Instructional Method: Online.

Instructional Method: Online.

Instructional Method: Online.

Terrorism, Education and Extremism (3). This course examines instances and theories of national, ideological, ethnic, religious, and political extremism and their relationship to education. Students develop a working definition of extremism and then analyze how state authorities, rebel movements, extremist associations, and ethnic and religious organizations mobilize youth populations, shape public narratives, and use, manipulate, or abuse ideologies that lay claim to collective identities during the development and transformation of extremist movements. The course pays particular attention to the ways that educational systems have worked to foment and prevent extremism in comparative, historical, and cross-national contexts, as well as to efforts to combat extremism outside of formal educational systems. The course has a special focus on extremism and hate incidents in U.S. education. Additional case study material includes Germany under Nazism and right-wing extremism in contemporary Germany; child soldiers and education in post-conflict societies; and education and religious extremism. Meets with EDU-396 002.

Transnational Perspectives on Health and Rights (3) This course considers--in a global and transnational perspective--when, where, how, and why issues of health and matters of rights intersect. It explores the various forms and meanings of rights across contexts; considers debates--both historical and contemporary--at the nexus of health and rights; and examines the role of various institutions that inform and shape debates about health and rights, from the global (e.g., international organizations) to the local (e.g., the family). The course examines several topics that extend across national borders and affect people's lives in different parts of the world, such as rural migrant health, anti-vaccine movements, global surrogacy and other forms of reproductive technologies, among others.