Spotlight: Cool Courses Spring 2026

Jackson School has some excellent courses for you to consider this Spring! See list below for some featured courses!  To see ALL Spring Jackson School courses, visit the SPRING 2026

Spotlight: Cool Courses Spring 2025

Spring 2025 Cool Courses at the Jackson School JSIS 202 A: Culture and Power in International Studies (SSc, DIV) MWF 12:30 p.m. – 1:20 p.m., KNE 110 — This course

JSIS B 410 Readings in U.S. in the World

JSIS B 110 Issues in International Studies: Soccer and Global Affairs

JSIS A 452 Global Asia

Explores how Asia has been constructed through transnational interactions such as imperialism, anti-colonialism, tourism, diaspora, and global capitalism. Topics include the cultural construction of similarity and difference, politics of representation,

JSIS A 428 Chinese History from 1276-1895

Political, social, economic, and intellectual history from the time of the Mongol conquest of China to the Sino-Japanese war. Focus on the evolution of the late imperial Chinese state and

JSIS A 410 Technology and Politics in Taiwan

How technology, especially digital technology, is applied in politics, specifically using Taiwan as the focal case. Topics include how politicians use digital technologies for campaigns in Taiwan, information attacks that

JSIS A 303 Divided Lands/Divided Lives: An Environmental History of South Asia

JEW ST 289 Topics in Jewish Studies

JSIS 101 Media and Information Technology in Global Conflict

Explores the role media and information technology have played in global conflicts since the twentieth century. How different groups have mobilized new technologies for covert warfare, surveillance, and cyberattacks, as