SISU-050
SIS Mentorship Program
Restriction: SIS students.
CANCELLED
001
00.00
Shinko,R
W 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
CANCELLED
002
00.00
Shinko,R
W 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
OPEN
003
00.00
Shinko,R
Instructional Method: Online. Permission: SIS Undergraduate
Advising Office.
OPEN
004
00.00
Shinko,R
W 02:30PM 03:45PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
005
00.00
Shinko,R
W 04:05PM 05:20PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-105 FA3
World Politics
CLOSED
001
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 08:10AM 09:25AM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
002
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 08:10AM 09:25AM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
003
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 08:10AM 09:25AM KRWN 204 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
004
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 08:10AM 09:25AM KRWN 204 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
005
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 08:10AM 09:25AM HRST 209 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
006
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 08:10AM 09:25AM HRST 209 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
007
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 08:10AM 09:25AM KRWN 103 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
008
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 08:10AM 09:25AM KRWN 103 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
009
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 08:10AM 09:25AM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
010
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 08:10AM 09:25AM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
011
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 08:10AM 09:25AM KRWN 107 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
012
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 08:10AM 09:25AM KRWN 107 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
013
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 08:10AM 09:25AM HRST 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
014
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 08:10AM 09:25AM HRST 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
015
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
M 02:30PM 03:45PM HRST 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
016
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
M 04:05PM 05:20PM HRST 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
017
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 02:30PM 03:45PM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
018
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
T 04:05PM 05:20PM KRWN 203 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
019
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
W 08:10AM 09:25AM SIS 120 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
020
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
W 09:45AM 11:00AM SIS 120 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
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021
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
TH 02:30PM 03:45PM HRST 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
022
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
TH 04:05PM 05:20PM HRST 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
023
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 02:30PM 03:45PM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
CLOSED
024
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
F 04:05PM 05:20PM KRWN 203 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: SIS students.
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025
03.00
Tuomi,K
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM EQB 103 08/28/17 12/16/17
Open only to SIS transfer students.
CANCELLED
026
03.00
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Open only to SIS transfer students.
CANCELLED
027
03.00
MTH 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Restriction: Global Scholars.
CANCELLED
028
03.00
MTH 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
CANCELLED
029
03.00
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
OPEN
031
03.00
Schroeder,M
M 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 1 08/28/17 12/16/17
TH 04:05PM 05:20PM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Global Scholars.
SISU-106
First Year Seminar
Restriction: first-year SIS students.
CANCELLED
001
War in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies
03.00
Erol,A
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
War in Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies (3)
What can we learn from Neo's struggle against the Architect, as
well as against the Merovingian, about how we see the enemy?
Could such imaginations be connected to Luke and Rey's struggle
against the Dark Side and is the wrath of Khan a metaphor for a
search to find a recognizable narrative for an unknown we might
be refusing to understand? This course explores these questions
and more to tackle the issue of representations of war in
science fiction and fantasy movies and what those
representations tell us about how we view others and ourselves.
Students examine common themes in these representations of war,
the narratives used in their constructions, and how those
narratives shape our perceptions. They engage in this scrutiny
of science fiction movies while reading classical as well as
critical scholarship on war.
WAIT-1
002
Reflections: U.S. in Mirror
03.00
Cohn,E
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM MGC 303A 08/28/17 12/16/17
Reflections: United States in the Mirror (3)
This course examines the values and interests of the United
States and how they are, or are not, reflected in U.S. foreign
policy. Analyzing historical as well as current trends, the
course explores how American ideology and interests have been
represented in U.S. policies such as war, humanitarian
intervention, democracy promotion, and immigration. The class
looks at what Americans think it means to be an American, and
how that compares with the perspectives of others. On
immigration, the course explores questions such as why people
migrate to the United States; how different constituencies in
the United States view migrants; what factors determine current
U.S. immigration policy; and how immigrants' conceptions of the
United States, as well as their national and cultural
identities, change while living in the United States.
OPEN
003
Global Cities
03.00
Kiechel,V
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK 304 08/28/17 12/16/17
Global Cities (3)
This seminar explores the nature, as dynamic spaces, of fourteen
global cities. The class examines their social, political, and
economic processes through considerations of urban form and
culture and the disruptions of climate change, migration, and
social transformation. The seminar prepares students to make an
informed choice by focusing on potential study abroad sites
including Beijing, Chengdu, Mumbai, Tokyo, Seoul, Nairobi, Cape
Town, Cairo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City,
Copenhagen, and London, as well as Washington, DC.
WAIT-2
004
Diplomacy in Practice
03.00
Banks,D
W 08:10AM 11:00AM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
Diplomacy in Practice (3)
This course discusses questions such as how states mediate their
relationships with one another and with other actors, and how
this has changed over time; and what current trends tell us
about the future. The course combines theoretical and historical
readings to allow students to better understand the origins,
evolution, and purpose of diplomatic practice over time. Topics
covered include the evolving role of ambassadors, the
bureaucratization and professionalization of diplomacy,
summitry, multilateral and bilateral diplomacy, the expansion of
diplomacy to new domains and actors, and the processes of
diplomacy such as negotiation, mediation, rhetoric, persuasion,
and symbolic politics.
CANCELLED
005
Youth and Power
03.00
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Youth and Power (3)
This course explores the place of youth in social and political
activism so that students have a deeper understanding of the
role, challenges, and successes of young people as political
actors. The course first examines the ways youth are often
criminalized and marginalized today, and what implications this
has for their political identities. The course then considers
the particular ways that youth have participated in political
struggles and whether in fact, they are active agents of social
change. Also woven into the course is an ongoing consideration
of broader theoretical and ethical issues concerning the
formations and practices of resistance. Through students'
engagements with course material, they are expected to
critically think, discuss, and write on the intellectual issues
raised in the course.
CLOSED
006
Democ, Demagogues, & Dialectic
03.00
Field,L
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM HRST 208 08/28/17 12/16/17
Democracy, Demagogues, and Dialectic: Reading the World through
an Ancient Lens (3)
In this course students engage with several foundational ancient
texts, including two tragic plays by Aeschylus and Thucydides'
gripping account of the Peloponnesian War. Ancient thought is
especially attentive to human psychology; these authors
illuminate the diversity of human passions as they are manifest
in political life, which is an essential first step to
understanding both the sweep of history and contemporary events.
Aeschylus shows, for example, how anger and resentment can
thwart the greatest efforts to establish justice, and Thucydides
illustrates how the noblest hopes can become threatened by fear
and ignorance, as well as (occasionally) saved by human
endeavor. By bearing witness to the sheer complexity of human
relations, these ancient works allow us to exercise and test our
political acumen. As such, the class approaches them not just as
crucial documents for understanding a distant age, but as works
that still speak directly to contemporary concerns.
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From Bean to Brew
03.00
Bates,S
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM WATK 114 08/28/17 12/16/17
From Bean to Brew: The International Myths, Methods and Power of
Coffee (3)
This course is an exploration of one of the most popular
beverages in the world--coffee. A tool of diplomats, workers,
and students, coffee has been a staple underlying international
discourse from halls of the Ottoman Empire to the coffee houses
that became the first stock exchanges in Amsterdam, to the
wood-paneled refuge of Starbucks. The course examines the
life-cycle of coffee from the bean that is picked to the brewed
cup, looking at the human rights, international law, trade,
social, and economic impacts of one of the most ubiquitous
commodities in the world.
OPEN
008
Guerrillas, Insurgnts, Paramil
03.00
Gallaher,C
M 11:20AM 02:10PM HRST 208 08/28/17 12/16/17
Guerrillas, Insurgents, and Paramilitaries (3)
This course focuses on non-state combatant groups. Students
examine how these groups are formed, what their goals are, how
they are organized, and how they intersect with civilian
populations.
CLOSED
009
Gross National Happiness
03.00
Kelley,J
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM MGC 324 08/28/17 12/16/17
Gross National Happiness (3)
What makes a nation happy? This seminar explores the defining,
the determining, and the significance of happiness in world
politics. From surveys to social engineering, students enter an
active space for discussing the means and ends of national
fulfillment.
CANCELLED
010
Apple in the Global Economy
03.00
Knight,S
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Apple in the Global Economy (3)
This course embraces a multidisciplinary approach to
understanding the causes and consequences of the meteoric rise
of Apple, Inc. in the global political economy. Major debates
explored include the sources of technological innovation, the
ethics and politics of global production decisions, and changes
in social awareness and political activism in the information
age.
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Weak and Fragile States
03.00
Belding,W
W 08:10AM 11:00AM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
Weak and Fragile States (3)
This first year seminar focuses on nations that cannot
adequately govern themselves or secure their own territory. As
havens for terrorism and incubators for regional conflicts,
these countries are studied from the perspective of U.S. foreign
policy and as opportunities for international development.
CLOSED
012
Game Changers
03.00
Taylor,M
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM SIS 349 08/28/17 12/16/17
Game Changers (3)
This course introduces students to "game-changing" theoretical
ideas drawn from sociology, political science, and international
relations. Each week, students encounter a new idea as well as
several ways in which it applies to different topics in
international affairs and to social phenomena more broadly. The
theories featured in this course span the breadth of what social
science has to offer. Students encounter ideas derived from game
theory and computational modeling, as well as traditional
sociology, symbolic interactionism, and constructivism.
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013
Why Do They Love and Hate Us?
03.00
Shelton-Colby,S
M 02:30PM 05:20PM KSB T61 08/28/17 12/16/17
Why Do They Love and Hate Us? (3)
This course examines a number of global issues from a
non-Western perspective, including societal values (free speech
vs. religious rights, gender equality vs. gender inequality,
etc.); environmental degradation; human rights; food
security/insecurity; civil liberties vs. internal security; use
of force (what concepts of justice govern the use of force and
how they vary across cultures); development (is it imperialist
of the West to assert that much of the world is not developed?);
and human security.
CLOSED
014
When Worldviews Clash
03.00
Wigfall-Williams,W
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
When Worldviews Clash: Navigating Constructively Across Identity
Fault Lines (3)
This first year seminar explores the complex and dynamic
configuration of identity with respect to the social
constructions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual expression and
class within a historical, theoretical, and practice oriented
framework. No one descriptor captures the essence of one's
identity. A person's worldview can block understanding of
alternatives, and even blind a person from understanding the
basis of their own perspectives. This restrictive scope creates
opportunities for misunderstandings and stereotypes, which
invariably lead to conflict. Throughout the semester, students
draw from readings, experiential activities, analyses of
relevant articles, examine case studies, engage in constructive
dialogue, and other activities as appropriate. Identity issues
are complex, and as such, this first year seminar provides
students with the necessary skills and information to navigate
effectively across different worldviews and belief states.
CANCELLED
015
China: Politics/Foreign Policy
03.00
Zhao,Q
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
China: Politics and Foreign Policy (3)
This course focuses on contemporary China, examining its
society, politics, and foreign policy. The course first
familiarizes students with an overview of China's development
from historical and theoretical perspectives. It then examines
Chinese society and politics, including state-society relations,
and economic and political reforms. In studying Chinese foreign
policy a variety of issues and policy analyses, such as the
domestic foundations of foreign policy, and relations between
China and major powers and its Asian neighbors, are covered. As
a theoretically-informed empirical study, the course is a
combination of lectures, student presentations, and guest
speeches from leading scholars and practitioners. A variety of
perspectives as analytical tools for research are introduced and
significant controversies are analyzed as a way of participating
in the field's theoretical and policy debates.
CANCELLED
016
What Is Security?
03.00
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
What Is Security? (3)
This course explores the different meanings of being "secure."
While traditional approaches to security center on national
security, newer critical approaches have broadened the concept
in terms of its levels (international, national, or individual),
dimensions (political, economic, social, or environmental) and
process (politicization or securitization). This course examines
different approaches to security, as well as how thinking about
security critically sheds new light on issues such as war,
development, migration, identity, gender, and the environment.
CLOSED
017
Global & Local HIV Epidemic
03.00
Yamanis,T
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM HRST 208 08/28/17 12/16/17
The Global and Local HIV Epidemic (3)
This course considers the public health and policy issues
surrounding HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), the infectious
disease responsible for the most deaths in modern history.
Students consider the social and structural dimensions of the
HIV epidemic, with a specific focus on populations living in
sub-Saharan Africa and the United States. The course discusses
current debates related to HIV prevention policies and the
funding of HIV treatment. Students have the opportunity to visit
and observe organizations working on the HIV epidemic in
Washington, DC.
CANCELLED
018
Environment & the Imagination
03.00
Shapiro,J
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Environment and the Imagination (3)
This course uses fiction, film, and literary non-fiction to
explore the landscape of our environmental challenges. The
course contains units on the past, future, South, and North and
considers time and space. The course provides students with core
concepts and approaches to understand the critical field.
CANCELLED
019
Culture and Power in Int'l Ed
03.00
Taylor,A
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Culture and Power in International Education (3)
Around the globe, education is becoming recognized as a
fundamental human right key to the development of individuals,
communities, and nations. Indeed, education can help empower,
open opportunities, combat poverty, support innovation, and spur
economic growth. But at the same time, the educational process
can, and does, also serve to disempower people, further
marginalize communities, and more deeply entrench existing
social inequalities. This course looks at how and why this
happens and what can be done about it. Using multimedia case
studies from international educational development initiatives,
the course critically examines these twin powers of education
and considers their impacts on global educational initiatives.
CANCELLED
020
China; Politics/Foreign Policy
03.00
Zhao,Q
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
China: Politics and Foreign Policy (3)
This course focuses on contemporary China, examining its
society, politics, and foreign policy. The course first
familiarizes students with an overview of China's development
from historical and theoretical perspectives. It then examines
Chinese society and politics, including state-society relations,
and economic and political reforms. In studying Chinese foreign
policy a variety of issues and policy analyses, such as the
domestic foundations of foreign policy, and relations between
China and major powers and its Asian neighbors, are covered. As
a theoretically-informed empirical study, the course is a
combination of lectures, student presentations, and guest
speeches from leading scholars and practitioners. A variety of
perspectives as analytical tools for research are introduced and
significant controversies are analyzed as a way of participating
in the field's theoretical and policy debates.
OPEN
021
Beyond Urban Vs Rural
03.00
Graddy-Lovelace,T
M 08:10AM 11:00AM HRST 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
Beyond Urban vs Rural (3)
The urban and rural are often viewed as distinct spheres, but
constructing them as opposites depends upon generalizations and
can further divide communities that share struggles. This class
analyzes historical and contemporary parallels and connections
linking urban and rural places and people. Drawing on
literature, data, policy, history, social theory, geography,
art, media, and personal experience, students in this course
explore how the rural and the urban have been constructed and
how the recent election sharpened this divide via stereotypes.
SISU-130 FA3
Intercultural Understanding
OPEN
001
03.00
Gur Mescioglu,G
W 08:10AM 11:00AM EQB 15 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Washington Mentorship Program.
OPEN
002
03.00
Oetgen,J
W 11:20AM 02:10PM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Washington Mentorship Program.
OPEN
003
03.00
Erenrich,S
W 11:20AM 02:10PM WATK G02 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Washington Mentorship Program.
OPEN
004
03.00
Dibinga,O
W 11:20AM 02:10PM LEO 121 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Washington Mentorship Program.
OPEN
005
03.00
Oetgen,J
W 08:10AM 11:00AM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Washington Mentorship Program.
OPEN
006
03.00
Cromwell,A
W 08:10AM 11:00AM WATK G02 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Washington Mentorship Program.
OPEN
007
03.00
Gur Mescioglu,G
W 02:30PM 05:20PM EQB 15 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Washington Mentorship Program.
OPEN
008
03.00
Dibinga,O
W 02:30PM 05:20PM EQB 103 08/28/17 12/16/17
Open only to Delaware in D.C. students.
OPEN
009
03.00
Cromwell,A
W 02:30PM 05:20PM EQB 17 08/28/17 12/16/17
Open only to Delaware in D.C. students.
OPEN
010
03.00
Rancatore,J
Location: Thessaloniki, Greece. Restriction: Washington
Mentorship Program in Greece.
OPEN
011
03.00
Rhodes,C
Location: Bath, England. Restriction: Washington Mentorship
Program in England.
CANCELLED
012
03.00
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Open to Delaware in DC students.
OPEN
013
03.00
Gonzalez Warrick,A
M 02:30PM 05:20PM SVB 147 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: International Accelerator Program.
OPEN
014
03.00
Erenrich,S
W 05:30PM 08:00PM SVB 543 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Academic Accelerator Program.
OPEN
015
03.00
Gonzalez Warrick,A
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM SVB 147 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Academic Accelerator Program.
OPEN
018
03.00
Erenrich,S
TH 05:30PM 08:00PM SVB 201 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: International Accelerator Program.
SISU-140 FA3
Cross-Cultural Communication
WAIT-1
001
03.00
Kelley,J
W 02:30PM 05:20PM MGC 323 08/28/17 12/16/17
Open only to SIS transfer students.
OPEN
002
03.00
Moland,N
M 11:20AM 02:10PM WATK 114 08/28/17 12/16/17
This section is not intended for SIS majors.
CLOSED
003
03.00
Wigfall-Williams,W
W 02:30PM 05:20PM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
This section is not intended for SIS major.
OPEN
004
03.00
Bates,S
W 08:10AM 11:00AM SIS 102 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: AU Scholars.
CLOSED
005
03.00
Dibinga,O
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM KSB T62 08/28/17 12/16/17
This section is not intended for SIS majors.
CLOSED
006
03.00
Moland,N
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM MGC 324 08/28/17 12/16/17
This section is not intended for SIS majors.
WAIT-1
008
03.00
Morosini-Dominick,M
W 02:30PM 05:20PM SIS 102 08/28/17 12/16/17
This section is not intended for SIS majors.
OPEN
009
03.00
Gargano,T
W 08:10AM 11:00AM SIS 233 08/28/17 12/16/17
Restriction: Community-Based Research Scholars (CBRS) Program.
As a part of this course, students will engage with a nonprofit
agency or school in the D.C. area to apply their knowledge.
OPEN
010
03.00
Kelley,J
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
This section is not intended for SIS majors.
OPEN
011
03.00
Groen,G
M 11:20AM 02:10PM MGC 324 08/28/17 12/16/17
This section is not intended for SIS majors.
CANCELLED
017
03.00
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Open only to SIS transfer students.
SISU-206
Intro to Int'l Studies Rsrch
Prerequisite: SISU-105. Restriction:
International Studies major.
CLOSED
001
03.00
Boesenecker,A
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM KSB T62 08/28/17 12/16/17
Open only to Olson Scholars.
WAIT-1
002
03.00
Spath,A
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM HRST 209 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
003
03.00
Fontes,A
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM SIS 120 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
004
03.00
Hardig,C
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
005
03.00
Boesenecker,A
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
006
03.00
Bohrt,M
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
007
03.00
Knight,S
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM WATK 106 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
008
03.00
Adcock,R
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
009
03.00
Adcock,R
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
WAIT-1
010
03.00
Adcock,R
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
011
03.00
Martin,G
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
CANCELLED
012
03.00
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
WAIT-1
013
03.00
Moriarty II,J
MTH 02:30PM 03:45PM SIS 102 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
014
03.00
Martin,G
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM WATK 110 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
015
03.00
Lambright,G
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM WATK 114 08/28/17 12/16/17
WAIT-1
016
03.00
Lambright,G
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM WATK 114 08/28/17 12/16/17
WAIT-1
017
03.00
Mislan,D
MTH 04:05PM 05:20PM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
WAIT-1
018
03.00
Hardig,C
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
CANCELLED
019
03.00
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
CLOSED
020
03.00
King,J
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
021
03.00
Spath,A
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM EQB 17 08/28/17 12/16/17
CANCELLED
022
03.00
Martin,G
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
CANCELLED
030
03.00
T 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
SISU-210
Peace, Global Sec & Conflt Res
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
CLOSED
001
03.00
Eralp,D
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
WAIT-1
002
03.00
Wien,B
MTH 02:30PM 03:45PM EQB 103 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
003
03.00
Metelits,C
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM SVB 603 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
004
03.00
Banks,D
MTH 04:05PM 05:20PM SIS 233 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
005
03.00
Wien,B
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM SIS 120 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-212 FA3
China, Japan & the U.S.
CLOSED
001
03.00
Heng-Blackburn,P
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM SIS 233 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
002
03.00
Zhao,Q
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM SIS 102 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-213
Contemporary Europe
WAIT-1
001
03.00
Martin,G
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM SIS 233 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-214
Contemporary Latin America
OPEN
001
03.00
Giraudy,M
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM SIS 102 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-220
Int'l Political Economy
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
001
03.00
Henning,R
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
WAIT-1
002
03.00
Tuomi,K
MTH 02:30PM 03:45PM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-230
Analysis of US Foreign Policy
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
001
03.00
Murray,S
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM SIS 102 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
002
03.00
Shelton-Colby,S
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM SIS 120 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
003
03.00
Cohn,E
MTH 04:05PM 05:20PM SIS 120 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
004
03.00
Ziv,G
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM EQB 103 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
005
03.00
Mislan,D
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM SIS 120 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-240
International Development
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
001
03.00
Shepler,S
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
WAIT-2
002
03.00
Freeman,S
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM EQB 103 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
003
03.00
Dixon,M
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM SIS 233 08/28/17 12/16/17
CANCELLED
004
03.00
Persaud,R
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
OPEN
005
03.00
Persaud,R
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-250
Env Sustainblty/Global Health
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
001
03.00
Kiechel,V
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM SIS 355 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
002
03.00
Ranganathan,M
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM SIS 233 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
003
03.00
Ranganathan,M
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM SIS 233 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-260
Identity, Race, Gender & Cultr
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
CANCELLED
001
03.00
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
CLOSED
002
03.00
Wigfall-Williams,W
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM SIS 102 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
004
03.00
Morosini-Dominick,M
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
005
03.00
Singh,M
TH 05:30PM 08:00PM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-270
Introduction to Human Rights
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
WAIT-1
001
03.00
Mokhtari,S
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
CLOSED
002
03.00
Mokhtari,S
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-280
Comparative/Global Governance
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
004
03.00
Darden,K
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM EQB 103 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
005
03.00
Bates,S
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
OPEN
006
03.00
Gutner,T
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-294
Comm Service Learning Project
Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement &
Service.
OPEN
001
International Development
01.00
Dixon,M
SISU-300
Intro to Int'l Economics
Prerequisite: ECON-100 and ECON-200.
CANCELLED
001
03.00
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
CANCELLED
002
03.00
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
WAIT-9
003
03.00
Bernhofen,D
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM KRGR G01 08/28/17 12/16/17
WAIT-1
004
03.00
Tokarick,S
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 2 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-306
Adv Int'l Studies Research
Prerequisite: SISU-206.
CLOSED
001
Qualitative Analysis
03.00
Hardig,C
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM DMTI 121 08/28/17 12/16/17
Qualitative Analysis (3)
This course guides students in the application of a broad range
of qualitative research methodologies and methods. Specifically,
the course emphasizes three significant styles of research in
the social sciences: neopositivist small-n comparative case
study; interpretive ethnography; and post-structural discourse
analysis. Throughout the semester students are led through the
research process to the completion of an independent original
research project. There is special emphasis on the fields of
international relations and comparative politics.
OPEN
002
Quant Analysis: Lrg Sampl Data
03.00
King,J
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM KRWN ST01 08/28/17 12/16/17
The Quantitative Analysis of Large Sample Data (3)
In this applied course students focus on developing statistical
models to explain and predict real world socio-political
phenomena. In so doing, students acquire the skills needed to
solve common analytical problems. These include the acquisition,
management, manipulation, estimation and interpretation of large
sample data, using both descriptive and inferential statistics.
Students also learn common techniques for displaying and
communicating their findings for professional and lay audiences.
Students conduct original research and produce a complete
research paper. While this course requires the use of STATA (a
statistical software program), no prior expertise with
statistical theory or software is necessary.
OPEN
003
Gender and World Politics
03.00
Singh,M
W 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK T10 08/30/17 09/13/17
W 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK T10 09/27/17 09/27/17
W 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK T10 10/11/17 10/11/17
W 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK T10 10/25/17 10/25/17
W 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK T10 11/08/17 11/08/17
W 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK T10 11/29/17 11/29/17
W 08:10AM 11:00AM MCK T10 12/06/17 12/06/17
Gender and World Politics: Feminist Methods in International
Studies (3)
Since 2000, there has been a burst of international relations
(IR) scholarship challenging traditional
'gender-blind'methodologies which rely primarily on quantifiable
data to understand diplomacy, terrorism, civil war,
international trade, migration, human rights and other aspects
of world politics. Feminist methods argue for an
interdisciplinary gender-sensitive approach to analyze issues in
IR and security studies. Fieldwork research, case studies and
ethnographic research can be enriched through gender-sensitive
methods. This course demonstrates how gender analyses and IR can
complement each other. Students learn how a gendered lens can
assist in developing new data and more nuanced understandings of
security, conflict, peace-building and social justice.
SISU-310
Topics Peace/Glb Sec/Con Res
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-210.
CLOSED
001
Dynamics of Intl (In)Security
03.00
Atzili,B
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM KRWN 203 08/28/17 12/16/17
Dynamics of International (In)Security (3)
This course examines questions such as, do states fight more
today than in the past; do they fight in different places and in
different ways; have the dynamics, the institutions, and the
actors that influenced conflict and war in the past changed in
recent years, or are they similar in today's international
arena. This course looks at some of the main factors that have
played a role in producing or preventing conflict in the past,
and examines the degree to which they have evolved in today's
world. The course looks at, among other issues, alliances,
territorial conflicts, civil-military relations, military
doctrines, deterrence, and terrorism, through the lenses of past
and present cases of war and conflict.
CLOSED
002
Migration and Security
03.00
Rudolph,C
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM DMTI 109 08/28/17 12/16/17
Migration and Security (3)
How do security interests affect how states deal with
international migration? Migration significantly affects various
dimensions of security, including defense, homeland security,
economic security, and societal security. This course examines
how the security environment affects immigration, refugee, and
border policies. Special emphasis is placed on explaining policy
development in major advanced industrial immigrant-receiving
countries, including the United States, Germany, France, and
Great Britain. Students also have the opportunity to develop an
independent research project dealing with policy development in
a case not covered in the course readings.
CLOSED
003
Gender and Conflict
03.00
Sajjad,T
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM WATK G06 08/28/17 12/16/17
Gender and Conflict (3)
Gender continues to be a powerful means through which we see the
world and how we see each other. In the context of conflict,
social conceptions of gender have been used to justify political
and social violence, delineate codes of responsibility for
violence and abuse, define roles in the context of war and its
aftermath, and legitimize social, economic, and political
hierarchies at the micro, meso and macro levels. This course
looks critically at questions of power, performance, and
privilege and their subsequent implications at each stage of
conflict, organized around three models: the militarization of
society; the conduct and nature of warfare; and the aftermath of
war including peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peace building.
CANCELLED
004
Culture and Int'l Security
03.00
Venturelli,S
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Culture and International Security (3)
This course addresses the challenge of international instability
as seen in the cases of Afghanistan and Iraq through the lens of
the sociocultural environment of conflict. It examines the
struggle for the hearts and minds of the population, the
cultural evolution of insurgent networks, the capabilities of
security organizations including police and military
organizations in fighting the insurgency, civilian governance
and leadership in conflict zones, the role of international
intervention and international organizations, the information,
communication and media environment, the battle of narratives
and narrative strategies, the challenge of strengthening host
national security and governance capabilities through training
and advising, and lessons for future conflicts from Iraq and
Afghanistan.
CANCELLED
005
Political Econ of African Dev
03.00
Nuamah,K
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Political Economy of African Development (3)
This course examines the political context of Africa's search
for sustainable economic development. It explores (through a
review of major theories and relevant case studies), the
evolution of African economies from colonialism to the
challenges of the modern state, and probes the structural and
institutional factors that have shaped the continent's
developmental triumphs and failures
OPEN
006
Intervention in Civil War
03.00
Campbell,S
MTH 08:10AM 09:25AM KRWN 204 08/28/17 12/16/17
Intervention in Civil War (3)
The past twenty-five years has seen a rapid expansion in the
number and type of international actors intervening to stop,
prevent, or mitigate the effects of civil war. These
international actors engage in peacekeeping, peacemaking,
conflict prevention, peacebuilding, development, and
humanitarian intervention, often within the same country and at
the same time. This course takes an actor-centric perspective,
unpacking the political, legal, and organizational causes of the
behavior and effectiveness of international organizations,
non-governmental organizations, states, and private contractors
during civil war.
CANCELLED
007
Peace & Int'l Organizations
03.00
Call,C
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Peace and International Organizations (3)
The UN and other international organizations like the European
Union, the African Union and the World Bank have become much
more involved in preventing and ending armed conflicts since
1991. This course critically examines the role of international
organizations, especially the UN, in peace negotiations,
peacekeeping and post-conflict peacebuilding. Students analyze
successful and failed cases of peace efforts.
SISU-318
Topics Global Sec/Foreign Pol
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-210 or SISU-230.
WAIT-1
001
Causes of War
03.00
Jensen,B
T 05:30PM 08:00PM SIS 333 08/28/17 12/16/17
Causes of War (3)
Through this course students become familiar with some of the
major theoretical issues in the study of global security as well
as key actors and institutions. In addition to addressing
central issues such as war and conflict, weapons of mass
destruction, and terrorism, the course helps students apply
theories and existing bodies of knowledge to better understand
contemporary and emerging global security issues.
CANCELLED
002
Causes of War
03.00
MTH 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Causes of War (3)
Through this course students become familiar with some of the
major theoretical issues in the study of global security as well
as key actors and institutions. In addition to addressing
central issues such as war and conflict, weapons of mass
destruction, and terrorism, the course helps students apply
theories and existing bodies of knowledge to better understand
contemporary and emerging global security issues.
CLOSED
003
Politcs of Nuclear Weapons
03.00
Weiner,S
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM HRST 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
The Politics of Nuclear Weapons (3)
The United States is currently poised to invest an estimated $1
trillion in modernizing its nuclear arsenal. Terrorist access to
nuclear weapons and materials remains a top national security
concern. Russia, meanwhile, is modernizing its arsenal and seems
increasingly willing to use nuclear threats in support of an
aggressive foreign policy agenda. This course helps students
understand the role of nuclear weapons in U.S. decisions about
national security including the politics of nuclear weapons
decision-making in the United States, the role of nuclear
weapons more broadly in U.S. strategy, and explanations for why
other countries pursue, develop, or forego nuclear weapons.
WAIT-3
005
Human Face of Battle
03.00
Bensahel,N; Barno,D
M 05:30PM 08:00PM EQB 200 08/28/17 12/16/17
The Human Face of Battle (3)
This course examines the experience of war from the viewpoint of
the frontline soldier, sailor, airman, or Marine. The course
seeks to understand what makes young men and women both fight
and protect their comrades in the face of grave risks to
personal survival, and looks at how policy decisions made safely
in national capitals translate into deadly combat tasks for
young men and women in combat under fire. The course uses works
of fiction and nonfiction in literature and film to reflect on
the enduring nature of war throughout modern history.
Understanding what our societies ask of soldiers in battle is
essential for future policymakers to make responsible decisions
on how and when to use military force.
SISU-320
Topics in Global Economy
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-220. May be taken A-F only.
OPEN
002
International Money & Finance
03.00
Tuomi,K
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM HRST 209 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Money and Finance (3)
Over the last few decades, financial markets have become
increasingly integrated. This has the potential to magnify the
effect of economic shocks. National monetary and financial
policies therefore have important international implications, as
does the structure of the international system. This course
addresses contemporary and historical issues in international
financial relations. Emphasizing key political and economic
concepts, it examines international financial crises, the
evolution of the international monetary system, and the merits
of alternative exchange rate policies. It also analyses some of
the new developments challenging the old order, including
cryptocurrencies, high frequency trading, the carry trade,
vulture funds, and much more.
SISU-329
Global Economic Governance
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-220 or SISU-280.
CANCELLED
001
03.00
TH 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
SISU-330
Topics in Natl Sec/Foreign Pol
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-230.
OPEN
002
Al-Qaeda,ISIS & War on Terror
03.00
Schneider,D
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM HRST 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the War on Terror (3)
On September 11, 2001, American suddenly became aware of a
terrorist organization known as al-Qaeda. More recently, news
of terrorist attacks and other atrocities taking place in the
Middle East and Europe has made Americans, and people throughout
the world, aware of the organization known as ISIS (or ISIL), an
Islamist terrorist group that some experts believe presents a
greater danger to the United States than does al-Qaeda. This
course addresses the histories, ideologies, leadership, goals,
and tactics of these two groups. It also looks at the efforts
made by Western and Middle Eastern government to develop a
strategy to defeat them, the policy disputes that have arisen in
trying to develop a strategy, and the effectiveness of these
strategies. The course also places the formation and objectives
of al-Qaeda and ISIS in a broader context by exploring the
recent history and demographic, political, and social changes in
the Middle East.
OPEN
003
U.S.-Israel Relations
03.00
Ziv,G
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 201 08/28/17 12/16/17
U.S.-Israel Relations (3)
This course explores the evolution of U.S. relations with
Israel, from the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948 to
the present day. Along the way, it examines key milestones in
U.S.-Israel relations, beginning with President Truman's
controversial decision to buck the U.S. foreign policy
establishment and formally recognize the state of Israel; the
wartime American airlift in 1973; the U.S. role in Arab-Israeli
peacemaking, from Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's shuttle
diplomacy to the two Camp David summits and beyond; and the U.S.
role in providing military, economic, and diplomatic aid to the
Jewish state. The course analyzes how a combination of
sentimental, political, and strategic factors have led to the
formation of a wholly unique bilateral relationship
characterized at once by both tight bonds and inherent tensions.
WAIT-1
004
U.S. Nat'l Security Strategy
03.00
Rovner,J
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM SIS 233 08/28/17 12/16/17
U.S. National Security Strategy (3)
This course focuses on how the United States formulates national
security strategy; what challenges presidents face in the
development and implementation of national security strategy;
what grand strategies America has pursued and whether any of
them are applicable to today's world; and how the United States
should deal with various contemporary security challenges.
OPEN
005
U.S. Allies in War on Terror
03.00
Tankel,S
MTH 08:10AM 09:25AM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
U.S. Allies in the War on Terror (3)
Effective counterterrorism is impossible with the cooperation of
partner nations. Yet most partners both help and hinder U.S.
efforts. This course explores what the United States can expect
from its partners and how U.S. policymakers can optimize
counterterrorism cooperation other countries provide.
OPEN
006
The End of the Cold War
03.00
Snyder,S
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM HRST 211 08/28/17 12/16/17
The End of the Cold War (3)
For almost fifty years, the world was largely defined by the
Cold War's ideological and geographic terms. To the surprise of
almost all observers, it ended without widespread destruction or
loss of life. This course explores the end of the Cold War
chronologically and thematically. The course begins by examining
efforts at detente in the 1970s and ends with the fall of
communism in Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, and
the breakup of the Soviet Union. The assigned readings and class
discussion helps students assess the causes and effects of the
end of the Cold War as understood by participants at the time
and current observers such as political scientists and
historians. Students study the power of personality, examining
the roles of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev. Students also examine key developments such
as ongoing arms control negotiations and the rise of the Polish
trade union movement. In addition, students evaluate how
culture, the economy, politics, human rights activism, Western
ideas, and nationalism each contributed to the end of the Cold
War. The course promotes critical analytical thinking about Cold
War history and encourages students to think in an international
context to develop their own interpretation of the evolution and
significance of the end of the Cold War. In addition, the
assignments are structured to strengthen students' oral and
written communication skills, including those of persuasion,
argumentation, and presentation. Meets with HIST-396 002.
(Meets with HIST 396 002)
SISU-340
Topics in Global Inequalty/Dev
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-240.
OPEN
003
Geography of Uneven Devel
03.00
Collins,E
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
Geography of Uneven Development (3)
This course explores key spatial dualisms that structure our
world and the way we think about it. The class unpacks concepts
such as local/global, rural/urban, and first world/third world,
highlighting the interconnected histories and processes that
have produced geographies of uneven development.
OPEN
004
Migration and Development
03.00
Sajjad,T
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM WATK 110 08/28/17 12/16/17
Migration and Development (3)
This course provides students with informed views on migration
issues. It introduces several important topics that should be in
the minds of (current and future) policymakers when approaching
and designing migration-related policies. While taking a mostly
economic approach to the issues of migration and economic
development, the course offers a variety of viewpoints from
different social sciences, and from different perspectives.
SISU-348
Gender and Development
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-240 or SISU-260.
CANCELLED
002
03.00
Samarasinghe,V
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
OPEN
003
03.00
Samarasinghe,V
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM HRST 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-349
Topics Glb Ineq,Dev,Env,Hlth
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-240 or SISU-250.
WAIT-1
001
Politics of Conservation
03.00
Freeman,S
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM EQB 205 08/28/17 12/16/17
Politics of Conservation (3)
This course considers the environmental and human impacts of
environmental conservation interventions. From parks and
protected areas to carbon financing, the course considers what
conservation attempts to do and examines its intended and
unintended consequences, particularly as they pertain to
marginalized groups.
OPEN
002
Global Hunger
03.00
Carruth,L
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM WATK 106 08/28/17 12/16/17
Global Hunger (3)
This course challenges students to think critically and
practically about the problem of hunger in our world. The course
first provides overviews of malnutrition and food insecurity as
epidemiological, economic, human rights, and medical problems,
as well as interventions in response. It then examines the
cultural meanings of food, as well as the quadruple burden of
malnutrition, the important connections between acute
malnutrition, chronic malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies,
and chronic diseases related to obesity and overweight. The
lived experiences of hunger and intervention are examined in
several different settings: among migrant farmworkers in the
United States, among communities with rising rates of obesity in
post-war Guatemala, and among displaced persons in the Horn of
Africa. As a part of this course, students will engage with a
nonprofit agency or school in the D.C. area to apply their
course knowledge.
CLOSED
003
Health in the Developing World
03.00
Yamanis,T
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM HRST 208 08/28/17 12/16/17
Health in the Developing World (3)
This course provides students with an understanding of the
relationships between health and development from a variety of
perspectives. Students gain knowledge of the links between
health, socio-economic growth, and equity in different countries
in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Attention is
given to some of the most urgent public health challenges facing
developing countries, including the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The
course also introduces students to the skills required for
planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of health
programs in developing countries.
SISU-350
Topics in Env Sustain/Glb Hlth
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-250.
CANCELLED
001
Pol Ecol of Food & Agriculture
03.00
Graddy-Lovelace,T
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Political Ecology of Food and Agriculture (3)
This course examines political, cultural, and technological
connections to environment and development. It provides students
with an introduction to political ecology and its approach to
global food studies. Students use political ecology and social
theory paradigms to examine industrial and alternative food
networks, including their impacts on the environment,
communities, and rural development. Students also examine how
food policy and the global food trading system shape these
networks and local environments, communities, and development
practices. As a part of this course, students will engage with a
nonprofit agency or school in the D.C. area to apply their
course knowledge.
OPEN
002
Sustainable Cities
03.00
Kiechel,V
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM EQB 209 08/28/17 12/16/17
Sustainable Cities (3)
For the first time in world history, the number of people living
in urban areas exceeds the number of people living in rural
areas. In acknowledging the urgent demands of our urban present
and future, this course examines the social, economic, and
environmental dimensions of contemporary cities. Because
projections show that most population growth will continue to
take place in and around cities, this course makes the case for
sustainable development as a way to mitigate the impacts of
human growth. The course explores what is, and what could be, by
discussing these themes: urban sprawl, slums and slum typology,
green urban planning, air and water quality, new paradigms for
energy/water/waste infrastructure, green building, sustainable
materials, and whole systems design. The class considers how to
measure sustainability and discusses the effectiveness of
sustainability indicator and examines governance structures,
social entrepreneurship, and the power of information technology
and social networks in promoting sustainable development and the
diffusion of ideas. The transformative role of art and culture
in our sustainable urban future is also highlighted.
SISU-359
Environment, Conflict & Peace
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-210 or SISU-250.
CLOSED
001
03.00
Conca,K
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM KRWN 202 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-360
Topics in Iden/Race/Gend/Cultr
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-260.
OPEN
002
Discourse & Power in Int'l Dev
03.00
Dixon,M
MTH 02:30PM 03:45PM EQB 209 08/28/17 12/16/17
Discourse and Power in International Development: The West and
the Rest (3)
The great sociologist, Stuart Hall, once stated, "Our ideas of
'East' and 'West' have never been free of myth and fantasy, and
even to this day they are not primarily ideas about place and
geography." This course examines international development with
a focus on the colonial and post-colonial discourses of the
modern, civilized "West" and the uncivilized, pre-modern "Rest."
This historical perspective offers reflections on relations of
race, class, gender and culture in the making of international
development. The course gives particular weight to the
perspectives and voices of colonized subjects and citizens of
the global South to understand the effects of these ideas on the
modern era.
CANCELLED
003
Gender in South Asia
03.00
Singh,M
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Gender in South Asia: Colonialism and Beyond (3)
This multidisciplinary course draws upon history, politics, and
sociology to analyze gender issues in South Asia. Beginning with
British colonialism, followed by indigenous efforts at social
reform (mid-nineteenth century), and the role of nationalism
(early twentieth century), the course highlights the emergence
of women's movements and grassroots activism in post-colonial
South Asia. Case-studies from select countries explore
challenges to gender justice posed by politics, religion, law,
family, and sexuality. Thematic as well as chronological
approaches anchor the analyses.
OPEN
004
African Political Thought
03.00
Nuamah,K
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM KRWN 203 08/28/17 12/16/17
African Political Thought (3)
This course is a broad survey of comparative themes in African
political thought. It reviews how Africans perceive political
developments-past as well as current-on their continent. The
course highlights (through a review of selected indigenous works
of literature, political biographies, and social commentary),
seminal thoughts on some of the issues and challenges that have
shaped African state building pathways and journeys from
pre-colonial times to the present.
SISU-365
Topics Iden/Culture: Mid East
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-260.
OPEN
001
The World of Islam
03.00
Ahmed,A
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM GRAY 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
The World of Islam (3)
The inner dynamic of Islamic culture and an inside look at the
workings of Islamic society, a society seen as a whole with its
own characteristic inner force and propellant. Original readings
illustrating the Islamic paradigm and discussion of the complex
relationship among reform, renewal, and fundamentalism stemming
from this paradigm.
SISU-370
Topics Just/Ethics/Human Rgts
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-270
OPEN
001
US Relationship W Genocide
03.00
Bachman,J
M 08:10AM 11:00AM HRST 208 08/28/17 12/16/17
Human Rights: The United States' Relationship with Genocide (3)
Despite being the first state to sign the Genocide Convention on
December 11, 1948, the U.S. failed to ratify the treaty until
November 25, 1988. This dichotomy has been used effectively to
portray the U.S. as the leader that lost its way. However, the
narrative that seeks to define America's relationship with
genocide does not end with the role the U.S. played during the
drafting of the Genocide Convention. That narrative excludes
various historical cases involving the U.S. that could
constitute genocide, some more controversial than others, while
also critiquing the U.S. for what it has failed to do in
response to genocide rather than what it has done to facilitate
the commission of the crime.
CANCELLED
002
Free Speech: Right or Crime
03.00
Benesch,S
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Free Speech: Inalienable Right or Crime (3)
The right of freedom of expression is being put to vigorous use
around the world, in the best and worst ways - especially
online. This interdisciplinary course examines how speech
contributes to democracy as well as to hatred and atrocities.
The course studies international law and policy related to
freedom of expression - with special reference to digital
communications -together with cases like the ones mentioned
above and the knotty questions they pose - such as how to let
free speech flourish while inhibiting hate, terrorism and
genocide.
SISU-372
Human Rights in East Asia
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-270.
OPEN
001
03.00
Heng-Blackburn,P
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM KRWN 204 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-379
Topics Human Rgts/Iden/Culture
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-260 or SISU-270.
OPEN
001
Nazi Germany/Mkng of Holocaust
03.00
Morosini-Dominick,M
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM WATK 110 08/28/17 12/16/17
Nazi Germany and the Making of the Holocaust (3)
The rise of Nazism in Germany remains one of the most studied
phenomena in modern history. This course explores the
circumstances and the ideas that led to the creation of the
Third Reich and its implementation of the Holocaust. Special
attention is paid to the role that science, especially
biomedical science, played in constructing Nazi racial policy,
the ideology of Nazism, and the subsequent execution of the
Final Solution to the Jewish question.
SISU-380
Topics in Global & Comp Govern
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-280.
OPEN
001
Empire and Imperialism
03.00
Zhang,Y
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM EQB 11 08/28/17 12/16/17
Empire and Imperialism (3)
A great deal of human history is the history of empires. This
course considers empire as an ever-lasting and overarching form
of governance and as an important lens for understanding
contemporary global powers. It discusses how historic
empires-e.g., Rome, China, Britain, and Japan-deployed military
forces, built ideological hegemony, exerted indirect rule, and
governed heterogeneous peoples. Special attention is given to
European imperialism that created and shaped the modern world.
The ongoing imperial practices of the United States, Russia, and
China are examined in comparison to their precedents,
counterparts, and competitors.
OPEN
002
International Law
03.00
Hafez,M
T 08:20PM 10:50PM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Law (3)
Institutions of international politics, with emphasis on the
nature and function of international law.
SISU-390
Ind Reading in Int'l Studies
Permission: instructor and SIS undergraduate studies office.
CLOSED
001
Human Trafficking in Nepal
01.00-06.00
Samarasinghe,V
SISU-391
Internship in Int'l Studies
Permission: internship coordinator and SIS undergraduate studies
office.
OPEN
001
01.00-06.00
Groen,G
OPEN
002
Peace Corps Prep
01.00-06.00
Angelsmith,S
CLOSED
003
01.00-06.00
Egan,M
OPEN
004
01.00-06.00
Egan,M
Instructional Method: Online.
SISU-393
Int'l Relations Theory
OPEN
001
03.00
Field,L
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM WATK 114 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-394
Comm Service Learning Project
Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement &
Service.
OPEN
001
International Law
01.00
Hafez,M
OPEN
002
Gender and Development
01.00
Samarasinghe,V
SISU-397
SIS Honors Colloquium
Prerequisite: SISU-206.
OPEN
001
The Responsibility to Protect
03.00
Quainton,A
W 08:10AM 11:00AM GRAY 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
The Responsibility to Protect (3)
The course explores the relatively new international concept of
the responsibility to protect. Students examine a series of
historical and contemporary examples where the international
community failed in this responsibility: the Holocaust,
India/Pakistan independence, Rwanda, the Balkans, Syria as well
as places where the doctrine has been asserted with mixed
results: Kosovo, Libya and Iraq. The course explores the moral,
legal and practical issues involved and seeks to challenge
students to understand the ambiguities and competing national
priorities that make implementation and enforcement possible or
likely.
Restriction: SIS Honors Program. Meets with SISU-397 101.
(Meets with SISU 397 101)
OPEN
002
Civilizations and World Orders
03.00
Acharya,A
M 02:30PM 05:20PM SIS 349 08/28/17 12/16/17
Civilizations and World Orders: The Making of Global
International Relations (3)
The conventional study of international relations relies heavily
on concepts and institutions developed in the West. This course
offers an alternative perspective by bringing in the
contribution of different civilizations, including Near Eastern,
GrecoRoman, Indian, Chinese, Islamic, as well as modern Europe,
to the making of international relations. It takes a broad sweep
of historical developments, such as interactions among classical
civilizations leading to the rise of the West, the impact of
colonialism and decolonization, the role of postcolonial states
in developing global norms and institutions, and the myths and
realities behind the notion of a "clash of civilizations." This
leads to a new "global" perspective on international relations,
or a 'Global IR' that helps students better understand conflict,
peace and interdependence in our increasingly complex,
multicultural world. Restriction: SIS Honors Program. Meets with
SISU-397 102.
(Meets with SISU 397 102)
OPEN
101
The Responsibility to Protect
03.00
Quainton,A
W 08:10AM 11:00AM GRAY 104 08/28/17 12/16/17
The Responsibility to Protect (3)
The course explores the relatively new international concept of
the responsibility to protect. Students examine a series of
historical and contemporary examples where the international
community failed in this responsibility: the Holocaust,
India/Pakistan independence, Rwanda, the Balkans, Syria as well
as places where the doctrine has been asserted with mixed
results: Kosovo, Libya and Iraq. The course explores the moral,
legal and practical issues involved and seeks to challenge
students to understand the ambiguities and competing national
priorities that make implementation and enforcement possible or
likely.
Permission: SIS Honors Director. Meets with SISU-397 001.
(Meets with SISU 397 001)
OPEN
102
Civilizations and World Orders
03.00
Acharya,A
M 02:30PM 05:20PM SIS 349 08/28/17 12/16/17
Civilizations and World Orders: The Making of Global
International Relations (3)
The conventional study of international relations relies heavily
on concepts and institutions developed in the West. This course
offers an alternative perspective by bringing in the
contribution of different civilizations, including Near Eastern,
GrecoRoman, Indian, Chinese, Islamic, as well as modern Europe,
to the making of international relations. It takes a broad sweep
of historical developments, such as interactions among classical
civilizations leading to the rise of the West, the impact of
colonialism and decolonization, the role of postcolonial states
in developing global norms and institutions, and the myths and
realities behind the notion of a "clash of civilizations." This
leads to a new "global" perspective on international relations,
or a 'Global IR' that helps students better understand conflict,
peace and interdependence in our increasingly complex,
multicultural world. Permission: SIS Honors Director. Meets with
SISU-397 002.
(Meets with SISU 397 002)
SISU-419
Senior Capstone: Int'l Studies
Prerequisite: SISU-306. Restriction: International Studies (BA)
and at least 75 credit hours.
CLOSED
001
Voices of Terrorism
03.00
Young,J
M 11:20AM 02:10PM SVB 201 08/28/17 12/16/17
Voices of Terrorism (3)
Rather than examining terrorism through secondary sources or
information filtered through a traditional security lens, in
this course students evaluate terrorist actions and goals
through the participant's own words. That is, students examine
prominent contemporary and historical terror campaigns through
the lens of the people involved. The course incorporates
insights from psychology, political science, economics, history,
and other disciplines. The course also examines questions
related to the reliability of sources, moral issues, and how
these works fit into larger themes in their particular
historical periods, beginning by outlining various ways scholars
explain the question of why activists target civilians when
attempting to coerce a state. Rationalists (primarily political
scientists and economists), psychologists, and sociologists (and
criminologists) have the most prominent explanations for this
question. These arguments are compared and contrasted, and then
applied to a host of groups and individuals who use terrorism.
CANCELLED
003
The Environment & Pol Conflict
03.00
Cook,S
W 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
The Environment and Political Conflict (3)
With all the emphasis on politics, economics, history, and
security, often lost in the analysis is how the physical world
contributes to or mitigates conflict. Global climate change only
adds to the urgency of how the environment, natural resources,
and geography influence politics. This course examines
environmental factors related to a diverse array of political
phenomena including the Arab uprisings, the anti-Federal
government movement in the American West, popular protests in
South America, migration from Africa to Europe, and a growing
opposition to the Chinese Communist Party.
CANCELLED
004
Agriculture to Agribusiness
03.00
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
From Agriculture to Agribusiness: The Political Economy of Food
in a Globalizing World (3)
Because of its central importance to social stability and
economic well-being, governments from the time of the Pharaohs
have sought to control, promote and manipulate agricultural
development in myriad ways. This course examines how
agricultural development interacts with public policy, economic,
and environmental change. Key themes explored include the role
of the state in promoting certain agricultural models,
international trade policy and agriculture, the relationship
between agricultural development and industrialization, and the
emergence of new agricultural paradigms in response to the
failures of industrial agriculture. Case studies exploring these
themes are drawn from across the world.
WAIT-2
005
Inclusive Sustainable Dev:2030
03.00
Cogburn,D
M 11:20AM 02:10PM MGC 323 08/28/17 12/16/17
Inclusive Sustainable Development: 2030 (3)
This capstone seminar explores the background, strategies, and
mechanisms for achieving the ambitious 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development, adopted by the United Nations General
Assembly in September 2015. It reviews the development of the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets, as well as
evaluating the successes and failures of its predecessor
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Students investigate a
range of key issues related to the Agenda for Sustainable
Development.
OPEN
006
Security Issues in 21st C
03.00
Metelits,C
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM SVB 201 08/28/17 12/16/17
Security Issues in the 21st Century (3)
This course challenges students to view security from a critical
point of view. Topics include issues such as environmental and
health security, gender rights, the war on terror, identity
politics and border politics, as well as nontraditional
frameworks by which to analyze these issues such as critical
theory and post-colonialism. These perspectives destabilize
taken-for-granted ideas and views on security in
order to cultivate alternative thinking and practice. While some
of this class draws on cases from the African continent,
students are welcome and encouraged to bring their own regional
areas of interest into discussion and writing.
CLOSED
008
Comparative Social Movements
03.00
Schneider,C
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM MGC 312 08/28/17 12/16/17
Comparative Social Movements (3)
This course examines a broad range of civil rights,
revolutionary, and pro-democracy movements in Europe, the Middle
East, Latin America, and the United States. Students develop a
comprehensive theory about social movements in order to classify
them and develop predictive models about their emergence, shape,
and outcome. As a part of this course, students will engage with
a nonprofit agency or school in the D.C. area to apply their
course knowledge.
CANCELLED
010
Beliefs Institut & Development
03.00
Bernhofen,D
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Beliefs, Institutions and Development (3)
Beliefs shape institutions and institutions affect economic and
political developments. Employing the analytical framework of
the new institutional economics, this course traces the origins
and evolutions of beliefs and belief systems and evaluates their
impacts on short and long-term economic and political
development from antiquity to the present. Besides examining
classic but unresolved historical questions of why industrial
capitalism did not arise in China, this course studies the role
of shared beliefs in creating and shaping global order (or
disorder).
CANCELLED
011
International Studies Capstone
03.00
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
International Studies Capstone (3)
Senior capstone focusing on international studies.
WAIT-1
012
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace
03.00
Ziv,G
M 02:30PM 05:20PM HRST 211 08/28/17 12/16/17
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace (3)
This senior capstone provides students with a deeper
understanding of the problems that have confounded the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in particular the "final
status" issues: borders, Jerusalem, refugees, and security.
Students focus on the contested narratives; the relevant
political actors; and the key international, regional, and
internal events that have shaped the dispute. As well, previous
rounds of negotiations are reviewed in order to analyze what
went wrong. Students then partake in a simulation in which they
attempt to constructively address the final status issues as
well as other sticking points, such as settlements and
terrorism, in Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.
CLOSED
014
Asian Identities/Multicltrl Am
03.00
Singh,M
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM MGC 313 08/28/17 12/16/17
Asian Identities in Multicultural America: Challenges of
Migration and Integration (3)
This course explores the social and political struggles of the
over 18 million Asian Americans from China, Philippines,
Vietnam, Korea, India, and Pakistan, who despite being the
fastest-growing racial group in the United States continue to
face serious issues of integration and cultural "Othering." This
capstone course combines academic work with hands-on
community-based learning. Students engage with a nonprofit
agency or school in the Washington, DC area to apply their
course knowledge.
CANCELLED
015
Conflict Cuisine
03.00
Mendelson-Forman,J
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Additional Class Fee: $125.00. Conflict Cuisine (3)
This course explores the history and diplomacy of recent
conflicts through the ultimate form of soft power: food.
Gastro-diplomacy, conflict prevention, and history converge in
this unique course that whets students' intellectual appetites.
Classroom readings and discussions plus visits to local eateries
in Washington, DC explore how the wars in Viet Nam, Afghanistan,
Ethiopia, and El Salvador became local through their cuisines
and the Diaspora that produces them.
WAIT-1
016
Peace and Social Justice
03.00
McCarthy,C
W 11:20AM 02:10PM SIS 113 08/28/17 12/16/17
Peace and Social Justice (3)
This course offers a study of the methods, history, and
practitioners of nonviolence and the efforts to create a
justice-based society. The course familiarizes students with
both the philosophy of pacifism and alternatives to violence,
whether among nations or among individuals faced with violence
in their daily lives. This course is discussion-based, with
dissent welcomed.
OPEN
017
From Empire to Globalization
03.00
Persaud,R
M 02:30PM 05:20PM BAT T10 08/28/17 12/16/17
From Empire to Globalization: Critical International Relations
(3)
What should critical international relations (IR) look like,
what kinds of questions should it ask, and what kinds of changes
does it envisage? These are central questions that are being
asked from a number of different perspectives in the field. This
course closely examines these issues in the context of hegemony
and resistance, with added focus on global capitalism, empire,
race, and postcolonialism and emphasis on historical and
discourse analysis.
CLOSED
018
Critical Social Theory
03.00
Collins,E
W 02:30PM 05:20PM MGC 313 08/28/17 12/16/17
Critical Social Theory (3)
Students in this class read key primary texts that theorize
race, class, gender, sexuality and power including Marx,
Foucault, Butler and Said. Students gain facility with difficult
conceptual material and evaluate the relevance of these ideas
for contemporary social issues.
CANCELLED
019
Seeing Africa
03.00
Matlon,J
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Seeing Africa (3)
The image holds a special place in the social imaginary and has
a long and polemical history of illuminating the Dark Continent
to the external gaze. This course examines theoretical and
methodological approaches to visual analysis and its application
in Africa. The course emphasizes how the visual makes sense of
the social world, and its use in domination and self-expression.
While examining the politics of representation as a general
framing device, the course focuses on representations of
Africa/(ns) and by Africans. This includes colonial and
missionary imagery, advertising aimed at Africans and which has
used African imagery to sell its products, Hollywood depictions,
Black nationalist propaganda, Rastafari and pan-African imagery,
images of famine, various expressions of African
self-portraiture in pre-colonial through neoliberal times, and
the visual in the ethnographic imagination, in photography and
ethnographic film.
CLOSED
020
The U.S. & Int'l Human Rights
03.00
Snyder,S
M 02:30PM 05:20PM KRWN 302 08/28/17 12/16/17
The United States and International Human Rights (3)
Since 1941, United States attention to human rights abuses has
risen and waned. Students explore how concern for human rights
has influenced United States foreign policy and raise questions
about the consistency and durability of that commitment
throughout the Cold War and in the years that followed the
Soviet Union's collapse. The course concludes with an
examination of contemporary struggles to balance morality and
adherence to "American values" with the preservation of national
security. This course promotes critical, analytical thinking
about United States human rights policy and encourages students
to develop their own interpretation of the evolution and
significance of the American commitment to human rights in the
postwar years.
(Meets with HIST 449 002)
CANCELLED
021
Cuban Missile Crisis
03.00
Brenner,P
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Cuban Missile Crisis 55 Years Later (3)
The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world closer to nuclear
destruction than any other crisis, and has been a reference
point in the last 55 years for many other crises. The course
explores the implications of the missile crisis in terms of its
traditional lessons and alternative lessons derived from the
perspectives of all three countries involved, and how empathy -
a key element in resolving the crisis - might be deployed in
international relations.
CANCELLED
022
International Studies Capstone
03.00
W 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
International Studies Capstone (3)
This course offers a study of the methods, history, and
practitioners of international studies. The course familiarizes
students with philosophy of international studies, and explores
central questions that are being asked from a number of
different perspectives in the field. Students gain familiarity
with difficult conceptual material and evaluate the relevance of
these ideas for contemporary international studies.
CLOSED
024
Strategies of Rebellion
03.00
Stewart,M
W 05:30PM 08:00PM DMTI 114 08/28/17 12/16/17
Strategies of Rebellion: From Mao to the Islamic State (3)
How do rebels contest sovereignty? This course explores both the
non-violent and violent strategies insurgencies deploy during
the course of civil wars, to bring academic theories into
dialogue with empirical realities, to develop a broader
understanding of the behaviors of insurgencies, and to apply
these theories to contemporary political phenomena. The course
provides an overview of what civil wars are, what causes them,
and who the primary actors are in domestic conflict; reviews how
rebel groups are structured and how they recruit members;
examines what drives insurgencies to adopt different violent
strategies and tactics and which are successful; and concludes
by discussing rebel non-violent strategies of rebellion and the
effectiveness thereof. The course has a strong empirical
component and covers several cases in (primarily) the Middle
East, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Students follow one
insurgency intensively throughout the course, applying the works
discussed in class to their case.
SISU-432
Topics in Int'l Law & Orgs
Restriction: Washington Semester Program.
CANCELLED
001
Int'l Law & Orgs Seminar I
04.00
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
International Law and Organizations Seminar I (4)
This two-part seminar focuses on the expanding role of law in
governing relations among nations while an interdependent world
turns to multinational organizations in the making of global
policy.
CANCELLED
002
Int'l Law & Orgs Seminar II
04.00
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
International Law and Organizations Seminar II (4)
This two-part seminar focuses on the expanding role of law in
governing relations among nations while an interdependent world
turns to multinational organizations in the making of global
policy.
CANCELLED
003
Int'l Law & Orgs Internship
04.00
W 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
International Law and Organizations Internship (4)
Students gain valuable contacts and work experience through an
internship at a think tank, law firm, advocacy group, or
international organization in Washington, D.C., that fits their
academic career and goals.
SISU-434
Topics Int'l Pol & For Policy
Restriction: Washington Semester Program.
OPEN
001
Int'l Pol/For Policy Sem I
04.00
Calabrese,J
W 08:10AM 11:00AM SVB 147 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Politics and Foreign Policy Seminar I (4)
This two-part seminar is devoted to United States foreign policy
formulation and implementation. Systematic study of foreign
policy emphasizes qualitative analysis and employs quantitative
methods as appropriate. Students participate in seminars,
workshops, on-site observation, and meet with foreign
policymakers and influencers from government, media, and other
private-sector organizations.
OPEN
003
Int'l Pol/For Policy Intern
04.00
Calabrese,J
W 11:20AM 12:35PM SVB 202 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Politics and Foreign Policy Internship (4)
Students engage in an internship in Washington, D.C., providing
direct experience in an organization related to international
politics and foreign policy.
OPEN
004
Int'l Pol/For Policy Res Proj
04.00
Peters,B
M 06:55PM 08:10PM SVB 147 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Politics and Foreign Policy Research Project (4)
Students have the opportunity to investigate important issues
relating to international politics and foreign policy.
OPEN
005
Int'l Pol/For Policy Sem II
04.00
Calabrese,J
F 02:30PM 05:20PM SVB 165 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Politics and Foreign Policy Seminar II (4)
This two-part seminar is devoted to United States foreign policy
formulation and implementation. Systematic study of foreign
policy emphasizes qualitative analysis and employs quantitative
methods as appropriate. Students participate in seminars,
workshops, on-site observation, and meet with foreign
policymakers and influencers from government, media, and other
private-sector organizations.
CLOSED
006
Int'l Pol/For Policy Sem I
04.00
Maisch,C
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM SVB 414 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Politics and Foreign Policy Seminar I (4)
This two-part seminar is devoted to United States foreign policy
formulation and implementation. Systematic study of foreign
policy emphasizes qualitative analysis and employs quantitative
methods as appropriate. Students participate in seminars,
workshops, on-site observation, and meet with foreign
policymakers and influencers from government, media, and other
private-sector organizations.
CLOSED
007
Int'l Pol/For Policy Sem II
04.00
Maisch,C
W 02:30PM 05:20PM SVB 414 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Politics and Foreign Policy Seminar II (4)
This two-part seminar is devoted to United States foreign policy
formulation and implementation. Systematic study of foreign
policy emphasizes qualitative analysis and employs quantitative
methods as appropriate. Students participate in seminars,
workshops, on-site observation, and meet with foreign
policymakers and influencers from government, media, and other
private-sector organizations.
CLOSED
008
Int'l Pol/For Policy Intern
04.00
Maisch,C
W 12:55PM 02:10PM SVB 414 08/28/17 12/16/17
International Politics and Foreign Policy Internship (4)
Students engage in an internship in Washington, D.C., providing
direct experience in an organization related to international
politics and foreign policy.
SISU-440
SIS Honors Project I
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-306.
OPEN
001
03.00
Knight,S
M 11:20AM 02:10PM MGC 312 08/28/17 12/16/17
SISU-466
Topics in Iden/Race/Gend/Cultr
Prerequisite: SISU-260.
WAIT-2
001
History of Racism
03.00
Kendi,I
T 08:20PM 10:50PM BAT T10 08/28/17 12/16/17
History of Racism (3)
This course examines the history of anti-Black racist ideas. The
course of study spans from the origins of racist ideas in 15th
century Western Europe, to their expansion with the slave trade
in the 16th century, to the scientific revolution in the 17th
century, to the European Enlightenment in the 18th century, to
the emergence of racist ideas in the United States. This class
studies the dual history of antiracist progress delegitimating
racist ideas and the simultaneous progression and sustained
sophistication of racist ideas over the course of modern
history. Meets with HIST-496 002 and HIST-696 002.
(Meets with HIST 496 002 HIST 696 002)
SISU-490
Ind Research in Int'l Studies
Permission: instructor and SIS undergraduate studies office.
CLOSED
001
U.S.For. Pol. Latin America
01.00-06.00
Shelton-Colby,S
CLOSED
002
Long Waves & Insurgency Dev.
02.00-06.00
Belding,W
CLOSED
003
Independent Capstone Research
01.00-06.00
Wien,B
CLOSED
004
Religious Expression in France
01.00-06.00
Auerbach,A
CLOSED
005
Europe Law & Constitutionalism
01.00-06.00
Egan,M
CLOSED
006
Art and Post-Conflict Recovery
01.00-06.00
Gregorian,H
SISU-494
Comm Service Learning Project
Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement &
Service.
OPEN
001
Critical Social Theory
01.00
Collins,E