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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: one 200-level GVPT course. Reading, research, discussion, analysis, and writing in the area of politics. Both substantive issues and methodological approaches will be considered. Primarily for government and politics undergraduate majors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT200. Junior standing. For GVPT majors only. A study of governmental problems of international scope, such as causes of war, problems of neutrality, and propaganda. Students are required to report on readings from current literature.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT200. Junior standing. For GVPT majors only. A study of the basic character, general principles and specific rules of international law, with emphasis on recent and contemporary trends in the field and its relation to other aspects of international affairs.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT200. For GVPT majors only. An exploration of the political and moral concerns involved in the use or threat of use of force in modern international affairs and diplomacy. Topics of intensive study include, among others, comparative and international laws governing terrorism and counter-terrorism, jus ad bellum, jus en bello, preemptive war, institutional legal processes for promoting the use of and enforcing international conflict resolution and arbitrary procedures to prevent or control international violence, and the roles of international courts in trials of war criminals and terrorists.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT200. Recommended: GVPT402. Junior standing. For GVPT majors only. An introduction to private international law, defined as those substantive laws that a nation or nations have applied to private transactions involving transnational relationships. Private international law is often called the "conflict of laws" because it almost always arises to deal with the existence of a number of separate legal systems in the various states, each practicing their own 'municipal law' in ways that invariably raise real and potential conflicts requiring accommodation and cooperation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT200. For GVPT majors only. Contemporary issues of military strategy and international security are covered, including: nuclear war, conventional (limited war), guerrilla insurgency, arms control, disarmament, moderation of war, defense policy processes, and defense economics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT200. Junior standing. For GVPT majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: GVPT309B or GVPT406. Formerly GVPT309B. A basic introduction to the full range of international organizations that have come into being over the past century and one-half, including those that aspire to be universal or global, those with a geopolitical or regional focus, and those that address specific structural or functional areas of human endeavor or issue areas.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT200. Junior standing. For GVPT majors only. Introduces the field of international political economy, which analyzes the ways in which economic and political changes produce both economic and political reactions.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT200. Junior standing. For GVPT majors only. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Reading, writing, and research on topics in international relations and world politics. Both substantive issues and methodological approaches will be considered.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GVPT170 and GVPT241. Recommended: GVPT270. For GVPT majors only. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. Reading, writing, and research on topics in public policy. Both substantive issues and methodological approaches will be considered.
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