Inter-regional and globally focused study within GLAS
Global Electives complement Regional Concentrations by opening space for comparison, broader thematic work and regions that fall outside the three initial RCs.
How can students use them?
Under the revised curriculum, students may use additional elective space to take approved Global Electives. In some cases, a course may also be counted toward a Regional Concentration by approval when its regional focus is sufficiently strong.
What counts as a Global Elective?
Some of these courses focus on regions that do not fall under one of the three initial Regional Concentrations, while others adopt interdisciplinary and inter-regional perspectives to examine processes that cross borders.
RC Electives
Course code
GLAS1001
Africa in the World
GLAS1006
Middle East, South Asia, and Central Asia in the World
GLAS2001
Research Methods in Global and Area Studies, to be renamed as “Research and Professional Practices”
GLAS2101
Art, time, and new media
GLAS2102
Art and law
GLAS2103
Between nostalgia and forgetting: The global exhibition industry
GLAS2104
Global connections in world cinema: Networks that facilitate independent filmmaking
GLAS2105
Film beyond the mainstream: global art cinema
GLAS2108
U.S. film in a global context from Golden-Age Hollywood to new Hollywood and beyond
GLAS2134
Art and crime
GLAS2136
Art and money
GLAS2106
Africa in cinema: Citizenship, ethnicity, religion and class in past and present
GLAS2113
Political transitions in Africa
GLAS2123
Theories from Africa: Knowledge production in Africa from ancient to contemporary times
GLAS2130
Empire writes back: Introduction to African literature
GLAS2112
Mediterranean worlds, c. 1450–1950
ARAB2024
Arabic culture
ARAB2025
Ancient Egypt
ARAB2026
Ancient Egyptian language
ARAB2027
Ancient Near East history and culture
HIST2181
A Sea of Stuff: Commerce and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean, 1500–2000
HIST2170
The making of the Islamic world: The Middle East, 500–1500
GLAS2132
Roots of today’s world
GLAS2133
Special topics in Global and Area Studies: Microhistory in a Global Age
GLAS3101
Interculturality in a virtual world
GLAS3103
Comparative perspectives on gender equality
GLAS3104
Genocide and violence
GLAS3105
International and Foreign Language Education
POLI3164
International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa