Global Change

The Global Change focus area is an interdisciplinary exploration of claims and realities of economic, political, social, ecological, and cultural aspects of globalization. The coursework in this focus area pays particular attention to the production and reproduction of inequities. Students are encouraged to take the foundation course, GLST 651: Critical Approaches to Global Change, to ensure that they have a good foundation of knowledge in global studies. We explore topics such as:

• the impact of global ecological change
• the role of emerging technologies in global change
• the effects of neo-liberal globalism on the nation state, local spaces, and international governance
• unequal impacts of global change at the intersections of Indigeneity, race, class, gender and other identities
• resistance to and accommodation of global forces
• critical tools of analysis to understand and engage with processes and agents of globalization

This focus area will be of interest to those wishing to engage in research and other work in the areas such as social movements, development, transnational solidarity work and inequity.

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Foundational courses

Grouped study

grouped study foundational courses

GLST 651

Critical Approaches to Global Change

(3)

Electives

Grouped study

grouped study global change electives

ANTH 610	Environment in the Anthropocene: Life Beyond the Human	(3)
EDST 632	Global Education	(3)
ENVS 608	Questioning Extinctions	(3)
ENVS 670	The Nature of Nature: Ecology, Non-human life, and Human Obligations	(3)
ENVS 689	The Political Ecology of Global Environment Change	(3)
GLST 652	Democracy and Justice in the Context of Global Capitalism	(3)
GOVN 540	Global Governance and Law	(3)
GOVN 677	Privacy and Transparency in a Networked World	(3)
MAIS 635	Equality in Context	(3)
MAIS 663	Critical Race Theory in Global Context	(3)
MDDE 614	International Issues in Open and Distance Learning	(3)

Individualized study

individualized study global change electives

ANTH 591	Ethnobiology: Traditional Knowledge of Plants, Animals, and Land in Contemporary Global Context	(3)
GLST 650	Sustainability in an Age of Global Change	(3)
GLST 695	Political Economy of Development – People, Processes, and Policies	(3)
LTST 551	World Literature	(3)
MAIS 514	The Theory and Practice of Trade Unions	(3)
MAIS 638	What I Tell You May Not Be True: Autobiography, Discourse Analysis, and Post-Colonialism	(3)
MAIS 640	Grounded Theory, Exploration, and Beyond	(3)
MAIS 650	Canadian and International Labour Education	(3)
SOCI 539	Sociology of War and Organized Violence	(3)
WGST 522	Violence Against Women – A Global Perspective	(3)
WGST 547	Rethinking Science and Technology: Gender, Theory, and Practice	(3)