SISU-105 FA3
World Politics
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
T 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
T 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
T 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
T 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
T 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
F 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
F 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
F 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
F 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
F 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
W 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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Tuomi,K
M 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
W 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-106
First Year Seminar
Restriction: first-year SIS students.
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Soc Movements/Society in MENA
03.00
Hardig,C
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Social Movements and Society in MENA (3)
This seminar examines social movements and civil society in the
Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The Arab Revolts of
2011 brought to the limelight the potential of popular movements
rooted in civil society in MENA. In an effort to map this
understudied level of MENA politics, this course first
introduces students to the history of MENA, foundational
scholarly work on non-violent social movements and civil
society, basic rules and practices of scholarly research, and
proceeds to engage students in a major research project on MENA
civil society. Students study several movements for change in
the region, including Lebanon (2005), Iran (2009), Tunisia and
Egypt (both 2011).
WAIT-1
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Water in World Politics
03.00
Conca,K
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Water in World Politics (3)
Water is many things: a basic human need, the lifeblood of
critical ecosystems, a source of livelihoods, an unpredictable
flow, a powerful destructive force, the chief delivery mechanism
for the social and ecological effects of climate change, and a
commodity with increasing value in many parts of the world. This
seminar examines several of the major water challenges facing
the world in the twenty-first century. In doing so, it uses
water as a window on several key concepts and processes in world
politics, including conflict, cooperation, sovereignty,
identity, political economy, justice, borders, and globalization.
CANCELLED
003
War, Politics & Silver Screen
03.00
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
War, Politics and the Silver Screen (3)
From Hollywood thrillers such as Green Zone to Academy Award
winners such as The Hurt Locker, the silver screen continues to
offer a rich medium for the study of international relations
(IR). This seminar uses the medium of films to understand key
theoretical issues in IR and examine how contemporary movies
reflect our understanding of the nature of the state, the role
of U.S. power, transnational challenges such as war,
environmental pressures, criminal networks, the behavior of
non-state states actors, as well as exploring how they all
impact and shape the international system in the twenty-first
century.
OPEN
004
Thinking Modern World/Du Bois
03.00
Bohrt,M
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Thinking the Modern World with W.E.B. Du Bois (3)
W.E.B. Du Bois, a founding figure of the social sciences in the
United States, argued that the problem of the twentieth century
is the problem of the color line. In this seminar, students
explore Du Boisian social thought, how it broke with the
academic and popular orthodoxy of its time, and its persistent
significance today. Du Bois was a social theorist and researcher
for whom processes of racialization and racial domination were
central to understanding the modern world. He was also a public
intellectual committed to the liberation of oppressed peoples.
Engaging with Du Bois's original works and more recent sources,
students critically examine the racial dynamics of some of
today's most pressing global issues, including inequality,
climate change, conflict, and migration, among others.
WAIT-2
005
Counter Terror Pol & Am Pres
03.00
Moriarty II,J
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Counter Terrorism Policy and the American Presidency (3)
This course examines the evolution of U.S. counter terrorism
policy since the end of the Cold War by studying how various
American presidents have confronted the challenge of terrorism.
As such, it focuses on the similarities and differences that
have emerged over the years on how to most effectively counter
terrorism. The course carefully examines how international
politics interacts with domestic politics to shape, frame, and
produce America's counter terrorism policies. The course then
shifts to a historical approach to this topic by examining
various past presidential administrations. Students explore and
debate questions such as what the counter terrorism policy was
of each administration; how they decided on this strategy; what
factors influenced its creation; how it was implemented; and, of
course, whether it was successful. Students develop a
comprehensive understanding of what part counter terrorism plays
in national security and what the outlook is for countering
these threats.
OPEN
006
Woodrow Wilson, Librlsm & Race
03.00
Adcock,R
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Woodrow Wilson, Liberalism, and Race (3)
Alternately celebrated and castigated for pioneering modern
American liberalism in foreign and economic policy, Woodrow
Wilson's presidency is today a focal point of debate over racism
in modern America. This course examines the relation between
Wilson's liberalism and his presidential actions in foreign
policy, economic policy, and race relations, and whether these
actions apply, contradict, or remake the beliefs he brought with
him into the White House. As the first and only PhD to become
president, Wilson offers a rare opportunity to critically
interpret a presidential administration in light of the previous
development and articulation of his beliefs across decades of
influential scholarship.
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China From the Inside
03.00
Shapiro,J
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
China From the Inside (3)
This course draws on memoirs, documentaries, guest speakers, and
student interviews to provide a worm's-eye view of China from
1911 to today. The course provides students with an
understanding of the complex challenges of Chinese identity
today, as ordinary people try to satisfy their pent-up
aspirations and deal with entrenched problems of environmental
degradation and political repression.
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Why Do They Love and Hate Us?
03.00
Shelton-Colby,S
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
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Environmental Ethics
03.00
Wapner,P
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Environmental Ethics (3)
This course focuses on how one can live most deeply and
responsibly in the face of global environmental dangers, with
the aim to understand the meaning of the "good life" at this
historical moment of environmental intensification. Students
read philosophically oriented and literary texts, and draw on
their own experiences of place, memory, writing, and loss to
develop ways of knowing and engaging in environmental politics.
WAIT-2
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Struggle for Mid East Pol Chng
03.00
Mokhtari,S
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
The Struggle for Political Change in the Middle East (3)
This course focuses on the prospects for political change in the
Middle East in light of both the stunning protest movements of
2011 and the considerable obstacles to achieving their
aspirations for political change which have emerged since. The
course begins with an overview of the various aspects of the
initial mobilizations including the primary grievances, the role
of youth and women, the role of social media, etc. It then
considers the gains, success stories, and ongoing promise of the
era of protest and change in the Middle East as well as the many
subsequent setbacks and formidable challenges including the turn
to violence, the role of foreign powers, Islamist-secular
divides, and enduring authoritarian structures. Students
consider the unique political context of and differing
post-uprising paths taken in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Libya,
Syria, Yemen, and Iran. Throughout the course, they critically
examine each county in order to gain better insight into current
predicaments and prospects for long-term political change in
each case individually and the region as a whole.
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Disasters & Int'l Cooperation
03.00
Hardig,C
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Disasters and International Cooperation (3)
This course examines variously successful international
responses to environmental disasters and questions including
what impact emergencies such as the Chernobyl nuclear accident
and protracted crises like the hole in the ozone layer have on
the prospects of international cooperation; who are the main
actors seeking to prevent similar problems in the future; and
how effective are their strategies. In addition to examining the
institutional roots of successful cooperation and the diversity
of regional approaches, the class also considers the connections
between environmental challenges and questions of economic
growth, power, security, international integration, and state
sovereignty.
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Globalization 3.0
03.00
Goodman,L
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Globalization 3.0 (3)
This course considers the three periods of intense globalization
which touched the new and the old worlds. Students examine how
and why the first two ended badly for Europe, East Asia, and
Latin America, and discuss scenarios for the evolution of the
current globalization.
OPEN
013
Globalizatn: Winners & Losers
03.00
Cohn,E
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Globalization: Winners and Losers (3)
We live in a globalized world, where goods are produced and then
shipped all over the world. Wal-Mart, with its worldwide reach
and market power, represents the best and the worst of this
global economy. Consumers love its everyday low prices while
workers rail against its labor practices and environmentalists
fight over whether it is doing enough to reduce its carbon
footprint. While Wal-Mart paved the way, Amazon has continued to
transform the way consumption, work, community, and the world
are thought about. This course examines the global supply chain
-- from extraction of natural resources, to manufacturing,
distribution, and retail. Students analyze who are the winners
and losers in a globalized economy, and think about how business
practices, government policies, and consumer demands affect
outcomes. Is the only outcome a race to the bottom where
workers' rights are sacrificed and developing countries become
host to factories that some call sweatshops? Is corporate social
responsibility a solution? Is ethical shopping? To make the
local-global connection students visit a Wal-Mart store in
downtown Washington, D.C. and evaluate its impact on the local
community.
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Foreign Policy Simulation
03.00
Martin,G
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Foreign Policy Simulation (3)
This course gives students the chance to explore how and why
American officials make certain foreign policy decisions by
examining the process of American foreign policy-making. It also
integrates role-playing simulations, which helps students
understand the sort of challenges and dilemmas that
policy-makers routinely face.
OPEN
015
Iden Pol in Multicultural Soc
03.00
Heng-Blackburn,P
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Identity Politics in Multicultural Societies: U.S. and Malaysia
(3)
This course examines the impact of ethnicity, religion, and
identity politics on the political, economic, and social
development of multicultural societies, with special focus on
Malaysia and America. The theoretical inquiry on different and
multi-layered "forms of belonging" focuses on structures and
agents, institutions, and processes--political, economic,
religious, and cultural--that are fundamental to the shaping and
re-shaping of identity and culture at the individual, family,
communal, national, and global levels. Key determinants of
contemporary Malaysian and American identity formation examined
include citizenship and nationhood, family and community,
ethnicity and race, religion, class, gender, and migration, as
well as the impact of the market and mass consumption in a
globalizing and interdependent world. Apart from scholarly
texts, films/videos, fiction, novels and graphic novels are used
to further illuminate the manner in which political, economic,
socio-cultural, and religious changes have impacted on the
process of identity formation and inter-ethnic cultural
construction at the different levels of analysis used in the
investigative framework.
OPEN
016
Freedom in Western Democ Thght
03.00
LeVan,A
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
Freedom and Solidarity in Western Democratic Thought (3)
Through close readings of Tocqueville and Rousseau, students
examine fundamental themes and debates in Western democratic
thought such as freedom, inequality, legitimacy, and cultural
norms. Students practice civic solidarity through service
learning in a low income Washington, DC community, and also
utilize ideas from philosophy to analyze how democracies fared
during great crises of the last century from World War I through
the 2008 economic crash.
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Weird International Relations
03.00
Mislan,D
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Weird International Relations (3)
This seminar introduces students to the idea of a deviant
case--a rare phenomenon that cannot be explained by existing
theory. It focuses on the funny and bizarre stories that puzzle
and amuse scholars. By studying weird international relations,
students strengthen their understanding of the field while
sharpening their critical thinking skills.
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Building a Post-Carbon World
03.00
Nicholson,S
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Building a Post-Carbon World (3)
It is essential, for a host of pressing reasons, that human
societies be weaned from fossil fuels like oil and coal. The
need is clear, but the path less so. This course looks at the
roles played by fossil fuels in the constitution of key global
environmental and economic challenges. It then looks at
different visions for a post-carbon world and considers the
politics of such a large-scale transition. Along the way,
students work to understand what drives environmental harm and
economic unrest, to become familiar with the core mechanisms of
global environmental governance, and to unpack the essential
features of effective environmental action.
SISU-130 FA3
Intercultural Understanding
OPEN
001
03.00
Gonzalez Warrick,A
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: Academic Accelerator Program.
OPEN
002
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Gonzalez Warrick,A
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: Academic Accelerator Program.
OPEN
003
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Erenrich,S
W 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: Academic Accelerator Program.
OPEN
004
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Erenrich,S
W 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: Academic Accelerator Program.
CANCELLED
005
03.00
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Restriction: International Accelator Program.
CANCELLED
006
03.00
W 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Restriction: American Access Program.
SISU-140 FA3
Cross-Cultural Communication
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Groen,G
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
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Morosini-Dominick,M
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
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Morosini-Dominick,M
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
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Wigfall-Williams,W
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
005
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Rhodes,C
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
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Dibinga,O
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
WAIT-1
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Dibinga,O
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
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Bates,S
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
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Moland,N
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
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Gargano,T
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
012
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Groen,G
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
013
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Groen,G
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
014
03.00
Wigfall-Williams,W
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
CLOSED
015
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Moland,N
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
016
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Cromwell,A
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
018
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Rhodes,C
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
CLOSED
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Bates,S
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
020
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Cromwell,A
TH 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
022
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Taylor,A
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
CANCELLED
023
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Kelley,J
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
024
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Kelley,J
W 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: SIS majors.
OPEN
025
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Venturelli,S
Instructional Method: Online.
SISU-206
Intro to Int'l Studies Rsrch
Prerequisite: SISU-105. Restriction:
International Studies major.
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001
03.00
Rancatore,J
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Restriction: Global Scholars.
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002
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Moriarty II,J
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
CLOSED
003
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King,J
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
CLOSED
004
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Knight,S
MTH 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-210
Peace, Global Sec & Conflt Res
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
CLOSED
001
03.00
Nuamah,K
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
CLOSED
002
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Banks,D
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
003
03.00
Wien,B
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
WAIT-1
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Eralp,D
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
005
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Atzili,B
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-212 FA3
China, Japan & the U.S.
WAIT-1
001
03.00
Heng-Blackburn,P
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-214
Contemporary Latin America
OPEN
001
03.00
Giraudy,M
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-215
Contemporary Middle East
OPEN
001
03.00
Spath,A
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-216
Contemporary Russia
OPEN
001
03.00
Garipov,R
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-220
Int'l Political Economy
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
001
03.00
Tuomi,K
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
003
03.00
Tuomi,K
MTH 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-230
Analysis of US Foreign Policy
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
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001
03.00
Shelton-Colby,S
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
WAIT-2
002
03.00
Ziv,G
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
CLOSED
003
03.00
Mislan,D
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
004
03.00
Martin,G
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-240
International Development
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
001
03.00
Esser,D
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
CLOSED
002
03.00
Dixon,M
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
003
03.00
Lambright,G
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
CANCELLED
004
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Dixon,M
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
SISU-250
Env Sustainblty/Global Health
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
001
03.00
Wapner,P
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
002
03.00
Wapner,P
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-260
Identity, Race, Gender & Cultr
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
002
03.00
Persaud,R
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
003
03.00
Shinko,R
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-270
Introduction to Human Rights
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
CANCELLED
001
03.00
Mokhtari,S
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
OPEN
002
03.00
Bachman,J
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
CLOSED
003
03.00
Mokhtari,S
MTH 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-280
Comparative/Global Governance
Prerequisite: SISU-105.
OPEN
001
03.00
Darden,K
MTH 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
002
03.00
Gutner,T
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-294
Comm Service Learning Project
Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement &
Service.
CLOSED
001
Env Sustainblty/Global Health
01.00
Wapner,P
SISU-296
Selected Topics:Non-Recurring
OPEN
001
Conquest, Cold War, Globaliztn
03.00
Fontes,A
MTH 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Conquest, Cold War, Globalization (3)
This course explores Latin America with a deep focus on the ties
that bind the region to global politics, trade, and conflict. To
understand the region's present political, economic, and
cultural development and global significance, the course maps
the continuums and ruptures between three pivotal epochs: the
conquest of the "New World" and the colonial system that
developed in its wake; the Cold War and Latin America's place in
it; and Latin America in the present age of
"hyper-globalization." Because the United States has and
continues to exercise particular influence over life in Latin
American societies--and vice versa--particular attention is paid
to this relationship and its consequences. The course studies
local, national, and regional dynamics with an eye for how they
connect to transnational processes to answer questions such as
how Cold War geopolitics impacted Latin American political
conflict; what the War on Drugs looks like in Guatemala; and how
U.S. immigration politics affect Mexico's economy, among others.
OPEN
002
Introduction to Antiracism
03.00
Petrella,C
M 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Introduction to Antiracism (3)
This course introduces students to the global history and
current manifestations of antiracism. Students examine key
thinkers, movements, and policies that have sought across time
and space to eliminate racial inequities and discrimination.
Meets with HIST-296 003.
(Meets with HIST 296 003)
SISU-300
Intro to Int'l Economics
Prerequisite: ECON-100 and ECON-200.
OPEN
001
03.00
Bernhofen,D
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
002
03.00
Bernhofen,D
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
004
03.00
Silvia,S
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-306
Adv Int'l Studies Research
Prerequisite: SISU-206.
OPEN
001
Olson Scholars Seminar
03.00
Field,L
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Olson Scholars Seminar (3)
Specifically designed for Olson Scholars, in addition to
providing each student with support and feedback for an original
research project, this course provides an opportunity to reflect
critically on theoretical questions about the relationship
between social science and ethics. Students are expected to work
more and more independently with their mentor, while class time
is generally devoted to more theoretical questions. With the
help of texts from antiquity through to the present, students
discuss questions such as what kinds of things can we have
knowledge about, how do we know what we know, what
motivates/drives us as researchers and why this matters, what
ethical assumptions are contained in our alternative approaches
to research, and whether these can be transcended. Consideration
of these broad questions helps students think more deeply and
critically about their own role as a young researcher on the
global stage. Throughout the semester there is also class time
set aside for consultations, writing workshops, and student
presentations of research.
OPEN
002
Game Theory in Int'l Relations
03.00
Ohls,D
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Game Theory: Analyzing Choice and Strategy in International
Relations (3)
This course explores formal models of strategic interaction
among actors in international relations--how citizens,
politicians, non-governmental organizations, firms, interest
groups, international organizations, and states fight for their
interests. It uses (mathematical) game theoretic analysis and
equilibrium solution concepts to predict how actors behave, and
applies these techniques to the study of cooperation in
international regimes, counterterrorism, trade relations,
compellence and deterrence, and war. Students develop and carry
out a research project analyzing strategic interaction on an
international topic of their choosing.
OPEN
003
Popular Culture As Data & Site
03.00
Jackson,P
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Popular Culture as Data and Site: Novels, Films, and TV Shows in
International Studies Research (3)
If we live our lives not just as servants of our instincts and
our interests, but also as deliberative beings striving to make
meaningful sense of the world, it stands to reason that our
stories and other narrative representations ought to be somehow
important to our political and social lives, including our lives
as globally-engaged reflective practitioners. This course takes
a serious look at the pop-cultural artifacts that make up the
broad ecology of our media-saturated lives, and asks what can be
learned about international affairs by examining such artifacts.
Students examine a variety of ways that the analysis of
pop-cultural artifacts can figure into both causal and
interpretive explanations of international affairs, and also
consider ways of communicating knowledge that fall outside of
the traditional research paper. They think about what it means
to treat human beings as situated, creative persons engaged in
the collective shaping of a world of our making, a world
prominently featuring the encounter with difference across
boundaries.
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004
Lang, Symbols, Pract & Ident
03.00
Boesenecker,A
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Language, Symbols, Practices, and Identities in International
Studies Research (3)
This course focuses on the theory and application of discourse
analysis--the way in which our worlds are constructed and
understood through language, symbols, practices, and identities,
and the ways in which each of these elements structures politics
and societies--in international studies research. After
examining the evolution of discourse analysis in the social
sciences, students develop a research question, literature
review, and research design for their own independent research
projects. As students research and refine their individual
projects, the class also examines examples of discourse analysis
drawn from diverse substantive and geographical areas in
international studies research. Students also receive training
in NVivo qualitative analysis software and are required to use
this software as part of their final research project. Each
student produces a full independent, scholarly research project,
including an original research paper and a presentation, that
should serve as the basis for future research, conference
presentations, and even potential publication.
OPEN
005
Lang, Symbols, Pract & Ident
03.00
Boesenecker,A
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Language, Symbols, Practices, and Identities in International
Studies Research (3)
This course focuses on the theory and application of discourse
analysis--the way in which our worlds are constructed and
understood through language, symbols, practices, and identities,
and the ways in which each of these elements structures politics
and societies--in international studies research. After
examining the evolution of discourse analysis in the social
sciences, students develop a research question, literature
review, and research design for their own independent research
projects. As students research and refine their individual
projects, the class also examines examples of discourse analysis
drawn from diverse substantive and geographical areas in
international studies research. Students also receive training
in NVivo qualitative analysis software and are required to use
this software as part of their final research project. Each
student produces a full independent, scholarly research project,
including an original research paper and a presentation, that
should serve as the basis for future research, conference
presentations, and even potential publication.
OPEN
006
Large Sample Data Analysis
03.00
King,J
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Large Sample Data Analysis (3)
This applied research course focuses on the Large N quantitative
analysis approach, specifically, developing statistical models
to explain and predict real world socio-political phenomena.
Students acquire skills needed to solve common analytical quests
and questions, including the acquisition, management,
manipulation, estimation and interpretation of findings from
large sample data, using both descriptive and inferential
statistics. Students also learn common techniques for displaying
and communicating findings for professional and lay audiences,
culminating in the development of an original research project.
The course requires the use of SPSS (a statistical software
program), although no particular expertise with math,
statistical theory, or statistical software is required.
CANCELLED
007
Res Meth in Viol/Insec Spaces
03.00
Fontes,A
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Research Methodologies in Violent and Insecure Spaces (3)
Whether in the midst of war or extreme peacetime violence, deep
insecurity transforms how individuals, communities, and entire
societies function. Understanding and analyzing the causes and
consequences of life lived under such conditions can be
extremely difficult. For researchers, conducting on-the-ground
fieldwork in such spaces presents a unique set of conundrums.
Everyday chaos and insecurity restrict researcher access and
undermine official data. The inherent instability of truth
increases exponentially, and the power of fearful rumors and
suspicion to corrode trust with gatekeepers, informants and even
friends is a constant threat. Drawing from scholarly,
journalistic, and literary sources, this course explores the
processes, dynamics, and consequences of life lived in the
shadow of extreme violence. Students study and analyze research
and writing methods researchers and writers have used in efforts
to capture and portray the processes and dynamics that give rise
to violent conditions and how people survive day to day in the
shadow of severe insecurity.
OPEN
008
Bottom-Up Politics Models/Meth
03.00
Zhang,Y
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Bottom-Up Politics: Models and Methods (3)
Great powers, durable institutions, and consequential social
changes often emerge out of local events, small ideas, and
interpersonal interactions. This course examines bottom-up
processes and micro-foundations of macro politics by covering
theoretical models including rational choice theory,
microsociology, social network analysis, organizational decision
making, and social movement theories. It also discusses how to
apply these bottom-up models to national and international
politics, broadly defined. In addition, the course equips
students with corresponding research methods and project
management skills.
CLOSED
009
Qualitative Analysis
03.00
Hardig,C
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Qualitative Analysis (3)
This course guides students in the application of a broad range
of qualitative research methodologies and methods. Specifically,
this 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.
WAIT-1
010
Jay Z & Historical Biography
03.00
Dibinga,O
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Jay Z and The Practice of Historical Biography (3)
This course looks at biography as a form of historical writing,
using Jay Z as a point of departure. The course examines how
biography shapes our historical understanding as well as the
people and institutions of the past. Questions explored include
how does biography reveal the historical circumstances of the
subject's life to give readers a broader understanding of the
historical context of that life and the era in which the subject
lived; how effectively can contemporary readers explore the past
through the prism of one person's life; and what we seek to
learn about a person in a biography, and why. Students produce
an independent paper on an individual of their own choosing who
is significant to the field of international studies research.
CANCELLED
011
Ethnography/DC Diaspora Popul
03.00
Metelits,C
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Ethnography and Washington, DC Diaspora Populations (3)
This course introduces the use of ethnographic research methods
to study questions of international relations related to
diaspora populations including why and when members of diaspora
populations send money "home," do diaspora populations
contribute to conflict or peace in their home countries, how are
nationalisms changed through the experience of living in the
United States, and how inter-generational relations within
diaspora populations affect reverse brain drain. Ethnography
requires the researcher to understand cultural phenomena from
the point of view of the subjects of the study by observing and
participating in naturally occurring settings. Students select a
research question related to a Washington, DC diaspora
population, and then become participant-observers among that
population to gather ethnographic data. The class discusses
negotiating access, taking ethnographic field notes, ethical
issues, data analysis, and write up. Students learn NVivo
qualitative data analysis software. The final product is a
substantial original research paper.
OPEN
012
Qual Meth for Resrch the City
03.00
Collins,E
MTH 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Qualitative Methods for Researching the City (3)
This course introduces qualitative methods of urban research.
Students study the social, political, cultural, and built urban
environment using ethnographic, historical, and spatial methods
of analysis. The course places particular emphasis on the
relationship between theory, methods, and empirics in research
design and implementation.
OPEN
013
Climate Policy Analysis
03.00
Grober-Morrow,D
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Climate Policy Analysis (3)
This course introduces students to the use of Integrated
Assessment Models (IAMs) to analyze climate policies. IAMs
integrate models of the physical environment with socio-economic
models to study the effects of climate change and climate
policies. These models are implemented in various kinds of
computer software, ranging from complex spreadsheets to
sophisticated standalone programs. Students learn to set up
these computer-based models to evaluate particular policies and
to critically interpret the quantitative data that the models
produce. Students complete and present an independent scholarly
research project, which should serve as the basis for future
research, conference presentations, or publication.
OPEN
015
Field Research Methods
03.00
Auerbach,A
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Field Research Methods (3)
This course prepares students for independent field research.
Students acquire methodological skills and data collection
strategies that have broad application to both academic research
and international program evaluation. The course covers a range
of field methods, including ethnography, archival research,
interviews, focus groups, surveys, and field experiments, as
well as the theoretical, logistical, and ethical aspects of
field research design.
WAIT-3
016
Mod World Order in Hist Contxt
03.00
Morosini-Dominick,M
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Modern World Order in Historical Context (3)
Global in scope and comparative in its research approach, this
course provides students with the opportunity to use qualitative
research methods in the social sciences, such as historiography,
ethnography, case studies, counterfactuals, discourse analysis,
and archival research. The course further acquaints students
with the nature of political science as an intellectual
enterprise that is soundly grounded in a broader historical
context.
CANCELLED
018
Big Data Analytics/Text Mining
03.00
Cogburn,D
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Big Data Analytics and Text Mining (3)
This course helps students understand the opportunities and
challenges of big data analytics in international affairs
research by introducing the tools and techniques used to analyze
large-scale unstructured textual data. Text mining techniques
are applicable for a wide range of social science research
topics, such as identifying core themes in State Department
speeches; analyzing sentiment in Twitter feeds; detecting
emerging areas of concern in an email archive; and highlighting
similarities and differences in national reports on
international treaty commitments. The course includes some
theoretical background, but focuses on learning the tools and
techniques to find the proverbial needle in the international
affairs big data haystack. Students develop an original text
mining project and produce an original research paper.
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019
Hist Research in Int'l Studies
03.00
Adcock,R
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Historical Research in International Studies (3)
This course introduces modes of historical research in
international studies that emphasize the use of primary sources.
There are multiple such modes, from the longstanding traditions
of diplomatic history and historical case studies, to
contemporary research agendas in international history and
history of international thought. Students are introduced to
opportunities, challenges, and choices involved in accessing and
interpreting a variety of primary sources, from sources
available online, to those available at the library, to archival
materials. The course highlights methodological pluralism in the
way primary sources are used, examining examples of historical
research employing both interpretive and neo-positivist
methodologies. As students learn about the varieties of primary
sources, of traditions and agendas in historical research, and
of methodologies, they develop, situate in the literature, and
undertake a methodologically self-reflective research project of
their own. Students produced an independent piece of historical
research that could be a basis for future research, conference
presentations, and even potential publication.
CLOSED
020
Field Rsrch Mthd in Int'l St
03.00
Lambright,G
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Field Research Methods in International Studies (3)
This course introduces students to field research methods
commonly used in research on economic and political development.
The course explores a wide range of field research methods
employed by development studies scholars, including ethnography,
participant observation, focus groups, interviews, and surveys
and uses these methods to examine important research questions
related to the meanings and impacts of development in domestic
and international contexts. Students are able to draw on the
wide range of possible subject populations in the Washington, DC
metro area, including local residents, U.S. government
employees, think tank researchers, NGO staff, and journalists,
in conducting their research.
OPEN
021
Sociocultural Field Research
03.00
Venturelli,S
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/17/18 01/17/18
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/31/18 01/31/18
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 02/14/18 02/14/18
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 02/28/18 02/28/18
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 03/07/18 03/07/18
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 03/21/18 03/21/18
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 04/04/18 04/04/18
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 04/18/18 04/18/18
Instructional Method: Hybrid. Sociocultural Field Research on
Deeper Drivers of International Crises (3)
International crises and conflicts that persist in varied
sociocultural and geographic environments often seem resistant
to peacebuilding and stabilization initiatives. They also
present a significant challenge to conventional theories. This
course provides students with the framework and methods to
investigate twenty-first century conflicts and crises in the
field, and to identify and analyze the underlying complex
drivers of instability. Drawing from lessons of wars and
instability over the past decade in regions around the world,
the course focuses on a set of complex sociocultural factors and
their dynamic interactions that are critical to understanding
the deeper motivations, interest and intent of key conflict
players. Using field-simulation workshops, secondary and primary
source analysis, and guided independent research projects,
students develop some core field investigation skills relevant
both to international crisis research and to the design of more
effective international policy.
CANCELLED
022
The Case Study Approach
03.00
MTH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
The Case Study Approach (3)
At its core, the case study approach compares things in order to
identify the causes of key phenomena. This simple goal underlies
the use of case studies both in scholarship and in the world of
practitioners, where conclusions drawn from case studies are
referred to as "lessons learned" or "best practices," and
generalize about the best way that these can best be achieved
under the heading of "knowledge management." This course
familiarizes students both with a range of different strategies
for using case studies within a primarily positivist and
qualitative framework, and with techniques for designing good
knowledge management strategies to bring the use of case studies
into the workplace. The course concludes in a substantial
original research paper and presentation, building on students'
previous work.
OPEN
024
Researching Islam
03.00
Ahmed,A
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Researching Islam: Research Methodology in a Time of Globalized
Terror (3)
After the events on 9/11 and the beginning of the global war on
terror, the need to understand the Muslim world became more
urgent than ever. Many questions emerged among the academic
community, including what the Islamic standpoint is on violence
and its justification; what Islamic traditions are most
promising for support of peacemaking; what are the most
important issues and forces behind contemporary Islamic
activism; and how Muslims are engaging with the globalized
world. Many understood, especially academics and policymakers,
the need to understand Muslim societies beyond the caricatures
and superficial level too often employed in the media. While the
understanding of Muslim societies is needed, it is first
necessary to understand how to conduct in-depth research in the
field among these societies to be able to answer more
substantive research questions. In this course students examine
Muslim culture and customs and the best approaches towards
fieldwork methodology among Muslim societies, looking at
interview methods, use of surveys, and discourse analysis.
Students study the methods of conducting ethnography in Muslim
communities, the various challenges of doing so and how to
interpret the findings, and use these skills to develop and
conduct a research project of their own.
OPEN
026
Case Study Methods
03.00
Mislan,D
MTH 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Case Study Methods (3)
This course surveys the various techniques associated with
small-n neo-positivist research in international studies. These
include process tracing, congruence methods, elite interviewing,
historiography, and more. Ultimately, students are trained to
design and execute case study research. Thus, the course is
practice-based, with fewer lectures and more guided activities.
Students complete their own original case study research on a
topic of their choosing.
OPEN
027
Field Res Uncrtnty/Pol of Fear
03.00
Fontes,A
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Field Research, Uncertainty, and the Politics of Fear (3)
One of the distinguishing features of modern human existence is
a deep and abiding sense of uncertainty. "Living precariously"
has become a byword for everyday life around the globe.
Meanwhile, on a global level, the politics of fear have gained
renewed traction as societies around the world struggle with the
consequences of socio-economic globalization, social and
political conflict, and climate change. The problem of
uncertainty and the politics of fear also pose unique conundrums
for social science research, including how to distinguish
between truth and fiction when prejudice, fear, or outright
violence distort efforts to explain certain social phenomena;
and how to use rumors, sensationalist reporting, and deeply
biased information to understand social relationships and
processes of power. This course engages a variety of
interpretivist research and writing methods--including
ethnography, participant observation, life histories, and
discourse analysis, among others--to guide students through the
problems and possibilities of conducting research in and on
spaces, communities, and discourses of fear and uncertainty.
Students complete an independent research project on a topic of
their choosing, including an original research paper and
presentation, to serve as the basis for future research,
conference presentations, and even potential publication.
OPEN
028
Field Rsrch Mthd in Int'l St
03.00
Metelits,C
TF 08:10AM 09:25AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Field Research Methods in International Studies (3)
This course introduces students to field research methods
commonly used in research on economic and political development.
The course explores a wide range of field research methods
employed by development studies scholars, including ethnography,
participant observation, focus groups, interviews, and surveys
and uses these methods to examine important research questions
related to the meanings and impacts of development in domestic
and international contexts. Students are able to draw on the
wide range of possible subject populations in the Washington, DC
metro area, including local residents, U.S. government
employees, think tank researchers, NGO staff, and journalists,
in conducting their research.
SISU-310
Topics Peace/Glb Sec/Con Res
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-210.
OPEN
001
Pol of Conf/Conf Res in Africa
03.00
Metelits,C
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
The Politics of Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Africa (3)
This course focuses on the politics of recent and on-going
large-scale political violence (i.e., lethal contention among
social groups and political factions, governmental repression,
insurgencies, etc.) in the African context. The course provides
students with analytical frameworks for thinking about these
different actors and dimensions of conflict, and trains students
to formulate and present their own analyses of conflicts.
OPEN
002
Gender and Peace Building
03.00
Wien,B
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Gender and Peace Building (3)
Female power is rising worldwide, at a time when sexual violence
is also increasing. Gender is also being redefined, and women's
roles in peacemaking, peace-building, and peacekeeping are
growing. Research shows females have been challenging unjust
authority, brokering peace agreements, negotiating ceasefires,
and advancing human rights at enormous personal risks, although
their contributions are rarely featured in textbooks or official
records. This course explores cutting-edge issues of gender and
peace from multiple angles and perspectives. Students engage in
active-learning and diverse teaching styles.
OPEN
003
Comp Authorit: Inst & Pract
03.00
Spath,A
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Comparative Authoritarianism: Institutions and Practices (3)
This course begins with two fundamental questions about
authoritarian governance: how authoritarian regimes differ from
democracies, and how they differ from each other. The course
explores comparative frameworks that differentiate among the
diverse forms of dictatorship and focuses on specific cases to
examine the dual dilemmas of dictatorship. How can authoritarian
governments mobilize necessary political support while
simultaneously restricting political freedoms, and how can
authoritarian governments encourage economic development and
investment without political institutions that inhibit
exploitation by government officials? Students gain a nuanced
understanding of non-democratic political systems and are able
to identify characteristics of autocratic governance, the many
ways authoritarian power is exercised by governments, and the
unique challenges they face.
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Negotiation & Conflict Resol
03.00
Wanis-St. John,A
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (3)
Negotiation is a powerful force if conducted with tactics,
strategy, and knowledge of its dynamics. The choice to negotiate
fills the conceptual space between coercion and submission. It's
what do we do when we can't simply get our way in international
affairs. We can threaten, but pure coercion often generates a
backlash. We can also yield, but that might diminish credibility
and invite predatory behavior. In this seminar students learn
how real international negotiations unfold, why they succeed and
fail. The course combines theory and history and offers students
opportunities to practice and refine their own skills.
SISU-318
Topics Global Sec/Foreign Pol
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-210 or SISU-230.
CLOSED
001
Causes of War
03.00
Jensen,B
T 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
OPEN
004
How Small Wars End
03.00
Belding,W
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
How Small Wars End (3)
This course examines two of the most vexing problems of
insurgencies: why asymmetric conflicts pitting weaker non-state
actors against stronger established nations typically last so
long, and often result in tenuous, short-lived peace. The median
duration of insurgencies since 1945 is 8.5 years, and barely
half end with a resolution that endures for more than a decade.
Students in this course gain an understanding of the forces that
determine how small wars end and what can be done to create a
stable and sustainable post-conflict environment.
SISU-319
Arab-Israeli Relations
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-210.
CLOSED
001
03.00
Atzili,B
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-320
Topics in Global Economy
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-220. May be taken A-F only.
CANCELLED
001
International Economic Policy
03.00
Poole,J
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
International Economic Policy (3)
The United States is an increasingly globalized economy,
integrated with other countries through international trade in
goods and services, through direct foreign investment, and
through labor migration. This course discusses the implications
of globalization for the United States and the world economy,
touching on topics that surface in the news daily, such as the
impact of globalization on income, poverty, inequality, the
environment, child labor, and conflict. Other topics include the
impact of offshoring on blue-collar and white-collar jobs and
multinational corporate social responsibility. Finally, the
course addresses the role of international labor migration on
both the source and destination countries and the potential for
brain drain and brain gain.
OPEN
003
International Economic Policy
03.00
Poole,J
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
International Economic Policy (3)
The United States is an increasingly globalized economy,
integrated with other countries through international trade in
goods and services, through direct foreign investment, and
through labor migration. This course discusses the implications
of globalization for the United States and the world economy,
touching on topics that surface in the news daily, such as the
impact of globalization on income, poverty, inequality, the
environment, child labor, and conflict. Other topics include the
impact of offshoring on blue-collar and white-collar jobs and
multinational corporate social responsibility. Finally, the
course addresses the role of international labor migration on
both the source and destination countries and the potential for
brain drain and brain gain.
SISU-324
Topics in Pol Econ of Latin Am
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-220.
OPEN
001
Pol Economy of Latin America
03.00
Taylor,M
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Political Economy of Latin America (3)
Over the past century, Latin America has been a fertile testing
ground for a variety of economic and political theories of
development. Economic experiments have ranged from liberalism
through socialism, passing through various forms of state-led
capitalism along the way. Political experimentation has included
everything from populist authoritarianism to military rule, and
from hybrid democracies to vibrant multiparty presidential
democracies. The remarkable variation in these forms of economic
and political organization has been matched by the breadth of
actors and ideologies present in the fabric of Latin American
states. Drawing on the rich toolbox of comparative political
science, this course examines how political and economic
organization influence each other, the foundations of the ideas
and beliefs that underpin political and economic institutions,
and the evolution of Latin American states and economies since
World War II.
SISU-330
Topics in Natl Sec/Foreign Pol
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-230.
OPEN
001
Israel's National Security
03.00
Arbell,D
W 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Israel's National Security: Challenges and Strategies (3)
Israel's national security is based on the interdependence
between defense, political, and economic factors, with the
military, intelligence, and diplomacy playing a critical role in
safeguarding it. As the world witnesses a realignment of the
great powers and the Middle East is dramatically changing,
Israel faces great challenges and Israel's national security
will depend on its ability to adapt to the new realities. This
course reviews the history and evolution of Israeli national
security, examines principles and roles of institutions in war
and peace, analyzes challenges facing Israel including the rise
of radical Islam, the growth of cyber warfare, and higher
sophistication of terrorist organizations, and how it deals with
them.
OPEN
002
Negotiating Global Challenges
03.00
Ziv,G
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Negotiating Global Challenges (3)
The twenty-first century presents daunting challenges to U.S.
foreign, policy. Instability looms large and it is clear that
the future U.S. role as a global leader is anything but assured.
This course addresses the critical questions of how the United
States has confronted serious policy challenges in the past and
what U.S. policymakers need to do in the coming years to
preserve American power, further U.S. interests, and enhance
global stability. Students draft policy memos, conduct debates,
and partake in simulations focused on the issues of paramount
concern to U.S. foreign policy makers.
OPEN
003
Domestic Sources of USFP
03.00
Murray,S
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Domestic Sources of United States Foreign Policy (3)
This course focuses on the societal forces of United States
foreign policy including the media, interest groups, and public
opinion. The course considers the extent to which leaders can
shape public opinion and the extent to which their actions are
constrained by domestic politics.
CLOSED
004
Diplomatic Practice
03.00
Quainton,A
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Diplomatic Practice (3)
This seminar studies diplomacy in theory, history, and practice,
as a political process and as an instrument of foreign policy.
It covers diplomats' relations with their own governments as
well as the countries in which they serve; how they use
information on the politics, economics, and society of their
host nation; the origin and costs of mistakes; and the future of
diplomacy in an era of globalization and instant communication.
It seeks to illustrate approaches to diplomacy through
historical examples and contemporary case studies, linking
diplomatic practice to current events.
CANCELLED
005
Comparative Foreign Policy
03.00
Mislan,D
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Comparative Foreign Policy (3)
This course studies foreign governments and their foreign policy
behavior. By looking at domestic politics as the driver of a
state's foreign policy, this field provides an alternative to
traditional international relations (IR) theory. This course
introduces students to the field's core concepts and surveys the
foreign policies of great and mid-level powers. Students
complete their own research projects on a country of their
choosing.
CLOSED
007
Intelligence & Nat'l Security
03.00
Rovner,J
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Intelligence and National Security (3)
The United States invests a great deal of money and manpower on
intelligence, but not everyone is satisfied with the return on
investment. In response to alleged intelligence failures before
and after 9/11, Congress ordered a sweeping reorganization of
the intelligence community, culminating in the most substantial
changes since World War II. Meanwhile, scholars went back to
basic questions, including the relationship between intelligence
and national security; how does intelligence influence foreign
policy and strategic decisions; why does it succeed or fail; and
is it possible to conduct secret intelligence in a way that is
consistent with the values of government transparency, public
accountability, and individual freedom. This seminar provides an
overview of the theory and practice of U.S. intelligence. It
details the sources and methods used by collectors, the nature
of intelligence analysis, and the relationship between
intelligence agencies and policymakers. It also contains a short
history of the U.S. intelligence community and evaluates the
ongoing efforts to reform it. Finally, it discusses the uneasy
role of secret intelligence in a modern democracy.
OPEN
008
Cyber Sec/Conflt in Int'l Rel
03.00
Novotny,E
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Cyber Security and Conflict in International Relations (3)
This course introduces students to the history, issues,
policies, and future of cyber security as it relates to
international conflict and relations among nations. The course
covers developments in cyberspace as they relate to espionage,
terrorism, cyber warfare, and cyber crime. Students also obtain
an understanding of cyberspace law and governance and an
introduction to the technical aspects of cyber security,
including issues of privacy, surveillance, and social media.
SISU-334
USFP toward Latin America
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-230.
CANCELLED
001
03.00
Cohn,E
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
SISU-340
Topics in Global Inequalty/Dev
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-240.
CANCELLED
001
The Politics of Foreign Aid
03.00
TH 05:30PM 08:00PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
The Politics of Foreign Aid (3)
This seminar offers a broad survey of the international politics
of foreign aid. Specifically, the use of official development
assistance as a foreign policy tool, as well as the wide variety
of international actors involved in the allocation of foreign
aid is examined. The course seeks to understand the motivations
behind the giving of aid as well as the impact of foreign aid in
recipient countries. Several themes in the political economy of
development are addressed including economic growth, governance,
democracy promotion, human rights, and complex emergencies.
Students learn about the benefits and harms associated with
foreign aid from a variety of perspectives.
CLOSED
003
Urbanization in Africa
03.00
Rhodes,C
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Urbanization in Africa (3)
This course explores the critical issues related to urbanization
in Sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world's most rapidly
urbanizing regions. The course explores a range of issues
related to governance, service delivery, infrastructure, and
transportation across a diverse set of cases, ranging from small
and medium sized African towns to examples of African
megacities, such as Kinshasa, Lagos, and Nairobi. The course
critically examines the factors that contribute to urban
inequalities and the strategies undertaken to improve living
conditions of African urban residents.
OPEN
004
Religion, Security & Devel
03.00
Esser,D
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Religion, Security and Development (3)
This course examines complex causal relationships between
religious practices and institutions, freedom from bodily harm,
and human development across its economic, ecological, social
and political dimensions. It covers different traditions of
Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Agnosticism; explores
different forms of violence at the scales of households,
communities, sub-national regions, countries, and world regions;
and integrates qualitative and basic quantitative methods of
inquiry. Assigned readings comprise monographs and excerpts from
textbooks as well as book chapters and scholarly articles. In
addition to developing substantive knowledge about the
religion-security-development nexus, students should expect the
course to help them train their analytical and writing skills.
SISU-349
Topics Glb Ineq,Dev,Env,Hlth
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-240 or SISU-250.
CLOSED
002
Politics of Population
03.00
Robinson,R
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Politics of Population (3)
This course introduces students to population studies, which
includes the analysis of population structures and dynamics
overall, as well as the specific study of fertility, mortality,
and migration. In particular, the class reflects on how these
areas have been politicized by various actors at different
points in time around the world. Research on the relationship
between population growth and the environment, the impact of age
structure on security and conflict, the influence of family
planning programs on fertility, the effect of aging on the
economy, and a variety of issues related to international
migration are explored. Meets with SOCY-396 003.
(Meets with SOCY 396 003)
SISU-350
Topics in Env Sustain/Glb Hlth
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-250.
OPEN
001
Int'l Food & Agricultural Pol
03.00
Graddy-Lovelace,T
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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 to this course.
International Food and Agricultural Politics (3)
This course analyzes key international food and agricultural
policies by contextualizing them, with the guiding intention to
provide a forum wherein students learn from and contribute to
the work underway in cultivating more socially just and
ecologically sustainable agri-food systems, in the United States
and abroad. The course begins with historical and geographical
contexts, such as colonialism to slavery, of agriculture and
agricultural policy in the Americas. The class then studies
policies and political theories related to the pressing issues
at stake in agriculture, be they ecological (soil and
biodiversity erosion, water pollution and carbon emissions) or
socio-economic (hunger, labor, health, agrarian livelihood).
Finally, the course ends by engaging proposed resolutions to
these issues from reforms to revolutions to regenerations. By
employing a post-colonial perspective, the course provides
in-depth context on dominant, oversimplified policy tropes such
as climate-smart agriculture, farm subsidies, and feeding the
world. Key questions examined include what constitutes
sustainable agriculture or agroecology; what constitutes
community food security, food justice, and food sovereignty; how
these lofty goals are contested and negotiated through political
debate and whether they can be facilitated through policy.
SISU-352
Environmental Politics of Asia
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-250.
OPEN
001
03.00
Shapiro,J
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-358
Global Health
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-250, or STAT-202 and PUBH-340.
WAIT-1
001
03.00
Carruth,L
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
OPEN
002
03.00
Carruth,L
TF 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-360
Topics in Iden/Race/Gend/Cultr
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-260.
OPEN
001
Race/Ethnicity Across Americas
03.00
Bohrt,M
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Race and Ethnicity across the Americas (3)
This course is an introduction to the politics of race and
ethnicity across the Americas in comparative and historical
perspective. The course is about how racial thought differently
took hold across the region, how race and ethnicity came to
differentially structure access to rights, resources, and
recognition in various sociohistorical contexts, and how ethnic
and racial movements have contested exclusion nationally and
internationally. The course encourages students to think
critically and historically about the politics and workings of
race and ethnicity across and beyond the Americas.
SISU-370
Topics Just/Ethics/Human Rgts
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-270
CANCELLED
001
Free Speech: Right or Crime
03.00
Benesch,S
W 11:20AM 02:10PM 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.
In China, netizens meet on a bootleg version of Twitter and on
web forums, racing government censors who delete their posts. In
France, cartoonists and others were massacred in January 2015
for the content of their magazine. On YouTube, female students'
daily movements were tracked online by their classmates, along
with scenarios for raping them. ISIS proudly posts videos of
beheadings. In Russia, extremist bloggers call for another
Holocaust. In Kenya, hate speech was broadcast via SMS blasts,
leading to mass killings, but at the same time, Kenyans used SMS
and the web to report and contain violence. 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 including the ones mentioned above and the
knotty questions they pose, such as how to let free speech
flourish while inhibiting hate, terrorism, and genocide.
CLOSED
003
Just/Eth/Human Rgts Hispaniola
03.00
Wigfall-Williams,W
MTH 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Justice, Ethics, and Human Rights in Hispaniola (3)
This course begins with a focus on the long-standing contentious
relationship between the Dominican Republic (DR) and Haiti.
Although the two nations share the island of Hispaniola, the
relationship between them has neither been neighborly nor
cooperative. The Dominican government passed legislation in 2013
mandating that Dominicans of Haitian descent who do not have
official citizenship documents and were born after 1929 be
stripped of their citizenship and deported to Haiti immediately.
This legislation has an impact on the stability of both nations.
Students examine the history of the Dominican Republic and its
struggles with defining its national identity, identify the
myriad strategies employed to whiten the nation, and develop
recommendations to mitigate the serious threat to nearly 300,000
Haitian migrants and Dominicans of Haitian descent residing in
the DR. The course examines how the stark differences in human
rights protections for Dominicans of Haitian descent residing in
the Dominican Republic not only violates their human rights, but
denies them legal recourse.
OPEN
004
Perspectives on Ethics & Power
03.00
Field,L
TF 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Perspectives on Ethics and Power (3)
Every day, everywhere, people form judgments about actions: the
actions of ourselves and others, and of corporations,
governments, and international organizations. While we care
passionately about the questions was that just; was it fair; was
it necessary?, our answers are often inconclusive. In this
course students learn to think critically and systematically
about ethics. The field of ethics is interested in the norms
that govern collective life, and in the question of what human
beings owe to one another. Serious ethical judgment, however,
involves more than mere appeal to convention, authority, or
opinion; instead, it requires articulation of coherent
perspectives on right action, careful consideration of
alternative views, and critical reflection on the limits of
human judgment. A variety of established theories of ethics such
as Realism, Utilitarianism, Deontology, Virtue Ethics, and
Postmodern Ethics are studied and students work to put them in
conversation with each other through the use of case studies. A
persistent underlying question is whether it is possible, and
important, to define a universal ethics, or whether morality can
and should only be shaped and defined locally.
CANCELLED
005
After War: Rebuilding States
03.00
MTH 09:45AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
After War: Rebuilding Shattered States (3)
What happens when war ends? How can broken or newly established
states make the transition from conflict to stability? The end
of war may well be described as the "dangerous hour" as a weak
state needs to address the underlying causes of the conflict
such as systemic economic inequities, highly fragmented
political, sociocultural networks, porous borders, and the
presence of different types of criminal networks.
Simultaneously, it has to establish the rule of law, disarm
combatants, and respond to its obligations to international
agreements. This course exposes students to some of the
pertinent economic, political, legal, and ethical challenges and
opportunities that face nation-states emerging from conflict.
Using case studies, it critically examines some of the
techniques used by both international intermediaries and local
stakeholders to address issues of economic and political
governance, security reform, effective human rights regimes, and
post-conflict justice.
CANCELLED
006
Free Speech: Right Or Crime
03.00
Benesch,S
M 11:20AM 02:10PM 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.
In China, netizens meet on a bootleg version of Twitter and on
web forums, racing government censors who delete their posts. In
France, cartoonists and others were massacred in January 2015
for the content of their magazine. On YouTube, female students'
daily movements were tracked online by their classmates, along
with scenarios for raping them. ISIS proudly posts videos of
beheadings. In Russia, extremist bloggers call for another
Holocaust. In Kenya, hate speech was broadcast via SMS blasts,
leading to mass killings, but at the same time, Kenyans used SMS
and the web to report and contain violence. 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 including 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-379
Topics Human Rgts/Iden/Culture
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-260 or SISU-270.
OPEN
001
Pol of Policing/Incarcert/Race
03.00
Schneider,C
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
The Politics of Policing, Incarceration, and Race in the United
States and Europe (3)
This course looks at the dynamic interaction of race, policing,
and criminal justice in Europe and the United States. In
particular, it looks at the construction of national, racial,
ethnic, and religious boundaries, and the impact of these
boundaries on police, penal institutions, and targeted groups in
the United States and Europe. The course focuses on the way in
which racial fears and political opportunism have shaped
criminal justice policies in the United States and Europe.
SISU-380
Topics in Global & Comp Govern
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-280.
OPEN
001
Pol of Intl Criminal Courts
03.00
Rudolph,C
TF 11:20AM 12:35PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Politics of International Criminal Courts (3)
Civilians have comprised half of all war-related deaths over the
past three centuries. In the twentieth century, when civilian
war casualties are combined with those targeted by their own
governments, the number rises to nearly 360 million people. For
those who experience or witness atrocities, shock and grief are
often followed by an urgent cry for justice, a primal anguish
born of human tragedy. During what some have called "the century
of genocide," the global hue and cry for justice continued to
grow. A growing global movement for justice gave rise to
significant growth in international criminal law. This course
explores the politics of international criminal law by examining
the emergence of international courts, the factors that shaped
their formation, the politics of their design, and their impact
on international society. These elements are examined in depth
through a study of international criminal courts, including the
Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals, the ICTY and ICTR, hybrid
tribunals, and the International Criminal Court.
CANCELLED
002
Nationalism, Race and Identity
03.00
Darden,K
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Nationalism, Race and Identity (3)
This course examines the sources and consequences of the most
powerful political loyalties and attachments: the bonds of
peoplehood, which have motivated both war and political violence
as well as empathy and sacrifice for strangers. After examining
the origins of these attachments, the course seeks to use our
understanding of these bonds to explain patterns of ethnic
cleansing, genocide, and war, voting behavior, and secession and
state formation.
CANCELLED
003
International Organizations
03.00
MTH 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
International Organizations (3)
International organizations (IOs) are important but flawed
actors in global and regional governance as they attempt to
solve or avert important problems that do not respect national
borders. This course examines the origins, roles, and
performance of IOs in areas that include economic development,
international security, trade, and humanitarian assistance.
OPEN
004
Pol/Soc Challenges in Latin Am
03.00
Giraudy,M
TF 02:30PM 03:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Political and Social Challenges in Latin America (3)
This course provides an overview of the major contemporary
themes debated in the Latin American politics scholarly
literature. Students gain substantial theoretical and empirical
knowledge on the region's models of economic development,
political institutions, welfare regimes, indigenous movements,
political parties, and social actors, among others. Students
study both broad trends and cross-country diversity through the
study of select cases, including Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia,
Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela, among others. In
addition, they become familiar with the major analytical debates
and approaches to the study of Latin American politics and
society. The seminar provides students with empirical,
theoretical, and analytic tools to critically assess the
unfolding of past, current, and future economic, social, and
political events in Latin America.
SISU-386
Contemporary Africa
Prerequisite: SISU-206 and SISU-280.
OPEN
001
03.00
LeVan,A
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-391
Internship in Int'l Studies
Permission: internship coordinator and SIS undergraduate studies
office.
OPEN
001
01.00-06.00
Schneider,D
Instructional Method: Online.
OPEN
002
01.00-06.00
Kelley,J
CLOSED
003
Peace Corps Prep
01.00-06.00
Angelsmith,S
CLOSED
004
Peace Corps Prep
01.00-06.00
Angelsmith,S
Instructional Method: Online.
CLOSED
005
Peace Corps Prep
01.00-06.00
Angelsmith,S
Instructional Method: Online.
CLOSED
006
Peace Corps Prep
01.00-06.00
Angelsmith,S
Instructional Method: Online.
CLOSED
007
Peace Corps Prep
01.00-06.00
Angelsmith,S
Instructional Method: Online.
OPEN
008
Peace Corps Prep
01.00-06.00
Angelsmith,S
Instructional Method: Online.
SISU-393
Int'l Relations Theory
OPEN
001
03.00
Adcock,R
TF 12:55PM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-394
Comm Service Learning Project
Permission: instructor and Center for Community Engagement &
Service.
OPEN
001
Int'l Food & Agri Politics
01.00
Graddy-Lovelace,T
CLOSED
002
Int'l Food & Agricultural Pol
01.00
Graddy-Lovelace,T
CLOSED
003
Pol of Policing/Incarcert/Race
01.00
Schneider,C
SISU-397
SIS Honors Colloquium
Prerequisite: SISU-206.
CANCELLED
001
Climate Chnge: Finding Answers
03.00
Nicholson,S
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Climate Change: Finding Answers on a Warming Planet (3)
Climate change is the most profound challenge facing humanity.
Tackling climate change will take all of humanity's ingenuity
and grit; this course asks how humanity should respond. In the
course students work together to comprehend the nature of
climate change and uncover effective entry-points for action.
The course unpacks the physical science and complex politics of
climate change, and looks at climate change's effects on and
implications for human development, global security, and other
domains of human life and livelihood. It then examines the
economic, social, political, and technological tools that are
being considered as forms of response. Restriction: SIS Honors
Program. Meets with SISU-397 101.
(Meets with SISU 397 101)
CANCELLED
101
Climate Chnge: Finding Answers
03.00
Nicholson,S
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Climate Change: Finding Answers on a Warming Planet (3)
Climate change is the most profound challenge facing humanity.
Tackling climate change will take all of humanity's ingenuity
and grit; this course asks how humanity should respond. In the
course students work together to comprehend the nature of
climate change and uncover effective entry-points for action.
The course unpacks the physical science and complex politics of
climate change, and looks at climate change's effects on and
implications for human development, global security, and other
domains of human life and livelihood. It then examines the
economic, social, political, and technological tools that are
being considered as forms of response. Permission: SIS Honors
Director. Meets with SISU-397 001.
(Meets with SISU 397 001)
SISU-419
Senior Capstone: Int'l Studies
Prerequisite: SISU-306. Restriction: International Studies (BA)
and at least 75 credit hours.
WAIT-2
001
Peace and Social Justice
03.00
McCarthy,C
W 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
CANCELLED
002
Rebellious Africa
03.00
LeVan,A
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Rebellious Africa (3)
This course explores how political institutions shape
representation and resource distribution challenges facing
Africa. In addition to considering oil income, ethnic diversity
and authoritarian histories, the course interrogates the complex
role of religion in contemporary democracies. Readings and guest
speakers examine constitutions, political party formation and
institutional design in cases such as Sudan, Kenya, and
Ethiopia, and assess in detail whether Nigeria's violent Islamic
insurgency is a symptom of institutional failure.
CLOSED
003
Evolutn of European Int'l Soc
03.00
Banks,D
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
The Evolution of European International Society (3)
The modern worldwide system of sovereign states began as a
European international society that spread across the world and
eventually supplanted all alternatives. In this course students
study the evolution and expansion of this system and the
consequences it has had for world history and contemporary
politics. The class studies what European politics looked like
before sovereign states dominated, how sovereignty came into
being, how European international society differed from and
interacted with the international societies of other regions,
and how it is evolving today.
CANCELLED
004
Emerg Technologies & Environ
03.00
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA CANCELLED
Emerging Technologies and the Environment (3)
Technology is at once a driver of and response to global
environmental challenges. This course looks at cutting edge
technologies such as nanotechnology, genetic modification,
synthetic biology, and climate geoengineering, and whether these
technologies will lead the way to sustainability, or make things
worse.
CLOSED
005
Strategies of Rebellion
03.00
Stewart,M
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
CLOSED
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Art and Post-War Healing
03.00
Gregorian,H
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Art and Post-War Healing (3)
The humanities are a rich, if an inexplicably muted color in the
peacebuilding palette. Revealing a traumatic experience induces
feelings of shame as well as a threat to self-survival. This
course examines forms of self-expression that can help to
restore self-stability and proceeds on the assumption that
individual healing is one good path to community recovery and
resilience. Students are exposed to various arts-based healing
techniques and learn about the current practices in the use of
the arts for post-conflict healing, as well as the effects of
traumatic events on the body and mind and strategies for
practitioner self-care.
CLOSED
007
Ending Terrorism
03.00
Cronin,A
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Ending Terrorism (3)
Terrorism as a phenomenon is ancient, dating at least to the
first century BCE. But individual terrorist campaigns always
end. This capstone seminar focuses on understanding the endings
of terrorist campaigns so as to gain insight into how best to
reduce the threat of terrorism. Digging into the long-standing
international experience with terrorist groups, the class
discusses questions such as whether drone strikes end terrorism;
should we negotiate with terrorists; does using overwhelming
military force end terrorist campaigns; how do terrorists
innovate; does terrorism succeed in achieving its aims; and most
important, how terrorist campaigns end.
OPEN
008
Contentious Politics
03.00
Zhang,Y
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Contentious Politics (3)
This course provides an introduction to contentious politics and
helps students develop capstone projects on related topics. It
places empirical emphasis on large-scale, transformative
movements that often persist over time, involve massive
mobilization, and result in fundamental sociopolitical changes.
Historical and contemporary examples include democratic
revolutions, communist revolutions, decolonization movements,
nationalist movements, ethno-religious conflicts, the Arab
Spring, and the Civil Rights Movement. This course introduces
major theories proposing to explain the causes, courses, and
consequences of these movements, while also giving attention to
their contexts, complexities, and contingencies. It hence offers
students analytic tools to use when conducting their research.
OPEN
009
Japanese Society & Foreign Pol
03.00
Zhao,Q
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Japanese Society and Foreign Policy (3)
As a major power in Asia-Pacific, Japan's role has drawn
attention not only from the region, but also from around the
world. This course familiarizes students with a variety of
theoretical and historical backgrounds that are related to Japan
and the Asia-Pacific. Students then begin to examine the basic
issues of Japanese society, politics, and foreign relations; and
investigate the evolution of Japan's political development,
policy-making process, and economic performance. Furthermore,
the course pays close attention to Japan's role in the
international community with specific focus on Japan's relations
with the United States, and its Asian neighbors, such as China,
Russia, and the two Koreas. Students actively participate in the
debate over the nature of Japanese society and politics, as well
as future directions of Japanese foreign policy.
OPEN
010
When Peace Creates Conflict
03.00
Thompson,E
M 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
When Peace Creates Conflict (3)
In this course students examine World War I and the 1919 Paris
Peace Conference to understand how the terms of peace can
provoke ethnic, gender, religious and national conflict. Topics
include how the 1918 armistice politicized the trauma of trench
warfare and helped transform the Russian Revolution into civil
war; how postwar treaties planted seeds of violent political
movements in Eastern Europe and the Middle East; and how the new
League of Nations stirred decades of anti-colonial conflict in
Asia and Africa. Students choose one aspect of this history or a
comparable topic for deeper research and a final project.
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Narcotrafficking in Mexico
03.00
Gallaher,C
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Narcotrafficking in Mexico (3)
This course looks at the drug trade in Mexico. Although Mexico
has always exported drugs into the United States, the drug trade
changed substantially in the 1990s. Drug trafficking groups grew
more sophisticated and more violent and kidnapping, extortion,
and murder tallies all increased during the 2000s. The course
introduces students to this complex trade by tracing the trade
and shifts in it through the twentieth and early twenty-first
centuries. The devastating impacts of narcotrafficking and the
country's political system, its social and cultural fabric, and
its economic organization are also examined.
OPEN
012
Empathy/Cuban Missile Crisis
03.00
Brenner,P
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Empathy, Cuban Missile Crisis, and International Conflict (3)
Empathy or death! That is the key lesson the world should have
derived from the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and it may be a
lesson even more relevant today. This course explores the
lessons each of the three countries, Cuba, the Soviet Union, and
the United States, derived from the crisis. It then examines the
role empathy and the lack of empathy played in the crisis, and
considers whether empathy might be a useful approach to resolve
contemporary international conflicts.
OPEN
013
Transitional Justice
03.00
Cohn,E
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Transitional Justice (3)
This course considers reconciliation and transitional justice in
countries transitioning to democracy. It explores the process of
transitional justice in countries with different political
histories, including Apartheid, Communism, and dictatorship or
authoritarianism. By examining and comparing these cases,
students gain a better understanding of the complex political,
economic, social, psychological, and moral issues that countries
are grappling with in their efforts to come to terms with the
past. This is a writing intensive course.
OPEN
014
Neg Israeli-Palestinian Peace
03.00
Ziv,G
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Negotiating Israeli-Palestinian 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.
OPEN
015
Theory and Practice of the G20
03.00
Nahon,M
TH 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Theory and Practice of the G20 (3)
Since 2008, the G20 has become the premiere forum for
international economic cooperation, gathering leading advanced
and emerging economies alike. This course addresses the
discussions, contributions and challenges of the G20 on key
issues of the international economic agenda, including global
growth, trade negotiations, tax and financial reform, climate
change, and labor and employment.
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Sustainable Urban Development
03.00
Kiechel,V
W 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Sustainable Urban Development (3)
This course offers an opportunity for a supervised practical
application of concurrently studied theory. Using a real-world
collaborative project as the springboard and destination, the
course considers the means, methods, and components of
sustainable and adaptive cities; understands the barriers to
urban sustainability; and devises and applies an integrated,
globally-replicable, triple-bottom line (economically
beneficial, socially equitable, and environmentally healthy)
approach to a local urban context.
OPEN
017
Alt to Traditional Capitalism
03.00
Tomasko,R
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
Alternatives to Traditional Capitalism (3)
This course examines the worldwide emergence of enterprises with
a social as well as an economic purpose. The potential of these
social enterprises in reducing inequality is considered as well
as their potential to challenge and change traditional
market-based capitalism. Alternatives to be covered include
B-Corps, collaborative consumption/sharing economy,
community-owned ventures, co-determination, co-operatives,
conscious capitalism, employee ownership, shared value, and
social enterprises. The emerging infrastructure to provide them
with financial and management support is also considered,
including mechanisms such as crowd funding, impact investing,
and venture philanthropy. Students assess the potential for this
sector's global growth. They analyze case studies, do fieldwork
in the thriving Washington DC community of alternative
enterprises, and prepare a prospectus for a potential new
venture that they design.
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Conflict Cuisine
03.00
Mendelson-Forman,J
TH 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
SISU-432
Topics in Int'l Law & Orgs
Restriction: Washington Semester Program.
OPEN
004
Int'l Law & Orgs Seminar I
04.00
Maisch,C
M 08:10AM 11:00AM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
OPEN
005
Int'l Law & Orgs Seminar II
04.00
Maisch,C
W 02:30PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
OPEN
006
Law & Orgs Internship
04.00
Maisch,C
W 05:30PM 06:45PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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 TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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
005
Int'l Pol/For Policy Sem II
04.00
Calabrese,J
F 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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.
OPEN
006
Int'l Pol/For Policy Intern
04.00
Calabrese,J
W 04:05PM 05:20PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
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
007
Int'l Pol/For Policy Res Proj
04.00
Nimer,M
W 06:55PM 08:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
International Politics and Foreign Policy Research Project (4)
Students have the opportunity to investigate important issues
relating to international politics and foreign policy.
SISU-441
SIS Honors Project II
Prerequisite: SISU-440.
OPEN
001
03.00
Knight,S
M 11:20AM 02:10PM TBA TBA 01/16/18 05/08/18
SISU-490
Ind Research in Int'l Studies
Permission: instructor and SIS undergraduate studies office.
OPEN
001
Sustainable and LEED Design
01.00-06.00
Kiechel,V
OPEN
002
Big Data Analytics
01.00-06.00
Cogburn,D
CLOSED
003
Former Yugoslavia and US FP
01.00-06.00
Schneider,D
CLOSED
004
South Pacific Indigenaity
01.00-06.00
Collins,E
CLOSED
005
Spring Semester Icorps Program
01.00-06.00
Cogburn,D
CLOSED
006
Religious Expression in FR 2
01.00-06.00
Auerbach,A
CLOSED
007
Capstone:freedom/Liberation
01.00-06.00
Wien,B
OPEN
008
Cambodian Genocide
01.00-06.00
Collins,E
CLOSED
009
Intrastate Vio & Cycl Econ
01.00-06.00
Belding,W
CLOSED
010
Post-Conflict Development
01.00-06.00
Nuamah,K
OPEN
011
Competition over CARS
01.00-06.00
Shelton-Colby,S
CLOSED
012
Political Economy in Cambodia
01.00-06.00
Heng-Blackburn,P
OPEN
013
Transitional Justice in Rwanda
01.00-06.00
Shepler,S
CLOSED
014
Conservation in East Africa
01.00-06.00
Freeman,S
CLOSED
015
Dialogue of Civilizations
01.00-06.00
Ahmed,A
CLOSED
016
Independent Study Project
01.00-06.00
Martin,G