24 courses with the subject GBST, 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.
GBST 0866Identity and Global Justice3
The world today is more prosperous and more unequal than it has ever been. From how much people earn or save, or how long they live, or how much energy they consume or waste they produce, the gaps between nations have reached unprecedented levels. Within nations too there are very large (and often growing) gaps between individuals and social groups (defined by race, ethnicity, religion, language, caste, etc.). Every inequality is also inevitably a political and ethical issue, giving rise to dynamics of domination and resistance on the one hand to discourse and action on justice on the other. It may be fair to suggest that almost every major story that engages our attention - from billionaire wealth to the plight of refugees - is a matter of inequality and justice. Note: This course fulfills the GenEd Race and Diversity (GD) requirement.
Topics vary each semester; please consult with the instructor for more information. Note: This course will count towards an elective for students declared in the Global Studies major.
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GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
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Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
The 21st century is an age of globalization. Individuals no longer live their lives exclusively within local and national communities, but are touched by, and interact with, states, groups, firms and individuals across the world. In the area of international security, states have always fought, and prepared to fight, wars with other states, but in the 21st century these interstate wars have been joined by both increasingly destructive civil wars within countries, and by international and global terrorism perpetrated by non-state actors. In the economic realm, recent decades have witnessed a dramatic opening of almost all the world's economies to flows of international trade, finance, and people, such that all of us are now touched, in one way or another, by developments in the global economy. In the realm of culture, centuries-old national cultures, languages and traditions that have shaped people's world views are increasingly coming into contact - via increased travel, mass communications, and the internet - with cultural impacts from other countries.
Subject
GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may not be repeated for additional credits.
Topics vary each semester; please consult with the instructor for more information. Note: This course will count towards an elective for students declared in the security track of the Global Studies major.
Subject
GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topics vary each semester; please consult with the instructor for more information. Note: This course will count towards an elective for students declared in the economy track of the Global Studies major.
Subject
GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topics vary each semester; please consult with the instructor for more information. Note: This course will count towards an elective for students declared in the cultural track of the Global Studies major.
Subject
GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
The 21st century is an age of globalization. Individuals no longer live their lives exclusively within local and national communities, but are touched by, and interact with, states, groups, firms and individuals across the world. In the area of international security, states have always fought, and prepared to fight, wars with other states, but in the 21st century these interstate wars have been joined by both increasingly destructive civil wars within countries, and by international and global terrorism perpetrated by non-state actors. In the economic realm, recent decades have witnessed a dramatic opening of almost all the world's economies to flows of international trade, finance, and people, such that all of us are now touched, in one way or another, by developments in the global economy. In the realm of culture, centuries-old national cultures, languages and traditions that have shaped people's world views are increasingly coming into contact - via increased travel, mass communications, and the internet - with cultural impacts from other countries.
This is an introductory course on research skills. It is designed to provide an overview of the research process and a broad introduction to a range of research methods used in the liberal arts. The goal is to acquaint students with the key aspects of research design: thinking and learning about a problem, defining a specific answerable question, situating the question in theory and existing research, identifying relevant data sources (primary and secondary), and devising a method to find an answer to that problem. Given the interdisciplinary foundations of Global Studies, this course is decidedly interdisciplinary, drawing on methods from several disciplines in the liberal arts, including Anthropology, Economics, English, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology.
Topics vary each semester; please consult with the instructor for more information. Note: This course will count towards an elective for students declared in the Global Studies major.
Subject
GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topics vary each semester; please consult with the instructor for more information. Note: This course will count towards an elective for students declared in the security track of the Global Studies major.
Subject
GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topics vary each semester; please consult with the instructor for more information. Note: This course will count towards an elective for students declared in the economy track of the Global Studies major.
Subject
GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
Topics vary each semester; please consult with the instructor for more information. Note: This course will count towards an elective for students declared in the cultural track of the Global Studies major.
Subject
GBST
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
3
Credit unit
Credit Hours
Type
course
Repeatable
Repeatability: This course may be repeated for additional credit.
This capstone research seminar is designed for seniors in Global Studies, with the specific aim of helping students carry out and complete an independent research project in their areas of concentration. Over the course of this semester, you will select a research topic, formulate a research question, engage with the scholarly literature on this question, generate hypotheses for empirical testing (if appropriate), and set out a research design and methodology that will allow you to test and present compelling findings about your chosen research question. Whether you are coming to the seminar with well established ideas about the possible topic of your research paper, or are starting from scratch, the course will give you the skills you need to select a research question and move, step by step, to a completed work of original global studies scholarship.
