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The “War on Terror” is hotly debated in the media and among ourselves. We read about it every day in the New York Times, watch live CNN coverage, and defend our own opinions on the issues at hand. However, our opinions—and those of many commentators—likely stem from personal morals and “gut reactions”—not necessarily theoretically and empirically sound, systematic evaluations.
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What role will the United States play in world politics in the coming years and decades? What role should it play? Will the United States retain its position as the preeminent global power or will we see the emergence of different power centers across the globe that may pose a challenge to American hegemony? What will be the major foreign policy and security challenges facing the United States both now and in the future? How should the United States respond to them?
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Foreign policy decision-making is rarely morally neutral or ethically unproblematic. More often than not, foreign policy decision-makers struggle with complex moral questions in which ethical behavior is ambiguous. To complicate matters, international ethics is often relegated to the sidelines as an oxymoron in academic, policymaking, and popular arenas. This class draws out some of the ethical dilemmas in foreign policy decisions, asking how ethics has and has not been attended to and how foreign policy might be made more ethical.
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This course analyzes the current legal system by tracing each step of a legal case, from the occurrence of the event to final appeals. The objectives are to create an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of resolving disputes and punishing crime through the courts, to make students more sophisticated consumers of news about legal issues, to help them determine whether they should pursue a career in the law, and to understand the role of the legal process in American history and social development.
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This course offers an intense, deeply personal and highly intellectual experience, as you engage the passionate arguments of leading political thinkers and explore your own feelings about them. Here in America the two predominant ideological orientations are Liberalism and Conservatism, so it definitely behooves us to understand both of them thoroughly. But elsewhere in the world, and at different moments in history, other ideologies have had many supporters. What are Communism, Anarchism, and Fascism really about? Why have so many people been attracted to them, and could they stage a comeback at some point in the foreseeable future? Or are there other, newer alternatives which could become more influential?
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Everywhere from Iraq to Western Europe, ethnic identity and nationalism are major sources of political tensions and conflict in the contemporary world. This course will ask why nationalistic conflicts emerge, and why some conflicts can be resolved by negotiation while others repeatedly break out in violence. We will focus on five case studies: tensions among Sunnis, Shi'a and Kurds in Iraq; Northern Ireland , where conflict was ended by negotiation after many decades of violence: the Rwandan genocide, including its historical routes in colonialism and ongoing efforts to bring justice and reconciliation; problems of integrating Moslem populations into European societies in France, Germany, Britain and Scandinavia; and the right of small nations to secede and form new states. The course will pay attention to the roles of popular grievances, nationalist politicians international organizations and mediators such as the UN; and the changing global political and strategic environment. It will ask whether the US should do more to stop nationalist violence, and whether it can be effective.
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In this course, students will explore the role of identity in international or intra-state conflicts. Violence in the name of collective identities, whether they are ethnic, religious, or other type of identities, is becoming commonplace across the globe. These conflicts are sometimes referred to as \"identity conflicts.\" However, in this course, students will be challenged to think analytically about the links between identity and violence that are frequently made in the media. In addition to gaining competence in the course material, students will also acquire skills that will help them in college, such as learning how to draw the most essential information from the texts, reading critically, as well as formulating own arguments that are supported by evidence and presenting them in an effective way.
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What is democracy? How does it work? How should it work? The principles of democracy are widely espoused throughout the world and they form a central plank of America’s civic identity. Yet there is little public discussion of exactly how democratic mechanisms do and should work; the US constitution, for example, is rarely criticized at all in mainstream debates, least of all on democratic grounds. This class will equip students with the knowledge and skills to analyze and critique real democratic structures and to see how democratic considerations can give us new ways to think about pressing social and political issues.
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In this class we will define the scope of psychology and explore some of its most interesting and relevant topics. For example, in what ways does our evolutionary history influence the way we behave today? How has intelligence been defined and measured, and what have been the political and social consequences? How do early patterns of attachment influence current romantic relationships? What are some of the psychological problems that people encounter (e.g., eating disorders, depression, trauma), and how can they be treated most effectively? How can we use principles of learning and reinforcement to explain patterns of addiction? We will use class discussion, movie screenings, and assigned readings to answer these questions. Assignments will focus on the sort of logical thinking and effective writing that will serve students well when they enter a college or university.
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Why do many people believe in palm reading, alien abductions, past-life regression therapy, and ghosts? Can what you see in an inkblot reveal hidden aspects of your personality? Is it true that some people have the power to see into the future? This course will introduce students to methods used by psychological science to help answer these common questions about the “unknown.”
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