Putting a Global Twist on the Freshman Experience
The 全球合作 Learning 社区 (LC) puts a global twist on the freshman experience at St. 爱德华在奥斯汀的生活. We bring our diverse and thriving city into the classroom and extend the university experience into Austin and beyond. "Connecting the Global with the Local" is our motto.
在本信用证中, you'll explore a variety of cultural and political topics in global contexts through your academic work and social engagement. Our range of seminars and extracurricular activities across the city offer students many opportunities to study and tackle diverse social issues first-hand. Whether it be by studying a foreign film, 品尝全球美食, or taking in an art exhibit in downtown Austin, students in this LC will learn how a global perspective can help us tackle problems at the local level and vice-versa.
2023年秋季课程
Below is a list of classes available for the fall 2023 semester.
快速的事实
容量: 80
成立: 2017
BTS, K-pop, and Globalization of Culture
BTS, K-pop, and Globalization of Culture
教授本课程的教员: Jooyoun李
This course will examine how various facets of globalization shape the dynamics of popular culture by focusing on the BTS phenomenon and the rise of K-pop. We will explore how Western and non-Western cultures interact and intermingle. Students will learn how popular culture operates at the intersection of gender, 比赛, and nationalism in the rapidly globalizing world and explore how the process of making and breaking down boundaries is taking place.
We Need A Hero: Global Anti-Colonial Movements
We Need A Hero: Global Anti-Colonial Movements
教授本课程的教员: Mity Myhr
This course will examine concepts of heroism in different cultures through the study of anti-colonial movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. We will consider how these movements developed, 谁领导他们?, who made the very risky decision to participate in them, 以及他们是如何被记住的. 如果你喜欢读传记, 政治意识形态思考, or engaging with popular culture this may be the class for you!
Cloak and Dagger: the World of Spies in Fact and Fiction
Cloak and Dagger: the World of Spies in Fact and Fiction
教授本课程的教员: William Nichols
Strategic intelligence is among the most widely romanticized and exaggerated elements of U.S. 外交政策. It is also among the least understood with fears arising when government officials in a democracy operate “in the shadows.” In this course we look at how the intelligence community has developed over the past century and how it has impacted U.S. 外交关系. 这样做的时候, we will discuss the various roles intelligence officers play, examine some of the more significant covert operations conducted by the CIA, compare the portrayals of intelligence in popular culture to IRL, 最后, delve into some of the ethical and moral dilemmas associated with espionage.
Muslims, Christians, and 犹太人 in Islamic Spain
Muslims, Christians, and 犹太人 in Islamic Spain
教授本课程的教员: Imran Khan
This course will introduce students to history of Islamic Spain and how the Umayyad Caliphate and later Muslim dynasties impacted the cultural and intellectual landscape of the Iberian Peninsula. The course will also look at contributions of Muslims, 犹太人, and Christians to 西班牙语 society under Muslim rule.
标志性的事件
Students in the 全球合作 LC learn about other cultures — on campus and in Austin — through cultural food cooking demonstrations, trips to museums and viewing international films.