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  • GRS GE 798: Global Development Capstone
    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. Also offered as GRS EC 798 and IR 798.
  • GRS GE 805: Spatial Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
    Covers advanced research topics in GIS dealing with the measurement, storage, retrieval, and analysis of spatial information. Topics include fuzzy sets, fractals, and spatial statistics. Completion of project is required.
  • GRS GE 902: Student Intern
  • GRS GE 933: Problems in Gis
  • GRS GE 934: Problems in Gis
  • GRS GE 937: Prb Remote Snsg
  • GRS GE 938: Prb Remote Snsg
  • GRS GE 947: Prob in Energy
  • GRS GE 948: Prob in Energy
  • GRS GE 995: Prob in Environ
  • GRS GE 996: Prob in Environ
  • GRS HI 608: Renaissance Europe
    The main political, socioeconomic, intellectual and artistic currents in Italy (c. 1350--1530) and northwestern Europe (c. 1500-1560); emphasis on leading thinkers (Petrarch, Bruni, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Montaigne) as creators of the modern Western mind. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered GRS HI 811.
  • GRS HI 674: Issues in Modern Russian and Soviet History, 1861–1956
    Modern Russia in the imperial and Soviet eras: from the Great Reforms of Alexander II through the end of Stalin's reign. Examines Russia's political, socioeconomic, and cultural transformation from the traditional society into the first Communist state. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered GRS HI 847.
  • GRS HI 698: African American History
    The history of African Americans from African origins to present time; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered GRS HI 871.
  • GRS HI 699: Teaching College History
    The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in history. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
  • GRS HI 705: American Thought and Culture, 1776 to 1900
    Examines how intellectuals constructed an "exceptional" American identity by adjusting provincial Protestant and Enlightenment traditions to the challenges of transnational democratic, Romantic, and secular thought. Topics include Transcendentalism, pro- and anti-slavery movements, philosophical idealism, literary realism, and Darwinian theories. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered GRS HI 873.
  • GRS HI 706: Intellectual History of the United States, 1900 to the Present
    Investigates how American thinkers brought about an intellectual revolution in three challenging moments: the naturalist revolt in pragmatic philosophy and modern art; progressive liberals' confrontations with radicalism and new conservatisms; and poststructuralists' uncertain leap beyond modernist science, religion, and humanities. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered GRS HI 874.
  • GRS HI 710: Religion, Community, and Culture in Medieval Spain
    Interactions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews in medieval Europe's most religiously diverse region -- from the establishment of an Islamic al-Andalus in 711 CE to the final Christian "reconquest" of the peninsula and expulsion of the Jews in 1492 CE. Also offered as GRS RN 710.
  • GRS HI 721: The American Revolution, 1750-1800
    The political, economic, and ideological causes of the American War for Independence; the construction of a new political system amid the passions of a revolutionary upheaval; and the gradual emergence of a new economic and cultural order in the United States. This course cannot be taken for credit in addition to the course with the same title that was previously numbered GRS HI 856.
  • GRS HI 746: History of International Human Rights
    History of international human rights since the eighteenth century. Examines political, social, economic rights, the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and related international conventions, enforcement, regionalism, globalization, and NGOs. Analyzes tensions between national sovereignty and human rights.

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