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Global Classrooms help students to see their own discipline from multiple perspectives and explore their assumptions in new ways.

Fall 2021

The following courses have been designated as Global Classrooms for the Fall 2021 semester. Click the links below to explore the course descriptions.

Course	Instructor	Partner	Description
HDFS 398 Section SA	Jan Brooks, Senior Instructor	Jawaya Shea, University of the Western Cape, South Africa	Special topics in a field of study directly pertaining to subject matter in human development and family studies.
UP160 Race, Social Justice and Cities	Ken Salo, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning	Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa	Study of the history and politics of American cities as sites of everyday struggles against systemic racialized exclusions rooted in patterns of residential segregation. Frame everyday racial encounters as surface symptoms of submerged and systematic forms of racism rooted in centuries of genocide, land theft, racial slavery and decades of Jim Crow segregation and neoliberal exclusions. Explore everyday racial conflicts in selected cities as expressions of historical struggles for social and spatial justice, across multiple scales. Focus on the governance of routine social practices ranging from policing, to education, to gentrification and memorialization in public places. Final student projects will focus on social struggles against systemic and everyday racisms in a self-selected city of their choice.
LAST 445-1 / QUEC 410	Carlos Molina-Vital, Instructor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies	Gavina Cordova and Luis Mujica, Universidad Nacional Jose Maria Arguedas, Peru	Upon the consent of the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, tutorials are available in special native Latin American languages not regularly offered by the University (ie. Quechua, Kagchikel Mayan). Tutorials at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels may be arranged. Students registering for unit credit for the first two terms must first present satisfactory evidence of knowledge of the language at the elementary level, either in the form of credit earned at another institution or by passing a proficiency examination.
CHEM 104	Jose Andino Martinez, Lecturer, Department of Chemistry	Marlene Emparatriz Acosta Martinez, University of El Salvador	Lecture and discussions. Chemistry of materials, including organic and biological substances, chemical energetics and equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and electrochemistry
IS 390 CIP	Yoo-Seong Song, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences	Sung-Chul Bae, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea	Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include among others computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval and evaluation of scientific or social science knowledge; computer-mediated communication; and computer-supported cooperative work.

Spring 2022

Course	Instructor	Partner	Description
ABE 498 Special Topics	Jorge Alberto Guzman Jaimes, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering	Navneet Kumar, University of Bonn, Germany; Carlos Rogerio de Mello, Federal University of Lavras, Brazil	Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in agricultural and biological engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum.