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 the 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
The Middle East & North Africa
North America
Russia & Central Asia
BIOL 301 - Biology and Society
ECON 335 - Environmental Economics
ECON 435 - Economics of Energy
EVPP 336 - Human Dimensions of the Environment
EVPP 377 - Applied Ecology
EVPP 475 - Global Biodiversity Governance
GGS 302 - Global Environmental Hazards
GGS 303 - Geography of Resource Conservation
GGS 307 - Geographic Approaches for Sustainable Development
GGS 311 - Geographic Information Systems
EVPP 361 - Introduction to Environmental Policy
EVPP 362 - Intermediate Environmental Policy
INTS 334 - Environmental Justice
PHIL 343 - Topics in Environmental Philosophy
TOUR 340 - Sustainable Tourism
Special Topics
EVPP 434 - Food-Energy-Water-ClimateNexus
HIST 387-DL2: History of the Climate Crisis
ECON 310 - Money and Banking
ECON 360 - Economics of Developing Areas
ECON 361 - Economic Development of Latin America
ECON 362 - African Economic Development
ECON 390 - International Economics
GOVT 343 - International Political Economy
GOVT 367 - Money, Markets and Economic Policy
MGMT 461 - Cross Cultural and Global Management
MKTG 407 - Global Marketing
MBUS 305 - Introduction to International Business
BULE 303 - Legal Environment of Business
BULE 402 - Commercial Law
Special Topics
GLOA 450-001 - Global Econ Gvrnance & Dvlpmnt
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 342 - Diplomacy
GOVT 343 - International Political Economy
GOVT 344 - American Foreign Policy
GOVT 346 - American Security Policy
GOVT 347 - International Security
GOVT 412 - Politics and the Mass Media
GOVT 447 - Revolution and International Politics
Special Topics
GLOA 387 - 001 - Human Sec, Global, Develop
GLOA 400 – DL1 Global Peace and Conflict (cannot be used to fulfill a concentration and capstone simultaneously)
GLOA 450-001 - Global Econ Gvrnance & Dvlpmnt
GOVT 444 - 002 - Foreign Intel/ Civil Liberties
GOVT 490 - DL2 - Diplomatic Solutions
HIST 387-007 - Global History of Disease: From the Black Death to the Walking Dead
HIST 387-DL1 - Urban Disasters, Real and Imagined
INTS 475-001 - Human Borders & Migrations
ANTH 365 - Scientific Racism and Human Variation
CRIM 405 - Law and Justice around the World
GCH 332 - Health and Disease
GGS 304 - Population Geography
INTS 304 - Social Movements and Community Activism
SOCI 307 - Social Movements and Political Protest
SOCI 308 - Race and Ethnicity in a Changing World
SOCI 315 - Contemporary Gender Relations
SOCI 355 - Social Inequality
WMST 100 - Global Representations of Women
WMST 200 - Introduction to Women and Gender Studies
Special Topics
GLOA 450-001 - Global Econ Gvrnance & Dvlpmnt
HIST 387-005 - Global History of Antisemitism
INTS 475-003 - Global Food Justice
CONF 345 - Social Dynamics of Terrorism, Security, and Justice
CRIM 475 - Theory and Politics of Terrorism
ECON 360 - Economics of Developing Areas
EVPP 436 - The Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change
GCH 332 - Health and Disease
GCH 405 - Global Health Interventions: History and Systems
GGS 311 - Geographic Information Systems
GOVT 346 - American Security Policy
GOVT 347 - International Security
SOCI 320 - Globalization and Social Change
Special Topics
EVPP 434 - Food-Energy-Water Nexus
GLOA 387 - 001 - Human Sec, Global, Develop
GLOA 400 – 001 - The Refugee Crisis in Europe (cannot be used to fulfill a concentration and capstone simultaneously)
GLOA 400 – DL1 Global Peace and Conflict (cannot be used to fulfill a concentration and capstone simultaneously)
GLOA 450-001 - Global Econ Gvrnance & Dvlpmnt
HIST 387-007 - Global History of Disease: From the Black Death to the Walking Dead
HIST 387-DL1 - Urban Disasters, Real and Imagined
INTS 475-003 - Global Food Justice
ECON 360 - Economics of Developing Areas
ECON 361 - Economic Development of Latin America
ECON 362 - African Economic Development
GCH 205 - Global Health
GCH 405 - Global Health Interventions: History and Systems
GGS 303 - Geography of Resource Conservation
GGS 307 - Geographic Approaches for Sustainable Development
GOVT 434 - Democracy in Global Perspective
HEAL 350 - Health Interventions for Vulnerable Populations
PHIL 344 - Ethical Issues in Global Health
TOUR 340 - Sustainable Tourism
Special Topics
GLOA 387 - 001 - Human Sec, Global, Develop
GLOA DL2 - Globalization in/of Africa (cannot be used to fulfill a concentration and capstone simultaneously)
GLOA 450-001 - Global Econ Gvrnance & Dvlpmnt
COMM 202 - Media and Society
COMM 305 - Foundations of Intercultural Communication
COMM 380 - Media Criticism
ENGH 315 - Folklore and Folklife
FRLN 330 - Topics in World Literature
PSYC 379 - Applied Cross-Cultural Psychology
THR 359 - World Stages
Special Topics
FAVS 300 - Global Horror Film
ENGH 371 - Global TV
ENGH 374 - Screening the Global City
ECON 362 - African Economic Development
HIST 262 - Survey of African History
HIST 335 - The African American Experience in the United States: African Background to 1885
HIST 387 - Colonialism & Lib in ModAfrica
Special Topics
AFAM 390 - 001 - Colonialism & Lib in ModAfrica
FREN 467 - 001 - France & the African Diaspora
GLOA 400-DL2 - Globalization in/of Africa (cannot be used to fulfill both the concentration and capstone simultaneously).
HIST 335-001 - African American Experience in the U.S.
INTS 475 - 002 - S Africa: Legacies/Colonialism
ARTH 384 - Arts of China
CHIN 310 - Survey of Chinese Literature
CHIN 311 - Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
CHIN 325 - Major Chinese Writers
GOVT 333 - Government and Politics of Asia
GOVT 338 - Government and Politics of Russia
HIST 251 - Survey of East Asian History
HIST 354 - Modern China
HIST 356 - Modern Japan
JAPA 310 - Japanese Culture in a Global World
JAPA 320 - Japanese Cinema
RELI 212 - Introduction to Religions of Asia
RELI 313 - Hinduism
RUSS 353 - Russian Civilization
Special Topics
GOVT 444 - 003 - Korean Politics
HIST 387-003 - The Second World War
ARTH 360 - Nineteenth-Century European Art
GOVT 338 - Government and Politics of Russia
HIST 308 - Nineteenth Century Europe
HIST 314 - History of Germany
RUSS 353 - Russian Civilization
SPAN 325 - Major Hispanic Writers
Special Topics
ARTH 311-001 - Design of Cities, Pompeii
ARTH 334-001 - Western Medieval Art
ARTH 344-001 - Faith, Power, Spectacle: Baroque Art in Italy, France and Spain
GLOA 400-001 - The Refugee Crisis in Europe (cannot be used to fulfill both the concentration and capstone simultaneously).
HIST 301-001 - Classical Greece
HIST 387-003 - The Second World War
HIST 388-001 - True Crime in Early Modern Europe
HIST 388-003 - Scientific Revolution
HIST 388-004 - Byzantium, Islam, and the Medieval World
RELI 345 - Catholicism
ANTH 302 - Peoples and Cultures of Latin America
ANTH 307 - Ancient Mesoamerica
ARTH 204 - Survey of Latin American Art
ECON 361 - Economic Development of Latin America
HIST 271 - Survey of Latin American History
SPAN 325 - Major Hispanic Writers
SPAN 388 - Introduction to Latina/o Studies
SPAN 390 - Introduction to Hispanic Literary Analysis
Special Topics
ARTH 472-001 - Frida Kahlo
ARTH 204 - Survey of Latin American Art
GOVT 444 - DL2 - Humn Rights & Justce in Lat Am
HIST 387-001 - Music and Sports in Latin America
GOVT 332 - Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
GOVT 345 - Islam and Politics
HIST 281 - Survey of Middle Eastern Civilization
HIST 462 - Women in Islamic Society
RELI 211 - Introduction to Religions of the "West"
RELI 310 - Judaism
Special Topics
ARTH 317-DL1 - Art and Archaeology of Ancient Nubia
HIST 387-004/RELI 250 - Religion and History in Ancient Israel
HIST 388-004 - Byzantium, Islam, and the Medieval World
RELI 312 - Islam
RELI 358 - Islamic Thought
GOVT 301 - Public Law and the Judicial Process
GOVT 307 - Legislative Behavior
GOVT 308 - The American Presidency
HIST 370 - War and American Society
Special Topics
HIST 335-001 - African American Experience in the U.S.
HIST 340-001 - Basketball and the American Experience
HIST 370-DL1 - War and American Society
HIST 387-003: - The Second World War
HIST 389-002 - Native American History: Ancestors to 1803
HIST 389-DL1: Queer History in the U.S.
HIST 401-001 - Colonial America
INTS 336 - DL1 - Poverty Wealth Inequality US
GOVT 338 - Government and Politics of Russia
GOVT 447 - Revolution and International Politics
HIST 328 - Rise of Russia
RUSS 326 - 19th Century Literature in Translation
Special Topics