International and Global Studies Program

Global Health and Development is the study of how societies can sustainably provide their people with the means to thrive: steady and equitable economic growth; a healthy environment; public health, and education.

A Global Health and Development concentration may lead students to careers with agencies of the United Nations or non-governmental aid programs, advocacy groups, or other institutions promoting global well-being.

Professor Elanah Uretsky is the advisor for the Global Health and Development concentration

Popular courses within this concentration include:

AAAS 127a African Refugees
An in-depth study of African refugees in dynamic contexts, and their centrality to the understanding and analysis of key issues in the politics, history, and international relations of African States.

ENG 52a Refugee Stories, Refugee Lives
Examines the functions of storytelling in the refugee crisis. Its main objective is to further students' understanding of the political dimensions of storytelling. The course explores how reworking of reality enable people to question State and social structures.

ECON 176a Health, Hunger, and the Household in Developing Countries
Examines aspects of poverty and nutrition that are confronted by households in low-income countries. Examines these issues primarily from a microeconomic perspective, although some macroeconomic angles are explored as well.

HSSP 152b Introduction to Demography: Social Determinants of Health and Wellbeing
Explores the social and health consequences of population dynamics within the U.S. and globally that affect wellbeing of families and nations including poverty and inequality, maternal and child health, aging, fertility and epidemiological transitions, workforce, immigration among other policy concerns.

Please check the University Bulletin to see the frequency that courses will be offered.

International Order is the study of the international system, especially institutions of politics and economics, and how these systems are responding to changes in the global distribution of wealth and power.

An International Order Concentration may lead students to careers in business, diplomacy, journalism, or any other field in which a knowledge of how the world’s institutions work is useful.

Lucy Goodhart is the advisor for the International Order concentration.

Popular courses within this concentration include:

ECON 172b Money and Banking
Examines the relationship of the financial system to real economic activity, focusing especially on banks and central banks. Topics include the monetary and payments systems; financial instruments and their pricing; the structure, management, and regulation of bank and nonbank financial intermediaries and the design and operations of central banks in a modern economy.

FREN 111a The Republic
The "Republic" analyzes how the republican ideal of the citizen devoid of religious, ethnic, or gender identity has fared in different Francophone political milieux. Course involves understanding how political institutions such as constitutions, parliaments, and court systems interact with reality of modern societies in which religious, ethnic, and gender identities play important roles.

HIST 52b Europe in the Modern World
Explores European history from the Enlightenment to the present emphasizing how developments in Europe have shaped and been shaped by broader global contexts. Topics include: revolution, industrialization, political and social reforms, nationalism, imperialism, legacies of global wars, totalitarianism, and decolonization.

IGS 140a Styles of Globalization
Why do some countries benefit from globalization while others lag behind? How do different nations balance issues such as free trade, foreign investment, and workers' rights? This course considers the real-world choices behind success and failure in the global economy.

HIST 125b Europe in the Global Cold War
Offers a thematic overview of the history of the post-1945 period in Europe’s East and West, and situates these histories in their global contexts, such as decolonization, environmental change (Chernobyl catastrophe) the struggle of the USSR and the US, the Vietnam War, and debates on the “end of history” around 1989. We will study how events that started in Eastern and East-Central Europe, such as the Russian Revolution, World War II, as well as the collapse of the Soviet Union triggered political and social changes in China, Southeast Asia, and other parts of the world. Through reading diplomatic correspondence, pamphlets, memoirs and literature written by dissidents, party members, and politicians, as well as by watching and reflecting on media footage, we will examine how the Cold War and 1989 ushered in a new world order that is here with us up to the present. The course also focuses on how European states East and West rebuilt ties with the “Global South” through socialist solidarity, development aid and investments, and how the Cold War shapes the institutions and politics of the European Union up to the present.

Please check the University Bulletin to see the frequency that courses will be offered.

Law, Justice, and Human Rights is the study of concepts of justice and how nation-states can cooperate to pursue them. Major topics will include comparison of legal and ethical traditions, the rights of migrants and refugees, as well as sex and gender rights.

A Law, Justice, and Human Rights concentration may lead students to careers in the law, international advocacy, management consulting, and other fields where experience handling complex social issues is vital.

Kristen Lucken is the advisor for the Law Justice, and Human Rights concentration.

Popular courses within this concentration include:

AAAS 125b Caribbean Women and Globalization: Sexuality, Citizenship, Work
Utilizing perspectives from sociology, anthropology, fiction, and music to examine the relationship between women's sexuality and conceptions of labor, citizenship, and sovereignty. The course considers these alongside conceptions of masculinity, contending feminisms, and the global perspective.

ANTH 140a Human Rights in Global Perspective
Explores a range of debates about human rights as a concept as well as the practice of human rights work. The human rights movement seeks the recognition of universal norms that transcend political and cultural difference while anthropology seeks to explore and analyze the great diversity of human life. To what extent can these two goals--advocating for universal norms and respecting cultural difference--be reconciled? The course examines cases from various parts of the world concerning: indigenous peoples, environment, health, gender, genocide/violence/nation-states and globalization

ENG 52a Refugee Stories, Refugee Lives
Examines the functions of storytelling in the refugee crisis. Its main objective is to further students' understanding of the political dimensions of storytelling. The course explores how reworking of reality enable people to question State and social structures.

ENG 127b Migrating Bodies, Migrating Texts
Beginning with the region's representation as a tabula rasa, examines the textual and visual constructions of the Caribbean as colony, homeland, backyard, paradise, and Babylon, and how the region's migrations have prompted ideas about evolution, hedonism, imperialism, nationalism, and diaspora. Usually offered every second year.

HISP 142b Literature, Film, and Human Rights in Latin America
Examines literature, film (fiction and non-fiction) and other artistic expressions from Latin America, in conversation with the idea of human rights'from the colonial arguments about slavery and the 'natural rights' of the indigenous, to the advent of human rights in the context of post-conflict truth and reconciliation processes, to the emergence of gender and ethnicity as into the human rights framework, to the current debates about rights of nature in the midst of a global ecological crisis. May be taught in English or Spanish.

IGS 130a Global Migration
Investigates the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic forces that shape global migration. More than 200 million people now live outside their countries of birth. Case studies include Europe, the U.S. and Mexico, Brazil, Australia, Africa, and China's internal migration.

LGLS 123b Immigration and Human Rights
Examines U.S. immigration practices policy in the context of international human rights treaties, social movements, historical dynamics, political struggles, and global practices, with some attention to other states' immigration policies. This course focuses on the how the daily interactions of societal institutions and roles is continuously constructing immigration and human rights systems and ideas. As such, much of the class work in this course involves practical exercises in which students experience the decision making and roles of human rights lawyers, organizers and policy leaders in the context of current social and cultural controversies, ideologies, and events. So, students will be introduced to the generally applicable skills, concepts, values, and attitudes involved in human rights litigation, movement organizing, and policy making. This course explores tensions between social movements, domestic politics, and international law in guiding immigration reform, and challenges students to assess the sources of rights and the winners and losers (in terms of efficacy and accountability) of rights talk.

NEJS 138a Genocide and Mass Killing in the Twentieth Century
An interdisciplinary seminar examining history and sociology of the internationally punishable crime of genocide, with the focus on theory, prevention, and punishment of genocide. Case studies include Armenians in Ottoman Turkey, Stalin's Russia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda.

POL 134b Seminar: The Global Migration Crisis
Looks at immigration from the perspectives of policy-makers, migrants, and the groups affected by immigration in sender nations as well as destination countries. Introduces students to the history of migration policy, core concepts and facts about migration in the West, and to the theories and disagreements among immigrant scholars.

Please check the University Bulletin to see the frequency that courses will be offered.