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INTR 1015 - Introduction to Global History Since 1950
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 1015W until 20-JAN-15
Global History in Information Age. East-West divisions during Cold War: North-South relations in global economy. Emerging consciousness of global systems. Issues of human rights, labor migration, environmental degradation, and indigenous peoples. Emphasizes comparison of cases from Asia, Africa, Latin America.
INTR 1016 - Honors: Introduction to Global History Since 1950 [WI]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 1015V until 02-SEP-14, HIST 1015V (inactive, was HIST 1015H until 05-SEP-00), GLOS 1015V (inactive, was INTR 1016 until 05-SEP-00), GLOS 1015W (starting 07-SEP-99, was INTR 1015 until 05-SEP-00), HIST 1015W (starting 02-SEP-08, ending 07-SEP-04, was HIST 1015 until 05-SEP-00), HIST 1019 (inactive)
Global History in Information Age. East-West divisions during the Cold War: North-South relations in global economy. Emerging consciousness of global systems. Issues of human rights, labor migration, environmental degradation, and indigenous peoples. Emphasizes comparison of cases from Asia, Africa, Latin America.
INTR 1201 - Exploring Global Studies
(1 cr; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 1201 until 05-SEP-00, was INTR 1901 until 18-JAN-00
Global studies, study abroad, and experiential learning. International film series, discussions with faculty, exposure to international media resources. Introduction to special language learning opportunities. Tied to Global Studies House residential experience.
INTR 1909 - Topics: Freshman Seminar (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 1909W until 26-MAY-15
INTR 3003 - Cultural Anthropology
(3 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3003 until 03-SEP-13
Marxist/feminist theories of culture. Culture and language/discourse. Psychological anthropology. Culture and transnational processes. May include field research, politics of ethnographic knowledge.
INTR 3101 - International Relations: Practice and Theory
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3145 until 08-SEP-20, was GLOS 3101 until 05-SEP-06
Core course for International Relations majors. Provides a broad range of theoretical approaches, contextually grounded case studies, and simulations of significant contemporary world problems. Students acquire insights and skills needed to become a professional in the field.
INTR 3102 - Research Methods in International Relations
(3 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3102 until 07-SEP-04
Provides skills for the competitive work place and academic research. Information resources and methods for researching topics in international relations including both traditional print and new electronic forms of information.
INTR 3103 - Colonialism and Modernity
(3 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3103 until 04-SEP-12
How modern world has been constituted by colonial encounter. Role of colonialism in construction of west. Images of non-western societies. Modernity in colonial/postcolonial societies. Problems/potential of universal categories such as democracy, gender, history, human rights. Globalization at the margins.
INTR 3151 - Honors International Relations: Practice and Theory
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3145H until 08-SEP-20, was GLOS 3101H until 05-SEP-06
Core course for International Relations majors. Provides a broad range of theoretical approaches, contextually grounded case studies, and simulations of significant contemporary world problems. Students acquire insights and skills needed to become a professional in the field.
INTR 3301 - Environment & Empire
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3301 until 26-MAY-15
Introduction to key issues in environmental history. Emphasizes global/colonial processes that have made modern environment. Global spread of diseases. Modern remaking of world?s flora/fauna. Idea of nature. New technologies and the environment. Conservationist ideology.
INTR 3550 - Honors Course: Supervised Research Paper
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3985V until 19-JAN-21, was GLOS 3550V until 19-JAN-21
INTR 3552 - Honors Seminar: The Making of the Modern World
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3552H until 04-SEP-12
Explores the making of the modern world, including an examination of interaction across ecological frontiers, changing power relations, the restructuring of systems of production, and the creation of new cultures and identities.
INTR 3553 - Honors Seminar: Change in the Contemporary Global Order [IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3553H until 04-SEP-12
Important issues of global change: population growth and human migration; human relations with the physical environment; struggles for popular power and sustainable democratic institutions; relations and conditions of work; and cultural representations of social identities. Attention to the U.S.-Mexican arena.
INTR 3558 - Junior Honors Research Seminar [IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3558V until 04-SEP-12, was GLOS 3558H until 02-SEP-03
Theoretical perspectives and methods available to researchers in international studies.
INTR 3602 - Other Worlds: Globalization and Culture
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3602 until 19-JAN-21
Interconnectedness of world. Considering not one world, but many. Colonialism, consumption, diasporic conditions, global media, nationalism, supra-national governance. How globalization is experienced/contested locally/specifically.
INTR 3620 - Foreign Language News Coverage of International Events
(1 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3620 until 26-MAY-15
Compares coverage of current news in selected foreign language newspapers with coverage in a U.S. paper such as The New York Times.
INTR 3900 - Topics in International Relations (Topics course)
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3900 until 13-MAY-24
Selected issues and topics in international relations. Topics will vary every semester. Description and topics specified in Class Schedule.
INTR 3981 - Major Project Seminar [WI]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 3981W until 19-JAN-21
Supports senior project requirement by allowing students to formulate their own research questions, select a topic, develop and produce a 25-30 page undergraduate research paper.
INTR 4601 - International Development: Theory and Practice
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 4801 until 28-MAY-13, was GLOS 4601 until 04-SEP-01
Interdisciplinary approches to development. Assumptions, competing paradigms, analysis of policies, projects, problems. Globalization, societal crisis, indigenous alternatives to dominant paradigm. Partially taught in separate sections to deepen understanding of particular topic (e.g., environment, health, education).
INTR 4603 - Work, Family, Community, and Development in Cross-Cultural Perspective
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 4802 until 28-MAY-13, was GLOS 4603 until 16-JAN-01
Intercultural communication concepts/skills. UC cultural/value system. Stages of adjustment. Coping stratergies for crossing cultural boundaries. Host-country cultural characteristics; emphasizes work, family, community, views of development.
INTR 4605 - MSID Country Analysis
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 4803 until 28-MAY-13, was GLOS 4605 until 04-SEP-01
Multidisciplinary study of host country. Emphasizes social sciences and history, especially concepts/information regarding development issues.
INTR 4607 - Field Study in Internaionatl Development
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 4607 until 05-SEP-00
Field research project combined with grassroots internship in a host-country development agency or project through Minnesota Studies in International development.
INTR 4608 - Grassroots Development Internship
(2 cr [max 8]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 4 credits)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 4805 until 28-MAY-13, was GLOS 4608 until 04-SEP-01
Grassroots internship with a host-country development agency or project through Minnesota Studies in International Development. Community characteristics, development statergies/problems, organizational structure/culture, cross-cultural communication issues.
INTR 4609 - MSID Directed Research
(2 cr [max 8]; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring; may be repeated for 8 credits)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 4808 until 28-MAY-13
Research project based on field work in Ecuador, India, Kenya, or Senegal through Minnesota Studies in International Development (MSID).
INTR 4900 - Senior Seminar in Global Studies (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; may be repeated for 23 credits)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 4900 until 26-MAY-15
Globalization, nationalism, colonialism, cultural production, environmental sustainability, globalization of economy, migration, diasporas, global conflict/cooperation, human rights. Students examine theoretical debates and cutting edge scholarship and develop their own research projects. Capstone course.
INTR 4951 - Honors: Senior Seminar in Global Studies (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 4900H until 26-MAY-15
Globalization, nationalism, colonialism, cultural production, environmental sustainability, globalization of economy, migration, diasporas, global conflict/cooperation, human rights. Students examine theoretical debates and cutting edge scholarship and develop their own research projects. Capstone course.
INTR 5103 - Colonialism & Modernity
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 5103 until 04-SEP-12
How modern world has been constituted by colonial encounter. Role of colonialism in construction of the west. Images of non-western societies. Modernity in colonial/postcolonial societies. Problems/potential of universal categories such as democracy, gender, history, human rights. globalization at the margins.
INTR 5301 - Environment & Empire
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 5301 until 26-MAY-15
Key issues in environmental history. Emphasizes global/colonial processes that have made modern environment. Global spread of diseases, modern remaking of world?s flora/fauna, idea of nature. New technologies and the environment. Conservationist ideology.
INTR 5602 - Other Worlds: Globality and Culture
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 5602 until 18-JAN-22
Interconnectedness of world. Considering not one world, but many. Colonialism, consumption, diasporic conditions, global media, nationalism, supra-national governance. How globality is experienced/contested locally/specifically.
INTR 5900 - Topics in International Relations (Topics course)
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was GLOS 5900 until 19-MAY-25
Proseminar. Selected issues in international relations. Topics vary every semester.

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