This list contains courses that have been pre-approved to count for each concentration. Other relevant courses may be applied to a concentration with the permission of the program. Some of the courses listed here may have prerequisites and/or require permission of the instructor before you can enroll. Check the course listing in the University Catalog for details (catalog.gmu.edu). Offerings may change through the enrollment period.
Any course counted toward a concentration cannot count toward any other requirement, including, for example, the Mason Core, a minor, a second major, or a second GLOA concentration.
A course for which a section number is given (e.g. GLOA 450-002) is usually a “special topic” course and may not be offered on a recurring basis.
Thematic Concentrations
The Environment
Global Economy & Management
Global Governance
Global Inequalities & Responses
Human Security
International Development
Media, Communication, & Culture
Regional Concentrations
Africa
Asia
Europe
Latin America
Middle East & North Africa
Russia & Central Asia
The Environment
ECON 335: Environmental Economics
EVPP 108: Ecosphere: Introduction to Environmental Science I – Lecture
EVPP 112: Ecosphere: Introduction to Environmental Science II – Lecture
EVPP 201: Environment and You: Issues for the Twenty-First Century
EVPP 322: Business and Sustainability
EVPP 336: Human Dimensions of the Environment
EVPP 377: Applied Ecology
EVPP 381: Nature and Culture in Global Wetlands
EVPP 428: Planetary Health
EVPP 432: Energy Policy
EVPP 434: Food-Energy-Water Nexus
EVPP 436: The Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change
GCH 360: Health and Environment
GGS 302: Global Environmental Hazards
GGS 303: Geography of Resource Conservation
GGS 307: Geographic Approaches for Sustainable Development
GGS 311: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
INTS 334: Environmental Justice
TOUR 340: Sustainable Tourism
GLOA 400 – DL1: Global Political Economy, Dr. Patrick Ukata, MW 1:30-2:45pm, Online Synchronous
In this course we will carefully look at the complex interplay of politics and economics in the world arena. We shall seek to understand the different theories of global political economy and how those theories affect activities both the global markets and the global society at large. Capturing the current debates in global political economy, we will also highlight the analytical tensions between international and domestic explanations, on the one hand, and institutional and society-centered explanations, on the other. Also of importance, we will try to understand how the advances in information technology, telecommunications, and transportation have significantly increased the interdependence of national economies. (Cannot use this course to count for both the concentration and capstone simultaneously)
ECON 310: Money and Banking
ECON 360: Economics of Developing Areas
ECON 390: International Economics
MGMT 461: Cross Cultural and Global Management
MBUS 301: Managing People and Organizations in a Global Economy
MBUS 305: Introduction to International Business
BULE 303: Legal Environment of Business
BULE 402: Commercial Law
EVPP 322: Business and Sustainability
GLOA 400 – DL1: Global Political Economy, Dr. Patrick Ukata, MW 1:30-2:45pm, Online Synchronous
In this course we will carefully look at the complex interplay of politics and economics in the world arena. We shall seek to understand the different theories of global political economy and how those theories affect activities both the global markets and the global society at large. Capturing the current debates in global political economy, we will also highlight the analytical tensions between international and domestic explanations, on the one hand, and institutional and society-centered explanations, on the other. Also of importance, we will try to understand how the advances in information technology, telecommunications, and transportation have significantly increased the interdependence of national economies. (Cannot use this course to count for both the concentration and capstone simultaneously)
GLOA 450-DL3: Sexuality, Race, & Immigration, Dr. Rachel Ann Lewis, Explores how race and sexuality structure contemporary processes of immigration and border-crossing in Europe and the U.S.. Addresses the history of U.S. immigration controls in relation to questions of race, class, gender and sexuality; women’s and LGBTQ claims for political asylum in Europe and the United States; child migration; sex work, trafficking and migration; and feminist and queer anti-deportation activism. Limited to three attempts.
COMM 305: Foundations of Intercultural Communication
CRIM 405: Law and Justice around the World
CRIM 475: Theory and Politics of Terrorism
GGS 301: Political Geography
GOVT 134: Grand Challenges to Human Security
GOVT 342: Diplomacy
GOVT 343: International Political Economy
GOVT 344: American Foreign Policy
GOVT 346: American Security Policy
GOVT 347: International Security
GOVT 443: Law and Ethics of War
GOVT 444 – 001: Diplomatic Situations
GOVT 444 – 003: Terrorism and Counterterrorism
GOVT 447: Revolution and International Politics
GOVT 490 – 009: Immigration and Demographic Change
INTS 362: Social Justice and Human Rights
SOCI 326: Conflict, Violence, and Peace
Global Inequalities & Responses
GLOA 450-DL3: Sexuality, Race, & Immigration, Dr. Rachel Ann Lewis, Explores how race and sexuality structure contemporary processes of immigration and border-crossing in Europe and the U.S.. Addresses the history of U.S. immigration controls in relation to questions of race, class, gender and sexuality; women’s and LGBTQ claims for political asylum in Europe and the United States; child migration; sex work, trafficking and migration; and feminist and queer anti-deportation activism. Limited to three attempts.
AFAM 390 – 003: Black Internationalism
AFAM 390 - 007: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and TV
COMM 396 – 001 / ENGH 319 / CULT 390: Globalized Media & Inequality
CRIM 405: Law and Justice around the World
CULT 390-001: Global Media and Inequalities
EVPP 436: The Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change
GCH 205: Global Health
GCH 332: Health and Disease
GCH 405: Global Health Interventions: History and Systems
GCH 426: Global Emerging Infectious Diseases
GCH 445: Social Determinants of Health
HIST 366: Comparative Slavery
HIST 387 – 007: Global History of Disease
INTS 304: Social Movements and Community Activism
INTS 334: Environmental Justice
INTS 344: Youth, Music, & Social Change
INTS 362: Social Justice and Human Rights
GOVT 414: Gender, Sexuality, and International Migration
SOCI 307: Social Movements and Political Protest
SOCI 308: Race and Ethnicity in a Changing World
SOCI 315: Gender and Society
SOCI 320: Globalization and Social Change
SOCI 355: Social Inequality
SOCI 395 – 004: Race/Class/LGBTQ Communities
SOCI 395 – D2: Gender, Sexuality, International Migration
WMST 100: Global Representations of Women
WMST 200: Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
WMST 409: Gender, Sexuality, and International Migration
GLOA 400 – 003: Global Apocalypse, Dr. Cortney Hughes Rinker, R 4:30-7:10pm, Horizon 2010
We have heard that the world is coming to an end on more than one occasion. The world’s population has experienced one catastrophe after another. Scientists warn us that the planet is warming at a dangerous pace. The impacts of climate change on health and well-being are real. We have been living with a global pandemic for the past few years, where a virus has turned people’s daily lives and their livelihoods upside down. The multiple effects of COVID-19 will be felt for a long time. Some progress has been made in reducing nuclear weapon arsenals since the Cold War, but nine countries still possess nuclear weapons. The threat of nuclear war causes anxiety among governments and within communities given the mass destruction, it can cause. Every ending, though, creates questions about living, what it means to be human, and existence in this world. This discussion and research driven course will focus on disruption and rupture. We will delve into questions of catastrophe and how we can deal with them individually and globally. We will focus on a wide range of sources (novels, short stories, academic literature, podcasts, films and television, lectures, credible news sources) to explore topics, such as: zombies, disease and the body, human and non-human relationships, technology, automation and automization, capitalism and financial crisis, and climate change. Students will be provided ample opportunities to develop analytical and methodological skills necessary to construct and complete an original project by the end of the course. GLOA 400-003 will be co-taught with Mr. Michael Smith from INTO Mason and enroll students from Mason and those completing academic English training through INTO, thus providing chances for deeper cross-cultural engagement and discussion about humanity and its potential end. (Cannot use this course to count for both the concentration and capstone simultaneously)
ANTH 331: Refugees
EVPP 381: Nature and Culture in Global Wetlands
EVPP 436: The Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change
GCH 332: Health and Disease
GCH 426: Global Emerging Infectious Diseases
GOVT 134: Grand Challenges to Human Security
GOVT 443: Law and Ethics of War
GOVT 490 – 009: Immigration and Demographic Change
HIST 387 – 007: Global History of Disease
INTS 417: Human Trafficking and Smuggling
SOCI 326: Conflict, Violence, and Peace
SOCI 330: US Immigrants and Immigration
WMST 409: Gender, Sexuality, and International Migration
GLOA 450-DL1: Globalization and International Development, Dr. Dikshya Thapa, TR Students will learn key theoretical debates on the concepts of development; how international organizations and foreign aid works; and the critical policy debates of our times. We will cover a wide range of countries as empirical case studies to assess the evidence. The course is meant to provide students with sociological knowledge and tools to work in the field of international development with a critical and conscious mind. 10:30-11:45am, Online Synchronous
ANTH 331: Refugees
ECON360: Economics of Developing Areas
EVPP 381: Nature and Culture in Global Wetlands
GCH 205: Global Health
GGS 303: Geography of Resource Conservation
GGS 307: Geographic Approaches for Sustainable Development
TOUR 340: Sustainable Tourism
EVPP 434: Food-Energy-Water Nexus
Media, Communication, & Culture
GLOA 400 – 003: Global Apocalypse, Dr. Cortney Hughes Rinker, R 4:30-7:10pm, Horizon 2010
We have heard that the world is coming to an end on more than one occasion. The world’s population has experienced one catastrophe after another. Scientists warn us that the planet is warming at a dangerous pace. The impacts of climate change on health and well-being are real. We have been living with a global pandemic for the past few years, where a virus has turned people’s daily lives and their livelihoods upside down. The multiple effects of COVID-19 will be felt for a long time. Some progress has been made in reducing nuclear weapon arsenals since the Cold War, but nine countries still possess nuclear weapons. The threat of nuclear war causes anxiety among governments and within communities given the mass destruction it can cause. Every ending, though, creates questions about living, what it means to be human, and existence in this world. This discussion and research driven course will focus on disruption and rupture. We will delve into questions of catastrophe and how we can deal with them individually and globally. We will focus on a wide range of sources (novels, short stories, academic literature, podcasts, films and television, lectures, credible news sources) to explore topics, such as: zombies, disease and the body, human and non-human relationships, technology, automation and automization, capitalism and financial crisis, and climate change. Students will be provided ample opportunities to develop analytical and methodological skills necessary to construct and complete an original project by the end of the course. GLOA 400-003 will be co-taught with Mr. Michael Smith from INTO Mason and enroll students from Mason and those completing academic English training through INTO, thus providing chances for deeper cross-cultural engagement and discussion about humanity and its potential end. (Cannot use this course to count for both the concentration and capstone simultaneously)
AFAM 390 - 007: Gender, Race, Sexuality, and TV
COMM 305: Foundations of Intercultural Communication
COMM 380: Media Criticism
COMM 396 – 001 / ENGH 319 / CULT 390: Globalized Media & Inequality
CULT 390-001: Global Media and Inequalities
ENGH 315: Folklore and Folklife
FAVS 225: Introduction to World Cinema
FAVS 300: Global Horror Film
FRLN 331 - DL2: Films on Borders & Migration
FRLN 385: Multilingualism, Identity, and Power
INTS 344: Youth, Music, & Social Change
INTS 348: Digital Futures
PSYC 379: Applied Cross-Cultural Psychology
RELI 490: Comparative Study of Religions
RUSS 353-DL1: Contemporary Russian Culture and Media: Disinformation and Diversity
ANTH 320: Global Africa
ARTH 206: Survey of African Art
ARTH 318: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
ARTH 420: 002: Gender, Sex, and Religion: Ancient Egypt
ECON 362: African Economic Development
HIST 261: Survey of African History
HIST 366: Comparative Slavery
GLOA 400 – 002: Globalization in Asia, Dr. Byunghwan Son, TR 10:30-11:45am, Innovation 137
Asia is generally considered a ‘winner’ of globalization due largely to the region’s miraculous economic success in the past decades. Not discussed as frequently are 1) the challenges each society in the region faces in political, economic, and/or sociocultural fronts and 2) the diverse ways in which such challenges are perceived in different countries. In this class, we tackle these two large issues by identifying what these challenges are in general and by discussing how each of the countries in the region fares on those challenges. The specific issue areas where this discussion takes place includes, but not limited to, political freedom; welfare system; online censorship; immigration; development; territorial disputes; transitional justice and human rights. While most of the countries in the region will be covered, the discussion will revolve mostly around East and Southeast Asian regions. (Cannot use this course to count for both the concentration and capstone simultaneously)
ARTH 382: Arts of India
CHIN 310: Survey of Chinese Literature
CHIN 311: Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
CHIN 318: Introduction to Classical Chinese
CHIN 320: Contemporary Chinese Film
CHIN 325: Major Chinese Writers
CHIN 485: China on Stage: Intro to Drama
*Language courses in Chinese may count toward the concentration if they are not being applied toward degree language requirements.*
GGS 317: Geography of China
GOVT 333: Government and Politics of Asia
GOVT 341: Chinese Foreign Policy
GOVT 444 – 002: Korean Politics
HIST 252: Survey of East Asian Civilization
HIST 354: Modern China
HIST 356: Modern Japan
HIST 387 – 001: Early Ancient China
JAPA 320: Intro to Anime & Manga Studies
JAPA 360: Intro to Anime and Manga
JAPA 420: Animal and Nature in Japan
*Language courses in Japanese may count toward the concentration if they are not being applied toward degree language requirements.*
KORE 311: Modern Korean Literature in Translation
KORE 320: Korean Pop Culture in a Global World
KORE 321: Webtoon-Based Korean Drama *Language courses in Korean may count toward the concentration if they are not also being applied toward degree language requirements.*
RELI 212: Religions of Asia
RELI 313: Hinduism
RELI 317: Daoism
ARTH 335: Arts of Medieval England
ARTH 340: Early Renaissance Art in Italy, 1300-1500
ENGH 474 – 001: Rebel Screens: Ireland/Britain
GERM 325: Magic Mountain
GERM 365: Nature/Environment in German Culture
*Language courses in German may count toward the concentration if they are not being applied toward degree language requirements.*
GGS 326: Geography of Eastern Europe and Russia
GOVT 334: Government and Politics of Europe
HIST 301: Classical Greece
HIST 308: 19th Century Europe
HIST 309: Europe in Crisis: 1914-1948
HIST 312: Nationalism in Eastern Europe
HIST 314: History of Germany
HIST 387 – 004: World War II
HIST 388 – 003: Early Medieval England
HIST 388 – DL1: War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective
HIST 389 – 001: World War II
ITAL 320: Neorealism and Its Legacy
*Language courses in Italian may count toward the concentration if they are not being applied toward degree language requirements.*
RELI 211: Religions of the West
SPAN 375: Introduction to Spanish-Language Cinema
SPAN 388: Introduction to Latina/o Studies
SPAN 390: Introduction to Hispanic Literary Analysis
SPAN 483: Medieval and Early Modern Literature of Spain
*Language courses in Spanish may count toward the concentration if they are not being applied toward degree language requirements.
RELI 310: Judaism
HIST 271: Survey of Latin American History
HIST 366: Comparative Slavery
SPAN 212 – 004 / GOVT 319 – 005: Intermediate Spanish in Local and Global Contexts
SPAN 325: Jorge Luis Borges
SPAN 375: Introduction to Spanish-Language Cinema
SPAN 388: Introduction to Latina/o Studies
SPAN 390: Introduction to Hispanic Literary Analysis
GLOA 400 – 001: Global Middle East, Dr. Yasemin Ipek, TR 3-4:15pm, Horizon 1010
This course explores the major contemporary issues concerning the Middle East region through a global perspective. We will examine how the history, politics, culture, and economics of the region have been both shaped by and shaped in turn multiple global processes such as capitalism, forced displacement, wars, and mass protests. Beginning with addressing what the "Middle East" is and how it is imagined in both policy and academic discourses, we will situate the Middle East within the global histories of colonialism, state-building, and nationalism. The readings will provide a critical overview of the essential historical issues, and explore new questions introduced by current global developments. The students will engage with a variety of major scholarly issues such as religion, secularism, and sectarianism; migration, refugees and humanitarianism; gender and identity; and activism and social movements. In addition to discussing scholarly texts, we will explore online and news media sources, and watch movies and documentaries. (Cannot use this course to count for both the concentration and capstone simultaneously)
ARAB 325: Major Arabic Writers
ARAB 380: Levantine
ARAB 420: Survey of Arabic Literature
*Language courses in Arabic may count toward the concentration if they are not being applied toward degree language requirements.*
ARTH 318: Art and Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
ARTH 320: Art of the Islamic World
ARTH 420: 002: Gender, Sex, and Religion: Ancient Egypt
GGS 325: Geography of North Africa and the Middle East
GOVT 332: Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
GOVT 345: Islam and Politics
HIST 281: Survey of Middle Eastern Civilization
RELI 312: Islam
RELI 344: Muhammad: Life and Legacy
GLOA 400 – 002: Globalization in Asia, Dr. Byunghwan Son, TR 10:30-11:45am, Innovation 137
Asia is generally considered a ‘winner’ of globalization due largely to the region’s miraculous economic success in the past decades. Not discussed as frequently are 1) the challenges each society in the region faces in political, economic, and/or sociocultural fronts and 2) the diverse ways in which such challenges are perceived in different countries. In this class, we tackle these two large issues by identifying what these challenges are in general and by discussing how each of the countries in the region fares on those challenges. The specific issue areas where this discussion takes place includes, but not limited to, political freedom; welfare system; online censorship; immigration; development; territorial disputes; transitional justice and human rights. While most of the countries in the region will be covered, the discussion will revolve mostly around East and Southeast Asian regions. (Cannot use this course to count for both the concentration and capstone simultaneously)
GGS 326: Geography of Eastern Europe and Russia
GOVT 333: Government and Politics of Asia
GOVT 338: Government and Politics of Russia
HIST 329: Modern Russia and the Soviet Union
HIST 388 – DL1: War on Ukraine in Historical Perspective
RELI 212: Religions of Asia
RUSS 325: Psychology & Medicine in Russian Literature
RUSS 353: Russian Civilization
*Language courses in Russian may count toward the concentration if they are not being applied toward degree language requirements.*