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Course Listing for INTERNATIONAL STUDIES - Fall 2024 (ALL: 09/03/2024 - 12/18/2024)

Class No.	Course ID	Title	Credits	Type	Instructor(s)	Days:Times	Location	Permission Required	Dist
3357	INTS-201-01	Gender & Sexuality/Transnatl	1.00	LEC	Zhang, Shunyuan	MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		GLB5
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: WMGS-201-01
		This broadly interdisciplinary course provides students with an introduction to the field of gender and sexuality studies. It pays particular attention to transnational approaches. Materials are drawn from a variety of disciplines and may include films, novels, ethnographies, oral histories, and legal cases.
3211	INTS-207-01	Global South	1.00	LEC	Rolando, Giancarlo	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 29		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		In 1985, the South Commission reported that two-thirds of the world's people lived in distress. To rectify this, the Commission proposed a laundry list of reforms. At the same time, political and social movements in what had been the Third World grew apace. These movements and this report inaugurate the creation of the "Global South", which is both a place and a project. This course will investigate the contours of the Global South, the conferences held to alleviate its many problems (Beijing/Women, Johannesburg/Environment, Durban/Race), and the people who live in the "South".
2704	INTS-209-01	War and the Asian Diaspora	1.00	SEM	Gunasena, Natassja	M: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA		SOC
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: WMGS-209-01
		How has war shaped and reshaped the Asian diasporic experience in the mid to late 20th century? This course examines texts by Sri Lankan, Korean, Vietnamese and other anglophone Asian voices to examine how militarized conflict intersects with gender and sexuality to shape the politics and experiences of Asians in diaspora. We will read novels, poetry, academic articles and essays on the experiences of Asian subjects who have witnessed/survived/ been impacted by war in their homelands in order to understand the systemic and as well as everyday effects of militarization, ethnic violence and imperialism.
3161	INTS-216-01	Undrstanding Lat Am & Caribbn	1.00	LEC	Euraque, Dario	TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-236-01
		This interdisciplinary course explores major historical themes and contemporary cultural and political topics related to Latin American and Caribbean societies and cultures. The goal is to give students a panoramic view of Latin America and the Caribbean and to introduce them to various issues that are explored more deeply in upper-division courses. We will address questions of demography and geography, basic historical periods and processes, particular anthropological and cultural debates, fundamental political and gender issues, sociological approaches to daily life, aesthetic and literary movements, and the regions' positions within the historical and contemporary world economy. Open to all students, this course is required of INTS majors with a Caribbean and Latin American Studies concentration.
3231	INTS-218-01	Chinese Global Cities	1.00	LEC	Chen, Xiangming	M: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB5
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: URST-218-01
		This course exposes students to a broad treatment of China's large number and diverse type of cities with established or emerging global city status and influence. China not only has the most, fastest growing, and regionally most varied cities in the world but also steers them to be global in connectivity and capacity through top-down and decentralized policy and planning. In sequential sections, the course examines a set of general and China-specific conditions that favor or hamper global city building: scale and location, path dependency, state power vs. market dynamics, in-migration and incorporation, culture, and regional linkages and integration. The course guides students to investigate the global attributes, connections, and functions of such diverse cities as Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Xian, Yiwu, Ruili, and Horgos. Students who have taken FYSM 196 Chinese Global Cities may not enroll in this course.
2332	INTS-237-01	20th Cent Chinese Literature	1.00	LEC	Shen, Yipeng	MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 30		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: CHIN-237-01
		This course is a survey of twentieth-century Chinese literature and films. It focuses on the literature, cinema, and essays of three periods in the Chinese 20th century: 1918 ~ 1949; 1949 ~ 1976; since 1976. We read works of Chinese writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Zhang Ailing, Mao Dun, ShenCongwen, Yu Hua, Su Tong, etc., and watch selected films of significant cultural and historical meanings. Students are introduced to various essential issues of twentieth-century Chinese cultural modernity and are encouraged to explore in the Chinese context the key tensions between tradition and modernity, native and foreign, and nationalism and cosmopolitanism.
2551	INTS-247-01	Global Inequalities	1.00	LEC	Fernandez Milmanda, Belen	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA		GLB5
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: POLS-247-01
		This course studies inequality in the contemporary world, its different types (wealth, income, gender, racial), its causes and consequences. We will look at inequality both in developing and developed countries as well as inequality in the world system. We will systematically analyze the economic, social and political transformations that have led to an increase in income inequality in the developed world in the last two decades, as well as the processes that have made possible a reduction of inequality in some regions of the developing world.
3234	INTS-302-01	Global Cities	1.00	SEM	King, Arianna	TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 7		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: PBPL-802-01, URST-802-01
		This seminar examines the contemporary map of interactions between cities in the world. There is now a considerable array of research analyzing what are variously termed global or world cities in the hierarchy of the world economy, and a counter-critique has emerged which seeks to analyze all cities as ordinary, moving beyond old binaries of 'developed' and 'developing' worlds of cities. We will interrogate this debate in both its theoretical and its empirical dimensions, with case studies from Africa and assessment of cultural, political, economic and environmental globalization.
3212	INTS-310-01	Queer China	1.00	SEM	Zhang, Shunyuan	MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: WMGS-310-01
		This course offers an interdisciplinary perspective on non-normative gendered and sexual practices in urban(izing) China and how they have been represented, embodied, and regulated across time and space. The course will introduce students to materials-textual, visual, and audio-that span more than a hundred years from late imperial China to the present against the backdrop of modernization, urbanization, and globalization. Students will explore the different methodological, thematic, and analytic approaches to genders and sexualities in literature, cultural studies, history, and ethnographies.
3135	INTS-335-01	U.S. Colonialism	1.00	LEC	Nebolon, Juliet	MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 25		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: AMST-336-01
		What does it mean to study the United States in the world, and the world in the United States? This course considers the role of the United States within global relations of empire, capitalism, migration, and war. It also examines how U.S. domestic politics of race, gender, national identity, and social justice have evolved in relation to these transnational histories. We will explore how the existence of the U.S. nation-state is premised upon the global histories of European colonialism, indigenous displacement, and transatlantic slavery. We will analyze the cultures and consequences of U.S. empire, as well as the multiracial and transnational social movements that have contested U.S expansion. This interdisciplinary course combines historical, literary, visual, and theoretical texts.
3166	INTS-342-01	Global Histories of Sexuality	1.00	SEM	Antrim, Zayde	MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: WMGS-342-01, HIST-342-01
		This course examines how notions of the body, gender, erotic desire, and sexuality have been organized over space and time. Beginning with the Mediterranean, Asia, and Latin America in the ancient and medieval periods, the course seeks to de-center discourses of Western sexual modernity. From the eighteenth century on, it considers how colonialism, racism, nationalism, and globalization have shaped modern sexualities, with particular attention to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Writing assignments focus on how scholars use theory and evidence to explore the sexual past.
3169	INTS-342-02	Global Histories of Sexuality	1.00	SEM	Antrim, Zayde	MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: WMGS-342-02, HIST-342-02
		This course examines how notions of the body, gender, erotic desire, and sexuality have been organized over space and time. Beginning with the Mediterranean, Asia, and Latin America in the ancient and medieval periods, the course seeks to de-center discourses of Western sexual modernity. From the eighteenth century on, it considers how colonialism, racism, nationalism, and globalization have shaped modern sexualities, with particular attention to Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Writing assignments focus on how scholars use theory and evidence to explore the sexual past.
3172	INTS-358-01	Seminar on Malcolm X	1.00	SEM	Markle, Seth	MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: HIST-358-01
		In this interdisciplinary seminar, we will seek to understand the making of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, most popularly known as Malcolm X, one of Black America's most important political leaders of the 20th century. How did Malcolm X define 'world revolution'? To answer this overarching question, we will critically assess autobiographical and biographical texts and academic literature as well as speeches, travel diaries, music, film, and poetry. Our goal is to situate Malcolm X within a Black radical protest tradition by taking into consideration themes and ideas that are pertinent to the study of the worldwide African Diaspora.
3335	INTS-376-01	Latin American Politics	1.00	SEM	Fernandez Milmanda, Belen	TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM	TBA		SOC
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: Y		Mode of Instruction: In Person
						Cross-listing: POLS-376-01
		The course examines the processes of political, economic and social change that took place in Latin America in the XX and XIX Century. Topics include: the rise of populism and import-substituting industrialization, revolutions and revolutionary movements, the causes and consequences of military rule, the politics of economic reform, democratic transitions, the commodity boom, and the left turn. For each topic we will review classic political science theories and critically evaluate their applicability to Latin American countries. We will also discuss the lessons that can be drawn from Latin American cases for the study of these topics in the rest of the world.
3424	INTS-377-01	Amazonia on Fire	1.00	SEM	Rolando, Giancarlo	MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM	TBA		GLB
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Amazonia is critical for human survival and its conservation occupies a preeminent role in global development and environmental agendas. However, the region remains a contested space where conflicting views of development and the good life frequently clash. This class will introduce students to Amazonia and the successive waves of extractive industries that have targeted and reconfigured the region, ranging from rubber and timber to agribusiness and environmental conservation. We will explore how Indigenous resistance movements have responded to these settler interventions and imagine together a future in which Amazonia does not burn down.
1541	INTS-399-01	Independent Study	1.00 - 2.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y	SOC
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar's Office, and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment.
2152	INTS-401-01	Senior Sem Internationl Stdies	1.00	SEM	Gunasena, Natassja	W: 1:30PM-4:10PM	TBA	Y	WEB
		Enrollment limited to 10		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		This course is open only to seniors majoring in International Studies; other students may enroll only with permission of instructor.
		This writing intensive course functions as the capstone experience for all INTS majors. The instructor will guide INTS seniors through the process of completing a substantial research paper that engages critically with dominant disciplinary approaches to and public discourses about the “global” or “international” sphere. The instruction of this course will rotate among INTS faculty, each of whom will organize the course around a particular theme.
1497	INTS-466-01	Teaching Assistant	0.50 - 1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
1724	INTS-490-01	Research Assistantship	1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor.
1891	INTS-497-01	Senior Thesis	1.00	IND	TBA	TBA	TBA	Y	SOC
		Enrollment limited to 15		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the instructor and director are required for enrollment in this single semester thesis. This course will be graded as Pass/Fail.
3297	CHIN-411-01	US-China Relations in Mandarin	1.00	SEM	Shen, Yipeng	T: 6:30PM-9:00PM	TBA		GLB2
		Enrollment limited to 19		Waitlist available: N		Mode of Instruction: In Person
		Also cross-referenced with INTS
		Prerequisite: C- or better in Chinese 302 or any 400 level Chinese course
		This course focuses on conversational Chinese about Taiwanese media coverage on US-China relations. Neither mainland Chinese nor American, Taiwanese opinion leaders offer fresh take on US-China relations and the future of the world. Students will learn and practice advanced expressions on relevant topics in Chinese.