Dr. David Johnson, the Fulbright adviser on campus, will host an informational session on the US Fulbright Program on Thursday, April 24 from 4 to 5pm in Morton Hall 343. The Fulbright Program offers teaching and research abroad opportunities in 140 countries.
UAHuntsville Global Studies Program
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
Reform of Global Studies Minor Approved
The Global Studies minor now features set thematic concentrations:
- Global Markets and Politics
- Global Environment, Technology, and Health
- Global Security and Development
- Cultures in Exchange and Contact
- Area Studies (Latin America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, or Asia)
These concentrations will enable students to identify the focus most interesting to them and select course work that will help them better understand this dimension of global studies.
For more information, please visit the Global Studies Program website.
Global Studies 200 - Offered This Summer!
For the first time, Global Studies 200, "Global Systems and Cultures," will be offered this summer during the second summer term. The course will be five weeks long, beginning on July 1 and ending on August 5. The class will take place Mondays through Thursdays, 10:15am to 12:15pm.
The class will also be offered in the fall as well.
The class will also be offered in the fall as well.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Study Abroad!
The Global Studies Program invites you to consider studying abroad. Every year, we add more opportunities, from short-term faculty-led study abroad courses to full academic-year programs. Students from all majors can study abroad!
For more information about study abroad courses and programs offered through the Global Studies Program, please click here.
For more information about study abroad courses and programs offered through the Global Studies Program, please click here.
Monday, August 19, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
New Certificate in Foreign Language and Global Engagement
The Department of Foreign Languages and the Global Studies Program at the University of Alabama in Huntsville are pleased to announce the new Certificate in Foreign Language and Global Engagement.
The certificate, available for French, German, Russian, and Spanish, is aimed at UAHuntsville students and members of the larger community who wish to acquire officially certified foreign language/culture skills appropriate for global engagement in a breadth of contexts, from research collaboration across the disciplines and professions to medical practice, global trade, the arts, and diplomacy.
Students who successfully complete the certificate will possess intermediate foreign language proficiency in both oral and written communication appropriate in a variety of everyday situations and professional environments. They will also have basic knowledge of the cultural, economic, political, and historical ramifications of globalization. The certificate will also be noted on students’ academic transcripts.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Rolf Goebel, Chair, Department of Foreign Languages
Email: goebelr@uah.edu Phone: 256-824-2344
Dr. David Johnson, Director, Global Studies Program
Email: david.johnson@uah.edu Phone: 256-824-6288
Monday, March 11, 2013
UAH Global Studies Forum!
On Wednesday, March 20, at 7pm in the Wilson Hall Theatre, Dr.
Astrid M. Eckert of Emory University will discuss the history of West
Germany during the Cold War by focusing on its most sensitive
geographical space, the border with its ideological adversary, socialist
East Germany. The Iron Curtain is commonly discussed in relation to the
history of the GDR; after all, it constituted the most damning evidence
of the GDR’s lack of political legitimacy. But the inter-German border
did not only affect life in East Germany. In splitting a previously
unified polity and territory, the new boundary also had social, economic
and political ramifications on its western side. How did West Germans
relate to
and interact with the ever more fortified border on the country’s eastern edge? The lecture explores the emergence of borderlands where none had existed before, examines the Iron Curtain as tourist attraction and considers the varied impact of the border on the surrounding landscape. In all these ways, the inter-German border at the periphery of the Federal Republic proved central to the historical development of the new West German state.
Dr. Astrid M. Eckert is an Associate
Professor of Modern European History at Emory University in Atlanta.
(M.A., University of Michigan, 1995; M.A. Free University Berlin, 1998;
Dr. phil. Free University Berlin, 2003). Before moving to Emory, she was
a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute (GHI) in
Washington, D. C. (2002-2005). She earned her PhD at Free University
Berlin and has published The Struggle for the Files. The Western Allies and the Return of German Archives after the Second World War with
Cambridge University Press (2012) which had previously appeared in
German with Steiner Verlag Stuttgart. Most recently, she was a Fellow at
the American Academy in Berlin. Her latest book project focuses on the
history of the inter-German border.
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