|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; one term paper. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Compares foreign policies of the United States and the Soviet Union with special attention to the influence of historical, political, ideological, and systemic factors on their international behavior. Close attention paid to their use of military and economic instruments in their relationship with various actors.
-
4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 1 hour; extra reading, 1 hour; term paper, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Introduces students to the politics of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Topics covered include why states develop such weapons and whether possession of them increases or decreases the likelihood of war. Also covered are international efforts to stop weapons proliferation, and specific cases of proliferation such as those in India, and Pakistan, North Korea, Iraq, and Iran.
-
4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Provides students with a broad understanding of the politics and economics of countries that border the Pacific Rim, including Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and China, and of their relationship to the United States. The major issues addressed include economic growth, sociopolitical development, trade, and interdependence.
-
4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; writing and extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores the politics of postwar Japan. Topics include Who rules contemporary Japan? How do we explain long-term conservative rule and economic success? and What are the sources of recent political instability and economic hard times and is the situation likely to continue?
-
4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; term paper, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Studies the current politic and economic issues and problems, and international relations of the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Includes a historical background of the region.
-
4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 2 hours; written work, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores the ethical dimensions of contemporary debates in international politics. Topics include international justice, humanitarian aid, military intervention, and just war theory. Credit is awarded for only one of POSC 135 or POSC 267.
-
4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; outside research, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Comparative study of ancient warfare and hegemony in two or more civilizations of the ancient world. Perspectives may include social and political contexts, gender and war, acquisition of empire, religious wars, and weapons, strategies and tactics in theory and practice. Study of primary source material in texts and visual arts. Cross-listed with AST 145, CHN 141, CLA 141, and CPAC 141.
-
2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Participation in and analysis of laboratory models of complex political systems.
-
2.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours. Examination of the structure and functioning of the United Nations with major emphasis on the principal organs (Security Council, General Assembly), ECOSOC, the Trusteeship Council and the leading committees. The course will examine theories on the pacific settlement of disputes, collective security and functionalism. The focus will be on the United Nations as a living, contemporary political institution.
-
2.00 Credits
simulation, 2 hours. Prerequisite(s): POSC 142L. An intensive study of the foreign policy of two selected countries, normally one developed and one undeveloped country, conducted through lectures, discussion, and simulations of their foreign policies being projected in the arena of the United Nations. Can be repeated twice for a total of 6 units.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|