The Politics of Planet Earth. Course explores human efforts to find ways of living together as a global community in the face of environmental changes. Particular focus on global warming and losses of biological diversity. Special consideration will be given to North-South issues. Political Science 281X. Introduction to the Politics of Science and Technology.
Course explores the intersections of science, technology, and democracy.
Course will address examples from a diversity of contemporary public policy areas, such as agricultural biotechnology, genetic testing, new reproductive technologies, the global environment, risk assessment, and computers and information technology. This course introduces students to the Middle East as a region, and to issues of political importance to the Middle East and its place in the world. Topics covered include Islam, regional conflicts and alliances, local leaders, economic issues, and gender and social relations. Offered for nonmajor graduate credit. Political Science 356X. Theories of International Politics.