Global Studies Minor

Global Studies focuses on understanding connections between different parts of the world. The Global Studies minor includes the Introduction and a selection from the Society and Culture and Politics and Economy concentrations.

Globalization, or the trans-national exchange of investments, commodities, people, politics, technologies, and cultures, is both a characteristic of the contemporary world and the culmination of large-scale, long-term social change. Although globalization, at times, seems dominated by new economic and political formations more powerful than the traditional nation-state, it has also mobilized new expressions of local and transnational discontent and resistance. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, global studies curriculum helps students understand the implications of global change, allowing the university community to confront what is occurring in our immediate locale by examining what is going on elsewhere. Bringing together faculty and students from diverse perspectives creates an interdisciplinary understanding of the disruption and integration resulting from changing configurations of nations, global processes, and identities.

Minor Requirements

The minor in global studies requires 17-18 credit hours distributed in the following manner.

Prerequisite

GLBS 250 - Introduction to Global Studies 3 Credit Hours *

Required Courses

Select two courses:

Concentration I – Global Society and Culture

AFST 421 - Comparative Studies in African and African American Societies 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 314 - Latinos in the United States 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 315 - The African Diaspora 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 370 - Gender and Globalization 3 Credit Hours *
CNST 420 - French Cinema 3 Credit Hours (taught in French)
CNST 482 - Special Topics in Global Cinema 3 Credit Hours *
ENGL 331 - Race and Ethnicity in American Literature 3 Credit Hours *
ENGL 454 - 20th-Century International Novel 3 Credit Hours
FREN 410 - Topics in Medieval/Early Modern French Literature 3 Credit Hours (taught in French)
FREN 415 - Topics in Modern French and Francophone Literature 3 Credit Hours * (taught in French)
FREN 420 - French Cinema 3 Credit Hours (taught in French)
FREN 450 - Special Topics in French and Francophone Literature 3 Credit Hours (taught in French)
GEOG 336 - Political Ecology 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 341 - Introduction to Urban Studies: Social and Spatial Origins of Contemporary Cities 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 345 - People and Environment 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 442 - Urban Spaces and Urban Society 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 445 - Cities in a World System 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 462 - Geographies of Race and Racism 3 Credit Hours
HIME 366 - History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 600 – 1050 3 Credit Hours
HIST 374 - Traveling the Globe in the Premodern World 3 Credit Hours
HIST 385 - Studies in World History 3 Credit Hours
HIST 410 - Infectious Disease: A Global History 3 Credit Hours
ITAL 314 - Highlights of Italian Civilization, Culture, and Identity 3 Credit Hours * (taught in English)
WLC 300 - Global Texts and Cultures 3 Credit Hours (taught in English)
WLC 482 - Special Topics in Global Cinema 3 Credit Hours *
MUCO 290 - Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World 3 Credit Hours *
MUCO 380 - Music in World Cultures 3 Credit Hours * (Note: GLBS majors/minors may take without music prerequisite)
MUCO 410 - Special Topics in Musicology 3 Credit Hours
MUCO 411 - Music of Appalachia 3 Credit Hours *
MUCO 413 - Music and the African Diaspora 3 Credit Hours *
MUCO 416 - Global Soundtracks 3 Credit Hours *
MUCO 421 - Music of Bali, Indonesia 2-3 Credit Hours
MUEN 311 - Afro-Diasporic Percussion Ensemble 1 Credit Hours
MUEN 312 - Balinese Gamelan 1 Credit Hours
PHIL 441 - Global Justice and Human Rights 3 Credit Hours
PORT 315 - Aspects of Luso-Brazilian Literature 3 Credit Hours
REST 232 - Religion and Society in Global Perspective 3 Credit Hours *
REST 302 - Anthropology of Religion 3 Credit Hours
REST 305 - Contemporary Religious Thought and Practice 3 Credit Hours
REST 332 - Introduction to Islam 3 Credit Hours *
REST 372 - Contemporary Buddhism 3 Credit Hours *
REST 375 - Theravada Buddhism 3 Credit Hours *
REST 376 - Buddhism 3 Credit Hours *
SPAN 331 - Introduction to Hispanic Culture 3 Credit Hours
SPAN 333 - Survey of Spanish-American Literature: 1700-Present 3 Credit Hours
SPAN 346 - Language and Culture of the Hispanic Business World 3 Credit Hours (taught in Spanish)
SPAN 433 - Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Literature and Culture 3 Credit Hours (taught in Spanish)
WGS 330 - Music, Gender, and Sexuality 3 Credit Hours
WGS 412 - Gender, Performance Art, and the Avant Garde 3 Credit Hours

Select two courses:

Concentration II – Global Politics and Economy

AGNR 480 - How to Feed the World 3 Credit Hours
ALEC 485 - Global Sustainable Development Goals 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 325 - Migration and Transnationalism 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 414 - Political Anthropology 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 415 - Environmental Anthropology 3 Credit Hours *
ANTH 419 - Anthropology of Human Rights 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 420 - Disasters 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 422 - Anthropology of Global Inequality 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 426 - Decolonization 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 432 - Anthropology of Warfare, Violence, and Peace 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 441 - Topics in Cultural Method and Theory 3 Credit Hours
AREC 420 - International Agricultural Trade and Marketing 3 Credit Hours
ECON 305 - Markets, Ethics, and Capitalism 3 Credit Hours
ECON 322 - The Global Economy: Trade and Development 3 Credit Hours
ECON 362 - Environmental and Natural Resource Policy 3 Credit Hours
ECON 421 - International Economics 3 Credit Hours
ECON 463 - Environmental Economics 3 Credit Hours
FWF 420 - International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 331 - Natural Hazards 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 333 - Climate Change and Human Response 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 340 - Economic Geography in the Modern World 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 344 - Population Geography 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 362 - Sustainable Development in Appalachia 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 441 - Cities as Economic Engines 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 444 - The Age of Migration 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 449 - Geography of Transportation 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 451 - The Global Economy 3 Credit Hours
GLBS 395 - Political Economy of Regions and Peoples of the World 3 Credit Hours
GLBS 491 - Foreign Study 1-15 Credit Hours
WLC 482 - Special Topics in Global Cinema 3 Credit Hours *
MUCO 290 - Soundscapes: Exploring Music in a Changing World 3 Credit Hours *
POLS 249 - Introduction to Comparative Politics 3 Credit Hours (Note: Minor only allows one 200-level class)
POLS 265 - Introduction to International Relations 3 Credit Hours (Note: Minor only allows one 200-level class)
POLS 350 - Sources of Political Change in the Global South: Coups, Climate, and Conflict 3 Credit Hours
POLS 461 - Comparative Public Policy: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions 3 Credit Hours *
POLS 464 - Fear and Bias in Migration Politics 3 Credit Hours
POLS 470 - International Law 3 Credit Hours
POLS 471 - International Political Economy 3 Credit Hours
POLS 474 - International Organization 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 342 - Globalization and Justice 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 345 - Social Movements 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 363 - Food, Agriculture, and Society 3 Credit Hours *
SOCI 395 - Political Economy of Regions and Peoples of the World 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 442 - Comparative Poverty and Development 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 446 - The Modern World System 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 460 - Capitalism and Racism 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 461 - Immigration Politics and Policies 3 Credit Hours

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Two additional courses from the Global Studies Major, BA from any of the three concentrations

Note:

Additional courses not listed above may be petitioned for credit before taking the course with the Director of Global Studies when the course content is consistent with the objectives of the minor.

* Meets Volunteer Core Requirements .

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