IGI Career Day, 2023
By Terri Gitler
Over 40 University of Illinois students attended Illinois Global Institute Career Day, an event focusing on using foreign language, area studies, and thematic studies in the job market. They heard from U of I alumni speakers representing careers in academia,...
The Global Impacts of The War in UkraineTalks spotlights the global impacts of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
IGI Graduate Language FellowshipThis fellowship provides support for critical language training necessary to fields of academic and professional development for UIUC graduate students. Read more here.
FOX 32 Chicago: UIUC joins global initiative to help scholars in crisisProf. Colleen Murphy discusses Illinois Scholars at Risk program on FOX 32 Chicago.
News
- Prof. Edward A. Kolodziej (former director of Center for Global Studies) was featured in the Illinois News Bureau Expert Viewpoints series in an interview titled, "Is Russian-Ukraine war heading toward stalemate?" Click here for full...
- Prof. Valerie J. Hoffman (former director of Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) was featured in the LAS Experts series in an interview titled, "Beneath the Surface of Islam." Click here for full article.
Calendar
AFST 222 (online)Interdisciplinary introduction to Africa dealing with basic themes and problems in the politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, and history of Africa. SUMMER 2023, SESSION 2
REES 495/550495: Interdisciplinary seminar normally taken in the senior year. Involving faculty in a number of disciplines, this course approaches understanding Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia and the methodologies of its study through questions of identities, cultural values, and change. Taught in...
REES 200Survey of the societies and states formerly constituted as the Soviet Union. Interdisciplinary and team-taught. Combines lectures, discussions, and films covering the history, political science, economics, sociology, and culture of the area.
QUEC 410Intensive course for beginner students of Quechua. Students will develop basic listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Quechua. Emphasis on oral production and comprehension skills.
LAST 170Interdisciplinary introduction to the ways of life of Latin American peoples, their origins and current expressions; discusses social, economic issues, and domestic and international policies related to them in the context of other societies in developing countries.
KOR 201First semester of Korean for students without any background of the Korean language, starting from the Korean alphabet (Hangul) and learning basic grammar, vocabulary, and commonly used expressions, to achieve beginning level of speaking, listening, reading, writing, and basic grammar skills in...
JAPN 201Introduction to Japanese, spoken language skills and the reading and writing of hirigana, katakana, and kanji.
