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Introduces graduates to the field of global and international studies. Landmark studies outline the transition from globalization studies to contemporary global studies. Identify complex global issues, underlying processes of globalization, and the impacts they have on people around the world.

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Fundamentals of empirical research design, strategies for global research, sampling logics, reliability, validity, mixed methods, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods. Introduction to basic data collection methods and examples of more advanced methodological strategies. Research ethics and the IRB review process.

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Year-long intensive introduction to graduate students to a range of topics pertinent to the field of Global Studies. The guest speakers and topics addressed vary each quarter.

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Selected readings introduce students to topics such as queer globalization, global sexual economy, Indigenous feminism, gender regimes, heteronationalism, the straight state, heteropatriarchy, feminist science and environmentalism, and global masculinities.

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Provides graduate students with a broad overview of the major landmarks in the development of modern social thought. Introduces key philosophers and theorists Adam Smith, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Freud, and Du Bois, focusing on the global dimensions of their work.

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Focuses on production, critique, and revision of student research proposals. A practical seminar designed to improve student proposals, help students through the application processes, and increase students' chances of obtaining support for their research.

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Year-long intensive introduction to graduate students to a range of topics pertinent to the field of Global Studies. The guest speakers and topics addressed vary each quarter.

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Examines issues impacting Indigenous peoples in local, national, and global contexts, including the cultural, political, and legal status of Indigeneity and geopolitical struggles over Indigenous territories, challenges such as climate change to Indigenous lifeways, and contemporary struggles for survivance.

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Examines important developments in social theory between 1914 and 1991. The overarching goal is to synthesize from these various approaches a critical and transdisciplinary theoretical framework to analyze complex global issues.

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Year-long intensive introduction to graduate students to a range of topics pertinent to the field of Global Studies. The guest speakers and topics addressed vary each quarter.

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Explores the concept of “racial capitalism” that has been mobilized by contemporary radical movements from Black Lives Matter and the prison abolition movement, to movements for climate justice. How does race, class, gender, and sexuality feature in capitalism today?