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  • GCS 320: Political Geography in the Middle East

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course is oriented around the major political geographies and power relationships within the Middle east and between the Middle East and the rest of the world. Key topics include the uneven historical-geographies diffusion of different religions, the Middle East in the eyes and arms of the West, the geographies of natural resources, and the intra and inter regional geopolitics that shape some of the world's most explosive conflicts. Students will examine general profiles of Middle Eastern countries and engage in discussions about provocative reading assignments from a diversity of perspectives. In addition to scholarly text, the class examines various films, maps, news reports, and other primary and secondary sources. Prerequisites: GCS 175 or permission of instructor
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  • GCS 335: Revolutions

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course focuses on "revolutions" as globalizing forces in human history; it begins with a discussion of the European Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolutions and proceeds through the American and French revolutions to the Bolshevik Revolution incorporating ancillary "revolutions" along the way, including discussions of some or all of the following: European colonial expansion, the Bolivarian liberation, Fordist production, consumerism, Viet Nam, postindustrialization/post-Fordism, postmodernity, neoliberalism, etc. Prerequisite: GCS175
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  • GCS 340: Global Political Ecology

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    A study of the relationship of humans to the environments they inhabit with special attention paid to the political-economic structures that inform those relationships; of particular interest will be the character of capitalism and the extent to which it is implicated in the ongoing environmental change on local and global scales. Prerequisite: GCS175 CourseObjectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Recognize the environmental impact on human societies, globally and locally. 2) Identify the system that contributes to environment changes. 3) Recommend ways to address the issues of political and economic implicaitons in the environment.
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  • GCS 350: Civilizations and Their Discontents

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course will examine and analyze the phenomena of alienation, disaffection, resistance, subversion, counter-cultural assertion, and revolution as they emerge in the modern state. The course will draw upon various theoretical paradigms including psychoanalysis, neo-Marxist critical theory, and contemporary post-modernist thought. Prerequisite: GCS175 CourseObjectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Demonstrate an understanding of the complex relationship between psychology, sociology, anthropology, and economics. 2) Understand basic critical theories of psychoanalysis and post-modernism. 3) Relate these theories to human experiances in civilizations.
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  • GCS 360: Marx and Marxism

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    This course enables students to delve deeply into Karl Marx's writings, particularly his magnum opus, Capital, Volume One, but also other works by him and his intellectual descendents and critics. Such forays into sometimes rather difficult pieces allow students to begin to understand the problems and possibilities of Marx's way of thinking. Critically equipped with a Marxist perspective, students are then tasked with making sense of the contemporary world around us, especially the ways in which capitalism operates at global, national, urban, and corporeal scales. By the end of the semester, students should have a firm grasp on Marx and Marxism, a new understanding of the way capitalism works, and an idea of some alternatives to capitalism. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Articulate, in writing and speech, a critical understanding of Karl Marx's thinking. (2) Articulate, in writing and speech, key critiques of Marx's thinking. (3) Apply this way of thinking and/or critiques to depictions of contemporary capitalist society. (4) Articulate, in writing and speech, a greater understanding of the ways in which capitalism works at global, national, and local scales. (5) Articulate, in writing and speech, a comprehension of the ways in which political-economic processes contribute to inequality and social change. (6) Articulate, in writing and speech, a basic understanding of alternatives to capitalism. (7) Strengthen written communication skills. (8) Strengthen oral communication skills. (9) Strengthen analytical and critical thinking skills.
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  • GCS 375: Popular Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    Examines the American experience in terms of its multiple cultural expressions. By adopting the methods of social scientists, the students will develop an analytical perspective and gain awareness of American culture and of cross-cultural communication. Issues such as stereotyping and representation of "the other" will be explored. The theoretical considerations, along with a close focus on various cultural texts ( literary, print, and visual media)-through a practice of "reading also between the lines'-will provide the students with greater understanding of culture in general and of the processes involved in cultural production. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Employ and recognize semiotic, psychoanalytic, sociological and historical systems of thought and interpretation in the analysis of film. 2) Interpret or "read" cultural objects from a critical perspective. 3) Write brief cogent essays ( both analytic and descriptive) concerning film and popular culture. 4) Recognize and employ historical perspective on the development of popular culture. 5)Employ the processes of question formulation, drafting, elaboration and revision in the development of essays.
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  • GCS 390: Study Abroad Project I

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An on-site in-depth examination of a specific global issue as it relates to and/or is manifested in a particular foreign locale. Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor
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  • GCS 402: Wealthy White Males

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    An examination of the power elite structure; a historical and critical review of the minority that shapes our lives and manages many of our institutions. The relationship of the "wealth white males" to global cultures will also be considered. Various theories of social organization will provide the foundation for this investigative and analytic approach to the American social order. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Identify social structures (models of society) across the globe. 2) Assess societies and cultures from a scientific point of view. 3) Recognize their own place in society. 4) Evaluate the dominant social structures and how they determine our lives. 5) Conceptualize the relationship between social structure and inequalities.
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  • GCS 415: Women: Global Perspectives

    3.00 Credits
    Point Park University

    What roles and functions do women have in the global arena? Although not a minority, women are still, for the most part, disempowered. The course will explore the position of women-globally-from historical, socio-political, psychological, PRE: ENGL 250 or 251 Course Objectives Upon successful completion, students will: 1) Identify the specific challenges that women face globally. 2) Summarize the causes of gender discrimination. 3) Understand the interaction between men and their role in the society and women's role. 4) Trace the differences, changes in the status and treatment of women across nations and history. 5) Recognize general patterns that enable misogyny and discuss ways to counter it.
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