• INST 5490: 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 4490. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or Junior status.
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• INST 5495: 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 4495. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or Junior status.
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• INST 5500: Landscapes of the Americas

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course trains students to interpret patterns and processes of contemporary landscapes of the Americas (North, Central, and South America) by viewing those landscapes historically. We investigate the relationship between landscape, politics, and economy, or, more generally, the relationship between landscape as a geographical form and cultural politics in the hemisphere. Students are introduced to research techniques and methodologies in historical geography. Dual listed with INST 4500; cross listed with GEOG 4500, INST 5500. Prerequisite: 6 credits of international studies or social science coursework.
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• INST 5545: Conflict Resolution & Man

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course examines the strategies and tools available to manage and resolve conflicts at multiple levels. It investigates leadership theory, mediation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and other problem-solving approaches. It focuses on conflict from multiple levels - e.g., interpersonal, organizational, community-based, within society, and internationally to address thorny challenges and intractable problems. Prerequisite: Junior status. Prerequisite: Junior Standing
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• INST 5555: Political Ecology

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Political ecology is a multidisciplinary field of study that emphasizes the role of politics, power relations, and inequality in the study of human-environment relations. In this course we will consider how political ecology can help us rethink environmental knowledge and problem solving in a variety of contexts locally and globally. Prerequisite: 9 hours of international studies or social science coursework.
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• INST 5560: Global Cities

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Globalization accelerates urbanization processes and creates a new type of city, the global city. This course introduces debates over global cities, urban culture, new urban landscapes, urban planning practices, and social disparity. It uses case studies on the cities around the world to explore the diversity of global city formation processes. Cross listed with GEOG 5560, dual listed with INST 4560. Prerequisites: 9 hours of international studies or geography.
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• INST 5570: Cultural Geography

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  This course provides an overview of cultural-geographical approaches to cultural landscapes, places, and cultural politics, a foundation in key concepts (landscape, place, and culture), and some training in how to do research as a cultural geographer. Students learn the intellectual history of cultural-geographical concepts and methods, and develop their cultural-geographic perspective through US-based and international examples. Dual listed with INST 4570; cross listed with GEOG 4570/5570. Prerequisite: 6 hours in social science.
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• INST 5580: Gender & Global Change

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Examines the global intersections of gender and public policy through its analysis of five central themes: [1] international development discourse in practice; [2] feminized labor and migration; [3] women's unequal access to resources (including land ownership and education); [4] agricultural production and sustainability; [5] health, reproduction and mothering. Dual list with INST 4580. Cross list with WMST 5580. Prerequisite: 3-6 hours of WMST or INST courses.
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• INST 5582: 20C US Foreign Rel

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  Studies Twentieth Century United States foreign relations with a focus on the Cold War period. Examines economic sources of policy decisions, elites and mass public opinion, as well as cultural, religious, ethnic racial and gender issues. Dual listed with 4582; cross listed with HIST 4582/5582. Prerequisite: HIST 1221.
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• INST 5590: Sustainable Bus Practices

  3.00 Credits

  University of Wyoming

  
  A close look at what is happening in business practice today through the `lens' of sustainability. Business models and systems will be discussed and a framework proposed for assessing the ways in which principles of sustainability may be embedded within corporate strategy. Dual listed with INST 4590; cross listed with MKT 4590/5590. Prerequisite: advanced business standing.
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