• INST 4370: Global Pol Economy

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines the interaction of politics and the economy at the global level. Evaluates how political and economic decisions of one country or groups of countries affect social institutions and life circumstances in others. Assesses the causes and consequences of globalization as rooted in political economy. Cross listed with SOC 4370. Prerequisites: SOC 1000 and junior standing or SOC 3000.
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• INST 4375: Transitional Justice

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Mechanisms provide accountability for gross human rights violations and acts of mass atrocity within nations. Case studies are used to examine types of transitional justice interventions; tensions between demands of justice at local, national, and international levels; and transitional justice's role in post-conflict peace-building and reconciliation. Dual listed with INST 4375. Cross listed with POLS 4375. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. POLS 2310 strongly recommended.
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• INST 4380: Intl Hist Human Rights

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examine the modern history of human rights in the global system, with particular emphasis on developments since the Second World War. Topics include the philosophy of human rights ideas; the histories of rights and rights violations in various regions; and the resulting international responses. Cross listed with HIST 4380, dual listed with INST 5380. Prerequisites: 9 hours of HIST or INST.
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• INST 4385: Env and Resource Conflict

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Drawing on key theory and contemporary real-world case studies this course explores how environmental change and the competition for scarce resources (such as food, water, oil, gems, and timber) have increasingly been linked to violent interstate and intrastate conflict and how such conflicts might be addressed, managed, or resolved through international and national action. Dual listed with INST 5385; cross listed with POLS 4385. Prerequisite: 9 hours of POLS or INST, including POLS/INST 2310.
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• INST 4445: Drug War Geopols in Americas

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course examines illegal drug commodity chains and international efforts to police the drug trade in the Americas. It approaches the drug war through a "critical geopolitics" framework, also covering broader themes such as international politics, livelihoods, development, environmental justice, the global economy, race-based discrimination, public health, and resistance movements. Dual listed with INST 5445. Cross listed with GEOG 4445, LTST 4445, and POLS 4445/5445. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or social science coursework.
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• INST 4455: Energy Security

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course evaluates the geopolitical and socioeconomic issues surrounding the roots of energy insecurity and the global challenge to provide adequate, affordable, and accessible energy. Topics of study include the questions of energy nationalism, climate security, import dependence and transportation insecurities, the future of fossil fuels and alternative energies. Cross listed with POLS 4455. Dual listed with INST 5455. Prerequisites: 9 hours of INST or POLS coursework, including INST/POLS 2310.
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• INST 4475: Pols of Nat Resources Lat Amer

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course examines major trends in resource extraction, management, and conservation in Latin America, and the politics surrounding those trends, from theoretical, social, political, economic, and ecological perspectives and through a variety of grounded case studies. The theories and concepts we study are applicable to resource politics beyond Latin America. Dual listed with INST 5475. Cross listed with GEOG 4475 and POLS 4475/5475. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or social science coursework.
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• INST 4485: U.S. Latina Diaspora

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Latina Diaspora combines classroom activities and a week-long stay abroad in examining the historical creation and contemporary spread of the Latino Diaspora from the Caribbean to the Yucatan and beyond. U.S. Latina/o history, multiculturalism, pan-Latino identity, assimilation, migration trends and natives responses are stressed. Cross listed with CHST/HIST 4485. Prerequisites: 9 hours of CHST, HIST, and/or INST related coursework.
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• INST 4490: Ethical Trade Latin America

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examine the production of everyday products, their socio-ecological contexts, and the complicated global networks of delivery to consumers, particularly with regard to Latin America. The effectiveness and implications of the movement to make international trade more ecologically sustainable and socially just will be examined. Dual listed with INST 5490. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or Junior status.
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• INST 4495: Indig Soc Mov Latin Amer

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Employs an interdisciplinary approach to understanding one of the most interesting political events of the past decades: the emergence of a transnational indigenous people's movement in Latin America. Issues explored in the course include neoliberalism and globalization; social movement theory; multiculturalism and citizenship; legal and cultural pluralism; sustainability, conservation and development. Dual listed with INST 5495. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or Junior status.
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