Sustainability Courses

Prepares students for competition in intercollegiate Ethics Bowl by teaching them how to analyze real-world ethical dilemmas using interdisciplinary research, moral theory, and political philosophy. Each quarter the class examines a new set of cases taken from a variety of fields. Past cases have featured controversies over criminal law, corporate misbehavior, the government's responsibility to help victims of climate change, and the regulation of biotechnology.

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How has well-being been represented (in popular and academic discourses) as a thing to be attained in the 21st century? This course will offer a more complex perspective on the lived experience of well-being particularly in an era in which humans face potential catastrophe from myriad sources: environmental, political, social, economic, etc. We will read literary narratives of homelessness (exile, dislocation, refugee-ism, a sense of being estranged or a stranger, etc.) that, simultaneously, loc...

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Federal Indian Law examines the law that governs the relationship among American Indian tribes, the federal and state governments and those persons who may be subject to tribal jurisdiction. The course provides an overview of the history of federal Indian policy and legal development. It introduces the student to (a) civil and criminal jurisdiction within Indian country; (b) tribal sovereignty and sovereign immunity; (c) environmental law concerns in Indian country; (d) tribal taxation; (e) trib...

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Cultivates global citizenship through the social and cultural foundations of International Studies. Applies an interdisciplinary set of concepts and theories to diversely globalized situations. Develops students' reflexive practices, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving aptitude across boundaries and differences. Prepares students for study abroad and further coursework in the major.

Read more about INST-2000 : Introduction to International Studies

This course focuses on comprehension of geographical concepts and critical analysis of regional patterns and issues. We address important social, economic and environmental questions by exploring how geography can help us understand human-environment relations, political and economic processes, population dynamics, social discrimination, and other development concerns throughout the world.

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Political diversity in contemporary nations of Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Structures of power and the social effects of public policies. Applies theories of political economy and political sociology. Cross-listed with PLSC 2300.

Read more about INST-2300 : Introduction to Comparative Politics

Analysis of the international system, including balance of power theory, theories of international cooperation, and of global peace and justice. Major themes include war, nationalism, the global economy, the European Community, interventionism, and the new world order. Cross-listed with PLSC 2600.

Read more about INST-2600 : Introduction to International Politics

Four struggles: democratization, sovereignty, development, equity. Consideration of political economy, history, institutions, key actors and case studies. Democratic and authoritarian regimes, state-led and market-led economic policies, revolutionary and non-violent social movements, and identity politics. Cross-listed with PLSC 3550.

Read more about INST-3200 : Latin American Politics

Theoretical insights from political science and human geography including historical and ideational perspectives. Themes include sovereignty and intervention, inter-American organizations, trade and development, trans-American migration, and drug trafficking. Cross-listed with PLSC 3640.

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This course investigates how the transitions between the Ottoman Empire, British and French colonization, and national independence have shaped the modern Middle East (1798-present). The course uses the cultural outputs-songs, movies, books-of the region's artists, writers, and politicians to help us understand how the people of the Middle East experienced the region's political transitions. European and American actions in the region have contributed to and impeded the social, political, and ec...

Read more about INST-3560 : History of the Modern Middle East