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Your search for courses for 21/WI and with code: POSCELECTIVE found 12 courses.
POSC 122.00 Politics in America: Liberty and Equality 6 credits
Closed: Size: 30, Registered: 25, Waitlist: 0
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POSC 202.00 Tools of National Power: Statecraft and Diplomatic Power 3 credits
Open: Size: 25, Registered: 23, Waitlist: 0
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7:00pm8:45pm | 7:00pm8:45pm |
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In this section of three related five-week courses, we will study the role of diplomacy as a component of U.S. statecraft. An active and informed diplomacy can help achieve international cooperation in the face of shared global threats, while helping to forestall conflict and forwarding U.S. national interests. Yet in recent decades, diplomacy has often been overshadowed by military intervention and economic sanctions as a tool of power. We will discuss the history of diplomacy, including the specific traditions of U.S. diplomatic practice. Using case studies taken from current issues, we will assess how diplomacy functions in practice and reflect on the future role of diplomats in a world of dramatic change. Course modalities will include focused readings, active class discussion, and short papers.
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POSC 209.00 Money and Politics 6 credits
Closed: Size: 24, Registered: 23, Waitlist: 0
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1:45pm3:30pm | 1:45pm3:30pm |
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Modern elections have become multibillion-dollar ventures. How does money influence electoral and policy outcomes in the United States? Who donates and why do people or groups donate? Where does all the money go? How has campaign finance been regulated and what are proposed reforms? Focusing on recent elections, we will explore these questions by delving into the world of campaign finance.
POSC 212.00 Environmental Justice 6 credits
Closed: Size: 21, Registered: 19, Waitlist: 0
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POSC 229.00 The U.S. Congress: Coordination and Conflict 6 credits
Open: Size: 24, Registered: 20, Waitlist: 0
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10:20am12:05pm | 10:20am12:05pm |
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How does Congress make public policy? What factors inhibit or enhance legislative productivity? Is the policymaking process too partisan? This course provides a comprehensive introduction to congressional organization and procedures, the policy process, and the core debates and theories surrounding legislative politics in the United States Congress. The path of policy within Congress is an incredibly complex and conflict-ridden coordination problem. As a class, we will explore how the underlying motivations to win office, produce policy, and gain prestige drive congressional member behaviors. We will also carefully consider the institutional details of the House and Senate that constrain these legislative actors and influence legislative outcomes.
POSC 235.00 The Endless War on Terror 6 credits
Closed: Size: 24, Registered: 21, Waitlist: 0
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10:20am12:05pm | 10:20am12:05pm |
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In the aftermath of 9/11, the U.S. launched the Global War on Terror to purportedly find, stop,and defeat every terrorist group with a global reach. Without question, the Global War on Terror has radically shaped everything from U.S. foreign policies and domestic institutions to civil liberties and pop culture. In this course, we will examine the events of 9/11 and then critically assess the immediate and long-term ramifications of the endless Global War on Terror on different states and communities around the world. While we will certainly spend time interrogating U.S. policies from the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, we will also examine reactions to those policies across both the global north and the global south.
POSC 262.00 Displaced Lives: Freedom and Meaning 6 credits
Open: Size: 25, Registered: 11, Waitlist: 0
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1:45pm3:30pm | 1:45pm3:30pm |
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To feel secure and accepted by society are essential human needs. However, even a cursory look at the 20th century shows how often and unexpectedly the lives of individuals were profoundly disrupted and crushed by the forces of nature and history. Security and social acceptance are fragile gifts of history. If so, what freedom and meaning, if at all, are to be found in living a displaced life, against and through the destructive tidal waves of history? The course tries to answer this question through an engagement with the memoirs and writings of Stefan Zweig, Edward Said, Norman Manea, Mikhail Bulgakov, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and James Baldwin.
POSC 265.00 Public Policy and Global Capitalism 6 credits
Closed: Size: 25, Registered: 27, Waitlist: 0
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10:00am11:10am | 10:00am11:10am | 9:50am10:50am |
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This course provides a comprehensive introduction to comparative and international public policy. It examines major theories and approaches to public policy design and implementation in several major areas: international policy economy (including the study of international trade and monetary policy, financial regulation, and comparative welfare policy), global public health and comparative healthcare policy, institutional development (including democratic governance, accountability systems, and judicial reform), and environmental public policy.
Prerequisite: Statistics 120 (formerly Mathematics 215) strongly recommended, or instructor permission
POSC 284.00 War and Peace in Northern Ireland 6 credits
Closed: Size: 25, Registered: 24, Waitlist: 0
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11:30am12:40pm | 11:30am12:40pm | 11:10am12:10pm |
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POSC 306.00 The Psychology of Identity Politics and Group Behavior 6 credits
Closed: Size: 15, Registered: 15, Waitlist: 0
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10:00am11:10am | 10:00am11:10am | 9:50am10:50am |
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In recent years we have heard a lot about “identity politics.” This course aims to answer the question, why do people form group-based identities and how do they impact mass political attitudes and behavior? Using examples from American politics, we will examine the psychological underpinnings of identity and group-based affiliations as well as their political consequences. In doing so, we will explore how bias, prejudice, and social hierarchy are formed, maintained, and changed. Such evaluations will be based on discussions of various dominant and minority group identities including partisanship, race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, religion, and place.
POSC 328.00 Foreign Policy Analysis* 6 credits
Closed: Size: 15, Registered: 23, Waitlist: 0
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7:00pm9:30pm | 7:00pm9:30pm |
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POSC 355.00 Identity, Culture and Rights* 6 credits
Open: Size: 18, Registered: 9, Waitlist: 0
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8:15am10:00am | 8:15am10:00am |
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This course will look at the contemporary debate in multiculturalism in the context of a variety of liberal philosophical traditions, including contractarians, libertarians, and Utilitarians. These views of the relationship of individual to community will be compared to those of the communitarian and egalitarian traditions. Research papers may use a number of feminist theory frameworks and methods.
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