Course Offerings

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Upcoming Course Offerings:

POLS 298: International Security
Sustainable New Zealand: Policy, Politics, and Ecology (UMAIE)
POLS 298: Politics of South Asia

Fall 2009

   POLS 298: International Security
Instructor: Dr. Renee Buhr

This course will survey major security issues including traditional topics like arms control, military alliances and WMD, as well as non-traditional subjects like ethnic conflict, terrorism and genocide. Also, specific conflicts, actors and regions like the Iraq War, North Korea, Al-Qaeda and Rwanda will be addressed to shed more light on these complex global challenges.

J-term 2010

   Sustainable New Zealand: Policy, Politics, and Ecology (UMAIE)
Instructor: Dr. Steven Hoffman
Maximum Enrollment: 16

New Zealand offers a magnificent opportunity to study the difficulty of implementing a national policy of sustainable development.  We will visit sites that showcase New Zealand’s natural history and its on-going efforts to maintain endangered ecosystems while also trying achieve a high standard of living for its people.  We will talk with experts on a variety of policy issues, including the development of alternative energy sources, the management of a comprehensive resource planning system, the integration of indigenous cultures into sustainable development efforts, and national efforts to preserve threatened and endangered species

Spring 2010

   POLS 298: Politics of South Asia
Instructor: Dr. Arijit Mazumdar

This course provides a basic understanding of the politics, economy and society of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.  It will involve comparison between these states utilizing themes such as political culture, political institutions, government structures and processes, political economy, interest groups and political development and transition.  We will discuss economic reforms and democratic consolidation in India, democracy and authoritarianism in Pakistan, civil society in Bangladesh, the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict in Sri Lanka and the Maoist insurgency and political transition in Nepal.