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3.00 Credits
Prereqs: 190.340 or 190.384 or 190.385. Cross-listed with Art.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the major debates and issues of postwar Japanese politics. Topics include nationalism, electoral politics, civil society, and immigration.
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3.00 Credits
(formerly ‘Comparative Racial Politics’) Students will learn to utilize qualitative, interpretive methods of comparative politics to examine dynamics of racial and/or ethnic politics in the nation-states of Cuba, Brazil, Britain and France, Germany, and the United States. Readings will emphasize the role of the state, political economy, national culture, racist ideologies and anti-racist politics in the formation, maintenance and transformation of conditions of race-based inequalities. Students will also become familiar with theories and concepts of race and ethnicity, and the histories of social movements in the aforementioned societies founded, in part, on racial and/or ethnic identification as a response to inequality.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: 190.333 The second semester of a two semester course. Topics include executive and emergency power, rights of criminal defendants, racial and gender equality, and selected free speech and religious freedom issues. Open only to students who have successfully completed 190.333. (AP, LP)
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3.00 Credits
What is a border? Why do borders matter? What do borders mean under conditions of globalization? An examination of borders, transborder flows, and networks within and across borders
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3.00 Credits
Not Available
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3.00 Credits
Contrary to the image most Americans have of their country, the United States is a tough nation with respect to crime. The U.S. has constructed a considerably more harsh criminal justice regime than any of its advanced industrial counterparts. In recent years, America’s prisons and jails have held more than one percent of the nation’s adults--2.3 million people–with many more on parole, probation or temporarily free on bail awaiting trial. In Western Europe, by contrast, fewer than two-tenths of one percent of the adult populace is behind bars. This enormous discrepancy in incarceration rates is more a function of the relative severity of America’s criminal laws than differences between Europe and the U.S. in the actual incidence of serious crime. And, of course, while Western European nations no longer execute convicted criminals, the U.S. remains committed to the use of capital punishment. We will explore these and related issues of crime and punisment in the U.S.
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3.00 Credits
Prereq: Previous course in Political Theory Class or perm. req’d An exploration of the internal and external relations between capitalism and Christianity. A previous course in Political Theory is required and a high tolerance for elemental theory is needed. How did capitalism and Christianity affect each other? What are the dangers and possibilities attached to this combination today? The Gospels, The Book of Revelation, Calvin, Weber, Immanual Wallerstein, Stuart Kauffman, Fred Hirsch and William Connolly are among the texts engaged. (PT)
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3.00 Credits
Food is central to our daily lives, yet few of us consider the political implications of what we eat. In this course, we explore numerous struggles that take place over the production and consumption of food. These include global conflicts over agricultural subsidies and genetically modified foods to more local concerns about food safety and the rising incidence of obesity among children and adults. Through the course, students learn what is special or unique about food and agriculture and what the politics of food can tell us about politics and policy more generally.
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3.00 Credits
In the 19th Century America was noted for its courts, political parties and representative institutions. Today, America’s political parties and representative institutions have declined in importance while the institutions of the executive branch have increased in importance. This seminar will examine the nation’s key executive institutions and aspects of executive governance in the U.S. Students will alternate primary responsibility for week’s readings. Every student will prepare a 10-15 page review and critique of the book(s0 for which they are responsible in class.
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