Courses

• GRS IR 789: Globalization, Development, Governance
  Covers the latest theory and evidence related to international trade and development policy. Additional focus on how these issues are dealth with by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and international economic agreements.
• GRS IR 794: Current Issues in International Environmental Affairs
  Seminar explores key concepts related to regimes and environmental diplomacy and focuses on a selected set of contemporary issues in international environmental affairs. Seeks to foster research and writing on the negotiation and implementation of environmental treaties. Meets with EE794
• GRS IR 798: Global Development Capstone
  (Meets with GRS EC 798 and GE798.) Capstone course for MA students in Global Development Policy and Global Development Economics. Students, working in groups, design and carry out an interdisciplinary policy analysis comparable to those performed for a government or nonprofit agency.
• GRS IR 799: MAIA Paper Workshop
  Provides structure and support to MAIA Paper writers. Goals include formulating researchable questions, creating viable research and writing strategies, and critiquing intermediate efforts. Focuses on creating an environment of peer feedback.
• GRS IR 825: Seminar: Women and Social Change in the Developing World
  (Meets with GRS SO 820.) Studies women in nonindustrial countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, stressing empirical research, theory, and methodology. Comparisons between regions and with industrial countries. Focus on sex segregation, female labor force participation, migration, fertility, family roles, and women and political power.
• GRS IR 901: Directed Study I
  Advanced independent study in international relations under the supervision of a faculty member. Course usually requires a formal research paper. Hours arranged.
• GRS IR 902: Directed Study II
  Advanced independent study in international relations under the supervision of a faculty member. Course usually requires a formal research paper. Hours arranged.
• GRS LF 621: Reading French for Graduate Students
  Designed for graduate degree candidates preparing for language reading examinations. Develops skills in interpreting written French with minimal phonological or cultural references. Practice in translating passages relating to the sciences and humanities. No previous knowledge of French required. Students will not receive graduate credit for this course and there is no tuition charge.
• GRS LF 860: Seminar: Topics in French Literature
  Two topics are offered 2009/2010. Students may take one or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2009: Epic in the French Renaissance. Explores the evolution of the epic genre in France (c. 1532-1616). Authors studied include Rabelais, Du Bellay, Ronsard, d’Aubigné, and others. Topics include epic and national unity, epic and religious war, epic and the sister arts. Topic for Spring 2010: Travel Narrative in Early Modern France. From Montaigne’s reflections on the age of exploration to Voltaire’s satirical picaresque novel Candide. Real and imagined travel as adventure, freedom, captivity, constraint, inner voyage, discovery. Relevance of cultural, political, technological, and economic developments to the evolution of travel narrative.
• GRS LF 951: Directed Study: French Language and Literature
  Hours arranged. Consent of instructor and department.
• GRS LF 952: Directed Study: French Language and Literature
  Hours arranged. Consent of instructor and department.
• GRS LG 621: Reading German for Graduate Students
  Designed to prepare graduate students for the German reading exam. Develops a knowledge of the fundamentals of German grammar. Practice in translating passages. No previous knowledge of German required. Students will not receive graduate credit for this course and there is no tuition charge.
• GRS LI 621: Reading Italian for Graduate Students
  Designed for graduate degree candidates preparing for language reading examinations. Develops skills in interpreting written Italian with minimal phonological or cultural references. Practice in translating passages relating to the sciences and humanities. No previous knowledge of Italian required. Students will not receive graduate credit for this course and there is no tuition charge.
• GRS LI 951: Directed Study in Italian Language and Literature
  Hours arranged.
• GRS LI 952: Directed Study in Italian Language and Literature
  Hours arranged.
• GRS LL 699: Teaching College Languages I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in languages. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS LP 621: Reading Portugu
  
• GRS LS 621: Reading Spanish for Graduate Students
  Designed to prepare graduate students for the Spanish reading exam. Develops a knowledge of the fundamentals of Spanish grammar. Practice in translating passages. No previous knowledge of Spanish required.
• GRS LS 850: Seminar: Topics in Hispanic Literature
  Two topics are offered Fall 2009. Students may take one or both for credit. Topic for Section A1: El Cid: Epic and Romancero. Studies the legend, history, and myth of the Cid and theories regarding the origin and development of epic poetry and the Romancero. Close reading of Poema de mio Cid, Mocedades de Rodrigo, and Romancero del Cid. Topic for Section B1: Epic and Satire in the Spanish American Colonies: Sixteenth and and Seventeenth Centuries. Works by Ercilla (Chile), Silvestre de Balboa (Cuba), Mateo Rosas de Oquendo (Peru), Juan del Valle y Caviedes (Peru), and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Mexico). The question of the polarization of the two genres of epic and satire is explored.
• GRS LS 851: Writing in the Americas I and II
  Study of works by leding authors of the Americas with participation by writers as special guests. Issues discussed include universal vesus regionalist concerns, the writer's role in today's society, history as component of contemporary fiction, and Latin America at the century's end. Topic for 05/06: Translation, bilingualism, place and voice will be studied through the works of writers such as: Goldman, Villoro, Ferre among others. Literary readings and workshop with selected translators will complement the seminar.

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