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  • INST 4990: Topics

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    Accommodates seminar series and/or course offerings including those by interdisciplinary teams and visiting faculty in international studies not covered by courses. Dual listed with INST 5990. Prerequisites: junior standing and consent of instructor.
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  • INST 5000: Study Abroad Prep

    1.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    Prepares students for long-term study in a foreign country. Helps students adapt to and understand the host country: culture, history, geography, political and economic context. Students become familiar with practical information needed for a foreign experience, principles of culture shock, ethnocentrism, cultural relativism, and fundamentals of cross-cultural communication.
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  • INST 5013: Political Geography

    3.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    Geographic space mediates political action and is generated by it, and spatial forms are produced by governmental agencies that must respond or adapt to emerging patterns of political disruption and tendencies of social change. Students in this course learn to think about the relationship between politics and space at multiple scales and in global context. They also develop an inter-disciplinary approach to the sub-discipline of political geography in social and historical context, and, in that sense, develop a capacity to think and act as political geographers. Dual listed with INST 4013; cross listed with GEOG 4013/5013 and POLS 4013/5013. Prerequisites: 6 hours in social science, graduate standing.
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  • INST 5050: Development, Africa, Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    Focuses on the complex and checkered relationships between Western-inspired development and African cultures. Striking a balance among ethnographic case studies, theoretical lenses, and practical implications, understand what Euro-American efforts at foreign development, including contemporary globalization, look like from an African perspective. Provides an understanding of African expectations of development and developers. Cross listed with AAST 5050. Dual listed with INST 4050. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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  • INST 5060: NGOs, Development, Culture

    3.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have grown exponentially in number and are often viewed as the new and best vehicle for international development. Focuses on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), in contexts of Western aid to post-colonial societies and the role they play in the international aid system. Understand INGOs from historical, global, and cultural perspectives. Dual listed with INST 4060. Cross listed with AAST 5060. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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  • INST 5100: Global Public Health

    3.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    Introduces students to the global context of public health, to principles underlying global health, and to dimensions of public health particular to international settings. It examines major themes and policies in global health and analyzes health problems and varying responses to them in different parts of the world. Cross listed with HLSC 5100, dual listed with INST 4100. Prerequisite: upper division or graduate standing.
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  • INST 5175: Gender, Women & Health

    3.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    Focuses on issues of gender, women and health, including the effects of gender bias in medical research and health care practices and policies. Health care issues of specific concernt to women, both nationally and internationally are examined. Dual listed with WMST/NURS 5175; cross listed with WMST/INST/NURS 4175. Prerequisite: upper-division standing, lower division social or psychological science course.
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  • INST 5200: Grad Prosem Intl Studies

    3.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    This is an advanced introduction to the research process for students who are pursuing graduate-level research in International Studies, Political Science, and cognate disciplines and fields of study. Students learn to think as researchers and craft an independent research project, including through the design of a research prospectus. Prerequisites: graduate student status.
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  • INST 5210: Grad Sem in Human Security

    3.00 - 6.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    This course takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the study of human security within the field of international studies and global politics in order to explore the theories and processes that explain past and emerging patterns of behavior in the international system, as well as key aspects of local to global policymaking. Cross listed with POLS 5210.
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  • INST 5215: European Union

    3.00 Credits
    University of Wyoming

    Examines the European Union's history, institutional structures, and policy areas and explores the positive and negative effects of European integration. Dual listed with INST 4215; cross listed with POLS 5215. Prerequisite: POLS 1200 or POLS 1250 or POLS 2310 or permission of instructor.
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