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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Course examines the causes and prevention of war in both historical and theoretical perspective. While focusing on mainly the causes of large-scale interstate wars, several contemporary issues of relevance such as nuclear proliferation, ethnic conflict, and terrorism will be discussed in the later weeks of the semester. The course is structured in a way that surveys various causal claims about the origin of war at different levels of analysis. The course will also investigate several historical cases such as World War I, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the politics of China and Japan; political origins of cultural and institutional patterns, including communism, party politics, legislative affairs, local government, the role of government in economic management in promoting social order and social change. Course may deal with several additional East Asian states.
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4.00 Credits
Course examines how the major issues and cleavages in Canadian political life are mediated through the nation's political institutions. The cultural environment and traditions of Canada's people, and the evolution of the governing and partisan institutions of Canadian democracy are also examined. Course also focuses on relationships between Canada and the United States, and how the two nations both challenge and benefit one another.
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4.00 Credits
Focuses on the re-emergence of central Europe, democratization, economic change, and nationalism. Course will consider how the reunification of Germany, the end of the Cold War, and the collapse of the Soviet Union have altered the dynamics of Central and Eastern Europe; and the interplay of East and West in the area of the economic, political and cultural power of a re-united Germany.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the challenges, obstacles, and prospects for economic development in the Middle East and North Africa. It surveys theories of economic development and applies them to individual states in the region. Specifically, the course addresses questions about the role of natural resources in development. It examines the impact of population growth and the consequences of regional conflict on development. The course explores developmental outcomes in an era of globalization.
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4.00 Credits
Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek-Roman political thought; main currents of medieval political theory, including Augustine.
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4.00 Credits
Political thought from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on liberalism and its critics, from Rousseau to postmodernism. Emphasis on figures such as Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Foucault, and feminism as well as other theorists.
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4.00 Credits
Consideration of thought about American political institutions and practice. Major topics include revolutionary ideas and antecedents; framing of the Constitution and constitutional debate; 19th-century responses to slavery and large-scale industrialism; and modern social construction of race and gender. Other topics may include Jefferson, Paine, Melville, Jacksonianism, Progressivism, and modern liberal thought.
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1.00 Credits
Important political issues of contemporary significance with implications for future change. May include foreign or domestic issues. Topics will be announced. May be repeated for credit with departmental permission.
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2.00 Credits
Important political issues of contemporary significance with implications for future change. May include foreign or domestic issues. Topics will be announced. May be repeated for credit with departmental permission.
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