NOTE: This index is for the selection of Tier III Electives for Global Studies students who declared their major in Fall 2018.

Africana Studies | American Studies | Ancient Studies | Anthropology | Asian Studies | Dance | Economics | English | Gender + Women’s Studies | Geography & Environmental Systems | Global Studies | Health Administration and Policy Program | History | Judaic Studies | Media and Communication Studies | Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication | Music | Philosophy | Political Science | Religious Studies | Sociology | Social Work | Spanish | Theater | Visual Arts

For a list of courses scheduled for Spring 2019 which meet the GLBL electives requirement, click here.

Students should choose seven courses from the GLBL Tier III elective index. Please note when selecting Tier Two and Tier Three elective courses, Of the 9 courses required (2 T2 courses and up to 7 T3 electives):

(a) no more than 4 of the 9 courses may be from the same department
(b) at least 3 of the 9 courses must be upper level,

When selecting among the Global electives, you may choose to focus on certain themes such as:  Culture, Place, and Identity;  Development, Health, and the Environment; Global Governance, Human Rights, and Civil Society; or you may choose to organize your own electives from a combination of the above mentioned themes.

***Please note:  Because the Global Studies curriculum draws from over 15 departments and programs, it is impossible to note all the prerequisites in the Course Index.  It is the student’s responsibility to consult the UMBC catalog for the most up to date list of any prerequisites that may be required before taking particular upper-level courses.***

Global Theme Recommendation

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Africana Studies

AFST 212 – Introduction to African History

AFST 213 – Africa: Culture and Development
 

AFST 215/ DANC 260 – Introduction to African Dance

AFST 312 – West African History
  

AFST 314 – Islam in Africa
 

AFST 320 – Contemporary African Politics
 

AFST 323 – Economic Development in Africa
 

AFST 370/ GWST 370 – Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
 

AFST 411 – American Foreign Policy and Africa
 

AFST 420/ HIST 405 – Comparative Slavery: Africa and the New World
   

AFST 430 – Health Care in Africa
 

AFST 439 – Women in Africa and the Diaspora
  

AFST 442/ MUSC 468 – African-Caribbean Music

AFST241 – The Making of the Caribbean

AFST 368/ RLST 370 – African Religions in Africa and the Diaspora

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AMERICAN STUDIES

AMST 200 – What is an American?

AMST 324 – The Road Movie in America and Abroad

AMST 352 – American Culture in Global Perspective

AMST 372 – American Food

AMST 375 – Studies in Asian American Culture

AMST 420 – Seminar in Global America

AMST 464 – Narratives of Contemporary U.S. Immigration

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ANCIENT STUDIES

ANCS 330/ HIST 330 Ancient Science and Technology

ANCS 200/ JDST 200/ RLST 201 Israel and the Ancient Near East

ANCS 301 Ancient Civilizations — STUDY ABROAD

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ANTHROPOLOGY

ANTH 214/ASIA214 Focused Cultural Study: South Asia

ANTH 311 – Urban Anthropology

ANTH 312 – Medical Anthropology

ANTH 316 – Anthropology of Religion

ANTH 318 – Anthropology of Science and Technology

ANTH 367 – The Anthropology of Gender

ANTH 382 – Global Flows in Local Worlds: The Anthropology of Globalization

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ASIAN STUDIES

ASIA 207/ HIST 207 Asian Diasporas

ASIA 300 – Topics in Asian Studies

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DANCE

DANC 101 Dance Appreciation

DANC 201 Dance History I: Cultural and Classical Forms

DANC 202 Dance History II: Contemporary Forms

DANC 301 special Studies in Dance: Caribbean Dance

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ECONOMICS

ECON 380 – The Global Economy

ECON 382 – Asian Economic History

ECON 385 – Economic Development

ECON 387 – Economic Development of Latin America

ECON 439 – Environmental Economics

ECON 442 – European Economic History

ECON 467 – Health Economics

ECON 481 – International Trade Theory

ECON 482 – International Finance

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ENGLISH

ENGL 190/ MLLI 190The World of Language I

ENGL 206 Introduction to World Literature and History

ENGL 231/ LING 231 Introduction to World Literature I

ENGL 232/ LING 232 Introduction to World Literature II

ENGL 318/ LING 342 Myth and Literature

ENGL 366 World Literature Written in English

ENGL 191/ MLLI 191 (cross-listed MLL191) The World of Language II

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GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS

GES 328 – Environmental Policy

GES 329 – Geography of Disease and Health

GES 330 – Geography of Economic Development

GES 363 – World Regions: Contemporary International Issues

GES 429 – Seminar in Geography of Disease and Health

GES 435 – Global Patterns of Production and Trade

GES 436 – Global Environmental Change

GES 437 – Conservation & Development in the Tropics

GES 440: Global Poverty (contingent on UGC approval)

GES 441: Urbanization and Development (contingent on UGC approval)

GES 462 – GIS and Human-Environmental Systems

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GLOBAL STUDIES

GLBL 386 – The Politics of Development

GLBL 401 – Individual Study in Global Studies
   

GLBL 409 – Selected Topics in Global Studies

GLBL 483 – International Negotiation

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GENDER AND WOMENS STUDIES

GWST 320 – Transnational Feminist Film

GWST 340 – Women, Gender and Globalization

GWST 342 – Gender in Modern South Asia

GWST 343 – Gender, Human Rights, and Political Violence in Latin America

GWST 344 Transnational Femininities

GWST 366 – Doing It: Case Studies in the History of Western Sexuality

GWST 367/ ANTH 367- The Anthropology of Gender
 

GWST 370/ AFST 370- Black Women: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

GWST 374/ HST 374 Eur. Women’s History 1200-1750

GWST 375/ HIST 375 Eur Women’s History, 1750-1914
   

GWST 433/ SOCY 433 – Gender, Work, and Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  

GWST 480 – Theories of Feminism
 

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HEALTH ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY

HAPP 380 – Global Issues in Health and Disease
 

HAPP 403 – Introduction to International Field Research
   

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HISTORY

HIST 103 E. Asia Civilization
 

HIST 110 W. Civ. To 1700
 

HIST 111 W. Civ. 1700 to Present
 

HIST 203 Film & History: Representations of Imperialism in Modern History (as broad elective)

HIST 204 Don’t Buy It: The Global History of Commodities (as broad elective)
 

HIST 206 Entrepreneurs in the Early Modern World (as broad elective)
  

HIST 207/ ASIA 207 Asian Diasporas (as broad elective)

HIST 242/ AFST 211 Intro. To Contemp. Africa

HIST 243/ AFST 212 Intro. To African History

HIST 255/ RLST 255 Hist of Christianity: Origins to Reformation

HIST 273/ JDST 273/ RLST 273 Hist of the Jews in Modern Times

HIST/JDST 274/ RLST 274 Contemporary Jewish History

HIST 303 – The Second World War

HIST 306 – The First World War

HIST 313 – America as a Great Power? U.S. Foreign Relations in the Twentieth Century

HIST 327 – Modern Latin American History

HIST 328 Colonial Latin American History

HIST 330/ ANCS 330 Ancient Science and Technology
 

HIST 340 – Atlantic Revolutions

HIST 350 History of Medicine

HIST 354/ AFST 312 West African History

HIST 355 Special Topics seminar (when topic is in Global History)

HIST 360/ AFST 314/ RLST 314 Islam in Africa

HIST 362 Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean World

HIST 363 Crusades

HIST 364 Rise of Islam

HIST/JDST 373 Hist of the Holocaust

HIST 374/ GWST 374 Eur. Women’s History 1200-1750

HIST 375/ GWST 375 Eur Women’s History, 1750-1914

HIST 376 – European Women’s History, 1914 – Present

HIST 380 – Women and Gender in Asia

HIST 382 – Pacific Crossings: Race, War, and Gender in Asian Migrations

HIST 389 Islamic Culture and Society 570-1560 C.E.

HIST 405/ AFST 420 Contemporary Slavery: Africa and the new World

HIST 406 – The Atlantic World: The Shared History of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans

HIST 434 – The Vietnam Wars in International Context

HIST 463/ JDST 463/ RLST 463 Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages

HIST 487 Europe, 1815-1914

HIST 488 – Europe, 1914 to the Present

HIST 494 – Seminar in World History

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JUDAIC STUDIES

JDST 200/ ANCS 200/ RLST 200 Israel and the Ancient Near East

JDST 273/ HIST 273/ RLST 273 History of the Jews in Modern Times, From the Middle Ages to1917

JDST 274/ HIST 274/ RLST 274 Contemporary Jewish History: 1917 to the Present

JDST 321/ MLL 321 Jewish Writing in World Literature

JDST 373/ HIST 373 History of the Holocaust

JDST 410/ POLI 485 Dynamics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

JDST 463/ HIST 463/ RLST 463 Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages

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MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS STUDIES

MCS 334 – Media & Globalization

MCS 390 – Transcultural Studies in Global Television

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MODERN LANGUAGES, LINGUISTICS, AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

MLL 218 – Film and Society in Latin America

MLL 240 – Project in Cultural Sustainability

MLL 305 – Introduction to Intercultural Communication

MLL 306 – Intercultural Communication: Issues Confronting Immigrant and Heritage Communities (4.00)

MLL 311 – Introduction to Korean Culture

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MUSIC

MUSC 230 Musics of the World

MUSC 252 Music in Wartime

MUSC 327 Avant-Garde Performance: Youth Rebellion

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PHILOSOPHY

PHIL 322 History of Philosophy: Modern

PHIL 334 Asian Philosophy

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Political-Science

POLI 337 – Comparative Justice

POLI 360 – Comparative Political Analysis

POLI 371 – Comparative Asian Politics

POLI 373 – Comparative Middle Eastern and North African Politics

POLI 374 – European Politics
 

POLI 377 – Latin American Politics

POLI 378 – Contemporary African Politics

POLI 380 – International Relations Theory

POLI 381 – International Relations of the Asia-Pacific Region

POLI 384 International Organizations

POLI 384L Model United Nations

POLI 385 – International Security

POLI 386 – The Politics of Development

POLI 387 – The Basics of Political Economy

POLI 390 – American Foreign Policy

POLI 437 – International Human Rights Law

POLI 467 – Comparative Foreign Policy

POLI 470 – Politics of Human Rights

POLI 471 – Globalization and Transitional Justice

POLI 480 – World Order

POLI 482 – International Law

POLI 483 – International Negotiation

POLI 485 – Dynamics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

POLI 486 – Middle East International Relations.

POLI 487 – International Political Economy

POLI 488 – Politics and International Relations of South Asia

POLI 499 Selected Topics in American Foreign Policy

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RELIGIOUS STUDIES

RLST 100 Historical Dimensions of Religion

RLST 220 Introduction to Comparative Religion

RLST 230 Comparative African Religions

RLST 235 African Religions

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SOCIOLOGY

SOCY 235 – Sociological Perspectives on Globalization

SOCY 333 – Human Sexuality in Cross-Cultural Perspective

SOCY 335 Terrorism and Social Violence

SOCY 403 – Introduction to International Field Research

SOCY 433 – Gender, Work, and Family in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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SOCIAL WORK

SOWK 374 Social Work with Immigrants and Refugees

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SPANISH

SPAN 308 – Latinoamérica y sus Culturas I

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THEATER

THTR 202 Introduction to Dramatic Literature

THTR 310 History of the Theatre

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VISUAL ARTS

ART 216 Studies in Visual Culture (Prehistory through the 1750s)

ART 324 History of Film: Origins to 1965

ART 325 History of Film and Video: 1965 to Present

ART 327 History and Theory of Photography