Featured Courses Spring 2019
Featured Courses Spring 2019
Explore different courses and continents to globalize your education.
Each semester the Keough School offers hundreds of courses for global thinkers like you. These courses span disciplines, cultures, languages, and countries–giving you the knowledge you need to address the global issues you care about. Whether you are considering a major or minor or are simply curious about global affairs, we invite you to explore the diverse courses offered by the Keough School.
Spring 2019
Here is just a sampling of courses offered during the spring 2019 semester. This is not an exhaustive list of courses offered by the Keough School and its global institutes. A full list of courses and descriptions can be viewed online in NOVO or Browse Classes under the advanced college search “Keough School.” Course offerings change every semester. You do not need to be enrolled in a Keough School program to register for these courses.
Introduction to Global Affairs and Integral Human Development
KSGA 10001
Dean Scott Appleby
TTH 9:30-10:45 a.m.
3 credits
What field(s) of study and expertise are typically clustered under the term “global affairs”? This course provides a broad overview of global affairs and explores Notre Dame’s particular approach to global issues, namely “integral human development” (IHD). IHD is a conceptual and normative framework for understanding, practicing, and evaluating efforts to reduce poverty, build peace, protect human rights, and address crises caused by food shortages, natural disasters, environmental degradation, and exploitative government or corporate practices and policies.
Credit hours contribute to the
Global Affairs Supplementary Major — Keough School of Global Affairs
Global Policy Seminar
KSGA 30011
Frank Taylor
F 2:00-3:15 p.m.
1 credit
This one-credit-hour seminar exposes students to the range of topics and geographies essential to a broad understanding of global policy. Invited guests will include policymakers and business leaders from several different countries; representatives of international organizations; officials from different branches and departments of the United States government and military; advocates from non-governmental organizations; activists from local NGOs and social movements; as well as journalists and academics from across the world. Students are expected to attend the presentations of these speakers, and act as student hosts for at least one speaker during the year.
Seminar guests change every semester. To view previous guests, visit the policy seminar bios page.
Intro to Peace Studies
IIPS 20101
Erin Corcoran
MW 11 :00 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Jason Springs
TR 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
3 credits
Although the Cold War ended in 1989, civil war, genocide, and state repression continue to occur across the globe. Nevertheless, we have also witnessed the emergence of sophisticated networks and movements to address these challenges and to promote peace and justice in the aftermath of violence. This course is designed to introduce students to the various ways scholars and activists define peace and the challenges faced in securing peace. The course surveys: (1) the major causes of direct and structural violence; (2) various definitions of “peace” and the conditions under which it occurs and is sustained; and (3) the comparative success of various strategies such as building peace movements and promoting nonviolent social change.
Credit hours contribute to the:
Global Affairs Supplementary Major Peace Studies concentration; or
Supplementary Major or Interdisciplinary Minor in Peace Studies — Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Social Entrepreneurship
IDS 30552
Melissa Paulsen
MW 2:00-3:15 p.m.
3 credits
This course explores concepts such as microfinance, MSME (Micro-Small-Medium Enterprise) development, bottom of the pyramid, fair trade, and impact investing–with a focus on their opportunity for social impact, and as a vehicle for wealth creation in vulnerable and disenfranchised communities across the globe. Further, the course covers examples of various social enterprise models (for-profit, non-profit, hybrid), requiring students to analyze and devise strategies to improve the efficacy of these ventures.
Credit hours contribute to the:
Global Affairs Supplementary Major International development studies concentration; or
Minor in International Development Studies — Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Intro to International Development Studies
IDS 20500
Paul Perrin
TR 3:30-4:45 p.m.
3 credits
This course serves as an introduction to the field of international development. Students will examine debates on the meaning and measurement of development; alternative approaches to, and methods in, the study of development; and attempts to address some of the main development challenges facing the world today. There will be a central focus on understanding “what works” in development. Working together in teams, students will conceptualize and design an international development project using “real world” constraints.
Credit hours contribute to the:
Global Affairs Supplementary Major International development studies concentration; or
Minor in International Development Studies — Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Beginning Irish 1
IRST 10101
Mary O’Callaghan
MWF 8:20-9:10 a.m.
MWF 9:25-10:15 a.m.
MWF 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m.
4 credits
This course provides an enjoyable introduction to modern Irish. No prior knowledge of the Irish language is required. Students will learn a new language, explore Irish/Celtic culture, and investigate the linguistic politics of the only minority language offered at Notre Dame. Extensive use is made of role-play and interactive teaching methods. In addition to satisfying the language requirement of the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Science, Irish satisfies the popular Irish Language and Literature and Irish Studies minors’ requirements, and selected students will have an opportunity to study in Dublin, Ireland.
Credit hours contribute to the:
Global Affairs Supplementary Major Irish studies concentration; or
Minor in Irish Studies — Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Love and Romance in Modern Asia: University Seminar
Course Listing: KSGA 13181
Course Instructor: Julia Kowalski
F 2:00-3:15 p.m.
3 credits
This class will use the topics of love and romance to introduce you to key issues in Asian Studies from a social science perspective. We will ask if “love” and “romance” are truly universal categories; explore how ideas about who and how to love inform geopolitical discussions of cultural differences between Asia and the West; ask what an Asia-centric perspective has to teach us about the diverse roles of romance; and examine how people love in China, India, Japan, and beyond.
This course is open only to first-year students. It fulfills the requirement for the University Seminar.
*Image from the Bollywood movie “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge”
Behind the Iron Curtain
Course Listing: RU 33500
Course Instructor: Emily Wang
MW 2:00-3:15 p.m.
3 credits
Was the Soviet Union a “worker’s paradise” or an “evil empire”? Nearly three decades after this country transformed into what we now call “post-Soviet space,” the legacy of the USSR looms large in international politics and culture. This course will offer students an introduction to Soviet history through film and literature. In this class we will explore how the tense relationship between art and the state developed in the first half of the twentieth century. Each artistic work will be accompanied by historical readings about the period, as well as artistic manifestos and contemporary reviews. All films will be shown with subtitles and all readings offered in English.
Credit hours contribute to the
Global Affairs Supplementary Major European studies concentration; or
Minor in European Studies — Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Information to register for classes:
Current students can view a full list of Keough School courses and descriptions online in NOVO or Browse Classes. Click on Advanced Search, then perform a College search for “Keough School.” Courses with the subject code “KSGA” contribute to the Keough School’s Supplemental Major in Global Affairs. Courses offered by the Keough School institutes, including courses that contribute to the global affairs concentrations, are identified by their respective subject codes (Liu/Asian studies: ASIA, Kellogg/International development studies: IDS, Keough-Naughton/Irish studies: IRST, Kroc/Peace studies: IIPS, and Nanovic/European studies: MESE).
Global Affairs Major
Core courses that count towards the supplemental major in global affairs can be found by searching within Coursicle or NOVO using the subject code “KSGA.” Courses that fulfill the supplemental major’s global cultures requirement can be found under the subject code KSGA with the course attribute “GLBC.”