Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Global Social Issues (1-3)

Guatemala: Rights of Women and Indigenous People

This course examines social, political, and cultural issues in Guatemala, focusing on rebuilding communities in the wake of conflict, environmental justice issues, human rights abuses, indigenous rights, and women's issues, using field experiences in country, lectures, and readings to address global structures of inequalities and injustices.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Global Social Issues (1-3)

Haiti: Women and Youth Empowerment

This course examines social, political, and cultural issues in Haiti, specifically looking at gender, youth, violence against women, and microfinance as a tool for eradicating poverty using field experiences, lectures, and readings to address global structures of inequalities and injustices.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Global Social Issues (1-3)

Cuba: Access to Higher Education

This course examines social, political, and cultural issues around the education systems of Cuba and the United States through a social justice lens and students learn about empowering teachers and community-school partnerships using field experiences, lectures, and readings to address global structures of inequalities and injustices.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Global Social Issues (1-3)

Northern Ireland: Peacebuilding and Integrated Education

This course examines social, political, and cultural issues in Northern Ireland, specifically regarding conflict resolution and the role of integrated schools in fostering understanding in a divided society, using field experiences, lectures and readings to address global structures of inequalities and injustices.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Selected Topics: Global Social Issues (1-3)

U.S.: Labor and Food Justice in the Agriculture Industry

This course examines social, political, and cultural issues that shape the U.S. agricultural system and explores a variety of issue areas related to industrial farming, food access, labor conditions, and environmental degradation, using field experiences, lectures, and readings to address global structures of inequalities and injustices.