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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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