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Labor and American Politics
AS.190.251 (01)

This course will explore working people’s political strategies from the Civil War through the present. We'll examine the shifting alliances among trade unions and political parties, and investigate mobilizations by freed people, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ workers. And we’ll pay special attention to the ways that workers’ action shaped the development of the modern American state.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Luff, Jennifer D
• Room: Maryland 114
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): POLI-AP, INST-AP

Comparative Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
AS.190.394 (01)

This course examines the domestic, regional, and transnational politics of the Middle East and North Africa. The class is organized into three units. The first examines major armed conflicts— anti-colonial, intra-state, and inter-state—from 1948 through the 1990s. It uses these historical moments as windows onto key issues in Middle Eastern and North African political issues such as external intervention/occupation, human rights, sectarianism, social movements, and memory politics. Unit Two focuses on policy relevant issues such as democratization, minority populations, religion and politics, and gender. In Unit Three, students will explore the politics of the Arab Uprisings through critical reading and discussion of new (post-2011) scholarship on MENA states, organizations, and populations. Enrollment limited to Political Science and International Studies majors.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/25
• PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL

The American State from Above and Below
AS.190.439 (01)

Despite its well-known idiosyncrasies, the American state has consistently wielded substantial power, and many Americans have long experienced the state’s power as potent, omnipresent, and structuring their lives in important ways. This research-based course will examine theories of the state and political authority both from “above” - considering the political sources of both the American state’s power and its limitations - and from “below,” using people’s own narratives and political formations to explore how Americans develop knowledge about the state, confront and resist the state’s power, and expand or shift its distribution of ‘public’ goods. How do people understand the state, theorize its operations and possibilities, deploy it, and sometimes build parallel structures of provision and governance? We explore several cases of when people marginalized by race, class, gender, or precarious legal standing organized deep challenges to state power and transformed state authority. Considering the state as both formal structure and frame for everyday experience can offer a fresh perspective on contemporary democratic challenges and political struggles. Students will conduct original research using archives and sources like the American Prison Writing Archive, oral history archives like the Ralph Bunche collection and HistoryMakers collection, and archival sources in the History Vault such as the Kerner Commission interviews. The course is appropriate for advanced undergraduates (juniors and seniors), preferably having taken courses in political science or related coursework, and graduate students in political science, history, and sociology.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C; Weaver, Vesla Mae
• Room: Smokler Center 301
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 5/18
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-AP

Planetary Geo-Technics, Utopian-Dystopian Futurism & Materialist World Order Theories
AS.190.494 (01)

There is a widespread recognition that the prospects for contemporary civilization and humanity are shadowed by a range of catastrophic and existential threats, a major subset of which are anthropogenic and technogenic in character. (In the simplest terms these threats arise from the collision between scientific-technological modernity and the geography of the planet Earth.) At the same time, the two most powerful institutional complexes on the planet (market capitalism and the war state system) are committed to further rapidly advancing technology for power and plenty, and anticipate further great elevations of the human estate. Over the last long century, a great debate has emerged, across many disciplines, on the ‘terrapolitan question’(TQ): given the new and prospective material contexts for human agency, what world orders are needed to assure human survival, prosperity and freedom? Practical agency responsive to the new horizon of threat and benefit depends upon getting an adequate answer to this question. Any theory capable of illuminating these realities and choices, and answering the TQ, must be significantly materialist in character. Explicitly materialist theories are very old, and very diverse, and material factors appear in virtually every body of thought, yet are still significantly underdeveloped in contemporary international and world order theory.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (05)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Freedman, Robert
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (02)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (01)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (08)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (10)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Sheingate, Adam
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (12)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Han, Hahrie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (09)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (11)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Simon, Josh David
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (13)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (14)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Phillips, Chas.
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (17)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Deluca, Stefanie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (15)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Teles, Steven Michael
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (16)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Jazz and the City
AS.191.282 (01)

Blues and jazz are rarely understood as mediums for political thought and action. Popular culture has always been an avenue for Black Americans to express their interests and influence American politics broadly, and yet few political scientists take interest in the political salience of the blues. This course will examine how the blues and its extension into jazz critique and explain conditions of racial domination in the plantation South and new relations of domination in the urban sphere. Students will explore these ideas using archival objects, African American literature, blues and jazz listening, and the works of artists and analysts such as Langston Hughes, W. E. B Du Bois, Bessie Smith, Eubie Blake, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Muddy Waters, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Harold Cruse, Amiri Baraka, Clyde Woods, Richard Iton, Daphne Duval Harrison, and Angela Y. Davis.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Gaines, Kory
• Room: Krieger 308
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Decolonizing Nuclear Politics
AS.191.319 (01)

This course explores the imbrication of nuclear weapons and colonialism in global politics. Each stage of nuclear weapons production mobilizes existing colonial relations or creates new sites of coloniality: uranium mining in African colonies, nuclear fuel industries that polluted native lands, and nuclear testing in occupied Pacific Islands. A critical understanding of nuclear politics thus requires a decolonial lens to examine the role of colonial relations, the impact of nuclear industries on marginalized communities, and instances of resistance that envision a nuclear-free and anticolonial future. Towards this goal, the course addresses a series of questions, including: How are nuclear weapons produced, by and for whom? Are nuclear weapons only instruments at the hands of world leaders, or are they already part of everyday realities for historically and currently colonized communities? Can ‘national security’ and ‘strategic calculations’ justify nuclear use and the legacies of nuclear violence? What are instances of resistance that tie together anti-colonial and antinuclear determinations?

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Li, Ruoyu
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR

Business, Finance, and Government in E. Asia
AS.190.348 (01)

Business, Finance, and Government in East Asia explores the dynamics of East Asia's economic growth (and crises) over the last fifty years. We will examine Japan's post-war development strategy, the Asian tiger economies, and China's dramatic rise. Centered on case studies of major corporations, this course examines the interplay between politics and economics in East Asia, and considers the following questions: How have businesses navigated East Asia’s complex market environment? In what ways can the state foster economic development? How has the financial system been organized to facilitate investment? What are the long-term prospects for growth in the region?

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-ECON

Social Entrepreneurship and Democratic Erosion
AS.196.301 (01)

This course will explore the dynamics and interplay between social entrepreneurship, social change, and policy. Students will explore this specific moment in our democracy, and contextualize erosion happening in international and domestic contexts. The course will examine the intersection between social change and policy change, examining how the two concepts intersect while focusing on the end goal of systems change and furthering democracy. Students will examine different case studies of social transformation (or proposed social transformation) from across the United States and world. Guest speakers will include diverse practitioners of social entrepreneurship who think about long-term pathways to transformative social change, and dynamic policymakers. While the course will include case studies on broader domestic and international challenges and models of democratic erosion, a larger focus will be on specific local social problems and solutions. This will manifest through class discussions and a final project based on the surrounding community.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Warren, Scott L
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 16/24
• PosTag(s): AGRI-ELECT

Theories of Peace from Kant to MLK
AS.211.387 (01)

That the nations of the world could ever work together seems utopian, but also unavoidable: migration, war, and not least climate change make some form of global coordination increasingly necessary. This course will give historical and philosophical depth to the idea of a cosmopolitan order and world peace by tracing it from its ancient sources through early modernity to today. At the center of the course will be the text that has been credited with founding the tradition of a world federation of nations, Immanuel Kant’s "Toward Perpetual Peace" (1795). Confronting recent and current political discourse, literature, and philosophy with Kant’s famous treatise, we will work to gain a new perspective on the idea of a world order. In addition to Kant, readings include Homer, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, Emily Dickinson, Tolstoy, Whitman, Rosa Luxemburg, Gandhi, Hannah Arendt, John Lennon, and Martin Luther King as well as lesser-known authors such as the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Ellen Key, Odette Thibault, Simone Weil, and Claude Lefort. Taught in English.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane; Seguin, Becquer D
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): INST-PT

Power and Global Politics
AS.190.239 (01)

Global politics involves power: hard and soft power; power over, power with, and power to; resources as power; and relations and processes of power. This course will explore aspects of power as they play out in case studies of diplomacy and war, global markets, and communications networks (cyber and other information technologies). The course will also examine the nature of actors and the powers they have to act across state borders. Readings will include classic texts on power, as well as more recent works of International Relations scholarship, and class assignments will focus on using insights from these works to draw one’s own positions on foreign policy issues.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR

Human Rights and Global Justice
AS.190.302 (01)

This course investigates the norms, rules, and institutions associated with efforts to achieve international and global justice. We begin with arguably the most familiar vehicle for moral advocacy and global justice in the latter part of the twentieth century: international human rights. Readings consider both the achievements and limitations of human rights ideas and institutions. The second part of the course then reflects on the more ambitious question of what global justice could and should look like in the future. The course will address liberal theories as well as critical perspectives, including those concerned with the experiences and struggles of marginalized groups and societies. Readings and discussions will address various pressing topics in global affairs, which may include: food insecurity, humanitarian crises, climate change, racism, global health, migration, and artificial intelligence. Students will complete the course with a deeper understanding of the challenges associated with using rights-based instruments and institutions to remedy global injustices with complex social, cultural, economic, and political underpinnings.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 12:30PM - 3:00PM
• Instructor: Ross, Andrew
• Room: 555 Penn 
• Status: Approval Required
• Seats Available: 8/19
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, POLI-PT, INST-IR

Liberalism, Republicanism, and Democracy in American Political Theory
AS.190.286 (01)

For 250 years, American politics and society have reflected tensions between two foundational ideals. On the one hand, the notion of republican citizenship in the Declaration of Independence has inspired notions of the common good and institutions from majoritarian democracy to jury duty and state militias. Meanwhile, the tradition of liberal protections eventually enshrined in the Bill of Rights has grown to guarantee equal treatment and more rights for more people. At times, these two principles have gone hand in hand – at others, they have pointed in two very different directions. In this class, we will explore the philosophical origins of liberalism and republicanism and trace them through historical events and cultural landmarks, from the Revolutionary War until today. In the process, we will study, interpret, and discuss the contentious history of democracy in America.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Lower Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Schmitz, Volker
• Room: Mergenthaler 252
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/10
• PosTag(s): POLI-PT, INST-PT

Does Israel Have a Future?
AS.190.318 (01)

The future of Israel has never been more uncertain. Although external threats from Arab countries have abated, the danger posed by a nuclear attack from Iran grows with each passing day. Equally alarming is the growing domestic threat to Israel’s existence as a Jewish democracy. Efforts by Israel’s ruling coalition to weaken the High Court call into question whether the liberal democratic character of Israel can persist. The possibility of civil war, once thought impossible, cannot be discounted. In assessing how Israel can cope with these existential threats, lessons from the destruction of the ancient Israelite kingdoms will be examined.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP

Theories of Global Violence
AS.190.373 (01)

In this course, we will explore a constellation of theories loosely tied together under the rubric ‘violence’. Where and to whom does violence occur? What qualifies as violent, and why? The focus of our attention be both above and below state-to-state wars and international relations. Although war will never be far from our focus, our emphasis will be on those forms of violence that are not reducible to the traditional notion of international conflict. Political theory will help us better understand violence; violence will help us better understand political theory.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Phillips, Chas.
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/19
• PosTag(s): POLI-PT, INST-PT

Democracy and Dictatorship: Theory and Cases
AS.190.308 (01)

The course will cover three topics: 1) The conceptualization of political regime, democracy and authoritarianism. We will also consider neighboring concepts of other macro-political structures—government, state, and administration—in order to be able to demarcate what is distinctive about the study of political regimes. 2) The characterization of political regimes in most Western and some non-Western countries, in history and today. We will centrally focus on the so called “Waves of Democratization,” but we will also consider stories with less happy outcomes, that is, processes that led to the breakdown of democracies and the installation of repressive dictatorships. 3) The explanation(s) of the stability and change of political regimes around the world. Theoretical accounts of regime change come in many flavors—emphasis on economic versus political causes, focus on agents and choices versus structures and constraints, international versus domestic factors, among others. We will consider most of them.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: MWF 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, POLI-CP

Urban Politics and Policy
AS.190.385 (01)

An analysis of public policy and policy-making for American Cities. Special attention will be given to the subject of urban crime and law enforcement, poverty and welfare, and intergovernmental relations. Cross listed with Africana Studies.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Krieger 308
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/25
• PosTag(s): INST-AP

The New Deal and American Politics
AS.190.425 (01)

This seminar explores how the New Deal, the fundamental moment in the post-Civil War United States, has structured politics and government across a variety of domains ever since. Topics include presidential leadership, executive power, political parties, labor, race, and the welfare state.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room: Latrobe 120
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-AP

Political Economy of Japan and Korea
AS.190.427 (01)

This upper-level seminar examines some of the major debates and issues of postwar Japanese and South Korean political economy. Topics include nationalism, gender politics, civil society, immigration, and US-Japan-South Korea trilateral relations.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room: Shaffer 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP

Frontiers of Empirical Political Science
AS.190.414 (01)

This advanced level course is intended to help students understand the frontiers of empirical political science research – that is, research concerned with answering causal questions – as presented in recent books by (for the most part) junior scholars. The books represent the substantive and methodological pluralism of our field, with books coming from American, Comparative, IR, and Political Economy. We will give two weeks’ treatment to most books on the syllabus, spending the first week reading “motivating” or classic material that inspired the book project, as well a companion of a key methodological text that inspired the research design. Along with reading the materials that help to situate the book in larger debates in its subfield we will read the first several chapters of the book. In the second week of discussion we will read the second half of the book – the evidence chapters and the conclusion – and focus on understanding whether and how the evidence that is presented matches with the theoretical and empirical claims made in the book’s beginnings.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: M 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
• Room: Wyman Park N325F
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): POLI-CP, AGRI-ELECT

Politics of the Market Economy
AS.190.429 (01)

Although “the market” is conventionally understood as separate from “politics”, the modern market economy did not arise in a political vacuum. In fact, the very separation between the economy and politics is itself the product of a politically potent set of ideas. This course is an upper-division reading seminar on the origins and evolution of the modern market economy. Readings will include Smith, Marx, Weber, Polanyi, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman, Becker, and Foucault. Recommended course background: Introduction to comparative politics OR any college-level course in social or political theory.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Mergenthaler 431
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON

States and Democracy
AS.190.470 (01)

The focus of the seminar is on the formation and transformation sates and regimes. The perspective is both historical and comparative, covering Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and the US as a “non exceptional” case. This is fundamentally a Comparative Politics course, but APD students will almost certainly benefit from it.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: Th 9:30AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-IR

Philosophy of Law
AS.190.474 (01)

The philosophy of law or jurisprudence investigates the nature of law and what makes law, as it were, law. This course will examine some of the ways in which law has been defined and understood. It will also consider how law is distinguished from other systems of norms and values, such as morality, and how law is distinguished from other aspects of government, such as politics. In addition, the course will introduce students to discussions of legal reasoning and interpretation. To complete the course, students will be required to participate in class discussion, take two exams, and write a paper.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room: Bloomberg 276
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/19
• PosTag(s): INST-PT

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (03)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (06)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (07)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a

Autocracy, Democracy and Development: Korea, Indonesia and Myanmar
AS.192.404 (01)

East Asia’s “miracle growth” has not gone hand in hand with a decisive move toward democracy. Over the last 30 years, only eight East Asian countries have become democratic out of more than 60 countries worldwide, and they continue to struggle with the challenges of democratic consolidation, weak political governance, and limited citizens’ political engagement. This course explores the reasons why democratization proceeds slowly in East Asia, and seems to be essentially decoupled from the region’s fast-paced economic growth. The choice of Korea, Indonesia, and Myanmar as the case studies for this course results from their authoritarian past as well as their more recent institutional and political trajectories towards democracy.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-ECON

The Politics of Absolute Freedom
AS.191.431 (01)

Is freedom possible within the complex conditions of modern civilization? We examine this problem through a study of how it was addressed in the rational humanist tradition (Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Marx). Emphasis will be placed on how members of this tradition conceptualized freedom, how they theorized the nature of modern society, and what they took to be necessary to overcome modern alienation so as to achieve a world of actualized freedom. Utilizing the dialectical methods of intellectual history, we endeavor to learn from, critically evaluate, and discern the political effects of their theoretical innovations and ideological visions. Important top-ics covered will include democracy, liberalism, collectivism, the dialectic, ideology, capitalism, the nation-state, crisis theo-ry, class struggle, exploitation, revolution, and communism. We will explore these topics through close readings of origi-nal texts and systematic argumentation about their real-world implications. Students should expect to come away from the course with a heightened capacity for interpreting the history of ideas and theorizing about the institutional dynamics, ob-jective pathologies, and imaginable possibilities of our infinite-ly complex civilization. Previous coursework in political theory, intellectual history, or philosophy is recommended.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Roundtree, Jacob
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/13
• PosTag(s): POLI-PT

Marxisms: Ecological, Feminist, Racial, and Latin American Approaches to Historical Materialism
AS.190.489 (01)

This seminar explores the intellectual origins and ongoing intellectual productivity of the historical materialist account of political economy inaugurated with Karl Marx. It considers, in particular, how fatal couplings between power and difference are leveraged by capitalism as a tool of accumulation. Women’s labor and social reproduction, nature’s availability for mastery and the destructive exploitation of land and natural resources, racial inferiority and exploitative conditions of labor, and Global South peoples conscription into hyper-exploitative labor. The seminar will explore and interrogate the political dimensions of these transformations: how are relationships of political rule entangled with capitalist priorities of accumulation and which peoples/political subjects get to do the ruling and why? How did patriarchal and racial arrangements came to be, how do they relate to the production of value, and how are they sustained politically today? How do historical political transformations (including formal decolonization, democratic transitions, and the onset of free trade and structural adjustment, among others) inaugurate new forms of accumulation and how do these forms and their politics take different shape in the North and the Global South? A sample of the readings include Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, W. E. B. Du Bois, Silvia Federici, Andreas Malm, Ruy Mauro Marini, and others.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Valdez, Inés
• Room: Macaulay 101
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/5
• PosTag(s): INST-PT, INST-ECON

Senior Thesis
AS.190.499 (04)

Seniors also have the opportunity to write a senior research thesis. To be eligible to write this thesis, students must identify a faculty sponsor who will supervise the project.

• Credits: 3.00
• Level: Upper Level Undergraduate
• Days/Times:
• Instructor: Zackin, Emily
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/5
• PosTag(s): n/a