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

Spring 2023

The following courses have been designated as Global Classrooms for the Spring 2023 semester. Click the links below to explore the course descriptions.

Course	Instructor	Partner	Description
ABE 232: Context in International Interventions	Ann-Perry Witmer, Senior Research Scientist	Tommy Pozo Vila, Universidad Privada Boliviana, Bolivia	This multi-disciplinary course will examine a new approach to infrastructure engineering for alternately developed societies that seeks to counteract the disconnects and differing objectives among project stakeholders that result in lack of infrastructure sustainability and resiliency. Using a case study from Western Africa, the course will consider the impact of globalization, the attitudes of industrialized societies, and the role of place-based knowledge in designing and implementing infrastructure interventions for rural societies.
CHEM 104: General Chemistry II	Jose Andino Martinez, Senior 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. Please contact instructor Jose Andino Martinez for more information about the Global Classrooms section of this course.
HDFS 398: Child Health in South Africa	Jan Brooks, Senior Instructor	Jawaya Shea, University of the Western Cape, South Africa	Child Health in South Africa: Guided Course + Remote Internship - 3 credit hours. Course offers a unique exploration of child development and health perspectives and challenges in South Africa. Topics: family, cultural and societal contexts, child guidance, food security, HIV, and tuberculosis care in childhood and adolescence, as well as the effect of COVID-19 on child-being in communities already affected by socio-economic and health disparities. teams of students from Illinois will partner with peers from South Africa to design developmentally and contextually appropriate programming for selected pediatric and youth projects in the Cape Town area. Interactions with lectures and experts from Illinois and South Africa, as well as agency supervisors will guide student teams in critical thinking, ethics, and cross-cultural collaboration as they develop a project, curriculum guide, education contribution, or support mechanism for their assigned agency. Additional arranged collaborative time with your internship team will be required. This is a Global Classrooms course.
UP 160: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	Ken Salo, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning	Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil and 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.
UP 260: Social Inequality and Planning	Ken Salo, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning	Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil and Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa	How are inequalities produced and contested in an urban environment? This course examines this question by analyzing how the urban landscape shapes and is shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. Uses comparative cases to explore successful intervention, both from formal and informal, across multiple scales from the local to the global.

How to Register

Students should follow the same registration processes as they would for regular courses.

Past Courses

Fall 2022

Course	Instructor	Partner	Description
CHEM 104: General Chemistry II	Jose Andino Martinez, Senior 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. Please contact instructor Jose Andino Martinez for more information about the Global Classrooms section of this course.
IS 390: Consulting Info Professionals	Yoo-Seong Song, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences	Sung-Chul Bae, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea	This course is designed to provide practical and hands-on training by simulating consulting projects. Students will develop proficiencies in problem-solving, team management, storytelling, and professional communications. As they learn the theories and practices of consulting engagements, students will have opportunities to discover how their knowledge in information sciences can be applied to various types of consulting services. The transferrable skills acquired in this class are applicable to other workplace settings.
LAST 445-1 / QUEC 410: Beginning Quechua	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.
UP 160: Race, Social Justice, and Cities	Ken Salo, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning	Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil and 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.
UP 260: Social Inequality and Planning	Ken Salo, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning	Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil and Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa	How are inequalities produced and contested in an urban environment? This course examines this question by analyzing how the urban landscape shapes and is shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. Uses comparative cases to explore successful intervention, both from formal and informal, across multiple scales from the local to the global.
HIST 335: Soviet Jewish History	Eugene Avrutin, Professor, Department of History	Yvonne Kleinmann, Martin-Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany	How are inequalities produced and contested in an urban environment? This course examines this question by analyzing how the urban landscape shapes and is shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. Uses comparative cases to explore successful intervention, both from formal and informal, across multiple scales from the local to the global.

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.
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
CMN 432	Billy Huff, Lecturer, Department of Communication	Dionna van Reenen, University of the Free State, South Africa	Study of interactive relationships between gender and communication in contemporary American society. Examines how gender identity and expression are influenced by race, ethnicity, culture, age, ability, class, faith, and other social characteristics. Explores how communication in social contexts creates and perpetuates gender roles.
EURO 490 Life & Work of Euro Parliament	Jonathan Larson, Associate Director, European Union Center, Director of Graduate Programs, EU Center, Research Associate Affiliate Anthropology		This proseminar offers a rare opportunity to examine the work of the European Parliament (EP) through a series of live, virtual meetings with former EP Members. A four to five week “virtual exchange” with students from a course at another university is also planned. The course will be of special interest to students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who study institutions and politics. The course will consist of a combination of four in-person meetings to facilitate discussion and interaction as well as synchronous online meetings to facilitate the participation of remote guests who are an important feature of the course. Students will prepare for meetings by reading topical materials about the EP as well as how social scientists study experts and their worlds. Discussions will explore the negotiation of issues such as human rights, the environment, public health, the economy, and foreign affairs in Europe.
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.
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.
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.
UP 260 Social Inequality and Planning	Ken Salo, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning	Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa	How are inequalities produced and contested in an urban environment? This course examines this question by analyzing how the urban landscape shapes and is shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. Uses comparative cases to explore successful intervention, both from formal and informal, across multiple scales from the local to the global.everyday racisms in a self-selected city of their choice.

Fall 2020

Course	Instructor	Partner	Description
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
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.
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.
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.
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.