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3.00 Credits
Racism and ethnic conflict, colonialism and neocolonialism, grating poverty and bustling tourism all have their impact on the politics of these struggling countries.This course examines migration across the first world's borders in countries that include Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana, and Suriname.Students complete a research project .This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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This course offers an overview of important thematic issues in Middle Eastern politics, economy, and society.Themes and concepts, not country studies, structure this course, which makes sense of the modern Middle East by familiarizing students with the most significant contemporary problems and controversies in the region.Students examine the process of state formation and the impact of colonialism in the Middle East; study topics pertaining to religion, family, and sexuality; and analyze the international relations of the region (war and peace), patterns of economic development (economic reforms, migration), and structures of power and prospects for democratization. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course analyzes politics in contemporary China (including Taiwan), Japan, and Korea, emphasizing the relationship between each nation's political culture and political system and giving considerable time to the different paths to modernization taken by each nation .This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the roots of American involvement in Vietnam, analyzes conflicting theories surrounding America's involvement, and investigates the clash of cultures raised by the war and the war's impact on American and Southeast Asian societies.Three credits.
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This course focuses on the troubles in Northern Ireland from 1969 to the present.The course provides historical background, with an emphasis on Great Britain's role from the 16th century through the current period.It examines the 20th-century conflict primarily as a national liberation struggle against a sectarian regime established in the North and supported by Great Britain, and discusses cultural, economic, and religious theories of the conflict.It follows a chronological format starting with the civil rights marches in the late 1960s before moving to the state repression that followed and the subsequent community responses to the state, including hunger strikes and electoral politics campaigns.In the process, the course assesses the roles played by political parties, paramilitaries, the churches, and community organizations as well as government bodies.The course examines the peace process as a struggle reflecting the conflict and as a possible resolution of it.Three credits.
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This course introduces a comparative approach to studying the forces affecting development in the Third World.Examples are selectively drawn from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.It examines the roots of wealth and poverty, obstacles to development, responses to globalization, and current debates over the development prospects of the Third World. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines structures and processes of urban politics and considers the major participants and policy areas of urban political processes.It sets the evolution of urban areas in historical perspective, discusses major contemporary problems, and analyzes alternative solutions.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how two immigrant groups - the Irish and the Jews - adapted politically in the United States.The Irish mobilized locally and were, until late in the 20th century, a major force in big city politics; the Jews largely eschewed local politics and concentrated their efforts on national politics.By examining the two groups, students learn about ethnicity and political mobilization in the United States.Three credits.
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This course explores what it means to be politically dis-advantaged in the United States, who is politically disadvantaged, why they are disadvantaged, what forms of political participation they practice, and the effectiveness of their somewhat unique forms of political participation.Groups that are studied include different racial minorities, women, the poor, gays, immigrants, and people with disabilities.Forms of political participation include protest, foot-dragging, consumer activism, grassroots mobilizing, picketing, sit-ins, and alternative institution building. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates how race, class, and gender function in American political culture.Students explore how the theoretical ideas of central thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Susan B.Anthony shape the political practices of the people who express themselves in songs, speeches, art, and music.The focus on race, class, and gender enables students to engage with historically challenging questions about equality, freedom, individualism, republicanism, liberalism, and American exceptionalism from alternative perspectives.The course concludes by assessing whether or not the contemporary Hip Hop movement can overcome the barriers of race, class, and gender. This course meets the U. S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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