PhD Emphasis Elective Courses

Anthropology

• ANTH 204 World Agriculture, Food and Population [Cleveland]
• ANTH 226 Religion, Media, and Culture [Hancock]
• ANTH 222 Ethnicity and Race in the Americas [Roe]
• ANTH 250JP Ethnology in Agriculture, Farm Labor and Rural Communities [Palerm]

Communication

• COMM 222B Macro Organizational Communication [Stohl]
• COMM 594 Understanding Terrorism through Interpersonal, Organizational and Media Communication [Stohl]

Comparative Literature

• C LIT 200 Seminar in Comparative Literature: Specific Topics/Titles Will Vary
• C LIT 200/FRENCH 231F World Literature/Littérature Monde [Prieto]
• C LIT 210 Prosem in COMP LIT 
• C LIT 220 Critical Approaches to Comparative & World Literature
• C LIT 236 Media History Theory 
• C LIT 237 Literature and the Sacred [Hecht]
• C LIT 253 Techno Theory 
• C LIT 260 Translation theory 

East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies

• CHIN 263 World Literature and Modern China [Hangping Xu]
• CHIN 264 China in the World [Hangping X
• CHIN 267 Queer China, Crip China [Hangping Xu]
• CHIN 270 New Taiwan Cinema [Staff]
• CHIN 274 Hong Kong Cinema [Staff]
• CHIN 241 Issues in Contemporary Chinese Society [Yang]
• CHIN 242 Anthropology of China [Yang]
• CHIN 238A Special Topics in Taiwan Studies - Humanities [Staff]
• CHIN 238B Special Topics in Taiwan Studies - Social Science [Staff]
• EACS 200AS Great Books in East Asian History [Zheng]
• EACS 215 Topics in Modern East Asian Cultural Studies [Staff]
• EACS 218 The Art and Theory of Translation [Staff]
• EACS 228 Religious Environmentalism in the Anthropocene [Yang]
• EACS 268 Religion, Modernity, and Asia [Yang]
• EACS 271 Buddhism and Local Cults in Asia [Rambelli]
• EACS 276 Buddhist Political Thought and Institutions [Rambelli]
• EACS 278 Buddhist Geography [Rambelli]
• JAPAN 226 Japan Modern [Fruhstuck]
• JAPAN 235 Representation in Japanese & European Drama [Saltzman-Li]
• JAPAN 236 Transnational Japanese Studies [Ikeuchi]
• JAPAN 237 Anthropology of Japan [Ikeuchi]
• JAPAN 262 Representations of Sexuality in Modern Japan [Fruhstuck]
• JAPAN 263 Modernity and the Masses of Taisho Japan [Fruhstuck]

Education

• ED 209G Ethnic Identity [Hudley]
• ED 210G Cross-Cultural Psychology [Ho]
• ED 272 Global Education, Local Issues: Traditional and Western Education [Cook-Gumperz]
• ED 276 Immigrant Education & Literacy Development [Duran/Romo]

English

• ENGL 236 Genealogies of the Postcolonial [Ghosh]
• ENGL 274A American Cultures and Global Contexts [Gunn]
• ENGL 274C American Cultures and Global Contexts [Gunn]
• ENGL 235 Fanon [Scott]
• ENGL Transatlantic Identities and Asia Pacific [Raley]
• ENGL 236 Globalization in the Contemporary Moment [Raley]
• ENGL 274B American Cultures and Global Contexts [Gunn]
• ENGL 234 B Tarrying with Specters: Studies in Contemporary Fiction [Ghosh]
• ENGL 243 Studies in Twentieth Century Literature: Cityscapes: Mobility, Transience, Flows [Maurizia Boscogli]

Feminist Studies

• FEMST 210 Labors [Boris] 
• FEMST 215 Intersectional Perspectives
• FEMST 220 Gender and Sexualities [Rupp] 
• FEMST 240 Transnational Feminisms
• FEMST 250 Feminist Theories
• FEMST 260 Feminist Research Methods
• FEMST 270 Feminist Epistemology

Film and Media Studies

• FM 249 Postcolonial Media
• FM 268 Paradigms of Globalization
• FM 242FP Film Philosophy & Aesthetics
• FM 262AA-ZZ Special Topics in Film and/or Media Globalization
• FM 226 National Cinemas
• FM 232 Post-Nafta Media
• FM262 GM Global Media
• FM 262LI Life
• FM 232AA-ZZ Special Topics in Film and Media History

Geography

• GEOG 288AA-ZZ: Special Topics in Geography
• GEOG 288 Population, Development and Environment [López-Carr]
• GEOG 288 Human Dimensions of Global Change [López-Carr]
• GEOG 109 Economic Geography [Sweeny]
• GEOG 141/241 Population Geography [López-Carr]
• GEOG 288 Food Security, Food Systems, and Global Change [López-Carr]
• GEOG 211C Seminar in the 4 T's in Life: Time-Use, Transportation, Technology, and Telecommunications [Goulias]
• GEOG 109 Economic Geography [Sweeney]
• GEOG 150 Geography of the United States [Montello]
• GEOG 155/255 Geography of Latin America [López-Carr]

Global Studies

• Any 200-level Global Studies Course

History

• HIST 200DH Theories and Practices of Digital History [staff]
• HIST 200WD Historical Literature: World [staff]
• HIST 200WO World History: epistemologies and methodologies [Méndez]
• HIST 201 AF Historical Literature: Africa [Miescher]
• HIST 201AS Historical Literature: Asia [Roberts]
• HIST 201AW Advanced Historical Literature: Atlantic World
• HIST 201C Seminar in Comparative History [Miescher]
• HIST 201E  Debating Imperial Britain: 1600-present [Rappaport]
• HIST 201G Advanced Historical Literature: Gender [staff]
• HIST 201ME Advanced Historical Literature: Middle East
• HIST 201OH Advanced Historical Literature: Oral History [Miescher, Jacobson]
• HIST 201S Topics in the History of Science [Aronova]
• HIST 201SA Advanced Historical Literature -- South Asia [Chattopadhyaya]
• HIST 202E Epistemology, Power, Archives [staff]
• HIST 210RA/B Race, Religion, & Revolution [Ware]
• HIST 250B Foundations of Latin American History [Méndez]
• HIST 250C Foundations of Latin American History [staff]
• HIST 282E Empire and Decolonization [Chattopadhyaya]
• HIST 282G Global South Asia [Chattopadhyaya]

Linguistics

• LING 20 Language and Linguistics (take as LING 297 for graduate credit; this course or the equivalent is a prerequisite for graduate coursework in linguistics) [Robinson]
• LING 223 Languages in Contact [Mithun] 
• LING 227 Language as Culture [Du Bois] 

Political Science

• POLS 225 International Relations [Coggins]
• POLS 272 International Organizations [Morse]
• POLS 594SC State Capacity [Singh]
• POLS 594MP Military and Politics [Ahuja]
• POLS 594GS Environment in the Global South [Martinez-Alvares]

Religious Studies

• RGST 110L LGBT Religious History (both UG & Grad seminar) [Perez]
• RGST 200-SC Secularism [Blankholm]
• RGST 200-PO Religion and Politics [Yang]
• RGST 202A Muslim Diasporas and Law [Moore]
• RGST 204 Anthropology of Religion and Modernity [Yang]
• RGST 206J Seminar on Contemporary Issues in South Asian Religions [Staff]
• RGST 206K Visuality in Traditions of South Asia [Elison]
• RGST 206L Seminar on Subaltern Traditions and Counter-Traditions in South Asia [Elison]
• RGST 208 Religion and the Senses: Affect, Embodiment, Materiality [Perez]
• RGST 211A Religion and Ethnography: Theory, Praxis, Experience [Perez]
• RGST 215 Proseminar in Islamic Studies [Staff]
• RGST 217 Religion and Sexuality in the Middle East [Afary]
• RGST 228 Religious Environmentalism in the Anthropocene [Yang
• RGST 268 Religion, Modernity, Asia [Yang]
• RGST 269 Religion and the Media [Yang]
• RGST 275 Law and Religion [Moore]
• RGST 293B Religion and Healing in Global Perspective [Wallace]

Sociology

• SOC 212A Seminar in Comparative-Historical Sociology
• SOC 213 Critical Ethnography [Bhavnani]
• SOC 232 Marx Seminar
• SOC 265G Sociology of Globalization [Wm. Robinson]
• SOC 265GS Global Political Economy
• SOC 265LA Sociology of Latin America
• SOC 265W Women, Culture, Development [Bhavnani]

Theater & Dance

• THTR 270B African Theater and Drama [McMahon]
• THTR 256 Dancing the Diaspora: Tracing the Africanist Presence in Afro-Caribbean and American Worlds [Bennahum]
• THTR 220 Corporealities: Global Theories of the Dancing Body [Bennahum]
• THTR 271A Asian Theatre and Drama [Staff]
• THTR 271B Asian Performance Studies [Staff]
• THTR 272A European Theatre and Drama [Cabranes-Grant, Williams]
• THTR 273A Theater and Drama of the Americas [Cabranes-Grant, Morton, King]

*Please note that courses not on this list may be petitioned to the Emphasis Director (currently Dr. Javiera Barandiarán) for approval. Petitions should include a copy of the course syllabus and an argument for why the course is global in nature and relevant to your project.