Constellation: How Do We Understand Global Histories?

Examine global transformations since 1945, including decolonization, shifts in the global order, and the evolving role of the United States. This Constellation engages students with themes of social justice, race, global civil rights, migration, and war, fostering dialogue on the challenges and possibilities of resistance to injustice. All courses taught in English.

Students enroll in one fall course and one spring course for their matched Constellation. Students are assigned to the fall semester to enroll in one integrated W120 course.

Fall 2025

GSF 148CN Global Palestine (Cross-list: AMES 148CN)
AAAS 176CN Afro-Global Struggles (Cross-lists: CULANTH 176CNS, GSF 176CNS)
AMES 152CN Visualizing Minor Stories: Archives, Museums, Histories
 (Cross-lists: AADS 152CNS, ARTSVIS 152CNS, HISTORY 152CNS, DOCST 152CNS, ICS 155CNS)
HISTORY 144CNS Photography and History

WRITING 120 Memory and Resistance in Latin American Film
WRITING 120 The Iraq War and Its Legacy                              

Spring  2026     

AMES 147CN Border Fictions
AMES 177CN Religion, War, and Social Justice
RUSSIAN 105CN Global Communism 

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