PSCI235 - America and the World

This course is designed to develop your critical reading and writing skills in the areas of international relations and contemporary history. You are expected to take charge of your learning, engaging with each other and the instructor in a process of knowledge creation through practice, inquiry, deliberation, criticism, and problem solving. You will produce three peices of analytical writing. These are complementary and cumulative assignments that, combined, will enhance your understading of the nature, purpose, and future of U.S. hegemony or global dominance. This is the issue, arguably, at the core of debate today about US foreign policy or grand strategy. Prerequisite: Recommended PSCI 130 or PSCI 150