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Spring 2027
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2020courses with offerings
2222instructors recorded
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Explores the roles of markets, states, and civil institutions in shaping global wealth and well-being using economic theory, computer simulations, and historical experience.
Problem sets constituted 40% of the grade but were unrelated to lecture material or tests. Students noted that the workload did not align with the topics covered in class, creating confusion about expectations.
Human Rights and Education explores the relationship between human rights and education globally, investigating tensions within the human rights framework to reduce social inequality through educational case studies.
An interdisciplinary course examining the link between education and global political, economic, and social contexts. It uses a place-based approach to explore topics like migration, marketization, and youth culture.
Explores global women's health through a human rights lens, examining health issues across the life cycle and the socio-cultural and economic factors affecting access to quality basic health care.
This course investigates how everyday people shaped European history and politics from WWI to today through a comparative, interdisciplinary study of social movements, including Fascism, the Left, and youth movements.
The Cold War from WWII to the end of the Soviet Empire, exploring geopolitics, ideology, and covert operations across five continents using diverse sources.
Modern Latin America covers Latin American history since independence, focusing on the twentieth century. It examines socioeconomic, cultural, and political structures shaping life in the region.
Introduction to International Studies: An interdisciplinary examination of cultural, political, economic, and social patterns defining the modern world.
The class required extensive reading, and students noted that completing the assigned material was essential for understanding the lectures and succeeding on exams.
International Learning Community General Seminar promotes understanding of international and cross-cultural issues through collaborative learning among ILC members.
A language seminar promoting understanding of international and cross-cultural issues and related vocabulary in the target language, encouraging collaborative learning within the International Learning Community.
Assignments were student-driven, allowing learners to focus on topics that interested them. The instructor made it clear what students needed to remember despite occasional entertaining tangents.