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ECON 264 Health Care Economics 6 credits
This course will focus on the economics of medical care and how health care markets and systems work. We will consider both private health insurance markets and publicly provided social health insurance. The changes which demography, technology and the Affordable Health Care Act are bringing to health care delivery will be examined. Some time will be devoted to understanding the health care systems in other countries. This is a discussion course.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 264.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Nathan Grawe 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 264.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Nathan Grawe 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 203 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 264.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Nathan Grawe 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 264.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Nathan Grawe 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 268 Economics of Cost Benefit Analysis 6 credits
Cost-benefit analysis is a tool commonly used by economists and policy makers to compare and choose among competing policy options. This course will cover the basic theory and empirical techniques necessary to quantify and aggregate the impacts of government policy, especially as related to the environment. Topics covered include the time value of money; uncertainty; sensitivity analysis; option value; contingent valuation; hedonic estimation; basic research design. Throughout the course case studies will be used to elucidate and bring life to the theoretical concepts.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111. Some statistics background will be useful.
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ECON 268.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 268.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 270 Economics of the Public Sector 6 credits
This course provides a theoretical and empirical examination of the government’s role in the U.S. economy. Emphasis is placed on policy analysis using the criteria of efficiency and equity. Topics include rationales for government intervention; analysis of alternative public expenditure programs from a partial and/or general equilibrium framework; the incidence of various types of taxes; models of collective choice; cost-benefit analysis; intergovernmental fiscal relations.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 110 and 111
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ECON 270.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 270.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 270.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 270.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHulings 310 1:45pm-3:30pm
- T, THMusic & Drama Center TENT 1:45pm-3:30pm
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ECON 270.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 270.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 270.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Jenny Bourne 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 277 History and Theory of Financial Crises 6 credits
The course provides an historical perspective on financial bubbles and crashes and critically examines theories of financial crises. The course will look at the long history of financial crises to highlight recurring themes and to try to determine, among other things, what went wrong, what elements precede most crises, and which responses were effective.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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Economics 110 and 111
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ECON 277.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 277.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 10:00am-11:10am
- FLeighton 304 9:50am-10:50am
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ECON 277.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Victor Almeida 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 277.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Victor Almeida 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 159 “The Age of Isms” – Ideals, Ideas and Ideologies in Modern Europe 6 credits
“Ideology” is perhaps one of the most-used (and overused) terms of modern political life. This course will introduce students to important political ideologies and traditions of modern Europe and their role in the development of political systems and institutional practices from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. We will read central texts by conservatives, liberals, socialists, anarchists and nationalists while also considering ideological outliers such as Fascism and Green Political Thought. In addition the course will introduce students to the different ways in which ideas can be studied systematically and the methodologies available.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 305 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 305 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 11:10am-12:20pm
- FLeighton 402 12:00pm-1:00pm
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WLeighton 402 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 402 9:40am-10:40am
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EUST 159.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Paul Petzschmann 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- M, WWeitz Center 233 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 233 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 123 U.S. Women’s History Since 1877 6 credits
In the twentieth century women participated in the redefinition of politics and the state, sexuality and family life, and work and leisure as the United States became a modern, largely urban society. We will explore how the dimensions of race, class, ethnicity, and sexuality shaped diverse women’s experiences of these historical changes. Topics will include: immigration, the expansion of the welfare system and the consumer economy, labor force segmentation and the world wars, and women’s activism in civil rights, labor, peace and feminist movements.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Spring 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 123.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 123.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 123.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 123.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Annette Igra 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- T, THLeighton 330 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 242 Communism, Cold War, Collapse: Russia Since Stalin 6 credits
In this course we will explore the history of Russia and other former Soviet states in the period after the death of Stalin, exploring the workings of the communist system and the challenges it faced internally and internationally. We will investigate the nature of the late Soviet state and look at the different trajectories Russia and other post-Soviet states have followed since the end of the Soviet Union.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies
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HIST 242.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 242.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 305 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 242.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 242.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 3:10pm-4:55pm
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HIST 341 The Russian Revolution: A Centenary Perspective 6 credits
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the twentieth century. It transformed much beyond Russia itself. This course will take stock of the event and its legacy. What was the Russian revolution? What was its place in the history of revolutions? How did it impact the world? How was it seen by those who made it and those who witnessed it? How have these evaluations changed over time? What sense can we make of it in the year of its centenary? The revolution was both an inspiration (to many revolutionary and national-liberation movements) and used as a tale of caution and admonition (by adversaries of the Soviet Union). The readings will put the Russian revolution in the broadest perspective of the twentieth century and its contested evaluations, from within the Soviet Union and beyond, from its immediate aftermath, through World War II, the Cold War, to the post-Soviet period. The course is aimed at all students interested in the history of the twentieth century and of the idea of the revolution.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry International Studies Writing Requirement
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One course in Modern European History or instructor consent
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HIST 341.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 341.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 341.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Adeeb Khalid 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 202 10:10am-11:55am
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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SOAN 225 Social Movements 6 credits
How is it that in specific historical moments ordinary people come together and undertake collective struggles for justice in social movements such as Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Standing Rock, immigrant, and LGBTQ rights? How have these movements theorized oppression, and what has been their vision for liberation? What collective change strategies have they proposed and what obstacles have they faced? We will explore specific case studies and use major sociological perspectives theorizing the emergence of movements, repertoires of protest, collective identity formation, frame alignment, and resource mobilization. We will foreground the intersectionality of gender, sexuality, race, and class in these movements.
- Fall 2021, Spring 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Social Inquiry
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SOAN 225.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 304 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 225.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Meera Sehgal 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 3:10pm-4:55pm