Global Classrooms

ABE 232: Context in International Interventions

Instructor: Ann-Perry Witmer, Senior Research Scientist

Partner: Tommy Pozo Vila, Universidad Privada Boliviana, Bolivia

This multi-disciplinary course will examine a new approach to infrastructure engineering for alternately developed societies that seeks to counteract the disconnects and differing objectives among project stakeholders that result in lack of infrastructure sustainability and resiliency. Using a case study from Western Africa, the course will consider the impact of globalization, the attitudes of industrialized societies, and the role of place-based knowledge in designing and implementing infrastructure interventions for rural societies.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2023 for Cultural Studies - Non-West, Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci.

ANSC 499: Bovine Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Instructors: Crystal C. Allen, Visiting Research Specialist in Agriculture and Lecturer, and Matthew B. Wheeler, Professor, Department of Animal Sciences

Partner: Isaac P. Kashoma, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Class will meet May 15-June 30 with 1-hour weekly virtual discussion. This is a 2-credit hour course with both asynchronous and synchronous online components. Students will complete asynchronous lecture content in addition to a synchronous online meeting once per week at the scheduled time. Reproductive technology and techniques utilized in cattle including Bos taurus and Bos indicus. Topics include general bovine reproductive anatomy and physiology, estrus detection, estrous cycle control, estrus synchronization, pregnancy diagnosis, nutrition and disease concerns, collecting eggs and sperm, semen processing, in vitro and in vivo embryo production, and emerging assisted reproductive technologies such as AI, IVF, MOET.

ABE 232: Context in International Interventions

Instructor: Ann-Perry Witmer, Senior Research Scientist

Partner: Tommy Pozo Vila, Universidad Privada Boliviana, Bolivia

This multi-disciplinary course will examine a new approach to infrastructure engineering for alternately developed societies that seeks to counteract the disconnects and differing objectives among project stakeholders that result in lack of infrastructure sustainability and resiliency. Using a case study from Western Africa, the course will consider the impact of globalization, the attitudes of industrialized societies, and the role of place-based knowledge in designing and implementing infrastructure interventions for rural societies.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Spring 2023 for Cultural Studies - Non-West, Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci.

CHEM 104: General Chemistry II (Honors) 

Instructor: Jose Andino Martinez, Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry

Partner: Marlene Emparatriz Acosta Martinez, University of El Salvador

Lecture and discussions. Chemistry of materials, including organic and biological substances, chemical energetics and equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and electrochemistry.

Please contact instructor Jose Andino Martinez for more information about the Global Classrooms section of this course.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Spring 2023 for Nat Sci & Tech - Phys Sciences.

HDFS 398: Child Health in South Africa (Section JB) 

Instructor: Jan Brooks, Senior Instructor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies

Partner: Jawaya Shea, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Guided Course + Remote Internship. This course offers a unique exploration of child development, health perspectives, and challenges in South Africa, focusing on topics such as family, cultural and societal contexts, child guidance, food security, HIV, and tuberculosis care in childhood and adolescence, as well as the effect of COVID-19 on child-being in communities already affected by socio-economic and health disparities. Teams of students from Illinois will partner with peers from South Africa to design developmentally and contextually appropriate programming for selected pediatric and youth projects in the Cape Town area. Interactions with lectures and experts from Illinois and South Africa, as well as agency supervisors, will guide student teams in critical thinking, ethics, and cross-cultural collaboration as they develop a project, curriculum guide, education contribution, or support mechanism for their assigned agency. Additional arranged collaborative time with your internship team will be required. 

UP 160: Race, Social Justice, and Cities 

Instructor: Ken Salo, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Partners: Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil and Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Study of the history and politics of American cities as sites of everyday struggles against systemic racialized exclusions rooted in patterns of residential segregation. Frame everyday racial encounters as surface symptoms of submerged and systematic forms of racism rooted in centuries of genocide, land theft, racial slavery, and decades of Jim Crow segregation and neoliberal exclusions. Explore everyday racial conflicts in selected cities as expressions of historical struggles for social and spatial justice, across multiple scales. Focus on the governance of routine social practices ranging from policing, to education, to gentrification and memorialization in public places. Final student projects will focus on social struggles against systemic and everyday racisms in a self-selected city of their choice.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Spring 2023 for Cultural Studies - US Minority.

UP 260: Social Inequality and Planning

Instructor: Ken Salo, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Partners: Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil, and Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

How are inequalities produced and contested in an urban environment? This course examines this question by analyzing how the urban landscape shapes and is shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. The course uses comparative cases to explore successful intervention, both formal and informal, across multiple scales from the local to the global.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Spring 2023 for Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci.

CHEM 104: General Chemistry II

Instructor: Jose Andino Martinez, Senior Lecturer, Department of Chemistry

Partner: Marlene Emparatriz Acosta Martinez, University of El Salvador

Lecture and discussions. Chemistry of materials, including organic and biological substances, chemical energetics and equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and electrochemistry. Please contact instructor Jose Andino Martinez for more information about the Global Classrooms section of this course.

ECON 415: Environmental Economics

Instructor: Bryan Buckley, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Economics

Partners: Liliana Harding, University of East Anglia, UK, and Isabel Rodriguez Tejedo, University of Navarra, Spain

Application of economic theory to topical issues such as pollution, climate change, and the environmental impacts of overpopulation. Both market-based and regulatory solutions to these problems are discussed.

IS 390: Consulting for Information Professionals

Instructor: Yoo-Seong Song, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences

Partner: Sung-Chul Bae, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

This course is designed to provide practical and hands-on training by simulating consulting projects. Students will develop proficiencies in problem-solving, team management, storytelling, and professional communications. As they learn the theories and practices of consulting engagements, students will have opportunities to discover how their knowledge in information sciences can be applied to various types of consulting services. The transferrable skills acquired in this class are applicable to other workplace settings.

LAST 445-1 / QUEC 410: Beginning Quechua

Instructor: Carlos Molina-Vital, Instructor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Partners: Gavina Cordova and Luis Mujica, Universidad Nacional Jose Maria Arguedas, Peru

Upon the consent of the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, tutorials are available in special native Latin American languages not regularly offered by the University (ie. Quechua, Kagchikel Mayan). Tutorials at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels may be arranged. Students registering for unit credit for the first two terms must first present satisfactory evidence of knowledge of the language at the elementary level, either in the form of credit earned at another institution or by passing a proficiency examination.

UP 160: Race, Social Justice, and Cities

Instructor: Ken Salo, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Partners: Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil and Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Study of the history and politics of American cities as sites of everyday struggles against systemic racialized exclusions rooted in patterns of residential segregation. Frame everyday racial encounters as surface symptoms of submerged and systematic forms of racism rooted in centuries of genocide, land theft, racial slavery and decades of Jim Crow segregation and neoliberal exclusions. Explore everyday racial conflicts in selected cities as expressions of historical struggles for social and spatial justice, across multiple scales. Focus on the governance of routine social practices ranging from policing, to education, to gentrification and memorialization in public places. Final student projects will focus on social struggles against systemic and everyday racisms in a self-selected city of their choice.

UP 260: Social Inequality and Planning

Instructor: Ken Salo, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Partners: Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil and Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

How are inequalities produced and contested in an urban environment? This course examines this question by analyzing how the urban landscape shapes and is shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. Uses comparative cases to explore successful intervention, both from formal and informal, across multiple scales from the local to the global.

ABE 498: Special Topics (Section JAG)

Instructor: Jorge Alberto Guzman Jaimes, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Partner: Navneet Kumar, University of Bonn, Germany, and Carlos Rogerio de Mello, Federal University of Lavras, Brazil

Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in agricultural and biological engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum.

CHEM 104: General Chemistry II

Instructor: Jose Andino Martinez, Lecturer, Department of Chemistry

Partner: Marlene Emparatriz Acosta Martinez, University of El Salvador

Lecture and discussions. Chemistry of materials, including organic and biological substances, chemical energetics and equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and electrochemistry.

CMN 432: Gender Communication

Instructor: Billy Huff, Lecturer, Department of Communication

Partner: Dionna van Reenen, University of the Free State, South Africa

Study of interactive relationships between gender and communication in contemporary American society. Examines how gender identity and expression are influenced by race, ethnicity, culture, age, ability, class, faith, and other social characteristics. Explores how communication in social contexts creates and perpetuates gender roles.

EURO 490 Life & Work of Euro Parliament

Instructor: Jonathan Larson, Associate Director, European Union Center, Director of Graduate Programs, EU Center, Research Associate Affiliate Anthropology

This proseminar offers a rare opportunity to examine the work of the European Parliament (EP) through a series of live, virtual meetings with former EP Members. A four to five week “virtual exchange” with students from a course at another university is also planned. The course will be of special interest to students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who study institutions and politics. The course will consist of a combination of four in-person meetings to facilitate discussion and interaction as well as synchronous online meetings to facilitate the participation of remote guests who are an important feature of the course. Students will prepare for meetings by reading topical materials about the EP as well as how social scientists study experts and their worlds. Discussions will explore the negotiation of issues such as human rights, the environment, public health, the economy, and foreign affairs in Europe.

HDFS 398: Child Health in South Africa (Section JB)

Instructor: Jan Brooks, Senior Instructor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies

Partner: Jawaya Shea, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Guided Course + Remote Internship. The course offers a unique exploration of child development and health perspectives and challenges in South Africa. Topics: family, cultural and societal contexts, child guidance, food security, HIV, and tuberculosis care in childhood and adolescence, as well as the effect of COVID-19 on child-being in communities already affected by socio-economic and health disparities. teams of students from Illinois will partner with peers from South Africa to design developmentally and contextually appropriate programming for selected pediatric and youth projects in the Cape Town area. Interactions with lectures and experts from Illinois and South Africa, as well as agency supervisors, will guide student teams in critical thinking, ethics, and cross-cultural collaboration as they develop a project, curriculum guide, education contribution, or support mechanism for their assigned agency. Additional arranged collaborative time with your internship team will be required. 

IS 390: Special Topics in Information Studies (Section CIP)

Instructor: Yoo-Seong Song, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences

Partner: Sung-Chul Bae, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea

Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include among others computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval and evaluation of scientific or social science knowledge; computer-mediated communication; and computer-supported cooperative work.

LAST 445-1 / QUEC 410: Beginning Quechua I

Instructor: Carlos Molina-Vital, Instructor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Partners: Gavina Cordova and Luis Mujica, Universidad Nacional Jose Maria Arguedas, Peru

Upon the consent of the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, tutorials are available in special native Latin American languages not regularly offered by the University (ie. Quechua, Kagchikel Mayan). Tutorials at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels may be arranged. Students registering for unit credit for the first two terms must first present satisfactory evidence of knowledge of the language at the elementary level, either in the form of credit earned at another institution or by passing a proficiency examination.

UP 260 Social Inequality and Planning

Instructor: Ken Salo, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Partners: Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil, and Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

How are inequalities produced and contested in an urban environment? This course examines this question by analyzing how the urban landscape shapes and is shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. Uses comparative cases to explore successful intervention, both from formal and informal, across multiple scales from the local to the global.everyday racisms in a self-selected city of their choice.

IS 390: Consulting Info Professionals (Section CIP)

Instructor: Yoo-Seong Song, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences

Partner: Sung-Chul Bae, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea

Directed and supervised investigation of selected topics in information studies that may include among others computers and culture; information policy; community information systems; production, retrieval, and evaluation of scientific or social science knowledge; computer-mediated communication; and computer-supported cooperative work.

HDFS 398: Child Health in South Africa

Instructor: Jan Brooks, Senior Instructor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies

Partner: Jawaya Shea, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Guided Course + Remote Internship. This course offers a unique exploration of child development, health perspectives, and challenges in South Africa, focusing on topics such as family, cultural and societal contexts, child guidance, food security, HIV, and tuberculosis care in childhood and adolescence, as well as the effect of COVID-19 on child-being in communities already affected by socio-economic and health disparities. Teams of students from Illinois will partner with peers from South Africa to design developmentally and contextually appropriate programming for selected pediatric and youth projects in the Cape Town area. Interactions with lectures and experts from Illinois and South Africa, as well as agency supervisors, will guide student teams in critical thinking, ethics, and cross-cultural collaboration as they develop a project, curriculum guide, education contribution, or support mechanism for their assigned agency. Additional arranged collaborative time with your internship team will be required. 

CHEM 104: General Chemistry II

Instructor: Jose Andino Martinez, Lecturer, Department of Chemistry

Partner: Marlene Emparatriz Acosta Martinez, University of El Salvador

Lecture and discussions. Chemistry of materials, including organic and biological substances, chemical energetics and equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and electrochemistry.

LAST 445-1 / QUEC 410: Native Latin Amer Languages

Instructor: Carlos Molina-Vital, Instructor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Partners: Gavina Cordova and Luis Mujica, Universidad Nacional Jose Maria Arguedas, Peru

Upon the consent of the Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, tutorials are available in special native Latin American languages not regularly offered by the University (ie. Quechua, Kagchikel Mayan). Tutorials at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels may be arranged. Students registering for unit credit for the first two terms must first present satisfactory evidence of knowledge of the language at the elementary level, either in the form of credit earned at another institution or by passing a proficiency examination.

UP 160 Race, Social Justice and Cities

Instructor: Ken Salo, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Partners: Ricardo Nascimento, UNILAB, Brazil, and Greg Ruiters, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Study of the history and politics of American cities as sites of everyday struggles against systemic racialized exclusions rooted in patterns of residential segregation. Frame everyday racial encounters as surface symptoms of submerged and systematic forms of racism rooted in centuries of genocide, land theft, racial slavery and decades of Jim Crow segregation and neoliberal exclusions. Explore everyday racial conflicts in selected cities as expressions of historical struggles for social and spatial justice, across multiple scales. Focus on the governance of routine social practices ranging from policing, to education, to gentrification and memorialization in public places. Final student projects will focus on social struggles against systemic and everyday racisms in a self-selected city of their choice.