PSCI271 - CLASSIC AMER CONSTIT LAW

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI271 - CLASSIC AMER CONSTIT LAW
Term
2017C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
789
Section ID
PSCI271789
Description
This course explores the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in political struggles over the distribution and uses of power in the American constitutional system. Issues include the division of powers between state and national governments, and the branches of the federal government; economic powers of private actors and governmental regulators; the authority of governments to enforce or transform racial and gender hierarchies; and the powers of individuals to make basic choices, such as a woman's power to have an abortion. We will pay special attention to how the tasks of justifying the Supreme Court's own power, and constitutionalism more broadly, contribute to logically debatable, but politically powerful constitutional arguments. Readings include Supreme Court decisions and background materials on their historical and political context.
Course number only
271
Use local description
No

PSCI298 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND GLOBAL GOVERNENCE

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
PSCI298 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND GLOBAL GOVERNENCE
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
080
Section ID
PSCI298080
Description
Consult department for detailed descriptions. More than one course may be taken in a given semester. Recent titles have included: Leadership & Democracy; Conservative Regimes.
Course number only
298
Use local description
No

PSCI298 - IRISH POLITICS

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
PSCI298 - IRISH POLITICS
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
079
Section ID
PSCI298079
Description
Consult department for detailed descriptions. More than one course may be taken in a given semester. Recent titles have included: Leadership & Democracy; Conservative Regimes.
Course number only
298
Use local description
No

PSCI181 - HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI181 - HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
050
Section ID
PSCI181050
Description
This course will provide an overview of major figures and themes of modern political thought. We will focus on themes and questions pertinent to political theory in the modern era, particularly focusing on the relationship of the individual to community, society, and state. Although the emergence of the individual as a central moral, political, and conceptual category arguably began in earlier eras, it is in the seventeenth century that it takes firm hold in defining the state, political institutions, moral thinking, and social relations. The centrality of "the individual" has created difficulties, even paradoxes, for community and social relations, and political theorists have struggled to reconicle those throughout the modern era. We will consider the political forms that emerged out of those struggles, as well as the changed and distinctly "modern" conceptualizations of political theory such as freedom, responsibilty, justice, rights and obligations, as central categories for organizing moral and political life.
Course number only
181
Use local description
No

PSCI110 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI110 - COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
050
Section ID
PSCI110050
Description
This course is designed to introduce students to comparative political analysis. How can the political behavior, circumstances, institutions, and dynamic patterns of change that people experience in very different societies be analyzed using the same set of concepts and theories? Key themes include nationalism, political culture, democratization, authoritarianism, and the nature of protracted conflict.
Course number only
110
Use local description
No

PSCI298 - CHINA-UNITED STATES RELATIONS

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
PSCI298 - CHINA-UNITED STATES RELATIONS
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
078
Section ID
PSCI298078
Description
Consult department for detailed descriptions. More than one course may be taken in a given semester. Recent titles have included: Leadership & Democracy; Conservative Regimes.
Course number only
298
Use local description
No

PSCI116 - POL CHG IN 3RD WRLD

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI116 - POL CHG IN 3RD WRLD
Term
2017C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
789
Section ID
PSCI116789
Description
This course will provide an overview of politics and society in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The first five weeks will focus on such questions as: What are the effects of the "colonial legacy" inherited by most countries in the "Third World?" Why have certain countries been able to maintain stable and effective government institutions while others have experienced revolutions, civil wars and rampant corruption? What are some of the obstacles to economic development? The second part of the course will focus on the experiences of several countries, including Brazil, India, Iran, and Nigeria. The last part of the course will attempt to locate politics and society in "Third World"countries within the context of larger global issues such as North-South relations, the recent waves of democratization and privatization, internationalenvironmental concerns, and the role of women in "Third World" development.
Course number only
116
Use local description
No

PSCI298 - INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL STUDIES

Status
O
Activity
SEM
Title (text only)
PSCI298 - INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL STUDIES
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
077
Section ID
PSCI298077
Description
Consult department for detailed descriptions. More than one course may be taken in a given semester. Recent titles have included: Leadership & Democracy; Conservative Regimes.
Course number only
298
Use local description
No

PSCI130 - INTRO TO AMER POLITICS

Status
C
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI130 - INTRO TO AMER POLITICS
Term
2017C
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
210
Section ID
PSCI130210
Meeting times
W 0300PM-0400PM
Meeting location
STITELER HALL B30
Instructors
PARISH, KALIND
Description
This course is intended to introduce students to the national institutions and political processes of American government. What are the historical and philosophical foundations of the American Republic? How does American public policy get made, who makes it, and who benefits? Is a constitutional fabric woven in 1787 good enough for today? How, if at all, should American government be changed, and why? What is politics and why bother to study it? If these sorts of questions interest you, then this course will be a congenial home. It is designed to explore such questions while teaching students the basics of American politics and government.
Course number only
130
Use local description
No