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This course is designed to introduce students to global governance. It begins with a discussion of the concept of global governance. It then turns to some of the central features of contemporary global governance, including the changing status of the state and of international/world organizations and the role of global civil society. The emphasis here is on how patterns of global governance have changed and are changing and on the implications of these changes for democracy, social justice, etc. The remainder of the course focuses on the areas of international peace and security, human rights and international humanitarian law, and economic governance. By addressing such topics as the International Criminal Court and the role of the IMF and the World Bank in economic development, these parts of the course highlight the contested nature of global governance in each of the three issue areas. Prerequisite(s): POLI 120 recommended.

General Education Requirements:
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Social science

The past two decades appear to have been very successful ones for humanitarianism. Funding for humanitarianism has skyrocketed; humanitarian organizations have expanded their public support, as well as their activities; and, increasingly, humanitarian issues have found a place at the center of policy decisions. It is also generally agreed that humanitarianism is in crisis owing to the growing awareness of the sometimes harmful effects of aid; the expansion of the concept of humanitarianism to include human rights, development, and peace-building; and the increasing involvement of states in humanitarian operations. This advanced-level course explores the nature and dilemmas of contemporary humanitarianism. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore-standing or permission of instructor.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WP
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Social science

This course explores the rapidly evolving field of transitional justice, examining how and why regimes respond to wide-scale past human rights abuses. Drawing on examples worldwide, it asks why states choose particular strategies and examines a variety of goals (truth, justice, reconciliation, democracy-building), approaches (trials, truth commissions, file access, memorialization, reparation, rewriting histories), actors (state, civil society, religious institutions), experiences, results, and controversies. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.

General Education Requirements:
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Social science

This course is designed to introduce students to global governance. It begins with a discussion of the concept of global governance. It then turns to some of the central features of contemporary global governance, including the changing status of the state and of international/world organizations and the role of global civil society. The emphasis here is on how patterns of global governance have changed and are changing and on the implications of these changes for democracy, social justice, etc. The remainder of the course focuses on the areas of international peace and security, human rights and international humanitarian law, and economic governance. By addressing such topics as the International Criminal Court and the role of the IMF and the World Bank in economic development, these parts of the course highlight the contested nature of global governance in each of the three issue areas. Prerequisite(s): POLI 120 recommended.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Social science

This course offers a theoretical and practical introduction to the study and promotion of human rights. Using broad materials, it focuses on the evolution and definition of key concepts, the debate over "universal" rights, regional and international institutions, core documents, the role of states, and current topics of interest to the human rights movement.

General Education Requirements:
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Social science

Comparative study of political institutions and conflicts in Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Mexico, with attention to Pink Tide leaders like Hugo Chávez, Lula da Silva, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, right-wing populists like Jair Bolsonaro and Javier Milei, and new leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum and Bernardo Arévalo. As U.S. imperialism strikes Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Central America, can party politics and social movements yield leadership to defend Latin American sovereignty? Through a mix of empirical and theoretical work, we analyze authoritarianism and democratization, unions vs. neoliberalism, state terror and peace processes, liberation theology, anti-racist and feminist organizing, and Indigenous mass mobilization. Themes are explored through diverse teaching methods including discussion, debate, simulations, lecture, film, memoir, and poetry. This class employs an innovative portfolio system of qualitative assessment. Students take the course “S/SD/N with Written Evaluation.” This provides a powerful opportunity for students to stretch their limits in a learning community with high expectations, but without a high-pressure atmosphere. This ungraded course has been approved for inclusion on major/minor/concentration plans in Political Science, Latin American Studies, and Human Rights and Humanitarianism.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Social science

Comparative study of political institutions and conflicts in Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Mexico, with attention to Pink Tide leaders like Hugo Chávez, Lula da Silva, and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, right-wing populists like Jair Bolsonaro and Javier Milei, and new leaders like Claudia Sheinbaum and Bernardo Arévalo. As U.S. imperialism strikes Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and Central America, can party politics and social movements yield leadership to defend Latin American sovereignty? Through a mix of empirical and theoretical work, we analyze authoritarianism and democratization, unions vs. neoliberalism, state terror and peace processes, liberation theology, anti-racist and feminist organizing, and Indigenous mass mobilization. Themes are explored through diverse teaching methods including discussion, debate, simulations, lecture, film, memoir, and poetry. This class employs an innovative portfolio system of qualitative assessment. Students take the course “S/SD/N with Written Evaluation.” This provides a powerful opportunity for students to stretch their limits in a learning community with high expectations, but without a high-pressure atmosphere. This ungraded course has been approved for inclusion on major/minor/concentration plans in Political Science, Latin American Studies, and Human Rights and Humanitarianism.

General Education Requirements:
Writing WA
Internationalism

Distribution Requirements:
Social science

This course is an introduction to the interdiscipline of literature and human rights. We will read a series of beautiful and emotionally wrenching novels, treating them simultaneously as aesthetic artifacts and case studies in human rights. We will discuss the urgent political questions and philosophical paradoxes that define human rights, paying special attention to theories of trauma and torture. We will seek to better understand how spectators of suffering develop—or fail to develop—empathy for strangers by also examining how they can so palpably feel for the dreams, desires, and dignity of fictional persons.This course fills the US Identities and Differences requirement and the framework requirement for the Human Rights and Humanitarianism concentration.

General Education Requirements:
U.S. Identities and Differences

Distribution Requirements:
Humanities