, B.A., M.A., Delhi University ( India); Ph.D., Binghamton Assistant Professor of Global Studies Madeleine Wong, B.A., Mount Holyoke; M.A., Florida Atlantic; Ph.D., York (Canada) Assistant Professor of Global Studies
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