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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.

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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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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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Examines the political and socio-cultural forces that shape the ways archives are produced, used, abused, silenced, and appropriated within settler colonial contexts. Topics include: settler archives; archives and the state; disability archives; Queer archives; archival affect; community/resistance archives; and anticolonial archiving.

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Set up to “do good,” welfare projects, donor regimes, NGOs, and transnational advocacy campaigns are shaped by complex histories and politics. How have colonial legacies, state policies, social movements, humanitarianism, capitalism, and neoliberalism molded aid and advocacy across global contexts?

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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.

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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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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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Thinking with and beyond carceral studies, text selections examine histories of confinement and incarceration across landscapes, communities, and time periods. Interdisciplinary readings interrogate social constructions of racialized criminality, diverse forms of institutionalization, visual technologies, settler colonialism, imperialism, and more.

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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.

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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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Examines postcolonial, anticolonial, and decolonial theories through recent works that explore different issues, histories, and literatures around the world.

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Literary fiction, while often used as an object of analysis in the process of theory-building, is nevertheless an underappreciated source of political and social theory and knowledge within the humanistic social sciences. This course aims to examine the link between fiction and theory by studying literary works as examples of political and social theory in their own right, as well as documentary sources that reflect the sociopolitical context in which they arose. In both approaches to a given text, we will analyze how literature employs form to narrate social and political ideas and explore the lessons that the humanistic social sciences can learn from what are often considered “non-academic” writings.