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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Work with primary documents to research and write a major paper that interprets history. Topical content varies depending on instructor's teaching field. Recent topics: the Americas; the United States and Asia; European intellectual history since 1945; women in American history; Indian policy on the Pacific Slope; World War II, the participants' perspectives; the British Raj; cultural nationalism in East Asia. Prerequisites: History 300. Consent of instructor. Taught: Three seminars annually, 4 semester credits each. May be taken twice for credit. Enrollment preference given to history majors and minors.
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Staff Content: Same as History 299 but requiring more advanced work. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Cortell, Mandel, Partovi, Smith Content: An introduction to a conceptual, analytical, and historical understanding of international relations. Emphasis on the international system and the opportunities and constraints it places on state and nonstate behavior. Cooperation and conflict, sovereignty, the rich-poor gap, determinants of national power, interdependence, the process of globalization, international institutions, and the role of transnational phenomena. Designed for students who have no previous background in the study of international relations. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Partovi, Smith, Staff Content: The changing relationship between the United Nations and other selected international organizations and their environments. Purposes for which national governments try to use international organizations and consequences of their efforts. Politics of the U.N. and other international organizations, conflict management, economic and social issues facing the organizations. Prerequisite: International Affairs 100. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Partovi Content: An overview of contemporary U.S. foreign policy from a historical and theoretical perspective. International, domestic, bureaucratic, and individual determinants of policy-making. New challenges and prospects for U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War era. Prerequisite: International Affairs 100. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Comparative analysis of politics as reflected in literature (novels, short stories, plays, poetry) from sub-Saharan Africa. Themes vary from year to year and may include traditional political systems, colonialism and its legacies, nationalist movements, changing roles of women, problems of southern Africa, postcolonial independent Africa. Authors vary from year to year and may include early Swahili poets, Chinua Achebe, Sembene Ousmane, Wole Soyinka, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Buchi Emecheta, Zakes Mda, Andre Brink, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Alex La Guma, Bessie Head, Nuruddin Farah, others. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Comparative analysis of sub-Saharan African politics. Traditional political systems, colonialism and its legacies, nationalist movements, changing political role of women, problems of southern Africa, patterns of government and of political activity in postcolonial independent African states. Uses principally social science materials with occasional materials of a more literary nature. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Diggles Content: Comparative analysis of politics in South and Central America. Specific emphases vary, but usually include role of the peasantry, Catholic Church and Catholicism, changing political role of women, international linkages, causes and effects of social revolutions, military rule, transitions to democracy. Theories attempting to explain patterns of Latin American politics. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Examination of Japan's international history from prewar to present, searching for historic, ideological, geophysical, systemic, and strategic explanations for Japanese foreign policy behavior. Changing formulations of national purpose, responses to international change, perceptions and realities. Controversies related to contemporary foreign affairs include Japan's prewar empire in Asia; wars with Russia, China, and the United States; and the postwar reconstitution of Japanese national power. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Political, economic, military, and cultural features of the international relations of China, Japan, Korea, and Pacific Russia. Comparative topics include regional and international linkages through time, war, domestic politics, foreign policy, trade, national defense, the influence of imagery and perception, the accomplishments and costs of modernization. The emergence of Northeast Asia as a dynamic center of world affairs. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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