Grad Courses

4001 The European Union & Econ Pol (4 credits): The European Union (EU) has become the world's leading governmental policy-making body. As such, an understanding of the EU itself and its leading role is revealing in terms of where world environmental policy is heading. This program will consider the EU's leading role and consider what it means for Europeans, North Americans, and the rest of the world as well. Students will have the benefit of three course leaders who, collectively, hold post graduate degrees (i.e., history, law in the U.S. and E.U., sociology) in both the E.U. and U.S., are familiar with environmental issues on both sides of the Atlantic, and have served in high-level government, academic, and business positions in both the E.U. and U.S.
4002 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4003 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4010 Epistemology (5 credits): An intorductory course covering philosophy and history of science, epistemology, causality, and the logic of inquiry as related to international studies. The relation between theory and practical politics is explored, and differences between empirical and normative theory are examined in the context of foundational principles of politics and social science.
4012 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4013 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4014 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4015 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4017 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4018 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4019 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4020 Preparing a Grant Proposal (5 credits): An intermediate course on mehtodological issues in scientific data analysis. Topics include the logic of hypothesis testing, modes of gathering data, sampling, experimental and non-experimental design, index construction, bivariate and multivariate techniques, and causal inference fallacies. Prerequisites: INTS 4050
4022 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4023 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4024 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4025 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4026 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4030 Critical Theory (5 credits): An advanced course exploring the philosophy of science debates between realists, neo-Kantains, and empiricists. Feminist arguments in epistemology, and conceptualization of democracy, and individuality in politcial science research are also discussed. Prerequisites: INTS 4010
4041 Comp World Pol-Teachers (3 credits)
4042 Comp World Pol-Teachers (5 credits)
4043 Comp World Pol-Teachers (5 credits)
4044 Int'l Comp & Teachers (5 credits)
4045 Special Studies in IR (1 to 5 credits)
4050 Statistical Methods I (0 or 5 credits): An introductory course featuring statistical reasoning, probablity, sampling, statistical inference, nominal and ordinal measures of association, and correlation. Open only to students with no prior background in statistics.
4051 Statistical Methods II (0 or 5 credits): An intermediate course covering survey research methods, analysis of variances, t-test, correlation, and various methods in multivariate analysis, such as regression, time series, and causal models. Prerequisites INTS 4050
4052 Statistical Methods III (5 credits): This course will serve as continuation of Statistical Methods II. This will be an applied, non-calculus based course on statistical techniques used in nonparametric and multivariate analysis. Emphasis will be on applications and data analysis using the statistical software package SAS. Prerequisite: INTS 4051 or equivalent.
4053 Statistical Methods IV (3 or 5 credits): This course is the fourth in a series of statistical methods courses. The first two cover the basic concepts in statistical analysis from descriptive statistics up through multiple regression analysis. The third course covers popular multivariate techniques and the writing/critiquing of empirical research papers. Emphasis in this fourth course is on broad applications of statistics as they relate to policy decision making. Prerequisite: INTS 4052 or equivalent.
4054 Qualitative Rsrch/Dev Contexts (5 credits): Researchers investigate qualitative research to promote accuracy and justice in developing contexts. Students employ a variety of media to examine indigenous research, institutional review boards and human subject research, critical and performance ethnography, arts-based inquiry, narrative inquiry, Foucault, the ethics and strategies of on-line research, cultural and investigative poetics, and/or the politics of evaluation. Using sustainability lenses including scale, geography, issues of equity and justice, different ways of measuring social well being, micro- and macroeconomic signals (i.e., prices or taxes) which affect research, as well as the effects of spirituality and cultural beliefs, students identify needed reforms. The environment is active, highly participative and experiential.
4055 Graduate Tech. Seminar (3 credits): Learn to apply appropriate technology to the organiation and delivery of information in print, online and presentation formats. Includes an introductio to web design and devdlopment principles.
4056 Info Mgmt in Human Crises (5 credits): Accurate, reliable and timely data collection, processing, analysis and dissemination (four steps in information management) are critical for the effective implementation of both development and humanitarian programs. In humanitarian responses, there are numerous challenges to managing information in what may be a rapidly evolving situation. This course introduces students to the theory of information management and its application in the humanitarian context.
4057 Statistics for Int'l Affairs (5 credits): A first course in statistics taught at an accelerated pace. This course combines materials typically offered in an introductory course and an intermediate course. Topics include statistical reasoning, probability, statistical inference, measures of association, survey research methods, analysis of variance and regression. There are no prerequisites but students are expected to have reasonably strong quantitative skills.
4079 Teaching Area Studies (3 credits)
4080 Teaching Conflict Resolution (3 credits)
4100 Intermediate Microeconomics (3 credits)
4120 Spc Stds: Origins of Cold War (1 to 5 credits)
4121 Cold War-Hist & Historiography (5 credits)
4125 US Foreign Policy to 1914 (4 credits)
4126 Hist US Foreign Pol Since 1914 (4 credits)
4128 World History in Era of Glbl. (5 credits): This course is a survey of world history since 1945. Emphasis is placed upon the constellations of international forces, in particular the Cold War world order and the transition to the post-Cold War era of globalization. The cultural, economic, social and state-specific political underpinnings of these constellations will be studied in order to understand both the relative stability of the Cold War era and the volatility of the era of globalization. Methodically, this is a history course and students become familiar with historical thinking by doing exercises and papers that permit them to practice several of the skills commonly used by historians.
4130 Hist US Foreign Pol Since 1932 (5 credits)
4140 Europe Since 1914 (4 credits)
4141 Domestic/Int'l Conseq:Drug War (5 credits): Domestic and international policy and the impact of the drug war on both.
4142 After the Fall: Russia & China (5 credits): Provides analysis of the historical rise of Russia and China, and their complex inter-relationship and interaction with the United States and the world.
4143 Vietnam & Iraq: US Frgn Policy (5 credits): This course will focus on the similarities and differences between two decisions to go to war: Vietnam in the Johnson administration and Iraq in the Bush administration. The topics covered will include: the nature of foreign policy decision making in American democracy, checks and balances in the legislative and Judicial branches of government, the role of intelligence gathering in the two wars, as well as reflections on the media and public opinion. While the literature on Vietnam War is far more extensive than the more recent Iraq war, the current war has produced lively literature, even though it does not have the time perspective of the earlier conflict.
4145 Europe Since 1939 (4 credits)
4146 Wars Without End (5 credits)
4147 American Govt & Pol. Making (5 credits): Examines governmental fragmentation affects and policies and examines how policy issues engage different segments of the government.
4150 Approaches to History (5 credits)
4151 Hist, Cult and Conflict (5 credits): An introductory course examining how and why historians develop diverse interpretations of events and periods. Methods of analyzing evidence, selecting research material, and supporting agruments are discussed and evaluated in assessments of selected historical cases. Methodological ties between the historiographic appraoch and social sciences including anthropolgy and psychology, as well as the study of gender are also drawn.
4152 Intro Comparative History (5 credits)
4160 European Imperialism-20th Cen (5 credits)
4161 European Regional Integration (5 credits): This course examines the evolution and dynamics of the EU and in particular concepts, theories and EU policies.
4162 Future of European Union (5 credits): Course attempts to inform and stimulate discussion and debate concerning issues lying at the heart of debate of the future of the EU.
4172 Psychohistory & Decision Mkng (3 credits)
4173 Mexico & Venezuela (4 credits): This course will focus on revolutions for independence and justice - initially emancipation from slavery - in the Hemisphere. By exploring key historic sites in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico and Caracas, Venezuela, the course will analyze a century of struggles and social movements in Mexico in the context of the American Revolution (where ironically the Empire freed 1/4 of all slaves), the revolution made by slaves which created Haiti against French colonialism, and the Venezuelan revolution. As a meaningful case, we will explore the Zapatistas as a contemporary indigenous example of these same struggles, and many other aspects of today's Mexican and Venezuelan politics and culture. Because its contents clearly will be aimed at examining the serious difficulties that restrain Mexico's and Venezuela's democratic development, this course will not be 'neutral'. In fact, while trying to show the huge margin for action that extends before citizens of these two nations, this course will provide the student a better understanding of one of the most influential countries on American politics and society today, and one of the most controversial ones. Thus, beyond the polarization and simplifications that have been so harmful for understanding the intricacy that is Latin America, as well as the complexity of her relationship with the United States, this course is meant to build strong and permanent bridges between Americans and their neighbors to the South.
4180 Thrd World Forgn/Defense Polcy (5 credits): This course explores common issues in the defense policy of Third World countries. Topics covered include definitions of national interest and security, military organization and planning, domestic order, repression and human rights, war termination and reconstruction, regional conflict and alliances, military assistance, arms proliferation, and external intervention.
4181 History of American Diplomacy (5 credits): Course examines the development of diplomacy as a tool in the relationship between the US and its allies and adversaries, and how that diplomacy has evolved as the country changed and grew.
4182 Issues in Security Studies (5 credits): An advanced course designed for students considering writing a dissertation in the security field. In addition to exploring selected topics at a professional level, students will work on developing a research proposal including a literature review essay that can be applied to dissertation work and grant proposals. Prerequisites: INTS 4702
4183 Arms Control (5 credits)
4184 Cost Benefit Analysis (3 or 5 credits): Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is an assessment method that quantifies in monetary terms the costs and benefits of alternative public policies, programs, or projects. After taking this course, students will be able to design and carry out cost-benefit analyses and cost effectiveness analyses. This course covers the conceptual and microeconomic foundations of cost-benefit analysis as a public decision making tool. However, the main focus is on the practical steps and techniques involved in an actual cost-benefit analysis. Students learn practical methods of market and non-market valuation of benefits and costs of the proposed public policies, programs, and projects. Students learn how to discount future streams of costs and benefits so as to measure and compare the net social benefits of alternative public policies, programs or projects. In this course, students learn practical ways of recognizing and dealing with risks and uncertainties in the valuation of benefits and costs of alternative public policies, programs, or projects. Students carry out sensitivity analysis to show the sensitivity of the results of the cost-benefit analysis to changes in the values of critical variables. Some selected case studies of cost-benefit analyses are used to enable students to learn and apply various concepts, principles, theories, and methods in conducting cost-benefit analyses. This class can be taken for 3 or 5 credit hours. Students who take this class for 3 credits are required to design a Cost-Benefit Analysis. Students who take this class for 5 credits are required to design and complete a Cost-Benefit Analysis.
4185 Environ. Impact Assessment (3 or 5 credits): Students have the option of taking this course for 3 or 5 credit hours. Those students who take this for 5 credits are required to complete an environmental impact assessment project. This is a practical course aimed at equipping students with the skills necessary to design and carry out environmental impact assessments and prepare environment impact statements. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a set of appraisal techniques that use a systematic, holistic and multi-disciplinary approach to assess the potential impacts of a planned project on the environment in advance, thereby allowing avoidance measure to be taken. This course focuses on the legislative requirements and the methodology of environmental impact assessment to achieve sustainable development goals. This includes analyzing the role of public consultation and participation in order to ensure the quality, comprehensiveness and effectiveness of the EIA. This course is useful for those who are planning to serve as Peace Corps volunteers, project managers, public policy analysts, consultants, and professionals in global security, environmental law, public health, international development, international administration, environment and natural resources management, and international trade. This course uses lectures, homework problem sets, in-class exercises and case studies from various fields to equip students with very useful and practical skills to design and carry out environmental impact assessments and prepare environmental statements.
4190 Personality & Frgn Policy Mkg (5 credits)
4192 Int'l Dispute Resln Strategies (5 credits): Provides analytical framework and practical skills needed for business executives and lawyers to form and resolve disputes.
4193 Legl/Pol Analysis Global Trade (5 credits): Course examines global trade and investment regime from a legal perspective.
4194 Benefit-Cost Analysis II (3 credits): This course will focus on the application of benefit-cost analysis tools in the evaluation of policies, programs and projects in public health, environment, forestry, biodiversity conservation, agriculture, air quality, water supply, water quality, irrigation, education, and transportation. Students will have an opportunity to complete a project involving benefit-cost analysis of a particular policy, program or a project of their interest. Prerequisite: INTS 4184.
4210 Multinational Corporations (5 credits): The emergence of sweeping new legal rights for MNCs in relation to their foreign direct investment and cross-border trading activities under the avalanche of bilateral investment treaties negotiated in the last few decades and under multilateral conventions such as NAFTA represent what many have termed "revolutionary" changes in the nature of state sovereignty as it relates to state-investor relations. That expansion of investor/MNC rights in relation to state sovereignty has thus seemingly reached a point calling for re-examination of the nature and appropriate scope of MNC rights, as well as the nature of MNE accountability and responsibilities which are the flip side of such rights.
4211 Int'l Corp Finance (5 credits): Intro to int'l corp. finance transactions and their regulations.
4230 IR European Great Powers (5 credits)
4240 Nationalism (5 credits): An intermediate course which explores the reasons why nationalism has reemmerged in capitalist, socialist, industrial, and Third World countries. Examines the role of culture in international politics and how nationalism constitutes both a reactive forces to exploration and a competitive force in development. Prerequisites: INTS 4501
4250 Outbreak of War (5 credits): An introductory course examining the history and theory of the cuases of war. Focuses on historical accounts of World War I and critiques weaknesses and strengths of theoretical writings on the casues of war. Topics include psycho-logical approaches to conflict; the role of the state in war. crisis management, and intelligence failures; bureaucracy and linkage politics; and ideology.
4251 Outbreak of War II (5 credits)
4252 The Holocaust (4 credits)
4280 Outbreak of Peace (5 credits)
4300 Introduction to Development (5 credits): An introductory course which evaluates the meaning of development and presents alternative interpretations that incorporate problems of power and the environment. Modernization theory, dependency theories, and theories of imperialism are presented, and issues of growth and reform are examined.
4302 Ethics and Development (5 credits): An intermediate course mixing moral and theological orientations with social science perspectives on ethics to critique the porcessess of development. Among topics considered are poverty and injustice, secular and religious ethical arguments, ecological and political economy aspects and the logic of economics. Prerequisites: INTS 4501
4303 Econometrics for Decsn Mkg I (5 credits): The first course in a two course sequence in Applied Econometrics. Introduces basic probabilistic techniques for the quantitative analysis of economic and social data and their application to international public policy decision making. Prepares students to: compile and analyze data sets; build and test regression models; interpret and critically evaluate applied econometric studies; and conduct their own applied econometric research using computerized statistical packages. Prerequisite: INTS 4051 or INTS 4057
4304 Econometrics for Decn Mkg II (5 credits): Continuation from Econometrics I. The purpose of this course is to critically review the classical regression models and introduce students to some more recent models in order to analyze data and test relevant hypotheses in economics, IPE and related social science disciplines. The course provides students with the tools necessary to conduct and critically evaluate empirical analysis in these fields. Prerequisite: INTS 4303.
4305 Social Mktg in Health & Devel. (5 credits): Social Marketing is a methodology adopted increasingly by the international donor community to bring goods and services to less developed nations, addressing public health needs and stimulating the private sector. By applying traditional marketing methods in under-developed environments the application of Social Marketing has in some historical cases substantially addressed topical health issues such as poverty, AIDS, Malaria, nutrition and diarrheal illness. This course will cover various case studies from Asia and Africa where social marketing applications have been substantially supported with bi-lateral and in-country government funds, to achieve substantial health benefits. We will review the varied donor approaches to it, project structure and management, related communications tactics, what makes a successful program, and we will study historical social marketing failures as well. The course has a participatory content and is ideal for students who are interested in a hands-on health position working with international actors in a developing world environment.
4306 Adv Macroeconomic Theory (5 credits)
4307 Adv Microeconomics (5 credits)
4308 Macroeconomics (4 credits)
4309 Pol Econ of Food & Water (5 credits): Course explores inter-connections in the global food system using pol, econ, world-systems and cultural approaches.
4310 International Trade (5 credits): An intermediate course analyzing causes and consequences of international trade. Classical, neo-classical, and product- cycle models included. Topics include international specification, terms of trade of developed and less- developed countries, distribution of gains from trade, instruments and uses of commercial policy, nominal and effective protection, and theory of customs unions and economic integration. Prerequisites: macro and micro economics.
4312 Country Team Ops I:Thry & Prac (5 credits): Intermediate-to-advanced level course exploring country team operations theory and practice. First quarter is theory, second quarter is abroad in country.
4313 Country Teams Ops II: Practicm (3 or 5 credits): Students will have completed INTS 4312 Country Team Operations:Theory and Practice in preparation for this overseas service-learning experience. Upon arrival in Romania, an initial two weeks will be spent in cooperative training with units of the Romanian military, polishing deployment skills and learning first-hand about the demands of civil-military cooperation in the areas of emergency disaster response response and reconstruction. The remaining five weeks will be spent on actual joint deployments.
4314 Economic & Budget Policies (5 credits): Analyzes economic and budget policies with a particular focus on the interaction between domestic policy objectives, economic growth, income distribution and social goals.
4315 Soc Mvmts, Glbzatn, & Hum Rts (5 credits): Social movements can be defined as: collectives acting with some degree of organization and continuity outside of institutional or organizational channels for the purpose of challenging or defending extant authority, whether it is institutionally or culturally based, in the group, organization, society, culture, or world order of which they are a part (Snow, et al. 2004; Session 1). There is a wide range of perspectives including atomistic conceptions of movement actors, power analyses, structural perspectives, and recently, cultural understandings. The course introduces students to the key issues in the field. Topics include the role of leadership in social movement dynamics, measuring social movement outcomes, and institutional forms of resistance. The course is structured to emphasize lasting contributions to the body of social movement research, while drawing attention to key, contemporary debates.
4316 Role of NGOs in Conflict Resln (5 credits): Class focuses on the particular role of NGOs in conflict resolution efforts.
4317 Free Trade/Prop Rts Latin Amer (5 credits): This course introduces students to an overview of the protection of Intellectual Property Rights and the free trade agreements in Latin America, looking closely at the protections granted in the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (WTO-TRIPS Agreement); the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA); and the most recent bilateral agreements signed by the U.S. with Chile, Peru, and Colombia. The purpose is to create an awareness of the close relationship between free trade and intellectual property and why this relationship is an important issue that is frame worked in the North-South confrontation. The course will identify the main actors involved and their approach to this issue. The WTO, the WIPO, the UN and many non-governmental organizations play important roles. The course will start by introducing the students to the basic concepts of intellectual property rights and their inclusion in the trade agreements, and then will analyze different issues that have created friction between the U.S. and some Latin American countries such as the patent protection for pharmaceuticals; new varieties of plants and agricultural products. Finally, it will address the problem or intellectual property protection and indigenous knowledge.
4318 Applied Research in Int'l Econ (3 credits): This course intends to review main arguments in International Economics, and finds ways to test these hypotheses in the real world. The main purpose is to have students do collection of secondary data, get acquainted with the data sources, carry out a research project, and present the research finding to the rest of the class. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, measurement of economic development, effect of international trade on economic growth, balance of payments, effects of foreign direct investment on economic development, capital inflows and outflows and currency crises. Data sources come from IMF, World Bank, OECD, Asian Development Bank and U.S. government publications.
4319 Governing the Global Economy (3 or 5 credits): Multilateral Economic Institutions are the primary mechanisms by which the global economy is governed when it is governed at all. This course examines the institutions and theoretical foundations that are at the center of this system of global governance by studying their history, sources of authority, and ideological underpinnings. Simultaneously, each multilateral economic institution/regime is examined from an empirical perspective in order to determine the impact of these institutions and whether or not they are accomplishing their respective tasks in the governance of the global economy. The course is both theoretical and empirical and there is a bias to the course - it is that the MEIs are among the most written about and least understood institutions in the global economy. In addition, the course also examines the practical reality of multilateral economic negotiations through an examination of recent attempts to govern segments of the global economy; including international trade, finance, and climate.
4320 Int'l Monetary Relations (5 credits): An intermediate course examining history of the monetary system, foreign exchange rates, balance of payments analysis, and adjustment processes under different exchange systems, current status problems, and prospects for reform. Prerequisites: macro and micro economics.
4321 Welfare, Rights & the State (1 to 5 credits): The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity for an intensive study of contemporary literature and debate on the normative theory of the welfare state. While emphasis is placed on rights-based theories, other ways of thinking about the nature of human welfare and the role of the state in securing welfare are also considered. Topics covered include: what is welfare, the theory of human need, welfare rights, social citizenship, capabilities, choice and the use of market, the politics of recognition, and theories of the role of the state in securing individual welfare. The course is run as a seminar.
4322 Global Competitiveness (5 credits): An advanced course that investigates critically the "competitive debate." Issues examined include international criteria for judging competitiveness policies and strategies, orthodox and heterodox approaches to competitiveness, including human capital, corporate governance and flexible specialization perspectives, and international policy regimes that are apt to promote global prosperity.
4323 Japan in the World Economy (5 credits): Basic issues and contemporary problems of Japan are covered. INTS 4504 Introduction to Comparative Politics is recommended (but not required) as a prerequisite.
4324 Int'l Political Economy (0 or 5 credits): The course examines 3 contrasting visions of international political economy: economic security, trade and finance. Required for all INTS majors.
4325 Varieties of Capitalism (5 credits): Course considers major variations among political economic institutions of advanced capitalist democracies.
4326 Intro to Political Economy (5 credits)
4327 Advd Issues-Int'l Pol Econ (5 credits): Continuing exploration of the politics of international economic relations. Topics include: sources of conflict, origin of international trade and how development in IE shape domestic policy. Prerequisite: INTS 4324.
4328 European Post Communist States (5 credits): Course studies countries previously under communist regimes, and the economic struggles they face, as well as future challenges.
4329 Int'l Pol. Econ. Small States (5 credits): Study of more specific problems of smaller populated states, particularly those whose political leadership had shifted radically.
4330 Int'l Business Transactions (5 credits)
4331 Glbl Strat-Econ & Business I (5 credits)
4332 Data Analysis & Development (5 credits)
4333 Int'l Project Analysis (3 or 5 credits): An advanced course in techniques of proposal assessment, implementation, and evaluation. Emphasis on computerized benefit-cost analysis, including methods adopted by the World Bank and other donor agencies. Projects drawn from industry, agriculture, and public health sectors used as cases for study. Prerequisites: INTS 4010 and 4055.
4334 East Europe: Hungary (5 credits)
4335 Social Networks & Capital (5 credits): Looks at various social network structures in various societies and their effect on economy and social capital.
4336 Pol-Int'l Monetary & Fin Rel (5 credits): The interaction of int'l monetary and financial development along with int'l and domestic policies.
4338 Issues/Latin Amer & Econ Dev (3 credits): Course analyzes recent economic integration processes in Latin America region and recurrent debt crisis.
4339 Microfinance (3 or 5 credits): Course analyzes theory, design and implementation of microfinance institutions (MFIs) and shows how they have become increasingly effective and popular instruments of comprehensive economic development initiatives. The course introduces the key elements in the history and evolution of microfinance, with a special emphasis on the Graemeen Bank and its many replications around the world.
4340 Trade & Economic Development (5 credits): This class starts with theoretical explanations of why countries trade and what are the benefits of international trade. Included in this are traditional explanations of Ricardian Comparative advantage theory, Heckscher-Ohlin-Smuelson theorem and factor price equalization. It then concentrates on the special conditions in Less Developed Countries (LCDs), and shows the importance of free trade for these countries. It also covers issues about the capital flight, LCDs debt trap, strategic trade policy, infant industry argument, emerging growth hypothesis, the Dutch Disease and the new wave of globalization in LCDs. Students will have an opportunity to use these concepts for empirical evidence by writing a research paper and presenting it to the class. There will be two in class small tests and take-home final examination.
4341 Illicit Mrkts in Latin America (5 credits): This course examines the rise of transnational illicit trade in the western hemisphere particularly in illegal drugs, arms, and human beings. We begin by considering theories of causation including the structural and institutional legacies of colonial rule, hegemonic influences, and the contemporary consequences of globalization and neoliberal policy. We then turn to the structural, institutional and normative aspects of illicit networks and the various impacts of trafficking in countries of origin, transit, and consumption. Finally, we look at strategies for addressing illicit trade and related developments including nation-state level security measures, the role of international organizations such as the U.N. and the OAS, the role of economic interests, and the impact of political, social and cultural movements.
4342 Project Management (3 or 5 credits): Course introduces the skills and techniques to be a successful project manager.
4344 Practicum: Denver-Global Econ (5 credits): This course will be run as an applied economics research practicum. The goal of the practicum will be to develop graduate students' applied (empirical) research skills.
4345 The Art of Forecasting (5 credits): Course defines forecasting techniques and expert systems. Will cover Delphi techniques, expert systems, modeling and economic forecasting.
4346 Globl Trade & Developing Mkts (5 credits): Covers basic economic principles relating to international trade, evolution of international trading systems, US trade policy formation.
4347 Latin Am Dev Role of Civil Soc (5 credits): This course focuses on the way different social groups and civil organizations often become the sourse of vital skills, expertise and information, providing new insights for the analysis and understanding of people-centered and particpatory policies of development. Latin Americn civil associations, groups and organizations have defended the vulnerable, they have supported the oppressed. the marginalized and the excluded by promoting transparency and accountabiliy in decision making. The course is an attempt to analyze how these moements have created livelihoods and economic oportunities how they have helped to generate the social capital that makes democracy work and that lies at the heart of health exonomies, and how this social capital includes both, formal and informal newtorks of trust, openess, communication and cooperation, as well as shared norms, goals, beliefs and decision-making institutions, that constitute the basis of any political and economic development.
4348 European Integration (5 credits): Provides students with in-depth knowledge of politics, institutions and development of the EU from its origins to present day.
4349 Comparative Pub Pol & Fin (5 credits): Course aims to provide in-depth treatment of the question "why do size, form, financing, and distributive outcomes of government differ so greatly across nations?"
4350 Economic Development (5 credits): Deals with financial and economic problems faced by developing societies.
4351 Third World Debt Crisis (5 credits): An intermediate course on political economy of contemporary debt issues. Among topics discussed are causes and consquences of the Third World Debt crisis. Concepts such as demand-pull and supply-push explanations, various macroeconomics consquences of capital flight, environment crises, strucutral adjustment programs, and solutions to debt crisis ( including political economy and non-market based strategies) are covered. Prerequisites: INTS 4300, INTS 4350 or INTS 4461
4352 Income Distribution (5 credits)
4353 Environment & Sustainable Dev (5 credits)
4354 External Shocks & Econ Dev (5 credits): Examine fluctuations of economic growth throughout the world and in major markets and impact on further economic development.
4355 Finance and Development (5 credits): An advanced course which examines the relationship between financial system organization and economic performance. The political economy of financial innovation, liberalization and globalization, state-finance-industry relations, micro-lending, stock markets and regional financing are discussed with reference to Latin Amercia, Asia and African countries.
4356 Econ Analysis-Emer Fin Mkts (5 credits): Examines economic financial markets and their impact on international financial structures.
4357 Adv Issues:Intl Montry Relatns (3 or 5 credits): This seminar focuses on new areas of research and policy debate in the international and domestic political economy of the monetary system. The topics discussed include the following: the role of power, ideology and conflict in the global financial system; the political economy of sovereign risk and credit rating agencies; the political economy of sovereign wealth funds; the future of territorial currencies; the implications for state power and policy effectiveness of offshore finance, virtual monies and money laundering; and the efficacy of strategies involving the accumulation of high levels of official reserves. The material in this seminar assumes that students already understand the workings of the international financial system. Prerequisite: INTS 4320.
4358 Human Rights & Economy (5 credits): This intermediate course explores the concepts of rights and social justice with special reference to the economy. How do rights affect the organization of economic institutions? Can ideas of social justice help us judge the limits of the market and its place in society? Topics include self-determination and self-seeking, needs and wants, property rights, economic rights, distirbutive justice, and the just economy. Prerequisite recommended: INTS 4010 or a politcial theory course.
4359 Political Economy Int'l Health (5 credits)
4360 Economic Policies (5 credits)
4361 Health Delivery Systems (5 credits)
4362 Gender and Health (5 credits)
4363 Discrimination & Minorities (5 credits)
4364 Global Poverty & Human Rts (5 credits): This course explores the many dimensions of global poverty and human rights and well-being of people around the world. Three particular areas are emphasized and explored in detail. The first is the exact dimensions and extent of globalization. The second is the exact nature of another complex thought called poverty. The third area explores the connections between globalization, poverty, and human rights. After rigorous discussion of the conceptual foundations, we focus on the U.N. millennium development goals for poverty reduction in particular. At the end we will be able to explore the analytical foundation of alternative policies, strategies and evaluate these for formulating alternative strategies addressing human rights issues and global poverty reduction.
4365 State of the World's Health (5 credits): The course examines world health problems, from AIDS, deadly viruses, and malnutrition issues and the need for more adequate health care in various countries.
4366 Reproductive Hlth: Women's Iss (5 credits): Course explores issues and concerns which face today's women world wide in dealing with pregnancy/population control/poverty.
4367 Global Health Affairs (5 credits): Introductory survey class for all students interested in intersection of international affairs and global health and security, development and economics.
4368 HIV/AIDS in Int'l Affairs (3 or 5 credits): Upon completion of the course, students will understand (a) the concept of global health security; (b) HIV/AIDS as an epidemiological phenomenon; (c) the political, economic and social contexts of HIV/AIDS in specific regions of the world; (d) HIV/AIDS as a threat to security and gender; (e) security considerations of HIV/AIDS impacts in development and as a human right.
4369 Pol Econ Global Inequal & Pov (5 credits): Understanding causes of inequality and poverty in the world.
4370 Political Econ-Globalization (5 credits): An introductory course on the nature of global economic integration in the postwar period, including contending theoretic perspectives, and several applied issues and policy dilemmas such as the evolving nature of firms (e.g. globalization of production), the "new international of labor," and the status of national sovereignty/policy autonomy in an integrated world economy, politics and markets, and currents themes in political economy.
4371 Sex & Class in Latin America (5 credits)
4372 Great Books in Pol. Economy (5 credits): This course investigates several contemporary approaches to Political Economy, ranging from institutionalist to Marxist, anti-essentialist, and (postmodernist) feminist thought. Rather than attempt to survey quickly a lot of literature, we carefully read a limited number of influential (and provocative) texts that present a range of perspectives with which most students are largely unfamiliar. These are very challenging texts, and students must be prepared to spend a good bit of time on the assigned readings weekly.
4373 Dev in the Former Soviet Union (5 credits)
4374 Normative Found. Glbl Econ Pol (5 credits): This seminar explores the contending ethical theories that underlay contemporary debates over global economic policymaking. We explore the ethical foundations of neoclassical, Austrian, institutionalist and Marxian and economic theory (including utilitarianism, welfarism, libertarianism and egalitarianism) in order to better understand why and how these diverse economic theories generate distinct policy prescriptions. For example, we examine the controversy over "free trade" versus contending ethical theories that inform this debate. This is a reading intensive seminar. We examine central works of Amartya Sen, Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick, Michael Walzer and other leading economists and political theorists.
4375 Theories of the State (5 credits): In this course, we explore classical theories of the state with special concern for normative arguments addressing the appropriate ends of the modern state. Theorists discussed include: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Durkheim, Gramsci, and Weber. We give special attention to the way these theorists understood the relationship between state and people, state and society, public and private, state, community, and nation. We consider the relationship between states and rights, especially the question of whether the state is the enemy of right, the facilitator and protector of right, or the source of rights.
4376 Cultures of Hlth & Healing (3 credits): Focuses on role of culture in health and international affairs. Using classic and contemporary ethnographies, the course provides students with an understanding of indigenous notions of disease and wellness, as well as opportunities to problem-solve the dilemmas of cross-cultural (mis)communication in foreign and domestic policies and programs.
4377 Eastern Europe (5 credits)
4378 Terrorism/Trans/Homeland Sec. (5 credits): This course is designed to introduce students to the critical role that transportation plays in the global economy and the threat that terrorism poses to homeland security. Terrorist attacks have already been mounted against transportation facilities in the U.S. and many other countries and a wide range of projects, policies and programs costing billions of dollars have been implemented since 9/11 to protect passenger and freight systems. Furthermore, the U.S. has carried out the largest governmental reorganization in many decades, creating the Department of Homeland Security which is charged, among other responsibilities, with safeguarding transportation systems. This course deals with such topics as the importance of transportation and its contemporary structure; the nature of the terrorist threat, including the potential of the weapons that are (or might be ) available to terrorists, ranging from WMD's to suicide bombers to cyber attacks; the difficulties inherent in safeguarding such facilities as airports, rapid transit, railroads, and seaports; the lessons that can be drawn from previous terrorist incidents such as the attack on the Tokyo subway system, the foiled liquid explosives plot and the 2005 London subway bombing; the efficacy of the policies that have been implemented; and the kinds of gaps that remain to be filled in order to enhance transportation and homeland security.
4379 Gender, Dvlpmt & Environment (5 credits)
4380 Int'l Transportation Systems (5 credits)
4381 Energy & Transportatn Security (5 credits): Course explores nature of problematique that these systems pose for humankind and how they affect global energy and security issues.
4382 Environmental Economics (5 credits): Course covers current environmental issues and topics, and their effects on the environment.
4383 The Middle East Peace Process (5 credits): Course dwells on interactions between the Egyptians and the Israelis since Middle East peace agreement to present.
4384 Middle East & US Security (5 credits): The course will examine current US strategies toward the Middle East, terrorism, and how Homeland Security in US will respond.
4385 Obstacles to Dem. in Middle E. (5 credits): Course examines the question as to why democratization process in Middle East has been slow (or non-existent).
4386 Transnational Migratn-Americas (5 credits): The course examines movement of various nationalities from other nations into North, South and Central America.
4387 Inequality, Markets & Develpmt (5 credits): This course will look at the relationship between economic growth and inequalities in several different dimensions. First, the process of sustainable growth itself will be analyzed. Second, the implications of different types of growth for income distribution and poverty will be studied from an economic point of view. Third, the complex relations between asset inequalities and growth will be studied. Finally, the implications of such inequalities for human welfare in developing economies will be studied.
4388 Peoples & Cultures of Mid East (5 credits): Course focuses on cultural, social and political structures as well as organizational, religious, and economic development of ethnic groups in Middle East.
4389 Global Water Resources (5 credits): Course investigates major water resource issues impacting developed and developing countries.
4390 Decision Making-Int'l Orgs (5 credits): An introductory course on the major areas of management of non-profit organizations focusing on their uniqueness, legal requirement, and how they should be managed. Topics covered include board responsiblities, strategic planning, financail mamangement, managing staff and volunteers, public relations and marketing, fundraising and earned income.
4391 Fin Mgmt/Fundraising/Non-Proft (3 or 5 credits): This course will introduce students to the legal, governance and financial structures that enable non-profit organizations to function effectively. It will also provide a practical orientation to financial management issues, such as budgeting, financial reporting, and independent audits. Finally, a comprehensive presentation will be given of the fundraising methods needed to sustain the viability of non-profit organizations. These methods include: annual campaigns, direct mail, special events, major gifts, corporate fundraising, foundation grants, and planned giving. The course combines exploration of the general conceptual issues with an emphasis on practical "how-to's" and skill building.
4392 Campaign/Fundraise Non-Profits (5 credits): Explores all aspects of non-profit fund-raising including all legal implications and taxation issues.
4393 Welfare, the Mkt & the State (3 or 5 credits): In private enterprise, market-oriented societies, the role of government has always been contested. The presence of strong movements agains government has often left governments with weakened capacities and limited mandates. The movement against government view it as an obstacle to freedom and individual well-being. This movement has had a significant impact in restricting the scope of government, and has fostered an expanding role for the private sector, especially the market. This movement poses a special problem for students preparing for careers in the public sphere or in organizations whose purposes include fostering an expanded role for government. The purpose of this course is to help students deepen their understanding of the role of government in society: what governement can do effectively and whate it cannot, what are collective obligations and what are individual responsibilites. We consider the role and limits of the private sphere and how the line can and should be drawn between government obligations and market outcomes. The goal of tlhe course is to encourage students to thin about the underling ideals that shape the role of government and define the boundary between public and private. Each class session will be divided teween an exploration of ideas about the dividing line between public and private, and the study of cases designed ti illuminate the dilemmas and the diviculties encountered int the effort to establish an appropriate manate for government. Students working individually and in groups will develop case material involving specific policy issues such as: the health care crisis, school funding, social security insurance schemes, welfore reform, immigration policy, human rights. Course may be taken for either 3 or 5 credits. (normally offered witner quarter only)
4394 Non-Profit Issues & Techniques (5 credits): Nonprofit management issues and techniques looks at current NGOs and issues in working with corporations.
4395 Strategic Human Resource Mgmt (5 credits): Course emphasizes the more strategic aspects of effective human resource policies and programs.
4396 Education and Development (5 credits): Education is a major component of the human capital. It is both an indicator and a driver of an improved quality of life. Developed economies have already achieved high in terms of the average education of their populations. Most of the middle income and some low-income countries have also succeeded in enrolling a high percentage of their children in elementary schools, thanks to the internationally coordinated emphasis in this sector in the sixties and seventies of the last century. On the flip side, some of the developing regions are still struggling to provide basic education to a large share of their school age population. Research on economic growth and development has established a close connection between the economic performance of a country and the level of education of its population. These results have prompted a resurgence of focus on education in the global development agenda. From the Jomtien conference on Education for All (EFA) in 1990 to the Millennium Declaration, the world community has set targets on universal primary and gender balances at the higher levels of education. Despite the thrust on national commitment on education, supported by international efforts like the EFA/Fast Track Initiative, there still remains some inertia and uncertainties on issues like equity of access along different dimensions of deprivation - gender being an important one, balancing the demand and supply of education, the relative importance of basic education for capability creation and social cohesion versus mid-level education for knowledge diffusion or higher education for knowledge generation. Discussion of these issues in a regional comparative context is important in understanding and suggesting education policies for developing countries. This course is primarily intended for students who have a broader interest on human capital development, and specific interest on educational policies and their outcomes. Students with a general interest on development policies and developing economies would also find the course beneficial. It is expected that, after actively participating in the course, the students gather or enhance their understanding of the major education policy issues and debates in the context of developing countries. Students will also identify the best practices by analyzing the national education policies of some of the high performing countries and regions in the developing world. Students use this knowledge to examine the national and international education policy initiatives and develop their own recommendations as necessary.
4397 Environ & Human Well-Being (5 credits): This course will explore the role that the environment plays in determining human well-being. It will introduce the student to different conceptions of environmental services and human well-being, and look at how frameworks are being developed and used to extend and structure our understanding of the relationship between the two. The implications for policy making as a result of this increasing understanding will also be considered.
4398 NGO Leadership (5 credits): This course is intended to prepare graduate students for successful careers in the NGO/non-profit sector. It will cover all major aspects of operating non-governmental organizations, from an examination of different types of NGO's and their role in the formulation of U.S. policy to strategic planning, program implementation, and fund raising. Although there will be some theoretical readings and case studies, the focus of the course will be on practical skills, specifically: what does one need to know to be a successful NGO leader? This course will be taught by Mark Pomar, President of IREX. Drawing on his experience as the President/CEO of a major international NGO - one that operates in roughly 30 countries and has an annual budget of $50 million - he will complement readings with discussions of major problems he has faced and the ways in which he has tired to solve them. There will be analyses of key challenges facing NGOs today, as well as an examination of best practices and lessons learned. Pomar will also invite outside experts on different practices and lessons learned. By the end of the class, each student will not only be able to understand how transactional NGOs operate and intersect with the governmental and business sectors, but will also have the practical skills to be an effective manager at a major NGO.
4399 Trade & Econ. Negotiations (5 credits): This course is taught by Eliza Patterson, an international trade attorney and former adviser to the GATT and Overseas Development Council, deals with commercial and legal issues encountered in ?emerging markets.? Through varied case studies, special exercises, and with the assistance of trade experts, the seminar exposes the class to major issues, contending positions and values at play internationally. The course is particularly useful for those considering careers in global markets, international finance, trade and focusing on developing nations. Ms Patterson, a JD with wide experience as an adviser to the GATT and the ODC, has served as international affairs adviser to the NY-NJ Port Authority. She is spending the spring, 2006 semester as a senior Fulbright scholar and professor in Beijing.
4400 Comparative Public Policy (5 credits): An intermediate course analyzing how and why governments formulate and implement particular policies. Focused on public policy-making in advanced industrailized countries. Comparisons are drawn between issues of health, education, housing, immigration. the environment, and general social and economic polices. Prerequisites Recommended: INTS 4750
4401 Hist Orig. of East-West Divide (5 credits): For much longer than the cold war endured, Europe has been divided by conceptions of East and West. At least since the Enlightenment, the West has considered itself to be the more developed and the more democratic of the two, despite the facts that Europe's great empires were at one time based in the East and Europe's first democracy arguably developed in Poland. Thus a central organizing question of this course is whether European and transatlantic institutions, firstly the European Union and secondly the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, can transcend this East-West divide by adding new members to their ranks. A second central question, related to the first, is whether these institutions cultivate common interests and world-views among their members. Although the European Coal and Steel Community was initially designed to jointly control the resources of war in an effort to contain German power, the question still remains as to whether economic integration spawned by those early initiatives has done anything to create common threat perceptions among EU members in the absence of the Soviet Union. Stemming from these questions is still a third: does the sustained economic growth, peace and stability in Europe depend upon the continuing enlargement of international institutions? These three themes--the nature of the Est-West divide and its possible resolution, the relationship between economic integration and security, and the role of enlargement in preserving the European project--will inform our discussions throughout the quarter.
4402 Western Europe (5 credits)
4403 Post-Communism Transition (5 credits): This course examines post-communist transition, the process of EU enlargement, and the prospects for integrating East and West. Europe's recent transformation raises a number of critical questions concerning variation in democratic and economic outcomes across post-communist Europe, the relationship between democratic governance and free market enterprise, and the geo-strategic underpinnings for creating a sustainable peaceful European order. In keeping with these themes, the course will examin the literature on the politics leading up to the revolutions of 1989, study competing approaches to understanding transition, explain a wide variety of political and economic outcomes, and consider the prospects for enduring European integration in the aftermath of EU enlargement. Because the course poses several puzzles, we take an eclectic approach that draws on both the comparative politics and international relations literatures. In this connection, we address multiple dimensions of transition and integration - political, economic, and geo-strategic. Together, these readings and meetings will provide participants with a clear sense both of how individual states have fared in the transition and why, and the implications of continuing integration for the changing balance of power within Europe and globally.
4405 Political Econ of Development (5 credits)
4406 Mod Jewish Hist: 1700-1950 (4 credits)
4407 Land Israel: Hist & Theology (4 credits)
4408 Survey of Jewish History (4 credits)
4409 Jewish/Christian/Muslim Rlgn (4 credits)
4410 Economic Geography (5 credits): Course studies location and spatial organization of economic activities at local, national and global scales.
4411 Nationalism in the Middle East (5 credits)
4412 Israel in the Middle East (5 credits)
4413 Iran in the 20th Century (5 credits)
4414 History of Islam (4 credits)
4415 Middle East Politics (2 credits): Middle East politics have long been marked by political violence and instability. The course will look at current events (including 9/11).
4416 Pol Dev Northern Tier-Mid East (5 credits)
4417 Int'l Pol North Tier-Mid East (5 credits)
4418 Jews in Arab Lands (4 credits)
4419 Zionism and State of Israel (4 credits)
4420 Contemporary African Politics (5 credits): Examines socio-economic and political dynamics in states of sub-Saharan Africa.
4421 Adv African Politics-Research (5 credits)
4422 Int'l Health Orgs & Actors (5 credits): This course introduces students to the international health "players." Weekly seminars provide an orientation to organizations such as the World Health Organization, bilateral organizations (e.g. USAID), health Non-Governmental Organizations (e.g. Catholic Relief Services), international health foundations (e.g. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation), and transnational corporations, (e.g. pharmaceutical companies). As an organizational pedagogy, the course analyzes these organizations in the multiple contexts of the global, national, and local systems within which they operate.
4423 Health Data for Decision Makng (5 credits): This course addresses the multiple ways health data is generated and used by international health professionals. Emphasis in this course is on both "ways of knowing" and current "best practices." Students taking this course will learn basic terminology (e.g. "evidence-based medicine," "rapid assessment procedures." "universal precautions"), as well as health data methodologies used in international health venues. The course is designed to not only impart an understanding of terms and practices, but also to impart the ability to evaluate methodologies for their applicability, strengths and weaknesses in relation to international affairs dilemmas of which health may be a component part.
4424 Global Hlth Challenges (5 credits): This course covers the current public health challenges that shape international policy and debate within the international health community and with which international affairs experts should be familiar. Weekly class sessions will address the public health benchmark issues of nutrition, access to safe water, maternal and child health, infectious disease control, and access to essential medicines, as well as other health issues that organizations like the World Health Organization have deemed imperative to securing the foundations of long-term economic development in some of the world's most disadvantaged regions.
4425 Emerging Diseases-Int'l Affair (3 credits): In the history of humankind, death from disease has far surpassed death from warfare. In this class, students learn how disease has played critical and often history-altering roles in the course of nations. Specifically, this course surveys the epidemiology of infectious diseases in conjunction with outbreaks that have altered the affairs of nation-states.
4426 Politics Reproductive Health (3 credits): Reproductive health is examined and explored on multiple levels and the role it plays in national and international politics.
4427 African Pol Econ (5 credits): Introduces students to the theoretical, methodological, substantive issues in the politics of economic development in sub-Saharan Africa.
4428 Pol Econ of Human Rts (5 credits): What does one mean by human rights? What can be the political economy of such rights? These are the two central questions that we will explore in this course. The goal is to understand the underlying social, political and economic processes that led in an evolutionary sense to the present human rights discourse. The nature and implications of economic rights will be given special attention. In particular, the implications of such rights for human wellbeing in both advanced capitalist and developing economies will be studied. The social capabilities approach to rights developed by Amartya Sen and others will be extended to the understanding of human rights.
4429 Middle East Since 1453 (5 credits): Provides political, social, economic and cultural coverage of history of modern Middle East from rise of Ottoman Empire to the present.
4430 Political Economy-South Asia (4 credits)
4431 Early Japan (4 credits)
4432 Modern Japan (4 credits)
4433 Modern Japan (4 credits)
4434 Politics of Islam in SE Asia (5 credits): Examines radical Islamism in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand and how US has reacted to the violence.
4435 Health & Development (5 credits): Looks at how health status of populations affects culture and environment, and also how successful development affects health.
4436 Prof Ethics & Int'l Affairs (5 credits): Course fills the gap in professional training at GSIS: surveys rise of professions, professional ethics, ethical principles, and examines applications of principles to international affairs.
4440 U.S. & East Asia Security (5 credits): The goal of this course is to help students gain a better grasp on East Asian security issues. The course focuses on the two regional great powers, China and the U.S. In many respects, it is the relations between these two great powers that has often been, and in the future is even more likely to be, the key to a peaceful and prosperous East Asian security environment, which in turn has huge ramifications for world peace, international trade, and international human rights discourse, among other things. Spending more time on the relationship between China and the United States in the post-war era, the instructors also examine the relationships between the two powers and the former USSR/Russia, Japan, India, and the Koreas. The course also includes a simulation of a grand strategy debate among policy makers in Washington and Beijing.
4441 Social History-Modern China (4 credits)
4442 China in Modern World (4 credits)
4443 The Chinese Revolution (5 credits)
4444 Pol. Econ of China's Rise (5 credits): China's rapid economic growth under the communist one-party rule in the recent decades has stood out as one eye-catching exception to the general pattern of modernization in the West and raised a question about if a unique China model of development has been established. This course examines the progresses as well as challenges of China's recent transition from the perspective of political economy. We look at how post-Mao China's economic and political reform has produced the economic success consequences of rapid economic growth.
4445 The West Views China (4 credits)
4446 China in the Global Economy (5 credits)
4447 Chinese Foreign Policy (5 credits)
4448 History of Technology in China (4 credits)
4449 China, US & E. Asian Security (5 credits): The goal of this course is to help students gain a better grasp of Sino-American relations and its relation to East Asian security issues. The course will focus on the two regional great powers. China and the United States, with the assumption that in many respects it is the relationship between these two powers that has often benn and in the future is even more likely to be the key to a peaceful and prosperous East Asian security environment, which in turn has huge ramifications for world peace, international trade, and international human rights discourse, among other things. Spending more time on the relationship between China and the United States in the post-war era, the instructors will also examine the relationships between the two powers and the former USSR/Russia, Japan, India, the Koreas, Taiwan, and issues in the South China Sea, among other things. The course will also include a discussion of the two sides' grand strategies, and how policy makers in Washington and Beijing might conceive of and pursue them.
4450 Democ & Militarism in Latin Am (5 credits): This course explores the history of militarism, human rights activity and contemporary transitions to democracy in Latin America. Part I, "State, Society and the Role of the Military", provides different perspectives on the military and guerilla warfare in the historic development of Latin America. This is followed by a consideration of the institutionalization of military rule in small and large states, and contemporary military strategies in dealing with drug trafficking and youth gangs. Part II, "Democracy, Human Rights and the Evolution of the State", is an examination of the literature on democratic development in Latin America, and the impact of social movements, civil society, and the truth and reconciliation process of democratization.
4451 Anthropology of Latin America (5 credits): Examines with greater detail the changes in Latin America. Poverty and inequality and how growth of drug trade has affected development.
4452 Repression & Econ Intg-Lat Amr (5 credits): Examining the current political and economic problems in Latin America and how various countries interact with one another.
4453 Pol Econ Devel: Latin America (5 credits): In the first five weeks of the class we consider various theories of political economy. These include dependency, hegemonic stability, class conflict, neoclassical economic theory, and the study of institutions and international regimes. Each approach is illustrated through and examination of a historic issue in development - patterns of land ownership, the role of the military, the rise or revolutionary politics, neoliberal development and the promotion of democracy. During this time, students are asked to choose a theoretical framework as a foundation for the required research paper. A term paper prospectus including a description of the framework is due week five. In the second five weeks of the class we consider specific topics in political economic development in the last three decades or what is often called the "global era." These topics include the emergence of "uneven" development, the rise of social movements and role of civil society, transnational migration, the rise of illicit networks of trade, and U.S. foreign policy considerations. Students are encouraged to draw from this or closely related material for the subject matter of the research.
4454 Econ Dev/Current Policy Issues (3 credits): Course questions role of the state in developing economies, questions industrial policy and environmental impacts.
4455 Human Rights and Health (5 credits): This course will address current socioeconomic and international issues in addressing growing health concerns and issues, particularly in impoverished areas throughout the world. Explores relationships between health, development and human rights for both legal and social science perspectives.
4456 Human Rts and Empire (3 or 5 credits): Course examines ways empires have been ambassadors of civilization and justice.
4457 Pol. & Mkts in Caspian Region (5 credits): The Caspian Region is interesting to U.S. policy makers and pol. scientists who attempt explanation why Soviet successor states differ so politically and economically.
4458 Pol Econ of China's Transition (5 credits): This course focuses on China's transitional processes from plan to market in key economic aspects and the fundamental features of political development since late 1970s. The main categories under this theme are as follows: the triggering factors of the economic reform and its evolution process; economic institutional change in post-Mao China; the significances of China's rural and urban reforms; labor force mobility in China in reform era; China's political development; assessment of China's transition in the 21st century.
4460 Ntlsm, Communism, China's Rise (5 credits): After more than a century of decline and stagnation, China is reemerging as a great power in the twenty-first century. China's rise to the glorious has never been easy and still faces many changes in the year ahead. This course is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of China's rise in the context of its political development. We examine how revolution, nationalism, communism and liberalism have all affected the development of modern China with a focus on the political dynamics of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the politics of post-Mao economic and political reform. We start by analyzing the rise of the Chinese Communist Party and its state and nation building efforts in the early years of the PRC and move on to examine the Mao's failed socialist transformation and political campaigns (the Hundred Flow Campaign, Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution). The remainder of the course explores political dynamics of post-Mao economic and political reforms and the prospect for a democratic China. This course aims at equipping students with an analytical perspective for understanding contemporary Chinese politics.
4461 Social Development (5 credits): An intermediate course concerning the distribution of development within countries. Value structures in the labor market, social mobility, income distribution, basic needs, nationalism, and globalization of capitalist systems are considered in the context of social change and justice. Prerequisites: INTS 4300
4462 Ethnic Conflict (5 credits): Deals with conflict within different ethnic groups in various countries.
4463 Readings in Int'l Human Rights (1 to 5 credits): Designed for students with/without a background in human rights, examines series of contemporary theoretical work on human rights.
4464 Democracy & Religion: Iran (5 credits): The course will look at religion and the role it plays in democracy in Iran and throughout the middle east.
4465 Population and Society (5 credits): Population can play a key role in defining the fates of societies, yet Auguste Comte's notion that "demography is destiny" has been subject to two centuries of oversimplification, misinterpretation, and manipulation. This course seeks to reverse key misconceptions and open up new avenues of inquiry through an in-depth look at the key elements of population - population size and growth, demographic events, and population structure - and their relationship to development, security, health, the environment, and human rights. The course begins with a look at theories on the relationship between population and the fates of societies from Malthus to Marx to the present day. In doing so, we move from thinking of population change in aggregate to considering the impact of three demographic events - birth, death, and migration - that occur according to highly measurable and predictable age and sex patterns. Armed with a powerful conception of demographic change as a product of population structures and events, we explore the implications of demographic shift and long-term demographic structures for national and global outcomes under a range of political, economic, and social conditions. We will use case studies to address salient issues such as the limits to the human life span; prospects for reversing or mitigating the effects of very low fertility; the consequences of coercive solutions to population control; prospects for global migration; and the impact of HIV/AIDS on society.
4466 Global Inequality (5 credits)
4467 Counter-Revolutions (5 credits)
4468 Politics of Development (5 credits): Course explores political factors and parties which affect developing nations and hinder new development.
4469 Ideas the Shape Development (5 credits): This course examines various development theories and models and how they have been applied in various societies.
4470 Comparative Communism (5 credits)
4471 Pol Trans East/Central Europe (4 credits)
4472 Econ Trans East/Central Europe (4 credits)
4473 East/Central in Contemp World (4 credits): Course examines multilateral cooperation, regional issues, integration in NATO & European Union.
4474 Comp Socialist Development (5 credits)
4475 Russian & East European Hist (5 credits)
4476 Issues in Trade Policy (3 credits): This course will use the analytical foundations of International Trade Theory to look into current issues surrounding trade policy initiatives. Many nations assail their trade policies as pursuing new ground in the promotion of bilateral and multilateral agreements which provide new rights and leverage for their government to assure its workers, farmers, and businesses an equal chance to compete. To other nations these actions may be seen as taking away opportunities for growth of trading partners. While it is agreed that trade results in a redistribution of output and income within and between trading nations, there is a debate over whether this redistribution is desirable. This course looks into this debate, and will specifically look into trade policy issues from both a public policy and economic theory perspective to present.
4477 Pol & Mkts in Central Eurasia (5 credits): This course analyzes the major economic and political developments of the South Caucasian and Central Asian states of the Soviet Union. It will also look at the geopolitical importance of this region and the involvement of the United States in Central Eurasia. More specifically, the course covers the recent "colored resolutions" in Georgia and Kyrgyzstan and the authoritarian backlashes in Armenia and Uzbekistan. It attempts to explain the different paths of economic reforms that these countries have taken. Moreover, in this course we apply theories of ethnic conflict to arrive at a better understanding of ethnic wars in this part of the world. Finally, this region has become a focal point of U.S. foreign politics due to its large gas and oil reserves and its proximity to Afghanistan. Yet the U.S. faces formidable opponents - namely, Russia and Iran - who vie with the U.S. for a predominant position in the region. In this course, we identify U.S.'s interests in the region and assess its strategies in pursuance of these goals.
4479 Global Development Policy (5 credits): This course will cover a range of issues related to major development challenges ranging from debt forgiveness and the Millennium Challenge goals, to health impacts on development, the problems of corruption and the lack of transparency, financial strategies, prioritization of development goals and long-term planning, the roles and relationships of national-level development agencies, donor governments, international financial institutions, trans-national NGOs and private business. This course will be especially valuable for those considering careers in U.S. government development agencies or those of other governments, in IFIs, UN agencies, and in non-governmental organizations involved with development.
4480 Decis. Making & Sustain. Devel (5 credits): Today it is widely accepted that a new approach is essential if the problems that confront mankind on a national and international level are to be ameliorated. Former approaches have often led to widening gaps between rich and poor within and among states and to the degradation of the environment and the abuse of natural resources. The new approach is commonly called "sustainable development." If this vision is to be implemented successfully, particular attention must be paid to the ways in which all societies make decisions concerning both macro and micro aspects of development strategies. This seminar is designed to focus on how and why policies and projects are selected and implemented and with what results. Technological projects are of particular importance because policies usually become reality through the implementation of such projects which involve various kinds of risks as Bhopal and Chernobyl have tragically demonstrated. Badly conceived projects will not only fail to contribute to a nation's development but will yield major negative outcomes and impacts, nationally and internationally. The world is already littered with such projects. Accordingly, in the first part of the seminar, we shall discuss the emergence of the sustainable development paradigm and its theoretical and empirical implications as well as the literature dealing with decision and policy making models and approaches, including risk analysis. The the second part, we shall consider a number of specific policies and cases such as the Interstate Highway System, and Aswan dam (Egypt), the Challenger disaster, and a steel mill from Turkey. Some videos will be shown.
4481 Sci & Med Challenges: Glbl Hlt (3 or 5 credits): The student will acquire knowledge about the major medical and scientific challenges faced in the area of global health. Students will learn about complexities and challenges in finding realistic medical solutions to HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB and malnutrition as well as infectious diseases. The course will also offer more in depth understanding of medical and scientific solutions and challenges looked at by global health organizations in areas like nutrition and safe water. The course also discusses international policies, regulatory obstacles and social factors related to tackling the medical and scientific challenges faced in global health. The intent is to develop a framework of understanding diseases from their scientific fundamentals to clinical factors. Funding issues and organizations involved in the efforts will also be discussed.
4482 Soviet Global Economy (5 credits)
4483 Practical Appls in Glbl Health (3 or 5 credits): This GHA course is designed to teach students practical knowledge about the following areas of actual health program management in the field: a. research and preparation b. creation and development c. implementation and evaluation To "simulate" an actual field experience, students will choose and immerse themselves in one health program issue to research in-depth and apply for the entire 6 weeks. Examples such as water and environmental sanitation, maternal/child health, infectious diseases, child soldiers, and humanitarian relief will be used. Depending on class size, this may be done individually or in small groups. In addition, experiences from recent humanitarian relief programs will be discussed and analyzed. The intent is to develop a solid understanding of and to practice the usage of tools, skills, and evaluation techniques currently being used by various international and domestic programs. These include the concept paper, logistical framework, monitoring & evaluation, and exit strategy. This course is designed to be participatory-based with pre-class preparations and in-class discussion essential - so come prepared for some practical and dynamic learning.
4484 Agrcltr in Intl Dev & Glbl Sec (5 credits): This course will critically analyze the role of agriculture in food security, poverty alleviation, and economic development in developing countries. It will also analyze the changing role of third world agricultural development in international relations, gender relations, human rights, global health, global security, global agribusiness development, and global environment. Both theoretical and empirical evidences will be used to analyze these relationships and the trade-offs that underlie these relationships. Case studies from selected countries in various regions of the world will be used to analyze these relationships and trade-offs. This course will also identify the challenges and opportunities for utilizing agricultural development as a strategy to improve international relations, human rights, global health, global security, global environment, and global agribusiness development.
4485 Fin Issues in Devel Economics (5 credits): The challenge of economic development has come to focus more and more on the role of finance - both its failures in the recent past and its prospects for the future. In order to improve those prospects and prevent the recurring failures, the United Nations organized a global conference on "Finance for Development" in Monterrey, Mexico in March of 2002. That event produced a consensus statement on the need to improve financial arrangements for developing countries. That statement, and the research and policy discussions that have followed, will serve as background and as an organizing theme to this course. This provides the course with a close connection to the ongoing economic research and policy discussions on the issues of financing development. Issues covered in this course will include the following: 1) Developing country debt, debt burden, sovereign bankruptcy issues, debt forgiveness and local currency debt issuances; 2) commodity price risk; 3) Prudential regulation of financial markets (including IMF's standards and codes and Basel II); 4) Microfinance; 5) National development banks and other "inclusive" credit policies; 6) International Capital Markets and Derivatives Markets. This course will provide a financial and economic analysis of the above policy issues. Although it is a policy courser, students should expect to learn a good deal of economics and finance in the process of learning about these development problem and policies. These will be important intellectual tools as the future policy discussions on development will likely continue to focus more and more on finance and thus require more knowledge of finance than in the past. Restricted to students registered in the GSIS DC Program.
4486 Cont Prosecution-Int'l Hum Law (5 credits): This course is designed to take students on a journey from the origins of International Humanitarian Law to its modern applications. The course starts with the earliest treaties to regulate the conduct of war and the birth of IHL. The course next examines the earliest attempts to prosecute violations of IHL at Nuremburg and Tokyo. After a pit stop in the Cold War to examine the absence of IHL prosecutions, the course next looks at the post-Cold War applications of IHL including the prosecutions of Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, East Timor. The course will examine the conflicts and the prosecutions of IHL violators in those conflicts.
4487 S. Asia:Post-Colonial Pol/Cult (5 credits): The region called South Asia comprises of 7 states of big and small sizes. Despite many religious, ethnic and linguistic differences, the greatest similarities among these states are that they have common colonial past and post-colonial political experiences. India's struggle for secular politics, Pakistan's difficulties with religious politics, Sri Lanka's ethnic turmoil, Bangladesh's growing poverty problems or Nepal's conflict between monarchy and Maoism; the roots of all of these political and cultural challenges can be traced through their colonial past. The central argument of this course is that to understand on going intra-state and inter-state political and cultural problems, it is important to make a comprehensive analysis between colonial political legacy and post-colonial state structure and political culture. It is expected that by the end of this course, students will be able to (a) understand impact of the colonial past on the post-colonial politics of the region; (b) comprehend nature and roots of the present political, ethnic, and religious turmoil in the region; (c) analyze current political, ethnic and cultural trends and patterns; (d) identify future dimensions of regional politics in the broader international context.
4488 Women in Politics (5 credits): For centuries, history, philosophy and political theories have ignored women and women's issues as a subject to be studied. Most of the time in the past in political science scholarship, women have been subsumed under the terms such as men or humanity. Even the modern field of political science has been, and still is, male-dominated theoretically and practically. Due to the impact of the "Second Wave" of feminism and emergence of WID (Women in Development) and GAD (Gender and Development) approaches during the decades of 1970s and 1980s, there has been an increase in research writings and teachings on the topic of women in politics. Consequently, we find substantial amounts of academic research done by female political scientists who have attempted to trace-out the root-causes of women's absence from the ancient political theory and history and their under-representation in modern political institutions. It is interesting to note that during the past few decades, women have become prominent in mainstream politics as presidents and prime ministers but at the grassroots level, they still are considered non-political, domestic and private persons. Review of the literature on the topic of women and politics suggests that Aristotelian myth of an apolitical, private woman has perpetuated like a thread through the pages of the history of political thought. With the help of the history of political thought, this course intends to examine factors for women's historical absence from political theory and their recent entry in this forbidden realm. The central assumption of this course is that to understand the phenomenon of women's absence and their recent entry and persisting under-representation in politics one needs to study early philosophical roots and theoretical notions as well as contemporary agents of socialization, motivation and participation in regional and global politics. This course is a comparative study of theoretical literature and empirical evidence on the subject of women in politics.
4489 Development in South Asia (5 credits): This course will focus on the issues, challenges, barriers, and opportunities for achieving development in South Asia. South Asia is home for a rich diversity of natural resources, social and cultural heritage, micro-climatic zones, bio-diversity, multi-ethnicity, multi-linguistic people groups, and political and economic systems. This course will help students to appreciate and understand how this diversity has been both a boon and a barrier for achieving human development including increasing economic growth, reducing poverty and income inequality and other forms of inequalities, promoting human rights, and empowering women. Although South Asia has had its own long history of civilization, it is no more isolated from the expanding wave of globalization. In this course, students will explore and research ways in which this region has been adapting and changing in response to this wave of globalization. Students will have an opportunity to research and analyze how this rapidly changing South Asia will emerge as an active player in the global political and economic development and contribute in achieving global peace, prosperity, and security.
4490 Politics & Society in Mid East (5 credits): This course provides an analysis of the major social and political developments in the contemporary Middle East. It will examine the legacies of the social structures and dynamics of the region's communities, the principal ideologies which characterize the politics of the region and the implications of these features for the development of Middle Eastern states. The treatment will be largely thematic, examining categories and problems of political explanation with reference to political developments within the major Arab states of the area. The aim of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the major political processes and structures shaping political developments in the contemporary Middle East. Students will be asked to make presentations in order to initiate debate and will be expected to take an active part in the discussions.
4491 The Middle East & the U.S. (5 credits): This course examines the historical and contemporary relationship between the United States and the Middle East from 1945 until the present. The course allows students to explore in-depth the political context of Arab-American relations and the underlying causes of the present strained relations. One of the major premises of this course is that we need to understand U.S.-Arab relations not only in political terms, but also in cultural, economic, and social terms. Therefore, while we will of course look closely at official U.S. policy toward the Middle East and of Middle Eastern countries toward the United States, we will also look at other unofficial forms of relations. This course will introduce students to the peoples, countries, and issues that we will focus on in our readings, debate and discussions. Students should come to every class prepared to participate. Indeed, the overall success of the class will depend to a significant degree on students' willingness to engage in discussion.
4492 Health and Humanitarian Aid (5 credits): This course aims to examine current organizational standards such as the Sphere Project, best-practice scenarios from ICRC, IRC, MSF and many other humanitarian organizations, and lessons learned from recent and historical humanitarian crises. Utilizing a case-based and problem-based format, students will gain and apply knowledge through critical examination of issues and development of practical solutions.
4493 Human Aid/Complex Emergencies (5 credits): This course will focus on the evolution of humanitarian actions, in the context of the international system, since World War II. Complex humanitarian emergencies will be the focus. Themes will include: disasters, conflicts and humanitarian action; the political economy of conflicts and humanitarian aid; civil-military cooperation; and the impacts of humanitarian intervention on the delivery of aid. Vulnerability analysis, capacity analysis, and risk analysis will be key tools. The structure and function of EWS (early warning systems), especially in the context of famine, also will be key.
4494 Field Protocol and Survival (3 credits): This course will serve as a field training requirement and will take place over a six-week period. This course will prepare certificate candidates for "field protocol and survival." Goals will include camp operations, team training/team building, report preparation, and relief operations (through simulations).
4495 Civil Wars and Int'l Rsponss I (5 credits): Throughout the post-cold war period and into the 21st century, the scourge of war today is seen in mostly internal conflicts fought along ethnic, religious, ideological, or economic lines that divide societies and lead to devastating armed conflict. This course investigates the problem of contemporary civil wars. This course explores theories, concepts, and empirical research in the analysis of contemporary civil wars and in-depth, student-led evaluation of specific cases. The course covers these themes: evaluation and patterns of armed conflict and war termination in the 1990s and early 2000s with a focus on methods for systematic, multi-causal conflict assessment methodologies; exploration of the processes of escalation in armed conflict and of concomitant peacemaking by international mediators; and evaluation of the concepts of "peace processes" and scrutiny of the terms of negotiated settlements in armed conflicts today. The principle learning outcomes for the course is to gain a complex and detailed understanding of the modal form of contemporary armed conflict-civil wars and concomitant international intervention by the international community (particularly the United Nations) to this form of armed conflict. Students who successfully complete the course gain an understanding of contemporary civil wars, issues in conflict duration and processes of war termination, and introduction to the scholarly and policy-relevant literature that has developed in the last two decades related to challenges of conflict prevention and of "peacemaking" or negotiation and mediation of civil war conflicts.
4496 Field Operations (2 credits): Images of people in distress, whether from natural disasters or man-made events, can inspire us to respond to their plight in a variety of ways - donations of money, food, clothing, and blood drives; collections of medical and other equipment; and even by participation as volunteers or employees of responding organizations. A multitude of international, federal and state agencies, as well as NGOs, other private groups, and well-meaning individuals often arrive at a scene with the best of intentions to assist in the humanitarian crisis, but with personal or organizational preparation for the stunning realities of the on-scene situation. This course is designed to assist individuals as they prepare themselves and their organizations for the hazards, risks, conflicts and rewards of response to various types of humanitarian crisis events.
4497 Int'l Campaign Management (5 credits): This course will examine the principles of political campaign management and their application in a number of international political, public affairs and human rights campaigns. It will be an introduction to the tools of political campaign management: message development, survey research, audience targeting, paid and earned communications, fundraising and organizational structure. Case studies of campaigns in countries such as Sweden, the UK, and Australia will be used as examples of these techniques. Class will be comprised of lectures, discussion and some simulation exercises. Efforts will be made to bring outside specialists and experts to the class or by teleconference. Readings may include contemporary journals, periodicals, newspaper reports and excerpts from major studies of campaign and organizational management.
4498 Global Community Health (3 or 5 credits): The aim of this course is to explore global health challenges and solutions from the perspective of community and networks. Faculty presentation, global field exemplars, active participant dialogue, and students' presentations comprise the teaching-learning strategies.
4499 Defense Challenges/New Century (5 credits): This course will focus on the challenges confronting U.S. military and national security, such as strengthening our capacity for counter-terrorism, dealing with asymmetric warfare, and nuclear non-proliferation. It is designed for those who seek careers in national security affairs, either in DoD, other national security and foreign policy departments, Intell, or with policy think tanks and the national security institutions of other countries.
4500 Social Science Methods (5 credits): This course focuses on issues and techniques in qualitative research methodology. This is not just an abstract course about competing conceptions in the social sciences. It is an advanced course in the practical matters and issues that underpin all research activity. It provides students with the essential basic training they will need for critically analyzing political and social science research conducted by others and, most importantly, for engaging in their own research design and prospectus and dissertation writing. For those Ph.D. students already advanced in their own research, it will allow for a critical evaluation of their own research designs and strategies. The course covers the following topics: what is a question or 'puzzle' in political and social science; what makes a research project feasible; causation and explanation in social science; causality and casual inference; the quantitative-qualitative debate; theory, concepts, operationalization and measurement; concepts and concept formation; the comparative method; case-oriented versus variable-oriented comparisons; identifying dependent, independent and mediating variables; selecting cases and establishing an explanation; conducting case studies; problems of selection bias; the importance of skepticism and rival hypotheses; research design and the classics: Barrington Moore, Tocqueville, Skocpol.
4501 Comp. Politics: 21st Century (0 or 5 credits): This is a core course in the Graduate School of International Studies curriculum; it is designed to provide a basic foundation of knowledge essential to expertise in contemporary international affairs. The course critically explores theories, approaches and research methods for analyzing political processes within countries and societies around the globe. The point of departure is new approaches to governance - a term that refers to how governments and societies interrelate to manage social problems in the globalized 21st century. Why is the "inside-out" perspective of comparative politics so important to today's interdependent world? How do domestic social forces interact with political institutions and how do these interactions affect prospects for democracy, development, and conflict management? Which emerging theoretical approaches offer the most explanatory power in today's rapidly changing world? Through readings, instructor presentations, guided discussion, and multimedia curriculum resources (including an Internet-based module) the curriculum facilitates a broad overview and critical assessment of the current state of comparative politics. We explore how cutting-edge comparative politics research offers us bedrock theoretical and methodological skills for interpreting contemporary international affairs and for making policy prescriptions. Pedagogically, learning is encouraged through assignments and exercises designed to improve students' practical skills to interpret research findings and apply them to current events and policy concerns. Another feature is the extensive use of case studies to illustrate concepts and theory in today's most intriguing societies. The knowledge base gained in this class enables students to undertake more advanced graduate-level study in a wide range of topics such as development and international political economy, human rights, democratization, ethnic conflict, environmental politics, public policy, and contemporary problems of war and peace in deeply divded societies.
4502 Comparative Revolutions (5 credits): An intermediate course focused around the major revolutions, that occured in England, France, 19th century Europe, and in Russia and China during the 20th century. Emphasis is placed on historical facts, key theoretical debates generated during the various social upheavals, and diverse interpretations seeking to understand the nature and causes of revolutions and their impact on societies. Prerequisites: INTS 4702
4503 Comparative Political Analysis (5 credits): Explores in depth analysis of comparative politics within different nations.
4504 Culture and World Order (5 credits): Compares development, inequality, state building, conflict and conflict resolution among different cultures and nations in the world.
4505 Clash of Cultures (5 credits)
4506 Undrstdng Mega Project Fiascos (5 credits): Course uses case studies to examine how project proponents deliberately mislead media, public and government.
4507 Comparative Politics Theory (5 credits): Class covers classic CP works/writings that examine the relations between "the state," social structure, culture and economy.
4508 Gender Politics in Arab World (5 credits): This course is about Arab women's subjectivity and various forms and expressions of agency. It explores the nexus of domestic, regional and international forces that shapes the lives of Arab women, in particular in the Egyptian, Algerian, and Palestinian contexts. Far from being silent observers of the contests among these forces, as is often assumed, Arab women have been active actors in the public arena since the colonial encounter and the importation of the modern state to the region, using an array of means to make their voices and views heard which were frequently more militant than those expressed by their countrymen. This course is divided into two parts. The first part provides an overview of the theoretical notions discussed such as orientialism, agency, colonialism and post-colonialism. Related to this theoretical section is a historical overview; necessary to the understanding of the contemporary conditions of Arab women and the continuities and changes between past and present. The second part covers pressing topics in the lives of Arab women in the post-independence era such as the Islamic revival, the global trend of democratization, war and occupation. The emphasis in this section is on women as active participants in the debates surrounding these issues, rather than as objects of them. The readings assigned include both texts written by scholars from the region and by other from without. They provide analyses of the contexts within which Arab women's struggles take place. In addition, the students will be exposed to materials (writings, videos, web sites) produced by Arab women activists in which they express their own opinions and views in order to avoid any misrepresentations and to reflect the diversity among them.
4510 Islam:Politico-Cultural Outlk (5 credits): Although nowadays Islam is occupying the front stage of the international political arena, it has actually been changing the conditions and characteristics of this stage for the last three decades and in a process that only culminated in 9/11 event. The revelation was shocking to many observers. At the exact time when the Soviet Empire withered away and social and historical theoreticians began to speak about a trend that would put an end to the dominance of "enmity" as the deciding element of international affairs, a combatant Islam emerged from the depth of a decades-old process to act as a new contender, threatening the Western way of life both politically and culturally. This mixture of political and cultural traits is interesting. As one can see, although Islam is a "religion," it does not claim to be a competitor for other religions such as Christianity or Judaism. It has risen against the "west" with all of its political doctrines, moral codes and cultural values. Many have translated this into the confrontation of Islam and Secularism with is the essence of the Western civilization. Nevertheless, and despite the above facts, many Western people - even amongst the educated population - do not have any clear idea about the structure, language and behavior of such an arch-enemy that has turned into a household name for Americans. Accordingly, many questions are left unanswered about it: Where does this combatant Islam come from? What are the attitudes of masses who embrace different schools of Islam towards West? What is the nature of the rift between Sunni and Shi'ite communities, especially in today's invaded and occupied Iraq? Why is Iran so successful in manipulating the present chaotic situation in Iraq? And, talking about Iran, how did a bunch of religious priests managed to overthrow a modern dictatorial monarchy in that country? Why did secularism suffer such a great loss in Iran? Where do the Moslem religious authorities get the needed legitimacy for their claim to power? What is the main difference between the brand of Islam in Iran and that of the rest of the Moslem world? Why the combatant Iranian Islam does not yes the same language that is adopted by people like Al-Qaeda "Jihadists?" How is the centuries-old dichotomy between pre- and post-Islamic Middle East playing amongst the contemporary people of the region, creating an unprecedented tension between different sections of the societies? Such questions inevitably entail knowing more about the social history of the Middle East region, as well as Islam and its development into a socio-political force. This is long history, going back to centuries before the advent of Islam and its study shows how the persistent elements of religion and culture can shape the events that would happen centuries later. This course is designed to shed light on the influential past forces and present situation of the Middle East with a quest for some rational answers to the above questions. In its entirety, it is to introduce Islam through a politico-cultural journey into its history.
4511 Population and Health (5 credits): This course will take a theoretical and empirical look at all aspects of the intersection between population and health. The course will address the power of demographic analysis - in terms of demographic patterns of disease and demographic composition of populations - can be used to understand levels of health and disease and to draw inference about program and policy effectiveness. It will look at the general role of demographic outcomes (birth, death, migration) and population growth as cause and consequence of societal patterns of health and development. Finally, it will address the specific health consequences of the reproductive process as well as the continually evolving relationship between policy and discourse that are driven by concerns over population, life-course health, reproductive health, and women's rights.
4512 Ethics in Dev, Hlth, Hum, Asst (5 credits): William Butler Yeats wrote, "In dreams begins responsibility." Dreams and an imagination as to what life could be underpin ideals of development, health, and humanitarian assistance. When one confronts the world such as it is, one needs to determine what s/he feels reality could become and work to make it so. But in attempting to realize such dreams come a responsibility to act based on a set of values or ethics. These ethics guide the perception of right and wrong, black and white, which in turn dictate action. They may be legally confided as rules or remain principles which operate in conjunction with, or in opposition to, the law. This course is designed to prepare students to proactively identify personal and professional values across different actors and institutes, to assess the ethical basis of actions and programs, and to build project management strategies based on shared values.
4514 Population-Envir/Dev Latin Am (5 credits): This course engages the complex and interlinked dynamics of changes in population, systems of production, and the physical environment. Navigating among scales from global to local, we examine the interactions of trade regimes, markets, natural resource tenure systems, migration, livelihoods, technologies, health, and natural resource stocks. Taking a political ecology perspective, we will interrogate the distributions of wealth and power that affect control of natural resources, human well-being, and environmental sustainability. We also investigate the multiple social and cultural meanings of "natural resources" to actors who are variously positioned in terms of class, ethnicity, and gender. These dimensions of the population/environment/development nexus are examined for the following sectors: water conflicts and watershed management in the Andes; colonization, cattle, and energy development in the Amazon; non-traditional agricultural exports and aquaculture development in Central America; and forests throughout Latin America.
4515 Pol. Theory/Rise of Pol. Econ. (5 credits): This course explores the impact on political theory of the rise of political economy. The focus is on reading the main authors whose work reshaped political theory in response to the emergence of capitalism: Smith, Hegel, Marx, and Mill. The emphasis is o the way in which debates over market economy begun during this period continue to shape thinking on the vital issues of political theory and the design of political institutions, issues such as: equality, inequality and poverty; the consequences of economic growth; the ethical meaning and significance of individual choice; the importance of a vibrant civil society; the implications of the liberal ideal of individual self-determination; and the debate over the role of government in securing welfare.
4516 Major Diseases in Glbl Health (5 credits): As future global health practitioners and policy makers, it is imperative that we each have a complete and solid understanding of the mechanisms, physiology, epidemiology, transmission patterns, and clinical impact of the major diseases affecting global health. How and when does a person transition from simple HIV infection to full-blown AIDS? Why is dracunculiasis so readily amenable to eradication whereas filariasis is not? For what populations is co-infection with HIV and TB or HIV and malaria so critical and why? On the individual patient level, how and why do certain diseases manifest so differently in resource-poor versus resource-rich or urban versus rural settings? Who are the vulnerable populations and how does disease impact them physiologically? When and where would specific program interventions work over other programs and for whom? In this course, the students develop an understanding of the etiology, agents, vectors, burden, methods of detection, basic treatment complexities, and life cycles of major diseases impacting the world. Specifically, this course details HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, maternal/reproductive health, some protozoa, helminthes, and major parasites, chronic disease such as cancers and diabetes, and violence/trauma. As there is no shortage of amazing and interesting diseases globally, students learn a sound method of inquiry with which to address and disease process. Students also apply this method directly toward program analysis, and in the development of teaching sessions for community health workers.
4517 Poltcs of Deeply Divided Soc. (5 credits): This course focuses on the politics, conflicts, and conflict transformation approaches to deeply-divided societies. While ethnic, religious, and other types of communal conflict have been around for millennia, since the decline of colonization, and especially since the end of the Cold War, such struggles seemed to have exploded onto the world scene. This course focuses on these "contemporary" ethnic, religious, racial, and other communal conflicts to better understand why and how such conflicts develop. We then examine both theory and practice on what can be done to ameliorate or remedy them. Units focus on the nature of identity and identity politics; the use of political violence to pursue identity or nationalistic goals, and nonviolent approaches to identity conflicts. We then look at alternative political and conflict-transformational approaches to such conflicts including frameworks for living together (such as consociationalism, federalism, and power-sharing, and scenarios for separation (partition or succession). We also look at the negotiation, mediation, and other peace processes that have been utilized to try to accomplish such ends, and examine which have worked better than others and (to the extent possible) why. Readings will include both case study and theoretical material. Students are required to make several short class presentations, participate actively in discussions and exercises, and prepare and present a term paper analyzing one currently destructive deeply-divided society, analyzing the cause of the current unrest, and possible remedies to that situation.
4518 Pol Econ. of Japan and E. Asia (3 credits): This course will assess the political economies of Japan, Indo-China (Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia), Indonesia, and Singapore. The course will look at the relations between Japan and these countries, and the impact of the United States? economic and foreign policy has on these countries and vice versa, as well as that of the broader world economy.
4519 United Nations Millenium Goals (5 credits): This course focuses on fostering the United Nations' millennium goals, including such issues as health, population, gender, and the environment as they relate to development, conflict resolution, humanitarian relief and social change. The seminar brings in practitioners, policy makers and foundation/NGO/IGO experts to meet with the students, and includes a mix of team and individual projects to help build professional skills. This course is valuable to those interested in the so-called global issues, including public health and population, the environment, conflict resolution, and in the role of IGOs and NGOs. As a Foreign Service Officer and senior official in the Department of State and in her current role at the Foundation, Ms. Kimble has dealt with this mix of concerns in diverse ways. She has practical and policy experience, and in-depth knowledge of the roles and relations of the United Nations, its independent agencies, related NGOs, foundations and the U.S. Government. This class takes place in Washington DC.
4520 Political Geography (5 credits)
4521 Int'l Dev:Cross-Cult Perspect (3 or 5 credits): Explores cultural dimensions of economic and social change from perspectives of actors who create, promote, negotiate, and resist deifferent agendas from global to local.
4522 Philosophy of Social Science (5 credits): What is the nature of social science and the knowledge that it produces? This course, which is intended to complement INTS 4500 Social Science Methodology and INTS 4010 Epistemology, introduces students to the leading mainstream perspectives on the philosophy of social science. Special attention is given to Positivism and Post-Positivism, Post-Structuralism, Pragmatism, and Scientific Realism.
4523 Islam & Democ in Middle East (5 credits): Following September 11, 2001, Islam's relationship to liberal-democratic politics has emerged as one of the most pressing and contentious issues in international affairs. In light of the Bush Administration's desire, at least rhetorically, to promote democratic regime change in the Middle East, the question of Islam's relationship to democracy is likely to remain a pressing topic for debate. This seminar course is dedicated to a critical examination of this topic. The focus is on examining the theoretical relationships between Islam, Muslim societies and liberal-democracy. The first half of the course examines the scholarly literature on the points of compatibility and friction between religion and democracy. In the second part of the course, we examine the academic literature and the major debates on Islam's relationship with liberal-democracy. The debate on secularism and its discontents in the Middle East will be thoroughly explored. With time permitting, through the use of case studies, we study "real world" deterrents to democratization and liberalization in Muslim societies.
4524 Intro-Mid Est/Islamic Politics (5 credits): This course is designed for students without a background in the politics or history of the modern Middle East. Beginning with the study of colonialism and imperialism in the region, we then shift to a study of the emergence of the modern Middle East state system. Then the third theme of this course explores political ideologies, both secular and religious. The final section of this course will briefly explore the theme of democratization and its discontents in the Middle East. The focus is on recent debates about democratization that have been promoted from outside the region as a means of combating tyranny within the region, particularly the perceived anti-democratic nature of political Islam. This section includes a review of current analysis of democratization and the argument forwarded by some theorists relating to the culture of receptivity to ideas about democracy which are largely Western in inspiration and practice.
4525 Rlgn/State:Cmpar. Perspectives (5 credits): This seminar course provides an introduction to the key readings, concepts and debates on religion-state relations. While the focus is on the Western political tradition we explore the case of India and the Islamic world at the end of the course. Themes such as freedom of belief, the role of religion in the public sphere and debates over the political construction, location and meaning of secularism are examined.
4526 Modrn Islamic Poltical Thought (5 credits): This seminar course explores the key writings of Muslim thinkers who have shaped Islamic political thought during the 20th Century. We begin with the writings of Jamal Eddin Al Afghani and his Egyptian disciple Muhammad Abduh. We then proceed to read from the selected writings and speeches of Hassan al-Banna (founder of the Muslim Brotherhood), Sayyid Qutb (radical Egyptian Islamist theoretician), Adul Ala Maududi (Pakistani Islamic thinker and founder of Jamaat-i Islami) and Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini (leader of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution). We also investigate some of the writings of Islamic reformist thinkers such as Abdolkarim Soroush, Nasser Hamed Abu Zayd and Khaled Abou El Fadl. The emphasis in this course is on understanding the historical and political context which has shaped Islamic political thought during the 20th Century.
4527 Women in Islam (5 credits): This course focuses on the role that a religion plays in shaping its followers' socio-cultural identities on the basis of their natural/physical differences, i.e. men and women. The central argument of the course is that to understand a set of beliefs and practices regarding gender relations and women's status in any religious group, one needs to examine the historical context and socio-economic bases of that particular religion. By using gender and feminist discourse as a tool of analysis this course intends to understand and explain existing perceptions, misperceptions, myths, and realities regarding Muslim women's lives in the past and present. This course begins with a historical materialist explanation of the religion of Islam and examines women's roles, rights and responsibilities as described in the religious texts, interpretations, traditions and historical sources such as the Quran, Hadith, Sunnah and Shariah. This course revolves around three major questions: what does Islam say about the roles, rights and responsibilities of Muslim women and men in its texts and teachings? How have Muslim states and communities applied original texts and early teachings while determining gender roles, rights and responsibilities over time? Why do many contradictions and variations exist in the application of the texts and teachings of Islam regarding women/gender issues across the Muslim world today? It is expected that this course will enable students (a) to acquire knowledge of the historical contexts, textual teachings and actual practices related to women's lives in the present world of Islam; (b) to analyze existing situations and current practices regarding gender issues among Muslim communities; and (c) to compare various scholarly inquiries, feminist discourses and dissident voices of Muslim women emerging in local, national and global contexts.
4529 Comparing Rise of China/India (5 credits): This course looks at Asia's 21st Century powers in comparative perspective through a multi-disciplinary analysis of China and India. It covers the different historical trajectories of these two countries over the last century, their different forms of government, and discrepancies in their achievements in administrative and social development. It also looks at the structure of their economies, growth patterns, and the role of militarization and security concerns in shaping their outlooks towards the future. A major theme of the course is to understand not only the similarities between these two nations but also how and why they differ and to what extent their futures will converge or diverge.
4530 Iran - U.S. Relations (5 credits): Course examines U.S. - Iranian relations via the Iranian political system and international politics since WWII.
4531 Hlth Security Issues-Resp/Reco (3 credits): National disasters, terrorism and other events create not only immediate devastation, but long-term complications for responders, decision-makers and residents alike. How will issues of personal health and safety, and public health and security be addressed in a "crisis" mode? When day-to-day operations of healthcare, social and political systems are stressed, how will they function in times of disaster? This course will examine systems, policies, and procedures in governmental, private and other non-governmental organizations in response and recovery to notable events. In addition to function components of response and recovery, health care and public health systems will be studied for conceptual and operational improvements.
4533 Press Releases/Media Training (2 credits): This short course is designed to provide students with the communication skills needed for careers as international professionals and focuses on: writing press releases and other briefs, giving presentations and briefings; participating in media interviews; and dealing with the media (local, regional, national, international, intercultural, and hostile, to include media dealings in crisis environments). Students work singly and in teams; write releases and briefings; and participate in case studies and interview role-playing.
4534 Great Books on the Mid East (5 credits): This course examines key books in the study of the modern Middle East. The term "great books" does not necessarily mean "good books" but rather influential texts and authors who have shaped the study of the politics and society of this region during the 20th century. Thus, we read at least 9 books (none of them recently published) that have spawned debate and controversy in the field of Middle East/Islamic studies and continue to be referenced today. We also discuss why these books are considered "great books" as well as examine how they were reviewed in the scholarly literature and in more mainstream intellectual journals. This course is designed for students who seek a deeper grasp of the Middle East and a more refined understanding of the politics and history of this region. Previous work on the Middle East is assumed and strict course prerequisites apply.
4535 Compartv Hlth: Hlth Care Plcy (5 credits): Regardless of who we are, where we live, and what we believe, we are all born, we all age, and at various points in time, we all get sick, thus making health a universal concern and a universal human right. While our concern about health may be universal, the experience of sickness and health is not. The reality of limited human and fiscal resources for health care provision creates a diverse landscape of choice and outcomes. Globally, nations are confronting a health care crisis as policy makers consider trade-offs between differing paradigms of public responsibility and resource allocation. A central concern for public policy is thus, "At what cost, health?" It is with this in mind that we explore dominant models of health care financing and delivery. We first look at the ethical, philosophical, and economic questions which underpin public healthcare policy. We will then explore the specific models of health care financing and delivery currently used in the United States. Next, we compare the principles and mechanisms of health care in the U.S. to those in the United Kingdom. We conclude by examining pluralistic health care (and change) in the context of resource poor nations.
4536 Econ Fundamentals: Glbl Apps (5 credits): This course provides an introduction to the methods used to analyze contemporary global economic events by examining the environment in which individual economic agents interact. We analyze what the economic problem is, how consumers and business firms make economic decisions, how markets work and how they fail, and how government public policy decisions affect individual and aggregate behavior in both domestic and international markets. A special feature of the course is the application of economic principles to real world problems.
4537 The Military, State, & Society (5 credits): This comparative politics course addresses how the military operates not just in Third-World, capital-poor countries or in those with Leninist or post-Leninist regimes, but also in First-World, capital-rich states in which a democratic civil-military model is more commonplace. We explore the relation between the military as an institution with its own social structure and component cultures in relation to the politics of the state, political economic and society of which it is a part. Military forces have played a substantial role historically defending existing, often authoritarian regimes, but irregular or paramilitary forces (often with external support) also have been key players in insurgencies and revolutions. Even in democratic societies, one can find instances of military intervention, civil society depending upon an effective civil-military balance with the continued vigilance of an active citizenry.
4538 The Congo: Case Study (5 credits): This is a case-study based course with focus on the Congo. Students are familiarized with the colonial and post-colonial history of Africa in general and post-colonial history of the Congo in particular. Discussion includes these topics: elaboration on the strategic rule of the Congo as a supplier of strategic raw materials to the global economy; exploration of the cultural complexity of state building in Central Africa; examination of the origins of the current humanitarian crisis in the Congo, and exploration of the possible solutions to the economic and political crisis in the Congo.
4539 Food Security in US and World (5 credits): This course discusses: food security in the United States (community food security, food insecurity); stunting and chronic nutritional deficiencies; global water crisis; land degradation; land deals; climate change; dictatorship and kleptocracy; economic approaches (westernized view, food justice, food sovereignty); World Food Summit; achieving food security (the agriculture-hunger-poverty nexus, biotechnology for smallholders in the (sub)tropics); risks to food security (fossil fuel dependence, genetic erosion in agricultural and livestock biodiversity, hybridization, genetic engineering and loss of biodiversity, price setting, treating food the same as other internationally traded commodities); access to basic food supplies; infant feeding; determining nutritional status; supplementary feeding; therapeutic feeding; malnutrition, nutrient requirements and sources.
4540 Dependency Theory (5 credits)
4541 Glblzation & Labor: N. America (5 credits): NAFTA has been declared both an unqualified success and a dismal failure by economists and politicians in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. This course moves beyond the rhetoric to examine the impact of globalization on workers and communities across North America. We explore the migration of companies, production and workers within and between nations, and analyze the real impact on wages and social stability over time, in both industrial and agricultural regions. The class develops an understanding of both formal and informal worker organizations and relationships through case studies and guest speakers on traditional and cross-border organizing campaigns. We look at growth and loss in industrial and service sector unions in the U.S., and the status of workers' rights in all three nations. We also examine the methods and effectiveness of organizing innovations including emerging immigrant worker centers, worker owned cooperatives, and cross-border compacts protecting agricultural migrant workers. This course draws heavily on the rich resources in Colorado's organizing community, with guest presenters sharing organizing models and successes, personal stories of job loss and migration, and strategies for advancing workers' rights in the new economy.
4542 Int's Criminal Tribunal Law (5 credits): The International Criminal Court and the various ad hoc tribunals such as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and for the former Yugoslavia prosecute a unique and evolving set of international criminal laws designed to end the impunity of military and political leaders engaged in mass violence. The tribunals' mandate is to prosecute violations of a discreet set of laws including war crimes, genocide, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and crimes against humanity. Along with related domestic prosecutions, ICL is evolving rapidly. Its history is fascinating, beginning with the proposition that even in the context of the most violent of clashes, some humanitarian standards exist and violators should be held accountable. The post-World War II precedent of the Nuremberg trials was the basis of the creation of ad hoc war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, which themselves led to hybrid courts such as the Bosnia War Crimes Chamber, the Extraordinary Chambers for Cambodia and the International Criminal Court. In addition, many national jurisdictions have enacted enabling legislation that provides in domestic courts the jurisdiction to prosecute these crimes. This course explores the origins and development of ICL, their elements, the dilemmas ICL presents for enforcement, sovereignty, justice and political efficacy. Students pursue questions about ICL in the context of concrete cases.
4543 Religion & Int'l Studies (5 credits): The relationship between religion and international politics is an important and understudied topic. For year, religion was, at best, a handmaiden to international relations as scholars focused on state actors only. Since 9/11 this has changed in dramatic fashion because of the rise of radical Islam, the importance of the religious right in the United States and its role in Middle East politics, and a growing awareness of how religion can divide populations within states and in many regions of the world. This course begins with an evaluation of the thousand year history of religious conflict before 1648 when faith and international politics were inseparable. We study the struggles between Islam and Christianity as well as "heresy" in both of these religions which lead to events like the Protestant Reformation. We explore the role of religion in politics from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and conclude with readings on such topics as suicide bombing, shifting religious values, demographics, and projections on how religion will shape international politics in the 21st century.
4544 Classics in Comparatv Politics (5 credits): The works of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber are the basis for most 20th century social theory in the non-revolutionary (post-Marxist) tradition. The two thinkers are in many respects rivals in their attempts to comprehend industrial capitalist society in the generation after Marx. The larger context is the whole developing tradition of modern social theory going back to Hobbes, Locke and other 17th century theorists. This course consists of intensive reading of the works of Durkheim and Weber, some reading about them, about the emergence of sociology as a discipline, and about how social theory illuminates the broader discourse of political theory and comparative politics.
4545 Disaster Logistics (5 credits): Domestic logistics integration including local, state, and federal levels, including basic understanding of military capacity. Case studies of international disaster to highlight specific logistical issues, e.g., Hurrican Katrina for coordination/communication amongst agencies, Southeast Asia Tsunami for special populations and cultural issues, Pakistan earthquake for civil-military cooperation regarding logistic supply and delivery, or Darfur for special issues of logistics during ongoing conflict. International organizations and organo-grams regarding logistics and operations, including UNJLC, OCHA, HIC, and various other agencies. Hands-on practical exercises utilizing computer simulations and/or "sandtable" demonstrations of mock events. Specific issues such as: storage and warehousing, supply and transportation, distribution, procurement, fleet management, and security.
4546 Economics of Climate Change (5 credits): Climate change and climate change policy will affect every facet of life on Earth. From fossil fuels, to livestock production, to crop and forestry practices - human activity generates greenhouse gases. This course examines issues related to global warming and policies to abate, or adapt to, climate change. These include: modeling economic impacts of climate change, evaluating alternative analyses of climate impacts (e.g. the Stern Review, Nordhaus, Lomborg), evaluating the experience of the ETS (European Trading System), issues in the architecture of a U.S. cap-and-trade system, climate policy and leakage (trade impacts), the Green Development Mechanism (linkages with developing countries), impacts on developing countries, the potential for environmental migration, climate change and equity, food production and emission of greenhouse gases.
4547 Obama Foreign Policy (5 credits): This course studies the Obama Administration's approach to foreign affairs and details the extent to which the United States has become a nation in newfound waters internationally. Our scope does not limit itself to only those trouble spots around the world, but also includes the numerous allies that we become so reliant upon, as well as those we have forged newer relationships with. Students are exposed to various guest speakers and outside material in addition to texts and classroom discussion; and experience what encompasses the makeup of this Administration's foreign policy, from a front row seat.
4549 Pract. Tools for Microfinance (3 credits): This course builds on the topics in "Introduction to Microfinance" and explores the practical aspects of managing a microfinance institution or program. Lending and savings products entail certain financial risks, especially when they are provided at large scale to thousands of customers. Microfinance institutions (of MFIs) need to manage the credit and financial risks that are part of that business. Successful MFIs develop well-designed tools for monitoring delinquency, avoiding fraud, managing credit risk, and for identifying the financial risks of new credit and savings products. In addition, good MFIs have basic financial management principles and tools to ensure the financial viability of the entire microfinance institution. This class uses MFI case studies to highlight examples of the financial risks MFIs face (e.g., delinquency, credit risk, fraud risk, cash flow risk) and the practical tools they use to identify and manage these risks. We spend the first half of each class on the case study and the second half on the financial implications of these risks, the financial principles involved, and how the tools work. Students gain a better understanding of financial statements and analysis, credit risk, and the key principles of financial management. Prerequisite: INTS 4339 of instructor approval.
4550 Doc Sem-Comparative Politics (5 credits): An advanced course addressing recent literature and ideas in comparative politics scholarship. Intended for students preparing to take comprehensive exams. Open to PhD students only. Prerequisites: INTS 4501 and INTS 4504
4552 Communications for Devel. (3 or 5 credits): Professional roles in development often require a myriad of communications skills when working with the various stakeholders involved in international development. This course will cover methods and techniques to deal with the public sector and ministries, NGOs, international and national donors, private sector players and the politics of wise and efficient external communications. It will cover the various forms of integrated marketing communications knowledge necessary when managing or working collaboratively with any developmental marketing program, including marketing strategy, advertising, sales promotion, public relations, and interpersonal communications with various key players in international development.
4555 Professional Communications (5 credits)
4556 Academic Writing Seminar (5 credits): Students will improve and enhance writing skills for the international studies arena to include preparation for MA thesis and dissertation.
4557 Cross-Cultural Communications (5 credits): This course is designed to prepare graduate students for careers as international professionals by focusing on the cultural factors that influence communication in international relations as well as the rules that proscribe and prescribe behavior. The course emphasizes culture and will explore how different cultures: perceive and interpret their surroundings, and create and communicate a shared, cultural construct of reality and identity; develop unique communication rules; and evolve culture-specific verbal and non-verbal communication behaviors. Students will immerse themselves in a particular culture (its history, values, world views and associated thought processes, religion, gender and social perception, language, and nonverbal communication) and research its communication conventions, practices, standards, core metaphors, terms, cultural premises, and meaning systems. Students are expected to demonstrate a critical and informed awareness of cultural content and identity, as well as the communication imperatives and procedural issues in their country through class presentations, discussions, and a long paper. The course rationale is that cross-cultural communication is inevitable, and without an understanding of the cultural communication imperatives, it is very difficult, virtually impossible to understand, work with, manage, or influence individuals from another culture. The course will involve theory and proven models, but will primarily focus on cultural immersion, skills development, practical applications, and case studies--exploring how culture both influences and reflects communication dynamics, how to communicate effectively in a multicultural environment, and how to manage and resolve cross-cultural conflicts.
4558 Glbl Comm: Digital Divide (5 credits): This course seeks to examine the interaction between politics and mass media across the digital divide, exploring the Internet media's role in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. It begins with an analysis of the history of the U.S. media and its evolution as a political institution, and examines the functions of media in Western-defined global political society. We also discuss the transnationalization of the digital divide, as well as the nature of "instant news media" in other countries and influence on international relations.
4559 Globalization & Governance (3 credits): Course defines globalization precisely and analytically. Also helps students understand key economic governance issues nationally, regionally and globally.
4560 Global Change: Issues/Dynamics (5 credits): Significant forces reshape the socio-political world much like tectonic plates restructure the geological world. These include the Information-Communications Technology (ICT) revolution and other technological change, the demographic/agricultural transitions, financial globalization, the energy transition from fossil fuels, atmospheric carbon build-up, reshaping of value systems, and global democratization. Serious analysis of global affairs requires an understanding of these forces, the primary issues to which they give rise and the debates over country-specific and multilateral policy responses to those issues. This course surveys hey forces and provides analytical tools from a broad range of disciplines to facilitate better understanding of them and the central dynamics of their interaction. It maps key issues and policy environments.
4561 Comp National Energy Policy (5 credits)
4562 Millennium Development Goals (5 credits): The MDGs focus attention of the global dev. community, with targets such as: poverty reduction, ed and literacy needs, safe water, etc.
4563 Crisis Mgmt & Communications (5 credits): This course is designed to prepare graduate students for careers as international professionals by teaching the management and communication skills and processes required before, during, and after a crisis. Students will learn how to respond to and manage crises such as: outbreaks of armed hostilities, terrorist attacks, operational accidents, critical technology events, workplace violence, environmental controversies and events, fraud and extortion, workplace harassment, competitive market assaults, punitive regulation/legislation, organized protests, religious/ethnic/political riots and incidents, serious service/product safety challenges, media exposes, adverse litigation, and catastrophic events (force majeure). According to nearly 90% of international CEO's and NGO Executive Directors, Crisis Management (CM) and the Crisis Management & Communications Plan (CM&CP) are essential and integral components of any organization's comprehensive management system, regardless of its size, nature, or location. In the current international environment, these components are imperative and involve establishing and administering processes and teams that anticipate, prevent, and resolve threats to the organization's personnel, mission, property, image, or survival. Though including theory (basic risk, contingency, and management theory), the course is primarily an applied, practical approach, one that addresses the extremely difficult challenges faced by organizations operating internationally. Students will work singly and in collaborative teams. All assignments will include written components; some will include oral presentation; most will involve cross-cultural issues. Students will demonstrate their understanding of Crisis Management & Communications by creating a comprehensive Crisis Management and Communications Plan for an organization.
4564 Conflict Theory in Real World (5 credits): This course delves into conflict theory at a deeper level. Through readings, class discussion, and exercises, students develop a clear understanding of the common sources of conflict and conflict dynamics - what typically starts conflicts, what causes latent conflicts to emerge, why and how conflicts escalate, and what causes them to become either entrenched (i.e., intractable) or de-escalated, transformed, settled, or resolved. By reading about and discussing theory in the context of real cases, and doing a paper applying one or more conflict theories to an actual case, students gain an understanding of the assertion made by conflict theorist Kurt Levin that "there is nothing as practical as a good theory."
4565 Adv Quantitative IPE (5 credits): The main purpose of this course is to understand critically some of the formally conceptual and quantitative papers in International Political Economy (IPE) and international economics. After a review of some basic theories, the course focuses on a selected list of classic and recently published papers in these fields. The basic requirements are familiarity with the fundamentals of international political economy and economics. At least Statistics II (INTS 4051) level knowledge of statistics is required.
4566 Globlization & Sustn Developmt (5 credits): In recent years, the issue of sustainable development has received considerable attention from academia, governments, and international organizations. Of particular concern are countries that are heavily dependent on the export of commodities. Can sustainable development be achieved by such countries? Chocolate (cocoa) and coffee are not only among the world's most popular little pleasures, they are also among the most traded commodities. Originating in Latin America and Africa respectively, their global diffusion has influenced the culture, society and politics of developed and developing countries for decades and continues to do so today. Coffee exports (the primary source of foreign exchange for many poor countries such as Ethiopia) are valued at about &9 billion annually. 25 million people in Asia, Latin America, and Africa struggle to earn a living through coffee production, it too is a major source of income for many countries in Latin America and West Africa. Yet, many problems have been identified such as farmers unable to earn a survival wage, the exploitation of child labor, and the damage that production processes inflict upon the environment. In short, these important commodities are apparently contributing little to sustainable development. Various organizations and individuals are involved in efforts to change this situation by promoting the establishment of specialty, organic and fair trade coffee and chocolate products. The degree to which these efforts can help turn the existing situation around remains unclear but the lives of millions of people and the future of many countries hangs in the balance. This seminar is designed to address such issues. We explore the meaning of sustainable development and consider the nature of globalization and the ways in which it has shaped the cultivation and consumption of coffee and chocolate over time. In order to understand this linkage, we utilize the concept of the "commodity chain", an approach that allows us to conceptualize the nature of the international linkages, their key nodes, the distribution of power, and the ways in which external actors influence a country's development efforts. The course is divided into three parts. In the first, we cover the basic concepts and seek to answer such questions as: 1) How have the coffee and cocoa commodity chains been shaped by globalization? 2) What has been the role of key actors - producers, local traders, governments, and multinational corporations - in shaping production and consumption patterns over time? In the second part we consider three basic forces that have shaped the commodity chains - the state and its policies, culture and consumption patterns, and entrepreneurs and technology. Here the questions are: 1) How have the policies of producing and consuming states affected the commodity chains? 2) How have changes in consumption patterns reflected in the growth of Starbucks influenced the situation in developing countries? 3) How have external technologies such as transportation and communication technologies as well as internal technologies such as instant coffee changed the chains? In the third part, we focus explicitly on two dimension of sustainable development - the environmental and the socio-economic. We seek to answer such questions as 1) To what extent are contemporary patterns damaging the environment? 2) What is condition of producers and how have these changed over time? 3) How effective are fair trade and other campaigns designed to promote sustainable development?
4567 Dem & Govern in Fragile States (5 credits): Since the end of the Cold War, most African countries today have undergone difficult and challenging transitions from post-liberation, one-party states to processes of multiparty democracy and electoral competition. The implications of democracy and human security and human development are far from clear, and there is no presumption of a linear pathway of the consolidation of democracy; indeed, the challenges of election-related violence (as in Kenya) or new autocracy (as in Zimbabwe) raise deep challenges of democracy's consolidation. So, too, the challenges of human development in resource-rich states seems problematic for democracy when elites have access to rent and revenue that makes them arguably less accountable to the broader population. This course critically explores democratization in Africa and the contemporary challenges in many diverse contexts, from longstanding democratic polities such as Botswana to tested democratic processes in war-torn countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. This course explores democratization - the means and methods by which countries in recent years have moved from a non-democratic to democratic regime type. What theories, concepts, and methods should be used to understand democracy and democratization in today's complex, multiethnic societies and rapidly urbanizing countries of Africa? Topics include: theories and methods for assessing transitions from authoritarian rule; case studies in democracy and democratization in Africa that have made often turbulent and sometimes violent transitions; institutional and procedural options for improving the viability, quality, and sustainability of democracy in countries where the conditions favorable for a pluralistic society are distinctly absent; special problems of democracy in multiethnic and post-war societies, where democratization is pursued as a method of conflict management; and methods of international promotion of democracy in African contexts through norms, conditionality, and development aid for improving political governance.
4569 Migration (5 credits): Migration is a fundamental feature of our lives. Indeed, every aspect of our civilization and our self-conception is shaped by the exodus of all humans from our origin as a species in Southern Africa 200,000 years ago. In our own era, the aging of western populations, the rise of new economic powers, and dramatic improvements in human capital have given rise to an era of labor migration unparalleled in magnitude and diversity, though not entirely unique. New technologies have risen to facilitate further migration, enable the transmission of resources and knowledge across borders, and create new transnational patterns of residence and livelihood that challenge our notions of nation, identity, and even the very meaning of the term migrant. To put it simply, migration is the human face of our modern era of globalization, entailing incredible costs, risks, and returns for migrants along with important impacts for host societies, and the global system. Migration comes in many varieties in terms of destruction, permanence, and level of coercion, yet common theoretical, empirical, and policy unite these different forms of mobility. This course offers a holistic view of the migration process from multiple perspectives, at multiple levels of analysis, and on multiple aspects of our world today. As a uniquely individual behavior, migration has proven over time to be notoriously unfriendly to policy, which is often ineffectual or even counterproductive. We explore this cross-cutting concern through case studies illustrating the promise and pitfalls of migration policy.
4570 Domination & Pol Repression (5 credits): The course begins with the premise that comparative politics, and more generally social science, has ignored political repression around the world while human rights groups and increasingly historians have documented how wide spread it is. The course differs from courses on human rights in that it asks the questions of why and how political repression is used. However, it also suggests that current paradigms in the social sciences do not include the appropriate concepts to analyze the problem. It then shows how a concern for domination can make political repression understandable.
4572 Political Econ of Middle East (5 credits): This course emphasizes the economic development of the countries in North Africa and the Middle East. Students must be comfortable with Macroeconomics as presented in the introductory or principles of economics classes. Given the nature of the region under study, we cover and touch on culture, Islam, oil, Islamic Banking and Finance and other pertinent issues relevant to the region. Every student is required to write a report on one of the countries in the region and present it to the class. The course helps students to understand and discuss the relevant issues that are important to this region as well as it strategic importance to the West and the United States. The region is often associated with oil, Islam, the Palestinian-Israeli peace process-or conflict-and overall instability that takes places in different parts of the area. This instability has an impact on the world economy and our understanding of this region will enhance our understanding of the global economy. Through class discussion, reading and presentations, we focus on these issues and also use current events to highlight and extend these topics. This course also helps students identify the religious, historical, social, political, economic, and security issues that affect the region as a whole. This course also compares the economic and political developments in the region with other regions of the world.
4573 Oil and the World Economy (5 credits): Dating back to the 1970s, with the first and second oil shocks affecting the world economy, the world oil markets have regained center stage again and forced a number of countries, developed and developing, to search for alternatives as well as policies to reduce their dependence on oil. The world oil markets have changed from a physical market where the only players were those who received delivery of the oil to a global financial market where hedge funds and investors of all stripes are able to capture gains that they cannot capture in other markets. As a commodity market, oil has become popular for many firms to diversify their investment particularly in light of the depreciation of the U.S. dollar. This course explores the world oil markets, the role of OPEC and non-OPEC oil producers in their impact on the global economy as well as what the oil consumers and the International Energy Agency can do to help mitigate the effects of high oil prices on the world economy.
4574 China/India: Compartv Analysis (5 credits): This course looks at Asia's 21st century powers in comparative perspective through a multi-disciplinary analysis of China and India. It covers the different historical trajectories of these two countries over the last century, their different forms of government, and discrepancies in their achievements in administrative and social development. It also looks at the structure of their economies, growth patterns, and the role of militarization and security concerns in shaping their outlooks towards the future. A major theme of the course is to understand not only the similarities between these two nations but also how and why they differ and to what extent their futures will converge or diverge.
4575 Systems Thinking/Soc Scintists (3 or 5 credits): The purpose of this course is to introduce students to systems thinking as an approach for understanding and analyzing real-world issues. In addition to introducing the basic principles of systems thinking, questions that well be addressed include: Why do systems behave the way they do? Why do systems resist change and often end up getting worse when we try to change them? How do you find points of leverage within a system? This course uses examples drawn from a range of issues across the field of international studies. In doing so, it illustrates haw a systems perspective can allow you to see parallels between seemingly disparate issues. This course introduces both qualitative and quantitative approaches for analyzing systems and discusses the benefits and limitations of each. Quantitative, computer-based modeling is used in this course, but no background is required.
4576 Sem: Community-Based Research (5 credits): This course offers a weekly seminar in methods for community-based research in health, development, population, and humanitarian assistance. The course is intended as preparation for students preparing for a community-based research partnership in Delhi, Nairobi, Jerusalem, or Iquitos, Peru but is open to all students preparing to go to the field. Focus is on practical methods for gathering quantitative and qualitative data at the individual, household, village/neighborhood, facility, and total community level including "windshield observation", key informant surveys, household surveys, and gathering of secondary data from census and other government and non-government sources. Methods of data collection include Geographic Positioning System (GPS), facility/provider surveys, community governance/needs assessments, and knowledge-attitude-practice (KAP) behavioral surveys. Topics of particular emphasis include maternal and child health (MCH), water and sanitation (WASH), and primary health care (PHC). Students learn to design, revise, collect, enter, and analyze basic surveys using Excel and the Stata statistical software package. The final project for the course includes a community "desktop assessment" document and a plan for further data acquisition and analysis for the student's focus community.
4579 International Futures (0 or 5 credits): Futures forecasting involved decisions about priorities. Decisions require forecasting the trajectory of a society with and without interventions of various kinds. This course involved students in the forecasting and analysis process. In the lab, students learn to use the International Futures (IFs) forecasting system. That system represents multiple issue areas (demographics, economics, energy, agriculture, education, health, socio-political, and environment subsystems) and is supported by a very large database. Students study the structure of each of these modules, learn how they represent the underlying subsystems, how they are linked to other subsystems, and what they tell us about the processes of change globally and in countries and regions around the world. Students use the system for forecasts and analyses of their own.
4580 National Planning Models (5 credits)
4585 Case Studies-Public Policy (5 credits)
4587 Intell. & Military Ops (5 credits): Introduces concept, framework, and applications of intelligence and military operations.
4590 Cvl Society and Democratztn (5 credits): This course introduces students to the idea of civil society as a process of state-making. We explore examples that illuminate the relationship between civil society and the state in both democratic and non-democratic contexts, paying special attention to democratization and the strength of civil society. In so doing, we look at the role of state institutions, NGOs, and social movements to identify these mechanisms. Students consider the question, "Is state engagement with civil society an integral and necessary condition of democratization, and if so, how?" We consider contexts in which the state disengages from civil society and the deteriorating conditions afterwards that can result in an increase in social radicalization, as in South Africa, Colombia, and other cases. In more developed democratic countries, we investigate how this process can lead to low civic participation and ridicule of the electoral process. In the final weeks of the course, we move on to solutions for incorporating civil society into state processes in the contemporary context.
4591 Advcd Fundraising Workshop (3 credits): This course compliments INTS 4391, in which an overview of non-profit fundraising - along with financial management - is given. In this course, we take an in-depth look at the major methods of non-profit fundraising, namely, annual giving, special events, corporate fundraising, grant writing, major gifts, and planned giving. The teaching methodology to be employed is that each 3 hour class session is, in effect, an intense workshop on a specific fundraising topic. During each class session, a fundraising professional from the community, who is actively engaged in the particular fundraising activity being discussed, joins the professor in leading the workshop. Due to the advanced nature of this course, enrollment is limited to those who have already been introduced to the major methods of fundraising through he previous completion of INTS 4391, the concurrent enrollment of INTS 4391, or previous fundraising experience or educational pursuit in the fundraising field that is judged by the professor to be sufficient to be an active participant in this course.
4595 Civil Wars & Int'l Responss II (5 credits): Today, civil wars constitute the principle, realized threat to international security (measured in lives lost). This seminar critically explores the problems to international peace and security posed by contemporary civil wars and the efforts of international - primarily, United Nations - "peace building" missions to implement negotiated settlements aimed at substantially ending such wars and preventing their recurrence. The concept of peace building seeks to capture the complex, multidimensional task of implementing the terms of settlements to end war preventing the recurrence of war, and addressing the deep-seated causes of social conflict and deep divisions that gave rise to protracted armed conflict in the first place. Furthermore, the notion of peace building have been augmented by the concept of state building, which implies that the principle strategic objective of external efforts is to help develop and create legitimate, capable states that are able to realize the provision of security and human development and to manage future social conflict through nonviolent bargaining processes and institutions. The scope of the course includes the analysis of theories, concepts and empirical research in the analysis of post-war international interventions in civil wars and in-depth, student led evaluation of specific cases. Prerequisite: INTS 4495.
4599 Ethics & International Affairs (3 to 5 credits): This course examines the following: social "science" and ethics, power-rivalry and capitalism versus human rights and democracy, what are the dimensions of poverty, what role does the World Bank play, "laws of people," two classes of human rights (according to Rawls), national interest, and tolerance.
4600 Developmt Practice Prep. (0 credits): This course entails ten short courses designed to place the entire Master of Development Practice cohort on a more level field of knowledge and skills before the start of the degree program itself. The other purpose of this course is to build a team of students that know and trust one another. This class is graded on a pass/fail basis. The ten preparation courses are: International Systems - There are diverse ways to "frame" our consideration of development. This course examines community, national, and systemic global parameters of development options for more/less and richer/poorer peoples and nations on this earth. Law and politics are discussed as "snapshots" of what change and normative behavior is possible at any given time and place. Also, the economic needs, strategies, and theories or farmers, markets, and a systemic global economy are considered. Life Science - This course presents general skills and concepts for consideration of ecology and conservation biology with historical and current case studies. It sets the stage for the cohort's further study of environmental and climatic issues during all six terms of on-campus studies as well as field-based work in Guatemala and Vietnam. Statistics - There are two consecutive sections of Statistics - the first at an introductory/intermediate level, and the second at an intermediate/advanced level. Both parts hone skills that are applied in several subsequent courses. This addresses one of the classic hurdles in learning statistics, and that is such courses are too often taught in isolation from solid applications. Hence, students apply these skills in the field as well as in several other courses. Gender - While no single course focuses exclusively on gender, it is a cross-cutting theme of the entire program. Thus, this preparatory course presents basic concepts, questions, and problems that students address in a number of subsequent courses. The instructors draw on several disciplines, including professional psychology, anthropology, education, and international studies. Health Science - This course is a primer divided into two parts, the first on molecular biology and physiology, and the second on bodies and nutrition. While this does not equip one to enter medical school, it does present enough of a foundation so that development generalists understand when and why to call upon medical and health science personnel. This course also sets the stage for the cohort's study of community and global health, as well as its examination of health issues during off-campus studies in India, Bangladesh, and Mozambique. International Futures - The Frederick S. Pardee Center for International Futures is a critical component of Joseph Korbel School of International Studies research and development work. Its computer modeling of regional and global trends draws on more than 1,600 variables and drivers of change. During this course, students learn how to use International Futures (IF) software and databases. This prepares the cohort for its immediate application of IF's in the Development Forecasting course. There are further applications of the IF's model and databases throughout the program. Inter-Cultural Knowledge - Just and sustainable development require inter-cultural knowledge, sensitivity, and curiosity. This course examines these three components through lenses of language, religion, and communication. The cohort travels the world together - virtually, physically, and dialogically. Each step of the cohort's travel will call upon inter-cultural capabilities. DemographyThis course sets the stage for several courses that call upon basic demographic skills and framing abilities. These include the GPS/GIS workshop at Mt. Evans, courses in Community Health, Global Health, and Social and Population Movements, and examination of development practice and research in India, Bangladesh, and Mozambique. Development-Conflict Nexus - This course introduces the relationship of MDG work and conflict. Fragile and failing states present the hardest challenges in the field of sustainable development. Upstream concerns are food and water scarcity, violence, and environmental degradation. Downstream issues are obstacles of effective capacity building, good governance, ethnic, religious and nationalist strife, and regional stability. This course sets the stage for topics that arise in the studies in Central America, Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Hydro-Bio-Atmosphere - The Geography Department presents a primer on our surrounding ecology as well as the human imprint on water, land, and sky. It draws on case studies that are examined close up in Guatemala. Here, the departments of Geography, Biology, and Chemistry team up to present basics of environmental science for subsequent courses on Food and Water, Energy, and Natural Resources, Urban Agriculture, and Deforestation. This course also sets the stage for topics arise in Central America, Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4601 Int'l Futures: Glbl Chng/Devel (5 credits): Futures forecasting involved decisions about priorities. Decisions require forecasting the trajectory of a society with and without interventions of various kinds. This course involved students in the forecasting and analysis process.
4602 Human Rts, Needs, Duties (4 credits): Students consider just and sustainable development as a matter of satisfying human needs, achieving human capabilities, implementing rights, and fulfilling responsibilities. They examine, in particular, the process by which human rights, needs, and duties are becoming more widely recognized as a normative regime of behavior worldwide. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4603 Sustainable Development (3 to 5 credits): This is one of two course that relate to the MacArthur Foundation's global classroom course, integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Practice, which links to all Master of Development Practice programs worldwide. This course examines diverse concepts and approaches to development, but emphasizes a comprehensive perspective and set of skills for holistic development work. Denver-area development practioners present guest lecture. Through the MacArthur link, there are numerous inter-cultural and global presentations. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4604 Food and Water Security (4 credits): This course examines the quality and management of food production and of water resources. It then considers the role of business in sustaining pathways for affordable disbursement of such critical lifelines as basic food and water. This course also relates back to the Human Rights, Needs and Duties course, for these basic human rights of sustainability are essential to all other MDGs and to internaitonal security as well. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4605 Development Project Analysis (4 credits): This "bookend" course is the first of two that imagine, design, fund, monitor, and evaluate a development project. In this course, students learn concepts and strategies for a well-conceived and implemented project. It looks back at the students' experience in South Asia, and looks ahead to criteria for evaluation for the students' applied study and research in Guatemala. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4606 Global Health (4 credits): Leaders of the Global Health Council and instructors at the University of Colorado's Health Sciences Campus team up for this examination of best practices and current challenges in global health. Building on the cohort's basic learning from the preparatory class, the Global Health course prepares students to know when, how, and why to engage community health care providers as well as outside health practitioners and professionals. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4607 Economics (4 credits): This course balances western neoclassical micro- and macro-economic concepts and theories with alternative economic arguments, experience, and theories from other parts of the world. These alternatives include socialist economic considerations, cultural and regional contexts of economics, and value chain analysis of how farmers and communities may access local, regional, and global markets. This course realizes that much poverty alleviation results from people's just and sustainable roles in diverse markets. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4608 Energy & Climate Change (4 credits): In this course, instructors from the law school, the international MBA program, and biology combine resources, experience, concepts, and models for an integrated study of sustainable energy and climate change. Special consideration is given to the extractive mining industry and water usage. From a legal perspective, this course looks at how law and policy are made, and how keen public advocacy can use these tools for sustainable practices. From a business perspective, this course examines how the role of socially responsible corporate behavior is key to sustainable production, markets, relations, and profitability. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4609 Multi-Level Data Analysis (3 to 5 credits): This is the first of two research courses, designed to introduce research methods and approaches that prepare the cohort for eight-week applied study and field research in Guatemala and Vietnam. Building on statistics, demography, and GPS/GIS remote sensing, this course enables students to ground development decisions in reliable data and analysis. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4610 Gender and Population (4 credits): This course builds on the Demography and Statistics preparatory classes. It also relies on case studies that the cohort relates to directly in Kenya, India, and Bangladesh. It addresses the plight of particularly vulnerable displaced populations, dynamic rural-urban flows and hazards, extreme poverty, eradication, and political and environmental forces affecting the movement of people. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4611 Relief to Development Gap (3 to 5 credits): What are the different agenda and foci of humanitarian assistance, emergency relief, and longer term strategies for just and sustainable development? What are the particular needs of countries and populations emerging from inter-state conflict, dirty wars, human rights abuses, and failed statehood? This course addresses these questions from diverse disciplines, including professional psychology, international studies, comparative politics, and anthropology. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4612 Community Health (4 credits): This is the second of two courses that relate to the MacArthur Foundation's global classroom course, Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Development Practice, which links to all MDP programs worldwide. It builds on the first course, Global Health. Its premise is that the human right to health care is a continuum that includes family and community-based practices as well as district, national and global health initiatives and information. This entire continuum relies on each community's role in collecting, owning, and analyzing data concerning its health. This course considers primary and preventive health as well as tertiary care. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4613 Strategic Peace-building (4 credits): Generally, it takes as long to emerge from war as a country and people spend building up to and engaging in war. Hence, strategic peace-building is a complex, long-term endeavor to weave a more coherent, just, inclusive, transparent, and promising state-societal fabric. This course draws on many of the inter-disciplinary and cross-sector elements of other MDP courses in its challenge to the cohort to craft particular and universal "cultures of peace." Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4614 Deforestation (4 credits): This inter-disciplinary course uses deforestation as a case study to examine how to combine science, law, policymaking, and business management in order to provide water, protect watersheds, and conserve fragile ecological zones. It relies on examples from nearby Denver and the Rocky Mountains and relates these to the cohort's exposure to similar challenges worldwide. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4615 Development Project Evaluation (4 credits): This second of two "bookend" courses on imaging, designing, funding, monitoring, and evaluating development projects delivers real-time case studies. The cohort serves several non-governmental, community-based, and business ventures that require presently the students' assistance in crafting development projects. Some of these case studies arise from the MDP's relations with projects at our field sites in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Others come from partners in the Denver area. In particular, this course tests the cohort's ability to conceive and deliver sustainable development projects before its work in Vietnam. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4616 Ethics, Education & Change (3 to 5 credits): This course builds on initial questions posed on moral imagination and transformational education. It calls on the cohort to devise and test its own plans for passing on MDP and MDG-related education. Co-taught by instructors of the College of Education and the School of International Studies, this course challenges the cohort to create and design concrete means for interactive pedagogy and globally viable interactive technology. In short, what can the cohort do to enhance the potential of global classroom pathways of learning? And what can each MDP candidate do to ensure his or her role as an educating change agent. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4617 Development Diplomacy (4 credits): Development Diplomacy constitutes a large proportion of the present and future work, intellectual, and spiritual force for any country's path toward just and sustainable development. This course examines the role, needs, and assets of youth in deploying development diplomacy strategies. It is especially attentive to the role of youth in post-war, post-trauma situations of state and societal rebuilding efforts.
4618 Research: Multilevel Analysis (4 credits): This is the second of two research courses. It further grounds the students' applied research skills in diverse methods and approaches for data collection and analysis. While building upon the earlier research course, this one prepares the cohort to examine the complex multi-level and inter-state variables that affect development. Since the cohort travels immediately after this course to Vietnam, it considers uses of the Mekong River from China to Vietnam's southern delta. Here again, the cohort applies its skills in statistics, demography, and GPS/GIS remote sensing so as to ground development decisions in reliable data and analysis. Prerequisite: must be admitted to the MDP program.
4622 Strategy and Governance (5 credits): This course focuses on the variety of authorities that govern global issues (global governors) and endeavors to analyze 1) the strategy of these actors and 2) how the variety of actors engaged in a particular issue contributes to the amount and type of governance surrounding that issue. As a group students define strategy (the calculated relation of means to large ends) and what constitutes governance (creating issues, setting agendas, establishing and implementing rules or programs, and evaluating, enforcing and adjudicating outcomes), and read a variety of examples of strategy and governance on security issues (both historical and contemporary). Each student considers these concepts in the context of the strategy of a particular authority or the range of authorities relevant to a particular issue area. The intention is for each student to extract lessons relevant to future leadership roles which might call on them to connect desired ends with available means or generate collective action.
4623 Rts Based Approach to Devel (5 credits): Human rights and development emerge as parallel approaches to confronting indignity and deprivation in their many forms. As the effects of violent conflict, global capitalism, natural disaster, and fragile states impact the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people, these two frameworks provide purpose and rationale for those wishing to alleviate suffering. Yet human rights and development have not always worked in tandem, at time quite at odds with one another. More recently, however, scholars and practitioners have attempted to identify points of overlap and complementarity in order to improve outcomes. While this remains, in many ways, not a natural partnership, strides have been made to make sense of human rights and development together: one of which proposes a rights-based approach to development. The course focuses on this hybrid by examining many of the world's most pressing problems - in the areas of democracy, gender, food, health, education, and environment - as those have been recognized as particularly fundamental to improving the welfare of a majority of the world's population. Our analysis considers these issues through the lens of each traditional route, as well as the fused third way, to draw conclusions about efficacy and appropriateness. The pragmatic implications bear on those actors engaged in human rights and development work and shape their strategies and methods. We evaluate these difficult questions while emphasizing the consequences for best practices for international and non-governmental organizations.
4659 Truth & Recon. in Latin Am. (5 credits): Examines current conflicts and policies that affect government decision making in Latin America.
4660 Comp Intergroup Relations (5 credits)
4661 Readings in Int'l Security (3 or 5 credits): Professor uses various contemporary publications, RE: International Securities, to stimulate interactive discussions.
4662 Islamist Movements (5 credits): Students will acquire a better understanding of Islam manifestations, typologies, and implications on international and domestic policies.
4663 Readings in Int'l Human Rights (1 to 5 credits): Students will read current articles and publications on International Human Rights and critique as a group with the professor.
4700 United States Foreign Policy (5 credits): An intermediate course on issues and perspectives for evaluating American foreign policy. Topics discussed include theories of foreign policy; historical epochs in Superpower relations: the Cold War, Dente, and confrontation; America's role in the post-Cold War; war, peace, and trade in relation to U.S foreign policy planning and assesment.
4701 US National Security Policy (5 credits): An intermediate course which examines the post-war history of U.S. policy and America's response to the post-Cold War environment. Current issues include alternative strategies in nuclear deterrence and arms control; and security policy toward the Third World, Europe and the Atlantic Alliance, and Japan. Prerequisites; INTS 4702
4702 Major Issues-Security Policy (3 or 5 credits): An introductory course which exposes students to the range of issues bearing on international security; these include military strategy, arms races and arms control, crisis, civil-military relations, revolutionary war, ethic conflict, alliances. regional security. conflict resolution, and global justice.
4703 Security & Strategy (5 credits): This course will focus not only on national security and alliance strategies, but also on strategies for international and nongovernmental organizations that must cope with a complex global agenda. This course will explore strategic thinking with insights drawn from Thucydides and Sun Tzu, Machiavelli and Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Thomas Schelling, Colin Gray and other present-day writers on strategy. We'll also reflect on strategizing as individuals and as members of small and larger groups in diverse organizational settings.
4704 Globalization & Security (5 credits): Course uses historical approaches to evaluate connections between economics and security and how views on security have been shaped.
4705 Democratization (5 credits)
4706 Topics: International Studies (1 to 5 credits)
4707 Group Dynamics Practicum (3 or 5 credits): Advanced course in group process for students pursuing careers in administrative capacities in international organizations.
4708 Topics (1 to 5 credits)
4709 Topics: International Studies (1 to 5 credits)
4710 Topics (5 credits)
4711 Africa: Politics of Developmnt (5 credits): Explores intricate inter-relationships in the Politics of Africa.
4712 Congress & US Foreign Policy (5 credits): This course will examine the role of the Congress in the development and oversight of U.S. foreign policy. The course will review the institutional framework within which foreign policy is made and the evolving relationships between the Congress and the Executive Branch in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War world. We will look at the Congressional Committee system and relations between Congress and the President, the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, Energy, the Intelligence Agencies and the National Security Council. We will explore the impacts on U.S. foreign policy of the legislative process itself, including the different types of legislation (bills, resolutions, authorizations and appropriations), the differences between the house and the Senate, and the strengths and weaknesses of Congressional tools of foreign policy including foreign assistance, treaties, and sanctions. In addition, we will study the impact on U.S. foreign policy of the Congressional elections process, lobbyists, non-governmental organizations and the media. The objective is to give students practical tools to become more effective analysts of Congressional action and potential makers of U.S. foreign policy.
4714 In/Security Challenges: ME (5 credits): The Middle East was one of the main stages where the Cold War was fought out. The end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, however, did not signal the beginning of the demise of international security challenges in the region. On the contrary, today, the Middle East, the biggest market of weapons in the world, looks more than ever like a powder keg on the verge of explosion. Various transnational movements, emerging nationalisms and rival regional powers are competing over the future of the region. As the attacks on 9/11 showed, these struggles can spill over to other parts of the world. Since then, international security challenges in the Middle East have been at the center of debates among policy makers and IR scholars. The American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, and the ensuing debacles particularly in the latter intensified the debates about the most potent strategies for handling these challenges. With a new confrontation over Iran's nuclear program looming in the air, it seems that the Middle East is destined for a long period of instability. This class addresses the international security challenges facing the peoples and the states of the Middle East and their potential effects on the rest of the world. It covers issues that belong to what could be described as the traditional security agenda, in addition to topics from what many observers consider to be the new security agenda. Examples of the former include: arms control, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, territorial conflicts and challenges to state sovereignty by transnational ideologies and sub-national groups. The degradation of the environment and issues pertaining to immigration and flows of refugees are leading examples of the new challenges confronting the Middle East.
4715 Prob/Chlgs of Democratization (5 credits): This is a six week course in the field of comparative democratization studies. We will cover from the political science perspective topics such as the transition to democracy, consolidation of democracies, how and why democracy has spread around the world, the debates on the virtues and perils of democracy and on the nature and quality of the resulting representative democracies. We will focus on the major explantory factors for democratization: the case study/actor-centric approach, the statistical/structure-centric approach, and the region-centric approach. Additionally, we will study many of the features and quality of the many new democracies in topics such as: the functioning of political representation and accountability, institutional design and institutional functioning, political disaffection, democratic support and institutionalization fo the party systems, political and social participation and the level of social capital. The geographical focus is global, due to the comparative nature of the theoretical discussion, but it will be mostly focus upon the Southern and Eastern European, and Latin American cases and the time frame is concentrated to the so-called "Third Wave of Democratization" that started with the Greek and Portuguese transition during the mid-1970s.
4716 Human Rts/Nt'l Sovereignty (5 credits): The course addresses one of the key formative issues which set the agenda of Russia's relations with the outside world - the universal human rights norms and their relationship to sovereign rights of nations. The objective is, first, to demonstrate the difference between the Russian and the global (or western) discourses on human rights and to provide theoretical background for an intelligent interpretation of these differences. Secondly, the internal paradoxes and ambiguities of both discourses must be explored in order to outline the limits of their applicability and to probe the ground for a dialog on the possibility to reconcile the universality of values with the cultural and political self-determination of particular communities. By addressing the human rights-related aspects of the Russian foreign policy, this course will thus provide a general frame of reference for the understanding of Russia's position vis-a-vis the outside world, and discuss the perceived western hegemony as one of the major items on the foreign policy agendas.
4717 Russia's Security in Glblizing (5 credits): This course examines the security agenda of the Russian foreign policy. Methodologically, this course is built on the theory of securitization, which has been developed by the so called Copenhagen School and which interprets security as a discursive practice rather than as an "objective" state of affairs. The advantage of this approach is that it makes it possible to avoid discussing whether the threats are "real" or "imagined," and to concentrate on the hierarchy of threats as a result of political dynamics characteristics of a particular society. In a sense, this hierarchy is always "real," since it results in political action, and thus studying the mechanisms which create security hierarchies, inter alia, enables one to talk about the relationship between the national Self and various Others, i.e. opens up the problematique of identity central to the first course. Empirical part of the course includes examining geographical as well as thematic dimensions of security hierarchies, ranging from those inherited from the Soviet time (the West / NATO and, in part, the South and the East) to those characteristic for the post-Cold War era (terrorism, immigration, environment, transmittable diseases). The target audience for the course are graduate students interested in Russian area studies and international security.
4718 Promot Sustain Trans to Democ (5 credits): This course will explore a variety of the approaches to, as well as the means used to understand and promote sustainable transitions to "democracy" by International Organizations, States, and non-governmental actors. It will examine the possible sources of success or failure, including cases of post-transition "regression." It will also consider selected examples of essentially national examples of promoting transition to "democracy" within the context of this international concern with the issue. The approach will seek to achieve a useful learning experience and an understanding of this phenomenon by bringing together the insights of relevant literature and primary materials, with the instructor's more practical experience over a period of 45 years, with transitions, especially involving peacekeeping and electoral processes. These have been specifically in Zimbabwe, Cambodia, Mozambique, South Africa and several other Commonwealth countries, Afghanistan, the Solomon Islands and East Timor.
4719 Human. Intervention:Africa/HR (5 credits): In the post-Cold War period, Africa has increasingly become a major continent for human rights crises. Consequently, African States, the United States and the International Community have raised the level of humanitarian intervention to provide peace keeping for endangered peoples and improved livelihood. The question of effectiveness of various measures of intervention is an important consideration. Interpretation of international law, human rights and the best means of enforcement are all under discussion. The world community is increasingly opposed to genocide and ethnocide as it was in the days of anti-apartheid. How this affects current crises in Zimbabwe, West Africa, and the Sudan will be discussed. The student interested in the work of NGOs, international agencies, and state governments will benefit from this course.
4720 Capital Markets in Africa (3 credits): In this course, we explore the state of various capital markets in Africa, from microfinance to housing finance to public and private equity markets. The emphasis is on a comparative analysis to similar United States markets. The course does not attempt a comprehensive analysis of specific African countries, although examples are drawn from specific markets. Instead, we focus on many of the structural challenges to the development of mature capital markets in sub-Saharan African countries (excluding South Africa). We explore questions such as, Can microfinance be profitable? Why isn't housing finance widely used? Why aren't there more IPOs in Africa? Students will make group presentations in class, where student participation will be strongly encouraged. Grades are based on a combination of group presentations (both the oral and written content) and individual class participation.
4721 S. Asia:Mullah, Terror, Tigers (5 credits): The region called South Asia comprises of 7 states of big and small sizes. Despite many religious, ethnic and linguistic differences, the greatest similarity among these states is that they have a common colonial past and different post-colonial political experiences. Pakistan and Bangladesh's difficulties with the rising tide of Mullahism, Sri Lanka and India's struggle against ethnic and nationalistic terrorism, Nepals' conflict between monarchy and Maoism and last but not the least the poverty issue persisting across all the South Asian countries; roots of the similarities of all of these political, ethnic and religious challenges can be traced through their common colonial past. The central argument of this course is that to understand on going intra-state and inter-state religio-political and ethnic conflicts it is important to make a comparative analysis between the colonial legacy and post-colonial political, ethno-religious and economic challenges. It is expected that by the end of this course students (a) understand the impact of the colonial past on the post-colonial ethno-religious politics of the region; (b) comprehend the nature and roots of the present political, ethnic and religious turmoil of the region; (c) analyze current religious, political and ethnic trends and patterns; (d) identify future dimensions of regional politics in the broader international context.
4728 Nuclear Non-Proliferation (5 credits): This course will be taught by former Ambassador James E. Goodby. Ambassador Goody is currently Senior Research Fellow at M.I.T. and Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. He has taught at Carnegie Mellon, Stanford and Georgetown. He is the author of Europe Undivided, a book on U.S.-Russian relations. Entering the U.S. Foreign Service in 1952, he rose to the rank of Career Minister. His most recent assignments include: Deputy to the Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, special representative of President Clinton for the security and dismantlement of nuclear weapons, chief negotiator for nuclear threat reduction agreements, and ambassador to Finland. Nuclear weapons are the most powerful instruments of destruction the world has ever known and, arguably, the gravest danger civilization faces. The Cold War struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union generated tens of thousands of nuclear weapons which placed both nations and much of the world in jeopardy of devastation. The nuclear legacy of the Cold War remains a serious threat to global peace and security. Added to that is the problem of nuclear black markets and an increase in the number of states possessing nuclear weapons. The specter of al Qaeda with an atomic bomb has added a further dimension of insecurity and uncertainty. In this course, the class will be challenged to analyze and consider policy choices that are outside the historical experience of the human race in terms of the consequences that are involved. In the first few sessions, we will build a common data base by discussing the technology and the political decisions that helped to end World War II and sustained a nuclear standoff during the Cold War. We will then look at the transition period that began as the Cold War was winding down and proceed to such current issues as Iran, North Korea, nuclear terrorism, and the use of force to prevent nuclear proliferation. A primary objective of the course will be to encourage students to engage directly in analysis, problem-solving, and policy formulation. Accordingly, most sessions will be structured so as to encourage active interaction with the instructor and among students. Generally, an hour will be set aside for a policy exercise.
4729 Ethics and National Security (5 credits): Examines role of ethics in the formulation and execution of national security policy, with focus on U.S. government.
4730 Homeland Defense: Issues (3 or 5 credits): This course will examine the post-1945 history of United states efforts at homeland security, and include an overview of other national efforts (e.g., by the Soviet Union, Switzerland, and Israel.) It will then turn to identifying and analyzing the spectrum of issues associated with U.S. homeland security, in the context of evaluating the United States post-9/11 response to date. Those issues include: framing homeland security, prevention, response and recovery overview, foreign actors and issues, domestic actors/issues, problems of intellegence, terrorism vs. violent crime, public expectations, role of the media, funding and resources, and how to address broad spectrum threats.
4731 Homeland Defense: Prevention (5 credits): This course will examine the following issues: political leadership, foreign and domestic intellegence organization and functions, role of intellegence, principles of indications and warning, legal/civil rights issues: balancing human rights and security, law enforcement, Public health, and the role of various U.S. federal agencies: Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, the INS, bordre security among others, plus the role of first responders in prevention/detection, and establishing indicators and reporting procedures.
4732 Homeland Defense: Recovery (3 or 5 credits): This course will examine detection and notification; the role of federal agencies in conducting WMD/terrorism detection and notification of possible terrorist/WMD related activities. The course will also cover response and recovery after: a kinetic attack, a chemical or radiological attack, biological attack, and attacks on critical infrastructure. Also covered will be a continuity of operations, information operations and perception management, and restoration and recovery.
4734 Homeland Sec & Civil Soc (5 credits): Examines host of potential societal consequences of homeland security efforts.
4735 Security & Defense Analysis (5 credits): The primary purpose of this overview course in defense analysis methods is to provide students with the foundations to successfully conduct research and analysis in defense-related topics, whether within the national security community or as a contractor. This course should also help prepare the student to comprehend and assess the graduate-level readings assigned in other courses, and to write research papers and complete other written assignments for those courses. The course is intended to provide take-away skills that can be applied to students' professional activities after graduation; in particular, students should have greater confidence in their abilities to locate, read, commission, design or conduct relevant research. The methods training in this course focuses on methods employed in both policy analysis and the social sciences. The emphasis is on qualitative rather than quantitative methods.
4736 Strategic Intel Data Col/Anlys (5 credits): Course focuses on analytical prod. of strategic intell relative to int'l security issues.
4737 Int'l Intelligence Services (5 credits): Course examines int'l intelligence and security services.
4738 Current Issues:Strategic Intel (5 credits): Advanced seminar which investigates current issues relative to strategic intell within international studies.
4739 Advanced Security Methods (5 credits): This course is designed to cover key elements of social research methods in evidence-based policy, including quantitative and qualitative techniques and expert opinion to build facts and findings from context-free and context rich environments. Among the topics covered: content analysis, survey and interviews, case study, ethics and research. Prerequisite: INTS 4735.
4740 Bureaucracy & Intergov Relatns (5 credits): This course will familiarize students with the basic structures and systems of American government and how they influence policy making and implementation. The course will be built around two themes. First,we will examine how governmental fragmentation affects politics and policy. In the United States, there are multiple centers of political power and the interaction of those entities shape policy outcomes. Thus, the president must deal with an independent Congress and judiciary, the federal government must deal with state and local governments, and all levels of governments must deal with businesses and non-governmental organizations. The course will use some comparisons with other countries to illuminate these features, such as constrasting the American presidential system with the British parliamentary system. Second, we will examine how different types of policy issues engage different segments of the government and the public. Issues such as security have a very high political salience and so engage the government and public more widely than, say, issues of funding for basic scientific research. Moreover, some parts of security will be very high salience, such as the decision to go to war, and others will be worked out largely in obscurity, such as standards for infromation security. The American system deals with such issues very differently.
4741 The Middle East & Terrorism (5 credits): Advanced seminar provides comprehensive look at terrorism originating in the Middle East.
4742 Int'l Weapons Proliferation (5 credits): This course explores the worldwide proliferation of weapons and military hardware. Special attention is given to weapons of mass destruction including fundamental principles of weapons development and deployment; unique characteristics and effects of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons; and delivery systems. Capabilities and strategies to counter this international problem are developed.
4743 Comp Defense Procurement Sys (5 credits): Why do countries purchase the weapons systems that they do? Although defense procurement would ideally reflect the objective strategic requirements of a particular nation, this course examines the sweeping extent to which anything but "objective strategic requirements" drives governments' defense procurement decisions. Spefically, we assess how interest groups, political parties, industrial regions, military factions and bureaucracies compete for political influence as they attempt to manipulate the procurement process in their favor. A central questions this course seeks to answer, then, is whether defense policy shapes procurement priorities or whether, more alarmingly, procurement pressures determine a country's defense posture. We use comparative case material from North America and Europe to explore how weapons purchasing varies across democratic capitalist states.
4750 Issues in Policy Making (3 to 5 credits): Governments make public policies through a very complex process, one that varies in its details from country to country and even from issue to issue within the same country. In this course we will study various parts of those processes and some of the inputs into them. In addition, we will use the concept of problem framing or problem definition as an overarching theme in our studies. What these disparate policy processes have in common is that they must have some notion of what problem they are trying to solve and what constitutes the set of feasible solutions to those problems. Specific topics in the course will include agenda setting, the role of policy expertise, and institutional analysis. Students will pick a particular policy issue and follow it through the quarter.
4751 European Frgn & Defense Pol (5 credits): An intermediate course comparing the foreign and defense policies of Great Britain, France, and Germany as well as the European Community as a seperate organization.
4752 Sustainable Dev. and Terrorism (5 credits): An intermediate-to-advanced-level seminar exploring linkages between sustainable economic development, security and terrorism. Provides theoretical tools and develops grounding for conducting assessments to determine protential impact of specific economic development programs on regional security. Uses case studies of regional development, counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence security programs (open source); documentary background covering select local, regional and transnational terrorism acts and enabling factors. Includes an overview of potential linkages between lack of sustainable economic development and reconstruction programs, with transnational (organized) crime and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation issues.
4753 Intelligence & Nat'l Security (5 credits): Focuses on the craft of U.S. Intellegence and its role in the making and implementation of national security policy.
4760 Russian Frgn & Defense Policy (5 credits): Course explores Russian foreign and defense policy from Vladimir Lenin to Vladimir Putin - heavy focus on security policy.
4761 Soviet Frgn & Defense Pol II (5 credits)
4762 Soviet Union & Rep: 1917-1995 (4 credits)
4763 Spc Stds: Geographic Areas (5 credits)
4764 Non-Trad Security Challenges (5 credits): Assesses impact, scale and outlook for various non-traditional and transnational global security challenges.
4791 Portfolio-Interntionl Security (1 credits): The purpose of the portfolio is that students document how graduate study has prepared them for professional positions in the International Security field. In anticipation of graduation, each student is required to compile a folder that includes particular examples of their graduate assignments (prepared either for classes while in the M.A. program or created specifically to meet this requirement), and a narrative description of career goals. Prerequisite: students must be enrolled in their final term that fulfills credit degree requirements.
4792 Chem & Biological Weapons (5 credits): Course introduces students to the broad spectrum of NBC threats. Covers chemical and biological catergories of threat agents.
4795 Foundations of Homeland Secrty (5 credits): This is the first of four graduate level courses being sponsored by the National Guard Bureau to enhance nationwide preparedness to support civil authorities during disasters and catastrophic events. This course provides the National Guard personnel and their civilian counterparts with an overview of legal issues, national and state policies, HLS players and organizations, and human and natural hazards that threaten our communities.
4796 Integrating Homeland Security (5 credits): This is the second of four graduate courses being sponsored by the National Guard Bureau to enhance nationwide preparedness to support civil authorities and during disasters and catastrophic events. This course provides the National Guard personnel and civilian counterparts with an overview of roles, responsibilities, and authorities of civil and military agencies involved in all-hazards/disaster preparedness, prevention, response and recovery.
4797 Strategic Planning (5 credits): This is the third of four graduate courses being sponsored by the National Guard Bureau to enhance nationwide preparedness to support civil authorities and during disasters and catastrophic events. This course provides the National Guard personnel and civilian counterparts with an overview of plans and procedures for the integration of civil and military efforts to improve all-hazards/disaster preparedness, prevention, response and recovery. The role of the National Guard civilian agencies in Critical Infrastructure Protection and border security is also examined.
4798 HLS Practicum (5 credits): This is the final of four graduate courses being sponsored by the National Guard Bureau to enhance nationwide preparedness to support civil authorities and during disasters and catastrophic events. This course provides the National Guard personnel and civilian counterparts with a practicum to apply the lessons of the previous courses to practical issues related to National Guard operations, units, procedures and disciplines.
4800 Socialist Theories (5 credits)
4802 Marxism and Social Change (3 to 5 credits): This seminar focuses on the first volume of Marx's Capital in the context of his activity in the International Workingmen's Association. It shows how the arguments in Capital connect to support for unions, international strike support, support for an eight-hour day, and the creation of socialist/communist parties. The course contrasts Marx's views on the origins of capitalism with Max Weber?s. It explores Marx's argument on commodity fetishism in the context of Georg Lukacs' ideas of reification (Lukacs was a student of Weber's and his views are also heavily influenced by Weber's notion of formal rationality). In addition, it considers some of Marx's major historical explanations of social change (Class Struggles in France, Eighteenth Brumaire or Louis Napolean) in the context of an interplay between Marx's revolutionary strategies in the event and his subsequent reconsiderations or historical explanations. Students may take 3, 4, or 5 credits.
4803 Liberalism and Marxism (5 credits)
4804 Realism and Democracy (3 to 5 credits): Course answers questions such as: Can democracy check international cruelty? Why, according to Kant, Doyle, and Rawls, are democracies unlikely to go to war with other democracies? We discuss democractic individuality and Vietnam, democracy, and Realism as well.
4805 Intellectual History of Europe (4 credits)
4806 Global Justice: Marx & Rawls (5 credits): Course examines how major political theorists (such as Marx and Rawls) define how international theory and foreign policy affect ordinary citizens.
4820 Ancient Political Theory (3 to 5 credits): Greek political thought traces the origins of philosophy in the decline and death of Athenian democracy, the role of war between Athens and Sparta in nurturing political corruption - a lack of respect for a common good - and bloody conflict between democrats and aristocrats in the Greek world, and the trial and death of Socrates. We explore analogies between the continuing murderousness of today's international politics and the repression of civil and political liberties that accompanies it (anti-democratic feedback). We see how the Greek way of studying politics - with attention to a common good, not the illusion of seeking "value-freedom" - casts light on how we might better study international and comparative politics. We read gripping dialogues, but we have an eye to what we may learn from them about today. We read Plato's Apology, Crito, Meno, Republic and a portion of the Laws, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, and Aristotle's Politics.
4821 Early Modern Political Theory (5 credits): This course seeks to provide an historical introduction to Western political thought in the early modern and Enlightenment eras. More particularly, we focus on the development of "modernity" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the development of social contract theory in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In addition, there is somewhat more emphasis on international relations than is typical in political science courses of a similar nature. No previous background in political theory (or international relations) is assumed.
4822 Contemporary Political Thought (5 credits): An examination of current 21st century political theory and how the events of the 20th century helped mold these ideas/ concepts.
4825 Immigration (5 credits): An introductory cousre comparing tradiotnal immigration countries (United States, Canada, Australia) with West European countries where resident ethnic minorities are a new phenomenon. Policy responses, conflict and accommadations minority-majority group relations, and sociopolitcal intergration processes affecting immigrants are examined.
4828 Women in Politics (5 credits): For centuries, political history, theory and philosophy have ignored women and women?s issues as a subject to be studied. Discipline of political science in general has always been male-dominated. Absence of women in politics was not noticed until some female political scientists attempted to re-read and question political history and philosophy due to the influence of ?Second Wave? of feminism in the U.S. and Europe. Despite that during the last few decades, women have become prominent in mainstream politics but at the mass level they are still considered as apolitical, domestic and private creatures. By using gender analysis approach, this course intends to (a) critically re-read political philosophy to trace out the factors for women?s absence from the political sphere; (b) identify factors for women?s recent entry into the forbidden realm of politics; (c) relate phenomenon of existing under-representation of women in politics with early philosophical roots and patriarchal political institutions; (d) understand contemporary political environment and agents of socialization which still play a crucial role in persistence of images of ?apolitical woman.?
4830 Power, Mortality & Frgn Pol (5 credits)
4850 Marx/Globalization & Democracy (5 credits)
4851 Theories of Non-Violence (3 to 5 credits): Can a state be non-violent? Course explores topics such as the distinction between power and violence; whether nonviolent politics is possible; the distinction between an ethic of responsibility and an ethic of intention; is capitalism consistent with democracy? This seminar is interactive and class participation is required.
4852 Theories of Non-Violence II (3 to 5 credits): The aim of the course is to consider the unexpected power of nonviolence - we discuss several segments of Eyes on the Prize which draws a vivid picture of the fearsomeness of engaging in protest in the murderous segregated South and the accomplishments of the movements. We study the role of religion in protest against slavery - the violent Christianity of John Brown and the nonviolence but comparative ineffectiveness of William Lloyd Garrison - and the role of Gandhi's Hinduism in the emergence of King's strategy of nonviolence, which also arises from Christianity. We consider whether religion must be a primary motivation of nonviolent movements as well as the specific role of churches in the South. In this context, we read Barbara Demin's Revolution and Equilibrium which gives a secular argument for civil disobedience in the context of Franz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth. We then take up a comparison of effective violent revolutions elsewhere, particularly the slave revolt that create Haiti, and ask whether in modern circumstances, nonviolence might be as effective. We also discuss the idea and practice of nonviolence or nonviolent communication in all relationships, not just political ones. This course can be taken for 3, 4, or 5 credits.
4853 Debates in Polit. Philosophy (5 credits): This course will explore the relation between very influential social/psychological theories and modern political theory. It begins from Nietzsche. It traces on lineage - a fascist one - through Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss and today's Straussians/neoconservatives. It then explores Nietzsche's influence on postmodern social theory particularly Foucault (on forms of punishment as expressions of power/knowledge) and Edward Said (Orientalism and today's invasions of the Middle East). In contrast to fascist, both are concerned with ordinary people, those harmed by "master moralities." It will also explore the relation of Foudault to Marx to Lenin. It will then look at comparatively explicit political theories (Rawls, Gilbert) and their relation to social theories. Among the books we will read: Nietzsche, Beyond good and Evil; Schmitt, The Concept of the Political with notes by Leo Strauss; Strauss, On Tyranny (a debate with Alexandre Kojeve), Foucault, Discipline and punish, Lenin, State and Revolution, Said, Orientalism, Gilbert, Bemocratic Individuality and Rawls, Law of Peoples.
4855 Geopolitics of South Asia (5 credits): This class explores the overlapping sub-national and regional conflicts threatening to destabilize Afghanistan and Pakistan and severely intensify Indo-Pakistan tensions. The seminar analyzes and assesses U.S. efforts to assist the Kabul regime to strengthen national support, reduce corruption, improve services and accelerate economic development. The nature of the Taliban, the dangers of increased poppy production, ongoing cross-border insurgency are studied. Similarly with regard to Pakistan, the seminar examines growing instability, the regional demographics of support and opposition to the current government, the role of the military, including the ISI, and socio-cultural challenges to modernization. The impact of the evolving conflicts in Pakistan and Afghanistan on India's interests and India's response are also treated.
4856 Sustainability, Devel & Envirn (5 credits): With a world population now over 6 billion - and two thirds of these people in developing countries, economic development is an urgent priorority. Science, however, tells us we are approaching real limits on arable land, freshwater, marine resources and clean air. How we manage the future demands international cooperation on an unprecedented scale as no state can address these challenges - and sustain prosperity alone. This course offers an overview to the state of the planet - and the perspectives of various countries and groups in meeting these challenges. We examine key issues - including climate change, food and energy, water, biodiversity, and pollution - among the major environmental questions and explore existing national and international efforts to address them. This seminar brings in practitioners, policy makers and foundation/HGO/IGO experts to meet with the students, and includes a mix of team and individual projects to help build professional skills. This course would be valuable to those interested in the so-called global issues, including environment, public health and population, conflict resolution, and the role of IGOs and NGOs.
4857 The Rule of Law: Plato's Laws (3 to 5 credits): Plato's, The Laws, is the most influential work dealing with the professional doctrine of executive power. This course goes back and forth from the text itself and current developments. We also read Plato's "Seventh Letter".
4875 Human Rights & Foreign Policy (5 credits): Global human rights issues and how those issues help mold foreign policy decisions.
4876 Gender & Education (5 credits): Explores complex and multiple relationships of gender and education, drawing on various educational experiences and systems.
4877 Gender & Islam (5 credits): Course focuses on role religion plays in shaping its followers social identities (gender) on the bases of their physical identities.
4878 Rlgn/Pltcs:Pakistan/Afghanistn (5 credits): This course intends to examine role of religion (Islam) in national and internationl politics of the three coutnries situated on the South and West Asia. An attempt would be made to understand the process of "politicization of religion" and "religiosization of politics" in Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1977 to the post 9/11 political changes in the region.
4888 Gender, Dev & Human Rts (5 credits): Examines theories of gender and development by situating them in international human rights framework.
4890 Revolution Theory (5 credits)
4900 International Politics (0 or 5 credits): Topics on discussion include: levels of analysis; realism; neo-realist structuralism; international society and the English school; international anarchy; process variables and international institutions; international security institutions; rationalism, constructivism, and the purposes of theory; norms and ideas; gender and identity; and postmodernism and post-structuralism.
4902 Comparative Revolutions (5 credits)
4903 Social Const. of Int'l Society (5 credits): Examines recent theoretical work in the field of international relations that treats international society and its practices as social constructs.
4904 Civil-Military Relations (5 credits): An intermediate course examining selected issues in the relationship of war to politics, such as military profession military organization, economics of defense planning, limited use of force, demobilization ans war reconstruction, military rule, and civilian control. Current world trends toward democratization will focus attention on the issues of creating a democratic army for a democratic state. Readings cover Western industrialized, Communist, post-Communist, and Third World countries. Prerequisite: INTS 4702
4905 War and Peace (5 credits): An intermediate course which examines the historical relationship of war to politics, such as the military profession, military organizations, economics of defense planning, limited use of force, demobilization, war reconstruction, military rule, and civilian control. Current world trends toward democratization focus attention on the issue of creating a democratic army for a democratic state. Readings cover western industrialized, communist, post-communist, and 3rd world countries.
4906 Classics of Int'l Theory (5 credits): Professor will choose various books by classic political theorists for students to read and discuss in class.
4908 Adv Readings Int'l Thry (PhDs) (3 credits): Advanced seminar in reading in political theory (for PhDs and advanced MAs).
4910 Adv International Politics (5 credits): An advanced course exploring selected contemporary issues of international politics, such as democracy and war, alliances in the post-Cold War world, peace neogations, great power intervention, global in relation to changes in the world system. Prerequisites: INTS 4900
4913 Improvng Interagency Negotiatn (5 credits): The 9/11 attack, subsequent experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, and recent efforst to reatructure the Department of Homeland Security and intelligence community have highlighted for policymakers and the public serious obstacles preventing fruitful collaboration between officials in different govenment departmens and agencies. This course sudies these obstacles in such areas as strategic and tactical decisions, psychological forces, and organizational and institutional sturctures and seeks ways to overcome them. Special attention is given to issues of national security, intelligence and development with both a domestic and international focus. Students will learn to identify obstacles to effective interagency negotiation, understand their implications, design changes to improve outcomes. and build personal skills to support future choicesl Instructional methods include short lectures and discussion, case studies presentations from agency officials and simulations/exercises.
4914 Post-Conflict Reconstruction (5 credits): This course will deal with the multiple concerns of stabilization and nation-building: peacekeeping and security, foreign assistance and economic growth, humanitarian relief. human rights and transitional justice, governance and civil society. Experts from the public and non-governmental sections will discuss policy and institutional concerns. Skill building in planning, and conduct of prgrams in each of the major sections will be emphasized.
4915 World Politics: 1914-1991 (4 credits)
4916 Feminist Theories-Int'l Reltns (5 credits): Expands the breadth and depth of international studies students' understanding of IR theory, critiquing feminist theories of IR and using feminist scholarship as a critique.
4917 Crisis Communication (5 credits): Will deal with the public dimension of crises: the use and misuse of information and mass media to affect outcomes, how governments anticipate and respond to crisis through public communication and mass media, public diplomacy and public affairs. Case studies (including terrorist attack, sub-national and regional conflicts and humanitarian crisis) simulations, team preparation will be featured.
4918 Int'l Trade Law & Dev (5 credits): Regulation of International Trade, mercantilism, comparative advantage and gains from trade.
4919 Negotiation in Int'l Conflict (5 credits): Warfare, terrorism, civil unrest and violent conflict appears endemic. This course examines international conflict management and resolution.
4920 Conflict Resolution (5 credits): An introductory course which identifies the collective factors leading to sucessful reconciliation or agreeable compromises in conflicts; analyzes the role and influence of cultural norms, gender conditioning and different bargaining strategies on the resolution process; applies the practical fundamental of negotiation on particular problem-solving techniques.
4921 The Int'l System - Part I (0 or 5 credits): This course provides an introduction to the "architecture" of the international system. Combining concepts and perspectives from international politics, comparative politics, international law and organization, and international political economy it offers an overview of the basic structures and processes of contemporary international society.
4922 The Int'l System - Part II (0 or 5 credits): This course is a continuation of The International System - Part I and registration is restricted to students who have successfully completed INTS 4921. Discussion continues with international law and organization, international organizations such as the United Nations, World Vision, and The International Red Cross. Guest Speakers from these organizations will be involved in a panel discussion towards towards the end of the quarter.
4923 Amer For Pol/Presidential Lead (3 or 5 credits): Course covers the Presidency from World War II to the present. The course examines: the changing character of the institution of the Presidency and the complexity of the foreign policy challenges demanding presidential leadership. We look closely at Presidential Power in the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and warning and hope for the future, as well as Johnson's battle for Vietnam and the recent Presidencies of: Nixon, Reagan, George Bush Sr., Carter, Clinton, and our current president.
4924 Democratization in Middle East (5 credits): The promotion of democracy process and its implementation of democracy have emerged as a major goal for U.S. and world policy makers and have attracted the attention of many scholars. Democracy is now widely regarded as a political system that minimizes conflict, promotes sustainable development, and is a vital tool in the struggle against terrorism. However, the results of efforts to create democracies in various countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan are a clear illustration of the difficulties involved in making transitions to democracy. In this seminar, we shall focus on what is known about democratization, consider the nature and role of Islam, examine the state of democracy in key countries of the region, and consider the ways in which the U.S. and other external actors might strengthen democratic forces in the region.
4925 Peace Keeping (5 credits): An intermediate course which focuses on an examination of the theoretical and institutional framework of various peacekeeping operations, their functions and effectiveness, and relation to peace movements, small states, neutrality, and regional security systems. Prerequisites: INTS 4900
4926 Sovereignty:Past,Present,Futr (5 credits): Course investigates sovereignty's conceptual and practical history with a view to evaluating sovereinty's health and future. Prerequisite: INTS 4900 or equivalent.
4928 Topics in Int'l Law (3 credits): Intensive 5 week, 3 hour course covering current "hot" topics in international law.
4930 Int'l Law-State Sov & Individl (5 credits): An intermediate course examing the role of the United Nations, the Orgainzation of American States, the Organization of African Unity, the European Community, and the International Court of Justice in the peaceful settlement of International disputes. Various mechanism of conflict resolution are studied, such as good offices, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, and judical settlement Prerequisites: INTS 4900 or Permission of instructor
4931 International Organizations (5 credits): An intermediate course on approaches to the study of international organizations, including institutionalism, neofunctionalism, complex interdependence, international regimes, and epistemic communities. Case studies examining collective security and peacekeeping, human rights, Antarctica, and the environment are discussed. Prerequisite: INTS 4900
4932 International Law (5 credits)
4933 Int'l Law (Part II) (3 credits): Continuation of INTS 4932 - Int'l Law (covers territory law, immunity treaties, int'l courts). Prerequisite: INTS 4932.
4934 Intervention: Policies & Pract (5 credits): Procedures, policies and practices of international organizations and the roles they play in helping resolve internal issues and conflicts.
4935 Humanitarian Law of Armed Conf (5 credits): This course is a theoretical and practical introduction to international humanitarianism law (IHL). IHL is known by many other names such as "humanitarian law," "law of conflict," and "laws of war." All these terms refer to the rules regarding the treatment of civilians and non-combatants in areas of armed conflict and the rules of engagement for soldiers and combatants. These "rules" are especially important to know if you eventually work for an IO or NGO that finds itself in areas of armed conflict.
4936 Int'l Law and Human Rights (3 or 5 credits): An introductory course examining the concept of human rights, including political, economic, social, and cultural rights. International, regional and national institutions, norms and procedures to protect individual and group rigths are discussed. Prerequisites recommended: INTS 4940
4937 Human Rights & Refugee System (5 credits): An inroductory course which focuses on an examination of the internatioal refugee system from the perpsective of human rights achievements and abuse. Focuses on polices and mechanisms of refugee dislocation, resettlement, and repatriation with emphasis on persons from Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Mental health outcomes are examined in depth. Prerequisites recommended: INTS 4940
4938 Human Rights in Africa (5 credits)
4939 Human Rights: Genocide (5 credits): An introductory course examining the concept of human rights, violations. From violence and brutality in classical antiquity, slavery in America, terror in the Soviet Union under Stalin, World War II and the Holocaust, and the Cambodian massacre in the 1970s. The course is designed to understand the extremely diverse conditions of regimes that used mass violence for political ends. Prerequisites recommended: INTS 4940
4940 Intro to Human Rights (0 or 5 credits): An introductory course focused around historical and theoretically relevant texts in humans rights. First and second generation rights are emphasized. Early liberal, conservative, and socialist understandings of human rights are highlighted against their respective historical background.
4941 Human Rights & Int'l Orgs (5 credits): An introductory course exploring the changing roles of international organizations in their efforts to protect and promote human rights. Examination of both the global and regional levels of human rights activities of international intergovernmental organizations are discussed. Prerequisites recommended: INTS 4940
4942 Future of Hum Rts in Glbl Wrld (0 or 5 credits): The collapse of the Berlin Wall buried under its weight the promise of socialism, leaving proselytes of capitalism to celebrate an era of unfettered economic globalization. Yet as the planet is overheating, getting crowded, with more wars driven by religious conflict and widening ethnic or social inequalities, globalization has been under assault. With the 2007 "Great Recession," new concerns regarding the future of our planet and our species have preoccupied the minds of academics (social sciences, humanities, and science alike) and the wider public. Illustrative of this anxiety, one cannot help but notice the abundance of books (fiction and non-fiction), movies and documentaries in a dystopian genre, ways in which daunting global (human or nature-made) calamities are driving us toward establishment of authoritarian regimes secured by impenetrable security and surveillance systems, or simply toward the doom of humankind. These nightmarish prophecies have been given credence by a growing body of scientific research, showing the destructive effects of climate change, demographic explosion, pandemic disease, deepening poverty and rampant warfare. With the "End of History" or the "End of Ideology," it is not surprising that human rights have become a new magnet for people in search of harmony in their communities and beyond. Since the 1948 Universal Declaration, the human rights agenda had to reinvent itself, as old ideologies were waning. If human rights have garnered greater public interest since the end of the Cold War, these principles of rights are now facing a crisis of identity and imagination. The current human rights tradition has been stripped from its utopian aspirations, as the world is gradually defining itself in terms of ever darker visions. Yet even in the bleakest moments in history, utopian world views have provided alternative hopes. Locke's and Rousseau's imagined polities sparked the fervor eighteenth century human rights revolutionaries; utopian socialists from Fourier to Owen kindled the spirit of nineteenth century workers' rights activists. Later, utopian communities were developed in imaginative narrative to emancipate slaves, women and oppressed nationalities. If utopian visions have gained little recent currency in intellectual circles, they provide a fountainhead of ideas for those willing to image the future of human rights in a world confronted by threatening global trends. Drawing form the merits and weaknesses of four utopias - tentatively named consumerutopia, ecotopia, religiotopia, and technotopia - this course considers ways to confront critical issues: poverty, environmental degradation, fundamentalism and the Janus face of the digital age. The course also addresses the potential capacity of new human rights prophets to move history forward. The scope of this course is ambitious, with readings based both on empirical assessments and imaginative works, in the hope of engaging these issues creatively. The course is structured according to the following themes: I. Introduction: The Progressive March of Human Rights; II. The Age of Dystopia; III. Consumerutopia: the Questions of Poverty; IV. Ecotopia: the Environmental Crisis; V. Religiotopia: Fundamentalism and the Woman Question; VI. Technotopia: Cybersolidarity and Surveillance Society.
4943 The Holocaust (4 credits)
4944 Indigenous Peoples (5 credits)
4945 Int'l Human Rts Law & Advocacy (5 credits): This course includes a review of major international human rights instruments, the methods for bringing complaints to the UN and to each of the three regional human rights systems (Inter-American, European, and African), and various substantive topics - refugee and asylum law, humanitarian law (genocide, torture, war crimes, and crimes against humanity), special rights of indigenous peoples, minorities, women and children, and transitional justice. Following this course, students may enroll in INTS 4995, the clinical component of the human rights advocacy program.
4946 Psychology of Rights (5 credits)
4947 Human Rights & Int'l Security (5 credits)
4948 Hatred and Group Conflict (5 credits)
4949 Int'l Law & Conflict Resolutn (5 credits)
4950 Rich States - Poor States (5 credits): Why are some nation states rich and others poor? This is the question that leads to the subject matter of what has become a heated debate in academe. The answer is crucial to the creation of intelligent public policy and international decision making. Our approach is largely historical and includes such varied topics as geography, disease, religion, culture, and imperialism. Here are some of the specific questions we will address. Why did the British and Spanish Empires in the Americas develop so differently? To quote from on prominent Middle east scholar, "What went wrong" in the Muslim world as opposed to Europe? What is the role of Christianity, Islam, and Confucianism in creating or retarding economic progress?
4951 Comparing Int'l Socities (5 credits): Course explores variations in societies of states across time and place.
4952 Implementing Human Rights (5 credits): An intermediate course that explores multilateral and bilateral efforts to implemet internationally recognized human rights. Both regional and United Nations system regimes areconsidered, along with foreign policies of the United States and other Western countries (especially Canada and Norway).
4953 Mental Health, HR & Dev (5 credits): To provide graduate students with an integrated theoretical and pragmatic orientation to the intersection of health and human rights, as these "play out" in the context of international development work.
4954 Human Rts - Research & Design (3 credits): The purpose of this seminar is to provide a context for students to conduct research on a current topic of significance in the field of human rights.
4955 Int'l Human Rts Law Practicum (3 or 5 credits): This Clinical Practicum program is available to Joseph Korbel School of International Studies, Sturm College of Law, and Graduate School of Social Work students each academic term. Students can enroll in this practicum for 3 or 5 credit hours. Students work on actual human rights issues or projects. The primary focus of the practicum is on converting human rights violations into cases that can be advocated using the rule of law. Students in the usual instance are expected to research and write a 3-part Advocacy Reports on particular human rights violations - (1) a factual narrative about the violation, (2) an identification of the domestic and international human rights law that can be used to challenge the violation or stop the violation. Ideally, students will go overseas to do fact-finding research, and/or begin to implement, in concert with local human rights organizations or activists on the ground, the recommendation in their report for tackling th eviolation. Students who have taken INTS 4945 (the substantive course in International Human Rights Law & Advocacy) may enroll in INTS 4955. Students who have not taken that course may nonetheless take the practicum if (a) they have relevant academic or vocational experience in international human rights issues, and (b) have interviewed with and received permission from the professor to enroll. Students who sign up for 3 hours are obliged to provide at least 100 hours of effort to the Clinic; those who sign up for 5 hours are required to log at least 150 hours. Students may choose practicum subject areas: Advocacy, Tribunal Law, or Human Trafficking.
4957 Global Poverty & Human Rts (5 credits): The main purpose of this course is to understand the relation between global poverty and human rights in a broad sense. We will try to understand the extent and causes of global poverty both empirically and theoretically. We will also try to understand the nature of human rights discourse in their particular context by focusing on its social, economic and political dimensions. We will also try to understand the underlying causes of oppression, inequality and poverty in the world. In order to do this, we will look at the relationship between economic systems, political constraints and the nature of global poverty and human rights discourse historically, theoretically and empirically. In this way, both the reach and the current limits of the global poverty and human rights discourse can be identified. The last part of the course will focus on creating a new, more objective discourse on the nature of global poverty and human rights in light of our structural understanding of the political economy of global poverty and human rights.
4960 Systems & Policy Analysis (5 credits): An introductory course in policy analysis, specifically how to plan, control, and evaluate technologically oriented projects, using systems theory. Problems of sociology, cultural anthropology, ecology, demography, and engineering are incorporated with contemporary applications of system analysis.
4961 Money Launderng/Trnsnt'l Crime (5 credits): Provides overview of transnational crime and its effect on political, economic, and social development of countries world wide.
4963 Planning & Mgmt of Technology (5 credits): An intermediate course that focuses on an in-depth examination of the central issues of planning and management technology, including the promotion and management of research and development, the regulation of new technology, and a comparison of different nations' approaches to these problems. This course also examines the role of the international organization as both coordinator of collective action and regulator of technolgy. Prerequisite: INTS 4975
4964 Political Risk Analysis (3 or 5 credits): Investigates risks associated with political instability or uncertainty in countries with emerging markets.
4965 Tech & Sustainable Development (5 credits): Technology has always been a major influence on cultures and societies, national and international. Today, all countries recognize the key role that technology plays in achieving sustainable development and are striving to harness its potential while minimizing its negative impacts. New technologies such as robotics, genetics, information and communication all promise transformations that can greatly improve the quality of life of peoples everywhere. At the same, time they can also develop in ways that do not lead to as sustainable a future. Thus, they generate controversy and difficult policy choices for governments and peoples everywhere. Accordingly, it is essential to understand the nature of technology and its role in social and political change as well as the ways in which it can be controlled and harnessed for positive ends. In this seminar we will focus upon the relationship of technology to sustainable development and pay special attention to emerging technologies and to such issues as technology transfer, the relationship between technology and democracy, technology assessment and control, the role of appropriate technology, and how developing countries can develop modern scientific and technological capabilities that promote sustainable futures.
4966 Applied Field Methods (3 or 5 credits): An introductory course for students planning to conduct research in developing countries. Practical information is presented on transforming hypothesis into a fieldwork setting, questionnaire construction and administration, and interviewing techniques.
4967 Methods of Policy Analysis (5 credits)
4968 Tech., Innovation & Governance (5 credits): Course examines ways nations try to govern technological innovation, focusing on gov't policy and policy-making.
4969 National Security Law (5 credits): Explores the development of legal underpinnings and the scope and limits of the powers of various federal law enforcement and intelligence gathering agencies (both domestically and internationally). Using cases, judicial opinions, executive orders, statutes and legislative history we will look carefully at the constitutional and domestic law issues surrounding national security law. Special attention will be paid to the proposed scope of the Department of Homeland Security and the USA PATRIOT Act, its proposed amendments, and the Federal-State relationship. The course will also look at the Guantanamo issue, the rise of ?secret? courts, rights (including privacy rights) of US citizens (jus soli), naturalized citizens, permanent residents, and aliens, and issues of ?profiling? and discrimination.
4970 Science & Technology Hist (5 credits)
4971 Technology Policy Planning (5 credits): An advanced-level seminar exploring aspects of policy- making and implementation of major technological projects. Decision-making processes, the role of technical experts, public participation, environmental impact, financing, risks, and managerial dimensions are examined through plans and studies prepared by various governemental agencies and other sources. Prerequisites: INTS 4975
4972 Global Environment (5 credits): An intermediate course examining the difficulties in establishing international cooperation to solve international environment problems. Drawing on theories of public goods and international regimes, the course looks at international environmental institutions, including agencies of the UN, non-governmental organizations, and the environmental movement, and includes consideration of economic development and human rights in environmental issues. Case studies in global warming, ozones depletion, and the Mediterranean Action Plan are analyzed.
4973 World Environmental History (4 credits)
4974 Digital Divide & Glbl Pol Econ (5 credits): The rapid progression of the digital and "e" information age and its effect on global political economy.
4975 Technology & Nat'l Dev. (5 credits): An introductory course to the study of technology policy; the concepts and variables employed in the planning and assessment of technology projects, including appropriate technology for developing countries and the interrelationships between technology and national and global society through technology transfer.
4976 Technology & Public Policy (5 credits)
4977 Gender & Intl Organizations (5 credits): This course examines the existing structure of international organizations (political, legal and financial) to identify ?gendered? patterns, policies and practices, which make deep impact on women and men?s lives differently at local and global levels. Emergency of international organizations since WW II (1945), the document of Universal Declaration of Human Rights and various treaties and conventions related to rights of men, women, children and minorities, all have provided foundational grounds for evolution and development of gender theory and gender analysis tools.
4978 Int'l Environmental Economic (5 credits): An intermediate course examining diverse theoretical approaches economists use to understand environmental problems including neoclassical, steady state, and neo-Marxian perspectives. Current issues such as deforestation, North-South controversies over the burdens of environmental protections, global warming and others are discussed in the context of these different theories.
4979 Teaching Seminar (3 credits)
4980 Prct Teaching-Int'l Relation (5 credits)
4981 Internship (0 to 5 credits): This cousre enables students to work in a practical setting to acquire experience in an international organization, government agency, or non-profit foundation. The work, undertaken once a student ia enrolled in GSIS, must be approved in advance by the academic advisor as relevant and worthwhile. Credit is determined by actual work time (100 hours = five credits). A grade of "P" (pass) is given after the work is completed, and a letter from the intership supervisor summarizing the student's experinece is submitted to the Graduate Studeis Office. Tutorial Record Form required.
4982 European Union Law (5 credits): Will examine various treaties that established the EU and look at structures of EU, Three Pillars and EU treaties.
4983 Hlthcare/Homelnd Sec/Terrorism (3 or 5 credits): Healthcare institutions have flourished for years in their own independent "environment of care" linking centuries of traditional values and training with cutting-edge technologies and mandates for cost controls, quality performance and legal constraints. On many levels, these institutions now are being challenged to "catch up" in a new world of national security and global health issues. What are the health care threats - agents of bioterrorism, chemical or radiological substance exposure, or other massive events? How do current planning efforts for emergencies prepare us for terrorism or catastrophic-scale events? How do preparedness and security efforts in the U.S. compare to those of other nations, and what can we learn from attacks here and abroad? What are opportunities and constraints facing medical professionals, and how do institutions integrate with Homeland Security directives for "awareness, prevention, response and recovery" in their efforts? This course utilizes many case studies in disasters and terrorism to examine the infrastructure and operations of health care systems, security breaches, and lessons learned from response efforts in the U.S. and abroad.
4984 Comparative Int'l Homeland Sec (5 credits): Highlights various homeland security efforts.
4985 Strategic Problems in Intell (5 credits): Course will examine some of the major cases where intelligence has contributed to the success of the US Foreign strategic policy since WWII.
4986 Human Rts Internship (3 credits): 3 credit hour "hands on internship" to assist in publishing Research Digest in Human Rights.
4987 Contemp. Slavery/Human Traffkg (5 credits): There are 23-27 million slaves worldwide, 600,000 to 800,000 persons trafficked across international borders each year. There are 14,000 to 17,500 people trafficked into the United States each year and there are an estimated 40,000 slaves in the U.s> Eighty percent of the victims worldwide are women and up to 50% are children. Human trafficking generates an estimated $7-10 billion each year, second only to illegal drug trafficking. In the U.S., 46% of persons trafficked are in the sex slave trade, 27% in domestic services, 10% in agriculture, 5% in sweatshops and factories, and 4% in the hotel industry. While the world has rid itself, with one exception, of chattel slavery, contract slavery and debt bondage slavery have never disappeared and are found in the four corners of the world and right in our own cities, bedroom communities, and fields. This course looks at the complex reasons that give rise to this explosion in human trafficking and forced labor. We study the problems from an interdisciplinary perspective - law, international theory, and economics - and look at possible solutions. The course includes training and certification from the Colorado Regional Community Policing Institute and work with the DU Program on International Disaster Psychology. The course is also tied in with the DU Task Force on Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking and papers produced in the course are published and distributed.
4988 Practicum (0 credits): To bridge Peace Corps experience with academic course of study the U.S. Peace Corps requires all Josef Korbel School Return Peace Corps Volunteers (Fellows) to complete a field practicum in the United States and its territories which helps meet the needs of underserved U.S. communities. The field practicum is essentially community service that must be completed prior to graduation from the Josef Korbel School. Ideally, Fellows will choose an opportunity that meets Peace Corps goals but also extends their classroom learning and achieve their professional development goals.
4989 N. American Defense & Security (5 credits): This course will challenge students to analyze the evolving North American Defense and Security environment since 1945. The course will begin by focusing on the history of the Canada - United Status (CANUS) defense and security relationship that began in the wake of World War Two and was predicated upon protecting the North American continent from Soviet attack with the formation of the Permanent Joint board on Defence (PJBD), Military Cooperation committee (MCC), and North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). However, the end of the Cold War and subsequent terror attacks of 9/11 dramatically changed the North American Defense and Security environment and created the need for enhanced cooperation between the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
4990 Comp Exam Prep (1 to 5 credits): This course is mandatory for anyone planning to take comprehensive exams and must be completed before sitting for the exams. Students may spread out registration, taking one hour each term until reaching the 5 hours required, or enroll just once for 5 quarter credits. Exam failure does not necessiate any further enrollment in this course. This practicum is taught by the Director of the PhD program and Field Directors for our PhD students who are preparing for their comps. Course meets over a full quarter for at least 30 hours (normally more).
4991 Independent Study (1 to 15 credits): A special individual arrangement for students to pursue more advanced work beyond that available through regular courses. Such study is arranged between professor and student prior to registration. Academic grades are assigned for course performance. Tutorial Record Form required.
4992 Directed Study (1 to 5 credits)
4993 Int'l Students' Writing Lab (0 to 1 credits): Emphasizes aiding international students in perfecting their English writing skills as well as assisting them in developing ideas and solutions for specific course papers. Students receive advice on writing logic and structure as the instructor individually reviews draft papers and provides written comments. Classroom sessions provide students with the opportunity to share ideas as well as problems. An online portion will provide students with samples of scholarly writing, exercises, and classroom discussion supplements. Former participants are welcome to attend as part of independent study. Course can be taken for 0 or 1 credit and may also be repeated.
4994 Study Abroad (1 to 17 credits)
4995 M.A. Thesis Research (1 to 10 credits): This course allows a student to receive credit for research and writing undertaken as part of the master's thesis or SRP preparation. Such study is arranged between professor and student. Academic grades are rassigned for course performance. Tutorial Record From required.
4996 Gbl Hlth Affairs Practicum (3 to 5 credits): This service learning practicum incorporates traditional in-class academic learning with practical volunteer experience.
4997 Career Mgmt for PCV Fellows (3 credits): Provides overview of career management process to returning PCV fellows.
5895 PhD Prospectus Workshop (0 to 5 credits): A course for students who are engaged in writing a thesis. Guidelines for structuring research questions, using theory to understand problems, selecting appropiate cases and settings for analysis, developing literature reviews, data gathering, and compromise in conducting research are discussed in an open-ended framework. Standard academic grades are given for MA students. Course offered annually.
5896 PhD Dissertation Workshop (0 to 5 credits): The purpose of the Dissertation Workshop is to help students with an accepted prospectus to make progress on their dissertation. In addition to allowing/requiring students to present work in progress on a regular basis, it addresses issues in general concern that arise in the process of working on a dissertation. The course is taught in two sections, running over the entire academic year. Students are asked for their preference between instructors. They will be assigned, however, by the PhD Directors to create two groups equal in size. The standard format for the workshop is 90 minute sessions devoted to an intensive discussion of a chapter draft by a single student. The instructor, in addition to leading the discussion, provides detailed written comments on the draft. Each student will present twice over the course of the year. The course is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to all PhD students with an approved prospectus. Students may register for 0 to 5 hours of credit. Student may register for the hours once he/she has an accepted prospectus on file in the Office of Student Affairs.
5991 Independent Study (1 to 10 credits)
5992 Directed Study (1 to 5 credits)
5995 Ph.D. Dissertation Research (1 to 10 credits): This course allows a student to receive credit for research and writing undertaken as part of the doctoral dissertation preparation. Grades of "P" (pass) are assigned after the dissertation is accpeted by the committee. Prerequisite: Ph.D Candidacy (passing Comprehensive exams)

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