Courses - Fall 2026
HNUH
University Honors
HNUH100
Gateway Seminar
Credits:
1
Grad Meth:
Reg
First-semester orientation and exploration seminar required of all UH students.
Restricted to first-semester UH students.
HNUH218D
Equal Access to Justice in 21st Century America
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg
Why is equal access to justice in the American legal system so difficult to achieve in a country and society like the United States? There is a justice gap in America. Most legal matters involve ordinary, everyday Americans who work, earn an income, and try to pay their bills and pursue happiness. Many such Americans are one lawsuit or personal calamity away from serious financial difficulties. While lawyers, judges, politicians, and advocates claim they want to close the gap, nothing has changed in the history of the country. This course seeks to explore why there is this access to justice gap. It also invites students to debate what it would take for America collectively to truly take another direction on this issue and address it positively.
HNUH218L
Revelry and Resistance: The Politics of Carnival in the Caribbean
What happens when celebration itself becomes an act of resistance? Emerging from the entangled histories of slavery, colonization, and migration, carnival in the Caribbean has become a contested arena for identity, critique, and survival. This course explores carnival and carnivalesque celebrations in the region as a space where joy, masquerade, and performance both disrupt and reimagine social order. Tracing the development of several "carnivals" in the Caribbean, we will investigate how these celebrations are spaces for social commentary, reflect local politics and become sites of freedom.
HNUH218L pairs with HNUH218D to complete the Drawn to Justice & Trouble Cluster This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2028.
HNUH228D
Crafting Value
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Is there value in handmade goods today? This course invites participants to investigate the enduring significance of handmade goods as one of the humanities oldest forms of expression. Humans have been hand making goods for self-expression and for one another as gifts for thousands of years yet the ease of mass production and rise of digital technology have impacted how humans relate to handmade goods in everyday life. Through readings, discussions, visiting artists and class projects, students will debate the significance of the handmade as a form of expression in contemporary society.
HNUH228D is the required Big Question course in the Craft and Technology cluster. Craft and Technology courses will be offered through Spring 2028.
HNUH228L
Ancient Romans: Telling Stories with Data
When you think of ancient Romans, whom do you picture? The emperors whose deeds are preserved in monuments? The politicians whose writings we still study today? While wealth and power have traditionally shaped whose stories are remembered, technological advances are providing unprecedented access to the lives of Romans lost to history. When AI can decipher the letters of ordinary soldiers and open-access databases let us into the homes of Pompeii's poorest residents, our methods and questions are limited only by our own creativity. But how might these innovative approaches perpetuate old biases, or introduce new ones? In this class, we'll both interrogate and contribute to the ongoing project of populating ancient Rome with diverse, complex individuals, centering the politics of data by examining how the tools we use shape the stories we tell.
HNUH228L pairs with HNUH228D to complete the Craft and Technology cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2028.
HNUH228N
The Book is Better? Literary Craft in an AI World
What role can human art and creativity play in a world dominated by technological advances? How does literature respond to, harness, survive, or transform such breakthroughs? This study of literary craftsmanship centers J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: From the story's development in the mid-20th century in response to rapid industrialization and global, mechanized warfare, to its position today as a multimedia and multi-billion-dollar cultural phenomenon. In exploring the past and present interface between literary art and technology, students will discover if the book can adapt to an AI future.
HNUH2228N pairs with HNUH228D to complete the Craft and Technology cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2028.
HNUH229I
The Science, Economics, and Governance of Climate Change: The Need For An Energy Revolution
Hardly a day goes by without some newsworthy item being reported on Earth's changing climate. Often the stories are contradictory, tainted by parochialism and extremism, not only by the conservative and liberal media, but also by the camps of so-called believers and deniers. This seminar begins with a review of the history of how decisions regarding human interactions with the environment have either doomed past societies to failure or enabled long-term, sustainable success. That sets us up to examine the science of global warming, in a manner accessible to non-scientists, as well as the potential consequences of a rapidly changing climate, and the economics of large-scale renewable resources needed to avert climate catastrophe. During the final few weeks of this seminar, students will work in groups representing various parts of the world to negotiate an international plan to transition the world energy supply to renewable resources that emit little or no greenhouse gases.
HNUH 229I pairs with HUNH229P to complete the Climate in Crisis Theory/Practice track. This pair of courses can be taken in any order.
HNUH238D
What do we see of our world? What don't we see?
How do images shape our understanding of the world? Influencers and journalists know the power of visuals: Sharing compelling videos and arresting photographs means the difference between grabbing or losing an audience's attention. Neuroscience explains "why": our brains process and assign meaning to visual input in as little as 13 milliseconds. Images therefore often bypass our logical thought and, unbeknownst to us, alter our perceptions and influence our emotions. In this course, students will fact-check and interpret visual messages in the news and on social media, consider how visuals shape their personal identities, and explore how images can threaten our democracy but also help safeguard our civil rights. Students will learn how photojournalists play a responsible and essential "watchdog" role in their communities and in so doing learn how those journalists direct their audiences to see what has been previously unseen.
HNUH238D is the required Big Question course in the Seen and Unseen cluster. Seen and Useen courses will be offered through Spring 2028.
HNUH238L
From Page to Protest: Youth, Power, and the Politics of Storytelling
How do we make the unseen visible when history and marginalized experiences are contested or erased? Amid book bans, curriculum censorship, and political efforts to rewrite the past, storytelling becomes a powerful battleground for truth and resistance. This seminar explores how young adult literature--such as novels addressing police violence, immigration, or dystopian futures--can expose injustice, challenge oppression, and preserve memory. By connecting historical resistance movements to present-day debates over censorship and curriculum, students will analyze how narratives shape public consciousness, reckon with systemic inequality, and inspire social change.
HNUH238L pairs with HNUH238D to complete the Seen and Unseen cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2028.
HNUH238N
Courage, Collaboration, Coverup: The (re)Imagined French History of World War II
How do you write history after finding yourself on the wrong side? This course explores French representation of WWII Nazi Occupation. We will trace the evolution of the unseen "army of shadows" into the seen symbol of French patriotism and analyze the tension between the hidden shame of collaboration and the atoning power of myth. The dual realities of collaboration and resistance force us to confront not only what was visible and obscured, but also what was projected and ignored. While rooted in a French context, this course will also consider our own nation's history of memorializing and myth-making.
HNUH238N pairs with HNUH238D to complete the Seen and Unseen cluster. Th is pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2028
HNUH239T
Globalization & Innovation: Culture, Creativity, and Competitiveness
Introduces students to the creative possibilities of the global economy: cross-cultural innovation, collaborative design-driven solutions, and enduring innovation with global purchase. Covers innovations in global business that are transforming the future through an embrace of diverse cultural perspectives. Working with interactive idealized design, out-of-the-box-thinking, and strategic exploration tools, students will explore and experience relevant design to new and cross-cultural value creation. Through rapid prototyping, immersive reflections, and innovative design activities, students will experience how to translate insight into action, and action into tangible results. The evolutionary application of frameworks in this course culminates in a capstone project. This course is self-contained but paired with HNUH239I in the Strategic Cross-cultural Change track, which explores how globalization has brought about fundamental changes to our daily lives by making the world more interdependent.
HNUH 239T pairs with HUNH239I to complete the Strategic Course-Cultural Change Theory/Practice track.
HNUH248D
Cross-listed with: LING272.
Credit only granted for: HNUH248D or LING272.
Can my dog ask questions - and how would my cat answer? A traditional debate concerns whether language is a unique human faculty. While communication systems are common - cetaceans whistle and sing, songbirds and parrots are vocal learners, bees convey information about energy sources - the specific properties of human language, involving finite mental means to socially yield unbounded messages, have not been easy to find in other species. This course delves into the question of whether this quality is unique to humans. The only precondition to take it is the willingness to approach the matter scientifically, starting with notions from a Computational Theory of Mind. Students may bring to bear upon these questions insights from linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, molecular biology, etc., to debate how an abstract systematic behavior can arise within an animal brain, and what that says about evolution.
HNUH248D is the required Big Question course in the Encoding & Decoding cluster. Encoding & Decoding courses will be offered through Spring 2028
HNUH248M
Digital Silver Bullet or Digital Mirage: Can Technology Solve Global Health Inequities?
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg
An immediate malaria diagnosis via smartphone in rural Kenya. A misdiagnosis of a US patient by an AI system due to race. Denial of care due to lack of insurance approval. Technology can encode values and biases. It can also be decoded across communities based on structures of culture and power. This course examines how technological innovations are critical to advancing global health but may at times potentiate inequities. We will examine when technology transforms medicine and public health and when it distracts from addressing the root causes of disease. We will consider the promise of digital health innovations, the voices that shape their design, who benefits from their implementation, and who gets left behind. Through debates, case studies, and hands-on technology immersion, we will evaluate if technology and health innovations are the key to solving the paramount global health challenges of our era.
HNUH248M pairs with HNUH248D to complete the Encoding & Decoding cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered throught Spring 2028
HNUH248N
Sing, Speak, Sign: How We Use Music and Language to Communicate
People often say that "music is a universal language." But is music a language? And is it really universal? This course explores how people actually communicate - or think they communicate - using music and language. We look at how different cultural contexts shape the ways in which people talk about music, make meaning out of music, and decide who (or what) has a "voice." You will learn how to analyze scholarship in ethnomusicology and linguistic anthropology, understand how people interact through music and language, and think critically about why music moves you.
HNUH248N pairs with HNUH248D to complete the Encoding & Decoding cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2028
HNUH249P
National Security: US Foreign Policy
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg
Credit only granted for: HNUH249P or HONR269T.
Formerly: HONR269T.
Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. launched a major effort to dismantle the Taliban and create a sustainable democracy in Afghanistan. In 2021, the Taliban took control of the country. Was the U.S. effort doomed to fail? To answer this question, UH students will partner with peers at the American University of Afghanistan through a virtual global classroom to examine the lessons learned from the U.S. and international presence in Afghanistan over the past 20 years. Through reading assignments and virtual meetings with former senior U.S. and Afghan officials, students will examine the reasons behind the downfall of the country and analyze whether the outcome could have been changed. Students are not expected to have any prior knowledge about the conflict in Afghanistan. This course is self-contained but paired with HNUH249T in the National Security track, which explores debates around efforts to protect the nation from terrorism while preserving our values.
HNUH249P pairs with HNUH 249P to complete the National Security theory and practice track. This pair of courses can be taken in any order.
HNUH258C
Nature at Risk: Extinction, Consequences, and Strategies
How should we prioritize among all the species at risk of extinction? This course will grapple with the complex and consequential process of extinction from biological, geographical, and mathematical perspectives. Core themes will include the 1) nature(s) of extinction risks, 2) potential consequences of different kinds of extinction, and 3) considerations involved in setting priorities. Students will explore, handle, and analyze relevant data (e.g., evolutionary trees, species occurrence records, population censuses) to better understand extinction processes. With the aid of AI-generated hypothetical species, we will investigate hidden biases, debate the consequences of our choices, and explore possible prioritization strategies.
HNUH258C is the required Big Question course in the Conserving Biodiversity cluster. Conserving Biodiversity courses will be offered through Spring 2027.
HNUH258Q
Where the Waters Blend: Contemporary Indigenous Perspectives on History, Traditions, and Modern Issues
Cross-listed with: CPSP220.
Credit only granted for: HNUH268W, HNUH258Q or CPSP220.
Formerly: HNUH268W.
In this unique cultural and personal learning experience, students will explore the history, traditions, and contemporary issues faced by Maryland's Indigenous people, particularly the Piscataway. The course emphasizes the interconnectedness of culture and environment, highlighting how Indigenous Ecological Knowledges shape our understanding of biodiversity and interconnected life. The experiential work of the course asks students to consider how the past matters, particularly when it is embodied in the land they live on, and their present obligations to it. On-campus and place-based learning focuses on the impacts of colonization on the Piscataway - cultural suppression, land displacement, and their effects today - and fosters students' capacity to challenge paradigms that marginalize Indigenous people in our region, nation, and world. Students will emerge with a greater understanding of Maryland's land, the critical role of biodiversity, and the resilience of the Piscataway culture.
HNUH258Q pairs with HNUH258C to complete the Conserving Biodiversity cluster This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2027
HNUH258R
Cultivating conservation: exploring connections between biodiversity and livelihoods
There are a lot of ways food is harvested from land and sea before it reaches your dinner plate - not all of them are savory. In this course, we'll explore how the many livelihoods that provide us with food can also work to incorporate and rely on biodiversity conservation. What does biodiversity conservation look like in a working landscape or seascape? How do social movements align or contrast with different food production and conservation practices? And finally, how are these environments - and the people and cultures embedded in them - increasingly under threat? Through complementary aspects of social science and conservation practice, this course emphasizes not only the threats posed to unique localities and livelihoods, but also the hope of a just and sustainable dinner table. Students will leave with knowledge of the practices and skills needed to participate in transforming our food system for improved environmental and community outcomes.
HNUH258R pairs with HNUH258C to complete the Conserving Biodiversity cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Sping 2027
HNUH259P
Drawn to D.C.: Mapping the City
Restriction: Must have matriculated in University Honors starting in Fall 2020 or later.
Spaces, materials, objects, structures--the building-blocks of cities--index the values of the societies that produce them. By their very nature cities are memory devices. Yet, in an increasingly transient and virtual world, with access to a seemingly infinite amount of memory, what is the status of the spaces we inhabit? This course will explore the relationship among memory, the body and the built environment. Beginning with the role cities play in our individual lives and the construction of personal memories, we will take account of what we forget by remembering and what experiences are missing. Through lectures, seminars and discussions, students will produce short experimental books and pamphlets remapping Washington D.C. and the many invisible - personal - cities it contains. No previous art or design experience required. This course is self-contained but paired with HNUH259T in the Drawn to D.C. track, which explores the created spaces we inhabit, and how they inhabit us.
HNUH259P pairs with HNUH259T to complete the Drawing DC theory and practice track. This pair of courses can be taken in any order.
HNUH268C
Inclusion and Exclusion: Deportation in American Life
What is the "American Dream" under threat of deportation? The United States proclaims to be welcoming but ideas about sovereignty, the nation, the border, good and bad immigrants, and crime in the United States coalesce to support the retention of some people and the displacement of others from its territory. Who the US deports is related to why it deports and on whose behalf such policies are made. This course acquaints students with current theories, methodologies, and debates in the field of the Humanities to grapple with the most pressing domestic questions about immigration and deportation. A variety of frameworks and approaches including critical ethnic studies, history, social movements, and geography, will challenge students to take a position on immigration law and deportation, and their effects on different communities - on all of us.
HNUH268C is the required Big Question course in the Homeland Insecurity cluster. Conserving Biodiversity courses will be offered through Spring 2027.
HNUH268R
What Makes Land a Homeland?
We live in a world of contested lands. The University of Maryland itself stands on the ancestral land of the Piscataway People. Around the globe, we witness conflicts over land, such as the ongoing war in the Middle East over Israel-Palestine. We hear daily about the refugee crises in Syria and the complex debates surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border. These situations raise important questions: What does it mean to truly belong to a place? How does a migrant come to see their new country as home? This course explores the histories, cultures, memories, and stories of lands left behind to understand how places become homelands. Students will examine the politics behind the making of territories and the deep connections people form with land. Through this exploration, we will center the experiences of migration and displacement, questioning how these journeys reshape our understanding of belonging and the places we call home.
HNUH268R pairs with HNUH268C to complete the Homeland Insecurity cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2027
HNUH269P
Credit only granted for: HNUH248U or HNUH269P.
Formerly: HNUH248U.
In 2017, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy deemed loneliness an "epidemic." While the rise of social media is meant to foster connection, over 23% of adults report being lonely and social networks have been shrinking for decades. Despite increasing rates of loneliness, it is still possible to overcome these trends and find connection. We tend to assume that we should know how to connect with others intuitively, but, as rising rates of loneliness indicate, this is not the case: connection is something we must learn and practice. In this applied course, students will learn the science of connection and engage in practical activities designed to help them make and keep friends. They will leave the course better able to foster meaningful connections. This course is self-contained but paired with HNUH269T in the Building Community track, where you will learn the social value of showing up, for the world and for yourself.
HNUH269P pairs with HNUH 269T to complete the Building Community track. This pair of courses can be taken in any order.
HNUH278C
Riding the Korean Wave: Kdrama, Race, and Global Culture
How does culture construct our knowledge of the world and ourselves? Using Korean dramas, aka Kdramas, as a case study, this course will explore how various media negotiate blackness for global audiences. As a viral, billion-dollar art form, Kdramas provide an ideal window through which to explore recent trends in our global culture, including colorism, "Black as cool," travel as consumption, and immigration. They illuminate the politics of culture. We will examine how moral panics and social dilemmas are presented in the fictitious world of "Kdramaland," and how they inform our understandings of South Korean society, our own societies, and the world. Drawing on social science research by Koreans and non-Koreans alike, students will debate the ways the culture of the Korean wave reflects, reproduces, and challenges social inequities of marginalized and minoritized groups, as well as how those groups respond, to illuminate the larger global forces at work in intercultural exchange.
HNUH278C is the required Big Question course in the Change the Narrative thematic cluster. Change the Narrative courses will be offered through Spring 2027.
HNUH278I
Bonded: Loneliness, Health, and Quality of Life
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Society has become more and more disconnected, with 61% of American reporting being lonely. The U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community reports that "The mortality impact of being socially disconnected is similar to that caused by smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, and even greater than that associated with obesity and physical inactivity." Disconnection is devastating for health and for society. Particularly in a democracy predicated on the health of civic life, which requires interpersonal and community relationships, where does this predicament leave us as a society? This course illuminates the potential root causes of disconnection: early familial relationships, attachment styles, and broader technological trends. Students will leave the course with a toolkit of evidence-based strategies they can use - and share - to help heal these divides and repair our core social connections.
HNUH278O
Covering Social Justice Issues as a Student Journalist
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Social justice journalists are "watchdogs" of strong democracies that work in pursuit of truth by holding the powerful accountable. These news stories often impact local, national and international communities that are crying out for justice. This class, which is taught by an award-winning journalist who has covered social justice issues for more than 35 years, will introduce students to how journalists work to uncover issues of injustice, including systemic racism, discrimination, gender bias, environmental racism, war and regional conflict that impacts African and indigenous people in the Diaspora. Students will study how reporters cover injustice and protest movements, and the ethical practices used to cover race and social justice issues. Through research and readings, students will gain deeper analytical skills, collaboration skills and critical-thinking skills by researching, reporting, and creating written, audio and visual story-telling projects covering social justice issues.
HNUH278O pairs with HNUH 278C to complete the Change the Narrative cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2027
HNUH278R
In 2023, Maia Kobabe's graphic memoir, Gender Queer, was the most challenged book in the U.S. Often restricted due to spurious claims about corrupting children, comics have a long history of upsetting the status quo with their unique use of words and pictures. Artists from historically marginalized communities continue to shape this medium. This class examines comics, from glossy horror comics to grungy punk zines, that reject the conventional and subvert suppression. Learning experientially through DMV resources like the D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine Archive and local comics fests, students will generate their own comics and investigate censorship and resistance.
HNUH278R pairs with HNUH 278C to complete the Change the Narrative cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2027.
HNUH288C
How do and can we talk about abortion in contemporary society? Civil discussion around the topic of abortion is almost non-existent between people with extremely different views in the U.S. It is such a taboo topic that an exchange of ideas can even be difficult for those with slightly different views--i.e., those who believe abortion should not be regulated by the government (more than any other health care is) and those who believe abortion should be legal and regulated by governments. Although it is an issue about which Americans care deeply, the very people who need most to talk about it seem unable to find any common ground upon which to begin. This course provides students with a solid base of knowledge needed to form opinions and engage in civil debate. Through an exploration of the different ways we talk about abortion in the U.S. and the sources of those strategies, students will learn to find their voice in the controversial topic.
HNUH288C is the required Big Question course in the Health Check thematic cluster. Health Check courses will be offered through Spring 2027.
HNUH288O
"Normal Led to This": Health, Global Crisis, and Social Transformation
From the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1920 to the Covid-19 pandemic, and from the appearance of HIV/AIDS in queer communities to its spread in Africa, the world's disease crises have been inflamed by colonialism, imperialism, and other structural forms of exploitation and dispossession. This course asks: What is the connection between seemingly interruptive global health crises and our everyday normal? By engaging with novels, long-form journalism, and other stories of global crises, we will grapple with the possibility that, far from averting disaster, capitalism and the legal structures that support it create the conditions for crises to thrive. We will investigate the failures of public response but also the heroic actions of individuals fighting for life. Students will learn to connect individual experience to broad structural explanations and to analyze historical moments to better understand our present and the shared forces that shape our lives.
HNUH28O pairs with HNUH 288C to complete the Health Check cluster. This pair of courses can be taken in any order. This track will be offered through Spring 2027.
HNUH300
Vantage Point Seminar
Credits:
2
Grad Meth:
Reg
Goal-setting and project-design seminar required of all UH students and taken in the second semester of the sophomore year or the first semester of the junior year.
Restricted to UH students matriculating in Fall 2020 or later.
Vantage Point is for UH students in their 4th or 5th semester who have already completed or are completing their second cluster or track for the UH Citation.
Vantage Point is for UH students in their 4th or 5th semester who have already completed or are completing their second cluster or track for the UH Citation.
HNUH318T
Political Engagement and Advocacy
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Federal Fellows Program; and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: FGSM310.
Credit only granted for: HNUH318T or FGSM310.
An examination of questions and issues in the practice of political engagement and advocacy. Guest lecturers drawn from political, civic engagement, and advocacy arenas will visit class and participate in discussions.
HNUH319T
Civic Leadership and Human Services
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the UMD Fellows Program; and must have permission of the UMD Fellows Program.
Cross-listed with: FGSM315.
Credit only granted for: HNUH319T or FGSM315.
An examination of important issues, methodologies and tools of civic leadership in relation to human services, especially at the state and local level.
Cross-listed with FGSM315. Credit only granted for HNUH319T or FGSM315.
HNUH328T
Public Health Policy
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Federal Fellows Program; and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: FGSM320.
Credit only granted for: UNIV348P, HNUH328T or FGSM320.
Formerly: UNIV348P.
An exploration of the major questions and issues facing the U.S. health care system as well as the formulation and implementation of health policy.
HNUH329T
Crisis Leadership and Emergency Management
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Restriction: Must be in the UMD Fellows Program; AND Permission of Department.
Cross-listed with: FGSM325.
An examination of leadership in crisis and emergency management through risk mitigation, resilience, and capacity building to help address more frequent, complex disasters. Guest lecturers drawn from public, private, and non-profit stakeholders within emergency management will also visit and participate in discussion.
Cross-listed with FGSM325. Credit only granted for HNUH329T or FGSM325.
HNUH338T
Homeland and National Security Policy
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Federal Fellows Program; and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: FGSM330.
Credit only granted for: UNIV348T, HNUH338T or FGSM330.
Formerly: UNIV348T.
An examination of the concept of U.S. homeland and national security, threats, and major vulnerabilities in the context of recent history.
HNUH348T
Energy and Environmental Policy
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Federal Fellows Program; and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: FGSM340.
Credit only granted for: UNIV348E, HNUH348T or FGSM340.
Formerly: UNIV348E.
An examination of issues of energy and environmental sustainability through an investigation of policy-making in energy, climate change, and sustainable development.
HNUH358T
Critical Regions and International Relations
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Global Fellows Program; and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: FGSM350.
Credit only granted for: HNUH358T or FGSM350.
An examination of international relations and foreign policy challenges in critical regions.
HNUH359T
U.S. Intelligence and Policymaking
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Global Fellows Program; and Permission of Department.
Cross-listed with: FGSM355.
Credit only granted for: HNUH359T or FGSM355.
Examines the role of intelligence in supporting U.S. security strategy and policy. Students will learn how the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is structured and organized, and will explore how intelligence is deployed to support the warfighter, diplomats, and senior-level decisionmakers. The course emphasizes the development of critical thinking and analytic skills, as well as professional writing and oral presentation abilities that are necessary for successful work in national security organizations. The course will feature guest lecturers from real-world practitioners to supplement course readings.
HNUH368T
U.S. Diplomacy and Policymaking
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Global Fellows Program; and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: FGSM360.
Credit only granted for: HNIUH368T or FGSM360.
An examination of questions and issues in the practice of contemporary diplomacy and policy-making. Guest lecturers drawn from Washington policy-making and foreign service communities will visit class and participate in discussion.
HNUH369T
Economic Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the UMD Fellows Program; and must have permission of the UMD Fellows Program.
Cross-listed with: FGSM365.
Credit only granted for: FGSM365 or HNUH369T.
An examination of political, social, and environmental aspects of the global economy in the context of power competition and technological change.
Cross-listed with FGSM365. Credit only granted for HNUH369T or FGSM365.
HNUH378T
Science Diplomacy: Foreign Policy & Science, Technology, and Innovation
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Global Fellows Program; and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: FGSM370.
Credit only granted for: UNIV389F, HNUH378T or FGSM370.
Formerly: UNIV389F.
An exploration of the critical roles scientific knowledge and technological innovation play in the formation and implementation of foreign policy issues, including energy and climate change, public health, space and innovation, and economic development.
HNUH398P
Federal and Global Experiential Learning
Restriction: Permission of instructor. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.
Cross-listed with: FGSM398.
Credit only granted for: FGSM398 or HNUH398P.
This is the experiential course component of the Federal Fellows Program and Global Fellows Program.
HNUH398T
Global Health Challenges and Water Security
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Restriction: Must be in the Global Fellows Program; and permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: FGSM390.
Credit only granted for: HNUH398T, HONR378M, or FGSM390.
An examination of questions and issues of global health and water security. Expert practitioners will also visit class and participate in discussions.
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