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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Introduces students to the global studies major, its requirements, outcomes, activities, and how these are achieved and assessed. Helps students acquire and develop the knowledge, skills, and understanding needed to fulfill Major Learning Outcomes. Assesses students' prior learning, special skills, learning styles, career, and goals to create a global studies faculty approved learning plan. Also introduces students to research methods for Global Studies. Required for GS majors. (Offered fall semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Offered as interest warrants. Units 1 to 6 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Examines contemporary and historical processes of globalization from a variety of perspectives: conceptual, historical, geographic, economic, political, cultural, and sociological. Covers how capitalism, Western imperialism, colonialism, nationalism, racism, sexual exploitation, religion, environmental destruction, war, trade, technological development, international agreements, social movements, democratization, human rights, and popular struggles for social justice and equity have shaped the global order. (Offered fall and spring semesters.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Focuses on U.S. foreign policy in the Asia Pacific region, the Caribbean, Central America, and selected developing countries. Pays particular attention to U.S. diplomatic, economic, and military relations with Korea, China, Japan, Viet Nam, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Island countries, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Liberia, and Iraq. (Offered fall semester.) Units 2 to 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 24, 2008 View History Description: Explores the "modern" era of World History since roughly 1500. Highlights the mounting "globalization" of the world's diverse societies, the emergence of a new and distinctly "modern" way of life, the growing prominence of Europeans on the world stage, and the various forms of resistance to Western dominance. (Offered fall semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Identifies and critiques various important global issues that have particularly adverse effects on the Global South countries. Students comprehend, analyze, and evaluate the role played in the Third World or Global South by the more powerful states, corporations and civil society of the First World or Global North. (Offered spring semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Reviews salient periods of U.S. territorial expansion from the Mexican-American war to the declared and undeclared interventions to the present. Analyzes domestic and international charges of neo-colonialism and economic imperialism versus recurrent open calls for a civilizing American Empire, benign conquest, humanitarian interventions, and regime change. (Offered only as interest warrants.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Introduces diverse philosophical, ideological, religious, spiritual, scientific, technological, and gender views or perspectives. Focuses on the similarities and differences between worldviews and how those people interact with the world. Students study the adverse effects of ethnocentrism, reflect on their own worldview, and empathize with people with differing worldviews. (Offered fall semester.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Compares the dominant forms of government that have endured into the 21st century and the political ideologies and economic institutions that have created them. Addresses the contest over emerging forms of global governance embodied in the two poles of neo-liberal corporate commercial/financial institutions (WTO/IMF/World Bank) on one side, and a growing global network of civil society alliances that have arisen to challenge them on the other. Examines issues of national sovereignty. Covers the K-12 History/Social Science Content Standards. (Offered only as interest warrants.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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4.00 Credits
Effective Mar 11, 2008 View History Description: Examines on a global scale how contemporary media of mass communications influence human values, events, issues, ideas, identities, opinions, government policies, consumer behavior, social relations, and ultimately the destiny of humanity. Students develop their media literacy and ability to critically evaluate the importance and effects of technologies and the communications media on contemporary economic, political, and cultural life at the global, national, and local levels. (Offered only as interest warrants.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
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