CGS supports and collaborates with colleagues throughout the University to engage in interdisciplinary research and teaching to strengthen Cultural, Identity, and Diaspora Studies and their global interactions.
Selected Activities: Sociocultural Workshop in Global Studies Led by CGS core faculty in Anthropology, this workshop brings scholars from other universities to collaborate with University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty on new research and teaching.
Course Development: Muslim Society and Ethics: Rethinking Tradition in the Global Age RLST 494: A graduate seminar offered by Professor Valerie Hoffmann of the department of Religious Studies.
Geographies of Globalization, GEOG 106: An undergraduate course that fulfills both General Education and Global Literacy requirements, Geographies of Globalization offers a survey of world regions by considering five themes: environment, population and settlement patterns, cultural coherence and diversity, geopolitical fragmentation and unity, and economic and social development.
Seminar in Global History Professor Antoinette Burton of the Department of History is currently developing this course, which will be offered in the Spring of 2005.
Also of interest is the newly-developed Global Studies Initiative, an invaluable global studies resource for the University community.
