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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with POSCADVSEM · returned 15 results
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POSC 302 Subordinated Politics and Intergroup Relations* 6 credits
How do social and political groups interact? How do we understand these interactions in relation to power? This course will introduce the basic approaches and debates in the study of prejudice, racial attitudes, and intergroup relations. We will focus on three main questions. First, how do we understand and study prejudice and racism as they relate to U.S. politics? Second, how do group identities, stereotyping, and other factors help us understand the legitimation of discrimination, group hierarchy, and social domination? Third, what are the political and social challenges associated with reducing prejudice?
- Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 302.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 302.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 302.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 302.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 302.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 307 Go Our Own Way: Autonomy in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement* 6 credits
“Every civil rights bill was passed for white people, not black people. I am a human being. I know … I have right(s). White people didn’t know that. … so [they] had to … to tell that white man, ‘he’s a human being, don’t stop him.’ That bill was for the white man…. I knew [my rights] all the time.” Stokely Carmichael spoke for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee viewpoint in 1966. The Black Panther Party enacted basic civic responsibilities in their programs. Ella Baker spoke of autonomy in community. This seminar brings voices across generations speaking to current affairs.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2021
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 307.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 307.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 308 Global Gender Politics* 6 credits
How have gendered divisions of power, labor, and resources contributed to the global crises of violence, sustainability, and inequity? Where and why has the pursuit of gender justice elicited intense backlash, especially within the last two decades? In this course, we will explore the global consequences of gender inequality and the ongoing pursuit of gender justice both transnationally and in different regions of the world. We will investigate a variety of cases ranging from land rights movements in East Africa, to the international movement to ban nuclear weapons. Finally, we will pay special attention to how hard-won gains in women’s rights and other related inequalities in world affairs are being jeopardized by new and old authoritarianisms.
- Winter 2022, Fall 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 308.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 308.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WHasenstab 002 1:50pm-3:45pm
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POSC 315 Polarization, Parties, and Power* 6 credits
How have political parties shaped the distribution of power and political landscape in the United States? This course explores theories of political party development, third-party dynamics in a two-party system, and the rise of ideological and party polarization in the United States. We will engage with scholarly debates that grapple with the extent and implications of polarization in the American case at all levels of government, in the electorate, and in interpersonal interactions.
- Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 315.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 315.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 328 Foreign Policy Analysis* 6 credits
Foreign policy analysis is a distinct sub-field within international relations that focuses on explaining the actions and choices of actors in world politics. After a review of the historical development of the sub-field, we will explore approaches to foreign policy that emphasize the empirical testing of hypotheses that explain how policies and choices are formulated and implemented. The psychological sources of foreign policy decisions (including leaders’ beliefs and personalities and the effect of decision-making groups) are a central theme. Completion of a lower level IR course and the stats/methods sequence is recommended.
- Fall 2018, Winter 2021, Fall 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 328.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:35pm
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POSC 328.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-9:30pm
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POSC 328.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 105 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 329 Reinventing Humanism: A Dialogue with Tzvetan Todorov 6 credits
Humanism is today severely criticized for reducing humanity to Western culture and history and for its aggressive control and destruction of the non-human. Concomitantly, the history of the twentieth century reveals a growing totalitarian and anti-humanistic tendency in (post)modern societies and their politics, to replace individual agency, freedom, and responsibility with systemic solutions. The course explores, through a dialogue with the work of the French thinker, Tzvetan Todorov, how being human could be reinvented today in ways that avoid the moral and political pitfalls of the previous humanistic tradition, without devaluing, in the process, the idea of a shared humanity.
- Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 329.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 330 The Complexity of Politics* 6 credits
Theories of complexity and emergence relate to how large-scale collective properties and characteristics of a system can arise from the behavior and attributes of component parts. This course explores the relevance of these concepts, studied mainly in physics and biology, for the social sciences. Students will explore agent-based modeling to discover emergent properties of social systems through computer simulations they create using NetLogo software. Reading and seminar discussion topics include conflict and cooperation, electoral competition, transmission of culture and social networks. Completion of the stats/methods sequence is highly recommended.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Spring 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 330.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:35pm
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POSC 330.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 333 Global Social Changes and Sustainability* 6 credits
This course is about the relationship between social changes and ecological changes to understand and to be able to advance analytical concepts, research methods, and theories of society-nature interactions. How do livelihoods of individuals and groups change over time and how do the changes affect ecological sustainability? What are the roles of human institutions in ecological sustainability? What are the roles of ecosystem dynamics in institutional sustainability? Students will learn fundamental theories and concepts that explain linkages between social change and environmental changes and gain methods and skills to measure social changes qualitatively and quantitatively.
Extra Time required.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 333.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra Time (Films)
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POSC 333.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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Extra time
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POSC 333.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:45pm-3:30pm
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POSC 333.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 336 Global Populist Politics* 6 credits
Are populist politicians scoundrels or saviors? Regardless of the answer, populism is undeniably a growing force in politics around the world: in democracies as well as autocracies, rich and poor countries, and involving different ideologies. How can we understand this diversity? In this class, we will explore populism using a variety of comparative frameworks: temporal (situating the current crop of populism in historical context), ideological (comparing populisms of the left versus the right), as well as geographic. We will try to understand the hallmarks of populism, when and why it emerges, and its impact on political institutions and society.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 336.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 336.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 114 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 336.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 105 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 345 Politics of Dictatorship* 6 credits
With over half of the world’s population living in non-democracies, understanding the nature of authoritarian regimes is a critical component of comparative political science. We will examine the variety of authoritarian regimes around the world, the nature of state-society relations in different authoritarian regimes, as well as the strategies employed by dictators to maintain stability and control. We will supplement the more general theories of authoritarian rule with detailed case studies of particular regimes.
- Winter 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 345.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 345.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 348 Strangers, Foreigners and Exiles* 6 credits
The course explores the role that strangers play in human life, the challenges that foreigners create for democratic politics, the promises they bring to it, as well as the role of exiles in improving the cultural capacity of societies to live with difference. We will read texts by Arendt, Kafka, Derrida, Sophocles, Said, Joseph Conrad, Tzvetan Todorov, and Julia Kristeva. Special attention will be given to the plight of Roma in Europe, as a typical case of strangers that are still perceived nowadays as a menace to the modern sedentary civilization.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2020, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 348.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 348.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 348.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 352 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville* 6 credits
This course will be devoted to close study of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, which has plausibly been described as the best book ever written about democracy and the best book every written about America. Tocqueville uncovers the myriad ways in which equality, including especially the passion for equality, determines the character and the possibilities of modern humanity. Tocqueville thereby provides a political education that is also an education toward self-knowledge.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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POSC 352.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 231 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 352.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 352.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 352.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 358 Comparative Social Movements* 6 credits
This course will examine the role that social movements play in political life. The first part of the course will critically review the major theories that have been developed to explain how social movements form, operate and seek to influence politics at both the domestic and international levels. In the second part of the course, these theoretical approaches will be used to explore a number of case studies involving social movements that span several different issue areas and political regions. Potential case studies include the transnational environmental movement, religious movements in Latin America and the recent growth of far right activism in northern Europe.
Extra Time
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 358.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:35pm
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POSC 358.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLibrary 344 1:50pm-3:35pm
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POSC 358.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 204 10:20am-12:05pm
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Extra time
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POSC 358.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 361 Approaches to Development* 6 credits
The meaning of “development” has been contested across multiple disciplines. The development and continual existence of past civilizations has been at the core of the discourse among those who study factors leading to the rise and fall of civilizations. Can we reconcile the meaning of development in economic terms with cultural, ecological, political, religious, social and spiritual terms? How can we measure it quantitatively? What and how do the UNDP Human Development Indexes and the World Development Reports measure? What are the exemplary cases that illustrate development? How do individual choices and patterns of livelihood activities link to development trends?
Extra time
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 361.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
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Extra time (films)
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POSC 361.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 133 1:50pm-3:35pm
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POSC 361.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 235 1:45pm-3:30pm
- T, THBoliou TENT 1:45pm-3:30pm
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POSC 361.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 361.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 114 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 361.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 002 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 372 Mansions and Shantytowns: Politics of the Spaces We Live In* 6 credits
This course explores theories about spaces/places and investigates the impact of our physical environment on a broad range of social and political issues. We will look at how parks, monuments, residential communities, and other features of our cities and towns are made, who makes them, and in turn, their effects on our daily lives. Students will engage with important contemporary issues such as residential segregation, public space management, protest policing, etc. Most of the course will focus on urban politics, with a brief foray into rural issues. The goal of this course is to encourage students to think about everyday environmental features in a more systematic and theoretic manner and design social scientific inquiries into spatial issues.
- Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 372.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 372.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm