INTL-I 426/502 International Healthcare Systems

International Healthcare Systems will provide students with a general overview of basic healthcare systems currently employed around the world. The fi¬rst half of the course will explore the basic types of healthcare systems and structures. Consideration will be given to the history of government control of healthcare. Students will submit a short paper on a speci¬fic country's healthcare system. The second half of the course will employ a country-by-country evaluation of world healthcare systems utilizing guest speakers from the representative country as appropriate. The history, economics, accessibility, and outcomes of each country will be discussed. A group presentation project will address building a healthcare system using comparative models as the basis for creation. The course will end with a look at applying an understanding of world healthcare systems to industry.

INTL-I 302 Women's Rights and Health

This course reflects on the intersections of women's rights and health. We will be focusing on several aspects of women's health and rights, particularly regarding reproduction. Worldwide, issues related to reproductive rights are some of the most contested, regardless of socioeconomic level, religion, or culture. We will be examining the political, legal, cultural and personal contexts affecting women's reproductive rights. We will also focus on women's maternal and infant health, HIV-Aids, domestic and war violence. Readings will be from different academic disciplines, but also include pieces written by practitioners, philosophers, and the actual texts of the most important treaties in the human rights field.

INTL-I 325 Women's Rights and Health in Spanish

Practice your Spanish in real-life situations while learning more in-depth about Latin America. This discussion is focused on practicing reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in Spanish by analyzing the different aspects of a Latin American organization (selected by each student) that focuses on supporting Women's Rights and Health.

This one-credit Spanish discussion session is perfect for reviewing and understanding the concepts associated with INTL-I 302 Women's Rights and Health.

Course taught in Spanish

INTL-I 304 Women, Gender & Human Rights Movements

How do social movements fighting for human rights for women and LGBTQI individuals accomplish their goals? This course considers the ways groups organizing around gender issues strategize and utilize the tools available to them in their attempts to effect political and social change. In particular, the ways in which these attempts intersect with the media - both traditional media and new media - is given attention. These topics will be examined on a global scale as we consider the specific challenges faced by movements given differences in political, social, and cultural circumstances. In the course, we will begin by learning more about social movements generally, and move to different aspects of these movements. The course will be a mixture of learning about the practical side of social movement organizations and their work, as well as the theoretical side of understanding social movements and how they create change for women and sexual minorities. In addition, how we research social movements will be considered. Throughout the course, students are asked to follow a social movement organization on social media and use this as a way to apply and discuss the different kinds of tactics, frames, and challenges movements face.

INTL-I 325 Women, Gender & Human Rights Movements in Spanish

Practice your Spanish in real-life situations while learning more in-depth about Latin America. This discussion is focused on practicing reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in Spanish by analyzing the different aspects of a Latin American organization (selected by each student) that focuses on supporting women, gender and/or human rights. 

This one-credit Spanish discussion session is perfect for reviewing and understanding the concepts associated with INTL-I304 Women, Gender and Human Rights Movements.

Course taught in Spanish

INTL-I 300 The End of the Cold War and the World It Made

This course explores the end of the Cold War and its legacy. As superpower tensions rose in the late 1970s and early 1980s, few predicted that the end of the Cold War was just around the corner. Yet within a decade it ended suddenly and relatively peacefully. The first part of this course will focus on explaining why this happened. We will look at the policies of the key players in Washington and Moscow as well as developments in Europe and the so-called Third World. We will evaluate the agency of individual policymakers such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Helmut Kohl and the roles of ideology, culture, economics, and social movements. The second section of the course will explore the consequences of the end of the Cold War and how they continue to shape our contemporary world. We will conclude by evaluating the usefulness of the Cold War as an historical analogy for antagonistic U.S.-Russian and U.S.-Chinese relations today.

INTL-I 423 Empires and the Politics of Post-Imperialism

This course examines the rise, fall, and consequences of empire in world politics. It does so by exploring the justifications and enabling circumstances (e.g. military, political, economic, cultural, ideological, demographic and geographical) behind a range of imperial forms and practices from ancient Egypt, Persia, and China to classical and modern European empires, through to contemporary times. Among the range of topics covered are imperial ideologies, settler colonialism, the relationship between capitalism and imperialism, the processes of decolonization and the emergence of neocolonialism in the 20th and 21st centuries. Analytical emphasis is placed on explaining how imperialism has helped to shape processes of globalization in the contemporary world. Additionally, theoretical and comparative discussions of the technologies and ideologies of empire, modes of resistance to modern imperialism, and imperial legacies in the former colonies and metropolitan societies will form the basis of class discussions and assignments. This course is historical, comparative, and theoretical in equal parts, and as such draws on insights and case studies from across the humanities and the social sciences.