FYS 100A GLOBAL COVID

As we have seen during the current global health crisis, infectious diseases know no boundaries. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic has affected communities around the globe unequally. In this seminar, students will study the pandemic through a local/global lens to understand how economic, social, and political forces have shaped the effects of COVID-19 on local communities around the globe, particularly minoritized communities. Students in the seminar will join student-scholars in the Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts in advancing the Global COVID Project — a semester-long, collective research project dedicated to studying COVID-19 from a transnational perspective. Using our collective knowledge of multiple languages, we will systematically follow local news sources from around the world, summarizing our findings on an interactive website with news stories, statistics, visuals, and personal narratives to examine how local communities are experiencing the current crisis in a global context.