PSCI181 - MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Status
C
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
PSCI181 - MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
601
Section ID
PSCI181601
Meeting times
R 0500PM-0800PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 306
Instructors
KOUTNIK, GREGORY
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

PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
203
Section ID
PSCI180203
Meeting times
R 0300PM-0400PM
Meeting location
MCNEIL BUILDING 169
Instructors
SALGADO, ISAAC
Description
Through reading texts of Plato (Socrates), Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, the student encounters a range of political ideas deeply challenging to--and possibly corrosive of--today's dominant democratic liberalism. Can classical and medieval thinking offer insight into modern impasses in political morality? Is such ancient thinking plausible, useful, or dangerous?
Course number only
180
Use local description
No

PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH

Status
C
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
202
Section ID
PSCI180202
Meeting times
R 0130PM-0230PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 4
Instructors
SALGADO, ISAAC
Description
Through reading texts of Plato (Socrates), Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, the student encounters a range of political ideas deeply challenging to--and possibly corrosive of--today's dominant democratic liberalism. Can classical and medieval thinking offer insight into modern impasses in political morality? Is such ancient thinking plausible, useful, or dangerous?
Course number only
180
Use local description
No

PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
201
Section ID
PSCI180201
Meeting times
F 0200PM-0300PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 304
Instructors
SALGADO, ISAAC
Description
Through reading texts of Plato (Socrates), Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, the student encounters a range of political ideas deeply challenging to--and possibly corrosive of--today's dominant democratic liberalism. Can classical and medieval thinking offer insight into modern impasses in political morality? Is such ancient thinking plausible, useful, or dangerous?
Course number only
180
Use local description
No

PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
PSCI180 - ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGH
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
001
Section ID
PSCI180001
Meeting times
TR 1030AM-1130AM
Meeting location
CLAIRE M. FAGIN HALL (NURSING 118
Instructors
GREEN, JEFFREY
Description
Through reading texts of Plato (Socrates), Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, the student encounters a range of political ideas deeply challenging to--and possibly corrosive of--today's dominant democratic liberalism. Can classical and medieval thinking offer insight into modern impasses in political morality? Is such ancient thinking plausible, useful, or dangerous?
Course number only
180
Use local description
No

PSCI153 - INT'L LAW & INSTITUTIONS

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI153 - INT'L LAW & INSTITUTIONS
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
203
Section ID
PSCI153203
Meeting times
R 0300PM-0400PM
Meeting location
EDUCATION BUILDING 120
Instructors
BELL, NICHOLAS
Description
This lecture course examines the role that international law and institutions play in international relations. The course begins by exploring broad theoretical questions - questions about why states create international law and international institutions; how states design institutions; the impact that institutional design may have on the effectiveness of international institutions; and the conditions under which states are likely to comply with the rules set out by international institutions and the dictates of international law. Specific topics include collective security institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations, and NATO; human rights law; the laws of war; international intervention and peacekeeping; international justice and the International Criminal Court; environmental law; international trade law and the World Trade Organization; economic development and the World Bank; and international finance and the role of the International Monetary Fund.
Course number only
153
Use local description
No

PSCI153 - INT'L LAW & INSTITUTIONS

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI153 - INT'L LAW & INSTITUTIONS
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
202
Section ID
PSCI153202
Meeting times
W 0300PM-0400PM
Meeting location
CASTER BUILDING A14
Instructors
BELL, NICHOLAS
Description
This lecture course examines the role that international law and institutions play in international relations. The course begins by exploring broad theoretical questions - questions about why states create international law and international institutions; how states design institutions; the impact that institutional design may have on the effectiveness of international institutions; and the conditions under which states are likely to comply with the rules set out by international institutions and the dictates of international law. Specific topics include collective security institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations, and NATO; human rights law; the laws of war; international intervention and peacekeeping; international justice and the International Criminal Court; environmental law; international trade law and the World Trade Organization; economic development and the World Bank; and international finance and the role of the International Monetary Fund.
Course number only
153
Use local description
No

PSCI153 - INT'L LAW & INSTITUTIONS

Status
O
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI153 - INT'L LAW & INSTITUTIONS
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
201
Section ID
PSCI153201
Meeting times
W 1100AM-1200PM
Meeting location
WILLIAMS HALL 4
Instructors
BELL, NICHOLAS
Description
This lecture course examines the role that international law and institutions play in international relations. The course begins by exploring broad theoretical questions - questions about why states create international law and international institutions; how states design institutions; the impact that institutional design may have on the effectiveness of international institutions; and the conditions under which states are likely to comply with the rules set out by international institutions and the dictates of international law. Specific topics include collective security institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations, and NATO; human rights law; the laws of war; international intervention and peacekeeping; international justice and the International Criminal Court; environmental law; international trade law and the World Trade Organization; economic development and the World Bank; and international finance and the role of the International Monetary Fund.
Course number only
153
Use local description
No

PSCI153 - INT'L LAW & INSTITUTIONS

Status
O
Activity
LEC
Title (text only)
PSCI153 - INT'L LAW & INSTITUTIONS
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
001
Section ID
PSCI153001
Meeting times
MW 1000AM-1100AM
Meeting location
ANNENBERG SCHOOL 111
Instructors
STANTON, JESSICA
Description
This lecture course examines the role that international law and institutions play in international relations. The course begins by exploring broad theoretical questions - questions about why states create international law and international institutions; how states design institutions; the impact that institutional design may have on the effectiveness of international institutions; and the conditions under which states are likely to comply with the rules set out by international institutions and the dictates of international law. Specific topics include collective security institutions such as the League of Nations, the United Nations, and NATO; human rights law; the laws of war; international intervention and peacekeeping; international justice and the International Criminal Court; environmental law; international trade law and the World Trade Organization; economic development and the World Bank; and international finance and the role of the International Monetary Fund.
Course number only
153
Use local description
No

PSCI152 - INTERNATIONAL POL. ECON.

Status
C
Activity
REC
Title (text only)
PSCI152 - INTERNATIONAL POL. ECON.
Term
2017A
Subject area
PSCI
Section number only
206
Section ID
PSCI152206
Meeting times
R 0400PM-0500PM
Meeting location
COLLEGE HALL 318
Instructors
WINGO, SCOTT
Description
This course examines the politics of international economic relations. The course will analyze the interplay between politics and economics in three broad areas: international trade, international finance, and economic development. In each section, we will first discuss economic theories that explain the causes and consequences of international commerce, capital flows, and economic growth. We will then explore how political interests, institutions, and ideas alter these predictions, examining both historical examples and current policy debates.
Course number only
152
Use local description
No