COURSE OFFERINGS

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Fall 2026

Course Number INTL ST 201 Course Title What is Global Studies? Instructor Eve Darian-Smith Description Introduces graduates to the field of global and international studies. Landmark studies outline the transition from globalization studies to contemporary global studies. Identify complex global issues, underlying processes of globalization, and the impacts they have on people around the world.
Course Number INTL ST 204 Course Title Theories of Globalization Instructor Fatasia Painter Description Theories of globalization engage deep historical transformations, keeping the interrelated dynamics of economics, politics, and culture in focus. Theories examine transformations emanating at transnational and state levels, and from below in the form of social movements led by everyday people.
Course Number INTL ST 210A Course Title Proseminar in Global Studies I Instructor Long Bui Description Year-long intensive introduction to graduate students to a range of topics pertinent to the field of Global Studies. The guest speakers and topics addressed vary each quarter.
Course Number INTL ST 259 Course Title Space & Cartographies Instructor Brenda Nicolas Description TBA

Winter 2027

Course Number INTL ST 202 Course Title Foundations of European Social Thought Instructor Philip McCarty Description Provides graduate students with a broad overview of the major landmarks in the development of modern social thought. Introduces key philosophers and theorists Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, and Du Bois, focusing on the global dimensions of their work.
Course Number INTL ST 205 Course Title Theories from the Global South Instructor Sylvia Croese Description Looking beyond the theoretical traditions of the Euro-American academy scholars can begin to engage important theoretical contributions from the Global South. Explores alternative standpoints and interventions challenging dominant narratives and calling into question taken-for-granted assumptions, categories, concepts, values, and perspectives.
Course Number INTL ST 210B Course Title Proseminar in Global Studies II Instructor Christopher Paul Harris Description Year-long intensive introduction to graduate students to a range of topics pertinent to the field of Global Studies. The guest speakers and topics addressed vary each quarter.
Course Number INTL ST 259 Course Title Global Militarism Instructor Tiara Na'puti Description TBA

Spring 2027

Course Number INTL ST 203 Course Title Globalizing Social Theory in the Age of Extremes Instructor Yatta Kiazolu Description Examines important developments in social theory between 1914 and 1991. The overarching goal is to synthesize from these various approaches a critical and transdisciplinary theoretical framework to analyze complex global issues.
Course Number INTL ST 206 Course Title Engaging Global Issues Instructor Alexander Huezo Description Critical and interdisciplinary works on global issues serve as examples that graduates can use in their own research. Each week focuses on a different example of outstanding global research done by a scholar having an important impact on the field.
Course Number INTL ST 210C Course Title Proseminar in Global Studies III Instructor Long Bui Description Year-long intensive introduction to graduate students to a range of topics pertinent to the field of Global Studies. The guest speakers and topics addressed vary each quarter.
Course Number INTL ST 259 Course Title New Grad Elective - Course Title TBA Instructor Mamyrah Prosper Description TBA
Course Number INTL ST 259 Course Title New Grad Elective - Course Title TBA Instructor Ka-eul Yoo Description TBA

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