| source UC Santa Barbara (X) |
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department Global Studies (X) |
A survey of the historical processes that have brought different areas of the world into closer contact. Topics include ideologies of nationalism, democracy, and liberalism; international trade and migrations; technological changes; colonialism; the globalization of culture; and the reactions to them.
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Examination of contemporary social, economic, political, and environmental change in a global context; the emergence of a global economy and new systems of world order; and the debate over "globalization" and whether or not it is desireable.
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Examination of how recent world literature has contributed to, interpreted, and evaluated globalizing processes. Some attention paid to the relations between literature and other expressive forms such as film, photography, and journalism.
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Examination of the globalization of religious traditions in the modern world. Topics include the polarities between homeland and diaspora, the relationships between transnational religions and nation-states, and how these dynamics change the very nature of religious traditions.
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Introduction to the major systems of ideas promoting global unity, their attempted implementation, and their critics. Includes enlightenment humanism, secular nationalism, colonialism, Marxism, national socialism, the U.N. movement, world federalism, politicized versions of Christianity and Islam, and an emerging globalism.
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Globalization of the world's population through international migrations; the emergence of diasporic cultures and their relationship to the countriesof origin; interactions between immigrant/ethnic cultures and the dominant cultures of the host societies; the nature of transnational identities.
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Explores connections over the last century between global cultural developments and the quest for normative values on a global level. Topics include the communications revolution, cultural ideologies, international migrations and diasporas, the human rights movement, and new cosmopolitanisms.
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Examination of the U.N. declaration of human rights as a universal "sacred text," and the responses to it from Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, and secular philosphic traditions.
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Deals with conceptions of the world as a unitary political system and how these views come into confrontation with one another. Topics include the nation-state system, political ideologies, international organizations, global conflict, and the emergent civil society.
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Conceptions of world order from the birth of the nation-state to the end of the Cold War. Includes both global systems and regional structures in areas such as East Asia, the Americas and the Indian Ocean.
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Seminar addressing various theoretical perspectives and empirical issues and aspects of the contemporary world system, with emphasis on political, economic, cultural, and social processes and relations.
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Introduction to the politic of international economic relations. Examination of alternative analytical and theoretical perspectives for their value in helping understand and evaluate the historical development and current operation of the world economy.
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Exploration of some of the major points of tension in global society since the end of the cold war, with emphasis on the rise of religious nationalismand ethnic strife in the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and Russia.
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Examines recent theories and perspectives on global political economy and development studies. Topics include, among others, the new global economy, transnational corporations, transnational labor markets, international trade and finance, social and economic development, and North-South relations.
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A study of terrorist movements and actions, especially those involving religious militants in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe and the Americas. An exploration of their social causes and effects, and the relationship between religion and violence.
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An exploration of post-colonial social changes in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and other South and Central Asia societies, with emphasis on the rise of ethnic nationalism, the impact of international economic and communication systems, and indigenous forms of development.
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Selected aspects of the modern history of southeast Asia: cultural legacies, colonial rule, World War II, post-war struggles for political independence, regional cooperation and conflict, economic development and its sociopolitical impacts, interethnic tensions and political stability, and environmental problems.
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Selected aspects of the modern history of South Asia, focusing on India and Pakistan. Topics include: religious traditions, British colonialism, the 1947 "partition," political change, economic development, population pressures, the "green revolution" and its social impacts.
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Focuses on the changing meaning of Europe from the seventeenth century to the European Union. Images of Europe among European intellectuals, politicians, and travellers are contrasted with visions from other cultures such as China, India, and the Middle East.
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The evolution of international environmental negotiations, agreements, and organizations, and the role governmental and non-governmental actors are playing in shaping them are examined. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and equitable global sustainable development are among the critical policy challenges considered.
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How the figure of the �other� has been represented since early global cultures of the Atlantic World. We will read plays, poems, visual culture and novels that address the racial and colonial �other� since early European colonialisms.
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A survey of selected aspects of american immigration history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Compares immigration from Europe, Asia,Latin America, and elsewhere within the framework of U.S. immigration policy and changing social, economic, political, and legislative conditions.
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Historical and contempory issues related to Asian immigration into the United States: immigration exclusion, denial of naturalized citizenship and the franchise, economic and social discrimination, and cultural denigration; efforts by Asian Americans to both resist and adapt to such injustice.
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Critical examination of the interrelationships between women, culture and development. Topics include colonialism, violence, globalization and the state, health and reproduction, religion and nationalism, sustainable development, biotechnology, representation, and resistance movements.
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Critical examination of the interrelationships among women, culture, and development through individual research projects.
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