Fall 2018 Global Affairs MA Specialization List

 

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  • This list is subject to changes in the Fall 2018 course schedule

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Conflict and Security

Culture and Society

Economics and Development

Global Education

Governance and Public Management

Global Health

Media and Technology

Population and Geography

Conflict and Security

BIOD 609 001 - Biodefense Strategy

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

BIOD 620 DL1 - Global Health Security Policy

Online Class

BIOD 722 002 - Examining Terrorist Groups

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

BIOD 726 001 - Food Security

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

CONF 610 001 - Conflict Inquiry

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

E-mail scaradvi@gmu.edu to request registration override.

CONF 610 DL1 - Conflict Inquiry

Online Class

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CONF 625 002 - Engaging Conflict

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

E-mail scaradvi@gmu.edu to request registration override.

CONF 625 003 - Engaging Conflict

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

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CONF 654 001 - Mass Atrocity: Warning and Prevention

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

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CONF 695 001 - Urban Warfare

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

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CONF 695 002 - Action Research Social Change and or Environment

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

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CONF 695 005 - Conflict, Media, and Peace Journalism

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

E-mail scaradvi@gmu.edu to request registration override.

CONF 723 001 - Conflict and Gender

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

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GLOA 599 001 - Globalization and Development: MENA

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 510 003 - American Government and Politics

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 530 004 - Comparative Politics

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 540 001 - International Relations

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 540 004 - International Relations

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 731 005 - European Politics

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 731 006 - Revolutions

Wednesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 744 002 - Foundations Security Studies

Wednesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

GOVT 745 001 - International Security

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 745 002 - International Security

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

PUBP 504 001 - Grand Strategy

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 505 001 - Politics International Security Policy

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 506 001 - Ethics and the Use of Force

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 730 001 - US Institutions/Policy Process

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus



Culture and Society

ANTH 699 005 - Food and Human Evolution

Monday/Wednesday, 10:30-11:45 am, Fairfax Campus

ENGH 619 004 - Food Writing

Wednesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

ENGH 642 001 - Seminar in British Literature

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

ENGH 681 001 - Public Humanities

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

FREN 550 001 - Paris in French Literature and Cinema

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

This course focuses on literary and cinematic representations of               Paris from the Belle Époque to the present. We will explore Paris through the different perspectives offered by writers and filmmakers who have shaped the City of Light into the capital of the arts and a beacon of modernity. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we will read works of fiction alongside philosophical, historical, and sociological considerations. Taught in French.

GLOA 599 001 - Globalization and Development: MENA

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

HIST 535/615/635 - Cultural Globalization

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

HIST 635 004 - Stalinism

Wednesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

INTS 540 001 - Contemporary Issues Social Justice

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

INTS 575 003 - Enterprising Black Women

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

INTS 575 004 - Art, Beauty, and Culture

Thursday, 1:30-4:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

SPAN 510 001 - Methods of Literary and Cultural Studies

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

In this course, students study key trends in literary, film and cultural studies, including literary and film theory; cognitive approaches to          literature and film; and the critical study of forms of mass media as          popular culture. Students also learn how to use these various methods        in the close analysis of Spanish-language literary  texts, radio dramas,  films, television programs and other cultural practices, with an eye to revealing how these practices have made meaning for readers and audiences across the Spanish-speaking world. The teaching of literature and media literacy in schools will also be covered. Open to advanced undergraduates with the permission of the instructor. Taught in Spanish.

SPAN 544 001 - Spanish Language Film, TV, Digital Media

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

Students will be introduced to current trends in film and television studies, including film theory, the archival turn, and ethnographies of television reception.This semester we will contextualize these approaches in the rich and diverse history  of Latin American cinema and television: the silent film tradition of the early 20th century; the growth of the studio systems in the 1930s-1950s; mid-century revolutionary cinema; the rise of the telenovela in the later 20th century; and contemporary trends in suspense, road trip and melorealist filmmaking. Taught in Spanish.

SPAN 571 001 - Methods and Curriculum Design for Teaching Spanish

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

This team-taught course aims to provide a theoretically grounded, practically situated introduction to the field of classroom second/foreign language learning and pedagogy. Students will make connections between theory, research, and practice through discussion and critique of  scholarly academic readings and will have frequent opportunities to apply core principles underlying different teaching methods through several performance-based assessments including hands-on task design and unit-planning skills and student-led micro teaching   simulations. This course      meets Virginia licensure requirements for foreign language teachers. Taught in English with assigned readings in Spanish for students enrolled in SPAN 571.

SOCI 633 002 - Theories of Possibility

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

SOCI 633 003 - Feminist Theory Across Discourse

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

SOCI 655 001 - Ethnography

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

WMST 508 001 - Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

WMST 550 002 - Gender, Culture, Health in US

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

WMST 550 004 - Lesbian and Bisexual Theories

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

WMST 600 001 - Race/Gender/Lynching

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

WMST 630 001 - Feminist Theory Across Discourse

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

Economics and Development

GLOA 599 001 - Globalization and Development: MENA

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

ITRN 500 001 - Global Political Economy

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

ITRN 500 005 - Global Political Economy

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

ITRN 602 001 - Global Financial Crises/Interests 

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

ITRN 603 001 - Global Trade Relations

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

ITRN 718 001 - Global Economy/Human Development

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

 

Global Education

EDUC 537 DL1 - Cultural Linguistic Diverse Learners

Online Class

EDUC 613 001 - How Students Learn

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

EDUC 613 DL1 - How Students Learn

Online Class

EDUC 797 001 - Education Policy Challenges

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

EDUC 797 004 - Higher Education Policy

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

HE 606 001 -Diversity in Higher Education

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

HE 704 001 - Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

HE 792 002 - Higher Ed Policy and Access

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

 

Governance and Public Management

GLOA 599 001 - Globalization and Development: MENA

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 510 003 - American Government and Politics

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 530 004 - Comparative Politics

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 540 001 - International Relations

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 540 004 - International Relations

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 731 005 - European Politics

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 731 006 - Revolutions

Wednesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 744 002 - Foundations Security Studies

Wednesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 745 001 - International Security

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GOVT 745 002 - International Security

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

POGO 750 001 - US/Mexico: Society, Policy, Dynamics, and Security 

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

POGO 750 002 - Intelligence and Public Policy

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

POGO 750 003 - Foreign Intelligence in Free Society

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

POGO 750 004 - European Security

Wednesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

POGO 750 005 - Public-Private Partnership

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

POGO 750 007 - Global Governance, Democracy, and Human Rights

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

POGO 750 008 - Middle East Security 

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

POGO 750 010 - American Foreign Policy

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 504 001 - Grand Strategy

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 505 001 - Politics International Security Policy

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 506 001 - Ethics and the Use of Force

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 710 005 - Political Influence and Business Influence

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 730 001 - US Institutions/Policy Process

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

PUAD 636 002 - NGO Policy and Management

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

 

Global Health

GCH 535 DL1 - Public Health Preparedness

Online Class

GCH 543 001 - Global Health

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GCH 543 DL1 - Global Health

Online Class

GCH 650 001 - Global Non-Communicable Diseases

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GGS 540 001 - Health Geography

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

This course surveys health geography, a subdiscipline of geography

which encompasses a broad range of topics regarding human and

environmental health. At its core, health geography is the study of

human-environmental interactions and the spatial influences of these

interactions on population health – i.e., how people interact with their

physical and social environment to promote health and wellbeing or to

increase their vulnerability to disease and/or illness. The approach taken

in this course will focus on examining geographic health-related issues

(e.g., disease, illness, health care access, nutrition) from the perspective

of populations. Major health issues and health care systems from

around the world will be evaluated and discussed.

 

GGS 590 010 - Environmental Impacts on Health

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

HAP 640 001 - Current Issues in Health Policy

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

PUBP 757 002 - Public Policy in Global Health and Medical Practice

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Arlington Campus

PUBP 770 DL1 - Health Policy Analysis

Online Class

WMST 550 002 - Gender, Culture, Health in US

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus


Media and Technology

ENGH 508 001 - Digital Rhetoric

Thursday, 4:30-7:20 pm, Fairfax Campus

PUBP 503 - Culture, Org, and Technology

*Multiple Sections - Check Patriot Web Schedule of Classes

SPAN 544 001 - Spanish Language Film, TV, Digital Media

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

Students will be introduced to current trends in film and television studies, including film theory, the archival turn, and ethnographies of television reception.This semester we will contextualize these approaches in the rich and diverse history  of Latin American cinema and television: the silent film tradition of the early 20th century; the growth of the studio systems in the 1930s-1950s; mid-century revolutionary cinema; the rise of the telenovela in the later 20th century; and contemporary trends in suspense, road trip and melorealist filmmaking. Taught in Spanish.

 

Population and Geography

ANTH 699 001 - Human Dimensions - Climate Change

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

EVPP 533 001 - Energy Policy 

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

EVPP 635 002 - Environment and Society

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

EVPP 637 001 - Human Dimensions - Climate Change

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

EVPP 642 003 - Environmental Policy

Thursday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Fairfax Campus

GGS 507 001 - Sustainable Development

Monday/Wednesday, 3:00-4:15 pm, Fairfax Campus

GGS 540 001 - Health Geography

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

This course surveys health geography, a subdiscipline of geography

which encompasses a broad range of topics regarding human and

environmental health. At its core, health geography is the study of

human-environmental interactions and the spatial influences of these

interactions on population health – i.e., how people interact with their

physical and social environment to promote health and wellbeing or to

increase their vulnerability to disease and/or illness. The approach taken

in this course will focus on examining geographic health-related issues

(e.g., disease, illness, health care access, nutrition) from the perspective

of populations. Major health issues and health care systems from

around the world will be evaluated and discussed.

 

GGS 590 009 - Urban Planning

Thursday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

GGS 590 010 -Environmental Impacts on Health

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

GLOA 599 001 - Globalization and Development: MENA

Wednesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

POGO 750 006 - Geopolitical Energy Security

Monday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus

POGO 750 009 - Climate Change Policy/Politics

Wednesday, 7:20-10:00 pm, Arlington Campus