8 courses with the subject INT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
INT 101Exploring Global Issues3
This course introduces students to interdisciplinary inquiry as an approach to addressing complex global challenges, such as climate change, conflict, migration, social inequalities, sustainable development, and/or health. Students apply different disciplinary lenses, like history, politics, economics, religion, and culture, as perspectives that compete, interact, and intersect in the context of global challenges. Students critically engage with the intersection of race and gender with these global challenges and explore how to address global issues locally.
Looking at the political, international, economic, social, and cultural human dimensions of gender, this course will help you develop an understanding of the multifaceted experiences and influences of gender around the world through the interdisciplinary field of International Studies. We will explore how gender matters within global topics such as conflict, environment, health, and justice. Credits 3
Understanding the power of culture in shaping our lives depends on knowing the ways of life displayed all around the world. This course introduces students to the discoveries of anthropologists as they have lived among preliterate and preindustrial people, and as they apply their signature methodologies to culturally distinctive communities in today's world. Comparing how a range of cultures address the challenges of social existence sets the stage for enlightening dialogue.
This course uses interdisciplinary inquiry, including anthropology, politics, and history, to explore the enormous ethnic, cultural, regional, social, and political diversity that define the African continent. Students examine the precolonial historical roots and colonial political legacies that have shaped contemporary Africa. This course will explicitly challenge stereotypes about how Africa is broadly depicted through engagement with diverse identities and experiences from different African countries. Key topics that may be considered include indigeneity, colonialism, democracy, the environment, race, gender, conflict, development, globalization, youth, and cultural preservation. This course will integrate creative expression, such as literature and music.
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring how sport influences human lives across the world and over time, with a particular focus on intersectionality and how sport shapes and is shaped by global diversity. Core themes that will be discussed include the body, language, history, citizenship, globalization, race, and gender. With the primary framework of this course being intersectionality, the content will be structured in units that explore ways that various identities are manipulated within systems of power, oppression, and marginalization within the global arena of sport.
