GLS 102.1: Global Environmental History

Prof. Tara Rider, Department of Sustainability Studies | View Bio

Day/Time: Thursday | 10:00am to 11:20am

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55215

While the natural world has shaped and conditioned human experiences, over time, man has made increasingly far-reaching alterations to their surroundings. Thus, this course will be an exploration of how natural environments have been transformed by mankind and how those environments have shaped man’s thinking about nature. Through case studies of places such as Easter Island and themes such as disease and war, we will study how nature is both natural and cultural.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.2: Introduction to International Development

Prof. Can Ozturk, Department of Technology and Society | View Bio

Day/Time: Friday | 2:30pm to 3:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55216

This course aims to introduce the basic concepts of international development and give the students a broad-based understanding of the macro issues facing the world such as poverty, environmental destruction and the challenge of achieving sustainable development. Students learn about the different ways to measure development, and the social and economic development theories since the end of Second World War. Other topics discussed in classroom include international aid, disease burden, Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations, and the impact of information technologies and mobile communication on developing countries.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.3: Heavy Metal Music: The Universal Language of Youth Angst

Prof. Guiseppe Costa, Department of Language Learning and Research Center | View Bio

Day/Time: Monday | 12:00pm to 12:53pm

Meeting Pattern: 53 mins per week for 14 weeks (January 22, 2018 to May 4, 2018)

Location: Psych A 144

Course #: 55217

This seminar will focus on the sociological, philosophical and semiotic practices of heavy metal (music and lyrics). It will look at its anti-establishment culture, which originated from England and became a global phenomenon during the last thirty years, creating a worldwide network of followers.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.4: Heavy Metal Music: The Universal Language of Youth Angst

Prof. Giuseppe Costa, Department of Language Learning and Research Center | View Bio

Day/Time: Friday | 12:00pm to 12:53pm

Meeting Pattern: 53 mins per week for 14 weeks (January 22, 2018 to May 4, 2018)

Location: Psych A 144

Course #: 55218

This seminar will focus on the sociological, philosophical and semiotic practices of heavy metal (music and lyrics). It will look at its anti-establishment culture, which originated from England and became a global phenomenon during the last thirty years, creating a worldwide network of followers.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.5: Italian Culture Through The Arts

Prof. Lois Lemonda, Department of European Languages, Literature, and Cultures

Day/Time: Monday | 2:30pm to 3:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55219

The course would divulge into various topics in Italian Culture in order to engage students in a cross-cultural discussion with an emphasis upon the arts, specifically literature and film. Students would be exposed to various facets of Italian culture through these media and would reflect upon both their own backgrounds as well as their expectations/existing knowledge of Italian culture. Students would be afforded the opportunity to examine their own cultural beliefs in the context of another, thereby enriching the overall diverse and multicultural experience at Stony Brook University.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.6: Corporations and the Environment

Prof. John Shandra, Department of Sociology | View Bio

Day/Time: Monday | 4:00pm to 5:20pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55220

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of how corporations impact the natural environment. In doing so, we will also consider their impacts in the United States and abroad. We will pay special attention to how other actors including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and non-governmental organizations either constrain or enhance the impacts of corporations on the environment.  

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.7: Corporations and the Environment

Prof. John Shandra, Department of Sociology | View Bio

Day/Time: Wednesday | 4:00pm to 5:20pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: Melville Library N3090

Course #: 55221

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an understanding of how corporations impact the natural environment. In doing so, we will also consider their impacts in the United States and abroad. We will pay special attention to how other actors including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and non-governmental organizations either constrain or enhance the impacts of corporations on the environment.

Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.8: Making Lemonade: Navigating the Turbulent Waters of Race, Mental Illness, and Otherness

Prof. Emily Safos, Department of Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Day/Time: Thursday | 2:30pm to 3:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center room 109

Course #: 55222

This course will endeavor to smooth the transition between high school and college. Those who can relate to the plight of disenfranchised groups may view this as an opportunity to connect with like-minded classmates and perhaps forge lifelong bonds. Students will share their perspectives on race, disability, mental illness, and “otherness”. They will evaluate and expound on the content provided by renowned TED Talk speakers. There will be weekly assignments to watch a TED talk, to analyze the speaker’s point of view, to determine what makes it effective (or not), and to have a forum in which they can safely engage in academic and social discourse.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.9: Introduction to Nuclear Weapons

Prof. Jason Rose, Department of Political Science

Day/Time: Wednesday | 7:00pm to 8:20pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: Melville Library, S1410D

Course #: 55223

Fewer than ten states currently have nuclear weapons, but several dozen governments have at one time or another worked to develop or considered developing nuclear weapons. A few states are believed to be doing so now, but many more have done so in the past, including one state – South Africa – that built nuclear weapons and then gave them up. Is security the reason governments decide to pursue nuclear weapons? Are there other reasons that motivate states to do so? What are the factors that influence the decision whether or not to obtain nuclear weapons? We will look at Australia and Germany in the 1950s, and many other countries. We will ask whether Kim Il-Sung started North Korea’s nuclear weapons program for the same reasons Kim Jong-Il hid it from the IAEA, and for the same reasons Kim Jong-Un keeps it today?

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.10: Introduction to Nuclear Weapons

Prof. Jason Rose, Department of Political Science

Day/Time: Wednesday | 8:30pm to 9:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: Melville Library S1410D

Course #: 55224

Fewer than ten states currently have nuclear weapons, but several dozen governments have at one time or another worked to develop or considered developing nuclear weapons. A few states are believed to be doing so now, but many more have done so in the past, including one state – South Africa – that built nuclear weapons and then gave them up. Is security the reason governments decide to pursue nuclear weapons? Are there other reasons that motivate states to do so? What are the factors that influence the decision whether or not to obtain nuclear weapons? We will look at Australia and Germany in the 1950s, and many other countries. We will ask whether Kim Il-Sung started North Korea’s nuclear weapons program for the same reasons Kim Jong-Il hid it from the IAEA, and for the same reasons Kim Jong-Un keeps it today?

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.11: Making Decisions

Prof. Stephen Shultz, Department of Journalism | View Bio

Day/Time: Monday | 1:00pm to 2:20pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: Melville Library, S1410D

Course #: 55225

Even if we don’t realize it, we make decisions throughout each and every day! Sometimes the choices are simple and we really don’t think much, if at all, about them. At other times, we are faced with situations that do not provide clear choices, even though these very decisions may have a great impact on our lives. This course in decision making will be multidisciplinary as it will examine decisions that are made regarding a variety of problems and issues as they appear in history, literature and current affairs. These examples will be used as a bridge to the decisions that students will need to make in their own lives. Participants will examine factors that play a role in decision making and be encouraged to make applications to their own lives and situations. By the end of the course, students will develop a practical guideline that will be useful both now and for the rest of their lives. Suggestions from students as to discussions and topics are additionally encouraged and welcome.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.12: Making Decisions

Prof. Stephen Shultz, Department of Journalism | View Bio

Day/Time: Monday | 2:30pm to 3:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: Melville Library, S1410D

Course #: 55226

Even if we don’t realize it, we make decisions throughout each and every day! Sometimes the choices are simple and we really don’t think much, if at all, about them. At other times, we are faced with situations that do not provide clear choices, even though these very decisions may have a great impact on our lives. This course in decision making will be multidisciplinary as it will examine decisions that are made regarding a variety of problems and issues as they appear in history, literature and current affairs. These examples will be used as a bridge to the decisions that students will need to make in their own lives. Participants will examine factors that play a role in decision making and be encouraged to make applications to their own lives and situations. By the end of the course, students will develop a practical guideline that will be useful both now and for the rest of their lives. Suggestions from students as to discussions and topics are additionally encouraged and welcome.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.13: Literacy Narrative: Making Sense of Higher Education

Prof. Soni Adhikari, Department of Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Day/Time: Wednesday | 2:30pm to 3:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55227

“Literacy Narrative: Making Sense of Higher Education” is a course designed to help students learn college-level research, reading, idea-generating, and writing skills while exploring the subject of literacy narratives from political, sociocultural, and technological perspectives. Students will learn to reflect on learning to read and write, developing broader intellectual themes and arguments out of their personal educational experiences. In the process, they will learn to read fairly complex texts and to find and use scholarly resources in their writing. They will share their ideas as they develop and in a 5-7 page paper, with the option of presenting at URECA. 

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.14: Literacy Narrative: Making Sense of Higher Education

Prof. Soni Adhikari, Department of Program in Writing and Rhetoric

Day/Time: Wednesday | 5:30pm to 6:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55228

“Literacy Narrative: Making Sense of Higher Education” is a course designed to help students learn college-level research, reading, idea-generating, and writing skills while exploring the subject of literacy narratives from political, sociocultural, and technological perspectives. Students will learn to reflect on learning to read and write, developing broader intellectual themes and arguments out of their personal educational experiences. In the process, they will learn to read fairly complex texts and to find and use scholarly resources in their writing. They will share their ideas as they develop and in a 5-7 page paper, with the option of presenting at URECA. 

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.15: Social Justice in Education

Prof. David Hornung, Department of Health Technology and Management

Day/Time: Tuesday | 7:00pm to 7:53pm

Meeting Pattern: 53 mins per week for 14 weeks (January 22, 2018 to May 4, 2018)

Location: Melville Library S1410

Course #: 55229

Explore the rich history of classrooms being a center for social justice in this country and abroad. We will look at historical and current examples of teachers and students taking their experiences in public education and using them to promote social, racial, and economic justice. Students will view their role in education as more than a manifestation of the student/pupil dichotomy and view it as a truly transformative relationship that can radically alter the power structures of society.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.16: Water and Sustainabilty

Prof. Mirza Beg, Department of Sustainability Studies

Day/Time: Wednesday | 2:30pm to 3:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: ESS, Room 137

Course #: 55230

Water is at the core of sustainability and is critical for socio-economic development, healthy ecosystems and for human survival itself. Through this course the students will investigate the growing pressure on water resources – from population and economic growth, climate change, pollution, and other challenges, that have major impacts on our social, economic, and environmental well-being.

This course aims to emphasize that water is vital for reducing the global burden of disease and improving the health, welfare and productivity of populations. Students learn that water is also at the heart of adaptation to climate change, serving as the crucial link between the climate system, human society and the environment. Water can pose a serious challenge to sustainable development but managed efficiently and equitably, water can play a key enabling role in strengthening the resilience of social, economic and environmental systems in the light of rapid and unpredictable changes.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.17: Classics of Ancient China

Prof. Gregory Ruf, Department of Asian and American Studies | View Bio

Day/Time: Tuesday | 11:30am to 12:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 1 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55231

Introductory survey of selected texts from ancient China, with a wide-ranging discussion of their ideas, insights on human life and society, and their relevance for today.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.18: Ethnography

Prof. Gregory Ruf, Department of Asian and American Studies | View Bio

Day/Time: Tuesday | 1:00pm to 2:20pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55232

How do can one interpret and understand a foreign culture? What is it like to do long-term field research in another culture? This course offers an introduction to the techniques and challenges of participant-observation used by cultural anthropologists to conduct ethnographic research.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.20: You Really, Really Need to Teach. Seriously. Like Soon.

Prof. Sharon Anthony, Department of English

Day/Time: Monday | 1:00am to 2:20pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: Humanities, Room 2047

Course #: 55234

This course is an actual discussion of some of the most compelling and controversial questions regarding public education and the concrete contributions students at Stony Brook University can make. We will closely examine how the issues of race, social class and funding create the current inequities in K-12 education. We will research the dearth of teachers of color both in New York City and Long Island. We will specifically examine the needs of students most marginalized in the current systems and the role of the teacher and curriculum. Ultimately we will create meaningful proposals regarding the needs of students in our public schools and urge students at Stony Brook University to contribute to their community.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.21: Global Science Fiction

Prof. Ritch Calvin, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | View Bio

Day/Time: Monday | 1:00pm to 2:20pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55235

Students in this course will read short science fiction stories from all over the world. We will also view a few short science fiction films.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.22: Global Science Fiction

Prof. Ritch Calvin, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | View Bio

Day/Time: Thursday | 11:30am to 12:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55236

Students in this course will read short science fiction stories from all over the world. We will also view a few short science fiction films.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.23: Language Myths

Prof. Jose Elias-Ulloa, Department of Linguistics | View Bio

Day/Time: Tuesday | 10:00am to 11:20am

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: GLS Center, Room 109

Course #: 55237

The course is about debunking general ideas and misconceptions people have about language and languages in general (e.g. language accents, dialects, language and writing systems, languages without grammars, languages better than others, correct versus incorrect language, linguistic stereotypes, etc.)

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.24: The Media Jungle: A Survival Guide

Prof. Rick Firstman, Department of Journalism | View Bio

Day/Time: Thursday | 2:30pm to 3:50pm

Meeting Pattern: 1 hr 20 mins per week for 10 weeks (January 22, 2018 to April 6, 2018)

Location: Humanities, Room 2047

The world has become engulfed in a guerilla war of truth. We’re inundated—assaulted—by news and information coming at us from an increasingly mysterious universe of sources. What’s credible? What’s fake? What’s real but called fake? Each week we’ll talk about the news and drill down into where it’s coming from, how it’s produced and—most important—how to evaluate its veracity. ou can become media-smart. With a journalist as your guide, you’ll be part of a lively discussion of issues and events that matter to you and emerge more media-smart–better equipped to decide for yourself what to make of the information you’re consuming.

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.25: Mapping Immigrants Identities: Place, Space and Communities in the United States

Prof. Georges Fouron, Department of Africana Studies | View Bio

Day/Time: Wednesday | 10:00am to 10:53am

Meeting Pattern: 53 mins per week for 14 weeks (January 22, 2018 to May 4, 2018)

Location: Melville Library, N3090

Course #: 55239

Since the end of World War II, immigration from Europe has subsided significantly. Instead, the majority of immigrants are coming from the developing countries of Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The majority of them are not familiar with the American dominant cultural norms that are European. At the same time, the American population is not familiar with their cultural characteristics either. Yet, as foreigners, they have to find their place in their new society. The questions this course will address are as follows:

How are these immigrants received upon their arrival in the United States? Are they being forced to be absorbed into the U.S. society on the basis of their race and ethnicity? Do these immigrants comply with the impositions of the host nation? Do they retain their primary loyalty to their home country instead? Do they totally “melt” into American culture?

The course will also address the notion of “who belongs” and how “one belongs” in the United States by looking at what happens after these new immigrants had settled in this country.

In general, the new immigrants are behaving like the European immigrants that preceded them by embracing American society as their own, albeit in their own terms. However, increasingly, scholars of migration are writing about many among these immigrants who are developing a new form of identity, which they call “transnational identity.” Instead of choosing either their old country or their new home, they prefer to live simultaneously in both societies. Is this a new phenomenon? Does this adaptive strategy differ from group to group? How does it affect the United States social cohesiveness?

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.26: Global Studies: A Multiverse Perspective

Prof. Paul Vitello, Department of Journalism | View Bio

Day/Time: Friday | 11:00am to 11:53am

Meeting Pattern: 53 mins per week for 14 weeks (January 22, 2018 to May 4, 2018)

Location: Melville Library, N3090

Course #: 55240

By now it is a cliché to refer to the world as a global village. But how much do we really know about the cultural norms, politics and daily life of people in Russia, Nigeria, China, Chile and the rest of the roughly 200 countries that form the patchwork quilt of our “village”? Over the course of this semester, we will look at how people in other countries live, relative to our economic and political standards; how they get their information; how that differs from the American way of knowing things; how they define their national interests, and understand their place in the world; who they see as their national allies and rivals, and why. 

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading

 

GLS 102.27: Global Studies: A Multiverse Perspective

Prof. Paul Vitello, Department of Journalism | View Bio

Day/Time: Wednesday | 11:00am to 11:53am

Meeting Pattern: 53 mins per week for 14 weeks (January 22, 2018 to May 4, 2018)

Location: Melville Library, N3090

Course #: 55241

By now it is a cliché to refer to the world as a global village. But how much do we really know about the cultural norms, politics and daily life of people in Russia, Nigeria, China, Chile and the rest of the roughly 200 countries that form the patchwork quilt of our “village”? Over the course of this semester, we will look at how people in other countries live, relative to our economic and political standards; how they get their information; how that differs from the American way of knowing things; how they define their national interests, and understand their place in the world; who they see as their national allies and rivals, and why. 

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the GLS Undergraduate College

1 credit, Letter Grading