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GR MODULE (GR5020)

Topics for these intensive, practical modules change every semester. May be taken twice for credit.

NGO FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (GR5024)

This course introduces essential financial and operational strategies used in the management of NGOs and Mission-based Enterprises (MBEs). Topics covered include: financial management and operations of NGOs and MBEs, developing a clear mission statement, establishing organizational accountability and transparency, organizational design, financial management and reporting, financial controls and audits, marketing, fundraising, grant writing and operational management of organizational missions.

NGO & MISSION-BASED MANAGEMENT (GR5055)

This course takes an interdisciplinary and comparative approached to NGO and mission-based management based on the assumption that management principles, though universal to some extent, vary significantly according to the context in which NGOs function. This course requires students to think strategically and critically in the management of NGO’s within the political, economic, ideological, and socio-cultural contexts in which they operate.

SUSTAINABILITY MANAGEMENT (GR5061)

This is a “big .picture” comprehensive course covering sustainability management topics. It cuts across the whole spectrum of business and management with a focus on sustainability (economic, social, ethical and ecological returns). Climate Change, the greatest unmet challenge facing contemporary managers and organizations, is a particular focus. We will look at sustainability issues presenting “wicked” and untamed (complex) contexts for managers and evaluate how current theories and practices perform and fail to perform in these contexts. May be taken twice for credit.

GLOBAL WORKPLACE CULTURES: INTERNSHIP SEMINAR (GR5093)

A weekly seminar in the semester preceding the internship registration preparing students to describe, synthesize and analyse this experiential component of their degree. This seminar will prepare the students in how to integrate academic theory with practical experience and expand their understanding of the professional world.

APPLIED PROJECT CAPSTONE (GR5096)

The Applied Project is designed to provide MA students an opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills gained from their courses to professional outcomes. Specifically, the project and its presentation should draw on the knowledge, analytic abilities, writing and presentation skills, and insights students have acquired through study, observation, and involvement in their disciplinary field. Students registering the Applied Project should also take the thesis seminar in order to help them critically reflect upon their creative process.

THESIS SEMINAR (GR5099)

This seminar instructs students in the appropriate methodology for the research and writing of a graduate thesis. During the semester students will refresh and hone their understanding of the methods introduced in their core courses and receive guidance as they choose their thesis topic and develop research questions. The course will culminate in the elaboration of an outline and abstract in preparation for their research and/or fieldwork.

WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY I: FROM THE PALEOLITHIC TO 1500 (GS1010)

Why do women have less power, make less money, and have fewer opportunities than men do? Why have women's bodies been controlled, stigmatized, and pathologized? This is the first half of a year-long investigation of the origins and impacts of gender inequality. We start with our pre-agricultural Sapiens ancestors up to the beginning of the early modern period, looking primarily but not exclusively at socio-cultural developments that shaped understandings of gender, patriarchy and the role of women in different early cultures around the world.

WOMEN IN WORLD HISTORY II: FROM 1500 TO 1950 (GS1011)

Why do women have less power, make less money, and have fewer opportunities than men do? Why have women's bodies been controlled, stigmatized, and pathologized? This is the second half of a year-long investigation of the origins and impacts of gender inequality. We start with the early modern period, looking primarily but not exclusively at socio-cultural developments that shaped Western understanding of gender and the role of women. We will analyze the political and economic roles of women the emergence of nation states, slave economies and colonial empires, and the political and social revolutions that gave birth to a certain type of liberal feminism that continues to shape contemporary societies.