Global Development Studies Courses

GDS 3010 –  Global Development Theory I

Theoretical approaches to global development from anthropology, economics, environmental sciences, history, politics, and sociology, and analysis of selected case studies. Prerequisite: the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll. Instructor permission.

001

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | MON 118 

Gabrielle Kaya Kruks-Wisner

GDS 3100 –  Development on the Ground

Examines the protocols of planning for and conducting development projects and the research associated with them both locally and internationally. Special attention to the ethical obligations inherent in development work and the dynamics of collaborating with local communities. Prerequisite: Instructor permission AND the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll.

001

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | MON 118 

David Edmunds

Global Public Health Courses

PHS 3130 –  Introduction to Health Research Methods

Much of what we know about human health & health-related behavior is based on quant & qual research. This course involves students in the research process from start to finish, including formulating a research question; conducting a background literature review; choosing a study design; developing data collection tools; recruiting a study population; collecting data; assuring data quality; analyzing data; & interpreting & presenting results. Instructor permission.

001

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | Multistory (Old) Hospital C1 

Aaron Pannone

PHS 3825 –  Global Public Health: Challenges and Innovations

Undoubtedly, we've made important advances in global health, but there's still a long way to go. What factors determine health? What threats do we face today? What issues should we be working to change? We will explore these questions & more through a variety of interactive lectures & small group activities centered on 4 major themes: History & Trends, Determinants of Health, Culture, & Communication. Instructor Permission.

001

T 09:30AM-12:00PM | Multistory (Old) Hospital 3181 

Chris Calvin

PHS 4050 –  Public Health Policy

Explores the legitimacy, design, & implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health & reduce the social burden of disease & injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health's pop-based perspective to traditional ind-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics & const. law. Other themes center on conflicts between PH & pub morality & the relationship between PH and social justice. Instructor Permission.

001

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | GIL 257 

Kathryn Quissell

Global Environments & Sustainability 

GSVS 2150 – Global Sustainability

This integrated and interdisciplinary course provides foundational knowledge on the multifaceted aspects of both problems and solutions related to sustainability, and challenges participants to deepen their understanding of global sustainability issues through a real-world, collaborative Think Global/ Act Local project. Combined Sections: GSVS/ARCH 2150/5150/COMM 3880

001

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | MIN 125 

Phoebe Crisman 

GSVS 3310 – Sustainability Policy

Students will survey the main currents of US & international natural resource policy (air & water quality, endangered species protection, public land management, private land conservation), consider their origins in conservation thought, and learn to evaluate these policies via examples and assignments from current natural resource and environmental challenges. Students will learn about the actors and processes by which policy decisions are made. NOTE: Students can't enroll if previously taken GSVS 3559 topic #13 Natural Resouce Policy.

001

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | GIB 211 

Spencer Phillips 

Global Security & Justice 

GSSJ 3010 – Global Issues of Security and Justice

This is the foundation course for students admitted to the Global Studies-Security and Justice track of Global Studies. Instructor Consent Required.

001

MW 02:00PM-03:15PM | CAB 389 

Peter Furia 

Global Commerce in Culture & Society 

GCCS 3010 – Global Commerce: Concepts, Cases 

Theories and cases studies concerning social, cultural and historical aspects of business, trade, finance, organizations, property systems, regulation and work. How are economic institutions and systems of exchange shaped by social and cultural contexts that they affect in turn? What alternative ways of organizing commerce are suggested by world comparative and historical study? Instructor Permission Required.

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | CAB 132

Laura Goldblatt 

Global Studies Electives

GDS 3113 – Buddhist Development 

Buddhism takes an ethical and practical view of how individuals and societies can develop toward greater equity, sustainability, and satisfaction. This course will investigate, from a Buddhist perspective and practicing Vipassana meditation, the state of development in the developed and developing world, in Buddhist and Western societies, with emphasis on the role of the individual, personal choice, and personal growth. Instructor Consent Required.

MW 03:00PM-04:45PM | NAU 141 

Cliff Maxwell

GDS 4951 – University Museums Internship 

This is the first semester internship at either UVA Art Museum or Kluge Ruhe. Students will work approximately 100 hours per semester in the museum, and will participate in three training sessions and three academic seminars. Instructor Permission, by application; deadline May 1. Please see information at art.as.virginia.edu/course-descriptions and www.as.virginia.edu/departments-programs. Instructor Consent Required.

F 10:00AM-12:30PM | FHL 208 

Melissa Love 

PHS 3050 – Fundamentals of Public Health

Public health is multidisciplinary, universally relevant, & constantly evolving. In this survey course, we learn about past & current public health issues & explore the core disciplines of public health through a combination of lectures & small group discussion of documentaries & case studies. We develop an appreciation of how public health knowledge relates to our lives & learn about career opportunities. Instructor Consent Required.

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | Multistory (Old) Hospital C1 

Paige Hornsby

PHS 3102 – Introduction to Public Health Research: Population Data Analysis

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge & skills needed to use population data to answer research questions. Students will utilize SPSS to access, evaluate, & interpret public health data. The course will give students an opportunity to generate hypotheses & variables to measure health problems. The course will also describe how the public health infrastructure is used to collect, process, maintain & disseminate data. Instructor Consent Required.

Th 06:00PM-08:30PM | CHEM 206 

Rajesh Balkrishnan

PHS 3186 – Comparative Health Care Systems

Provides a background for students who may be interested in learning about challenges & opportunities for improvement in health status for citizens in all countries. Although at the operational level, each national system is unique, there are common characteristics that permeate the design & structure of most health care delivery sectors. The major health reform activities occurring in developed & developing countries will be highlighted. Instructor Consent Required.

MWF 02:00PM-02:50PM | CHEM 206 

Kathryn Quissell

PHS 3620 – Built Environment & Health Impact

The planning & design of the built environment to promote public health & equity requires systems thinking & a trandisciplinary approach to research. Students will learn & apply collaborative research methods including scientific health literature review, diagramming concepts, & case study analysis to synthesize logic models as theoretical frameworks for projects & policy. Instructor Consent Required.

MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM | CHEM 206 

Schaeffer Somers

GSVS 2050 – Sustainable Energy Systems 

This course investigates a major source of human impact upon the Earth - energy consumption to fuel human activity. The course a) provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the challenge of human-centered energy use, b) explains the historical origins of today's energy systems, c) describes current energy systems, d) examines the components of sustainable energy systems, and e) considers keys to their deployment. Combined Sections: STS 2050-1

TR 03:30PM-04:45PM | MEC 205 

James Groves 

GSVS 3150 – 001 – Sustainability Leadership 

In this experiential, workshop-based course, students will develop leadership skills in translating ideas into action, using UVA's Grounds as a living lab for sustainability - the campus as a sustainability classroom. Students will gain insight into a process in which individuals can catalyze change to solve global problems and advance strategic goals on a local level through a place-based, project-based, and human-centered approach. 

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | PV8 105 

Andrea Trimble & Dana Schroeder

GSVS 3210 – Evidence for Policy 

The practicum uses problem-based learning to develop relevant facts and sound arguments surrounding local, national and global sustainability challenges. Working with live case studies in the U.S. and abroad, we will follow the steps from problem formation, through model building, data collection, and qualitative and quantitative analysis, and finally on to technical and advocacy communications grounded in our facts. Note: Students can't enroll if previously taken Anti-requisite GSVS 4559 topic #6 Sustainability Practicum.

TR 02:00-3:15PM | BRN 328 

Spencer Phillips 

GSSJ 3559 – Migration and Social Movements in the Americas

This course will provide an overview of migration, struggle, and social movements in the Americas. From the Spanish conquistadors’ arrival in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, to today’s migrant caravans traveling thousands of miles on foot, we will explore an alternative history of the Americas and their social movements through the concept of migration.

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM 

Levi Vonk

GSGS 2559 – Intro to Global Studies

This is an interdisciplinary course that exposes students to critical global economic, environmental, cultural, health and governance issues. It provides an overview of the main conceptual approaches to global studies and thus enhances their ability to understand and evaluate important real-world issues and problems. It introduces key issues found in the various tracks of the GS program (GDS, GSVS, GPH, GSSJ, GCCS, GSMS), and familiarizes perspective GS applicants with essential perspectives and skills for success.

100 - MW 2:00PM-3:15PM

Tessa Farmer

GSGS 2559 – Mass Migration and Global Development

This course explores mass migration’s relation to global development initiatives. When do migrants “count” in development projects, and when do they not? What kinds of political, social, and economic claims are migrants permitted to make on their own terms, and when are these claims mediated by development and humanitarian initiatives?

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM 

Levi Vonk

GSGS 3100 – Conceptions of the Global 

This course examines leading schools of thought in Global Studies from a critical perspective. Students will engage with foundational political, social, and cultural concepts that underpin contemporary economic, cultural, and political institutions of power. The course brings together material from anthropology, political theory, and cultural studies. Note: Students can't enroll if previously taken GSGS 2559 #8 Conceptions of the Global.

W 03:30PM-06:00PM | MON 116 

Sylvia Tidey 

GSGS 3559 – Space, Place & Global Development  

Geography matters!  We’ll explore theories and cases to better understand such issues as the struggle over the ocean and other public commons, the role of sacred spaces in Indigenous communities, how migrants make a place for themselves in their new homes, economic resilience and how capital, goods and people circulate in the economy, and more.  This is a good introduction to themes raised in Global Studies, and a relatively rare survey of geographic thinking at the university.

MW 02:00PM-3:15PM | CMN 1110 

David Edmunds

GSGS 3559 – Dot Orgs: Getting Results in the Real World 

This course examines the history and role of NGOs in pursuing ecological sustainability and social justice, as well as the legal and institutional frameworks that govern the sector. In this class, students will also practice proposal-writing, budgeting, developing advocacy campaigns, and reporting on program activities. Instruction will rely heavily on case studies and hands-on exercises. Guest speakers from the local, national, and international NGO community will further enhance the content and experience the course provides.

TR 12:30PM-1:45PM | CAB 132 

Spencer Phillips

GSGS 3559 – 1492 and Beyond 

This course examines the impact of Christopher Columbus’ voyage and the cultural shifts that it marked in Africa, Europe, and the Americas from 1492 to the present. It also explores how Indigeneity and race have been constructed in relationship to European expansion through the study of primary and secondary source texts in a variety of disciplines, including art, literature, film, and history. We will take special note of current movements to re-write history especially regarding contemporary challenges to historical monuments across the country by grassroots communities. As such, students will explore the legacy of the Conquest and histories of resistance that emerged as a response through texts that address notions of national identity, diaspora, hegemony, race, gender, and class.

TR 03:30PM-4:45PM |  CAB 042

Robin Garcia

GSGS 3559 – Dynamics of Great Powers: View from the South

How do developing countries in the global South navigate the emergence of renewed great power competition? Through the course, we will seek to answer this question by looking at the engagement of countries and actors in the global South with established and emerging powers in an increasingly multi-polar World. Understanding this interaction has important implications for a substantial portion of the World's population based in developing countries.

TR 12:30 – 1:45 PM | GIL 245

Tayyab Safdar

GSGS 4100 – Activism for Social Justice 

Each student or small group will develop a project, be matched with a Global Studies faculty mentor, identify relevant community groups, and spend the semester working on that project. Students will discuss ideas, formulate plans, identify tactics, and engage with important social justice literatures. Importantly, the course will engage with the project of activism itself, which has the potential to replicate systems of inequality.

TR 03:30PM-04:45PM | MON 122

David Edmunds

GSGS 4559 – Journalism and Social Inequality 

This course explores how journalism portrays social inequities. How is truth constructed in journalism? Who gets to speak? Who is left out? Together we will read longform journalism and literary nonfiction covering topics such as migration, policing, housing, and healthcare. Students will then write an op-ed or literary nonfiction piece about a social inequality of their choosing, with the goal of publishing it in a local or national outlet.

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | CAB 395

Levi Vonk

AT UVA

GSVS 3110: Sustainable Communities

May 22 - June 2 | 10 am - 3 pm
Tessa Farmer

This course is offered every year as part of the Morven Summer Institute (see link here: https://morven-virginia.squarespace.com/msi-courses); this is a 10 day course running from 5/22 - 6/2.

GSGS 2010: Global Commerce in Culture

Session III | 10 am - 3 pm
Laura Goldblatt

A liberal arts perspective on commerce, or business, as a part of modern American (and global) culture.

ABROAD 

UVA in Greece: Odyssey in the Anthropocene

Inspired by Homeric poems and Odysseus’ travels, as well as current sustainability challenges in the Aegean, this experiential learning and sailing program introduces students to both past and present ways of life in Athens, the Saronic and Argolic Gulf islands of Aegina, Poros, Hydra, Spetses, Dhokos, and the Peloponnese peninsula. Greece offers unique environmental and cultural resources to support student learning about changing human-environmental relations, culture, and settlement patterns from antiquity to the Anthropocene. 

In the process of passing one of the EU’s most ambitious climate laws, Greece plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions 55% by 2030 and intends to be fully net zero by 2050. Ten types of single-use plastic products were banned in 2021, 12% of electricity demand is generated by wind turbines and 7% by solar, and sustainable water initiatives are underway. Greening its’ 200 inhabited islands will create Europe’s largest network of sustainable off-grid communities. While most current development consumes vast amounts of water and energy, traditional Greek settlements and buildings were simply, effectively, and beautifully designed for their specific climate and provide important sustainability lessons.  

In ancient Greece important settlements were connected by water. The ocean was a divinity and source of all seas, rivers, and streams. From it rose the sun and dawn, the constellations, and in it they set. Students will experience the Greek islands more akin to how Odysseus saw them—from the sea in sailing vessels. For two weeks we will live aboard 45 to 50 foot monohull yachts and sail with highly experienced, professional Greek skippers from Poros-based Greek Sails and Profs. Crisman and Petrus, who also skipper yachts in Greece. Sailing offers a sustainable way to travel by harnessing wind energy, while managing limited water supplies, wind and solar energy, and waste reduction strategies. Lectures, reading discussions, research reports, visits to significant sites, and cultural exchanges with Greek locals will provide opportunities for students to gain valuable knowledge and experiences. Daily academic field journal entries will require students to reflect on their learning. 

For more information: https://apps.educationabroad.virginia.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs....

UVA in India: Global Public Health with SEWA

The Community-based Learning and Practice (CLAP) program is the product of an ongoing partnership between the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA) and Global Studies at the University of Virginia. The CLAP program is a fourteen-day public health practicum run out of the SEWA office in Ahmedabad, Gujrat that promotes learning through exposure to grassroots public health work among SEWA's women workers and their families.

For more information: https://apps.educationabroad.virginia.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs....

UVA in Vietnam: Hanoi's Hong River: Development, Climate, and Rights to the City

Study in Hanoi this summer 2023 with Vietnamese students and local experts. We will be exploring and developing applied, action-oriented research related to plans to redevelop a 40-km stretch of the Hong (or Red) River running through the capital city of Hanoi.

Multidisciplinary teams will tackle issues related to the ecology, social and political dynamics, the economy, and even the geopolitics of this complex system. We are looking for students with diverse interests, backgrounds, and skills from across the University. Virginia students will join with counterparts from Vietnam National University for a truly cross-cultural learning experience. Together, we’ll learn and use GIS, systems modeling, and other quantitative and qualitative research methods. Instructors include UVA and VNU professors, and local practitioners (architects, NGO leaders, and community development experts).

For more information: https://apps.educationabroad.virginia.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs....

UVA in Capetown: Public Health Advocacy and Community Organizing in South Africa

The aim of this program is to provide students a mentored experience in the practice of public health advocacy, learning valuable skills though engagement with a local organization focused on addressing issues of broad public health concern in a community setting in Cape Town.

Students will work in groups with local mentors to develop and present projects that will be useful in the local context. While activities will be carried out primarily in English, the program will also provide students with a rapid but intensive introduction to isiXhosa, one of the local African languages in Cape Town.

For more information: https://apps.educationabroad.virginia.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs....

VIRTUAL

GSGS 3220 – Making Culture Visible
Summer Session 2023 | Virtual
Catarina Krizancic

“Making Culture Visible” is an asynchronous, short summer course that deepens education abroad, helping students reach the full potential of what can be a transformational learning experience. Its goal is to support students’ projects with participant observation, reflection, and narrative construction on the cross-cultural learning that comes from doing research or service in other countries. We use students’ direct experience and the work and exploration they already plan to make as the basis of our work.

Global Development Studies Courses

GDS 3010 – 001 – Global Development Theory I

MW 2:00PM-3:15PM | CAB 309
David Edmunds

Theoretical approaches to global development from anthropology, economics, environmental sciences, history, politics, and sociology, and analysis of selected case studies.

Prerequisite: the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll. Instructor permission required.

GDS 3100– 001 – Development on the Ground

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | CAB 232
David Edmunds

Examines the protocols of planning for and conducting development projects and the research associated with them both locally and internationally. Special attention to the ethical obligations inherent in development work and the dynamics of collaborating with local communities.

Prerequisite: the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll. Instructor permission required.

GDS 3113 - 001 - Buddhist Development

MW 3:00PM-4:45PM | TBD
Cliff Maxwell

Buddhism takes an ethical and practical view of how individuals and societies can develop toward greater equity, sustainability, and satisfaction. This course will investigate, from a Buddhist perspective and practicing Vipassana meditation, the state of development in the developed and developing world, in Buddhist and Western societies, with emphasis on the role of the individual, personal choice, and personal growth.

Global Public Health Courses

PHS 3050 - 001 - Fundamentals Public Health

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | Contact Department
Paige Hornsby

Public health is multidisciplinary, universally relevant, & constantly evolving. In this survey course, we learn about past & current public health issues & explore the core disciplines of public health through a combination of lectures & small group discussion of documentaries & case studies. We develop an appreciation of how public health knowledge relates to our lives & learn about career opportunities.

PHS 3102 - 001 – Intro to Public Health Research: Population Data Analysis

R 6:00PM-8:30 PM | MON 110
Rajesh Balkrishnan

This course is designed to provide students with the knowledge & skills needed to use population data to answer research questions. Students will utilize SPSS to access, evaluate, & interpret public health data. The course will give students an opportunity to generate hypotheses & variables to measure health problems. The course will also describe how the public health infrastructure is used to collect, process, maintain & disseminate data.

PHS 3130 – 001 – Intro to Health Research Methods

TR 9:30AM-10:45AM | MHP C1
TBD

Much of what we know about human health & health-related behavior is based on quant & qual research. This course involves students in the research process from start to finish, including formulating a research question; conducting a background literature review; choosing a study design; developing data collection tools; recruiting a study population; collecting data; assuring data quality; analyzing data; & interpreting & presenting results.

Instructor permission required.

PHS 3186 - 001 – Comparative Health Care Systems

M 4:00PM-6:30PM | CHM 306
Kathryn Quissell

Provides a background for students who may be interested in learning about challenges & opportunities for improvement in health status for citizens in all countries.  Although at the operational level, each national system is unique, there are common characteristics that permeate the design & structure of most health care delivery sectors.  The major health reform activities occurring in developed & developing countries will be highlighted.

PHS 3620 - 001 – Built Environment & Health Impact

TR 9:30AM-10:45AM | MRY 115
Schaeffer Eugene Somers

The planning & design of the built environment to promote public health & equity requires systems thinking & a transdisciplinary approach to research. Students will learn & apply collaborative research methods including scientific health literature review, diagramming concepts, & case study analysis to synthesize logic models as theoretical frameworks for projects & policy.

PHS 3825 – 001 – Global Public Health: Challenges and Innovations

TR 2:00-3:15PM | MRY 115
Chris Colvin

Undoubtedly, we've made important advances in global health, but there's still a long way to go. What factors determine health? What threats do we face today? What issues should we be working to change? We will explore these questions & more through a variety of interactive lectures & small group activities centered on 4 major themes: History & Trends, Determinants of Health, Culture, & Communication.

Instructor permission required.

PHS 4050 – 001 – Public Health Policy

TR 12:30 PM-1:45PM | MRY 115
Kathryn Quissell

Explores the legitimacy, design, & implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health & reduce the social burden of disease & injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health's pop-based perspective to traditional ind-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics & const. law. Other themes center on conflicts between PH & pub morality & the relationship between PH and social justice.

Instructor permission required.

Global Environments & Sustainability Courses

GSVS 2050 – 001 – Sustainable Energy Systems

TR 3:30PM-4:45PM | MIN 125
James Groves

This course investigates a major source of human impact upon the Earth - energy consumption to fuel human activity. The course a) provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the challenge of human-centered energy use, b) explains the historical origins of today's energy systems, c) describes current energy systems, d) examines the components of sustainable energy systems, and e) considers keys to their deployment.

Cross listed with STS 2050-001

GSVS 2150 – 001 – Global Sustainability

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | MIN 125
Phoebe Crisman

This integrated and interdisciplinary course provides foundational knowledge on the multifaceted aspects of both problems and solutions related to sustainability, and challenges participants to deepen their understanding of global sustainability issues through a real-world, collaborative Think Global/ Act Local project.

Combined section with ARCH 2150-001, ARCH 5150-001, and COMM 3880-001.

GSVS 3150 - 001 – Sustainability Leadership

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | CAB 187
Andrea Trimble & Dana Schroeder

In this experiential, workshop-based course, students will develop leadership skills in translating ideas into action, using UVA's Grounds as a living lab for sustainability - the campus as a sustainability classroom. Students will gain insight into a process in which individuals can catalyze change to solve global problems and advance strategic goals on a local level though a place-based, project-based, and human-centered approach.

GSVS 3310 – 001 – Sustainability Policy at Home and Abroad

TR 12:30PM – 1:45PM  | CAB 107
Spencer Phillips

Students will survey the main currents of US & international natural resource policy (air & water quality, endangered species protection, public land management, private land conservation), consider their origins in conservation thought, and learn to evaluate these policies via examples and assignments from current natural resource and environmental challenges. Students will learn about the actors and processes by which policy decisions are made.

GSVS 4100 – 001 – Evidence for Policy

R 3:30PM-6:00PM | CAB 383
Spencer Phillips

The practicum uses problem-based learning to develop relevant facts and sound arguments surrounding local, national and global sustainability challenges. Working with live case studies in the U.S. and abroad, we will follow the steps from problem formation, through model building, data collection, and qualitative and quantitative analysis, and finally on to technical and advocacy communications grounded in our facts.

GSVS 4559 – 001 – GIS for Global Sustainability

T 3:30PM-6:00PM | CAB 383
Spencer Phillips

Students will learn spatial analysis using GIS software (QGIS) to build understanding of and solutions for sustainability challenges. Applications include climate vulernabilty, environmental justice, pollution impacts, and economic development.

Global Security & Justice Courses

GSSJ 3010 – 001 – Global Issues of Security and Justice

MW 02:00PM-03:15PM | CAB 332
Peter Furia

This is the foundation course for students admitted to the Security and Justice track of Global Studies.

Prerequisite: the student must be a GSSJ major in order to enroll. Instructor permission required.

GSSJ 4559-001 - Peace, Security, Human Rights & International Relations

M 3:30PM-6:00PM | TBD
Huong Ngo

Human rights, peace and security: realm of world of sovereignty states or international relations? In this course, students will develop a working knowledge of the significance of human rights, peace, and security by examining and applying theories of international relations. We will explore discourses on human rights and state sovereignty, and how the search for peace and human security has evolved taking into account the state's and its foreign policy in international relations.

Middle East & South Asia Courses

GSMS 3010 – 001 – The Global in Situ: Perspectives from the Middle East and South Asia

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | WIL 214
Tessa Farmer

The Middle East and South Asia as locations within the "Global South." This class will de-center Euro-American spaces and intellectual histories, and work toward a grounded re-centering of attention on place-particular histories and intellectual contributions. We will also examine what globalization, as concept and as a set of semi-coherent processes, has meant in particular local and regional spaces in the Middle East and South Asia.

Instructor permission required.

Global Commerce in Culture & Society Courses

GCCS 3010 – 001 – Global Commerce: Concepts and Cases

TR 9:30AM-10:45AM | CAB 032
Laura Goldblatt

Theories and cases studies concerning social, cultural and historical aspects of business, trade, finance, organizations, property systems, regulation and work. How are economic institutions and systems of exchange shaped by social and cultural contexts that they affect in turn? What alternative ways of organizing commerce are suggested by world comparative and historical study?

Global Studies Electives

GSGS 2559-001 - International Human Rights: History and Practice

MWF 1:00PM-1:50PM | NEW CAB 232
Huong Ngo

Human rights is a complex but compelling topic that is crucial to understanding contemporary economic, political, environmental, and other issues. Students in this course will explore human rights from theoretical/conceptual, historical, and practical perspectives. While human rights have been important throughout the history of civilization, we focus in this course on the post-WWII period which saw the rapid development of human rights institutions internationally, and the post-Cold-War era during which remedial mechanisms have proliferated.

GSGS 3100 - 001 - Conceptions of the Global

TR 5:00PM-6:15PM | CAB 323
Sylvia Tidey

This course examines leading schools of thought in Global Studies from a critical perspective. Students will engage with foundational political, social, and cultural concepts that underpin contemporary economic, cultural, and political institutions of power. The course brings together material from anthropology, political theory, and cultural studies.

GSGS 3559-001 - Business and Human Rights Across Borders

TR 1:00PM-2:15PM | TBD
Huong Ngo

Human rights become universal where duties to protect and promote go beyond national sovereignty and borders. Protection of human rights can be extra territory duties. The course will include an interrogation of the concept of corporate social responsibility to discourse on the development of principles and norms and framework for business and human rights. Students will be introduced to United Nations' Guiding Principles on business and human rights and how they can be applied in the conduct of business activities throughout global supply chains.

Global Development Studies

GDS 3020 - 001 - Global Development Theory II

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | CAB 323

David Edmunds

Theoretical approaches to global development from anthropology, economics, environmental sciences, history, politics, and sociology, and analysis of selected case studies.  This is the second course in a two-semester sequence.  Prerequisite: GDS 3010 AND the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll. Instructor Permission.

GDS 3113 - 001 - Buddhist Development

MW 05:00PM-06:45PM | CAB 368

Cliff Maxwell

Buddhism takes an ethical and practical view of how individuals and societies can develop toward greater equity, sustainability, and satisfaction. This course will investigate, from a Buddhist perspective and practicing Vipassana meditation, the state of development in the developed and developing world, in Buddhist and Western societies, with emphasis on the role of the individual, personal choice, and personal growth.

GDS 4952 - 001 - University Museums Internship

F 10:00AM-12:30PM | FHL 208

Melissa Love

This is the second semester internship at either UVA Art Museum or Kluge Ruhe. Students will work approximately 100 hours per semester in the museum and will participate in three training sessions and three academic seminars. ARTH/GDS 4951 and instructor permission, by application; deadline May 1.  Please see information at www.virginia.edu/art/arthistory/courses and www.artsandsciences.virginia.edu/globaldevelopment

GDS 4991 - 002 - Fourth-Year Seminar

R 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 211

David Edmunds & Sylvia Tidey

Global Public Health

PHS 3050 - 001 - Fundamentals Public Health

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | MED C001

Paige Hornsby

Public health is multidisciplinary, universally relevant, & constantly evolving. In this survey course, we learn about past & current public health issues & explore the core disciplines of public health through a combination of lectures & small group discussion of documentaries & case studies. We develop an appreciation of how public health knowledge relates to our lives & learn about career opportunities.

PHS 3095 - 001 - Health Policy in the United States - An Economic Perspective

TR 08:00AM-09:15AM | MHP 3181

Tanya Wanchek

This course uses an economic perspective to analyze the health policies and institutions that shape the health care system in the US. The consequences of current health care policies on health outcomes are discussed. The processes through which health policies are developed, implemented, and evaluated are analyzed.

PHS 3104 - 001 - Intro to Epidemiology

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | MED C001

Jean Eby

This course is an introduction to epidemiology at the undergraduate level. Using epidemiology as a framework, class participants are challenged to engage more thoughtfully with many of the big issues facing the world today. The course emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and the scientific method, collaboration in teams, and ethical principles and reasoning in this process.

PHS 3130 - 001 - Intro to Health Research Methods

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | MED C001

Aaron Pannone

Much of what we know about human health & health-related behavior is based on quant & qual research.  This course involves students in the research process from start to finish, including formulating a research question; conducting a background literature review; choosing a study design; developing data collection tools; recruiting a study population; collecting data; assuring data quality; analyzing data; & interpreting & presenting results.

PHS 3825 - 001 - Global Public Health

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | West Complex C1

Chris Colvin

Undoubtedly, we've made important advances in global health, but there's still a long way to go. What factors determine health? What threats do we face today? What issues should we be working to change? We will explore these questions & more through a variety of interactive lectures & small group activities centered on 4 major themes: History & Trends, Determinants of Health, Culture, & Communication.

PHS 4050 - Public Health Policy (2 sections)

Explores the legitimacy, design, & implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health & reduce the social burden of disease & injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health's pop-based perspective to traditional ind-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics & const. law. Other themes center on conflicts between PH & pub morality & the relationship between PH and social justice.

001
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | MHP 3181
Katy Quissell

002
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | RSH 403
Chris Colvin

PHS 4991 - GPH Capstone

W 01:00PM-03:30PM | West Complex C1

Chris Colvin, Katy Quissell, Paige Hornsby, Rajesh Balkrishnan, and Rupa Valdez

Global Environments & Sustainability

GSVS 2050 - 001 - Sustainable Energy Systems

TR 03:30PM-04:45PM | MRY 209

James Groves

This course investigates a major source of human impact upon the Earth - energy consumption to fuel human activity. The course a) provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the challenge of human-centered energy use, b) explains the historical origins of today's energy systems, c) describes current energy systems, d) examines the components of sustainable energy systems, and e) considers keys to their deployment.

Combined with RELG 2210-100

GSVS 2210 - 001 - Ethics & Global Environments

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | MRY 209

Willis Jenkins

This course interprets humanity's changing ecological relationships through religious and philosophical traditions. It takes up ethical questions presented by environmental problems, introduces frameworks for making sense of them, and examines the symbols and narratives that shape imaginations of nature.

GSVS 3150 - 001 – Sustainability Leadership

T 9:30AM-10:45AM | RTN 152

Andrea Trimble

In this experiential, workshop-based course, students will develop leadership skills in translating ideas into action, using UVA's Grounds as a living lab for sustainability - the campus as a sustainability classroom. Students will gain insight into a process in which individuals can catalyze change to solve global problems and advance strategic goals on a local level though a place-based, project-based, and human-centered approach.

GSVS 3020 - 001 - Sustainable Design Thinking II

MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM | CAB 389

James Groves

This course is a collaborative design thinking experience that focus on sustainability. Students work in self-selected teams through the second half of the design process, prototyping and testing a sustainability-related concept and articulating a robust description of a solution ready for transfer to end-users. The course emphasizes multidisciplinary teamwork and client-stakeholder engagement.

GSVS 3210 - 001 - Clean Energy Materials

TR 05:00PM-06:15PM | CLK 107

James Groves

Clean energy (CE) systems require far more minerals than their fossil fuel-based counterparts, minerals sourced, refined, and disposed of globally. The course examines which minerals are needed for the CE transition and why. It considers social, economic, and environmental sustainability challenges from use of these materials and highlights the sociotechnical reality of sustainability, i.e., Success depends upon social and technical advance.

GSVS 3559 - 001 - New Course: Systems Thinking/Systems Model

T 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 211

Spencer Phillips

Life, including ecosystems, social interactions, and policy interventions are complex, and while some simplification of reality to try to make sense of it all is necessary, simplistic thinking and modeling can lead to market and policy actions doomed to fail. In Systems Thinking/Systems Modeling, we dive into the complexity to understand the dynamics inherent in various systems, and use software to working build models to aid our sense-making.

GSVS 4559 - 001 - New Course: GSVS: Ecosystem Services

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | CAB 323

Spencer Phillips

Ecosystem Service Valuation is rapidly becoming the “coin of the realm” for evaluating the costs and benefits of policy action (or inaction), of development initiatives, and of investments in green grey or green infrastructure. In this course, we learn how to trace the “causal chains” from such actions to ecosystem, social, and economic outcomes and to measure and value those outcomes in appropriate qualitative and quantitative terms.

GSVS 4991 - 001 - Capstone Seminar

R 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 323

Phoebe Crisman & Spencer Phillips

Global Security & Justice

GSSJ 3579 - 001 - Refugee Resettlement

T 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 187

Helena Zeweri

GSSJ 4991 - 001 - Capstone Seminar

M 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 383

Peter Furia

Global Studies – Middle East & South Asia

GSMS 4991 - 001 - Fourth-year Seminar

M 03:30PM-06:00PM | CAB 315

Tessa Farmer

Global Commerce in Culture & Society

GCCS 4991 - 001 - Fourth-year Seminar

TR 03:30PM-04:45PM | CAB 368

Ira Bashkow

Global Studies Electives

GSGS 3030 - Global Cultural Studies (2 sections)

100 - MW 11:00AM-11:50AM | WIL 301

200 - MW 01:00PM-01:50PM | GIL 390

Michael Levenson

The course analyzes our global cultural condition from a dual historical perspective and follows a development stretching over the last 60 years, beginning with the period just after WW II and continuing to the present day. Of central concern will be the varieties of cultural expression across regions of the world and their relation to a rapidly changing social history, drawing upon events that occur during the semester.

Combined with ENGL 3610

GSGS 3100 - 001 - Conceptions of the Global

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | CAB 323

Helena Zeweri

This course examines leading schools of thought in Global Studies from a critical perspective. Students will engage with foundational political, social, and cultural concepts that underpin contemporary economic, cultural, and political institutions of power. The course brings together material from anthropology, political theory, and cultural studies.

GSGS 3111 - 001 - GS Epistemology, Methodology

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | CAB 323

Helena Zeweri

Epistemologies, methodologies and methods currently used in Global research as well as emerging alternatives.  We will examine: pressures for knowledge production that is co-authored with non-academic actors; historical and contemporary uses of research methods by global actors; the differing audiences for research that our students speak to across global spaces; and interest in knowledge that contributes more directly to social action.

GSGS 3559 - 001 - New Course: Solidarity Econ in LA

T 09:30AM-12:00PM | CAM 220B

Matthew Slaats

In response to the impact of tradition economic practices in the Global South, and as indigenous/feminist practices re-assert their importance, solidarity economies have become a framework for building new economic systems. In this course, students will trace the histories, practices, and realities of solidarity economies throughout Latin America, considering how the values of equity, solidarity, sustainability, and democracy manifest in cities.

Combined with PLAN 5500-002

GSGS 4100 - 001 - Activism for Social Justice

M 02:00PM-04:30PM | GIB 142

David Edmunds

Each student or small group will develop a project, be matched with a Global Studies faculty mentor, identify relevant community groups, and spend the semester working on that project. Students will discuss ideas, formulate plans, identify tactics, and engage with important social justice literatures. Importantly, the course will engage with the project of activism itself, which has the potential to replicate systems of inequality.

GSGS 4150 - 001 - State, Society, & Development

W 02:00PM-04:30PM | CAB 115

Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

This seminar offers an examination of the state, civil society, and citizens, focusing on the ways in which these actors and institutions interact to shape economic, human, and political development. The course introduces theories of the state, civil society, and citizenship, and examines the linkages between these spheres, applying these theories to substantive issues and policy arenas.

Global Development Studies

GDS 3010 – 001 – Global Development Theory I

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | Gibson Hall 211
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Theoretical approaches to global development from anthropology, economics, environmental sciences, history, politics, and sociology, and analysis of selected case studies.

Prerequisite: the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll. Instructor permission required.

GDS 3100– 001 – Development on the Ground

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | Clark Hall G004
David Edmunds

Examines the protocols of planning for and conducting development projects and the research associated with them both locally and internationally. Special attention to the ethical obligations inherent in development work and the dynamics of collaborating with local communities.

Prerequisite: the student must be a GDS major in order to enroll. Instructor permission required.

GDS 3114 – 001 – Science, Technology and Development

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | Old Cabell Hall 107
David Edmunds

This course will survey the history of scientific and technical interventions in development, as well as examine the factors that shape the outcomes of contemporary practices. We will look at science and technology in two broad areas in which UVA has considerable expertise: the built environment and public health.

Global Public Health

PHS 3825 – 001 – Global Public Health: Challenges and Innovations

TR 12:30 PM-1:45PM | Contact Department
Paige Hornsby

Undoubtedly, we've made important advances in global health, but there's still a long way to go. What factors determine health? What threats do we face today? What issues should we be working to change? We will explore these questions & more through a variety of interactive lectures & small group activities centered on 4 major themes: History & Trends, Determinants of Health, Culture, & Communication.

Instructor permission required.

PHS 3130 – 001 – Intro to Health Research Methods

TR 9:30AM-10:45AM | Contact Department
Aaron Pannone

Much of what we know about human health & health-related behavior is based on quant & qual research. This course involves students in the research process from start to finish, including formulating a research question; conducting a background literature review; choosing a study design; developing data collection tools; recruiting a study population; collecting data; assuring data quality; analyzing data; & interpreting & presenting results.

Instructor permission required.

PHS 4050 – 001 – Public Health Policy

TR 12:30 PM-1:45PM | Contact Department
Kathryn Quissell

Explores the legitimacy, design, & implementation of a variety of policies aiming to promote public health & reduce the social burden of disease & injury. Highlights the challenge posed by public health's pop-based perspective to traditional ind-centered, autonomy-driven approaches to bioethics & const. law. Other themes center on conflicts between PH & pub morality & the relationship between PH and social justice.

Instructor permission required.

Global Environments & Sustainability

GSVS 2050 – 001 – Sustainable Energy Systems

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | Newcomb Hall Theatre
James Groves

This course investigates a major source of human impact upon the Earth - energy consumption to fuel human activity. The course a) provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the challenge of human-centered energy use, b) explains the historical origins of today's energy systems, c) describes current energy systems, d) examines the components of sustainable energy systems, and e) considers keys to their deployment.

Cross listed with STS 2050-001

GSVS 2150 – 001 – Global Sustainability

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM | TBD
Phoebe Crisman & Spencer Phillips

This integrated and interdisciplinary course provides foundational knowledge on the multifaceted aspects of both problems and solutions related to sustainability, and challenges participants to deepen their understanding of global sustainability issues through a real-world, collaborative Think Global/ Act Local project.

Combined section with ARCH 2150-001, ARCH 5150-001, and COMM 3880-001.

GSVS 3010 – 001 – Sustainable Design Thinking I

MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM | Nau Hall 211
James Grove

This course is a collaborative design thinking experience that emphasizes sustainability. Students work in self-selected teams through the first half of the design process, identifying a challenge and conceiving of a solution. The course emphasizes sustainability, multidisciplinary teamwork, and client-stakeholder engagement. Students define their own challenge space, conceive of their own solution, and articulate solution requirements.

GSVS 3559 – 001 – Natural Resource Policy at Home and Abroad

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM | Gibson Hall 211
Spencer Phillips

Students will survey the main currents of US & international natural resource policy (air & water quality, endangered species protection, public land management, private land conservation), consider their origins in conservation thought, and learn to evaluate these policies via examples and assignments from current natural resource and environmental challenges. Students will learn about the actors and processes by which policy decisions are made.

GSVS 4559 – 001 – Sustainability Practicum & Evidence-Based Policy

R 03:30PM-06:00PM | Nau Hall 211
Spencer Phillips

The practicum uses problem-based learning to develop relevant facts and sound arguments surrounding local, national and global sustainability challenges. Working with live case studies in the U.S. and abroad, we will follow the steps from problem formation, through model building, data collection, and qualitative and quantitative analysis, and finally on to technical and advocacy communications grounded in our facts.

Global Security & Justice

GSSJ 3010 – 001 – Global Issues of Security and Justice

MW 02:00PM-03:15PM | Gibson Hall 242
Peter Furia

This is the foundation course for students admitted to the Security and Justice track of Global Studies.

Prerequisite: the student must be a GSSJ major in order to enroll. Instructor permission required.

GSSJ 3559 – 001 – Refugee Mobilities, Border Zones, and Human Rights

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM | Global Grounds, Hotel A
Helena Zeweri

What is the experience of being displaced and looking for a better life? When a refugee reaches their ‘final destination,’ what is their experience of arrival? How are the movements, journeys and pathways of refugees cause for concern for the nation-state? This interdisciplinary course examines the relationship between refugee journeys (mobility), the hardships they confront (vulnerability), and the places in which these take place (border zones).

GSSJ 3559 – 002 – Gender, Race, and Humanitarianism

TR 12:30PM-01:45PM | Clark Hall G004
Helena Zeweri

This course will examine the gendered and racialized aspects of global humanitarian interventions. We will look at how the beneficiaries of humanitarianism are represented within organization literature, advocacy material, film, and within media coverage. What can such representations tell us about humanitarianism’s stated commitment to neutrality and universality? What alternative possibilities exist?

Global Studies - Middle East & South Asia

GSMS 3010 – 001 – The Global in Situ: Perspectives from the Middle East and South Asia

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM | Global Grounds, Hotel A
Tessa Farmer

The Middle East and South Asia as locations within the "Global South." This class will de-center Euro-American spaces and intellectual histories, and work toward a grounded re-centering of attention on place-particular histories and intellectual contributions. We will also examine what globalization, as concept and as a set of semi-coherent processes, has meant in particular local and regional spaces in the Middle East and South Asia.

Instructor permission required. This course is open to all Global Studies majors regardless of track. If you are interested in enrolling, please email Tessa Farmer (trf6k@virginia.edu) with your name and track.

GSMS 3559 – 001 – Development in South Asia & Sub-Saharan Africa

TR 12:30PM-1:45PM | New Cabell Hall 338
Tayyab Safdar

By linking theories of economic development, with empirical evidence, the course will look at the role of the state in economic development in different countries in the two regions. Through the course, students will be able to develop a better understanding of the underlying factors that can explain the substantial heterogeneity in economic development between different countries within the two regions.

Global Commerce in Culture & Society

GCCS 3010 – 001 – Global Commerce: Concepts and Cases

MW 05:00PM-06:15PM | New Cabell Hall 168
Laura Goldblatt

Theories and cases studies concerning social, cultural and historical aspects of business, trade, finance, organizations, property systems, regulation and work. How are economic institutions and systems of exchange shaped by social and cultural contexts that they affect in turn? What alternative ways of organizing commerce are suggested by world comparative and historical study?

Global Studies Electives

GSGS 3112 – 001 – Global Perspectives on Corruption

W 03:30PM-06:00PM | Nau Hall 141
Sylvia Tidey

This course takes an ethnographically informed approach to the question of how to understand corruption by examining practices of and perspectives on corruption from across the globe - including the so-called Global North. It aims to encourage students to 1) critically assess assumptions at the heart of international anti-corruption discourses; 2) examine tensions between global discourses of corruption and local practices; 3) compare and contrast corruption between different localities.

GSGS 4100 – 001 – Global Activism for Social Justice

M 02:00PM-04:30PM | Global Grounds, Hotel A
David Edmunds

Each student or small group will develop a project, be matched with a Global Studies faculty mentor, identify relevant community groups, and spend the semester working on that project. Students will discuss ideas, formulate plans, identify tactics, and engage with important social justice literatures. Importantly, the course will engage with the project of activism itself, which has the potential to replicate systems of inequality.

GSGS 4559 – 001 – Multiculturalism and Settler Colonialism

T 03:30PM-06:00PM | New Cabell Hall 066
Helena Zeweri

This interdisciplinary seminar is a deep dive into the history of multiculturalism as a philosophy and a set of formal policies that have been at the forefront of contemporary Western settler colonial nation-states. We will examine the double-edged sword of multiculturalism: how it has on the one hand tried to overcome the violent legacies of settler colonialism and on the other hand, keeps settler colonial ideas & institutions alive.

GDS 3020 – Global Development, Theories & Case Studies, Part Two

TR 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Nau Hall 211 (with remote option)
David Edmunds

GSVS 2210– Religion, Ethics, & Global Environments

TR 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Online Synchronous
Willis Jenkins

Cross listed with RELG 2210

PHS 3130 – Intro to Health Research Methods

TR 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Online Synchronous
Aaron Pannone

PHS 3825 – Global Public Health: Challenges and Innovations

TR 9:30 AM -10:45 PM | Online Synchronous
Chris Colvin

PHS 4050 – Public Health Policy

001
TR 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Online Synchronous
Katy Quissel

002
TR 12:30 PM -1:45 PM | Online Synchronous
Chris Colvin

GDS 3113 – A Buddhist Approach to Development

MW 5:00 PM - 6:45 PM | Monroe Hall 111
Cliff Maxwell

GDS 4952 – University Museum Internship

F 10:00 AM -12:30 PM | Online Synchronous
Melissa Love

GSGS 2559 – Critical Conceptions of the Global

MW 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM | Online Synchronous
Helena Zeweri

GSGS 3030 – Global Cultural Studies

MW 1:00 PM -1:50 PM | Online Synchronous
Michael Levenson

Cross listed with ENGL 3610

GSGS 3111– Global Studies Epistemology, Methodology & Methods

TR 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Nau Hall 101
David Edmunds

GSGS 3559 – Migrant Women’s Political Activism across Geographies

TR 12:30 PM-1:45 PM | Online Synchronous
Helena Zeweri

GSGS 4100 – Global Activism for Social Justice

M 7:00 PM -10:00 PM | Gibson Hall 211
David Edmunds

GSSJ 4559 – Ethnographies of Global Policing

T 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Online Synchronous
Helena Zeweri

GSVS 2050 – Sustainable Energy Systems

TR 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Online Synchronous
James Groves

Cross listed with STS 2050-001

GSVS 2559 – Clean Energy Materials & Their Global Lifecycle

TR 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Online Synchronous
James Groves

GSVS 3020 – Sustainable Design Thinking II

TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM | Online Synchronous
James Groves

GSVS 3150 – Sustainability Leadership from the Grounds Up

T 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Online Synchronous
Andrea Trimble

GSVS 4559 – Multispecies Migration: Eastern Shore Stories

TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM | Online Synchronous
Alison Glassie

PHS 3050 – Fundamentals of Public Health

TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM | Online Synchronous
Paige Hornsby

PHS 3104 – Intro to Epidemiology: Methodological & Ethical Considerations

TR 02:00 PM - 03:15 PM | Online Synchronous
Jean Eby