The course will include an historical dimension, focusing on the develoment of efforts to move toward closer union. The main emphasis of the course will be on political institutions and issues and integration as a political process. Counts as an advanced course in International Politics. Political Science 122 or 242 or consent of the instructor. One or one-half course credit, spring semester.
Participants discuss common readings on the topic.
They also prepare individual research papers which treat the general theme, but from the stance of their chosen emphases within the major. One course credit, fall semester.