{"id":4413,"date":"2018-06-15T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/?page_id=4413"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:22:09","slug":"fourth-year-honours-seminars-2022-23","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/fourth-year-of-bgins\/fourth-year-honours-seminars-2022-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Year Honours Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Fourth Year Honours Seminars\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"fourth-year-honours-seminars\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fourth Year Honours Seminars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>All BGInS students in an Honours program are required to successfully complete one section of GINS 4090 in order to meet graduation requirements. Fourth year students will be permitted to select <strong>one section<\/strong> of GINS 4090 for their timetable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"fall-2026-gins-4090\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fall 2026 &#8211; GINS 4090<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component-updated\">\n        \n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-section-a-dissent-and-dogma-how-ideology-shapes-the-world-sandra-fahy\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Section A: Dissent and Dogma: How Ideology Shapes the World &#8211; Sandra Fahy\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-section-a-dissent-and-dogma-how-ideology-shapes-the-world-sandra-fahy\">\n            \n\n<p>No matter the time or place, we find the human tendency towards conformity, cognitive dissonance, preference falsification and dissent. Human societies have always identified some behavior and thinking as correct and other thinking and behaviour as wrong. And yet, when we look across a range of societies and across time, differences among them exist. In fact, many societies and cultures disagree on fundamental issues such as the family, the role of the state, politics and law. Even within the same society and culture we do not agree. Is this from a lack of information or perspective? Or is it due to something else? <\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-section-b-the-return-of-the-rest-non-western-political-economy-perspectives-on-international-relations-pablo-heidrich\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Section B: The Return of the Rest. Non-Western Political Economy Perspectives on International Relations &#8211; Pablo Heidrich \n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-section-b-the-return-of-the-rest-non-western-political-economy-perspectives-on-international-relations-pablo-heidrich\">\n            \n\n<p>The concept of diaspora broadens our understanding of identity and culture beyond national, ethnic, or racial boundaries. Diasporas function not as extensions of nation states but as catalysts for transnational and de-territorialized cultural, political, and social formations. This seminar focuses on how diasporic communities disrupt social and political life across home and host societies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we explore themes such as imagination, hybridity, double consciousness, resistance, memory, nostalgia, and belonging to understand identity, political culture, displacement, and transnational connection across generations. Structured in three interconnected parts, the seminar begins by examining major theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to diaspora. It then explores how diasporic actors produce disruptive political subjectivities through transnational networks, how racialized and gendered protests reshape diasporic and host societies, and how states seek to regulate or contain these expressions of agency. The final section examines how everyday and embodied practices of faith, music, food, and gender rework cultural boundaries, transform public life, and generate alternative forms of belonging globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/dl>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"winter-2027-gins-4090\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Winter 2027<\/strong><strong>&#8211; GINS 4090<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n    \n    <dl class=\"cu-description cu-component-updated\">\n        \n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-section-d-diaspora-as-disruption-mobility-hybridity-identity-hassan-bashir\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Section D: Diaspora as Disruption: Mobility, hybridity, Identity &#8211; Hassan Bashir\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-section-d-diaspora-as-disruption-mobility-hybridity-identity-hassan-bashir\">\n            \n\n<p>The concept of diaspora broadens our understanding of identity and culture beyond national, ethnic, or racial boundaries. Diasporas function not as extensions of nation states but as catalysts for transnational and de-territorialized cultural, political, and social formations. This seminar focuses on how diasporic communities disrupt social and political life across home and host societies. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we explore themes such as imagination, hybridity, double consciousness, resistance, memory, nostalgia, and belonging to understand identity, political culture, displacement, and transnational connection across generations. Structured in three interconnected parts, the seminar begins by examining major theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to diaspora. It then explores how diasporic actors produce disruptive political subjectivities through transnational networks, how racialized and gendered protests reshape diasporic and host societies, and how states seek to regulate or contain these expressions of agency. The final section examines how everyday and embodied practices of faith, music, food, and gender rework cultural boundaries, transform public life, and generate alternative forms of belonging globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <div class=\"grid pt-4 pb-3 border-b accordion border-cu-black-100 md:pt-6 md:pb-5 first:border-t\">\n        <dt class=\"font-semibold not-prose\">\n            <button class=\"flex items-center justify-between w-full text-left accordion__button\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-section-e-philanthropy-good-intentions-global-development-marylynn-steckley\">\n                <span class=\"flex-1 ml-auto text-left break-words whitespace-normal cu-icon\">\n                    Section E: Philanthropy, Good Intentions &amp; Global Development &#8211; Marylynn Steckley\n                <\/span>\n                <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"none\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" stroke-width=\"1.5\" stroke=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-slot=\"icon\" class=\"w-5 h-5 ml-auto transition-transform rotate-0 accordion__icon text-cu-black-500\">\n                    <path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M8.25 4.5l7.5 7.5-7.5 7.5\"><\/path>\n                <\/svg>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/dt>\n        <dd class=\"p-0 mt-0 cu-prose cu-prose-first-last accordion__content md:p-0 md:mt-0\" hidden=\"\" id=\"accordion-section-e-philanthropy-good-intentions-global-development-marylynn-steckley\">\n            \n\n<p>Many students and scholars of Global and International Studies aspire to contribute to positive change, improve the lives of others, and foster a better world. But the question of <em>how<\/em>&nbsp;to engage in meaningful social change, \u201chelp\u201d others, and reduce poverty, inequality, and suffering is not at all straightforward. Global development has a sordid history, and contemporary philanthropic efforts are fraught with contention. Does foreign aid work? Are NGOs good? Can social justice be achieved in social enterprise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This class is divided into three sections: the first two sections focus on critique. We will first explore some problems with contemporary development solutions, including the allure and the snags of \u201cbig ideas\u201d, the pitfalls of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and the problems with private philanthropy. The historic and persistent failures of international assistance demand that we understand them, but they also serve as tragic illustrations of how trenchant inequalities of the human condition persist in our time: their histories give us a window into the proliferation of private foundations and social entrepreneurship. In the second section of our class, we will dig deeper into private-sector-led poverty reduction by exploring the potential of innovation, venture capital, and food science to remedy the problems of hunger, food insecurity, and climate change. Together, our two \u201ccritique\u201d sections shed light on how dominant historic and contemporary aid strategies, ideologies, and \u201csolutions\u201d offer us a window into the root causes of global inequality and suffering: they shed light on the pitfalls of the development paths we have trod and illuminate pathways forward. With this insight, we then ask: What is to be done? In the final section of our class, we will explore concrete examples of meaningful and lasting social change \u2013 civic action, policy reform, community organizing \u2013 equipping ourselves with new tools and ideas to imagine possibilities for change to create a more just and equitable world.<\/p>\n\n\n        <\/dd>\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/dl>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-6747 size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"846\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Haley-Temple-Donovan-China-CRCC-Asia-4-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Haley-Temple-Donovan-China-CRCC-Asia-4-edited.jpg 846w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Haley-Temple-Donovan-China-CRCC-Asia-4-edited-160x124.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Haley-Temple-Donovan-China-CRCC-Asia-4-edited-240x186.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Haley-Temple-Donovan-China-CRCC-Asia-4-edited-768x594.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Haley-Temple-Donovan-China-CRCC-Asia-4-edited-400x309.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/bgins\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/246\/Haley-Temple-Donovan-China-CRCC-Asia-4-edited-360x278.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">International Placement &#8211; China<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth Year Honours Seminars All BGInS students in an Honours program are required to successfully complete one section of GINS 4090 in order to meet graduation requirements. 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