Where does the phone in your pocket come from--really? What forces shape which countries grow wealthy and which stay poor? Why do millions of people leave their homes each year to work in someone else's country, and what happens to them when they get there? This collection of courses takes on questions like these, tracing the connections between politics, power, and people's everyday lives across the globe.
The courses move across several interconnected worlds: the politics of countries still fighting for development and stability; the relationships between the Islamic world and the West; the hidden labour behind the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the devices we use; and the journeys of migrants and refugees navigating borders, laws, and prejudice far from home.
Across all of these courses runs a single shared goal: building the habit of asking careful questions and weighing evidence honestly in a complex world that resists easy answers. Whether you are drawn to understanding current events, making sense of the world at large, or figuring out where you yourself fit in a globalized society, each course offers some tools for navigating the world a little more clearly, and will likely stay useful long after graduation.
Introductory courses
· Intro to Global Studies· Intro to Political Science
· Intro to Canadian Politics
· Intro to Comparative Politics
· Intro to International Relations
Methods
· Research Methods (600/700-level)· Research Methods (100/300-level)
· Statistics with R
· Statistics with SPSS
Global Studies; The Developing World
· Politics of Developing Nations· Intro to Middle East Politics
· Islam-West Relations
Migrants; Migration; Labour
· Global Labour· Global Labour Migration
· Labour Migrants in the West
· Race, Immigration, and the Canadian State
· Refugees and Forced Migration
Key Teaching Documents:
· Milestones in World History (1490s- ) (in pdf)· A History of Global Information Networks (in pdf)
Further:
· Read my Teaching Philosophy (in pdf)· Read the cases from my global studies courses
· Download my course syllabi at academia.edu
· Watch my online lectures & mini-docs on YouTube