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Ongoing historical processes that increase global integration, the social, economic, and political interdependence of different regions, cultures, and peoples. Topics include ancient empires, colonialism, nationalism, industrialization, modern imperialism and warfare, decolonization, global social movements, conflict, inequality, and global governance.
 
Same as SOC SCI 4A.

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Offers a general overview of the rise of global interdependence in political, economic, demographic, and cultural terms. Considers what drove people from relative isolation into intensified intercourse with one another, and investigates the consequences of this shift.
 
Same as ANTHRO 41A.

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An overview of the major political ideologies shaping the current world order and global conflict. Topics include liberalism, democracy, nationalism, capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism, neoliberalism, clash of civilizations, sectarian violence, populist nationalism, and de-globalization.
 
Same as POLI SCI 44B, SOC SCI 12.

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The global economy as an integrated system. The rise of world trade, capitalism, national economies, market cycles, competing economic ideologies, development, globalization, transnational labor, multinational corporations, and the role of UN, World Bank, WTO, and the IMF in global governance.
 
Same as SOC SCI 15.

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Historical development of civil, political rights and the rise of human rights in international law. Explores role, and limitations, of the UN, ICJ, and ICC in global governance. Reconceptualizing democracy and political representation in a postnational 21st century.
 
Same as POL SCI 45A, SOC SCI 16.

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Examines problems such as global climate change, growing human populations, fisheries depletion, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and food security. Introduces political, social, and economic factors contributing to environmental issues and their disproportional impacts on the world’s poor and minorities.
 
Same as SOC SCI 17.

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The evolution of global social movements over past 250 years. Age of Revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; nationalism and labor; 1960s global decolonization; 21st century Latin American indigenous movements; Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, and social media's #metoo, #BlackLivesMatter.

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Introduction to conducting business in the international arena, decision making in the organization, and globalization of markets and production. Topics covered range from tax and finance to ethics, marketing, and more. Continuing corporate regulatory scandals discussed.
 
Same as SOC SCI 115D.

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Explores the historical relationship between racism and capitalism. Social movements such as Black Lives Matter highlight the contemporary political economy of racial capitalism, and the relationship between domestic policing and international militarization as twin sides of global racial hegemony.

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Presents a comparative analysis of the causes, development, and consequences of selected revolutionary movements, focusing on outbreaks in Mexico, Bolivia, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, and Grenada. Explores topics of state formation, economic nationalism, social justice, ethnicity, and role of international affairs.
 
Same as CHC/LAT 151B, HISTORY 166D, SOC SCI 173N.

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This course introduces students to the origins and construction of race with particular attention to how race has helped to shape Latin America from colonial times to the present. This will be a broad analysis of the place that racial and ethnic ideologies have played in national political structures, economic formations, and social movements.
 
Same as HIST 169.

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Some scholars claim that there is a fundamental difference in the cultural ethos of Muslims and the Western world and that the two clash as seemingly incompatible civilizations. Others suggest that such stereotypical contrasts between Muslims and Westerners wrongly view both sides as monolithic and overlook important ways in which Islam and the West overlap. The course explores this scholarly debate.
 
Same as SOC SCI 189.

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A faculty-student forum featuring lectures from a variety of institutions with discussion issues related to Global and International Studies.
 
Same as SOCECOL 183A, SOC SCI 183A.

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Designed for seniors who are pursuing the minor in Conflict Resolution and/or International Studies major. Provides a forum in which students will refine skills and theory in the study of cooperation and conflict, from local to global arenas.
 
Same as SOC SCI 183CW.

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Introduces Environmental Justice (EJ) framework as an alternative to mainstream approaches to socio-ecological issues, with special emphasis on communities confronting environmental racism. Examines EJ movements challenging pollution, climate change, disasters, deforestation, and unsafe working environments within a global context.

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Deep engagement with some of the key issues of global border politics. The course begins with the nation-state as a global regime that emerged in a particular historical context. Students will interrogate how borders work (and for whom).

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This course will examine the foundations of international human rights theory and law, and the role of the international and national mechanisms for the protection of human rights, judicial or otherwise. This will be a broad review and analysis of the development of international human rights law, including the basic international documents that constitute human rights practice: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights.

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Ongoing historical processes that increase global integration, the social, economic, and political interdependence of different regions, cultures, and peoples. Topics include ancient empires, colonialism, nationalism, industrialization, modern imperialism and warfare, decolonization, global social movements, conflict, inequality, and global governance.
 
Same as SOC SCI 4A.

Description
Offers a general overview of the rise of global interdependence in political, economic, demographic, and cultural terms. Considers what drove people from relative isolation into intensified intercourse with one another, and investigates the consequences of this shift.
 
Same as ANTHRO 41A.

Description
An overview of the major political ideologies shaping the current world order and global conflict. Topics include liberalism, democracy, nationalism, capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism, neoliberalism, clash of civilizations, sectarian violence, populist nationalism, and de-globalization.
 
Same as POL SCI 44B, SOC SCI 12.

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The global economy as an integrated system. The rise of world trade, capitalism, national economies, market cycles, competing economic ideologies, development, globalization, transnational labor, multinational corporations, and the role of UN, World Bank, WTO, and the IMF in global governance.
 
Same as SOC SCI 15.

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Historical development of civil, political rights and the rise of human rights in international law. Explores role, and limitations, of the UN, ICJ, and ICC in global governance. Reconceptualizing democracy and political representation in a postnational 21st century.
 
Same as POL SCI 45A, SOC SCI 16.

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Cities as a window into contemporary challenges of the globalized world. Global cities such as Los Angeles, London, and Beijing compared with cities with slums in the global south such as Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, and Mumbai.

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Develops critical insights into gender and sexuality as products of the world around us and as lived experiences across the globe. Topics include agency and resistance, intersectionality, feminisms, colonialism, heteronormativity, gender violence, masculinities, media and popular culture, globalization and migration.

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Examination of the origin, changing structure, application of international law, and the role of legal norms in regulating the behavior of states and maintaining international order.
 
Same as POL SCI 172A.

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Examines the cultures and political conflicts of the more than 130 indigenous ethnic groups in the European and Asian territories of the former U.S.S.R. Emphasis is on the theoretical issues of ethnicity, nationalism, and conflict management.

Same as POL SCI 154F, ANTHRO 164P.

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This course will examine women’s movements, resistance, and organizing across Latin America and the Caribbean. It will focus on political and gender struggles against settler states, empire, military, dictatorships, authoritarianism, democracy, capitalism, communist governments, corporations, extactivism. From environmental justice, education, individual vs. collective rights, autonomy, urban and rural organizing, to new forms of organizing that center race, gender, feminism, and sexuality, this class will take interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives at local, national, transnational, and global scales.

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This course introduces students to the story of Mexico’s formation and evolution from colonial times to the present. It will emphasize the role that history has played in national political structures, economic formations, and social movements over the centuries. Topics will include the indigenous roots of Mexico, the impact of conquest and colonization, the struggle of nation-building, revolution, reconstruction, and development.

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A faculty-student forum featuring lectures from a variety of institutions with discussion issues related to Global and International Studies.
 
Same as SOCECOL 183A, SOC SCI 183A.

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Designed for seniors who are pursuing the minor in Conflict Resolution and/or International Studies major. Provides a forum in which students will refine skills and theory in the study of cooperation and conflict, from local to global arenas.
 
Same as SOC SCI 183CW.

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Introduces Environmental Justice (EJ) framework as an alternative to mainstream approaches to socio-ecological issues, with special emphasis on communities confronting environmental racism. Examines EJ movements challenging pollution, climate change, disasters, deforestation, and unsafe working environments within a global context.

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In the wake of the 2020 uprisings, the activist demand to “defund” and “abolish” the police helped reignite conversations about abolition, and a world free of harmful institutions, particularly for those situated on the margins of society. But despite this revival, and a genealogy that extends from the plantation to the prison, for many, abolition remains an unclear word.  This class examines the politics of abolition as an unfinished project of global significance, not just for our present, but for a future in the process of becoming. With this speculative future in mind, we will begin and end with the same set of questions: What is abolition? What was it? What might it be?

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This course addresses the origins and modes of cyberwar. It focuses on state-sponsored and transnational cyberwarfare as well as on industrial espionage with three specific aims. First, the course identifies the technical aspects of cyber conflicts and the concrete examples of cyberattacks from around the world. Second, it discusses military strategies and intelligence operations in response to cyberattacks. Third, it reviews cyberwarfare-related ethics and laws. The course also addresses the development of artificial intelligence and the broader issue of information wars as an unintended consequence of the development of various social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

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Introduce students to concepts of gender and feminist activist movements generated and led by and about women and gender outlaws from the African continent and the context in which rebellion, social protest and transformation occurs. We will explore a range of texts: experimental writing, poetry collections, fiction, prison memoirs, social commentaries, films, and cultural and social histories.

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Offers a general overview of the rise of global interdependence in political, economic, demographic, and cultural terms. Considers what drove people from relative isolation into intensified intercourse with one another, and investigates the consequences of this shift.
 
Same as ANTHRO 41A.

Description
An overview of the major political ideologies shaping the current world order and global conflict. Topics include liberalism, democracy, nationalism, capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism, neoliberalism, clash of civilizations, sectarian violence, populist nationalism, and de-globalization.
 
Same as POL SCI 44B, SOC SCI 12.

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The global economy as an integrated system. The rise of world trade, capitalism, national economies, market cycles, competing economic ideologies, development, globalization, transnational labor, multinational corporations, and the role of UN, World Bank, WTO, and the IMF in global governance.
 
Same as SOC SCI 15.

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Historical development of civil, political rights and the rise of human rights in international law. Explores role, and limitations, of the UN, ICJ, and ICC in global governance. Reconceptualizing democracy and political representation in a postnational 21st century.
 
Same as POL SCI 45A, SOC SCI 16.

Description
Examines problems such as global climate change, growing human populations, fisheries depletion, ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and food security. Introduces political, social, and economic factors contributing to environmental issues and their disproportional impacts on the world’s poor and minorities.
 
Same as SOC SCI 17.

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Cities as a window into contemporary challenges of the globalized world. Global cities such as Los Angeles, London, and Beijing compared with cities with slums in the global south such as Rio de Janeiro, Johannesburg, and Mumbai.

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Introduction to conducting business in the international arena, decision making in the organization, and globalization of markets and production. Topics covered range from tax and finance to ethics, marketing, and more. Continuing corporate regulatory scandals discussed.
 
Same as SOC SCI 115D.

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Situates the interdisciplinary fields of Native American and Indigenous Studies within a transnational context, focusing on the global dimensions of Indigeneity informing local histories, politics, and experiences. Examines settler colonialism, sovereignty, and the enduring legacies of colonialism as global phenomena.

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Explores political, economic, social, and cultural ties that bind Latin America to the United States. Focuses on U.S. intervention and Latin American response from early nineteenth century to present day. Case studies include Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, and Central America.
 
Same as POL SCI 142J, HISTORY 166, CHC/LAT 150.

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Explores the causes, development, and legacy of the 1959 Revolution. Themes include economic dependency, democracy, race, gender, culture, and the always volatile relations between Cuba and the United States.

Same as POL SCI 153G, HISTORY 166C, CHC/LAT 157.

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The Middle East is reportedly warming at twice the global average. As the frequency of extreme weather conditions (e.g., intensified heatwaves, droughts, and floods) in the region goes up, so does a threat to its already fragile water, food, and energy supplies. Climate variability is generally not a direct cause of intra- and inter-state conflicts, but it often exacerbates the pre-existing sources of social, economic, and political instability, thus increasing the chances of tensions within and between countries.

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A faculty-student forum featuring lectures from a variety of institutions with discussion issues related to Global and International Studies.
 
Same as SOCECOL 183A, SOC SCI 183A.

For additional information about the Global and International Studies Forum, please visit: http://www.globalstudies.uci.edu/newsevents/forum.php

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The course investigates the political, economic, legal, and socio-cultural forces that shape the ways that archives are produced, used/appropriated, accessed, controlled/manipulated, abused, dismissed, and destroyed in various global settings. Topics include: settler colonial archives; disability archives; memory; archives and migration; politics of representation; archival affect; resistance archives; and anticolonial archiving among others. 

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This class will explore a range of interventions that seek to protect and to punish children and youth. It will simultaneously examine how the experiences of experiences of children and youth in different global contexts are far more complex than these contrasting interventions presume. We will use academic texts, documentary films, and podcasts to explore these themes.

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Examines the interplay between black feminist thought, activism, and the state from the 20th century onward. Explores the ways black feminists across the African diaspora have historically engaged with the state and forged pathways for social change. Topics include transnational black feminisms, gender and nationalism, decolonization, the cold war, empire, reproductive justice, labor, welfare, among others.

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This course aims to introduce students to the relationship between transnational organized crime and international security. The emphasis will be on the role of international organizations and national institutions in charge of security including the judiciary, military, and police in combating organized crime.

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This course will examine several key works by Frantz Fanon and his reception and deployment by radical black feminism, Arab-American feminism, Algerian feminism, African feminisms, queer of color formations in Europe, African Gender Studies, and Third World feminism.

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This course surveys the political ideologies and economic policies of foundational and influential leaders in the Caribbean and Africa. Breaking the regions into four historical moments (late-colonial, post-colonial; Structural adjustments, Post-Neoliberal moment), we examine policies from key political leaders in Africa and the Caribbean that supported, challenged, and/or initiated changes in the global structures of powers.

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