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approaches to forging agreements amidst
challenging circumstances. (U)(3). Fall only.
involved in shaping and implementing that
policy. (U/G)(3). Occasionally.
PO320, International Relations: Problems
in world politics since 1900 with particular
attention to the efforts at peaceful settlement of
international conflicts. (U/G)(3). Occasionally.
PO322, International Conflict and Peace
Building: The course examines theories of
conflict and peace building and analyzes in
depth specific cases of interstate and intrastate
warfare and post-war reconstruction. Students
participate in simulated peace negotiations.
Prerequisite: PO141 or PO220 or consent of
the instructor. (U/G)(3). Occasionally.
PO332, State and Local Government and
Politics: American state and local government
activities and electoral politics, emphasizing
the issues of political management and policy
analysis. (U)(3). Occasionally.
PO335, Racial and Ethnic Politics: The
course will examine racial and ethnic group
efforts to gain political power within American
society, mostly as a result of access to and
representation within the formal structures
of American politics. Particular attention will
be given to the increasing political competition
between these groups and to strategies for
cooperation. (U)(3). Occasionally.
PO337, Politics of the Urban Experience:
Students develop a comprehensive understanding
of political processes and problem
solving in the urban environment. Through
service-learning students learn how the urban
community is transformed, analyze contemporary
challenges that drive its development or
stagnation, and anticipate the importance of
the urban community to our survival as a
nation. (U/G)(3). Occasionally.
PO350, African Politics: A study of the problems
and policies of African states regarding
nationalism, national integration, ideologies of
development, democratization and stability.
Focus on sub-Saharan Africa, although a
continent-wide consideration for some topics.
Prerequisite: PO151 or junior standing.
(U)(3). Occasionally.
PO358, Foreign Policy Making in Washington:
This course focuses on foreign policy making as
practiced in Washington, D.C.; it examines
how politicians, lobbyists, citizens and diplomats
interact in and around Washington’s
corridors of power to determine international
policy outcomes. Firsthand insights gained
through dialogue with those who make and
implement policy and close scrutiny of key
international issues provide students with a
“laboratory” for understanding the politics of
foreign policy making in the U.S. capital, how
these policies are shaped and why they succeed
or fail to achieve their stated objectives. (U)(3).
Occasionally.
PO360, Political Regimes in Latin America:
Comparative study of the politics of development
in Latin America with particular attention given
to the interdependence of economic, social,
cultural and external influences upon political
regimes as well as the efficacy and legitimacy of
the regimes themselves. Prerequisite: PO101,
PO151 or permission of the instructor. (U/G)
(3). Occasionally.
PO362, Popular Participation in Latin
America: This course focuses upon the efforts
of peasants, urban workers, neighborhoods,
church groups and students to organize and
mobilize in politically efficacious ways. The
themes of social class, gender, ethnicity and the
informal sector are interwoven in an analysis of
the successes and failures of these attempts at
popular participation in the political process.
Prerequisite: PO101, PO151 or permission of
the instructor. (U/G)(3). Occasionally.
PO 364, United States-Latin American
Relations: Historical orientation to the evolving
context, institutions and central concerns of
United States-Latin American relations with
particular focus upon divergent perspectives of
definitions of interests and responsibilities, as
well as a search for viable solutions to common
problems in the Western Hemisphere. Prerequisite:
PO101, PO141 or permission of the
instructor. (U/G)(3). Occasionally.
PO370, Governments and Politics of Europe:
PO355, United States Foreign Policy:
An analysis and comparison of the political
Evolution of U.S. foreign policy since World
processes, policies and ideologies of several
War II and the processes and institutions
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