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  • 3.00 Credits

    Graduate students should register for POL S 6680 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Sources, motivations, and strategies of contemporary Chinese foreign policy. Focuses on post-Mao era. Recommended Prerequisites: POLS 2100 OR POLS 2200.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Graduate students should register for POL S 6690 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Focuses on the evolution of international security from the Cold War to the post-Cold War era. Topics include concepts and approaches in understanding international security; differing interpretations of security including economic, human rights, military, and political dimensions. Prerequisites: POLS 2100.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores the relationship between politics and economics in international relations. Its fundamental objective is to enable the student to understand the ways in which politics and economics interact in the international arena.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course will focus on the historical constructions of race and ethnicity in Latin America and its consequences for understanding contemporary politics and society. We will follow the historical evolution of these ideas and concepts as social constructs, tracing their origins and variations in Mexico, Brazil, the Andes, and the Caribbean, to name a few. We will also examine the social and political forces (domestic and international) that shaped evolving conceptions of ethnicity and race'and ultimately nationality'in the Americas. We will conclude with the modern period, considering how this region of the world once deemed exceptional for its celebration of race mixture and colorblindness transitioned to one that promotes affirmative action policies and contends with growing ethnoracial mobilization in variety of social and political domains.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Graduate students should register for POL S 6750 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Explores the factors and conditions that lead countries to decide whether and how to promote the development of their industries and economies. Emphasis is placed on the similar and different ways political forces influence the structure and process of industrial development in the countries studied.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Graduate students should register for POL S 6800 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Analysis of theories of international relations, such as Realism, Liberalism, Constructivism; using major works and current theoretical research. Recommended introduction to upper-division students. Prerequisites: POLS 2100
  • 3.00 Credits

    Writing-emphasis research course. Completion of major research paper. Topics vary with instructor.
  • 1.00 - 3.00 Credits

    Topic to be specific when course is offered.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Meets with POLS 6965. Graduate students should register for POLS 6965 and will be held to higher standards and/or additional work. Advanced development of particular administrative skills. Topics vary.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An exploration of methods of cutting images in wood and printing them on paper, including black and white multi-block color, rice paper, and mold-made rag papers, press printing, and hand burnishing. Woods include solid pine, birch ply, mahogany ply, and others. Insights into the field of printmaking in general. Emphasis on continuing development of the relief print. Evaluation based on a portfolio of work plus general energy and involvement. Students buy a set of Japanese tools (unless they have adequate tools). Prerequisites: "C-" or better in ((ART 2203 AND ART 2204 AND ART 2205 AND ART 2206) OR (ART 2200 AND ART 2250)) AND Minor status in Printmaking.