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Course Description for Winter 2009
POLI_SCI Political Science 390-0: Special Topics in Political Science
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Political Science
390-0-20: Special Topics in Political Science : Latinos & U.S. Elections
Instructor: Victoria Maria DeFrancesco
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Expected Enrollment: 45
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The focus of this course is to examine the United States Latino population in the context of the 2008 Election. In the wake of the 2008 elections we will examine the political behavior of the largest minority group, Latinos together with larger campaign dynamics. More generally, this course will consider the nature of campaigns in today’s modern racially and ethnically diverse American political environment. This course will review research in American campaigns and elections, provide a historical review of Latinos, and examine an array of 2008 election material.
Political Science
390-0-21: Special Topics in Political Science : Ata Kurk & Rezq Shah:Lives Shape/Modern Mid East
Instructor: Stephen A. Kinzer
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Expected Enrollment: 15
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Early in the 20th century, the existing Middle East order collapsed in a series of cataclysms. Two commanding figures, Ataturk in Turkey and Reza Shah in Iran, emerged from this turmoil, seized power, and went on lead secularizing revolutions unprecedented in Islamic history. This seminar will use their lives as a way to examine the modern history of Turkey and Iran.
Political Science
390-0-22: Special Topics in Political Science : Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Instructor: Liora Sion
Office address: 1808 Chicago. Rm 106
Phone: 847-467-0516
E-mail: l-sion@northwestern.edu
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Expected Enrollment: 45
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course introduces students to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the challenges facing efforts to sustain a viable and productive peace process between the two parties. The course will focus on the multiple levels of the conflict: conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians; conflicts between the state of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and various Arab states in the region; the involvement of powerful countries outside the region who have important interests in the region; conflicts within the Israeli body politic over relationships with Palestinian and Arab neighbors, and conflicts among Palestinians over their relationship with Israel.
NOTE: This course introduces students to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the challenges facing efforts to sustain a viable and productive peace process between the two parties. The course will focus on the multiple levels of the conflict: conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians; conflicts between the state of Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and various Arab states in the region; the involvement of powerful countries outside the region who have important interests in the region; conflicts within the Israeli body politic over relationships with Palestinian and Arab neighbors, and conflicts among Palestinians over their relationship with Israel.
Political Science
390-0-23: Special Topics in Political Science : American Intervention Abroad
Instructor: Stephen A. Kinzer
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Expected Enrollment: 55
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was hardly the first time the United States intervened forcibly in the affairs of another country. It has done so repeatedly over more that a century, from the Philippines to Iran to Chile. This course surveys the history of coups, revolutions and other "regime change" operations that were planned or directed from Washington. We will study how the United States intervenes abroad, seek to understand why it does so, and assess the long-term results of different kinds of intervention.
Political Science
390-0-24: Special Topics in Political Science : Global Climate Change
Instructor: Yael Wolinsky
Office address: Scott Hall 305
Phone: 467-1156
E-mail: y-woli@northwestern.edu
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Expected Enrollment: 10
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The goal of this course is to examine global climate change both as a policy issue and as a phenomenon that has affected society and culture. We will compare climate change policy-making at the international, national, state, and local levels. We will examine several dimensions of climate change policies including reaction to scientific information, evaluation of costs versus benefits under uncertainty, leadership, and openness to adaptation. We will then look at how society has reacted to policy-making on climate change. We will compare trends in public attitudes on climate change and examine the relationship between public policy and civic action. We will finally look at how the issue of climate change has spread beyond politics and is finding new expressions in the arts, architecture, and other realms of culture.
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Political Science
390-0-25: Special Topics in Political Science : Environmental Interest Groups
Instructor: Paul John Culhane
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Expected Enrollment: 30
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The interest groups of the environmental movement have been at the center of environmental and natural resources policymaking for well over a century. This course will draw on the large and diverse literature in social sciences on interest groups to examine the roles of interest groups focusing on case examples of environmental group action. First, we will review social sciences theories of interest group behavior. Second, we will look at the evolution and roles of environmental interest groups. And third, students will try to apply the general theoretical concerns to an actual environmental group.
NOTE: There will be no pre registration for this course.
Instructor: Professor Paul Culhane
pculhane828@cs.com
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