GLOBALIZATION AND ENGAGEMENT (GLEN)
GLEN 225. Languages in Contact (3 hours)
Prerequisites: LBST 175, 180; co-requisite:
Students will engage and reflect on languages in relation to one another (rather than focus on one, discrete, “national” language). In this context, students will articulate and practice principles of communication across cultures. This course includes an immersion experience in another language and culture, along with guided reflection on the ways that experience connects to the course. (Every year in at least one location)
GLEN 235. Globalization and Social Change (3 hours)
(Cross-listed with SOCI 235)
Prerequisite: LBST 175, 180;
Students will identify and define features of globalization and social change from multiple disciplinary perspectives, observe patterns of globalization and social change in at least one case study, and articulate which approach (or combination of approaches) best explains the patterns observed in the case study or studies. This course includes an immersion experience in another culture, along with guided reflection on the ways that experience connects to the course. (Every year in at least one location)
GLEN 245. Interpreting Narratives Across Cultures and Around the World (3 hours)
(Cross-listed with HUMA 245)
Prerequisite: LBST 175, 180.
Students will draw on narrative theory and colonial/post-colonial studies to develop interpretations of narratives constructed in a cross-cultural and/or global setting. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Auto-ethnographic narratives, Diasporic narratives, Place narratives, Travel Writing narratives, and War narratives. Students may enroll in additional sections of this course when a different topic is addressed. (Every year in at least one location)