Global Security & Justice Major Requirements
Effective Fall 2023, Global Studies Security & Justice will operate under updated requirements. Those students graduating in Class of 2024 will continue to follow the old requirements as laid out in the 2022-23 academic record.
Class of 2024 Requirements
CORE COURSES (9 CREDITS)
- Choose courses from at least 3 of the following areas:
- Global History
- Global Humanities
- Global Societies & Cultures
- Global Diagnostics
TRACK COURSE (3 CREDITS)
- GSSJ 3010: Global Issues of Security and Justice
- Open only to GSSJ majors -- typically completed during the fall of junior year
CAPSTONE SEMINAR (3 CREDITS)
- GSSJ 4991: Capstone Seminar in Security and Justice
- Open only to GSSJ majors -- typically completed during the spring of senior year
FIVE TO SIX ELECTIVES (15 - 18 CREDITS)
- These electives can be selected from the available course list. Student-proposed electives, including internships and independent study courses will also be considered.
- Students taking four core courses may complete only five electives. Students completing three core courses must complete six electives.
LANGUAGE COMPETENCY (one of the below options)
- One (1) course beyond the 2020 level of any language taught at UVA (or in an approved study-abroad program)
- If a student has reached the 2020 level in one language but does not want to go further with that language, the student can satisfy the requirement by studying a second language and reaching the 1020 level
For Class of 2025 and beyond, the major in Global Security & Justice requires 30 total credits plus a language competency as defined below. There are currently no prerequisites for applicants to the major. Students considering GSSJ are nonetheless encouraged to enroll in one or more GSSJ Electives or Global Studies core courses.
TRACK FOUNDATION COURSE (3 CREDITS)
- GSSJ 3010: Global Issues of Security and Justice
- Open only to GSSJ majors -- typically completed during the fall of junior year
CORE COURSES (9 CREDITS)
- Choose one course from each of the following categories: Global Diagnostics, Global History and Global Societies & Cultures. Course offerings vary from semester to semester; current offerings and a brief description of each core area are listed below.
ELECTIVES (15 CREDITS)
- These electives can be selected from the available course list. Student-proposed electives, including internships and independent study courses will also be considered.
CAPSTONE SEMINAR (3 CREDITS)
- GSSJ 4991: Capstone Seminar in Security and Justice
- Open only to GSSJ majors -- typically completed during the spring of senior year
LANGUAGE COMPETENCY (one of the below options)
- One (1) course beyond the 2020 level of any language taught at UVA (or in an approved study-abroad program)
- If a student has reached the 2020 level in one language but does not want to go further with that language, the student can satisfy the requirement by studying a second language and reaching the 1020 level
Fall 2024 Course Offerings
Global Diagnostics Core
These courses prepare students to collect and analyze archival, ethnographic or statistical data to address global research questions of their own design.
PLIR 1010 International Relations FURIA MW 5:00-5:50 (standard course)
HIST 3501 Introductory History Workshop: Into the Archives (alternate offering, SIS permission)
SOC 3120 Sociology Research Workshop SKUBBY (alternate offering)
STAT 1601 Intro to Data Science with R ROLAND (alternate offering)
STAT 1602 Intro to Data Science with Python TBA (alternate offering)
Global History Core
These courses address major transnational historical phenomenna over the past two centuries.
GSGS 3117 Dynamics of Great Power: View from the South SAFDAR TR 9:30-10:45 (standard course)
HIME 2002 The Making of the Modern Middle East KAHLENBERG (alternate offering)
HIST 2011 History of Human Rights BURRILL (alternate offering)
HIST 5002 Global History BISHARA (alternate offering)
(Note also that the broad modern history courses on China and Russia can count for students studying Chinese and Russian and/or writing a capstone focused on those countries.)
Global Societies & Cultures Core
These courses concern contemporary human interactions across societies and cultures.
GSGS 2000 Intro to Global Studies FARMER (alternate offering)
GSGS 3100 Critical Conceptions of the Global TIDEY (alternate offering)
New(ish) Fall Electives
AAS 3500 | Gender Wars: US Empire in the Caribbean TBD
AAS 3559 | African Liberation: Transnational Struggles for Freedom MOHAMED
AMST 2559 | Narratives of Displacement and Migration COYOCA
AMST 4559 | Nationalism and Activism in US Sports COYOCA
AMST 5559 | Carceral Visualities TAPIA
ANTH 3559 | Palestine: Knowledge, Power and People FARMER
CS 4501 | Privacy in the Internet Age VARIOUS
GSGS 3350 | Dot Orgs: Getting Results in the Real World
GSGS 3559 | The Individual and the World FURIA
GSGS 3559 | Understanding the New Silk Roads SAFDAR
GSGS 4559 | The Body Migrant VONK
HIEA 3351 | Borders, Maps and Conflict in East Asia SEELEY
HIEU 3559 | The Politics of Historical Injustice LINSTROM
HIUS 2559 | The US-Mexico Border KANG
HIUS 3501 | Immigration, Race and Rights in the United States
MEST 2559 | Israel-Palestine Conflict through Cinema REZNICK
MEST 3240 | Israel/Palestine Through Literature and Film KAHLENBERG
PETR 3125 | #MahsaAmini: Revolution and Media MOQADDAM
PLCP 3330 | Politics of Latin America CARTER
PLCP 3500 | The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:Btwn Facts & Pol TBD
PLPT 3500 | Concepts of Law BIRD
PHIL 3720 | Contemporary Ethics TBD
PLIR 4330 | Perceptions of America Abroad ALEXANDER
PLIR 5500 | War, Crises and Escalation COPELAND
RELG 2300 | Religious Ethics and Moral Problems MATHEWES
SLTR 3500 | The Ukraine Crisis: East and West URBANOVICH
SOC 4730 | Race, Ethnicity and Nation from a Global Perspective UNLU
WGS 4500 | Capstone: Gender and Espionage HAGERMAN
WGS 4500 | Mass Incarceration MEYER
LPPS 5335 | Wicked Problem of Gun Violence WILLIAMS
LPPS 5555 | Advanced Public Policy Seminar: The War in Ukraine BICK
Perennial Electives Offered in Fall '24
AMST 3630 / ENGL 3924 | Vietnam War in Literature and Film
AMST 3790 | Moving On: Migration In/To the US
CS 3710 | Intro to Cybersecurity
CS 4630 | Defense Against the Dark Arts
EDLF 2070 | Effective Altruism
GSGS 2400 | Mass Migration and Global Development
GSGS 4100 | Global Activism for Social Justice
GSSJ 3420 | Migration and Social Movements in the Americas
HIEU 3390 | Nazi Germany
HIEU 3462 | Neighbors and Enemies
HIEA 3321 | China and the Cold War
HILA 3051 | Modern Central America
HIST 2214 | The Cold War
HIST 3281 | Genocide
LPPS 3240 | Terrorism and Counterterrorism
LPPS 3310 | Police-Community Relations
MDST 3452 | War and the Media
PHIL 3010 | Darwin and Philosophy
PLCP 3630 | Politics in India and Pakistan
PLIR 2020 | Foreign Policies of the Powers
PLIR 3060 | Military Force in International Relations
PLIR 4320 | Religion and War
PSYC 2600 | Introduction to Social Psychology
SOC 3410 | Race and Ethnic Relations
WGS 3125 | Transnational Feminism
All Electives by Department
African American Studies
AAS 4500 Black Women and Mass Incarceration
AAS 4570/RELG 4559 MLK Power, Love, Justice
American Studies
AMST 3630 / ENGL 3924 Vietnam War in Literature and Film
Anthropology
ANTH 2250 Nationalism, Racism, Multiculturalism
ANTH 2375 Disaster
ANTH 2575 Migrants and Minorities
ANTH 2621 Culture, Gender and Violence
ANTH 2625 Imagining Africa
ANTH 3590, Indigenous Peoples and the State
ANTH 3700 Globalizing India
Computer Science
CS 3501 Introduction to Cybersecurity
CS 4630 Defense Against the Dark Arts
East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures
CHTR 3122 Sunzi and the Art of War
KRTR 3800 Seminar on Korea: Division North and South
Education
EDHS 3055 Development and Prevention of Youth Violence
EDLF 3610 Immigrant Youth and Families
EDLF 4260 International Human Rights Activism and Education
English
ENGL 2599 The World Wars in European Literature
German
GETR 3390 Nazi Germany
GETR 3462 Neighbors and Enemies
GERM 3510 Exile and Migration
GETR 3590 Reporters at War
GETR/HIEU 3692 The Holocaust
Global Studies
GSGS 3559 Religion, Violence, Strategy
GSSJ 3559 New Course in Security and Justice
GSGS 4100 Global Activism for Social Justice
GSSJ 4993 Independent Study
GSSJ 4559/HIST 5559 Statecraft: History & Practice
(other GS courses very often count as well)
History
HIAF 2002 Modern African History
HIEA 2031 Modern China
HIEA 3162 Historical China and the World
HIEA 3172 The Japanese Empire
HIEU 3442 European History, 1890-1954
HIEU 3695 The Holocaust and the Law
HIEU 3702 Russia as Multi-Ethnic Empire
HIEU 3752 Evolution of the International System 1815-1950
HIEU 4502 World War II
HIEU 5312 Era of the World Wars, 1914-1945
HILA 3051 Modern Central America
HILA 3021 Human Rights in Latin America
HILA 3111 Public Life in Modern Latin America
HILA 4501 The Mexican Revolution
HILA 4511 How to Tell Global Stories
HIME 2002 The Making of the Modern Middle East
HIME 2012 Palestine 1948
HIME 3571 Arab History at the Movies
HIME 5002 Seeking Justice in the Middle East
HIME 5052 World War I in the Middle East
HISA 2003 History of Modern India
HISA 3003 Twentieth-Century South Asia
HIST 2011/HIEU 4502 History of Human Rights
HIST 3162 War and Society in the Twentieth Century
HIST 3281 Genocide
HIST 3452 The Second World War
HIST 5130 Global Legal History
HIUS 2052 America and War:1900 to the Present
HIUS 3172 America in Vietnam
HIUS 3456 History of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1914
Media Studies
MDST 3120 Global Media and Cybersecurity
MDST 3402 War and the Media
MDST 3559 @Wars
Middle East Studies
MESA 2700 Recent Revolutions in the Islamic World
Music
MUSI 3559 Amplified Justice
Pavilion Seminar
PAVS 4500 Humanitarianism
Philosophy
PHIL 2060 Philosophical Problems in Law
PHIL 2770 Political Philosophy
PHIL 3010 Darwin and Philosophy
PHIL 5510 International Political Philosophy
Politics
PLAD 2222 Research Methods
PLAD 2500 Research Group on Civil Wars
PLCP 1010 Intro to Comparative Politics
PLCP 3012 The Politics of Developing Areas
PLCP 3170 Development, Conflict, and Democracy in Latin America
PLCP 3350 Gender Politics in Comparative Perspective
PLCP 3410 Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
PLCP 3500 Grassroots Politics
PLCP 3630 Politics in India and Pakistan
PLCP 4060 State-Emergence and State-Building
PLCP 4140 Democracy and Dictatorship
PLCP 4180 Politics of the Holocaust
PLCP 4260 Origins of Legal Systems
PLCP 4400 Institutions and Democracy in Latin America
PLCP 4410 Nation-Building in Iraq
PLCP 4500 Power, Violence and Inequality in the Global South
PLCP 4500 Political Mayhem
PLCP 4810 Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa
PLIR 1010 International Relations
PLIR 2030 International Relations of East Asia
PLIR 3060 Military Force in International Relations
PLIR 3240 Anti-Terrorism and the Role of Intelligence
PLIR 3310 Ethics and Human Rights in World Politics
PLIR 3400 Foreign Policy of the United States
PLIR 3500 Europe in Crisis
PLIR 3500 Terrorism and Political Violence
PLIR 3650 International Relations of the Middle East
PLIR 3760 Russia/USSR in World Affairs
PLIR 4150 Economics and National Security
PLIR 4310 Global Health and Human Rights
PLIR 4320 Religion and War
PLIR 4350 Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations
PLIR 4430 Empire, Hegemony, Leadership
PLIR 4440 Domestic Politics and American Foreign Policy
PLIR 4450 The Clash of Ideas in World Politics
PLIR 4500 American-Russian Relations
PLIR 4500 Citizenship and Migration
PLIR 4500 Issues in Democracy Promotion
PLIR 4630 Strategy, Conflict, and the Causes of War
PLPT 4050 Concepts of Law
PLPT 4500 Prisons
PLPT 4500 The Politics of Emergencies
Psychology
PSYC 2600 Introduction to Social Psychology
PSYC 4559 Human Nature and Genocide
PSYC 4559 Psychology of Police Investigations
PSYC 4559 The Psychology of Wrongful Imprisonment
Public Policy
LPPS 3240 Terrorism and Counterterrorism
LPPS 3295 Humanitarian Crisis Response
LPPP 3310 Police-Community Relations: Problems and Prospects
LPPS 3340 - Hacking for Department of Defense Innovation
LPPS 3415 Sci, Eng, Tech for National Security & Leadership
LPPP 3559 Police-Community Relations
LPPP 3559 Contemporary Issues in US National Security
Religious Studies
RELG 2300 Religious Ethics and Moral Problems
RELG 3410 Religion and Violence in Modern India
RELG 3605 Religion, Violence, Strategy
RELG 3950 Evil in Modernity: Banal or Demonic
RELG 4500 God, Politics and War
RELG 4559/AAS 4570 MLK Power, Love, Justice
RELG 5320 Research Seminar in Religion, Conflict, and Peace
RELJ 2024 Jewish-Muslim Relations
Slavic Languages and Literatures
RUTR 3340 Books Behind Bars
SLTR 3300 Facing Evil in the Twentieth Century: Humanity in Extremis
Sociology
SOC 2230 Criminology
SOC 2595 Immigration and Society
SOC 3056 Culture and Power
SOC 3410 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 3480 Sociology of Globalization
SOC 3820 Social Movements
SOC 4750 Racism
SOC 3860 Religion and Secularization
SOC 4055 Sociology of Law
SOC 4059 Conflict
SOC 4559 Race, Crime, Punishment
SOC 4870 Immigration
SOC 5080 Comparative Historical Sociology
SOC 5140 Qualitative Methods
SOC 5400 Empires
Women, Gender & Sexuality
WGS 3130 Geographies of Desire
WGS 3340 Transnational Feminism
WGS 3897 Gender Violence and Social Justice
WGS 4050 Human Rights and Gender
WGS 4500 Violence Against Sexual Minorities
WGS 4800 Gender-Based Violence