Global Classrooms

Illinois Global Classrooms is a COIL initiative that supports students and instructors to structure Collaborative, Online, and International Learning experiences, facilitated by technology, between students at the University of Illinois and students from international partner institutions.

In this program, you'll connect with an international partner in a similar or complementary major to develop a virtual project, and you implement it in one of your existing courses. Projects vary in scope and duration but typically last between six and eight weeks.

In collaboration with the campus-wide study abroad community and with support from the European Union Center, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Center for Global Studies, LAS Global Classrooms will expand your global learning reach, allow you to see your major from multiple perspectives, and will help you challenge your assumptions.

Learn more about how the Global Classroom initiative brings scholars together and fosters transformative learning experiences in this article.

 

Fall 2024 Course Offerings

SAME 250: Introduction to Middle East Studies

Instructor: Marc Abou Abdallah, Assistant Professor

Partner: Magda Hasabelnaby, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt and Angela Williams, UIUC, Associate Director, CSAMES,

Introduction to the study of the region known as the "Middle East." Students will gain an appreciation of the variety of cultures, ethnicities, and religious traditions in the region, as well as how recent history has changed long standing norms, and the resulting challenges.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2024 for: Cultural Studies - Non-West

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BTW 280: Global Business Communication

Instructor: Andrew Moss, Senior Lecturer, Siebel Center for Design Affiliate

Partner: Jaime Bolaños, ITESO, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara, México 

How do professionals working internationally negotiate, express disagreement, and maintain relationships? How do management strategies, marketing plans, and human resource decisions differ from one country to another? This class answers these questions and many more about culture, business, and writing. With a strong focus on written communication, this course focuses on current trends in international business management and an array of writing skills and activities to prepare students to succeed in international careers.

Prerequisite: Completion of the campus Composition I requirement. Restricted to students with Sophomore, Junior, or Senior class standing.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2024 for: Advanced Composition

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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 Fall 2024 for Nat Sci & Tech - Phys Sciences.

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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.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: ECON 202; ECON 302; MATH 220/MATH 221 or other Calculus course.

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IB 104: Animal Biology

Instructor: Lily Arias, Director, Integrative Biology Merit Workshop Program 

Partners: Cesar Aguilar, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru 

Introductory zoological concepts with emphasis on the diversity and comparative anatomy of animals and the fundamentals of physiology, genetics, evolution, and behavior. Lecture and laboratory.

Students must register for one lab and one lecture section.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2024 for: Nat Sci & Tech - Life Sciences

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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 Fall 2024 for Cultural Studies - US Minority.

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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.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2024 for: Social & Beh Sci - Soc Sci

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