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Majors and Courses of InstructionPolitics and Government280. Environmental Politics (Staff )This course focuses upon environmental policies. It concentrates upon the interrelated matters ofhow environmental matters become, and are shaped as, political issues, the extent to which theydo so, how environmental issues become a part of the political agenda, the political economycleavage lines associated with environmental political issues, the institutional factors involved inmaking environmental policies, and the nature of the feedback process across time in environmentalpolitics. While the majority of attention is on environmental politics and policies in the context ofU.S. politics, selected examination will cover international and comparative materials. S.300.1 Globalization – Structures, Processes, and Issues (Choi)Globalization has emerged as one of the hot topics today and it is affecting nearly every aspectof our lives. This course is intended to introduce the various aspects of globalization to studentsin systematic and in-depth ways. In this course, we will examine basic questions and debates onglobalization and related ideologies and processes. The course also addresses various forms ofglobalization (political, economic, cultural, ecological, etc.) and related issues. Lastly, resistance toand the futures of globalization are discussed.300.5. Human Rights in International Perspective (J. Franklin)An examination of the development of the international law of human rights by internationalorganizations since 1945; Western and other important perspectives on human rights; and U.S.foreign policy with respect to civil, political, and economic and social human rights. Case studies ofmajor human rights violations throughout the world and international reactions to those violationswill constitute a major part of the seminar. Diversity. S.300.31. Political Theory, Science and Technology (Biser)In the last one hundred years, rapid advances in science and technology have fundamentallytransformed the world in which we live. For some thinkers, these advances promise a better future,one in which human beings might live happier, healthier and more productive lives. Others,however, see modern science and technology as in tension with the values of democracy. How, theselatter thinkers ask, is freedom realized in contemporary society? In what ways are science, rationalityand technology tools for domination? For emancipation? This course examines the complexrelationship between science, technology and politics from the perspective of political theorists suchas Herbert Marcuse, Hannah Arendt, and Michel Foucault, as well as more recent theorists suchas Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour. It pays particular attention to the question of how scientificand technological change can be open to democratic participation. S.300.32. International Political Economy (Choi)This course is an upper-level course on International Political Economy (IPE), one of the significantsubfields in the study of International Relations (IR). In this course, we explore the inevitabletensions and interactions between politics (the state) and the economy (the market) in the contextof the study of IR. Among the specific issues to be addressed are the history and major theoreticalperspectives of IPE; the politics of international trade and finance; the political outcomes ofeconomic globalization; and the origins and prospects of regionalism. S.344. Comparative Political Topics: Democratization (J. Franklin)This course will focus on the causes and challenges of establishing and consolidating democracy.We will cover the countries that have established democracy in the post-World War II period,235