The Winter 2021 "bundled" course offering from the Global Studies program has been designed to introduce you to key questions, concepts and methods of the major in the space of one quarter. It combines two, interwoven courses in Global Studies:
Application Deadline: Thursday, November 5, 2020
- GLST 23102/1 – Intro to Global Studies II, section 1 (Kohl, TR, 1:00-2:20 PM)
- GLST 25320/1 – Poverty and Urban Development: The Right to Housing in Latin America (Gonzalez, MW, 1:50-3:10 PM)
GLST 23102-1, Global Studies II
Schedule: TR, 1:00-2:20 PM
Instructor: Owen Kohl
Course Description: This second part of the introductory course sequence for Global Studies majors is focused on the development of students’ own substantive research proposals. All new readings that Global Studies students encounter will help them to think theoretically through relevant multidisciplinary literatures – including from sociology, anthropology, and history, among many others – to begin asking their own distinct research questions. We will then develop relevant bibliographies and targeted empirical objectives attuned to diverse possible “data” sources, including in material culture or in archives, in texts or in landscapes, in ethnographic or mass mediated narratives, or on burgeoning digital platforms. Discussion, writing assignments, and in-class workshops will help us discern and appreciate the craft of academic research, including the careful identification of sites, objects, potential interlocutors, primary and secondary materials. The course will leave students with a full draft of their thesis proposals.
GLST 25320-1, Poverty and Urban Development: The Right to Housing in Latin America
Schedule: MW, 1:50-3:10 PM
Instructor: Ines Escobar Gonzalez
Course Description: Bringing a wide variety of disciplinary texts into conversation, this course leads towards a holistic understanding of the historically rooted and globally entangled housing condition of Latin America’s urban poor. It encourages students to read along the grain of developmental discourse at different stages of twentieth-century development, thus advancing students’ capacity to critically situate and condition global and national policies. The course analytically foregrounds problems of governance, resource distribution, and sociopolitical complexity, providing students with a representative range of case studies from across the subcontinent and interrogating what it means for social and economic goods to be labeled human rights. Throughout the course, students will examine diverse housing arrangements and policies in the context of national, regional, and global development histories. Ultimately, this course advances comprehension of the particularities of contemporary Latin American societies, and that which they share with the Global South and the world at large.
Admitted students will participate in a cohort of students and faculty, all engaged in a quarter-long discussion with a shared, applied focus on how the issues we discuss are manifest in our current understanding. Intensive course bundles offer many advantages, especially under conditions that limit social interaction. These include the opportunity for sustained, in-depth study of the questions posed by the Global Studies major and the opportunity to build community within a cohort.
Admitted students will be pre-registered in BOTH courses of the bundle. Students interested in the individual courses will have the opportunity to bid on seats after the bundle’s cohort has been enrolled. This form must be completed by Thursday, November 5 in order to be pre-registered for BOTH.
Application link is here.