Faced with the apparent intractability of British rule during much of the colonial period, Indians were often forced to look outside institutional politics in order to imagine the Indian nation and their place within it. Many turned to bazaar art, films, photographs, maps, and other media that allowed them to gesture toward ideas not permitted in state-sanctioned discourse and to circumvent hurdles of multilingualism and illiteracy. We will consider, among other topics, how and why images of precolonial Indian monarchs became standardized during this time, the ability of mass-produced religious and devotional art to link households and communities, the rise and marketability of Indian maps, the role cinema hall in building and projecting national and communal bonds, and the power of iconography featuring Indians executed by the colonial state. In prioritizing the visual realm as a space wherein the Indian nation was imagined and disseminated, this course subverts classic theories of the modern nation-state that attribute its rise to literacy and language. It also seeks, as a corollary, to move the study of Indian nationalism away from the writings of the Indian elite and toward the contributions of everyday Indians whose projects were often unwritten but were no less influential.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Halladay, Andrew
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): HART-MODERN, INST-GLOBAL

This course invites students to examine an idea central to theories of transitional justice: that holding perpetrators of mass violence legally accountable enables transitions from war to peace and authoritarianism to democracy. We will examine this idea by focusing on Latin America, where social movements for legal accountability and human rights prosecutions have flourished since the 1980s, influencing law and transitional justice mechanisms globally. By engaging ethnographies of transition, we will critically examine concepts such as justice, accountability, catastrophic violence, transition, and the rule of law, comparing how anthropologists and lawyers reason, formulate questions, and engage evidence.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Wherry, Anna Elisabeth
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/18
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, CES-LSO, CES-PD

This course will invite students to inquire into knowledge production in the context of the Cold War in Asia by exploring how our knowledge of wartime is selected, regenerated, and repressed by archives. The course will examine the dual nature of archives in documenting conflicts and serving as evidence of state violence. We will also consider how the archive may extend beyond documents to incorporate oral narratives and material artifacts.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kim, Yuna
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/18
• PosTag(s): INST-CP

This survey course examines the history of Europe from the early sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. Topics to be examined include the Reformations and religious wars, curiosity, contact and conquest of non-European lands, the rise of modern bureaucratic states, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a political criterion, the new science, as well as expanding literacy and consumption.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
• Room: Krieger 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/26
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL

This course provides an overview of Native American History in North America. We will investigate the diverse Indigenous cultures and political systems that have called the continent home from large and historically well-documented polities such as Cherokee nation and the Haudenosaunee to the crucial yet often-overlooked role of smaller polities such as those of the Abenakis and the Petites Nations of the Gulf Coast. Along the way we will ask: how have geography (and displacement) shaped culture and politics? how have Indigenous histories shaped the history of the United States (as well as Mexico and Canada)? what are the unique challenges of studying and writing Native American History today?

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Grindon, Blake
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL

This course provides an overview of Native American History in North America. We will investigate the diverse Indigenous cultures and political systems that have called the continent home from large and historically well-documented polities such as Cherokee nation and the Haudenosaunee to the crucial yet often-overlooked role of smaller polities such as those of the Abenakis and the Petites Nations of the Gulf Coast. Along the way we will ask: how have geography (and displacement) shaped culture and politics? how have Indigenous histories shaped the history of the United States (as well as Mexico and Canada)? what are the unique challenges of studying and writing Native American History today?

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Grindon, Blake
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 16/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL

By 1900, France had conquered large parts of the African continent - mainly through violence - and gained a reputation as the least racist Western state. In 2023, the French government works to hold onto the power it still holds in multiple sub-Saharan countries while, at home and abroad, the perniciousness and persistence of French anti-African racisms spark debate and activism. This course examines the interactions between African and Afro-descendent people and France/the French, in Africa (with particular attention to North and West Africa), France, and beyond. We will focus on colonialism, decolonization, and neocolonialism - notably “Françafrique” - as well as how Africans and Afro-descendent people in France navigated the challenges and possibilities they encountered.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Shepard, Todd
• Room: Gilman 119
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 23/30
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL

This class focuses on Europe from the end of World War II until today. We will discuss topics such as Germany’s division during the Cold War, the European welfare state, the relationship to the US and the Soviet Union, decolonization, the revolutions of 1989, racism, neoliberalism, and the EU. Expect academic literature, movies, documentary films, textual and visual primary sources, and plenty of group work. A special treat: we will team up with students at the University of Regensburg to research current challenges to and in the transatlantic alliance.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/40
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-US

Conspiratorial thinking is nothing new in American politics. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have been riveted—and riven—by conspiracy theories. This course introduces students to key methods and questions in U.S. history by exploring conspiratorial episodes from the American Revolution through the present. We’ll pick apart allegations and denials of conspiracies to discover what they tell us about American politics and culture. We’ll also consider historians’ analyses of conspiratorial claims, and think about the relationship between conspiracy and historical causality.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Luff, Jennifer D
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/25
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, POLI-AP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP

This course investigates sexual cultures through the lens of modern Queer History in the United States and Western Europe, with forays into global and transnational histories.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL

The political, social and cultural history of events that marked a turning-point to the modern era by inaugurating and then destroying a more popular democracy than Europeans had yet known.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Mason, Laura
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL

Examines the Enlightenment, an intellectual movement that swept Europe in the eighteenth century to shape the modern world. Students will not only read canonical works of the period (Voltaire, Hume, Rousseau, etc.) but also consider the broader social and cultural contexts in which ideas evolved. Thus, the class will explore the rise of the book trade and popular reading practices; new understandings of gender and sexuality; and the development of anti-Black racism and slavery in the Atlantic world.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Kwass, Michael
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/14
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI, CES-GI, CES-PD

Survey of the history of China from ca. 1895 to ca. 1976.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Rowe, William T
• Room: Gilman 55
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/40
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA

This upper-division course is designed to help students examine and probe the significant role Africa has played in shaping the Atlantic world and its place within its economic, social, religious, cultural, and political configurations.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Gondola, Didier Didier
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-AFRICA, AFRS-AFRICA, INST-GLOBAL

This class reassesses the history of the Cold War through sports. We will investigate how the Cold War has shaped sports, the Olympic movement, the role of athletes at home and abroad. We will discuss how sports intersected with domestic and foreign policy, and how sports reinforced or challenged notions of race, gender, and class. We will also interview eyewitnesses, former athletes in the 1960s and 1970s.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-US, HIST-ASIA, MSCH-HUM

This course explores development as an ideology and a practice. From colonialism to the Cold War to contemporary NGOs, we will interrogate the history of our attempts to improve the world. This iteration of the course will have a particular focus on the intersections between development and the environment. Graduate students welcome.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
• Room: Krieger 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/25
• PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, CES-LE, CES-PD

Since 1900 global markets have undergone a dramatic transformation. This course will grapple with the writings of economists and social theorists who sought to understand the implications of these changes, and in some cases helped to inspire them. Questions they addressed include: does freedom result from the absence of coercion, or does it require the provision of capacities? Do markets reward desirable behaviors, or do they produce social and environmental pathologies? Does competition occur spontaneously, or does it require careful regulation and reinforcement? And what is the relationship between innovation and inequality? Readings include selections from Max Weber, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, W.E.B. DuBois, John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, Joseph Schumpeter, Theodor Adorno, Milton Friedman, Donna Haraway, Wendy Brown, and Thomas Piketty. Class meetings will focus on the close reading of these texts, and discussion of how and why perceptions of the market economy have changed over time.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Burgin, Angus
• Room: Gilman 308
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON, CES-ELECT, CES-PD, CES-LC

This seminar-style course will focus on discussing British and American political thought from the "Age of Revolutions", a period also of many critiques of Empire and of many works of Antislavery. Readings include Paine's Common Sense and Rights of Man, the Declaration of Rights, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers; works by Smith, Burke, and Wollstonecraft; and antislavery works by Cugoano, Equiano, Rush, Wesley, and Wilberforce.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Marshall, John W
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/19
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, CES-LSO

A broad survey of the significant political and cultural dynamics of Jewish history in the Medieval, Early-Modern, and Modern Eras.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Katz, David
• Room: Smokler Center Library
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/19
• PosTag(s): NEAS-HISCUL, INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST

This course examines the relations of the scientific and technical enterprise and government in the United States in the 20th and 21st centuries. Topics will include the funding of research and development, public health, national defense, etc. Case studies will include the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic, the Depression-era Science Advisory Board, the founding of the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, the institution of the President’s Science Advisor, the failure of the Superconducting Supercollider, the Hubble Space Telescope, the covid pandemic, etc.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin; Kargon, Robert H
• Room: Gilman 300
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, MSCH-HUM

This course explores health and society in England, 1500 to 1800 including healing practices at all levels of society, concepts of health and illness, patient experiences, and patterns of disease. Recommended Course Background: At least one course in History or History of Science, Medicine, and Technology.

• Days/Times: F 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Fissell, Mary E
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/18
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MSCH-HUM

In the Islamic Golden Age (800-1400 CE), philosophers such as al-Farabi, Avicenna, al-Ghazali, and Averroes made enormous contributions to every aspect of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and philosophical theology. But philosophy in the Islamic world did not end with Averroes. It continued to flourish in Muslim Eastern countries, in particular Persia and India, with the works of such philosophers as Suhrawardi and Mula Sadra. In the contemporary era, drawing on their rich tradition, Muslim philosophers such as Muhammad lqbal, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and Amina Wadud continue to tackle social, philosophical, and theological issues in the Islamic world. In this course, we will discuss the works of Muslim philosophers from the Golden Age to the present day.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Morvarid, Hashem
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 18/20
• PosTag(s): INST-PT

An overview of philosophical thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We shall focus on fundamental questions in epistemology (knowledge, how we acquire it, its scope and limits), metaphysics (the ultimate nature of reality, the relation of mind and body, free will), and theology (the existence and nature of God, God’s relation to the world, whether knowledge of such things is possible): all questions that arose in dramatic ways as a result of the rise of modern science. The principal philosophers to be discussed are Descartes, Locke, Hume and Kant, though we shall also make the acquaintance of Spinoza, Leibniz and Berkeley.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Dong, Hao
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/20
• PosTag(s): PHIL-MODERN, MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, COGS-PHLMND

An overview of philosophical thought in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We shall focus on fundamental questions in epistemology (knowledge, how we acquire it, its scope and limits), metaphysics (the ultimate nature of reality, the relation of mind and body, free will), and theology (the existence and nature of God, God’s relation to the world, whether knowledge of such things is possible): all questions that arose in dramatic ways as a result of the rise of modern science. The principal philosophers to be discussed are Descartes, Locke, Hume and Kant, though we shall also make the acquaintance of Spinoza, Leibniz and Berkeley.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Dong, Hao
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/20
• PosTag(s): PHIL-MODERN, MSCH-HUM, INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, COGS-PHLMND

This course begins by reviewing canonical texts in modern political philosophy beginning with Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and ends by exploring classic questions in contemporary debates in race, gender, and identity.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Chaput, Emmanuel
• Room: Krieger 302
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/20
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ETHICS, INST-PT, CES-LSO, CES-LC, CES-RI

This course begins by reviewing canonical texts in modern political philosophy beginning with Thomas Hobbes and John Locke and ends by exploring classic questions in contemporary debates in race, gender, and identity.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
• Instructor: Chaput, Emmanuel
• Room: Krieger 302
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): PHIL-ETHICS, INST-PT, CES-LSO, CES-LC, CES-RI

Immanuel Kant's political philosophy is primarily presented in two works very late in his corpus: Perpetual Peace and the Metaphysics of Morals. In these Kant presents an account of justice as based on the innate right of individuals to freedom, which situates his account in the history of the liberal tradition of political philosophy. But what really follows from the starting point of individual freedom? In this course we will both pay careful attention to Kant's texts, and also think about the implications of the position for contemporary concerns, as well as for how liberalism should be understood.

• Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:30PM
• Instructor: Allais, Lucy
• Room: Gilman 288
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/21
• PosTag(s): PHIL-MODERN, PHIL-ETHICS, INST-PT, CES-LSO

This course examines the works, influence, and legacy of often underappreciated and overlooked women philosophers of the German tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although they were largely deprived of formal education and academic positions and excluded from academic discourse, women thinkers developed their own ways of philosophizing, of engaging in dialogue with their contemporaries, and of shaping the philosophical movements of their time. The course will focus on Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) and her engagement with the philosophy of life movement and psychoanalysis, Edith Stein (1891-1942) and her impact on the phenomenological tradition, and Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and her lasting contribution to existential questions of human intellectual, social, and political life. The underlying theme of the course that connects these three thinkers is the life of the mind: what can we learn from each thinker about the conditions of human life, the dynamics of personal development, and the potential for emancipation?

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kraus, Katharina
• Room: Greenhouse 110
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): PHIL-MIND, PHIL-MODERN, INST-PT, CES-GI

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, T 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 4:30PM - 5:20PM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/20
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Remsen Hall 1
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Remsen Hall 1
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Remsen Hall 1
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

Increased mobility of people across national borders, whether by choice or by force, has become an integral part of the modern world. Using a comparative perspective and an applied economics approach, the course explores the economic and political determinants, and (likely) consequences of migration flows for East Asia, the US and the EU. Lectures, assignments and in class discussions, will be built around the following topics: i) migrants’ self-selection; ii) human capital investment decision-making; iii) remittance decisions and effects; iv) impacts on labor markets of both receiving and sending countries; and v) the economic benefits from immigration. Overall, the course will give students perspective on the why people choose or feel compelled to leave their countries, how receiving countries respond to migrants’ presence, and the key economic policy concerns that are influencing the shaping of immigration policy in East Asia, the US, and the EU.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/25
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-BM

This course will introduce students to the comparative analysis of institutions of existing capitalist systems and to the historical evolution of those institutions. By comparing the economic systems of different nations, we will try to reveal the institutional setups that either contribute or hinder economic performance. We will also examine the process of countries transforming their economies and investigate the factors that determine the differences in reforms’ outcomes between countries.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Poliakova, Ludmila
• Room: Maryland 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-PD, CES-FT, CES-LSO

Theory of comparative advantage and the international division of labor: the determinants and pattern of trade, factor price equalization, factor mobility, gains from trade and distribution of income, and theory and practice or tariffs and other trade restrictions. Recommended Course Background: AS.180.101.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Dasgupta, Somasree
• Room: Hodson 213
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/60
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-FT

This course presents International Monetary Economics theory and applies it towards gaining an understanding of recent events and current policy issues. The theory presented in this course covers a broad range of topics including exchange rate determination, monetary and fiscal policy in an open economy, balance of payments crisis, the choice of exchange rate, and international debt. The insights provided by these theoretical frameworks will enable us to discuss topics such as the global financial crisis, global financial imbalances, the Chinese exchange rate regime, and proposed changes in the international financial architecture.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Poliakova, Ludmila
• Room: Maryland 109
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/40
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, ECON-FINMIN, CES-FT

In this course we will study the role of the government in the regulation of the environment. In the first half of the course we will take a broad overview of environmental economics. We will focus on evaluating the effectiveness and trade-offs associated with various tools used to regulate the environment, covering topics related to market failures, pollution regulation, and regulation under uncertainty. In the second half of the course, we take a more applied approach and consider topics related to particular environmental issues including climate change, study the functioning of particular industries such as energy and electricity, and consider challenges to regulation such as enforcement, international borders, and unknown control costs.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Elliott, Jonathan Tyler
• Room: Shaffer 302
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 21/40
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, CES-LE

This course will provide students with the theoretical tools and historical context to understand financial crises and debt crises. We will review famous examples, such as the banking panics of the Great Depression and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crises, and use economic theory to understand how and why crises happen, as well as how policies can be designed to prevent them or mitigate their effects. Topics to be covered include banking crises, currency crises, sovereign debt crises, private debt crises, panics, and the relationships between them.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Fourakis, Stelios Stephen
• Room: Krieger 180
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/25
• PosTag(s): ECON-FINMIN, INST-ECON, CES-FT

This course focuses on the economics of poverty and inequality. It covers the measurement of poverty and inequality, facts and trends over time, the causes of poverty and inequality with a focus on those related to earnings and the labor market, and public policy toward poverty and inequality, covering both taxation and government expenditure and programs. By the nature of the material, the course is fairly statistical and quantitative. Students should have an intermediate understanding of microeconomic concepts. Basic knowledge of regression analysis is also helpful.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Hodson 216
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/18
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-PD, CES-LC, CES-RI

Why are some countries rich while some other countries poor? Why does a country’s income per person generally grow over time? We try to analyze these questions using the theoretical and empirical growth literature. We will study seminal growth models, and also try to explain cross-country income differences in terms of factors like geography, institutions and global integration. Knowledge of regression analysis (including instrumental variables estimation) is required.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Dasgupta, Somasree
• Room: Gilman 119
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-PD, CES-FT, CES-RI

Economists increasingly incorporate insights from psychology into models of rational decision-making. Known as "behavioral economics", this line of research considers how, for example, emotions, rules-of-thumb, biased beliefs and time-inconsistent preferences influence how we make choices. Behavioral economics increasingly pervades policy discussions on topics as diverse as: obesity, the role of media, subprime mortgages and voting patterns. Behavioral models are certainly novel, but do they help us to design superior social policies? With the goal of preparing students to address this question, this course (1) provides a thorough overview of the main contributions of behavioral economics, highlighting departures from more traditional economic models and (2) emphasizes how behavioral economic models might (or might not) improve how we think about social policy.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Papageorge, Nicholas W
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/25
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, BEHB-SOCSCI, CES-ELECT

To understand politics, the sound bites of the modern media take us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison in order to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will work from the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Shaffer 3
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/20
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, POLI-CP, CES-ELECT

To understand politics, the sound bites of the modern media take us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison in order to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will work from the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Shaffer 3
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, POLI-CP, CES-ELECT

To understand politics, the sound bites of the modern media take us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison in order to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will work from the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Shaffer 3
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, POLI-CP, CES-ELECT

To understand politics, the sound bites of the modern media take us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison in order to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will work from the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Shaffer 3
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, POLI-CP, CES-ELECT

To understand politics, the sound bites of the modern media take us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison in order to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will work from the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Shaffer 3
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/20
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, POLI-CP, CES-ELECT

To understand politics, the sound bites of the modern media take us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison in order to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will work from the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Shaffer 3
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/20
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, POLI-CP, CES-ELECT

To understand politics, the sound bites of the modern media take us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison in order to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will work from the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 1:30PM - 2:20PM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Shaffer 3
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/20
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, POLI-CP, CES-ELECT

To understand politics, the sound bites of the modern media take us only so far. In this course, we will take a step back and implement an intellectually rigorous method. Scholars of comparative politics use the method of comparison in order to illuminate important political phenomena of our times. Following this method, we will embark on a scholarly tour of the world and compare the politics of various countries. We will also trace these politics back to their historical sources. We will work from the assumption that there is something to be gained from such comparisons across space and time.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Shaffer 3
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, AGRI-ELECT, POLI-CP, CES-ELECT

Global politics involves power: hard and soft power; power over, power with, and power to; resources as power; and relations and processes of power. This course will explore aspects of power as they play out in case studies of diplomacy and war, global markets, and communications networks (cyber and other information technologies). The course will also examine the nature of actors and the powers they have to act across state borders. Readings will include classic texts on power, as well as more recent works of International Relations scholarship, and class assignments will focus on using insights from these works to draw one’s own positions on foreign policy issues.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room: Krieger 307
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/20
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR, CES-FT, CES-LSO, CES-TI

This course will explore working people’s political strategies from the Civil War through the present. We'll examine the shifting alliances among trade unions and political parties, and investigate mobilizations by freed people, women, immigrants, and LGBTQ workers. And we’ll pay special attention to the ways that workers’ action shaped the development of the modern American state.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Luff, Jennifer D
• Room: Maryland 114
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/20
• PosTag(s): POLI-AP, INST-AP

For 250 years, American politics and society have reflected tensions between two foundational ideals. On the one hand, the notion of republican citizenship in the Declaration of Independence has inspired notions of the common good and institutions from majoritarian democracy to jury duty and state militias. Meanwhile, the tradition of liberal protections eventually enshrined in the Bill of Rights has grown to guarantee equal treatment and more rights for more people. At times, these two principles have gone hand in hand – at others, they have pointed in two very different directions. In this class, we will explore the philosophical origins of liberalism and republicanism and trace them through historical events and cultural landmarks, from the Revolutionary War until today. In the process, we will study, interpret, and discuss the contentious history of democracy in America.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Schmitz, Volker
• Room: Mergenthaler 252
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/10
• PosTag(s): POLI-PT, INST-PT, CES-ELECT, AGRI-ELECT

The course will cover three topics: 1) The conceptualization of political regime, democracy and authoritarianism. We will also consider neighboring concepts of other macro-political structures—government, state, and administration—in order to be able to demarcate what is distinctive about the study of political regimes. 2) The characterization of political regimes in most Western and some non-Western countries, in history and today. We will centrally focus on the so called “Waves of Democratization,” but we will also consider stories with less happy outcomes, that is, processes that led to the breakdown of democracies and the installation of repressive dictatorships. 3) The explanation(s) of the stability and change of political regimes around the world. Theoretical accounts of regime change come in many flavors—emphasis on economic versus political causes, focus on agents and choices versus structures and constraints, international versus domestic factors, among others. We will consider most of them.

• Days/Times: MWF 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/10
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, POLI-CP

The future of Israel has never been more uncertain. Although external threats from Arab countries have abated, the danger posed by a nuclear attack from Iran grows with each passing day. Equally alarming is the growing domestic threat to Israel’s existence as a Jewish democracy. Efforts by Israel’s ruling coalition to weaken the High Court call into question whether the liberal democratic character of Israel can persist. The possibility of civil war, once thought impossible, cannot be discounted. In assessing how Israel can cope with these existential threats, lessons from the destruction of the ancient Israelite kingdoms will be examined.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP

Business, Finance, and Government in East Asia explores the dynamics of East Asia's economic growth (and crises) over the last fifty years. We will examine Japan's post-war development strategy, the Asian tiger economies, and China's dramatic rise. Centered on case studies of major corporations, this course examines the interplay between politics and economics in East Asia, and considers the following questions: How have businesses navigated East Asia’s complex market environment? In what ways can the state foster economic development? How has the financial system been organized to facilitate investment? What are the long-term prospects for growth in the region?

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Yasuda, John Kojiro
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-ECON, CES-FT, CES-PD

In this course, we will explore a constellation of theories loosely tied together under the rubric ‘violence’. Where and to whom does violence occur? What qualifies as violent, and why? The focus of our attention be both above and below state-to-state wars and international relations. Although war will never be far from our focus, our emphasis will be on those forms of violence that are not reducible to the traditional notion of international conflict. Political theory will help us better understand violence; violence will help us better understand political theory.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Phillips, Chas.
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/19
• PosTag(s): POLI-PT, INST-PT, CES-LSO, CES-PD

An analysis of public policy and policy-making for American Cities. Special attention will be given to the subject of urban crime and law enforcement, poverty and welfare, and intergovernmental relations. Cross listed with Africana Studies.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Hodson 203
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/25
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-LSO, CES-RI, CES-CC

This course examines the domestic, regional, and transnational politics of the Middle East and North Africa. The class is organized into three units. The first examines major armed conflicts— anti-colonial, intra-state, and inter-state—from 1948 through the 1990s. It uses these historical moments as windows onto key issues in Middle Eastern and North African political issues such as external intervention/occupation, human rights, sectarianism, social movements, and memory politics. Unit Two focuses on policy relevant issues such as democratization, minority populations, religion and politics, and gender. In Unit Three, students will explore the politics of the Arab Uprisings through critical reading and discussion of new (post-2011) scholarship on MENA states, organizations, and populations. Enrollment limited to Political Science and International Studies majors.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Parkinson, Sarah
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/25
• PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL

This seminar explores how the New Deal, the fundamental moment in the post-Civil War United States, has structured politics and government across a variety of domains ever since. Topics include presidential leadership, executive power, political parties, labor, race, and the welfare state.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Schlozman, Daniel
• Room: Latrobe 120
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-PD, CES-LC

This upper-level seminar examines some of the major debates and issues of postwar Japanese and South Korean political economy. Topics include nationalism, gender politics, civil society, immigration, and US-Japan-South Korea trilateral relations.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Chung, Erin
• Room: Shaffer 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, CES-PD

Although “the market” is conventionally understood as separate from “politics”, the modern market economy did not arise in a political vacuum. In fact, the very separation between the economy and politics is itself the product of a politically potent set of ideas. This course is an upper-division reading seminar on the origins and evolution of the modern market economy. Readings will include Smith, Marx, Weber, Polanyi, Keynes, Hayek, Friedman, Becker, and Foucault. Recommended course background: Introduction to comparative politics OR any college-level course in social or political theory.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Mergenthaler 431
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-FT, CES-PD

Despite its well-known idiosyncrasies, the American state has consistently wielded substantial power, and many Americans have long experienced the state’s power as potent, omnipresent, and structuring their lives in important ways. This research-based course will examine theories of the state and political authority both from “above” - considering the political sources of both the American state’s power and its limitations - and from “below,” using people’s own narratives and political formations to explore how Americans develop knowledge about the state, confront and resist the state’s power, and expand or shift its distribution of ‘public’ goods. How do people understand the state, theorize its operations and possibilities, deploy it, and sometimes build parallel structures of provision and governance? We explore several cases of when people marginalized by race, class, gender, or precarious legal standing organized deep challenges to state power and transformed state authority. Considering the state as both formal structure and frame for everyday experience can offer a fresh perspective on contemporary democratic challenges and political struggles. Students will conduct original research using archives and sources like the American Prison Writing Archive, oral history archives like the Ralph Bunche collection and HistoryMakers collection, and archival sources in the History Vault such as the Kerner Commission interviews. The course is appropriate for advanced undergraduates (juniors and seniors), preferably having taken courses in political science or related coursework, and graduate students in political science, history, and sociology.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Lieberman, Robert C; Weaver, Vesla Mae
• Room: Shriver Hall 104
• Status: Reserved Open
• Seats Available: 9/18
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-AP

The focus of the seminar is on the formation and transformation sates and regimes. The perspective is both historical and comparative, covering Western Europe, Latin America, Africa and the US as a “non exceptional” case. This is fundamentally a Comparative Politics course, but APD students will almost certainly benefit from it.

• Days/Times: Th 9:30AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Mazzuca, Sebastian L
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/5
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-IR, CES-LSO, CES-PD

The philosophy of law or jurisprudence investigates the nature of law and what makes law, as it were, law. This course will examine some of the ways in which law has been defined and understood. It will also consider how law is distinguished from other systems of norms and values, such as morality, and how law is distinguished from other aspects of government, such as politics. In addition, the course will introduce students to discussions of legal reasoning and interpretation. To complete the course, students will be required to participate in class discussion, take two exams, and write a paper.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Culbert, Jennifer
• Room: Bloomberg 276
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/19
• PosTag(s): INST-PT, CES-LSO

This seminar explores the intellectual origins and ongoing intellectual productivity of the historical materialist account of political economy inaugurated with Karl Marx. It considers, in particular, how fatal couplings between power and difference are leveraged by capitalism as a tool of accumulation. Women’s labor and social reproduction, nature’s availability for mastery and the destructive exploitation of land and natural resources, racial inferiority and exploitative conditions of labor, and Global South peoples conscription into hyper-exploitative labor. The seminar will explore and interrogate the political dimensions of these transformations: how are relationships of political rule entangled with capitalist priorities of accumulation and which peoples/political subjects get to do the ruling and why? How did patriarchal and racial arrangements came to be, how do they relate to the production of value, and how are they sustained politically today? How do historical political transformations (including formal decolonization, democratic transitions, and the onset of free trade and structural adjustment, among others) inaugurate new forms of accumulation and how do these forms and their politics take different shape in the North and the Global South? A sample of the readings include Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, W. E. B. Du Bois, Silvia Federici, Andreas Malm, Ruy Mauro Marini, and others.

• Days/Times: T 9:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Valdez, Inés
• Room: Macaulay 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5
• PosTag(s): INST-PT, INST-ECON, CES-PD, CES-RI

There is a widespread recognition that the prospects for contemporary civilization and humanity are shadowed by a range of catastrophic and existential threats, a major subset of which are anthropogenic and technogenic in character. (In the simplest terms these threats arise from the collision between scientific-technological modernity and the geography of the planet Earth.) At the same time, the two most powerful institutional complexes on the planet (market capitalism and the war state system) are committed to further rapidly advancing technology for power and plenty, and anticipate further great elevations of the human estate. Over the last long century, a great debate has emerged, across many disciplines, on the ‘terrapolitan question’(TQ): given the new and prospective material contexts for human agency, what world orders are needed to assure human survival, prosperity and freedom? Practical agency responsive to the new horizon of threat and benefit depends upon getting an adequate answer to this question. Any theory capable of illuminating these realities and choices, and answering the TQ, must be significantly materialist in character. Explicitly materialist theories are very old, and very diverse, and material factors appear in virtually every body of thought, yet are still significantly underdeveloped in contemporary international and world order theory.

• Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/5
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR, CES-LE, CES-PD

This course explores the imbrication of nuclear weapons and colonialism in global politics. Each stage of nuclear weapons production mobilizes existing colonial relations or creates new sites of coloniality: uranium mining in African colonies, nuclear fuel industries that polluted native lands, and nuclear testing in occupied Pacific Islands. A critical understanding of nuclear politics thus requires a decolonial lens to examine the role of colonial relations, the impact of nuclear industries on marginalized communities, and instances of resistance that envision a nuclear-free and anticolonial future. Towards this goal, the course addresses a series of questions, including: How are nuclear weapons produced, by and for whom? Are nuclear weapons only instruments at the hands of world leaders, or are they already part of everyday realities for historically and currently colonized communities? Can ‘national security’ and ‘strategic calculations’ justify nuclear use and the legacies of nuclear violence? What are instances of resistance that tie together anti-colonial and antinuclear determinations?

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Li, Ruoyu
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR, CES-ELECT

Are you planning to do a research project for your independent study class, or preparing for a grant application, or working on a big research project for a research intensive class or graduation thesis, or just wishing to improve your research skills? If so, this course is for you! Through weekly two hour sessions over ten weeks, you will receive systematic training on major research tools, resources and techniques useful for any research project in international studies, political science, and other social science subjects. By the end of the course, you will be able to come up with a viable research topic, and complete a research statement that includes an abstract, problem statement and literature review based on in-depth research utilizing tools and techniques covered in the course. The skills you learn through the course will prepare you for any future research projects and advanced studies.

• Days/Times: W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
• Instructor: Ye, Yunshan
• Room: MSE Library ERC
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/18
• PosTag(s): n/a

East Asia’s “miracle growth” has not gone hand in hand with a decisive move toward democracy. Over the last 30 years, only eight East Asian countries have become democratic out of more than 60 countries worldwide, and they continue to struggle with the challenges of democratic consolidation, weak political governance, and limited citizens’ political engagement. This course explores the reasons why democratization proceeds slowly in East Asia, and seems to be essentially decoupled from the region’s fast-paced economic growth. The choice of Korea, Indonesia, and Myanmar as the case studies for this course results from their authoritarian past as well as their more recent institutional and political trajectories towards democracy.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-ECON, CES-PD

For 1400 years, the Qur’an has played a central role in Muslim intellectual, spiritual, artistic and ritual life. This course will explore the sacred scripture of Islam through its foundational ideas, history of the text and thematic development, literary style, history and methods of interpretation, and role in Muslim spiritual and ritual life. We will also explore how the Qur’an weaves through literature, music and the visual arts.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Ziad, Homayra
• Room: 3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, INST-GLOBAL

This community-engaged course is co-created by a scholar and curator with expertise in religion, art, and material culture, and taught in partnership with the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), and centers how museums engage with the sacred. Recognizing that museums have traditionally been under-equipped to respond to the social concerns that animate their local communities, the BMA is rethinking how a twenty-first century civic museum engages the city in which it is located. Understanding the museum as a public space in which contemporary civic and social issues can be engaged, we will explore such questions as: how can a museum represent devotional objects while honoring a diversity of religious and spiritual perspectives and avoiding homogenous narratives about belief? How can a museum create relationships with religious communities to understand and interpret the objects in its collection, and navigate differences in faith-based communities with ethical care? How can a museum engage local communities in the process of writing labels for objects and in other acts of interpretation in a way that is not extractive and is genuinely value-aligned? In short, how can a museum truly become public? As a community-engaged course, students will build practically on their learning about museums, religion and public pedagogy to create and facilitate community listening circles at the BMA. The course will include visits to the BMA and other sites, guest visits on focused topics from museum professionals in other institutions, and training in listening and facilitation.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Ziad, Homayra
• Room: 3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/20
• PosTag(s): CSC-CE, ISLM-ISLMST, INST-GLOBAL

Course is taught in ENGLISH. Did you know that one of the first Latin American actresses to conquer Hollywood was Brazilian? Did you know that cinema has existed in Brazil since 1895, just six months after the first screening in Paris? This course is an introduction to both the academic study of cinema as a communicative art and to Brazilian film. The films selected focus on the late 1950s to the present and highlight import episodes and challenges in the advancement of Brazilian society as well as its cinematic production. Film aesthetics are analyzed through a number of critical perspectives, including class, race, gender as well as ethnicity, nationalism or national identity, colonialism, social changes, and the politics of representation. In this sense, the films, and documentaries that we will be watching and studying encompass the period from the rise of New Cinema (Cinema Novo) up to films exploring the most recent trends, including movies launched up to 2022. Students wishing to do the course work in English for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. No Prereq.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
• Room: Hodson 216
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL

Course is taught in ENGLISH. Did you know that one of the first Latin American actresses to conquer Hollywood was Brazilian? Did you know that cinema has existed in Brazil since 1895, just six months after the first screening in Paris? This course is an introduction to both the academic study of cinema as a communicative art and to Brazilian film. The films selected focus on the late 1950s to the present and highlight import episodes and challenges in the advancement of Brazilian society as well as its cinematic production. Film aesthetics are analyzed through a number of critical perspectives, including class, race, gender as well as ethnicity, nationalism or national identity, colonialism, social changes, and the politics of representation. In this sense, the films, and documentaries that we will be watching and studying encompass the period from the rise of New Cinema (Cinema Novo) up to films exploring the most recent trends, including movies launched up to 2022. Students wishing to do the course work in English for 3 credits should register for section 01. Those wishing to earn 4 credits by doing the course work in Portuguese should register for section 02. No Prereq.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
• Room: Hodson 216
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/3
• PosTag(s): INST-NWHIST, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL

This course is an approach to Twentieth century German history and culture via film and related readings in English translation. We will emphasize the national division thematically, and explore the audio and visual aspects of cinema by focusing on representative films embedded in larger narratives. Some prior familiarity with German culture is recommended but not required.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Rhee, Sharlyn
• Room: MSE Library LRG AV
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

That the nations of the world could ever work together seems utopian, but also unavoidable: migration, war, and not least climate change make some form of global coordination increasingly necessary. This course will give historical and philosophical depth to the idea of a cosmopolitan order and world peace by tracing it from its ancient sources through early modernity to today. At the center of the course will be the text that has been credited with founding the tradition of a world federation of nations, Immanuel Kant’s "Toward Perpetual Peace" (1795). Confronting recent and current political discourse, literature, and philosophy with Kant’s famous treatise, we will work to gain a new perspective on the idea of a world order. In addition to Kant, readings include Homer, Erasmus, Pico della Mirandola, Rousseau, Jeremy Bentham, Emily Dickinson, Tolstoy, Whitman, Rosa Luxemburg, Gandhi, Hannah Arendt, John Lennon, and Martin Luther King as well as lesser-known authors such as the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, Ellen Key, Odette Thibault, Simone Weil, and Claude Lefort. Taught in English.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Frey, Christiane; Seguin, Becquer D
• Room: Gilman 381
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): INST-PT, CES-LSO

In The Great Derangement Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh writes that “the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of imagination.” Worldwide, climate and environmental change is stirring the imaginary of novelists, filmmakers, and artists who are finding ways to frame, emplot, or even perform, an unmanageable phenomenon like climate change. How is climate change shaping new modes of storytelling and aesthetics? How do film, literature, and environmentally conscious art transform our perception of the world we inhabit and its unpredictable changes? Can climate change narratives help us to imagine futures of possibilities, maybe dystopian, uncertain, or even happy, but futures nonetheless? This multimedia course explores, through a transnational perspective, a variety of contemporary novels, films, and other media that attempt answer these questions.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room: Gilman 75
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/18
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, MSCH-HUM

Students will explore contemporary French society and culture through a wide variety of media: fiction and non-fiction readings (graphic novels, news periodicals, popular magazines), films, music, art, websites, and podcasts. A diverse range of hands-on activities in addition to guided readings will help students develop cultural awareness as we discuss topics such as education, politics, humor, sports, cuisine, immigration, slang, and national identity, as well as the historical factors that have influenced these facets of French and francophone culture. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.301 or AS.210.302 or permission of instructor.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Wuensch, April
• Room: Gilman 479
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP

The supernatural is often described as the disruption of universal coherence. It becomes an aggression that challenges the stability of a world in which the natural laws were, until then, intact. The Impossible suddenly happens in a world in which it was banished.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Cipriani, Giulia M.
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/10
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL

The supernatural is often described as the disruption of universal coherence. It becomes an aggression that challenges the stability of a world in which the natural laws were, until then, intact. The Impossible suddenly happens in a world in which it was banished.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM, F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
• Instructor: Avesani, Tatiana; Cipriani, Giulia M.
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/4
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ENGL

Taught in Spanish. This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Latin- America culture from the formation of independent states through the present—in light of the social, political, and economic histories of the region. The course will offer a general survey of history of Latin- America, and will discuss texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings, in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. May not be taken satisfactory/unsatisfactory.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Rios Saavedra, Veronica
• Room: Gilman 186
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 12/22
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-NWHIST, INST-CP

This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Spanish culture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The course will offer a general survey of the history of Spain and will discuss texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. This course will be of particular interest for students planning on spending a semester abroad in Spain—specially for those students going to the JHU Fall Semester in Madrid, at Carlos III University. Taught in Spanish. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.311 or appropriate Webcape score. AS.215.390 was formerly numbered AS.211.390

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Pinar Diaz, Alicia
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/12
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP

Why do billions of people continue to live in poverty? What obstacles stand in the way of secure and dignified lives for all? Who is most likely to bring about change, what strategies should they follow, and what kinds of institutions should they put in place? This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over the optimal conditions and strategies for generating economic growth and on the relationship between growth, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Edwards, Zophia
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/12
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-IR, INST-ECON

Why do billions of people continue to live in poverty? What obstacles stand in the way of secure and dignified lives for all? Who is most likely to bring about change, what strategies should they follow, and what kinds of institutions should they put in place? This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over the optimal conditions and strategies for generating economic growth and on the relationship between growth, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Edwards, Zophia
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/13
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-IR, INST-ECON

Why do billions of people continue to live in poverty? What obstacles stand in the way of secure and dignified lives for all? Who is most likely to bring about change, what strategies should they follow, and what kinds of institutions should they put in place? This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over the optimal conditions and strategies for generating economic growth and on the relationship between growth, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Edwards, Zophia
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/12
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-IR, INST-ECON

Why do billions of people continue to live in poverty? What obstacles stand in the way of secure and dignified lives for all? Who is most likely to bring about change, what strategies should they follow, and what kinds of institutions should they put in place? This course will introduce the main theoretical perspectives, debates, and themes in the field of international development since the mid-20th century. It has three sections. The first section focuses on debates over the optimal conditions and strategies for generating economic growth and on the relationship between growth, human welfare, and inequality. The second section presents critical assessments of development interventions from various perspectives. The third section considers the role of social movements in shaping development and social change in the 21st century.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Edwards, Zophia
• Room: Olin 305
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/13
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-IR, INST-ECON

This course will focus on four classical social theorists whose ideas have greatly influenced how we study and understand society: Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber and W.E.B. DuBois. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of how each theorist answered three major questions: 1) what is the origin, structure and historical dynamic of modern society?; 2) how do we gain an accurate knowledge of society?; 3) what are the conditions of possibility for freedom in modern society? In comparing, applying and critiquing their respective theories, students will advance their own theory of society.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: White, Alexandre Ilani Rein
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/27
• PosTag(s): INST-PT

This course surveys the impacts of colonialism in East and Southeast Asia. Special attention will be paid to the social and economic development in British Singapore and Hong Kong as well as Japanese Korea and Taiwan. Topics include free-trade imperialism, colonial modernity, anticolonial movements, pan-Asianism, and post-war U.S. hegemony.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/18
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-CC, CES-PD

Race has been important in social classifications and producing inequalities. This course is designed to provide you with a global understanding of how racial categories are created and maintained, how they change over time, and how they vary from place to place. It is organized in four parts. The first part introduces the concepts and analytical tools used by social scientists to study race. Of particular concern is power and the social construction rather than “natural” categories of race, as well as the general social processes involved in the maintenance and reproduction of these boundaries. In the second part, we will study the theories and dynamics racial category formation in the United States with attention to forms and processes of racial exclusion and oppression, and evidence of socio-economic inequalities based on race. In the third part of the course, we will compare these processes in the U.S. to those occurring in other countries. The fourth and final part of the course examines how race and racism shape political struggles and resistance movements.

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Edwards, Zophia
• Room: Gilman 313
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/17
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, MSCH-HUM, CES-RI

Fake news. Alternative facts. Follow the science. Misinformation. Disinformation. How can we understand the role of information, evidence, and scientific inquiry in politics? Where does information come from? How is it used? How can evidence, argument, and listening improve public conversations? This seminar will examine the connections between information, knowledge, evidence, and democracy, focusing mostly on the United States but with global examples as well.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Perrin, Andrew Jonathan
• Room: Abel Wolman House 100
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 11/15
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, INST-CP, INST-IR, AGRI-ELECT

Humanitarian organizations play life-preserving roles in global conflicts, and have front-row views of disasters ranging from the 2010 Haiti earthquake to the 2011 Fukushima tsunami in Japan. Yet even while they provide vital assistance to millions of people in crisis, such organizations are beset by important paradoxes that hinder their capacity to create sustainable interventions. They work to fill long-lasting needs, but are prone to moving quickly from one site to the next in search of the latest emergency. They strive to be apolitical, yet are invariably influenced by the geopolitical agendas of global powers. How do such contradictions arise, and what is their impact upon millions of aid recipients around the world? Drawing on case studies from South Sudan to Haiti, this course addresses these contradictions by exploring how and why medical aid organizations attempt, and sometimes fail, to reconcile short-term goals, such as immediate life-saving, with long-term missions, such as public health programs and conflict resolution initiatives.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
• Room: Smokler Center 301
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/18
• PosTag(s): INST-IR, CES-ELECT

This course will compare the current global crisis with previous major crises of historical capitalism through a combination of theoretical and historical readings. Throughout, we will ask: What can a study of past crises tell us about the nature and future trajectory of the current global crisis? We will be particularly concerned to understand the ways in which social, economic and geopolitical crises intertwined, as well as the differential social and geopolitical impact of the crises. Which social classes bore the brunt of the disruptions in economic activity in each crisis? Which geographical areas or geopolitical groupings lost out (or benefited) from the crisis? What kinds of movements of protest emerged and how did they affect the trajectory of the crises? How have environmental and ecological challenges resurfaced in each crisis including today?

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Silver, BEVERLY Judith
• Room: 3505 N. Charles 102
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-ECON, INST-IR

How does public opinion shape electoral behavior and the contours of democracy in the United States, and how have these relationships changed as techniques for measuring public opinion have evolved since the early twentieth century? To consider this question, the course introduces alternative perspectives on the features of a healthy democracy, including both historical perspectives and current arguments. Interweaved with this material, the course examines how public opinion is measured and interpreted by private pollsters, survey researchers, and data journalists. Emphasis is placed on the alternative claims that opposing analysts adopt, as well as how the technologies of data collection and analysis shape the permissibility of conclusions. Students will learn to interpret public opinion patterns, which requires a brief presentation of basic concepts from survey sampling, including what to make of the polling industry’s most boring concept: margin of error.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Morgan, Stephen L
• Room: Mergenthaler 252
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, AGRI-ELECT

This course discusses how geopolitics, technology as well as social differentiation (such as race, class and gender) shape the structure of economic actions. Special attention will be paid to patterns of state-business relationship, labor processes, migrant economy, globalization and international division of labor.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
• Room: Shriver Hall 001
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, INST-PT, CES-BM, CES-GI, CES-RI, CES-TI

This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.

• Days/Times: TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Greif, Meredith
• Room: Krieger 302
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-CC, CES-LE

What is a refugee? Since World War II, states that have pledged to offer protection to refugees have frequently been drawn instead to the dictates of nationalism and communitarianism, which prioritize concern for their own citizens, rather than to the needs of forced migrants. As a result, even those migrants that have been formally recognized as refugees according to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention have not been assured of protection, and other migrants have been even less assured. In this course, we will locate the reasons for this reality in the legal, political, and historical underpinnings of political asylum. What is the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee? How has the refugee category been redefined and contested by international bodies since 1951? How are the ambiguities of real-life violence and persecution simplified in asylum adjudication interviews that require clear, factual narratives? What kinds of protections are offered to asylum seekers, whether by UN bodies, NGOs, or host governments, and how have such protections varied geographically and historically? Finally, what protections, if any, are afforded to those migrants who are fleeing not persecution but rather “merely” endemic poverty or climate-induced displacement? The course draws on literature from sociology, history, anthropology, and international refugee law in order to understand the capacity (or lack thereof) of human rights discourses and declarations to contravene state sovereignty in the name of protecting the rightless.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
• Room: Smokler Center 301
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/18
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-IR, CES-BM, CES-LSO

In the United States, we spend more than $100 billion annually on illegal drugs—and the government spends more than $50 billion a year to combat their sale and use. These statistics raise important and complicated social questions. This course will examine the production, sale, use, and control of illegal drugs from a historical and sociological perspective. We will have three objectives: to understand the social construction of drug use and illegality in the United States and other rich countries; to uncover the political and economic consequences of drug trafficking in those countries that produce drugs, particularly in Latin America; and to examine the political economy of drug control through the so-called War on Drugs, both domestically and internationally.

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Thornton, Christy
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, INST-CP, INST-IR, INST-GLOBAL, MSCH-HUM, CES-PD, CES-FT

This course offers an introductory survey of foundational authors of modern philosophy and moral and political thought whose ideas continue to influence contemporary problems and debates. The course is taught in lectures and seminar discussions. Authors studied include Plato, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Iris Murdoch, James Baldwin, Cora Diamond, Judith Butler, Kwame A. Appiah and others.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Marrati, Paola
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/25
• PosTag(s): INST-PT, CES-ELECT

The “founding father of modern Chinese literature,” Lu Xun (1881-1936) saw himself as a contemporary of writers like Gogol, Ibsen, and Nietzsche in creating his seminal short stories and essays, and likewise, he has been seen by numerous Chinese and Sinophone writers as their contemporary since his lifetime until today. In this course, we will survey Lu Xun's canonical works and their legacies through a comparative approach. What echoes do Lu Xun's works have with the European and Russian texts he engaged with? Why did his works manage to mark a “new origin” of Chinese literature? How were his works repeated, adapted, and appropriated by Chinese and Sinophone writers from the Republican period through the Maoist era to the post-socialist present, even during the Covid-19 pandemic? Are his times obsolete now that China is on the rise? Or, have his times come yet? We will raise these questions to guide our comparative investigation into Lu Xun’s works and their legacies in China’s long twentieth century and beyond.

• Days/Times: WF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Hashimoto, Satoru
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

This seminar introduces students to the phenomenon of migration in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan from theoretical, empirical, and comparative perspectives. The objectives of the course are to understand the 1) historical context behind present-day migrations in East Asia; 2) different patterns of migration flows and their consequences on receiving countries; 3) various theoretical frameworks for migration. The course is divided into three parts. In the first part, the course will examine theoretical approaches to migration, structured around the question of whether East Asia as a region represents a distinct model of migration. In the second, students will explore the empirical cases in greater detail by comparing and contrasting the different types of migrations. The third part addresses the responses to migration by host governments and societies and the implications of migration on citizenship and identity. Recommended Course Background: any class related to the history or politics of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and/or China.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Jiang, Jin
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP

We will try to get a quick overview of the recent history of patriarchy in China, South Korea, and Japan from the mid-twentieth century to our present and then compare the initiatives of feminists to transform the lives of women throughout these three societies. We will also debate whether or how it makes sense to adapt the Western notions of patriarchy and sexism as well as the Western political program of feminism to the non-Western context of East Asia by reading books by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists.

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Henning, Stefan
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP

You will learn about the efforts of ordinary, non-elite Muslims to shape the relation between their communities and the state as well as to (where applicable) the non-Muslim majority through collective organizing over the last forty years. We will read and discuss books by anthropologists, historians, and sociologists studying Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Henning, Stefan
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/15
• PosTag(s): ISLM-ISLMST, INST-CP, CES-ELECT

Learn the basics of ArcGIS, data management, and the history of maps and censuses as you help Prof. Lurtz build a digital historical atlas of Mexico. No experience necessary, graduate students welcome.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
• Room: Hodson 315
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

An interdisciplinary introduction to the ways of life of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx peoples, their origins, historical legacies, and current cultural expressions. This course assumes no prior knowledge and incorporates the insights of several disciplines including anthropology, history, political science, economics, cultural studies, literary criticism, and ethnomusicology. The course seeks to comprehend the region from multiple perspectives and to provide a broad conceptual overview.

• Days/Times: MW 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Cotler, Angelina
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP

Popular music is central to Latin American cultural practices. From Carmen Miranda to Bad Bunny, from Carlos Gardel to Karol G, this course examines the works of numerous performers and songwriters who have defined the Latin American songbook, elevating it to one of the most sophisticated art forms in the Americas. We will explore a vast range of musical genres that constitute the diverse soundscape of Latin American popular music, from Argentine Tango and Brazilian Samba to Colombian Salsa, Dominican Dembow, and Son Cubano. Our exploration will encompass its Afro-diasporic, Indigenous, and European origins, the impact of the cultural industry, and its intersections with the region’s social and political history. We will delve into the stories behind the songs, reflecting on their instrumental roles in shaping identity, citizenship, sensibility, political dissent, and resistance. Through listening sessions, critical and theoretical texts, and open discussions, participants will enhance their understanding of the musical and artistic forces that have shaped Latin American history and culture.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Nogueira, Marcelo
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/16
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

Washington, DC, is the capital of the United States but also the capital of its post–World War II national security state and military-industrial complex. This course will investigate the local effects of this status on the Washington-Baltimore corridor, in terms of immigration and urban development. The course will be divided into three major sections. First, we will analyze the growth and development of the military-industrial complex. Second, we will look at its place in the city and region’s development, including the construction of the Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, and other institutions. Third, we will analyze how these institutions have driven changes in the region’s population, as immigrants from war-torn parts of the globe have found new homes in and near Washington, DC. This course requires at least four Friday group trips to 555 Penn in Washington, which will take most of the day (transportation provided).

• Days/Times: F 10:00AM - 12:30PM
• Instructor: Schrader, Stuart Laurence
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/18
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-CC, CES-PD, CES-LSO, CES-BM

This course aims to expand and enrich students coordinates for understanding the problem of sexual violence, exploring how sexual violence appears in the weave of everyday life, as foundational to the politics of the nation state, and across the apparatus of the law. We will take a connective and comparative approach in which sexual violence is studied vis-à-vis the feminist postcolonial and transnational critique of gendered belonging to the nation state. In so doing, gender, sexuality, race, and coloniality become analytics that unsettle and complicate the contemporary distinctions of West/East & Global North/South. We will ask questions such as: why are sex and death constitutive to the modern nation state? How is everyday life remade in the shadows of catastrophic violence? How can repair be imagined outside of a medical or juridical vocabulary?

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Katz, Talia S
• Room: Maryland 202
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/18
• PosTag(s): INST-CP

This introductory course surveys the history of Europe from the Renaissance to the Napoleonic period. Topics to be covered include European encounters in the Americas, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations and the subsequent religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the rise of centralizing states and popular resistance to expanding government, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment as well as the origins, process and legacies of the French Revolution.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Loiselle, Ken
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 14/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

This course provides a fresh look at one of the most critical periods in the history of science – the so-called ‘Scientific Revolution’, spanning a period from approximately 1550 to 1750 – through the lens of colonial studies. It will address classic topics within the history and philosophy of science, such as the rise of observational epistemologies and the globalization of scientific knowledge. By connecting these philosophical concepts to the colonial contexts in which they arose, it will use tools from social history, economic history, and art history. Ultimately, it seeks not only to enrich students’ perspectives on the history of science, but also to inspire them to think about the connections between science and society across time, including in our own moment.

• Days/Times: MWF 9:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Hinckley, Marlis A
• Room:  
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

An emerging body of literature argues that cities in the Global South work differently than Eurocentric theories of the city and urbanization suggest. This course will focus on such issues as the important role of cities in the nation’s economy, politics, and culture and interrogates the relationship between the city and its “outside.” This seminar interrogates the numerous ways that African cities, as an urban form, concept, and geography have been generative in anthropology, as well as in history, sociology, and urban studies. Africa has long existed as a crucial “other” in European culture. But how do we think of an African city outside of this limiting history? In this course, we explore the different histories, futures, and potentialities of African cities as an urban form, and lived experience, re-sorting its geographies and theorizations. We will explore issues of urban planning, (de)industrialization, urban race/ethnic relations, movement, and other issues important to the urban experience.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, CES-CC

Bangladesh, the small, populous Muslim majority country in South Asia, steadily moving into middle income status, offers an off-centered but important vantage point upon the political culture of the region. We will read several new historical and ethnographic works, combined with film, fiction and art, to get a feel for this perspective, even as we interrogate what Bangladesh presumes about itself.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Khan, Naveeda
• Room: Mergenthaler 426
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/13
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL

What is violence? Ubiquitous as a concept, it remains difficult to define both its essences and boundaries. How do we distinguish between criminality, organized, and unorganized violence? Is violence the antithesis of society, or a central component of it? In this course, we will disscuss the concept of violence, the challenges of writing about it and explore the potentials that emerge from bodies subjugated to racialized/gendered forms of violence. We will examine a number of different ethnographic spaces, including genocide in Rwanda, conflict resolution among the Nuer, the concept of criminality in Indonesia, largescale massacres in Thailand, and police violence in the United States

• Days/Times: Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Mohamed, Sabine
• Room: Mergenthaler 439
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/9
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, MSCH-HUM, CES-GI, CES-RI, CES-LSO

Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL

Modern Europe familiarizes students with key moments, ideas, communities, individuals, and movements which have defined European experiences in global encounters since the Revolutionary era. We will particularly focus on European imperial expansion, the formation of the modern nation-state, the history of political ideas and their global ramifications, and popular culture and social change.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL

A class combining Latin American history since independence and digital humanities. Students will build guided research projects while thinking about questions of republicanism, freedom and unfreedom, migration, and development.

• Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LATAM

A class combining Latin American history since independence and digital humanities. Students will build guided research projects while thinking about questions of republicanism, freedom and unfreedom, migration, and development.

• Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Lurtz, Casey Marina
• Room: Ames 218
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-LATAM

Many Americans celebrate the United States as a “nation of immigrants,” but defining which immigrants to include and exclude in the nation has always been a contentious process. This course will put some of today’s immigration debates in historical perspective, examining how past Americans debated questions about the “fitness” of immigrants for freedom and citizenship, and how those debates in turn shaped immigrant experiences, the law, and American identity. Topics that we will cover include colonialism and slavery; immigrant labor; families; gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality; immigration law; borders and deportation; refugees and asylum seekers; and citizenship and belonging.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Lim, Julian
• Room: Croft Hall G02
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/30
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, INST-GLOBAL, INST-AP, CES-BM, CES-LC, CES-LSO, CES-RI, CES-CC

There is more to Germany than beer, BMWs, and Bayern Munich. We explore politics, culture, economics and society to understand Germany and its role within Europe and the world from the 18th century, the German Empire, WWII, the division into two states during the Cold War to the rise of the AfD, and EU politics today. We’ll partner with students at the University of Regensburg to discuss current challenges!

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
• Room: Hodson 203
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/35
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-GERM, MLL-ENGL

Columbus’s arrival in the Caribbean set off a chain of violence that swept through the early modern Americas. In this course we will investigate how warfare shaped North America and the Caribbean in the period between Columbus’s fateful 1492 voyage and the establishment of an independent Haitian state. The interlinked patterns of colonialism and trans-Atlantic slavery forced together people from three continents and made Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans in the Americas rethink what it meant to fight a war, and how to do it. We will consider how different cultures understood, deployed, and attempted to control violence, and then focus on specific wars, engaging with both contemporary scholarship and primary sources. Along the way, we will consider how the Americas, despite a long history before Columbus, became a “new world” through the warfare that followed after him. Throughout this semester we will read and discuss a variety of different forms of historical writing and consider the wide applicability of the history we are studying in the world around us today. Students will have the opportunity to explore different forms of historically informed writing in their own work.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Grindon, Blake
• Room: Krieger 306
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 15/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-US, HIST-LATAM, INST-GLOBAL

In this course, we will survey the political, social, intellectual, and cultural history of the three Islamic early modern gunpowder empires that ranged from “the Balkans to Bengal”: The Ottomans (1300-1922), the Safavids (1501-1736), and the Mughals (1526-1858).

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Noor, Rao Mohsin Ali
• Room: Croft Hall G02
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA

The history of China from the 16th to the late 19th centuries.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Rowe, William T
• Room: Hodson 316
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 22/40
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA

The Modern British World introduces some of the major events, themes, and controversies that led to Britain’s global dominance and ultimate decline as an imperial power.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Hindmarch-Watson, Katherine Anne
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/20
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, INST-GLOBAL

What did Chinese local society look like under the Qing Empire, and how did it change over the early modern era?

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Rowe, William T
• Room: Gilman 77
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/12
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-ASIA

Witchcraft, magic, carnivals, riots, folk tales, gender roles; fertility cults and violence especially in Britain, Germany, France, and Italy.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Marshall, John W
• Room: Maryland 114
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/25
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE

Introduction to the practice of global legal history, with focus on the growth of modern international law from the seventeenth century to the present, its relationship to nationalism and empire, war, atrocity-crimes and human rights, international institutions, and the relationship between law and history.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Loeffler, James
• Room: Latrobe 120
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/12
• PosTag(s): HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, HIST-MIDEST, INST-GLOBAL, CES-LSO

The sixties were a polarizing decade of unrest, revolutions, and fundamental change across Europe and the US. We will discuss 1968 through the lens of Baltimore and national case studies, and contextualize it within the Cold War and decolonization. We’ll speak with eyewitnesses, work with archivists, high school students, and community partners in the city!

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Harms, Victoria Elisabeth
• Room: Krieger 308
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, HIST-EUROPE, HIST-US, CSC-CE, CES-CC

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/26
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/26
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/26
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, M 3:00PM - 3:50PM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/26
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, T 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/26
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis, with emphasis on total national income and output, employment, the price level and inflation, money, the government budget, the national debt, and interest rates. The role of public policy. Applications of economic analysis to government and personal decisions. Prerequisite: basic facility with graphs and algebra.

• Days/Times: WF 9:00AM - 9:50AM, T 1:00PM - 1:50PM
• Instructor: Barbera, Bob; Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 13/26
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, Th 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

An introduction to the economic system and economic analysis with emphasis on demand and supply, relative prices, the allocation of resources, and the distribution of goods and services, theory of consumer behavior, theory of the firm, and competition and monopoly, including the application of microeconomic analysis to contemporary problems.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Remsen Hall 101
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/40
• PosTag(s): n/a

In 2001, Jim O’Neill, the Chief Economist at Goldman Sachs, coined the acronym BRIC to identify the four large emerging economies, Brazil, Russia, India and China. These economies had an amazing run for the next decade, and emerged as the biggest and fastest growing emerging markets. However, since 2014 there has been some divergence in the BRICs’ economic performance. In this course, we look at the economic experiences of the BRIC countries for the past several decades. We discuss the reasons that contributed to their exceptional growth rates, with particular emphasis on their transformation into market economies, and the reasons for their eventual divergence. We also analyze some of the challenges that these countries continue to face in their development process.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Dasgupta, Somasree
• Room: Hodson 216
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/30
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, INST-CP, CES-FT, CES-PD

Game Theory is the study of multiple person decision problems in which the well-being of a decision maker depends not only on his own actions but also on those of others. Such problems arise frequently in economics, political science, business, military science and many other areas. In this course, we will learn how to model different social situations as games and how to use solution concepts to understand players' behavior. We will consider various examples from different fields and will play several games in class. The emphasis of the class is on the conceptual analysis and applications and we will keep the level of mathematical technicalities at the minimum -- high school algebra and one term of calculus will be sufficient. Students who took AS.180.117 are not eligible to take AS.180.217.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Wang, Xinyang
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/12
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, BEHB-SOCSCI

Many sub-Saharan African countries are among the least developed countries in the world. In this course, we explore the economic development experiences of African countries, with more focus on sub-Saharan Africa. The course starts with a historical perspective, delves into development strategies, and examines evidence on successes and failures of some case study countries. We conclude by analyzing the many challenges that these countries continue to face in their development process. Elements of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics are required prerequisites. There would be group presentations on assigned readings.

• Days/Times: WF 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Seshie-Nasser, Hellen
• Room: Wyman Park W603
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-PD, CES-TI, CES-RI

Human capital is an important factor of economic growth in South Asian economies, along with physical capital and technology. Addressing health and education challenges has implications for improving a country’s human capital formation and income growth. In this course, we look at past and present health and educational outcomes in South Asian Countries. We discuss the gaps in access to education and health care services, the quality of education and health care services as well as the impacts on the productivity of the labor force. We also empirically analyze the link between economic growth and human capital development. Furthermore, we focus on some challenges and future policy options for economies in South Asia.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Fatehin, Sohani
• Room: Hodson 216
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON

This course analyzes the financial and monetary system of the U.S. economy and the design and implementation of U.S. monetary policy. Among other topics, we will examine the role of banks in the economy, the term structure of interest rates, the stock market, the supply of money, the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy, the objectives of monetary policy in the United States and current monetary policy practice.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Poliakova, Ludmila
• Room: Shaffer 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/60
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, ECON-FINMIN, CES-FT

Understanding design and functioning of financial markets and institutions, connecting theoretical foundations and real-world applications and cases. Basic principles of asymmetric information problems, management of risk. Money, bond, and equity markets; investment banking, security brokers, and venture capital firms; structure, competition, and regulation of commercial banks. Importance of electronic technology on financial systems.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Feinman, Josh
• Room: Gilman 132
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/40
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, ECON-FINMIN, CES-FT, CES-TI

Application of economic concepts and analysis to the health services system. Review of empirical studies of demand for health services, behavior of providers, and relationship of health services to population health levels. Discussion of current policy issues relating to financing and resource allocation.

• Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: de Broucker, Gatien
• Room: Krieger 170
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/40
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, PHIL-BIOETH, SPOL-UL

The course will review selected topics in international macroeconomics and finance. The topics include: financial globalization; international portfolio diversification; capital account liberalization and the choice of the exchange rate regime in emerging markets. The analysis will be motivated by current policy issues but will also be based on mathematical models of the international economy.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Jeanne, Olivier
• Room: Shriver Hall 104
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/25
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, ECON-FINMIN

This course will overview popular causal inference methods and their applications in the economics of race, gender, and culture. For each causal inference method, the class will cover the econometric theory and how to implement the method in the STATA program. Students will solve many STATA exercises in class, so they must bring a laptop to those classes. Next, we will discuss papers that used the method to answer a research question about race, gender, and culture. The topics to cover include how to show there is racial/gender discrimination and how preference is formed.

• Days/Times: Th 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Hwang, Yujung
• Room: Bloomberg 172
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-GI, CES-RI

The course discusses various issues in labor markets from the perspective of economic theory. We first study the major forces at work that shape labor market behavior; firms’ labor demand and workers’ labor supply. Then we discuss the equilibrium behavior of employment and wages. Using these tools, we also cover various applied topics in labor economics, such as minimum wage regulations, male-female wage differentials, human capital investment, worker mobility, and unemployment.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Husain, Muhammad Mudabbir
• Room: Maryland 114
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/10
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-LC, CES-GI

This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies. Students who have taken Contemporary International Politics 190.209 or International Politics 190.104 may not register.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, POLI-IR, CES-BM

This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies. Students who have taken Contemporary International Politics 190.209 or International Politics 190.104 may not register.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, POLI-IR, CES-BM

This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies. Students who have taken Contemporary International Politics 190.209 or International Politics 190.104 may not register.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, POLI-IR, CES-BM

This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies. Students who have taken Contemporary International Politics 190.209 or International Politics 190.104 may not register.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, POLI-IR, CES-BM

This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies. Students who have taken Contemporary International Politics 190.209 or International Politics 190.104 may not register.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, POLI-IR, CES-BM

This course surveys scholarly approaches to processes, relations, institutions, and social structures that cross, subvert, or transcend national borders. The course will also introduce students to research tools for global studies. Students who have taken Contemporary International Politics 190.209 or International Politics 190.104 may not register.

• Days/Times: MW 10:00AM - 10:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/20
• PosTag(s): INST-GATEWY, INST-IR, POLI-IR, CES-BM

An introductory overview of Western Political Theory, starting with Plato and the Greeks, moving through Machiavelli and the moderns, and ending up with a brief look at current political theory. We will analyze a range of theoretical styles and political approaches from a handful of thinkers, and develop our skills as close readers, efficient writers, and persuasive speakers.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Phillips, Chas.
• Room: Hodson 303
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/19
• PosTag(s): INST-PT, POLI-PT, CES-ELECT

This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room: Krieger 205
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, INST-IR, CES-LSO, CES-FT

This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 11:00AM - 11:50AM
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room: Krieger 205
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/20
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, INST-IR, CES-LSO, CES-FT

This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room: Krieger 205
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/20
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, INST-IR, CES-LSO, CES-FT

This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 12:00PM - 12:50PM
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room: Krieger 205
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/20
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, INST-IR, CES-LSO, CES-FT

This course provides an analysis of US foreign policy with a focus on the interests, institutions, and ideas underpinning its development. It offers a broad historical survey that starts with US involvement in the First World War, covers major developments of the twentieth century, and concludes with contemporary issues. Important themes include the developments underpinning the emergence of the liberal world order, strategies of containment during the Cold War, nuclear deterrence and antiproliferation efforts, the politics of international trade, alliance politics, technological and security policy, and the re-emergence of great power competition.

• Days/Times: MW 11:00AM - 11:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Schmidt, Sebastian
• Room: Krieger 205
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 9/16
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, INST-IR, CES-LSO, CES-FT

Over the past several decades, the power and importance of America’s presidency have greatly expanded . Of course, presidential history includes both ups and downs, some coinciding with the rise and fall of national party systems and others linked to specific problems, issues, and personalities. We should train our analytic eyes, however, to see beneath the surface of day-to-day and even decade-to-decade political turbulence. We should focus, instead, on the pronounced secular trend of more than two and a quarter centuries of American history. Two hundred years ago, presidents were weak and often bullied by Congress. Today, presidents are powerful and often thumb their noses at Congress and the courts. For better or worse, we have entered a presidentialist era.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room: Krieger 308
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-AP, INST-AP

Introduces fundamental patterns, puzzles, and theories on the politics of income inequality.

• Days/Times: WF 3:00PM - 4:15PM
• Instructor: Rehm, Philipp
• Room: Hodson 203
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/16
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-LC, CES-RI, CES-GI

This course provides an introduction to climate solutions by reviewing the politics and technologies in all major sectors: electricity, transportation, biofuels, hydrogen, buildings, heavy industry, and agriculture. In each area, we will first understand the existing technologies and potential solutions. But to understand decarbonization, we also have to study the political economy of these technologies. What role do the technologies play in the broader economy? Who will win or lose from the transition? What firms and countries dominate and control current and emerging supply chains? What makes a climate solutions project bankable? How can states design policies, regulations, and programs to successfully manage the politics of technology change?

• Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 9:00AM - 9:50AM
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/20
• PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-ECON, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, ENGY-SCIPOL, CES-LE, CES-TI

This course provides an introduction to climate solutions by reviewing the politics and technologies in all major sectors: electricity, transportation, biofuels, hydrogen, buildings, heavy industry, and agriculture. In each area, we will first understand the existing technologies and potential solutions. But to understand decarbonization, we also have to study the political economy of these technologies. What role do the technologies play in the broader economy? Who will win or lose from the transition? What firms and countries dominate and control current and emerging supply chains? What makes a climate solutions project bankable? How can states design policies, regulations, and programs to successfully manage the politics of technology change?

• Days/Times: MW 9:00AM - 9:50AM, F 10:00AM - 10:50AM
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room: Gilman 50
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/20
• PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-ECON, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, ENGY-SCIPOL, CES-LE, CES-TI

Recommended Course Background: AS.190.214

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Spence, Lester
• Room: Shaffer 202
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/20
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-RI

“Can the United States and China avoid a new Cold War? One might think not given disputes over the South China Sea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, human rights, trade, ideology and so much more. Moreover, competition for influence in the developing world and American concerns as to whether China will replace it as the preeminent world power suggest a new Cold War is in the offing. Nevertheless, their extensive economic ties and need to work together to solve common problems such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, and pandemics argues against a continuing confrontation. This course will examine whether cooperation or conflict will define Sino-American relations, and whether a new Cold War—or even a shooting war—lies in the future.”

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: David, Steven R
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-IR

This class explores the ideas and legal doctrines that define the freedom of speech. We will examine the free speech jurisprudence of the U.S. in comparison to that of other systems, particularly the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and the Supreme Court of Canada.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Katz, Richard Stephen; Zackin, Emily
• Room: Gilman 377
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, INST-CP, CES-LSO, AGRI-ELECT

Nationalism ties powerful organizations to political mobilization, territory, and individual loyalty. Yet nationalism is typically studied in isolation from other social formations that depend upon organizational – individual linkages. Alternative types of identity category sometimes depend similarly upon organizations that collect and deploy resources, mobilize individuals, erect boundaries, and promote strong emotional connections among individuals as well as between individuals and institutions. In this class, we study classic and contemporary works on nationalism, drawn from multiple disciplinary and analytic traditions, in the comparative context of alternative forms of identity. The focus of the class will be primarily theoretical, with no regional or temporal limitations.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Kocher, Matthew Adam
• Room: Bloomberg 168
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/18
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-PT, CES-BM, CES-RI

This is a writing intensive, advanced undergraduate political theory seminar. The course will examine the politics of memory: how power shapes what is available to be remembered, the timing and occasions of memory, who is allowed to remember, and the spaces inside of which remembrance takes place. Specifically, the seminar will explore how segregated memory enables racial segregation and racial inequality. Toward that end, we shall investigate political and theoretical interventions potentially equipped to contest contemporary forms of racial amnesia haunting what some have labeled a “post-truth” world.

• Days/Times: W 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Brendese, PJ Joseph
• Room: Gilman 277
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 3/15
• PosTag(s): INST-PT, CES-RI

This course introduces students of politics to international law. We will explore historical roots and current problems, recognizing along the way persistent contestation over the participants, sources, purposes, and interests associated with international law. The course situates formal aspects of law—centered on international treaties, international organizations, the World Court (ICJ), and the International Criminal Court (ICC)—within a broader field of global governance consisting of treaty-based and customary law, states and transnational actors, centralized and decentralized forms of legal authority. We will place special emphasis on the significance of international law to colonialism, decolonization, and contemporary forms of imperialism, keeping in mind that the law has been experienced differently in the Global South and by actors not recognized as sovereign by states in positions of power. Students will be exposed to a range of approaches, including rational choice, various species of legalism, process-oriented theories, critical legal studies, and postcolonial critiques.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Ross, Andrew
• Room: Gilman 17
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/19
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR, CES-LSO

A close reading of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and Ethics by Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), with consideration of important commentaries on these works. What conceptions of the human being, nature, reason, God, and freedom are defended and affirmed by Hobbes and Spinoza? What rhetorical strategies accompany their theories of self, ethics, social life?

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Bennett, Jane; Culbert, Jennifer
• Room: Gilman 208
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): INST-PT

This seminar will address the role of violence–both domestic and international–in political life. Though most claim to abhor violence, since the advent of recorded history, violence and politics have been intimately related. States practice violence against internal and external foes. Political dissidents engage in violence against states. Competing political forces inflict violence upon one another. Writing in 1924, Winston Churchill declared–and not without reason–that, "The story of the human race is war." Indeed, violence and the threat of violence are the most potent forces in political life. It is, to be sure, often averred that problems can never truly be solved by the use of force. Violence, the saying goes, is not the answer. This adage certainly appeals to our moral sensibilities. But whether or not violence is the answer presumably depends upon the question being asked. For better or worse, it is violence that usually provides the most definitive answers to three of the major questions of political life--statehood, territoriality and power. Violent struggle, in the form of war, revolution, civil war, terrorism and the like, more than any other immediate factor, determines what states will exist and their relative power, what territories they will occupy, and which groups will and will not exercise power within them. Course is open to juniors and seniors.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Ginsberg, Benjamin
• Room: Croft Hall G02
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): INST-IR, CES-LSO

Europe has been in a sense the first testing ground for theories of comparative politics, but many outsiders now see Europe as a pacified and somewhat boring place. This course will question conventional wisdom through an examination of European politics in historical and cross-national perspective. We will apply the comparative method to the study of European politics today, and conversely we will ask what Europe tells us more generally about politics. We will see that Europe is still a locus of intense conflict as well as remarkably diverse experimentation. Topics will include: political, legal, and economic governance; the evolution of democracy and fundamental rights, the welfare state, class stratification, immigration and race, the role of religion; European integration and globalization. Recommended background: Introduction to Comparative Politics.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Jabko, Nicolas
• Room: Maryland 309
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, CES-ELECT

This course offers a graduate-level introduction to the field of comparative politics, focusing on the substantive questions that drive contemporary research. Issues will include: state formation and state capacity; regime typology, democratization, and democratic backsliding; party systems and political behavior; political economy and economic development; racial, ethnic, and religious politics; and revolutions and political violence. Readings include both classic and recent works, selected to help students both prepare for major or minor comprehensive exams and frame their own research projects.

• Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:30PM
• Instructor: Teele, Dawn Langan
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): POLI-CP, INST-CP, CES-ELECT, AGRI-ELECT

Over the seven decades since their invention, nuclear weapons have been a central focus in international politics. This course explores the fundamental question: what political arrangements ensure security from nuclear weapons? The debate has evolved through three stages. Initially (1945-1960), radical political changes were anticipated due to the perceived imminent threat of nuclear war. In the second stage (1960-1990), deterrence became a key concept, but opinions differed on the necessary conditions for it. The end of the Cold War marked an unexpected shift. In the third stage (1990-present), concerns about proliferation and terrorism emerged, leading to disagreements on preventive/pre-emptive actions versus arms control and disarmament. Realist international theories have been conflicted throughout these stages, with ongoing debates on arms control, public involvement, and the impact of nuclear security measures on liberal democratic governments.

• Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room: Ames 234
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/40
• PosTag(s): INST-IR

Humanitarianism has become a pervasive form of moral and political action in world politics. Over the course of the twentieth century and beyond, humanitarian logics infused the conduct of war and informed global governance in many areas—from refugee relief and post-conflict reconstruction, to peacekeeping and development, to migration, ecological security, and recovery from natural disasters. And yet, while often celebrated as an achievement, humanitarianism involves ambiguities, contradictions, and pathologies demanding critical scrutiny. This seminar aims, first, to interrogate critically the history of humanitarian practices and, second, to refine and revise concepts used to study and evaluate those practices. We pursue these aims in part with an eye to understanding mutations of humanitarian politics accompanying contemporary challenges to the post-WWII liberal international order. Topics include: (1) the invention of “humanity” as an idea/ideal; (2)humanitarianism, war and empire; (3) varities of humanitarianism; (4) humanitarian violence; (5) humanitarian expertise and institutions; (6) humanitarianism, media, and technology;

• Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim; Ross, Andrew
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/10
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR, CES-ELECT

This course will survey the history of geopolitics and green industrial from China’s wind and solar push in the 1990s to the Inflation Reduction Act and beyond. We will seek to understand the determinants of industrial policy, best practices for industrial policy, and the effects of industrial policy on climate politics. The lens of geopolitics and industrial policy provides a unique avenue to understand world order. Through this lens, we will see how energy systems and technology competition animate and structure global politics.

• Days/Times: W 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Allan, Bentley
• Room: Mergenthaler 366
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/9
• PosTag(s): INST-IR, ENVS-MAJOR, ENVS-MINOR, CES-LE, CES-PD, CES-TI, INST-GLOBAL

Over the last quarter millennium, the United States of America has been the most successful state in world politics. It has had the world’s largest economy since 1870, and was on the winning side of the three great world struggles of the 20th century. During these struggles, the fate of liberal capitalist democracy in the world has been closely connected with the rise and success of the USA. This course examines the rise and impacts of the USA in comparative and international perspective. What factors account for the success of the USA during the late modern era? How has the rise and influence of the USA shaped world politics? The course focuses on the causes, consequences and possible alternatives of three founding moments (1776-88, 1861-67 and 1933-36), the role of wars against illiberal adversaries in strengthening American liberal national identity, the ways in which the internal logics of the Philadelphian states-union (1787-1861) and the liberal international order among advanced industrial democracies (1945-) as alternatives to Westphalian state-systems, the role and consequences of the US as an anti-imperial power, and the internal dual between liberal America dedicated to the Founding principles and an ‘alt-America’ of slavery and white supremacy.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Deudney, Daniel Horace
• Room: Gilman 119
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-CP, INST-IR, CES-PD

Institutions are a ubiquitous part of political life. Much of the work of political life, both inside and outside government, is only possible through institutions - arrangements of power that provide continuity over time, have a relatively stable mission, jurisdiction and organizational structure. Democracy itself is dependent upon - but perhaps also constrained by - institutions. Institutions are subjects of profound anxiety, across the political spectrum, albeit for different reasons. Those anxieties come from fears about hierarchy, elite capture, illegitimacy, inflexibility, gerontocracy and ineffectiveness. This class will investigate the reasons for the creation and maintenance of institutions, the sources of institutional anxiety, and the challenges that this anxiety creates for the effective, responsible and democratic exercise of power

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Shilliam, Robbie; Teles, Steven Michael
• Room: Gilman 55
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/15
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR, AGRI-ELECT, CES-LSO

This course is a survey of modern political thought for advanced undergraduate students and graduate students. Its purpose is to (1) introduce some of the most significant texts in early modern European political theory, (2) survey a selection of the most important recent scholarly studies of these sources, and (3) develop theoretical and methodological skills at analyzing and interpreting the texts and the scholarship they have inspired.

• Days/Times: Th 9:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Valdez, Inés
• Room: Macaulay 101
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/8
• PosTag(s): POLI-PT, INST-PT, CES-ELECT

This class introduces students to the core theories, concepts and empirical analyses of two levels of collective action analysis: social movements and advocacy organizations. We will explore current and past social movements to ask questions both fundamental (e.g. “Why do social movements start?” “Under what conditions do they succeed?”) and to look critically at the real-world constraints and opportunities contemporary advocacy organizations face.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Smithson-Stanley, Lynsy Suzanne
• Room: Hodson 211
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/18
• PosTag(s): POLI-AP, INST-AP, CES-ELECT, AGRI-ELECT

The course will focus on the origin and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its beginnings when Palestine was controlled by the Ottoman Empire, through World War I, The British Mandate over Palestine, and the first Arab-Israeli war (1947-1949). It will then examine the period of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1982, the Palestinian Intifadas (1987-1993 and 2000-2005); and the development of the Arab-Israeli peace process from its beginnings with the Egyptian-Israeli treaty of 1979, the Oslo I and Oslo II agreements of 1993 and 1995, Israel's peace treaty with Jordan of 1994, the Road Map of 2003; and the periodic peace talks between Israel and Syria. The conflict will be analyzed against the background of great power intervention in the Middle East, the rise of political Islam and the dynamics of Intra-Arab politics, and will consider the impact of the Arab Spring.

• Days/Times: T 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Freedman, Robert
• Room: Maryland 104
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/20
• PosTag(s): INST-IR, INST-CP

This course will explore the evolution of Russian Foreign Policy from Czarist times to the present. The main theme will be the question of continuity and change, as the course will seek to determine to what degree current Russian Foreign Policy is rooted in the Czarist(1613-1917) and Soviet(1917-1991) periods, and to what degree it has operated since 1991 on a new basis. The main emphasis of the course will be on Russia's relations with the United States and Europe, China, the Middle East and the countries of the former Soviet Union--especially Ukraine, the Baltic States, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. The course will conclude with an analysis of the Russian reaction to the Arab Spring and its impact both on Russian domestic politics and on Russian foreign policy.

• Days/Times: W 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Freedman, Robert
• Room: Krieger 304
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/20
• PosTag(s): POLI-IR, INST-IR, INST-CP

Over the past three decades, East Asia has been the most dynamic region in the world. East Asia has a remarkable record of high and sustained economic growth. From 1965 to 1990, the twenty-three economies of East Asia grew faster than all other regions of the world mostly thanks to the ‘miraculous growth’ of Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand; these eight countries, in fact, have grown roughly three times as fast as Latin America and South Asia, five times faster than Sub-Saharan Africa, and significantly outperformed the industrial economies and the oil-rich Middle East and North Africa regions. Poverty levels have plummeted and human-development indicators have improved across the region. The course is divided into three parts to allow students to develop expertise in one or more countries and/or policy arenas, while also cultivating a broad grasp of the region and the distinct challenges of “fast-paced, sustained economic growth.” Part I will introduce the subject, consider the origins of Asian economic development, and analyse the common economic variables behind the region’s success. It will look at the East Asian Crisis and will consider its lessons and assess whether or not East Asian countries have learned them. While the course will show that there are many common ingredients to the success of the region’s economies, it will also show that each country is different, and that differences could be, at times, quite stark. Hence, Part II will focus on the development experiences of individual countries, with a special emphasis on the ASEAN economies, NIEs, Japan and China. Finally, Part III will consider various topics of special interest to Asia, including trends toward greater regional economic cooperation, both in the real and financial/monetary sectors, and issues related to poverty, migration, and inclusiveness in the region. NOTE: Contact Dr. Dore if prerequisites are not met.

• Days/Times: M 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Dore, Giovanna Maria Dora
• Room: Croft Hall G02
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 7/20
• PosTag(s): INST-ECON, CES-PD

Did you know that Brazil is very similar to the United States? This course is intended as an introduction to the culture and civilization of Brazil. It is designed to provide students with basic information about Brazilian history, politics, economy, art, literature, popular culture, theater, cinema, and music. The course will focus on how Indigenous, Asian, African, and European cultural influences have interacted to create the new and unique civilization that is Brazil today. The course is taught in English. No Prereq. THERE IS NO FINAL EXAM.

• Days/Times: MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: De Azeredo Cerqueira, Flavia Christina
• Room: Latrobe 107
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/31
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL

This course will survey German ideas—in philosophy, social and political theory, and drama—since the Enlightenment. Authors include Kant, Schiller, Lessing, Goethe, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Horkheimer, and Adorno.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Egginton, William
• Room: Hodson 315
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/21
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-PT, HIST-EUROPE, MLL-GERM

Over the last three decades Italy, historically a country of emigrants—many of whom suffered from discrimination in the societies they joined—became a destination for hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees from various countries, and particularly from Africa. Significant numbers of these immigrants came to Italy as a result of the country’s limited, though violent colonial history; others arrive because Italy is the closest entry-point to Europe. How have these migratory flows challenged Italian society’s sense of itself? How have they transformed the notion of Italian national identity? In recent years, growing numbers of Afro- and Afro-descendant writers, filmmakers, artists and Black activists are responding through their work to pervasive xenophobia and racism while challenging Italy’s self-representation as a ‘White’ country. How are they forcing it to broaden the idea of ‘Italianess’? How do their counternarratives compel Italy to confront its ignored colonial past? And, in what way have Black youth in Italy embraced the #Blacklivesmatter movement? This multimedia course examines representation of blackness and racialized otherness, whiteness, and national identity through literary, film, and visual archival material in an intersectional framework. Examining Italy’s internal, ‘Southern question,’ retracing Italy’s colonial history, and recognizing the experiences of Italians of immigrant origins and those of immigrants themselves, we’ll explore compelling works by writers and filmmakers such as Igiaba Scego, Gagriella Ghermandi, Maza Megniste, Dagmawi Yimer, and others.

• Days/Times: T 3:00PM - 5:30PM
• Instructor: Di Bianco, Laura
• Room: Hodson 315
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 4/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, MLL-ITAL

This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Spanish culture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. The course will offer a general survey of the history of Spain and will discuss texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. This course will be of particular interest for students planning on spending a semester abroad in Spain—specially for those students going to the JHU Fall Semester in Madrid, at Carlos III University. Taught in Spanish. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.311 or appropriate Webcape score. AS.215.390 was formerly numbered AS.211.390

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Pinar Diaz, Alicia
• Room: Gilman 35
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/15
• PosTag(s): n/a

Taught in Spanish. This course will explore the fundamental aspects of Latin- America culture from the formation of independent states through the present—in light of the social, political, and economic histories of the region. The course will offer a general survey of history of Latin- America, and will discuss texts, movies, songs, pictures, and paintings, in relation to their social, political, and cultural contexts. May not be taken satisfactory/unsatisfactory.

• Days/Times: MW 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Walls, Alfredo
• Room: Gilman 217
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 8/12
• PosTag(s): n/a

What social, political, and economic forces make groups of people appear out of place in a given society? How have literary works contributed to counteracting the marginalization of certain groups? This course will look at how modern Spanish artists, writers, and intellectuals wrestled with questions of identity and marginalization. We will critically examine how the modern Spanish state was forged from restrictions on cultural difference and consider the various marginalized groups that were left in its wake. These groups include various peoples (e.g. the Romani), ideologies (e.g. anarchism, socialism, communism), social and economic classes (e.g. peasants, the working class), and regional identities (e.g. Catalonia, the Basque Country). Key texts in modern Spanish literature will prompt our investigation into how writers and artists reflected on, contested, and expressed the marginality of the country’s various internal others. Taught in Spanish.

• Days/Times: MW 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Seguin, Becquer D
• Room: Krieger 300
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/18
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL

The course examines the modern transformation of social life from the prism of coffee and tea. It traces the mass consumption of these two caffeinated beverages from the expansion of Eurocentric capitalism from the long sixteenth century onwards. It shows the changes in the coffee and tea culture from their respective Asian contexts to the age of mass consumption at the turn of the twentieth century. The topics include cash-crop production, plantation and peasant economy, the public sphere, and food heritage and nationalism.

• Days/Times: TTh 10:30AM - 11:45AM
• Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
• Room: Gilman 413
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/18
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, INST-IR, CES-FT, CES-LE

Humanitarian organizations play life-preserving roles in global conflicts, and have front-row views of disasters ranging from the 2010 Haiti earthquake to the 2011 Fukushima tsunami in Japan. Yet even while they provide vital assistance to millions of people in crisis, such organizations are beset by important paradoxes that hinder their capacity to create sustainable interventions. They work to fill long-lasting needs, but are prone to moving quickly from one site to the next in search of the latest emergency. They strive to be apolitical, yet are invariably influenced by the geopolitical agendas of global powers. How do such contradictions arise, and what is their impact upon millions of aid recipients around the world? Drawing on case studies from South Sudan to Haiti, this course addresses these contradictions by exploring how and why medical aid organizations attempt, and sometimes fail, to reconcile short-term goals, such as immediate life-saving, with long-term missions, such as public health programs and conflict resolution initiatives.

• Days/Times: TTh 12:00PM - 1:15PM
• Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/18
• PosTag(s): INST-IR, MSCH-HUM, CES-ELECT

This course will focus on the social dimensions of climate change. Drawing on global and multi-disciplinary scholarship, we will address such issues as: the relationship between fossil fuels and capitalism; the relationship between social inequality and “vulnerability” to climate change; and the political economy of “adaptation.” The longest section of the course will be devoted to understanding the social and political dimensions of proposed solutions to climate change, including renewable energy transitions, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and geoengineering. Students will write a final research paper on a sociological aspect of climate change.

• Days/Times: W 9:00AM - 11:30AM
• Instructor: Levien, Michael
• Room: Hodson 203
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 10/18
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, MSCH-HUM, CES-LE, CES-TI

This course surveys the relationship between China and its migrants and their descendants from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. It highlights the transnational foundation of modern Chinese nationalism. It also compares the divergent formations of the “Chinese question” in North America and postcolonial Southeast Asia. Key concepts include transnationalism, diaspora, ethnic politics, racism, Orientalism, and “united front” work.

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Kuo, Huei-Ying
• Room: Gilman 413
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 2/18
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-CP, CES-BM, CES-RI

This course will examine the role of housing, or the absence thereof, in shaping quality of life. It will explore the consequences of the places in which we live and how we are housed. Consideration will be given to overcrowding, affordability, accessibility, and past and existing housing policies and their influence on society. Special attention will be given to the problem of homelessness.

• Days/Times: Th 4:30PM - 7:00PM
• Instructor: Greif, Meredith
• Room: Krieger 302
• Status: Waitlist Only
• Seats Available: 0/25
• PosTag(s): INST-AP, CES-CC, CES-LE

What is a refugee? Since World War II, states that have pledged to offer protection to refugees have frequently been drawn instead to the dictates of nationalism and communitarianism, which prioritize concern for their own citizens, rather than to the needs of forced migrants. As a result, even those migrants that have been formally recognized as refugees according to the 1951 UN Refugee Convention have not been assured of protection, and other migrants have been even less assured. In this course, we will locate the reasons for this reality in the legal, political, and historical underpinnings of political asylum. What is the difference between an asylum seeker and a refugee? How has the refugee category been redefined and contested by international bodies since 1951? How are the ambiguities of real-life violence and persecution simplified in asylum adjudication interviews that require clear, factual narratives? What kinds of protections are offered to asylum seekers, whether by UN bodies, NGOs, or host governments, and how have such protections varied geographically and historically? Finally, what protections, if any, are afforded to those migrants who are fleeing not persecution but rather “merely” endemic poverty or climate-induced displacement? The course draws on literature from sociology, history, anthropology, and international refugee law in order to understand the capacity (or lack thereof) of human rights discourses and declarations to contravene state sovereignty in the name of protecting the rightless.

• Days/Times: TTh 1:30PM - 2:45PM
• Instructor: Naveh Benjamin, Ilil
• Room: Gilman 219
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/25
• PosTag(s): INST-GLOBAL, INST-IR

The global political and security landscape of the 21st century will be shaped by the rivalry between two superpowers -- China and the U.S. For the foreseeable future, the geographic focus of that contest will be Southeast Asia and the surrounding maritime space, particularly the South China Sea. Southeast Asia is a complex, highly differentiated region of ten-plus nations, each with its own unique history and relationship with China. This course will introduce Southeast Asia as a key region -- geographically, economically, and strategically -- often overlooked by policymakers and scholars. It will also focus on the craft of national security strategy as the best tool for understanding the multi-sided competition, already well underway involving China, the U.S., and the Southeast Asian states.

• Days/Times: T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
• Instructor: Ott, marvin C
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 1/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-IR

Ever since the Chinese Empire fell in 1911, Chinese have tried to think of themselves as modern and to build a modern Chinese state. Among the Western concepts that Chinese appropriated to define and comprehend themselves were the notions of ethnicity, culture, nationality, and race. We will try to answer the following questions: What was the allure of arcane and elusive Western categories on culture, ethnicity, and race for Chinese scientists in the 20th century, and how did these categories come to underpin the rule of the Chinese state over its enormous population since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949? How have the Chinese state’s policies on nationality and ethnicity shaped the minds of American China scholars as they study ethnicity and nationality in China?

• Days/Times: TTh 9:00AM - 10:15AM
• Instructor: Henning, Stefan
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 6/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, INST-GLOBAL, CES-RI

On 13 October 2022, a middle-aged upper-middle class Chinese man staged a public political protest on an elevated road in Beijing. Peng Lifa, or “Bridge Man,” as he has become known in allusion to Tank Man from the Tiananmen demonstrations in 1989, demanded elections and reforms. How have urban Chinese been able to be so content or even happy despite their lack of political freedom? The class readings will introduce you to different kinds of activists who have confronted the authoritarian state since the late 1990s, among them human rights lawyers, reporters, environmental activists, feminists, religious activists, and labor activists. We will ask whether freedom, an obviously Western notion, is useful as an analytical category to think about China. Does freedom translate across the West/non-West divide?

• Days/Times: TTh 4:30PM - 5:45PM
• Instructor: Henning, Stefan
• Room: Mergenthaler 266
• Status: Open
• Seats Available: 5/15
• PosTag(s): INST-CP, CES-LSO