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3.00 Credits
May not be taken for credit by students who have taken POL 295 by the same course name. Counts toward the politics major’s global politics field requirement. Acts of terror are shocking by definition. They threaten the public’s sense of normalcy and stability. Therefore, in order to be successful, terrorism must seem novel, unpredictable and out of the ordinary. This is why each terrorist act perpetuates the idea that we have entered a new era, one more dangerous than what came before. However, terrorism itself is nothing new, nor is it the blight of anyone specific region or culture. This course studies terrorism as a historical and international phenomenon in order to determine its causes and to compare its impact in different contexts. Students try to answer questions such as: Is it possible generalize about the causes of terrorism? Has terrorism ever been successful as a strategy? What kind of solutions were historically effective in dealing with terrorism?
Zarakol.
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4.00 Credits
Totalitarian regimes aim to exert a totalizing control over their citizens, but they also demand active and enthusiastic participation from citizens, and expressions of belief in the regime’s driving ideology. In this course, we study regimes such as: Nazi Germany, Stalin’s USSR, Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe, Mao’s China, the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, North Korea, Khomeini’s Iran, and the Taliban’s Afghanistan. Studying totalitarian regimes helps us ask questions about the relationship between human nature and politics. While human history is littered with authoritarian and despotic regimes, political movements who oppress their followers in the name of elevating humanity are relatively recent phenomena. What is it about our modern understanding of life and purpose that makes such regimes and movements attractive to us? Zarakol
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students with an accelerated introduction to the conduct of comparative political analysis. Students develop complementary expertise under a unifying theme, working together with the faculty member and fellow students to write a collective product based on individual and group research. Students gain practice with the comparative method, hypothesis formation and testing, historical-institutional analysis, theory building, and scholarly critique. Students define case studies for comparative examination in conjunction with a team of peers, with each encouraged to study historical moments of their choosing, in consultation with faculty. Dickovick.
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4.00 Credits
This course is open to all students, is of particular interest to science and social science students, and is geared toward pre-law and pre-med students at any level. Counts towards the field requirement in American politics. A survey of policy problems arising from advances in microbiology and genetics, particularly including human cloning, reproductive technologies, genetically modified organisms, forensic DNA, behavioral genetics, patenting genetic material, genetic medicine, and genetic counseling. Harris.
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4.00 Credits
Open to majors and non-majors. Meets the global politics field requirement or the political philosophy requirement or elective credit in the major. Are marriage and democracy a good match? Does heterosexual couplehood sustain a health democratic community? We examine conceptions of the connection between marital alliances and egalitarian, individualist political practices. Using three novels – Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Finn, Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy, and selections from Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full – in which the dramas surrounding marriage partners are embedded in the struggle for a more democratic politics in their protagonists’ respective communities, we consider how marriage practices in earlier, undemocratic regimes are challenged by the demands of democratic political life. Students work in groups to write their own fictions about contemporary courtship and marriage politics.
LeBlanc.
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4.00 Credits
No prerequisites. Open to non-majors and majors of all classes. Meets the global politics field requirement in the major. Recommended for students interested in cinema, political dynamics, Russian area studies. This is an interdisciplinary study combining social science and humanistic models to help explain the dynamics of political entities. Grading based on class discussion and essays. C. McCaughrin, G. McCaughrin
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4.00 Credits
This course counts towards the field requirement in American politics. This course introduces students to the redistricting process and election law by engaging them in a lab setting in which they use geographic information systems (GIS) software to develop alternative election district plans for the Commonwealth of Virginia. In addition to learning basic GIS skills, students also study voting rights case law, electoral systems and electoral reform. Staff, Blackburn.
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6.00 Credits
POL 285 - British Politics in London FDR: SS2 Credits: 6 Prerequisites: Approval of the International Education Committee, permission of the instructor, and either POL 100 or 105. Not open to seniors. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Study in London of the processes, institutions and mores of the British political system, including class meetings, guest lectures, and site visits. Comparative analysis of British and American legislatures, executives, and judiciaries. Connelly.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: INTR 202. Surveys are a ubiquitous part of modern society. They are also an important and reliable way to assess public attitudes. This course covers all aspects of the survey process including: sampling theory, questionnaire design, field work, data analysis, and report writing and presentation. The main project in the course requires students to design, conduct, analyze, and present their own original surveys. Holyk.
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3.00 Credits
POL 290 - Seminar in Politics, Literature and the Arts FDR: SS2 Credits: 3 Prerequisites: Set by instructor, vary with topic. In this course, we study how literature, film, and other media are used to examine political themes and how they are used to achieve political ends. We address how politics shapes the arts and how the arts shape politics. The topic is announced at registration. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different. Only one such seminar may be counted towards the politics major.
Topic for Winter 2011:
POL 290: Seminar in Politics, Literature and the Arts (3) No prerequisites.What do diverse literary and cinematic representations of cowboys, samurai, caudillos, and politicians say about the character of leaders, the relationship between individual and society, and the nature of political life? Do novelists, poets, directors, and story tellers exercise their individual creativity for or against politics? Do proliferating stories of vampires (of creatures situated between life and death, being and non-being) tell a political allegory about belonging, ostracism, this-world and other-worldly transcendence? Five scholars, authors, and poets (from across the US and Argentina) lead seminars and lectures: on poetry written in times of political crises and war, the novels and stories Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Penn Warren, Bram Stoker, the films of John Ford and Akira Kurosawa, among additional popular culture artifacts. To weekly Friday seminars, guests also offer a Thursday evening lecture open to the public and required of students enrolled in the course (Jan. 27, Feb. 10, Mar. 10, Mar .17, and Mar. 31). (SS2) Velásquez.
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