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Approved Courses for Combining a Global Studies Certificate with a BSBA Degree

Sustainable Development
Global Economy and Global Governance
Changing Identities in a Global World
Communication, Technology, and Society
Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Global Health

With careful planning, business students will find that they can overlap Global Studies requirements with their Arts and Sciences general education requirements. CBA students should consult with both their CBA and Global Studies academic advisors.

The following course represent a partial list of courses that typically satisfy both Global Studies and general education requisits: literature (LIT), music/art (MA), social science (SS), foreign culture (FC), natural science (NS), and philosophy (P). General requirements are indicated. See a complete Global Studies Program course list.

Sustainable Development

ANTHROPOLOGY
1530 Origins of Cities -- SS
1761 Patients and Healers: Medical Anthropology
1792 Population and Culture -- FC, SS
1794 Gender and Health

ECONOMICS
0360 Intro to Environmental & Resource Economics --SS
0530 Introduction to Development Economics -- FC, SS
1360 Environmental Economics

GEOLOGY
0800 Geology - NS
0860 Environmental Geology -- NS
1055 Environmental Science, Ethics & Public Policy
1056 UHC Env Sci Ethics & Pblc Policy

HISTORY
1090 History of Medicine & Health Care -- SS

POLITICAL SCIENCE
1374 Politics of Global Inequality -- FC, SS
1542 Global Environmental Politics -- FC

SOCIOLOGY
0317 Global Society -- FC, SS
0432 Wealth and Power -- SS
1365 Race, Gender & Development -- FC
1438 Demography
1445 Society & Environment

URBAN STUDIES
1700 International Urbanism Seminar -- FC

CGS: LEGAL STUDIES
1320 Law & Environment

ENGRNG: CIVIL ENGINEERING
0801 Basic Engineering Geology
1200 Construction Management
1203 Construction Professional Development
1503 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
1523 Environmental Engineering Laboratory
1703 Transportation Engineering

SOCIAL WORK
1035 Global Perspectives in Soc Wrk

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Global Economy and Global Governance

AFRICANA STUDIES
1011 Rise/Modern Pan-African Movements--SS

ANTHROPOLOGY
1530 Origins of Cities -- FC, SS
1755 Urban Anthropology -- SS
1758 Comparative Political Systems

COMMUNICATION
1114 Freedom of Speech & Press
1148 Rhetoric of Human Rights

ECONOMICS
0500 Introduction to International Trade -- FC
1300 Intro to Regional Econ
1380 Economics & Philos Seminar
1510 Intermediate International Finance -- FC
1540 Theory of Economic Growth
1700 Prosem Methodology of Economics
1710 Prosem: International Economics

FRENCH
1072 Representing Justice -- LIT

HISTORY
1086 Nuclear Age Nuclear War
1115 The West and the World -- FC, SS
1145 Intellectual Foundations of Capitalism

PHILOSOPHY
0330 Political Philosophy -- P
1330 Topics in Political Philosophy
1340 Feminist Philosophy

POLITICAL SCIENCE
1204 Women in Politics -- SS
1349 Transatlantic Marketplace Glbl Pol Econy
1361 Comparative Political Party Systems -- FC
1501 Theory of International Reltn -- SS
1509 Conflict & War Theory
1513 Foreign Policies -- Changing World -- SS
1541 Politics Global Econ Relations -- FC, SS
1543 Globalization & Int'l Politics
1782 Movement Politics: Human Rights & Global Politics

SOCIOLOGY
0446 Sociology and Gender -- SS
1365 Race, Gender and Development -- FC

WOMEN'S STUDIES
0030 Women & Society

CGS: ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
1236 International Organized Crime
1245 Terrorism

CGS: LEGAL STUDIES
1327 International Law

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Changing Identities in a Global World

AFRICANA STUDIES
0087 Black Consciousness

ANTHROPOLOGY
0768 Human Sexuality in Cross Culture -- FC, SS
1738 Gender Perspectives in Anthropology
1771 Religion and Culture
1776 Myth, Symbol, and Ritual -- FC
1782 Social Stratification and Expressive Culture
1794 Gender and Health

COMMUNICATION
1103 Rhetoric & Culture

ENGLISH LITERATURE
0360 Women and Literature -- LIT
0360 Women in Literature: Martyrs, Heroines, and Pain -- LIT
0550 Intro to Popular Culture
1325 The Modernist Tradition -- LIT
1570 Myth and Folktale

GERMAN
1390 Foreigners in Postwar Germany: Minorities
1502 Indo-European Folktales -- FC, LIT
1510 Kafka & the Modern World -- LIT

HISTORY
1015 Comparative Witch Hunts -- FC, SS
1169 Approaches to Anti-Semitism -- SS
1740 Chan/Zen Buddhism -- FC
1768 Jewish-Christian Relations
1769 History of the Holocaust -- FC, SS

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
1410 Change, Progress & Ideology

LINGUISTICS
1235 Language, Gender and Society -- SS
1263 Cross-Cultural Communication -- FC
1466 Topics in Anthropological Ling

PHILOSOPHY
1340 Feminist Philosophy

POLITICAL SCIENCE
1204 Women in Politics -- SS
1205 Ethnic & Racial Politics

RELIGIOUS STUDIES
1545 Mysticism East and East: Listening to Spiritual Silence -- FC
1610 Myth, Symbol, and Ritual -- FC
1620 Women in Religion
1650 Approaches to Anti-Semitism -- SS
1720 Religion & Culture

SOCIOLOGY
0317 Global Society -- FC, SS
0432 Wealth and Power -- SS
1365 Race, Gender and Development -- FC
1338 Demography

WOMEN'S STUDIES
0030 Women & Society
1142 Feminist Theory

SOCIAL WORK
1008 Ethnicity & Social Welfare

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Communication, Technology, and Society

AFRICANA STUDIES
1006 World Literature in English -- FC, LIT
1047 Francophone Africana Literature -- FC, LIT

ANTHROPOLOGY
1466 Topics in Anthropological Linguistics: Ancient Meso-American Writing

CLASSICS
0330 Myth and Science -- FC

COMMUNICATION
1103 Rhetoric & Culture
1111 Theories of Persuasion: Fields of Persuasion
1122 Media Criticism
1145 History of Rhetoric
1147 Rhetoric of Science

COMPUTER SCIENCE
1590 Social Implications for Computer Technology

ECONOMICS
0450 Econ of Technological Change -- FC

ENGLISH LITERATURE
0540 World Film History -- MA
0573 Literature of the Americas -- FC, LIT
1360 Topics in 20th Century Lit -- LIT
1380 World Literature in English -- FC, LIT
1730 Chinese and Western Poetry -- FC

FRENCH
1089 Francophone Africana Literature -- FC, LIT

HISTORY
0089 Magic, Medicine, & Science -- SS

HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE
0030 Introduction to Modern Art -- FC, MA
0040 Introduction to Architecture -- FC, MA
0450 20th Century Architecture
1010 Approaches to Art History
1410 Realism & Impressionism -- FC, MA

HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
0427 Myth & Science -- FC
0515 Magic, Medicine, & Science -- SS
0630 Science and Pseudoscience

LINGUISTICS
0080 Aspects of Language -- SS
1267 Aspects of Sociolinguistics -- SS
1950 Introduction to Linguistics

MUSIC
0211 Intro to Western Art Music -- MA
0311 Introduction to World Music -- FC, MA
1396 Music in Society -- MA

PHILOSOPHY
0040 Computers & Culture/Rec -- P
1420 Philosophy of Language

SOCIOLOGY
0003 Technology & Social Change
0312 Science in Society -- FC, SS

ENGINEERING
1010 Communictn Skills for Engineers

ENGRNG: CIVIL ENGINEERING
1201 Construction Information Systems

Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Global Health

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E-mail: global@pitt.edu
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