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HIST 269 Religion, Race & Caste in Modern India 6 credits
This course will examine the history of religious beliefs, practices, and community, European imperialist and Orientalist ideologies, and the socio-political implications of anti-colonial nationalist movements in India. We will address questions including: How did the European powers justify their imperial undertaking through specific concepts of race, religion, science and technology? How did the imperial experience impact Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, and caste, race, and gender in India? In the post-colonial period we will examine the powerful growth of low-caste and anti-caste social movements and political parties, as well as religious nationalist, pluralist, and secular mass-movements.
- Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 269.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Brendan LaRocque 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 122 Politics in America: Liberty and Equality 6 credits
An introduction to American government and politics. Focus on the Congress, Presidency, political parties and interest groups, the courts and the Constitution. Particular attention will be given to the public policy debates that divide liberals and conservatives and how these divisions are rooted in American political culture.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Winter 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 122.01 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 122.02 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 122.01 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
- FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 122.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 122.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 122.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWillis 204 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 204 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 122.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 122.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 122.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWillis 204 8:30am-9:40am
- FWillis 204 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 122.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Kristin Lunz Trujillo 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 223 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FAnderson Hall 223 1:50pm-2:50pm
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POSC 122.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Kristin Lunz Trujillo 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WAnderson Hall 223 10:00am-11:10am
- FAnderson Hall 223 9:50am-10:50am
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POSC 122.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Not Writing Rich
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POSC 122.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 122.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 235 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 235 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 122.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 133 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 133 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 122.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:35
- M, WWeitz Center 235 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 235 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 122.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Ryan Dawkins 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 105 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 122.01 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 122.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 230 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 230 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 190 In the News: Us, China, and World Politi 3 credits
How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine end? Will new conflicts break out across the Taiwan Strait? How will a backsliding Turkey and a highly volatile Syria evolve in response to the devastating Kahramanmaras earthquake? This course provides a forum to discuss and analyze such important current global affairs through reading and debating news headlines. We will follow major news stories chosen by students, analyze reporting from multiple sources and perspectives, and conduct individual research. The goal of this course is to encourage students to think deliberately about current events, and to practice the research and analytical skills needed to gain a deeper understanding of global affairs. Students will also leverage course readings and discussions to produce their own editorial articles or detailed research proposal for future inquiries at the end of the course.
2nd 5 weeks Description: How will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine end? Will new conflicts break out across the Taiwan Strait? How will a backsliding Turkey and a highly volatile Syria evolve in response to the devastating Kahramanmaras earthquake? This course provides a forum to discuss and analyze such important current global affairs through reading and debating news headlines. We will follow major news stories chosen by students, analyze reporting from multiple sources and perspectives, and conduct individual research. The goal of this course is to encourage students to think deliberately about current events, and to practice the research and analytical skills needed to gain a deeper understanding of global affairs. Students will also leverage course readings and discussions to produce their own editorial articles or detailed research proposal for future inquiries at the end of the course.
- Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 190.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WHasenstab 109 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 109 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 201 Tools of National Power: Statecraft & Military Power 3 credits
In this section of three related five-week courses covering the Tools of National Power, students will study how nations use military power to achieve national security and foreign policy objectives. Military power is often used in ways that are fundamentally different from combat operations, and yet are still highly effective. Students will learn the theoretical ways in which nations use military power as part of their statecraft, then look at case studies to assess the application of military power in the real world. Course readings, short papers, and significant classroom discussion will deliver content to students and set the stage for the follow-on courses in diplomatic and economic tools of national power.
- Fall 2020, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 201.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 236 8:15am-10:00am
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POSC 201.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff Staff Staff
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 8:15am-10:00am
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Extra time: Departmental Simulation Evening May 19th and Daytime May 20th
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POSC 204 Media and Electoral Politics: 2018 United States Election 6 credits
Our analysis of media influences on politics will draw from three fields of study: political psychology, political behavior and participation, and public opinion. Students will conduct a study of the effects of campaign ads and news using our multi-year data set of content analyzed election ads and news. We study a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods to learn how political communication affects U.S. elections. Taking this course in conjunction with Political Science 223 is highly recommended to learn methods such as focus group and depth interview methods and experiment design for conducting original research on elections.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 204.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra Time
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POSC 204.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 204.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 206 Judges and Courts 6 credits
This course focuses on the judicial branch of government. By exploring the judiciary and the courts, we will see how law, politics, economics, and social trends combine to shape the legal system. We will examine how judges are selected; how judges’ backgrounds and views influence their decisions; the moral, emotional, and intellectual aspects of deciding cases; variations between judges in different courts and administrative settings; and how judging fits into the broader structure and operation of the courts. A special feature of this course will be a guest lectures and dialogue with judges and judicial clerks.
- Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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POSC 206.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Steven Poskanzer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 002 9:50am-11:00am
- FHasenstab 002 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 210 Misinformation, Political Rumors, and Conspiracy Theories 6 credits
Why do people believe in conspiracy theories, hold on to misinformed beliefs even in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary, and/or spread political and social rumors that may have little basis in fact? Who is most vulnerable to these various forms of misinformation? What are the normative and political consequences of misperceptions (if any)? This course explores the psychological, political, and philosophical approaches to the study of the causes, consequences, and tenacity of conspiracy beliefs, misinformation, and political rumors, as well as possible approaches that journalists could employ to combat misperceptions.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 210.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 210.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 210.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 210.02 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am
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Held for Junior and seniors
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POSC 210.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 211 Media, Politics, and Difference: How Film Teaches Us Who We Are(n’t) 6 credits
As cultural and historical texts, narrative films offer important insight into the cultures that produce and view them. Entertainment media teach us about how to see the world, including what counts as difference—abilities, genders, sexualities, races, ethnicities, classes, identities—and these categories’ meanings and commitments. The messages are “political” in many ways, signaling who has what kinds of: authority, power, resources, and capacities. In this class, we use communications theory, historical and contemporary discourses on race, feminist theory, and political psychology to examine depictions of identity in U.S. cinema, comparing and contrasting Hollywood and independent filmmakers’ works.
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POSC 211.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 212 Environmental Justice 6 credits
The environmental justice movement seeks greater participation by marginalized communities in environmental policy, and equity in the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. This course will examine the meaning of “environmental justice,” the history of the movement, the empirical foundation for the movement’s claims, and specific policy questions. Our focus is the United States, but students will have the opportunity to research environmental justice in other countries.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 114 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 212.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:21
- M, WWeitz Center 235 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:50pm-2:50pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 236 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 212 Political Psychology of Elites 3 credits
When we study the decisions of political leaders, we often consider them in terms of power relations between states. The class examines psychological explanations of leaders’ decision-making. We focus on political elites’ actions, especially in foreign policy asking, why otherwise intelligent and savvy individuals and groups often make very poor decisions. Students will learn about different theoretical perspectives and how to apply them to different historical examples in the study of elite decision-making from the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the Covid pandemic. Students will evaluate contending theories, joining theory and practice to explain elites’ motives and decisions shaping world politics.
2nd 5 weeks
- Winter 2023
- Social Inquiry
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 214 Visual Representations of Political Thought and Action 3 credits
Visual media offer an alternative method of framing political ideas and events. Images found in such texts as film, posters, and even in statistical tables can enlighten–or mislead. Readings in visual theory, political psychology, and graphic representation will enable you to read images and use these powerful media to convey your ideas and research.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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POSC 214.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 10:10am-11:55am
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1st 5 weeks
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POSC 214.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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1st 5 weeks
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POSC 215 Political Communications in Comparative Context 3 credits
This five-week course will focus on the major theories of political communication in an election context. Our case studies will be the French and German 2017 elections. We compare the legal and cultural contexts of election news coverage and advertising in these countries and analyze media effects on voter perceptions using political psychology studies based on research in the U.S. and EU.
- Spring 2018, Fall 2022
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 215.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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1st five weeks
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POSC 215.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 218 Schools, Scholarship and Policy in the United States 6 credits
What can scholarship tell us about educational strategies to reduce achievement gaps and economic opportunity? Do the policies promoted at the city, state and federal levels reflect that knowledge? How are these policies made? What is the relationship between schools and the economic class, racial composition and housing stock of their neighborhoods?
Not open to first year students.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2021
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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Sophomore Standing
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POSC 218.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 218.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Richard Keiser 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 221 Latin American Politics 6 credits
Comparative study of political institutions and conflicts in selected Latin American countries. Attention is focused on general problems and patterns of development, with some emphasis on U.S.-Latin American relations.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Fall 2021
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 221.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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FLAC
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POSC 221.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 221.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 222 Political Science Lab: Interviewing Techniques 3 credits
This class provides a hands-on introduction to how researchers devise, conduct, and analyze interviews in political science. Students will learn about different types of interview methodologies, including elite and non-elite, structured, semi-structured, and intensive approaches. Over the course of the class, students will consider the types of questions most appropriately answered by interviews, the fundamentals of different sampling strategies, how to devise questionnaires, and how to use the information collected for both quantitative and qualitative analysis. We will also cover interview ethics, how to employ culturally sensitive techniques, and how to employ interviews in individual, group, and crowd situations.
1st 5 weeks
- Spring 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 222.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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2nd 5 weeks
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POSC 223 Lab in Electoral Politics 3 credits
This lab is designed as a supplement research in POSC 203, 204, 215, or 227. Students currently enrolled in POSC 204 and students who have taken the above courses are encouraged to enroll. We learn to conduct focus groups, depth interviews, content analysis, and experimental analysis using election news, ads, speeches, and debates (in the U.S. or other democracies) as our cases for analysis.
2nd 5 weeks
- Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 223.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 3:10pm-4:55pm
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2nd five week
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POSC 223.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 223.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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second 5 weeks
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POSC 223.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 225 Prisons and Punishment 6 credits
The United States prides itself on freedom, yet millions of “legal” and “undocumented” citizens live without it. Across federal and state prisons, county jails, private prisons, and undocumented detention centers, the mark of incarceration has a significant impact on American politics. We center this paradox throughout the course as we look at different aspects of incarceration and punishment. We analyze the United States criminal justice system through policy, public opinion, sociology, and political theory. By using an interdisciplinary approach centered in political science, together we will discover whether the relationship between freedom and domination is truly a paradox.
- Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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POSC 225.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 9:50am-11:00am
- FHasenstab 109 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 105 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 227 Contemporary Capitalisms 6 credits
This course examines the intersections between political and economic power: how markets are embedded in social and political institutions and how they in turn shape political life and institutions. It begins with a survey of classic and contemporary theoretical frameworks, followed by an overview of the history of contemporary market economies and the search for “development,” both in the global north as well as the south. It then analyzes the contemporary varieties of capitalism across the globe, with a focus on their varying responses to challenges like globalization, economic crises, technological transformations, and climate change.
- Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 227.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 235 The Endless War on Terror 6 credits
In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. launched the Global War on Terror to purportedly find, stop,and defeat every terrorist group with a global reach. Without question, the Global War on Terror has radically shaped everything from U.S. foreign policies and domestic institutions to civil liberties and pop culture. In this course, we will examine the events of 9/11 and then critically assess the immediate and long-term ramifications of the endless Global War on Terror on different states and communities around the world. While we will certainly spend time interrogating U.S. policies from the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, we will also examine reactions to those policies across both the global north and the global south.
- Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- International Studies Writing Requirement
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POSC 235.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 235.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 238 Sport & Globalization London/Seville Pgm: Globalization and Development: Lessons from Int’l Football 6 credits
This course uses international football (soccer) as a lens to analyze topics in globalization, such as immigration and labor, inequality, foreign investment, trade in services, and intellectual property. Students will be presented with key debates in these areas and then use cases from international football as illustrations. Focusing on the two wealthiest leagues in Europe, the English Premier League and the Spanish Liga, students will address key issues in the study of globalization and development, and in doing so enhance their understanding of the world, sports, and sport’s place in the world.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Sport and Globalization in London and Seville
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 240 At the Corner of Broadway and Main Street: The Contrasting Politics of Northfield and the Twin Cities 6 credits
According to the 2020 U.S. Census, roughly 328.2 million people live in the United States. Of that population, 63% live in one of 19,500 “incorporated places,” defined as a city, town ,village, or borough with legally-prescribed limits, powers, and functions. However, three-quarters of incorporated places have fewer than 5,000 people; 42% have fewer than 500 people. In fact, only 40% of all cities have a population of 50,000 or more in 2019, yet nearly 39% of the U.S. population live in those cities. A majority of human social, political, and economic interactions now happen in urban areas (like the Twin Cities) but a significant portion of American life is experienced in smaller towns (like Northfield). Utilizing established social theories, critical thinking skills, and common research techniques, we will learn how to bolster our understanding of both rural and urban phenomena, policies, and processes, addressing topics like political, racial, and class polarization; intolerance; health care; housing, development, and zoning, and transportation. Through field visits to and speakers from both the Twin Cities and Northfield, we will chart the urban/rural political divide to provide a richer understanding of politics and policy in all corners of the United States.
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POSC 240.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 330 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 241 Ethnic Conflict 6 credits
Ethnic conflict is a persistent and troubling challenge for those interested in preserving international peace and stability. By one account, ethnic violence has claimed more than ten million lives since 1945, and in the 1990s, ethnic conflicts comprised nearly half of all ongoing conflicts around the world. In this course, we will attempt to understand the conditions that contribute to ethnic tensions, identify the triggers that lead to escalation, and evaluate alternative ideas for managing and solving such disputes. The course will draw on a number of cases, including Rwanda, Bosnia, and Northern Ireland.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 241.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 241.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 242 Middle East Politics 6 credits
This course introduces the politics and political structures of states in the Middle East. We explore the political origins of Middle Eastern states, and investigate how regional politics are shaped by colonialism, religion, tribes, the family, and more. We examine the persistence of authoritarianism and its links to other issues like nationalism and militarism. The course covers how recent and current events like the revolutionary movements of the ‘Arab Spring’ civil society affect the states and their societies. We conclude with a consideration of the future of Middle Eastern politics, evaluating lingering concerns and emerging prospects for liberalization and reform.
- Winter 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 242.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 133 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 133 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 242.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 10:00am-11:10am
- FWillis 204 9:50am-10:50am
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POSC 244 The Politics of Eurovision 3 credits
At first glance, Eurovision, the decades-long, continent-wide singing contest, is nothing more than a mindless pop culture event. Dismissed as a celebration of (at best) mediocre music, Eurovision seems like it would be the last place to learn about serious politics. In this class, however, we will explore Eurovision as a place where art is deeply political and often engages in debates about gender and sexuality, race, the legacies of colonialism, war and revolution, nationalism, and democracy—not just within the context of the competition itself but how these discussions spill over into broader social and political dynamics.
5 weeks
- Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 244.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 236 12:00pm-1:00pm
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1st 5 weeks
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POSC 244.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FHasenstab 105 2:20pm-3:20pm
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1st 5 weeks
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POSC 247 Comparative Nationalism 6 credits
Nationalism is an ideology that political actors have frequently harnessed to support a wide variety of policies ranging from intensive economic development to genocide. But what is nationalism? Where does it come from? And what gives it such emotional and political power? This course investigates competing ideas about the sources of nationalism, its evolution, and its political uses in state building, legitimation, development, and war. We will consider both historic examples of nationalism, as well as contemporary cases drawn from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States.
- Fall 2019, Winter 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 247.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 247.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 249 From the International to the Global: Critical Theories of World Politics 6 credits
Why is the world divided territorially? Why are some states considered more powerful than others? What can be done about violent conflict? This course will introduce students with critical approaches to world politics that ask these and other big questions. Marxist, feminist, post-structuralist and post-colonial scholars have challenged classical approaches of thinking about the international in terms of states and power. They have also questioned the dominance of western conceptions of politics in the way political scientists view the world. In this course will read and debate their contributions and apply them to real cases.
- Winter 2022, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 249.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 114 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 249.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 330 1:10pm-2:10pm
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Extra time: Departmental Simulation Evening May 19th and Daytime May 20th
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POSC 250 Ancient Political Philosophy: Plato’s Republic 6 credits
Cross-listed with POSC 350. In this course we will examine ancient political philosophy through the intensive study of Plato’s Republic, perhaps the greatest work of political philosophy ever written. What is morality? Why should a person behave morally? Wouldn’t it be more satisfying to be a tyrant? What is the best way of life? What would a perfect society look like? What would be its customs and institutions, and who would rule? What would it demand of us, and would that price be worth paying? These are some of the politically (and personally) vital questions addressed by the book.
Crosslisted with POSC 350
- Fall 2019, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 250.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 114 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 250.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 109 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 251 Modern Political Philosophy: Liberalism and Its Critics 6 credits
Liberalism is the dominant political philosophy of our time. Living in a liberal polity, each of us has been shaped by liberalism. But is liberalism the best political order? Do we even know what liberalism is? What are the strongest arguments in its favor, and what are the deepest criticisms we might level against it? In this course we will examine liberalism’s philosophic roots and engage with some of its most forceful advocates and most profound critics. Our readings will include authors such as Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Mill, and Nietzsche.
- Spring 2018, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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POSC 251.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:20
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 203 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Cross-listed with POSC 371
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POSC 252 Free Expression: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 6 credits
Freedom of expression has never lacked obstacles or opponents, even if its opponents have often claimed to be friends. In recent years, however, both the possibility and the desirability of free expression have been openly contested on moral, political, and philosophic grounds. Is free expression simply good, or does it also impose costs? What is the relation between freedom of expression and freedom of thought or mind? Is freedom of mind even possible? These will be our questions. Readings will be drawn from philosophers ranging from Plato to Nietzsche and from political essayists such as George Orwell and Vaclav Havel.
- Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 252.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 231 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 253 Welfare Capitalisms in Post-War Europe 6 credits
In this course students will explore the different kinds of welfare states that exist in Europe, the political economic and social conditions that made them possible and the debates about their strengths, weaknesses and prospects. We will review the so-called “varieties of capitalism” literature along with key welfare policies such as social insurance, health care, education, unemployment insurance, family and income support, and pensions. Welfare states use combinations of these policies differently to insure citizens against “old” and “new” risks. Finally, the course looks at how welfare regimes have responded of migration, financial, and public health crises.
- Fall 2021, Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 253.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 253.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 254 Freedom, Excellence, Happiness: Aristotle’s Ethics 6 credits
Cross-listed with POSC 354. What does it mean to be morally excellent? To be politically excellent? To be intellectually and spiritually excellent? Are these things mutually compatible? Do they lie within the reach of everyone? And what is the relation between excellence and pleasure? Between excellence and happiness? Aristotle addresses these questions in intricate and illuminating detail in the Nicomachean Ethics, which we will study in this course. The Ethics is more accessible than some of Aristotle’s other works. But it is also a multifaceted and multi-layered book, and one that reveals more to those who study it with care.
Cross-listed with POSC 354
- Winter 2017, Fall 2020, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 254.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Crosslisted with POSC 354
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POSC 254.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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POSC 254.02 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 7:00pm-8:45pm
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POSC 255 Post-Modern Political Thought 6 credits
The thought and practice of the modern age have been found irredeemably oppressive, alienating, dehumanizing, and/or exhausted by a number of leading philosophic thinkers in recent years. In this course we will explore the critiques and alternative visions offered by a variety of post-modern thinkers, including Nietzsche (in many ways the first post-modern), Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida.
- Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Winter 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 255.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 255.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 132 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 255.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 256 Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil 6 credits
Cross-listed with POSC 350. Nietzsche understood himself to be living at a moment of great endings: the exhaustion of modernity, the self-undermining of rationalism, the self-overcoming of morality–in short, stunningly, the “death of God.” He regarded these endings as an unprecedented disaster for humanity but also as an unprecedented opportunity, and he pointed the way to a new ideal and a new culture that would be life-affirming and life-enhancing. This course will center on close study of Beyond Good and Evil, perhaps Nietzsche’s most beautiful book and probably his most political one. Selections from some of his other books will also be assigned.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 256.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:35pm
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POSC 256.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 257 Marxist Political Thought 6 credits
A discussion seminar focussed on an in-depth reading of Karl Marx’s “Capital” as well as an exploration of “Marxism after Marx” in the work of Engels, Lenin and Bernstein. The second part of the course will focus on themes raised by Marx in the Political Economy literature today: economic growth and inequality, the role of the state, taxation and redistribution.
- Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 257.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 257.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 426 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 258 Politics and Ambition 6 credits
Cross-listed with POSC 357. Is personal ambition a threat to peace and the public good or is it a prod to nobility and heroism? Does it exemplify the opposition between self and society or does it represent their intersection and mutual support—or both? And what is the nature of political ambition, especially the ambition to rule: what does the would-be ruler really want? We will take up these and related questions by studying several classic works of philosophy and literature. Readings will likely include works by Plato, Xenophon, and Shakespeare as well as American founders, statesmen, and moral leaders.
Crosslisted with POSC 357
- Winter 2019, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry
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POSC 258.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 258.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Laurence Cooper 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 261 The Global Crisis of Democracy 6 credits
Democracy is in trouble worldwide. The most visible indicators are the rise of explicitly anti-democratic leaders and anti-liberal parties that employ populism and exploit ethnic and ideological polarization to acquire power. Democratic norms and institutions have eroded across the globe. Structures that undergirded the positive-sum linkage between industrialization, the rise of labor unions, and democratic parties in much of the West have been transformed in ways that undermine democracy. This course will analyze these and related trends that demonstrate that liberal democracy is suffering a global crisis. Instruction will cover cases across time and from all regions of the world.
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POSC 261.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 105 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 264 Politics of Contemporary China 6 credits
This course examines the political, social and economic transformation of China over the past thirty years. Students will explore the transformation of the countryside from a primarily agricultural society into the factory of the world. Particular emphasis will be placed on economic development and how this has changed state-society relations at the grassroots. The class will explore these changes among farmers, the working class and the emerging middle class. Students will also explore how the Chinese Communist Party has survived and even thrived while many other Communist regimes have fallen and assess the relationship between economic development and democratization.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 203 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 264.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:50pm-2:50pm
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 402 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 402 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 105 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 264.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLibrary 344 9:50am-11:00am
- FLibrary 344 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 265 Capitalist Crises, Power, and Policy 6 credits
This course examines the interaction of national politics and international economic activity. Topics include the relationship between national and international finance, global competitiveness, and economic development. Case studies drawn from every continent.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Statistics 120 strongly recommended, or instructor permission
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 265.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 233 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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Extra Time
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 204 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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POSC 265.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Greg Marfleet 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 235 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 265.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 265.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Alfred Montero 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:40am
- FHasenstab 105 8:30am-9:30am
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POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy 6 credits
Global environmental politics and policy is the most prominent field that challenges traditional state-centric ways of thinking about international problems and solutions. This course examines local-global dynamics of environmental problems. The course will cover five arenas crucial to understanding the nature and origin of global environmental politics and policymaking mechanisms: (1) international environmental law; (2) world political orders; (3) human-environment interactions through politics and markets; (4) paradigms of sustainable development; and (5) dynamics of human values and rules.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 268.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 268.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 268.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 269 I Did My Own Research: Information and Political Division in America 6 credits
Many Americans sense that polarization makes governance harder; scholars argue that polarization can undermine democracy itself. How do we manage difficult problems in a polarized political era? Can we ever agree if we are so free to pursue information that only supports what we already believe? We examine group identity in American culture and how boundaries affect attitudes and behavior as well as information around policy disputes around incarceration/policing, free speech, LGBTQ rights, health care, elections, immigration, and more. Finally, we consider how to reduce unproductive polarization for a better America even when we don’t agree on what better entails.
- Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 269.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 271 Constitutional Law I 6 credits
Covers American constitutional law and history from the founding to the breakdown of the constitution in secession crisis. Extensive attention will be paid to the constitutional convention and other sources of constitutional law in addition to Supreme Court cases.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2020, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- Social Inquiry
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POSC 271.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 271.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Steven Poskanzer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 105 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 271.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Steven Poskanzer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 002 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 002 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 272 Constitutional Law II 6 credits
Covers American constitutional law and history from Reconstruction to the contemporary era. Extensive attention will be paid to the effort to refound the American constitution following the Civil War as manifest in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments, and to the successive transformations which the Supreme Court worked in the new constitutional order. Political Science 271 is not a prerequisite.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Spring 2023, Winter 2024
- Social Inquiry
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POSC 272.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 272.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 272.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 272.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Steven Poskanzer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 105 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 272.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Steven Poskanzer 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 9:50am-11:00am
- FHasenstab 105 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 273 Race and Politics in the U.S. 6 credits
This course addresses race and ethnicity in U.S. politics. Following an introduction to historical, sociological, and psychological approaches to the study of race and ethnicity, we apply these approaches to understanding the ways in which racial attitudes have been structured along a number of political and policy dimensions, e.g., welfare, education, criminal justice. Students will gain an increased understanding of the multiple contexts that shape contemporary racial and ethnic politics and policies in the U.S., and will consider the role of institutional design, policy development, representation, and racial attitudes among the general U.S. public and political environment.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 273.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 305 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 305 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 273.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 304 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 273.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 273.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 105 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 273.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Christina Farhart 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 105 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 274 Globalization, Pandemics, and Human Security 6 credits
What are the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic on global politics and public policy? How do state responses to COVID-19 as well as historical cases such as the Black Death in Europe, the SARS outbreak in East Asia and Middle East, and the Ebola outbreak in Africa help us understand the scientific, political, and economic challenges of pandemics on countries and communities around the world? We will apply theories and concepts from IR, political economy, and natural sciences to explore these questions and consider what we can learn from those responses to address other global challenges like climate change.
- Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 274.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 274.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 275 Black Radical Political Thought, 1919-1969 6 credits
This course examines the history of Black radical political thought in the United States between 1919 and 1969. It also explores internationalist and diasporic linkages that shaped, and were shaped by, the U.S. context. “Black Radicalism” refers to the forms of politics and thought that have challenged, nationally and globally, economic exploitation, social inequality, political marginalization, and private and state-sanctioned antiblackness. The political ideologies and practices we will consider include: Black nationalism, pan-Africanism, socialism and communism, and Black feminisms. The course will also pay special attention to the sociohistorical and political economic contexts that give rise to different forms of Black radicalism.
- Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 275.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 206 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 275.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 275.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 275.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 11:10am-12:20pm
- FHasenstab 109 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 276 Imagination in Politics 6 credits
The course explores the bipolarity of imagination, the fact that imagination can be both a source of freedom and domination in contemporary politics. The main focus of the course is the capacity literature and film have to either increase the autonomous capacity of individuals to engage culture and language in a creative and interactive manner in the construction of their identities, or in a direction that increases their fascination with images and myths and, consequently, the escapist desire to pull these out of the living dialogue with others.
- Fall 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 230 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 276.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 278 Memory and Politics 6 credits
The ways in which human societies narrate their past can powerfully impact their politics. It can enhance their capacity to be just or it can undermine it. The fashion in which history is told can help societies avoid conflict and it can heal the lingering memory of previous wars. At the same time, historical narratives can escalate violence and deepen socio-cultural and political divisions, inequality, and oppression. In this course we will learn about the various connections between history and politics by reading the works of G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Ricoeur.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2021
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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POSC 278.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 278.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Mihaela Czobor-Lupp 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 036 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 279 Global Challenges and Civil Society Solutions 6 credits
Tocqueville once remarked, “if men who live in democratic countries did not acquire the practice of associating with each other in ordinary life, civilization itself would be in peril.” Today, our lives are affected by a wide spectrum of these associations of ordinary life from the Catholic Church, to international NGOs like Greenpeace, to mundane neighborhood groups. This course investigates whether these organizations can help solve some of the most pressing global challenges like climate change, inequality, and epidemics. We will engage classic literature about civil society, study contemporary organizations and movements, and think critically about their political, social and economic impact.
Extra time
- Spring 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 279.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 280 Feminist Security Studies 6 credits
Feminist security studies question and challenge traditional approaches to international relations and security, highlighting the myriad ways that state security practices can actually increase insecurity for many people. How and why does this security paradox exist and how do we escape it? In this class, we will explore the theoretical and analytical contributions of feminist security scholars and use these lessons to analyze a variety of policies, issues, and conflicts. The cases that we will cover include the UN resolution on women, peace, and security, Sweden’s feminist foreign policy, violence against women, and conflicts in Syria, Uganda, and Yemen.
- Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 280.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 280.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Summer Forester 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 281 U.S-China Rivalry: The New Cold War? 6 credits
This course surveys key security dynamics, actors and issues in the Asia-Pacific. We will begin with a brief overview of historical conflicts and cooperations in the region, focusing on the impact of decolonization, communism, and the Cold War. We will then proceed to discuss contemporary security issues; topics include territorial disputes, Taiwan, nuclear proliferation, the U.S. alliance system, regional organizations like ASEAN, and U.S.-China rivalry. We will also study major international relation paradigms and theories, including heterodox approaches relevant to major actors in the Asia-Pacific, to guide our investigation of these security issues. No prior knowledge required.
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POSC 281.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Huan Gao 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 109 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 109 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 282 Terrorism and Counterterrorism 6 credits
This course focuses on the historic and modern use of violence or the threat of violence by non-state actors to secure political outcomes. We will review the strategy and tactics of various terror groups, use case studies to understand the logic of terrorism, assess why some groups succeed while others fail, and study terrorist organizations’ efforts at recruitment and indoctrination. These topics will be addressed from theoretical and practical perspectives, with input from expert guest speakers. Finally, we will assess counterterrorism measures, including the moral, ethical, legal, and practical approaches to creating security in the modern world.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 282.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 282.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 8:15am-10:00am
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POSC 283 Separatist Movements 6 credits
This course explores the emergence and resolution of separatist movements around the world. While separatist movements are often associated with the violent dissolution of states, not all separatist movements result in violence and not all separatist movements seek independence. We will investigate the conditions under which separatist pressures are most likely to develop and when such pressures result in actual separation. We will contrast the tactics of movements, from peaceful approaches in places like contemporary Quebec or Scotland, to peaceful outcomes like the “velvet divorce” of Czechoslovakia, to violent insurrections in places like the Philippines, Spain, and Northern Ireland.
- Winter 2018, Fall 2020, Winter 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 283.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 283.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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POSC 283.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 105 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 284 War and Peace in Northern Ireland 6 credits
This class examines the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland between Catholics and Protestants known as “The Troubles.” We will investigate the causes of violence in this region and explore the different phases of the conflict, including initial mobilization of peaceful protestors, radicalization into violent resistance, and de-escalation. We will also consider the international dimensions of the conflict and how groups forged transnational ties with diaspora groups and separatist movements around the world. Finally, we will explore the consequences of this conflict on present-day Northern Ireland’s politics and identify lessons from the peace process for other societies in conflict.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 284.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 114 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 284.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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POSC 284.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Dev Gupta 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHasenstab 105 9:50am-11:00am
- FHasenstab 105 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 285 Intelligence, Policy and Conflict 6 credits
This course will study the U.S. Intelligence Community and how intelligence complements policy development and supports the creation and implementation of national security and foreign policy strategy. Using case studies, we will examine forms of conflict and assess how intelligence supported or failed policymakers in the areas of conventional warfare, counterinsurgency, and counterterrorism. We will conclude with the study of asymmetric warfare in our modern age.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 285.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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POSC 285.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THCMC 210 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 285.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 8:15am-10:00am
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POSC 288 Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C., Program: Global Politics & Pub Policy in Washington DC 6 credits
Students will participate in a seminar centered around meetings with experts in areas of global politics and policy. Over the course of the term they will collaborate in groups to produce a presentation exploring the political dimensions of public policy with a focus on how problem identification, institutional capacity, and stakeholder interests combine to shape policy options.
Requires participation in OCS Program: Politics and Public Policy in Washington, D.C.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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Mathematics 215, Statistics 120 or other statistics courses and participation in Washington DC OCS program
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POSC 294 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Perceptions of Otherness in Modern Eastern and Central Europe 6 credits
Is nationalism fundamentally flawed in its inclusionary capacity? Can the same power of imagination to bring strangers together, which made nation-building possible, be deployed for inventing post-national forms of solidarity? The course will explore representations of strangers and foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, with a special focus on Roma and Jews. The aim will be to understand how these representations will work to legitimize different forms of exclusionary politics. An important part of the course will explore the role that exiled and displaced people can play in reimagining identities on a cosmopolitan level.
Participation in Carleton OCS Central & Eastern Europe
- Spring 2018, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 295 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Nation-Building in Central and Eastern Europe between Politics and Art 6 credits
The state and its cultural politics played a pivotal role in building the Romanian nation. The first part of the course will analyze the difficulties of nation-building in modern Romania, with a special emphasis on the incapacity of Romanian liberalism to prevent the rise of extreme right wing politics. The second part will explore different images of Romanian national identity that art provided both during the communist regime and in the post-1989 decades, also in a comparative perspective with Hungary, Bulgaria, and Serbia. The course will include visits to galleries, architectural sites and neighborhoods in Bucharest and its surroundings.
Participation in Carleton OCS Central & Eastern Europe
- Spring 2018, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 296 Central and Eastern European Politics Program: Challenges to the Nation-State in Eastern and Central Europe: Immigrants and Minorities 6 credits
How do democracies react when confronted with massive bodies of immigrants? Do the problems that Eastern and Central European countries face in dealing with immigrants reflect deeper challenges to their capacity of thinking of the nation along inclusionary lines? We will explore the legal and political issues that EU countries and their societies, particularly, in Eastern and Central Europe, face when confronted with a migration crisis. Then we will look at Roma’s history of exploitation and injustice in Eastern and Central Europe. The course will include visits with community groups and NGOs, as well as encounters with minority rights activists.
Participation in Carleton OCS Central & Eastern Europe
- Spring 2018, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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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 306 The Psychology of Identity Politics and Group Behavior 6 credits
In recent years we have heard a lot about “identity politics.” This course aims to answer the question, why do people form group-based identities and how do they impact mass political attitudes and behavior? Using examples from American politics, we will examine the psychological underpinnings of identity and group-based affiliations as well as their political consequences. In doing so, we will explore how bias, prejudice, and social hierarchy are formed, maintained, and changed. Such evaluations will be based on discussions of various dominant and minority group identities including partisanship, race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and place.
- Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 306.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Kristin Lunz Trujillo 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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POSC 306.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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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 313 Legal Issues in Higher Education 3 credits
This seminar will explore pressing legal and policy issues facing American colleges and universities. The course will address the ways core academic values (e.g., academic freedom; the creation and maintenance of a community based on shared values) fit or conflict with legal rules and political dynamics that operate beyond the academy. Likely topics include how college admissions are shaped by legal principles, with particular emphasis on debates over affirmative action; on-campus speech; faculty tenure; intellectual property; student rights and student discipline (including discipline for sexual assault); and college and university relations with the outside world.
- Winter 2019, Fall 2022, Spring 2024
- Social Inquiry
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POSC 313.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Steven Poskanzer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 3:10pm-4:55pm
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1st 5 weeks
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POSC 313.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Steven Poskanzer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WHasenstab 109 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FHasenstab 109 1:10pm-2:10pm
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POSC 313.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Steven Poskanzer 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 3:10pm-4:55pm
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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 339 LGBTQ Politics in America 6 credits
The advancement of LGBTQ rights in the United States has experienced unprecedented success over the last twenty years, shifting public attitudes and legal protections for LGBTQ Americans. This course provides a discussion of LGBTQ history and in-depth analysis of how LGBTQ policy victories were achieved, including background on the strategies and tactics used to generate results. We will take a critical look at such milestones and examine what they mean for the entire LGBTQ population, including queer people of color, transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals, the disabled, and the economically disadvantaged.
- Spring 2022
- Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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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 367 Social Welfare in a Time of Crisis* 6 credits
During COVID-19, many countries adopted new cash transfers, wage subsidies, and basic income experiments, among other innovative social policies, prompting major debates on the need to transform existing social protection systems. We will examine the origins and evolution of formal welfare institutions in the global north and south, with an intersectional focus on their consequences for diverse groups. We will also explore how non-state actors contribute to the construction and maintenance of social safety nets around the world. Based on these insights, we will consider how states, markets, families, and communities may shape the future of welfare states.
- Spring 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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POSC 367.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 3:10pm-4:55pm
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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
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RELG 212 Black Religious Thought 6 credits
Although Black thinkers are well-known for discussing religion, the relationship between Blackness and religious thought is ambiguous. Much like religion can be understood in numerous ways, so does “Black” carry several meanings. In this course, we will investigate this ambiguity by unpacking how Black thinkers have expanded upon, reimagined, and rejected various forms of religious practices, beliefs, and institutions. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which these engagements are shaped by thinkers’ identification with, definition of, and politics surrounding Blackness and the African diaspora. The syllabus may include Baldwin, Hurston, Malcolm X, and Cone.
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RELG 212.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FLeighton 304 1:10pm-2:10pm
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RELG 236 Black Love: Religious, Political, and Cultural Discussions 6 credits
In 2021, the passing of Black feminist bell hooks led the scholarly journal Women’s Studies Quarterly (WSQ) to publish a special issue on Black love: hooks’ expertise. As is often the case in discussions of Blackness and love, the issue included many allusions to the divine and suggested some ties between race, love, and religion. Drawing inspiration from WSQ, this class will investigate the role religion, spirituality, and belief play in conversations about Blackness, love, and their intersection. The syllabus will include an array of academic essays, personal reflections, and creative works, including those by Lorde, Hartman, and Wonder.
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RELG 236.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 303 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 303 2:20pm-3:20pm
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