Global College Spring and Summer Institutes
May
- Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response, May 6th-May 17th, 2013
- Gender Revolution & Armed Conflicts, May 3rd-May 16th, 2013
- Revolutionary Movements in South Asia, May 21st-May 31st, 2013
- Revolutionary Movements in Latin America in the 20th Century, May 13th-May 27th, 2013
June
- Global Food Security-Rights & Responses, May 30th-June 27th, 2013
- Post-Conflict Truth, Memory and Reconciliation, June 15th-29th, 2013
August
- Adventures in Global Citizenship, August 6th-August 16th, 2013
For information on how to register for Global College's spring and summer institutes, click here.
Student Video Testimonies
Click on the names below to hear student video testimonials from previous Spring and Summer Institute courses:
"...an experience you wouldn't normally get in a normal university course..."
"...if I hadn't taken these courses, I don't know if my passion and desire to further my knowledge and understanding in this area would have continued..."
"...these institutes have helped me to explore more specialized topics within the field of human rights..."
"...I would recommend these classes to all students who want convenience and accessibility..."
May
Climate Change: A Revolutionary Response
HRGS 3131-750/758
May 6th-May 17th, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am -12:00 pm
This course will discuss new, sometimes radical, theoretical and methodological perspectives being used by researchers and policy-makers, concentrating on tropical and poor countries of the southern hemisphere, but also including some developed countries. Political and theoretical initiatives will be illustrated by case studies in different parts of the world. The political and scientific responses to challenges confronting at-risk societies will be analyzed along with present actions being taken, including both successes and failures.
Guest Professor: Teofilo Altamirano
With Host Professor: Ross McCormack
Gender Revolution & Armed Conflicts
HRGS-3133-750/758
May 3 & 4 • 9:00 am - 4:30 pm ; May 6, 7, & 8 • 1:30 pm- 4:30 pm & 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The gendered nature of armed conflicts will be explored from a multidisciplinary framework. The aim of the course is to explore the complex ways in which women and men live, deal with, suffer from and respond to armed violence. Several gendered aspects of armed conflict will be examined, such as the role of men and women in political decision-making; their role both as perpetrators of violence and as victims; the relationship between masculinity, femininity, militarism, and violence; the use and abuse of bodies and the status of childhood in armed conflict. The course will end by exploring peace initiatives from a gendered perspective.
Guest Professor: Laura Balbuena
With Host Professor: Ross McCormack
Development, Indigenous Property and Extraction
(VOD Only)HRGS/IDS/IS-3147-750
Since the beginning of European penetration of the Americas, soci-economic development based on Western models has produced the suppression and dispossession of indigenous peoples. In recent years, however, indigenous people have opposed the continuation of this historical injustice and launched projects to reclaim their birth rights. Focusing primarily on Peru, students in this course examine the historical record and contemporary opposition to such development.
Professor: Ross McCormack
Revolutionary Movements in South Asia
HRGS-3405-750/758
May 21st-May 31st, Monday through Friday, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
This lecture/seminar course concentrates on revolutionary movements in South Asia in the twentieth century. It introduces students to a wide variety of peasant, violent radical socialist and anarchist movements that took root in South Asia and among diasporic communities outside the subcontinent. These movements occurred simultaneously with the largely non-violent Indian nationalist movement and continued after its culmination in 1947, indicating the unfinished business of social and economic revolution. In the postcolonial period the course concentrates on the Telangana, Naxalite and Maoist movements in India and Nepal.
Professors: Srila Roy and Emma Alexander-Mudaliar (University of Winnipeg)
Revolutionary Movements in Latin America in the 20th Century
HRGS-3132-750/758
May 13th-May 27th, Monday through Friday, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
This course explores Latin American revolutionary movements in the context of their own national history. That is, it seeks to understand those movements as a result of a particular combination of local circumstances in interaction with broader international trends. A range of influences, from structural factors and global ideological influences to issues of leadership and internal dynamics will be considered, offering an understanding of their meaning and their impact on revolutionary movements.
Guest Professor: José-Luis Rénique
With Host Professor: Ross McCormack
June
Special Topics: Global Food Security-Rights & Responses
HRGS-3650-050
May 30th-June 27th, Thursdays 6pm-9pm
Global food security remains an urgent challenge, due to issues. Three
approaches to reducing hunger will be explored: implementing the human
right to food, conservation agriculture, and, in times of crisis, food
assistance and social protection. The course will include participation in
a two-day conference at the University of Winnipeg on June 13-14, 2013, and
extensive directed readings and written work. The conference will feature a
dozen expert speakers from around the world, in dialogue with NGO
practitioners, and will examine the opportunities, challenges and future
priorities in each of these approaches. The conference is organized by
Canadian Food Grains Bank in cooperation with Global College, CMU, and MCC
Canada.
The evening sessions before and after the conference will be discussions on the
readings assigned on the topics of the conference, and then further discussion
on the conference topics and presentation of your (draft) research essay on a
conference theme. The final major paper would be due June 30.
Professor: Ray Vander Zaag
Post-Conflict Truth, Memory and Reconciliation
HRGS 4350-001/CRS 4350
June 15th-29th, 2013 in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa
This course is now full.
The suffering from atrocities during war-time is often seen as producing lingering individual and collective trauma, contributing to either personal dysfunction or successive cycles of violence where oppressed groups become the perpetrators in future regimes or conflicts. This course probes the role of memory in transitional societies with particular emphasis on using memory to strengthen mechanisms for justice and human rights. Reconciliation projects, ranging from community-bases initiatives to formal legislated undertakings such as truth and reconciliation commissions are examined in depth.
Professor: Dean Peachey
August
Adventures in Global Citizenship
HRGS 1600-001/HRGS 2600-001
August 6th-August 16th, 2013
This intensive 3 credit summer course is designed to introduce students who are entering university or have completed their first or second year of university to global challenges and opportunities in human rights and global studies, as well as to cultivate foundational skills for academic success. In the context of a comfortable classroom and in the community, students will explore global issues through current news items, literature, and social analysis, with particular emphases shaped by research expertise in Global College, such as gender equality, children affected by armed conflict, Indigenous rights and post-conflict reconciliation. The course is structured to strengthen skills in critical thinking and analysis, writing, and oral presentations within a human rights framework, as a foundation for increasing student readiness and confidence in a range of post-secondary academic programs that the student may choose for the following academic year.
Professors: Lloyd Kornelson & Marilou McPhedran
For more information on this summer's Adventures in Global Citizenship institute, please click here.
Registration
Every Spring and Summer the Global College offers intensive 3 credit hour courses on a range of special topics with visiting scholars from around the world. These Institutes generally run for a two week period with daily lectures offered in class or online. Students are invited to take advantage of the unique opportunity to learn from global experts on topics such as slavery, migration, terrorism, democracy, disability and global citizenship. Follow the links or scroll down to see this year's exciting lineup.
Students can register and attend from anywhere in the world!
You don't need to come to Winnipeg (but you're more than welcome to come) - all you need is a high speed internet connection, and you can watch the lectures online at any time of day.
You don't need to be a University of Winnipeg student to attend!
Our courses are open to students from other universities around the world, and can be taken for credit or for audit. Please see the registration information below for the registration process if you are not an existing University of Winnipeg student.
Please Note: Students are strongly advised that taking 2 summer institutes in the same 2 week period has proven to be highly demanding. We recommend that students think very carefully before they take more than one (1) summer institute course offered in one(1) two-week period
How to Register for Spring and Summer Institutes
• Please note that Spring and Summer Institutes have extremely condensed timelines, and generally involve one to two weeks of intensive lectures, followed by a reporting/writing period. Please pay close attention to the class dates and assignment deadlines, and ensure you will be able to participate fully for the duration of the course, including submitting assignments after the intensive lectures have finished.
• All 2013 courses (with the exception of Adventures in Global Citizenship) have an online component - access to high speed internet is required in order to fully participate in these courses.
- New students registering for the first time
- Current University of Winnipeg Students
- Students from other universities (seeking credit)
- Non-credit registration (audit) - open to the general public
New Students Registering for the First Time
If you have recently graduated high school, are new to the University of Winnipeg, you will first have to apply to the university, and then register for Spring and Summer Institutes.
- APPLY ONLINE to the University of Winnipeg
Once your application is accepted, you can Register by contacting The Global College
Current University of Winnipeg Students:
You can register for any of our Spring/Summer courses via WebAdvisor
Attention! Some courses may require permission by the instructor. Once the instructor approves your taking the course, you will be able to register online.
Students from Other Universities
Students from other universities who would like to take Global College Spring and Summer Institutes for credit are invited to apply to attend Spring and Summer Institutes on a Letter of Permission from their home university.
Contact your Faculty or Department to request a Letter of Permission (don't know who to ask? try contacting the department secretary or the Dean's office);
APPLY to become a 'visiting student' through Student Central (1st floor, Centennial Hall Near the Ellice Avenue entrance to campus)
Once your application has been accepted, follow instructions by Student Central to register for courses. (Make sure to pay attention in case special permission is necessary!)
Please note: you must comply with all of your home university's requirements in order to receive academic credit. This may include (but is not limited to): a Letter of Permission application fee and/or submission of an official University of Winnipeg transcript. These fees are additional to the tuition paid for Spring and Summer Institutes. The student is solely responsible for any and all fees and/or deadlines related to receiving credit on a Letter of Permission.
General Public Non-Credit Registration (audit)
Anyone wishing to participate in certain Spring and Summer Institutes without receiving academic credit may register to audit the course through Global College. Click here.
Information on the tuition fees for the 2012-2013 year can be found on the University of Winnipeg website.
Audit Tuition
(no credit): 50% tuition fee + all incidental fees OR as specified for each course
The U of Winnipeg Video on Demand (VOD) Portal
Access past lectures and current Global College Spring and Summer Institute lectures (except Adventures in Global Citizenship) by VOD: http://vod.uwinnipeg.ca
Contact
For registration assistance, please contact us at global.college@uwinnipeg.ca