INST 3200-01 / PLSC 3350-01
Latin American Politics
T/Th 3:45-5:50
Dr Andolina
Major challenges facing Latin American countries include development stimulation, inequality reduction, security provision, and rights expansion. Students in this course analyze the reasons for these challenges, and examine how Latin Americans attempt to address them through democratic and authoritarian government, state-led and market-led economic policies, and revolutionary and non-revolutionary citizen action.
Borders and Boundaries
UCOR 1600-01
T/TH 10:15-12:20
Dr Andolina
This course examines the construction and consequences of borders across the world. Students develop their analytical, presentation and writing skills as they learn how international boundaries work on local, national and transnational levels. Substantive topics include borderland cultures, collective identities, international order, migration processes, and security policies. Assignments involve written essays, oral presentations, in-depth research, and group collaboration.
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UCOR 3600-03
Online Asynchronous
Dr Zhang
As the world’s two most powerful and important players, the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China hold the key to collectively solving many of the global challenges we face in the 21st century. This course explores this most important and complex strategic relationship through an examination of the basic dynamics of strategic thinking and policy‐making in the U.S. and China and a theory‐informed analysis of key contemporary issues in the bilateral relations, including security, arms control, trade, human rights, energy, and the environment, from a variety of perspectives of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis. No prior background on China, U.S. foreign policy, or International Relations is assumed or required.
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UCOR 3600-05, Perspectives on Im/migration
T/Th 8:00-10:05
Dr Hudgins
Should we not have reason to value the same rights in all places? This interdisciplinary course explores contemporary international migration, a natural phenomenon restricted by the sovereign control of borders by nation-states. An historic preference for national security over human security – privileging the security of the state over the individual – places migrants’ human rights in jeopardy in the face of myriad drivers such as war, conflict, poverty, structural violence, etc. We will explore im/migration contexts, challenges, and consequences using multidisciplinary social scientific analyses and other fields of knowledge. The course will include a five-week Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) experience with students from Universidad Iberoamericana, a Jesuit university in Puebla, Mexico. Spanish language capacity is desirable but not required.
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UCOR 3600/PUBA 3910
Urban (Re) Development In Berlin and Amsterdam
M/W/F 10:55-12:20
Dr Woods
Germany and the Netherlands are fascinating places to explore urban development and neighborhood change, and there may be no better place to visit than the selected cities of Berlin and Amsterdam. During WW2, Berlin was severely destroyed, leading to one of the most fascinating questions any urban student or citizen could ask, "If we were able to start all over in building our cities, what would we do differently?" Facing this challenge over the last few decades, coupled with a divided Germany (and Berlin) into East and West, has caused Berlin to go through massive transformation, at a much later time than many other European cities. During this same timeframe, Amsterdam was also facing competing forces of transformation. Once a city destined to be clogged with personal cars, Amsterdam’s residents forced a dramatic shift toward being a city center on humans instead of automobiles through direct civic engagement, setting the path to be a cycling mecca ready for a greener future.
UCOR 3400/ENGL 3910
The London Eye
W 6:00-8:05
Dr Smith
This is a three-week study abroad immersion experience with London as the intellectual, cultural, and social justice site for classroom and excursion activities. Course content is intersectional and interdisciplinary in its approach, first, to themes centered on the roles that culture, race, gender, social relations, class stratification, sociopolitical issues, and more, have played in literature, history, art, scientific endeavors, imperialistic ventures, colonization, etc. and, second, to how various models of social justice advocacy have been enacted by the British across time. While some course content is drawn from readings, history, art, and activism from prior centuries, the primary focus of this course is on contemporary immigration and human trafficking issues in Britain, with particular focus on race, class, gender, sexuality, sexual orientation, cultural challenges, and more faced by victims of these practices.
UCOR 1300/ENGL 3100
Writers’ Workshop in Ireland 2023
M 6:00 -8:05pm
Dr McDowell
IRELAND! A place of incomparable beauty, with a deep, troubled past and some of the friendliest (and funniest) people you’re likely to meet. Since 1994, undergraduates from all majors have joined the Writers’ Workshop to explore the craft of creative travel writing and to experience Ireland, its people, and their culture for themselves. Ireland is a wonderfully rich place. Its history is full of invasions, migrations, and immigrations; its literature often features journeys, exiles, and considerations of home; and its people are great storytellers. We’ll learn from them. Everyone has stories to tell. See what yours might be.
UCOR 3600-08
The Unlikely Rise of India
Dr Rao