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Building Bridges: Chai, Biryani, & Jugaad Ventures course invites students to explore the role of entrepreneurship as a bridge between India and Pakistan, focusing on the stories of entrepreneurs from both countries who have achieved remarkable success in the United States. By examining how these trailblazers have navigated their identities as South Asians and, when applicable, engaged with collaborators or stakeholders from across the border, the course offers a fresh perspective on bridging the gaps between Pakistan and India. Please fill out this form if you are interested in enrolling in this course for Spring 2025. Selected students will receive an enrollment code. https://forms.gle/Qbz7QD4hngQd7g9M6

Course offers an introductory look at Iranian cooking and cuisine. Through weekly themes and the preparation of dishes, students will learn about the history of Iranian cuisine, essential ingredients, and general cooking techniques. Guest chefs will lead cooking sessions. Class begins the second week of the quarter and meets for eight consecutive weeks. Apply to enroll by March 18, 2025 using this form (the application form will open on March 4): https://forms.gle/8xUhKXALg9cFgT767 Selected students will receive an enrollment code. Enrollment priority will be given to Global Studies UG minors with the Iranian Studies specialization. This class will be held in an R&DE Training Kitchen to be announced. Enrolled student will received further direction regarding the location.

In the 79 years since the US dropped atomic bombs on Japan, nuclear technologies have relied on and exacerbated conditions of insecurity and inequality. Dismissing health and environmental harms as "externalities," security experts have ignored this paradox and instead focused on the future of nuclear warfare. Yet for frontline communities --often Black or Indigenous in the US, and in formerly colonized territories elsewhere --nuclear activities pose a real, ongoing existential threat, not a hypothetical one. From nuclear testing in the Pacific and the deserts of Algeria, Kazakhstan, and the US, to uranium mines in Africa, Aboriginal Australia, and the Navajo Nation, the "security" promised by nuclear weapons involves sacrificing the lives and territories of (some) citizens, reinforcing racial, imperial, and colonial logics of disposability. This course will examine those patterns historically and ethnographically. It will explore how the pursuit of nuclear weapons joined people in otherwise disconnected parts of the world into a common history. For example, uranium extracted in apartheid South Africa was used in weapons tested in the Marshall Islands, dispossessing islanders from their homes; the ships used in these tests were later "decontaminated" in Bay Area naval shipyards, with deadly consequences for neighboring communities of color. It will also explore the differences in nuclear experience that resulted from pre-existing vulnerabilities distinct to each location. Finally, the course will explore how these different communities have sought remediation, compensation, and other forms of reparative justice.

This course brings together various social, climatic, and ecological perspectives to seek a better understanding of the relationships between people and the sea. Our oceans constitute some 70% of the surface area of our planet; they connect continents, countless islands, and form a universal link between geographically vast regions and culturally diverse peoples. Our oceans are critical to the health of our planet, and to humanity, and it is this interdependent relationship that forms the basis of this course.Taking a genuinely global viewpoint, we will explore the dynamic nature of peoples' interactions with their maritime landscape and seascape. The course will draw on a wide range of social science and natural science data and approaches to assess how we traversed and explored the seas; how the seas have been an enduring source of nutrition; and how they have come to garner immense social and cultural significance to peoples around the world. The course looks at the unique features of the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans, using case studies from each, while drawing lines that connect these vast oceanic basins. Ultimately, the course emphasizes the challenges facing our oceans as humanity's impact reaches unprecedented levels and considers how `people and oceans in partnership' might help mitigate the damage climate change has wrought on our planet.

Situated at the heart of the broader Indo-Pacific region, Southeast Asia's 11 countries encompass an astonishing range of societies, political systems, economic development, culture, languages, and populations. Despite the many differences, in important ways they face similar challenges in regard to sustainability in the face of climate change, environmental degradation, energy transition, food and water security, poverty, inequality, and the management of conflicts internal and external to their region. Each individual Southeast Asian nation deals with such challenges in ways relevant to their political, economic, environmental, and societal circumstances. At the same time, they have also joined together in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to serve common regional interests and develop long term economic and environmental strategies to promote the security and prosperity of the approximately 670 million citizens of the ASEAN Member States. This course will focus on how Southeast Asian nations manage the tensions between economic development and sustainability, how the policies and strategies they develop impact the societies they are mandated to serve, and the role of good governance, sounds regulatory frameworks, and the rule of law in shaping the outcomes of local, national, and regional initiatives. We will be able to discuss such issues with guest speakers from the region who will participate in several class sessions.

This course focuses on the complex politics of gender, centering the experiences, lives, and histories of women as key subjects of the course. We will examine the roles of women in shifting dynamics of marriage, divorce, reproduction, motherhood, prostitution, education and labor force participation, urban life, and female criminality through a historical analysis. We will further investigate socio-political transformations from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, emphasizing patterns of continuity and change. Finally, we will explore how gender both intersected with and influenced broader legal, political, and social dynamics during this pivotal period.

This is an introductory-level course about the cinema as a global language. We will undertake a comparative study of select historical and contemporary aspects of international cinema, and explore a range of themes pertaining to the social, cultural, and political diversity of the world. A cross-regional thematic emphasis and inter-textual methods of narrative and aesthetic analysis, will ground our discussion of films from Italy, Japan, United States, India, China, France, Brazil, Nigeria, Russia, Iran, Mexico, and a number of other countries. Particular emphasis will be placed on the multi-cultural character and the regional specificities of the cinema as a "universal language" and an inclusive "relational network."There are no prerequisites for this class. It is open to all students; non-majors welcome.

This course takes students on a tour through the culture, literature, and history of Mexico guided by 10 emblematic images. From the mythical foundation of Mexica (Aztec) Tenochtitlan to the Mexican Revolution to the present day, Mexico has sustained strikingly beautiful and complex visual cultures. They include the painted books of the Mexica known as codices; the feather mosaics of Indigenous amanteca; costumbrista paintings of typically Mexican customs; maps that sustained Indigenous struggles for land rights; photos of the brave soldaderas (women soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution; Diego Rivera's sweeping murals and Frida Kahlo's striking self-portraits; and the "moving images" of Mexican Golden Age Cinema. Each week of this course features a lecture and a discussion session on one emblematic image to be studied alongside secondary images and short literary and historical texts. Beginners are welcome in this introductory course.

Independent studies for undergraduate students under the direction of a faculty member for which academic credit may properly be allowed. May be repeated for credit.