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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.

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Fundamentals of empirical research design, strategies for global research, sampling logics, reliability, validity, mixed methods, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods. Introduction to basic data collection methods and examples of more advanced methodological strategies. Research ethics and the IRB review process.

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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.

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The seminar explore recent works that touch on different decolonial issues and literatures around the world. We focus on how specific scholars define and use the terms “postcolonial”, “anticolonial” and “decolonial” across different historical and spatial contexts, and how these terms may feature in students’ own research agendas.

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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.

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Focuses on production, critique, and revision of student research proposals. A practical seminar designed to improve student proposals, help students through the application processes, and increase students' chances of obtaining support for their research.

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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.

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Topics may include: extractivism, primitive accumulation & dispossession, labor, racial capitalism, imperialism, the agrarian question, logistics, finance, crisis, social reproduction, artificial intelligence, big data, state capitalism, degrowth. Interdisciplinary approaches & theories. Global case studies from Africa, the Americas, Eurasia, Oceania.

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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.

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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.

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This seminar will explore the grounded practices of place, spatialized power relations, time, and discursive and material consequences of situated struggles through local, global, and transborder processes that produce distinctive localities, racializations within speci􀏐ic histories, borders, and political geographies.

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