Courses

This course will introduce the student to the subject of terrorism.   The course will cover the causes of terrorism, the goals and strategies pursued by terrorist groups, the extent to which terrorism succeeds in …

This course will examine the origins and forms of what a legal scholar once called an “odious scourge”: genocide. For years, genocide mainly referred to the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews during World War …

In this course we’ll explore the rich cultures and histories of what we now call China, Korea, and Japan. As we work, we will linger on three ideas or images that have particularly influenced North …

Southeast Asia is a region that today consists of eleven nations: Brunei, Cambodia (Kampuchea), East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, each with its own history, cultural and ethnic diversity, …

Formally, this course will teach you how to understand quantitative analysis, how to develop a question that you can answer, how to collect and analyze the data and how to present your conclusions to others.  …

This course introduces students to the study of political theory by considering a series of big political ideas: truth, happiness, justice, power, freedom, and democracy. We will study the arguments made about these ideas by …

Welcome to “Citizenship, Democracy, and Difference”! This course is designed to give you, and all of us collectively, an opportunity to develop our conceptions of ourselves as citizens. When you earn a college degree, you …

This course is an introduction to some of the key concepts and theoretical approaches in the comparative politics subfield of political science, and to the government and politics in select countries. Comparative politics is the …

This Honors Class in “Introduction to American Government” will concentrate on three goals, and it is the combination of these three, rather than the load in any one, that should distinguish the class:    The …

This course offers an introduction to the major institutions, participants, and processes in American politics. The focus is on how the structure of our political system conditions the practice of politics at the national level …