Fall 2019 Global Affairs MA Specialization Class List

Fall 2019 Specialization Class List

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  • This list is subject to changes in the Fall 2019 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

ANTH 631 001 - Refugees in Contemporary World

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

BIOD 609 001 - Biodefense Strategy

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

BIOD 610 DL1 - Cyber Warfare Strategy Policy 

Online Class

BIOD 620 001 - Global Health Security Policy 

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

BIOD 722 DL1 - Examining Terrorist Groups

Online Class

BIOD 726 DL1 - Food Security

Online Class

BIOD 760 001 - National Security Technology/Policy

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

BIOD 760 001 enrollment is controlled. Contact Silva Pecini Morris at specini@gmu.edu or 703-993-4157 for approval to register via Patriot Web.

CONF 501 DL1 - Intro to Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Online Class

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

CONF 600 001 - Foundations of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

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

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

 CONF 600 002 - Foundations of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

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

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

 CONF 600 DL1 - Foundations of Conflict Analysis and Resolution

Online Class

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

 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

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

CONF 652 001 - Conflict Prevention/Reconstruction/Stabilization/Context

Saturday or Sunday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm (Meets part of term 1L,), Arlington Campus

Class meets on the following dates:

10/26, 11/2, 11/16, 11/17, 11/23, 12/7

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

CONF 653 001 – World Religions/Diplomacy/Conflict Resolution

Saturday/Sunday, 10:00 am-5:00 pm (Meets part of term 1L, 10/26-10/27, 11/09-11/10, & 12/07-12/08), Arlington Campus

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

CONF 657 001 – Facilitation Skills

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

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

 CONF 731 001 - Conflict in Organizations

Tuesday, 7:20-10:00 pm

Arlington Campus

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

 CONF 733 001 - Law/Justice from Conflict Perspective

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

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

FRLN 530 002 - Diversity, Conflict, and Citizenship in Africa

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

FRLN Class

GGS 533 001 - Geography North Africa/Middle East

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

GOVT 530 001 - Comparative Politics

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

 GOVT 540 001 - International Relations

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

GOVT 540 003 -  International Relations

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

 GOVT 631 001 - Seminar Comparative Politics/Institutions

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

GOVT 632 002 - Politics and Societies of the Middle East

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

 GOVT 706 001 - Federalism/Intergovernmental Relations

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

 GOVT 744 002 - Foundations Security Studies

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

GOVT 745 002 - International Security

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

MEIS 500 001 - Critical Issues and Debates in Middle East & Islamic Studies

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

 POGO 750 017 - Revolutions and Social Protest

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

PUBP 504 001 - Grand Strategy

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

 PUBP 504 003 - Grand Strategy

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

PUBP 505 001 - Politics International Security Policy

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

PUBP 506 002 - Ethics and the Use of Force

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

 PUBP 730 001 - US Institutions/Policy Process

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

Culture and Society

ANTH 555 001 - Policy and Culture

Tuesday/Thursday, 1:30-2:45 pm, Fairfax Campus

ANTH 555

 

ANTH 631 001 - Refugees in Contemporary World

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

ENGH 591 002 - Ethnography of Communication

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

ENGH 608 007 - Building a World

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

ENGH 661 001 - Slavery, Race Terror, and Historical Image

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

FRLN 530 002 - Diversity, Conflict, and Citizenship in Africa

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

FRLN Class

GOVT 632 002 - Politics and Societies of the Middle East

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

HIST 535 002 - Global History Concentration Camps

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

HIST 615 001 - American Democracy

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

HIST 615 002 - Civil/Military Relations

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

HIST 615 003 - Global History Concentration Camps

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

HIST 615 004 - Gender and Racial Ideology Jim Crow

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

INTS 537 00 - Critical Race Studies

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

INTS 540 001 - Contemporary Issues Social Justice

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

INTS 550 001 - Social Innovation in Action

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

INTS 575 003 - Enterprising Black Women

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

MEIS 500 001 - Critical Issues and Debates in Middle East & Islamic Studies

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

PHIL 658 001 - Feminist Thought

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

POGO 750 008 – Gender and Racial Ideology of Jim Crow

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

SOCI 623 001 -Racial/Ethnic Relations: American/Global

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

SOCI 633 002 - Contemporary Women's Movements

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

SPAN 510 001 - Method of Literary and Cultural Studies

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

Class is taught in Spanish.

SPAN 551 001 - Languages in Contact

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

Class is taught in Spanish.

SPAN 551 DL1 - Critical Approaches Teaching Hispanics

Online Class

Class is taught in Spanish

WMST 507 001 - Transnational Sexualities

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

WMST 550 005 - Gender/Sexuality/Law

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

WMST 550 006 – Race, Class, Media, and Entertainment

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

WMST 600 001 - Gender and Racial Ideology Jim Crow

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

WMST 600 002 - Contemporary Women's Movements

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

 

Economics and Development

ITRN 503 002 - Macroeconomic Policy/Global Economy

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

ITRN 503 003 - Macroeconomic Policy/Global Economy

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

ITRN 504 001 - Microeconomics/Trade Policy

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

ITRN 602 002 - Global Financial Crises/Interests

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

ITRN 603 001 - Global Trade Relations

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

ITRN 605 001 - Technology, Culture, and Commerce

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

ITRN 761 001 - European Political/Economic Union

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

POGO 750 012 - Strategic Trade

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

 

Global Education

EDEP 654 001 - Learning, Motivation, and Self-Regulation

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

EDPO 604 001 - Education Policy Implementation

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

EDRS 590 001 - Education Research

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

EDRS 590 002 - Education Research

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

EDUC 537 001 - Intro to Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Learners

Tuesday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus

EDUC 672 001 - Human Development & Secondary Education

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

EDUC 672 002 - Human Development & Secondary Education

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

HE 646 001 - Student Development Theory

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

SOCI 623 001 - Racial/Ethnic Relations: American/Global

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

SPAN 551 DL1 - Critical Approaches Teaching Hispanics

Online Class

Class is taught in Spanish

SPAN 551 001 - Languages in Contact

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

Class is taught in Spanish.

 

Governance and Public Management

FRLN 530 002 - Diversity, Conflict, and Citizenship in Africa

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

FRLN Class

GOVT 530 001 - Comparative Politics

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

GOVT 540 001 - International Relations

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

GOVT 540 003 - International Relations

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

GOVT 631 001 - Seminar Comparative Politics/Institutions

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

GOVT 706 001 - Federalism/Intergovernmental Relation

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

GOVT 744 002 - Foundations Security Studies

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

GOVT 745 002 - International Security

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

POGO 750 001 - US Government Crisis Management

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

POGO 750 002 - Intelligence and Public Policy

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

POGO 750 003 - Mapping Policy and Government Processes

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

POGO 750 004 - Public-Private Partnership

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

POGO 750 006 - Geopolitical Energy Security

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

 POGO 750 007 - Defense Programs, Budget, and Policy

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

POGO 750 008 - Gender and Racial Ideology Jim Crow

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

POGO 750 010 - US Foreign Policy in a Developing World

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

PUAD 636 001 - NGO Policy and Management

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

PUBP 504 001 - Grand Strategy

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

PUBP 504 003 - Grand Strategy

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

PUBP 505 001 - Politics International Security Policy

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

PUBP 506 002 - Ethics and the Use of Force

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

PUBP 730 001 - US Institutions/Policy Process

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

 

Global Health

BIOD 620 001 - Global Health Security Policy 

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

GCH 535 DL1 - Public Health Preparedness

Online Class

 GCH 543 001 - Global Health

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

GCH 650 001 - Global Non-Communicable Diseases

Monday, 4:30-7:10 pm, Fairfax Campus 

 GGS 540 001 - Health Geography

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

PUBP 770 001 - Health Policy Analysis

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

 

Media and Technology

HE 792 001 - Digital Storytelling

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

HE 792

ENGH 591 002 - Ethnography of Communication in Media and Technology

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

PUBP 503 001 - Culture, Org, and Technology

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

PUBP 503 002 - Culture, Org, and Technology

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

PUBP 503 DL1 - Culture, Org, and Technology

Online Class

WMST 550 006 – Race, Class, Media, and Entertainment

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

 

Population and Geography

ANTH 555 001 - Policy and Culture

Tuesday/Thursday, 1:30-2:45 pm, Fairfax Campus

ANTH 555

 

ANTH 631 001 - Refugees in Contemporary World

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

EVPP 505 005 - Food, Energy, Water Nexus

Tuesday/Thursday, 12:00-1:15 pm, Fairfax Campus

Food, energy and water systems face individual challenges to their sustainability and resilience.  The linkages between these systems can generate additional challenges, but integrative solutions that leverage these systems’ interdependencies are emerging.  In EVPP 490/505: Food Energy Water Nexus, we’ll discuss resilience and sustainability challenges that involve the food, energy water nexus, as well as innovative solutions to these challenges.  Our discussions will bridge multiple disciplines, as we examine the technological, economic, and institutional dimensions of the nexus in various places around the globe at local and national scales, as well as in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for food, energy and water.

The semester project will enable students to explore the food-energy-water nexus challenges in a place of your choosing.  You also will examine solutions that leverage these systems’ interdependencies.  Students will have the opportunity to apply your own specific research interests. 

In our discussions, I look forward to sharing my professional experiences in energy and environmental policymaking, as well as my own research on food, energy, and water nexus challenges and synergies.  We also will engage with guest speakers working on these issues in the private sector, NGOs, and at various government levels. Past speakers have included government officials from the State Department, USDA and the Department of Energy; entrepreneurs from aquaponics farms and energy companies; and practitioners and academics focusing on food, energy and water challenges in developing nations.

FRLN 530 002 - Diversity, Conflict, and Citizenship in Africa

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

FRLN Class

GGS 507 001 - Sustainable Development

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

GGS 533 001 - Geography North Africa/Middle East

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

GGS 590 001 - Urban Planning

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

PHIL 643 001 - Environmental Ethics

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

POGO 750 006 - Geopolitical Energy Security

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

PUAD 642 001 - Environmental Policy

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

SOCI 633 002 - Contemporary Women's Movements

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

WMST 600 002 - Contemporary Women's Movements

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