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Minor in Global Studies: The Americas

University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science 54 courses

About This Program

As interactions between states, societies, and cultures increase, so do the responses to these interactions multiply. The Global Studies major allows students to explore such interactions and their outcomes. By bringing in both historical and contemporary material, the major provides students with the tools that they need in order to make sense of the world in which they liveβ€”as well as understanding how it got to be that way. Students pursuing an undergraduate degree in global studies will engage in thinking critically about how global change has (and can) come about during their lifetimes. The major aims to have students focus on relevant issues to them in a way that provides intellectual flexibility. The major will offer solid training in how to use acquired knowledge to become agents of positive change on the global issues that matter most to people here, and elsewhere around the world. Global Studies Major The Global Studies major requires students to choose a concentration and a geographic region in which to become an expert. It connects this regional specialization to language training. Global Studies majors will choose one of three concentrations: (1) Global Development, (2) Global Peace and Conflict, or (3) Global Societies and Cultures. This will allow students to focus their studies on a specific aspect of the β€œglobal.” At the same time, those pursuing this major will choose one of five regions (Asia, Africa, Europe/Russia, The Americas or the Middle East) in...

Degree Requirements

Minor Requirements: The Americas

Complete all of the following.

Code Course Title Credits
GLOBAL 110L Latin America In Global Context 3

Minor Requirements: Area Courses

Complete at least 3 of the following. No more than two courses may be taken from the same department for the Area and Disciplinary requirements.

Code Course Title Credits
AFRICAM 111 Race, Class, and Gender in the United States 3
AFRICAM 131 Caribbean Societies and Cultures 3
ANTHRO 179 Ethnography of the Maya 4
ASAMST 126 Southeast Asian Migration and Community Formation 4
ASAMST 128AC Muslims in America 4
ASAMST 131 Asian Diaspora(s) from an Asian American Perspective 4
ASAMST 132AC Islamophobia and Constructing Otherness 4
ASAMST 141 Law in the Asian American Community 4
ASAMST 144 Religions of Asian America 4
CHICANO 159 Latinx Immigration 4
CHICANO 163 Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States 4
CHICANO 165 Cuba, the United States and Cuban Americans 4
CHICANO 172 Chicanos and the Educational System 4
CHICANO 174 Chicanos, Law, and Criminal Justice 4
COMLIT 156 Fiction and Culture of the Americas 4
DUTCH 178 The Caribbean Connection: Dutch (Post)colonial History and Culture in the Caribbean 4
GEOG 159AC The Southern Border 4
GLOBAL 122L Latin American Development 4
GLOBAL 123L Perspectives For Sustainable Rural Development 4
HISTART 171 Visual Culture in Early Modern Spain and Colonial Latin America 4
HISTART 188A Latin American Art: Before Columbus 4
HISTART 192L Undergraduate Seminar: Latin American 4
HISTORY 124A The Recent United States: The United States from the Late 19th Century to the Eve of World War II 4
HISTORY 125B African American History and Race Relations: 1860-2016 4
HISTORY 140B Mexico: Modern Mexico 4
HISTORY 141B Social History of Latin America: Social History of Modern Latin America 4
HISTORY 143 Brazil 4
HISTORY 146 Latin American Women 4
HISTORY 162B War and Peace: International Relations since 1914 4
HISTORY 168A Spain and Portugal: The Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the Golden Age: 1450-1700 4
LATAMST 160 The Politics of Development in Chile 6
LEGALST 140 Property and Liberty 4
LEGALST 176 Twentieth-Century American Legal and Constitutional History 4
LEGALST 177 Survey of American Legal and Constitutional History 4
LEGALST 178 Seminar on American Legal and Constitutional History 3
LS C180U Wealth and Poverty 4
MUSIC 135A Musics of the Caribbean 4
NATAMST 100 Native American Law 4
NATAMST 101 Native American Tribal Governments 4
NATAMST 102 Critical Native American Legal and Policy Studies 4
NATAMST 105 Indigenous Issues Across the Americas 4
POLSCI 148A Latin American Politics 4
POLSCI 157B Constitutional Law of the United States 4
PORTUG 104 Brazil in the World 4
PORTUG 128 Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Literature 4
PORTUG 135 Studies in Luso-Brazilian Literature 4
PUBPOL C103 Wealth and Poverty 4
SOCIOL 124 Sociology of Poverty 4
SOCIOL 130AC Social Inequalities: American Cultures 4
SOCIOL 131AC Race and Ethnic Relations: U.S. American Cultures 4
SOCIOL 145L Social Change in Latin America 4
SPANISH 104A Survey of Spanish American Literature 4
SPANISH 104B Survey of Spanish American Literature 4

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