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  • POLI 298a: or b.Independent Work

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Independent work is normally based on a student's desire to study with an instructor a specialized aspect of a course taken with that instructor. One unit normally entails substantial directed reading and/or the writing of a long paper and biweekly conferences with the instructor. In no case shall independent work satisfy the subfield distribution requirement. The department.
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  • POLI 300: Senior Thesis

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    A 1-unit thesis, written in the fall semester.
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  • POLI 301-302: Senior Thesis

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    A 1-unit thesis written in two semesters.
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  • POLI 310a: Feminism of Color in the Law

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This course examines the legal history of ferminisms of color in the United States. It also explores mainstream feminism's transformative impact on the law. The course considers a broad range of issues including reproductive rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, -immigrant rights, violence against women, and affirmative action. This class is taught from a multidisciplinary perspective embracing readings from legal scholars, political philosophers, economists, journalists, lay persons, et al. Mr. Harris. Prerequisite: by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • POLI 311a: Thorstein Veblen and the Politics of Capitalism

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    Among the critics of American capitalism, Thorstein Veblen produced an original and penetrating study of American society. Veblen's critique focused on capitalism as a business culture whose archaic political habits distort its economic promise. This course surveys Veblen's critique as a guide to the politics of contemporary American capitalism. Themes include connections between money and the price system, consumption, waste, absentee ownership, democracy, militarism, and gender. Veblen's influence on such later critics of the system as C. Wright Mills and Herbert Marcuse are examined, along with trenchant critics of Veblen, such as Theordor Adorno. Mr. PlotkinPrerequisite: by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods. Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • POLI 312b: Green Utopias

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    (Same as Environmental Studies 312) Although utopias since More's have been concerned with the human relation to nature, green utopias have flourished in the past half century as environmental concerns have come to the fore. This course examines typical and exemplary green utopias (and dystopias), asking about the value of applying utopian methods to environmental issues and about the environmental insights the utopias (and dystopias) offer. Students may (but need not) write their own green utopia. Mr. Stillman. Prerequisite: by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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  • POLI 314a: The Politics of Public and Private

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This course examines the political significance of public and private in the contemporary US. Theoretical arguments as well as specific issues and contexts within which debates about public and private unfold are analyzed. Of particular thematic concern is, the privatization of governmental responsibilities and the "public" and "private" rights claims of individuals and communities. Among the issues studied are privatization of the US military and prisons, gated and other "private" communities and their relationship to the larger political communities within which they exist, intellectual property and the public domain, and the "privacy" of personal decisions. Ms. VillPrerequisite: by permission of instructor. Two 75-minute periods.
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  • POLI 341a: Seminar in Congressional Politics

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This seminar focuses on the theme of congresspeople and their constituents-a subject that has become quite popular among congressional scholars. While the theme is broadly construed, most of our attention is focused on congressional elections. Here we study reapportionment and redistricting, campaign finance reform, the too-often ignored subject of recruitment of congressional candidates, the role of national party organizations in congressional campaigns, the emergence of sophisticated campaign techniques, how the Republicans managed to "nationalize" the 1994 midterms and win their landslide victory, why divided party control of government has been so pervasive in the U.S., and how congresspeople continually cultivate the support of constituents over their entire term of office through casework and project assistance. Mr. BornPrerequisite: by permission of instructor. One 2-hour period.
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  • POLI 343b: Seminar in Constitutional Theory

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    This seminar focuses on some core problems pertaining to constitutional interpretation, examining questions of constitutional theory and interpretation as they relate to issues of equality and full citizenship. The course discusses the nature and function of the Constitution, explores theories about how the Constitution should be interpreted, and examines the methods that interpreters use to decipher the meanings of constitutional provisions. These concerns are addressed by focusing on various dimensions of constitutional theories and decisions pertaining to questions related to anti-discrimination law. Some of the issues covered include standards of judicial review, Supreme Court interpretations of equal protection, the constitutional protection of groups as well as individuals, and the appropriateness of constitutional protections rooted in color-blind and gender-blind principles. Mr. Harris. Prerequisite: by permission of instructor. One 2-hour period. Not offered in 2008/09.
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  • POLI 346b: Seminar in American Politics

    1.00 Credits
    Vassar College

    The politics of rights has often been at the center of political contention and aspirations for political change in the US. This seminar explores various meanings and consequences of this politics through an examination of legal culture in everyday life, the constitution of rights discourse, cause lawyering, social movements, and the role of courts in fostering and hindering transformative change in the contemporary US. Among the issues to be considered are: ways in which law does/does not speak from, for, or to the disempowered; the character and impact of lawyers' political activism; and courts' responses to movement activism.The seminar requires everyone to participate fully in weekly discussions, to compose short papers on assigned readings, to write a research paper on subject of the student's choice related to the seminar and to present her/his findings to the seminar. Ms. Villmoare Prerequisite: by permission of instructor, normally an intermediate-level course in American politics. One 2-hour period.
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