2012-2013 Catalog 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
2012-2013 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Economics

  
  • ECON 198 CM - Research on Economic Process

    This course will focus on the development of skills and methods appropriate to conducting research on economics. The primary goal of the course is the development, in conjunction with the internship, of a research paper on a particular aspect associated with Silicon Valley. Taken as part of the Silicon Valley internship program.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ECON198 CM
  
  • ECON 199 CM - Independent Study and Research

    Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0.5 or 1

    Course Number: ECON199 CM

English

  
  • ENGL 012 AF - Introduction to African American Literature

    This course is a survey of major periods, authors, and genres of the American literary tradition. This course covers the major literature produced from the turn of the 20th century to the contemporary period.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ENGL012 AF
  
  • ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: In the African-Atlantic Tradition

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ENGL125C AF
  
  • ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ENGL140 PO
  
  • ENGL 170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature

    See Pomona College Catalog for course description.

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ENGL170J PO
  
  • ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction

    This course will focus on Asian American Fiction and will explore the function of representation (both political and aesthetic) in relation to questions of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. The course will involve readings in both primary and secondary texts including critical and theoretical work in Asian American studies.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ENGL180 SC
  
  • ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality

    This course will explore questions of gender and sexuality in the context of Asian American literature and will investigate how these key terms undergird even the earliest formations of Asian America. The course will investigate this idea through a variety of lenses, focusing on both creative and critical texts.

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ENGL183 SC
  
  • ENGL 184A CH - Chicano Movement Literature

    Readings in Chicano literature from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. Special emphasis on the historical context within which texts are written, i.e., post-World War II and the civil rights era. Recently discovered novels by Americo Paredes and Jovit Gonzalez and the poetry, narrative, and theatre produced during the Chicano Movement will be subjects of inquiry. Taught in English.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ENGL184A CH
  
  • ENGL 184B CH - Contemporary Chicana/o Literature

    Beginning with the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back (1981), this survey examines how contemporary Chicana/o literature focuses on questions of identity, specifically gender and sexuality. Theoretical readings in feminism and gay studies inform our interpretation of texts by Anzuldua, Castillo, Cisneros, Cuadros, Gaspar de Alba, Islas, Moraga, and Viramontes, among others. Taught in English.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: ENGL184B CH

Freshman Humanities Seminar

  
  • FHS  010 CM - Freshman Humanities Seminar

    The Freshman Humanities Seminar (FHS) program aims to give first-year students an introduction to some of the questions fundamental to individuals in their relationship to society and the world. Each section engages one or more critical themes such as the notion of the self, the community, individual and communal values, modes of understanding, and creative expression, and the relationships each one has with the others. In doing so, all FHS courses include historically significant texts: texts that have become objects of academic discourse in part because of their enormous impact in non-academic contexts.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FHS 010 CM

Freshman Writing Seminar

  
  • FWS  010 CM - Freshman Writing Seminar

    The Freshman Writing Seminar, directed by the Department of Literature, aims to enhance the writing skills and literary acumen of first-year students through intensive composition and revision and the study of significant texts and models. Each seminar focuses on a literary theme chosen by the instructor, and each ranges across periods and genres. All of the seminars seek to instill rigor of argument, clarity of presentation, and stylistic grace. Students will be expected to write no fewer than seventy-five hundred words during the semester.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FWS 010 CM

French

  
  • FREN 001 CM - Introductory French

    Acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. This course includes laboratory work and tutorial sessions each week.

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN001 CM
  
  • FREN 002 CM - Continuing Introductory French

    A continuation of FREN 001 CM . Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Laboratory work and tutorial sessions each week.

    Prerequisite: FREN 001 CM , or placement.

    Offered: Every spring

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN002 CM
  
  • FREN 022 CM - Intensive Introductory French

    Designed for students with some previous experience in French, who are too advanced for FREN 001 CM . Students will complete in one semester the equivalent of FREN 001 CM  and FREN 002 CM , and then enroll in FREN 033 CM . The class includes laboratory work and tutorial sessions (times arranged).

    Prerequisite: Placement

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN022 CM
  
  • FREN 033 CM - Intermediate French

    Review and reinforcement of basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. Laboratory and conversation groups arranged.

    Prerequisite: FREN 002 CM , FREN 022 CM , or placement

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN033 CM
  
  • FREN 044 CM - Advanced French: Reading in Literature and Civilization

    Readings in Literature and Civilization. Selected texts are read with emphasis on interpretation and comprehension. Development of correct personal style in students’ oral and written expression. Discussion groups with a native assistant arranged.

    Prerequisite: FREN 033 CM  or equivalent 

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN044 CM
  
  • FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization

    Through a historical survey of the major characteristics of French civilization, this course will focus on interrelationships between trends in art, history of ideas, political institutions, and social traditions that have shaped modern France. Discussion groups with a native assistant arranged. Required of all majors in French studies. Highly recommended to candidates for study abroad.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN100 SC
  
  • FREN 104 SC - History, Memory, and Loss: Vichy (1940-45) in Contemporary France

    In the late 1960s, France started to come to terms with its Fascist past and its complicity with the Holocaust. This course examines why and how French collective memory was reshaped a generation after the end of World War II. We will look at works by historians like Paxton, Rousso, Azema and Wieviorka; writers like Modiano, Duras, Raczymov, Finkielkraut; and filmmakers like Malle, Ophüls, Resnais, Lanzmann, and Losey.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN104 SC
  
  • FREN 106 SC - The French Business World and Its Language

    While focusing on French business culture and familiarizing the students with Français des Affaires parlance, this course will be an introduction to the French economy, the French corporate ambiance, marketing and management in France, the French business environment, and France’s international trade milieu. In addition to textbook materials, current articles from leading French magazines as well as French television programs and videos will be used.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN106 SC
  
  • FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Conversation of Current Events and Culture

    This course aims to intensively upgrade oral and written skills at the advanced level, and is organized around a series of cultural readings as well as current events topics relating to France and the francophone world. Students will be exposed to various discursive modes and stylistic forms. French-language plays, newscasts, television programs, film clips, and websites, as well as newspaper and magazine articles, will serve as the subject material for this speaking- and writing-intensive course.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN107 SC
  
  • FREN 110 SC - France in the Hood: Nationhood, Immigration, and the Politics of Identity in Fin-de-Siecle France

    As France struggles to meet the challenges of both European integration and the globalization of its economy, immigration is today being perceived as “a problem.” France’s “problem” with immigration, cannot, however, be viewed simply as a knee-jerk response to the country’s endemic economic crisis. It is rather the symptom of a deeper social, political, and cultural crisis besetting France at the fin-de-siécle: an identity crisis, which this course attempts to diagnose. Topics to be explored: the banlieue (the side of France tourists never see: its projects on the outskirts of large cities) as a social and cultural phenomenon, identity politics in France, immigration and nationhood, immigration in the postwar period, citizenship and the rights of immigrants, the resurgence of racist and xenophobic politics in France today, integration vs. multiculturalism, and finally, the impact of immigrants on French culture (Beurs, French rappers, Rai music, etc.).

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN110 SC
  
  • FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women in French Film

    This course will concentrate on three aspects of the role of women in French film in order to define the relationship between women as icons (larger-than-life images in the collective fantasy of a certain “Frenchness”), women as subjects, and, finally, women as creators of film. Appropriate readings in French will be assigned. Some films may be shown without subtitles; discussion and written work will be in French.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN111 SC
  
  • FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean

    This course will examine works by writers and filmmakers from French-speaking countries of Africa (e.g., Senegal, Cameroon and Burkina Faso) and the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe and Haiti). Special emphasis will be placed on questions of identity, the impact of colonialism, social and cultural values, as well as the nature of aesthetic creation.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN117 CM
  
  • FREN 119 CM - Advanced French Creative Writing

    This course will allow students to improve their French writing skills and to expand their knowledge of the French language. Guided by various exercises, students will express their creativity by writing different types of texts, including poems, songs and short stories. Multiple drafts will be required for each writing assignment and individual attention will be given to each student.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN119 CM
  
  • FREN 120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature

    A study of selected writers from the 18th century to the present who have confronted, in particularly significant ways, dominant social values and literary conventions. A historical perspective will be provided to explicate the various dimensions of the literary text in its relationship to society, history, and culture. Readings will include works by major French and Francophone authors.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN120 CM
  
  • FREN 121 SC - The Politics of Love

    Survey of French literature from the medieval age to contemporary fiction as seen through exemplary love stories. The transformation of the traditional love story from Tristan et Iseult and Manon Lescaut, to more transgressive love stories such as Ma Mère by Georges Bataille or Le corps lesbien by Monique Wittig. Explanations of why these love stories are often paradigmatic stories of social integration for the male heroes and stories of social exclusion for the female characters. Authors include Racine, Chateaubriand, Balzac, Flaubert, Yourcenar, and Duras.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN121 SC
  
  • FREN 124 CM - The Novelist and Society in France

    A study of the major trends in the French novel from the 17th century to the present. Particular attention will be given to the social and intellectual factors that influenced the evolution of the tradition of the novel in France.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN124 CM
  
  • FREN 130 SC - Topics in French Theatre I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scene”

    This course will examine major plays of the French theatrical canon from a performance perspective. The role of the characters as actors inside their play will be central to our investigation. Textual analysis as well as performance of selected scenes constitute the focus of the course.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN130 SC
  
  • FREN 132 CM - North African Literature After Independence

    In the 1950s and 1960s the people of many colonized countries across the African continent waged struggles for national independence. In North Africa, as elsewhere, once independence was gained other struggles emerged though with different objectives and in different forms and contexts. After independence, national culture has been a central issue. Writers in particular have played a key role addressing some of the major debates concerning religion, national tradition, language, music, and even the form of everyday life. In the past decades, writers have been engulfed in a new wave of cultural change as the North African populace has been deeply influenced by new Islamicist movements, and the politics of Arabicization. In this course, we will examine the situation of the writer in North Africa, “post-Independence.”

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN132 CM
  
  • FREN 133 CM - The Beur Question in Films and Texts

    Over the last thirty years a new generation of French citizens has emerged. These are young people of French and North African descent, commonly known as beur. Many have grown up in France, in the working class suburbs, or banlieues, of Paris and other major cities, where their immigrant parents worked side by side with the “white” French working class. Many young beur, however, have little relationship to Algeria, Morocco, or Tunisia. Indeed, many know little of their family’s culture and language, and feel more at “home” in France, though with daily discrimination they are always reminded that they are not really “French.” To resolve the physical, psychological and existential pain, some beur attempt to return “home” while others desperately attempt to assimilate into an increasingly hostile culture. Their predicament, the situation of this population is both a modern and peculiarly late modern French one. In this course we will examine the situation of the beur-and an important part entails scrutiny of this epithet and what it means for “identity” through texts and films. The texts will draw on recent political and social commentary on religion (the veil) and culture and we will also read literary texts, by recent novelists. The films will engage a range of topics, such as exile and terrorism, all within the context of the beur experience.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN133 CM
  
  • FREN 135 CM - L’Art de la Nouvelle

    An introduction to critical reading, literary interpretation and analysis, and the application of various literary approaches to the genre. This course will allow students to perfect their reading comprehension and writing skills through the concentrated study of one genre: the short story. Focusing on some of the major French and Francophone short story writers such as Maupassant, Colette, Tournier, Yourcenar, Duras, Hébert, Djébar, Daviau, we will look at point of view, narrative structure, character development, and other issues related to style and language. The course also allows students to expand their knowledge of French language and style – and express their creativity – by writing a short story of their own.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Every fall

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN135 CM
  
  • FREN 137 CM - The Algerian War and the French Intelligentsia

    Since the 1950s the Algerian war and its consequences have been significant for the development of French culture and society. Indeed, the ghost of the Algerian war still haunts debates about immigration, French identity, the veil, and the idea of the French Republic. In this course we will investigate the ways the Algerian war has mediated and possibly shaped debates in literature, films, philosophy, and cultural life since the beginning of the war (including the events of May 1968 in Paris) until today.

    Prerequisite: FREN 100 SC 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN137 CM
  
  • FREN 148 CM - Special Topics in French

    Topics vary by semester and instructor.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN148 CM
  
  • FREN 154 SC - The 18th-Century Novel: Experimentations in Form

    The 18th  century in France marked one of the great periods in the development of the novel. The vitality characteristic of this genre was due to a great extent to the novelists’ awareness of narrative techniques and to their willingness to experiment with diverse modes of novelistic form. In this course, problems of narration will be studied in the works of L’Abbe Prevost, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Laclos, and Sade.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN154 SC
  
  • FREN 172 SC - Baudelaire and the Symbolist Aesthetic

    A study of the poetic theories and practices of Baudelaire and the principal symbolist poets. This course will examine the origins, goals, realizations, and paradoxes of the symbolist movement as it distinguishes them from realist traditions and modernist modes. Readings from Baudelaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and the minor symbolists will frame the movement’s central themes and illuminate the function of language in art and thought.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN172 SC
  
  • FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon

    In this class we will examine the role of wit and the power of language in the French salon. We will analyze how wit is characterized in these works, investigate the role of language in social success and how wit rose as an aristocratic value and became key cultural capital.

    Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM  or equivalent

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: FREN173 SC
  
  • FREN 199 CM - Independent Study in French

    Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for an independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 0.5 or 1

    Course Number: FREN199 CM

Gender and Feminist Studies

  
  • GFS  061 CH - Contemporary Issues of Chicanas and Latinas

    In this interdisciplinary course we will look at the contemporary experiences of Chicanas and Latinas in the United States, addressing issues of culture, identity, gender, race, and social class. Readings and lectures provide historical background for our in-depth exploration of the latest exemplary works in Chicana Studies. Attention is given to diverse manifestations of cultural production in Chicana/Latina communities.

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GFS 061 CH

Government

  
  • GOVT 020 CM - Introduction to American Politics

    Introduces the student to the scholarly study of government and politics with special reference to the political principles and constitutional structure of the American system, interpreted in the light of political philosophy, the dynamics of public opinion, interest groups, political parties, and public policy.

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT020 CM
  
  • GOVT 030 CM - Internship in Government, Politics, and Public Policy

    Taken as part of one of the two off-campus government internship programs. Students gain experience in a government, political, or public policy setting through placement arranged with the program director (Professor Spalding for the Washington Program and Professor Lynch for the Southern California Program); or students may seek and propose a position in consultation with the appropriate director.

    Prerequisites: GOVT 020 CM , ECON 050 CM , and participation on Washington, D.C. internship semester

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT030 CM
  
  • GOVT 050 CM - Introduction to Public Administration

    An introduction to the structure, operations, and responsibilities of administration in the public sector. The organization of federal administration, methods of public personnel management, budget analysis, decision-making, and program evaluation. Additional topics in administrative law, administrative ethics, public policy and regulation, and the relation of administration to politics.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT050 CM
  
  • GOVT 060 CM - Introduction to Comparative Government

    This course introduces students to the basic concepts of comparative government that are used to analyze political institutions and processes. We will explore fundamental political phenomena such as power, authority, legitimacy, political culture, and the nation-state in order to understand better major world events and larger political trends. Special attention is given to democratization and socioeconomic change in either the developing world, or Europe and the industrialized world.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT060 CM
  
  • GOVT 070 CM - Introduction to International Politics

    This course studies relations among states and between states and other groups through close reading and intensive discussion of books and articles about international theory, history, and philosophy. Among the topics examined are: the sources of global conflict; diplomacy; war; terrorism; religion in world affairs; and the politics of economic, social, and political development.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT070 CM
  
  • GOVT 080 CM - Introduction to Political Philosophy

    An introduction to several fundamentally different philosophical understandings of political life, both ancient and modern. Authors studied include Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT080 CM
  
  • GOVT 090 CM - Introduction to Constitutional Law: National Powers

    An introduction to the Supreme Court’s treatment of the constitutional structure and powers of government in the United States, including such features as judicial review, states rights and federalism, separation of powers, and economic and environmental regulation. The course also considers the strengths and weaknesses of the legal method in examining public policy issues.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT090 CM
  
  • GOVT 091 CM - Introduction to Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties

    An introduction to the Supreme Court’s treatment of constitutional rights and privileges, including freedoms of speech, press, religion, and association; criminal procedure; voting rights; equal protection of the laws; and due process guarantees. Like GOVT 090 CM , this course considers the strengths and weaknesses of the legal method in examining public policy issues. Although a natural sequel to GOVT 090 CM , it may be taken alone.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT091 CM
  
  • GOVT 095 CM - Legal Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Law

    This course is intended to illuminate law by studying it with ideas and methods from several of the other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. It is also intended to help the students unify their grasp of these disciplines by using them in the study of law considered as a central social phenomenon. Faculty members from several disciplines participate in the course.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT095 CM
  
  • GOVT 101 CM - The United States Congress

    Examines congress in terms of participant roles, committee systems, party influence and leadership, legislative functions and representative democracy, legislative-executive relations, and current efforts at reform.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT101 CM
  
  • GOVT 102 CM - The American Presidency

    Investigates the domestic and international sources of power which have led to the dominant position of the presidency, and the current reassessment of that position.

    Prerequisite: GOVT020 CM

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT102 CM
  
  • GOVT 104 CM - The Electoral Process

    An introduction to election politics in the United States, focusing on the organization, strategies, techniques, and financing of political campaigns. The course, which employs simulations, also involves consideration of party organization, election law, and problems of reform.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT104 CM
  
  • GOVT 105 CM - Organization of Health Care and Public Policy

    This course will examine the evolution of health care occupations and organizations in the United States with comparative references to other industrialized nations. There will be a focus on the increasing bureaucratization of health care, the increased involvement of government, private reorganization around HMO’s and managed care, and the continued push for various forms of “universal health care.” Politics and policies regarding sources and allocations of costs and benefits, access and treatment of increasingly diverse populations, advent of health care teams, “wellness” movements and alternative health and medical treatments, and increasingly complex technology, and - related to this - ethical issues regarding birth, life, and death will be addressed.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT105 CM
  
  • GOVT 106 CM - Politics of Interest Groups

    The course examines the role of interest groups in American politics, particularly how they influence the formulation and implementation of public policy. Specifically, the course focuses on strategies and tactics and other integrated requisites to building a viable interest group. In addition, numerous case studies are examined.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT106 CM
  
  • GOVT 108 CM - Recent American Politics, 1970s to the Present

     Against the backdrop of the post-World War II years, this course explores American politics and political development from the pivotal 1970s to the present. Focus is on controversies arising from such interrelated areas as economic and social regulation; values issues (e.g., abortion, religion in public life, and the character and private morality of public officials); federal fiscal policies; foreign involvements, the “war on terror,” and presidential authority; judicial activism; and civil rights and “identity politics.” A major theme is the relationship of established patterns and ideologies to continuity and change, often in the face of unanticipated events. Cross-listed as HIST 124B CM  .

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT108 CM
  
  • GOVT 109 CM - Juvenile Delinquency and Public Policy

    This course examines the social and political changes that gave rise to the concept of “childhood,” the subsequent rise of the juvenile justice system, and further modifications of that system’s strategies for prevention and treatment. Course topics include the causes of juvenile delinquency, changes in the nature and distribution of juvenile crime and deviance, and the history and changing forms of gang activity in the U.S. Guest speakers and documentaries supplement lectures, discussion, and readings.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT109 CM
  
  • GOVT 110 CM - American Culture Wars

    In recent decades Americans have been increasingly divided over such issues as abortion, gay marriage, and the appropriateness of religion in the public square. This course will explore the sources and origins of such divisions. For instance, do activists on the left and right really exist in two distinct cultures? What are the philosophical assumptions and beliefs that hold their various political opinions together? What is their view of the human person and how does it shape the way they see the world? Do they each offer equally rational ways of comprehending the world? We will also investigate how deeply our nation is divided. Is it the case, for instance, that only a handful of radicals wage these wars while most Americans are actually quite moderate? Are our political divisions really rooted in separate cultures? In addition, we will ask whether the culture wars have been good or bad for American democracy. For example, have the culture wars prevented a descent into mass apathy or coarsened public life?

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT110 CM
  
  • GOVT 111 CM - Politics and Population

    Explores the social and political implications of the population explosion. Touches on problems of social forecasting and problems of individual and institutional response to short-run and long-run needs. Considers the question of optimum population from social, economic, biological, and political points of view. Assesses current efforts and prospects for establishing and implementing population policies.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT111 CM
  
  • GOVT 112 CM - Public Opinion and American Democracy

    This course is concerned with understanding the political opinions that citizens hold and the relationship between these opinions and American democracy. We will consider what public opinion is, how it is measured, and the many influences that form it.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT112 CM
  
  • GOVT 113 CM - Inequality, Politics, and Public Policy: Class, Race, and Gender

    This course examines the basic dimensions of inequality and the history of changes in the distribution of wealth, power, and patterns of ethnic and gender relations, primarily in the United States but with particular reference to how emerging global markets may be changing inequality patterns in the U.S. Rates of social mobility (who moves up, down, sideways?) are examined. The course deals with current and emerging political and policy issues arising from such developments as: Proposition 187, the changing occupational structure and shifting career opportunities, changing policies on discrimination, affirmative action and work force diversity, generational divides, changes in crime and criminal justice, political and perceptual “gender gaps,” welfare issues and the “tax wars” (who pays, who receives?).

    Prerequisites: Introductory level economics, psychology and/or sociology course recommended. 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT113 CM
  
  • GOVT 115 CM - Politics of Journalism

    Analyzes the relationship between the political decision makers and the news media. Topics include: the structure and organization of print and electronic media; forms of political journalism, such as investigative reporting and commentary; ways by which political figures try to influence the news; the impact of news stories on public opinion.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT115 CM
  
  • GOVT 116 CM - Public Policy Process

    This course analyzes the six phases of the public policy process: the origin of policy ideas, estimation of costs and benefits, choice of alternatives by political leaders, implementation by bureaucracies, appraisal of outcomes, and termination of policies. The course pays special attention to policies that affect business and the economy.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT116 CM
  
  • GOVT 117 CM - California Politics

    This course focuses on California, the nation’s largest and most complex state. Course elements include California’s political history, dramatic demographic change (population growth and increased racial and ethnic diversity), partisan composition, political institutions (fragmented executive, term-limited legislature, elected judiciary, and direct democracy), major policy challenges, and impact on national politics.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT117 CM
  
  • GOVT 118 CM - The Processes of Environmental Policymaking

    This course focuses on how environmental, conservation, and natural-resource policies are developed and chosen in the policy processes of the United States and other countries. This focus permits examination of the methodologies of evaluating environmental policy options, the processes of policymaking, and the institutions involved in conservation, environmental improvement, and other policies that affect the environment. The analytic approaches include the policy sciences framework for understanding the process itself, the methodologies of ecosystem valuation, and the issues involved with different types of policy instruments for environmental and conservation management. This course is cross-listed as ECON 118 CM .

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT118 CM
  
  • GOVT 120 CM - Environmental Law

    This course is intended to introduce students to environmental law through an examination and discussion of a number of currently debated issues. The emphasis of the course will be on the role of law in protecting environmental quality and mediating environmental disputes.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every spring

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT120 CM
  
  • GOVT 121 CM - Organization and Management

    Basic concepts of organization theory and organizational behavior. Systems of organizational design and task management and their relation to issues of productivity improvement, motivation and morale, and organizational adaptation and change. Management methods in government; ethical problems of management.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT121 CM
  
  • GOVT 122 CM - Leadership in Management

    Power and authority in organizations: the role of leadership, effective leadership styles, leadership and organizational values. Group dynamics, decision-making, motivation, and conflict management techniques.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT122 CM
  
  • GOVT 123 CM - American Political Parties

    This course examines American political parties as electoral organizations, as voting blocs in the general public, and as groups of government officials. It explores linkages of these three dimensions in national, state, and local politics. Topics include: political realignments, minor parties, national conventions, and quasi-parties such as United We Stand.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT123 CM
  
  • GOVT 123C CM - Evangelicals & American Politics

    Once at the center of political and cultural life, evangelicals were objects of ridicule by the 1920s. Many responded by withdrawing into something like a religious ghetto. Today, however, evangelicals are once again at the very center of American political and cultural life. This course will explore these developments and the sometimes contentious relationship between evangelicals and the wider society. It will especially scrutinize the ways in which evangelicals have both contributed to and reacted against the cultural and social upheavals of the 1960s. We will further ask whether these developments have contributed to the health of American democracy. Have American evangelicals, for example, contributed to a democratic culture that depends on thoughtful deliberation over the good society or have they undermined common democratic values by seeking a theocratic republic? More generally, what should be the proper relationship between religion and democracy?

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT123C CM
  
  • GOVT 124 CM - Cases in American Political Leadership

    This course will consist of an intensive case study of a single American political leader. The case study, which will change from year to year, will test generalizations about American political ideas, interests, and institutions. The cases may include presidents, lawmakers, and leaders of social movements.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT124 CM
  
  • GOVT 125 CM - Readings in American National Politics

    This course will focus on selected topics in American National Politics. Class sessions include presentations by key participants in American politics and by noted analysts of American contemporary issues. Taken as a part of the Washington internship program.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT125 CM
  
  • GOVT 126 CM - Policy Analysis

    This course will deal with the causes and consequences of public policies, with special attention given to analysis of the roles of national political institutions, of interest groups and of the political environment in shaping public policies. Primary focus will be placed on policies of social import. Taken as part of the Washington internship program.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT126 CM
  
  • GOVT 127 CM - Research on the Political Process

    This course will focus on the development of skills and methods appropriate to conducting research on politics. The primary goal of the course is the development, in conjunction with the internship, of a research paper on a particular aspect of American National Politics. Taken as part of the Washington internship program.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every semester

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT127 CM
  
  • GOVT 128 CM - Ethics and American Democracy

    Explores whether, to what extent, and how democracy ought to promote the ethical character of its citizens. Readings and class discussions are structured around a variety of specific issues such as: censorship and the arts, legalization of drug use, the role of religion in promoting morality, and the benefits and limits of moral leadership by public officials. Analysis of these contemporary issues is supplemented by examination of the philosophic debate over the relationship of ethics to democracy, particularly in the American political tradition.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every third year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT128 CM
  
  • GOVT 128C CM - Civic Leadership & Ethics

    Introduces students to the moral challenges and ethical responsibilities of leadership in the private and the public spheres.  We focus on: 1) leadership and ethics in the private business community; 2) statesmanship in modern constitutional democracies; and 3) political leadership on the economy and immigration in an era of globalization.  Topics: the leading role of private enterprise in confronting global challenges (with Google and Facebook as case studies); case studies of Lincoln, Wilson and FDR, and post-9/11 leadership of Presidents Bush and Obama; and a comparative study of the challenges of immigration and the welfare state in Europe and America.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT128C CM
  
  • GOVT 129 CM - Ethics, Character, and American Political Leadership

    Examines the importance of ethics and character for American political leadership. It will address the following questions: Do democratic institutions require leaders with certain kinds of virtues or personal character? What dangers, if any, arise if our leaders are not exemplars of virtue? Are American institutions and our legal system sufficient to check immoral or unethical behavior by leaders? And does the success of American democracy depend at crucial moments on leaders of exceptional virtue or character? The course examines national political scandals since the Watergate controversy of the Nixon administration and the remedies that have been proposed or embraced for combating unethical behavior by public officials. In addition, students will read biographies of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln for insight into the connection between character and leadership.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT129 CM
  
  • GOVT 130 CM - Presidential Primaries, Nominations, and Elections

    This course will familiarize students with the process of presidential selection in the United States, including both party nominations and the general election. Special attention will be paid to recent election campaigns and the ways in which they illustrate broader course materials.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT130 CM
  
  • GOVT 131 CM - Heroes, Villains, and Clowns

    This course examines the meaning of heroism, villainy, and clownishness as they occur in western politics, literature, plays, and film. Drawing on materials in all media, including biography, history, fiction, poetry, plays, and cinema, the course studies specific individuals and works of art, ancient and modern. Among the individuals and works studied are: Churchill, Nero, Nixon, Faust; the movies Shane, and From Here to Eternity; the novel Anna Karenina; and the play Medea.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT131 CM
  
  • GOVT 132E CM - Politics and Economics of Natural Resource Policy in Developing Countries

    This seminar course addresses the question of how countries dependent on natural resources ought to husband these resources and invest the proceeds productively. It employs the policy sciences framework to explore the political and economic-policy challenges of minimizing the abuse of resource endowments due to mis-pricing, corruption, intra-governmental conflicts, and perverse governance arrangements. It examines why governments seem to abuse natural resources willfully, what forms of privatization hold promise for better resource use, what fiscal and governance arrangements are optimal for the relationship between government and state natural-resource agencies, and whether resource abundance is actually a “curse” rather than an advantage for a country’s economic and political development. The cases will be drawn predominantly from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Also listed as ECON 142 CM .

    Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM  and GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT132E CM
  
  • GOVT 133 CM - Politics of South Asia

    This course introduces students to the history and politics of countries in South Asia in a comparative framework. Despite the recent increased international attention to the countries of the region, South Asia continues to puzzle scholars, policymakers, and journalists alike.  The so-called “problems” endemic to the countries in South Asia – the tendency to use violence to resolve conflicts, potential of nuclear conflict, and radical political change – must be placed within the domestic, historical, and international context of the various countries in the region.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT133 CM
  
  • GOVT 133E CM - Politics and Military in Latin America

    This course will explore the changing dynamics of Latin American countries in the process of change from authoritarian to democratic political systems, and how that is influencing the role of the military in their societies and civil-military relations.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT133E CM
  
  • GOVT 134 CM - Mexican Government and Politics

    An introduction to major themes, historical patterns, political institutions, and developmental issues facing Mexico.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT134 CM
  
  • GOVT 134E CM - Democratization and Politics in Mexico

    This course explores the institutions and processes which are impacting the democratic political transition in Mexico, and assesses the importance of changes which reinforce or deter this transition.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT134E CM
  
  • GOVT 135 CM - Comparative Politics of the Middle East

    This course offers students a broad overview of current political themes in the Middle East and North Africa—one of the most talked about slices of political geography on the globe. Starting with the issue of colonial legacies and concluding with the future prospects for democracy and development, the course covers a range of themes, including: authoritarianism, popular uprisings, oil, gender, political Islam, and foreign intervention.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT135 CM
  
  • GOVT 138 CM - Religion and Politics in Latin America

    An exploration of the impact of religion, the Catholic Church, and new religious movements on politics in the region, including possible consequences for democratic transition.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT138 CM
  
  • GOVT 139 CM - Development, Power, and Globalization

    This course analyzes the relationship between globalization and development with reference to a diverse group of developing countries. Different dimensions of globalization—economic flows, international rules and organizations, and role of international aid—will be studied. We will also analyze how the concept of development has changed over time and evaluate it from the perspective of different social groups. We examine the impact of globalization from the perspective of different countries focusing on some large developing countries such as India, China, Brazil, as well as smaller countries such as Guatemala.

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT139 CM
  
  • GOVT 140 CM - Korean Politics and Economy

    Compares the political systems and economic policies of South Korea and North Korea. Special attention will be given to an in-depth study of competing ideologies, political leadership, political participation, policy-making processes, military organizations, and economic performance.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT140 CM
  
  • GOVT 142 CM - Government and Politics of East Asia

    Study of the governmental structures and political processes of China, Japan, and Korea with emphasis on political culture, constitutional frameworks, political leadership, party systems, electoral behavior, student movements, public policies, and economic modernization.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT142 CM
  
  • GOVT 142A CM - Regionalism in East Asia: History and Its Prospects

    This course examines the evolving pattern of regional integration in East Asia since the end of World War II, paying special attention to the legacy of Japanese colonialism and the rivalry between China and Japan in the region. In particular, this course will focus on the imbalance between economic interdependence and the level of political cooperation in the region. We can observe the growing power of nationalistic, conservative political groups in domestic politics and the ongoing fierce territorial disputes in the region. This imbalance between economic and political integration provides many intriguing questions in regard to the prospect of East Asia in the global political economy. Students will explore these questions and other relevant issues by reviewing the historical trend of regional integration in the areas of economy, politics, and security. South East Asian countries will also be reviewed in terms of the relationship between ASEAN and East Asia.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT142A CM
  
  • GOVT 142E CM - Chinese Politics

    The primary objective of this course is to help students both acquire the basic knowledge of politics and political economy of the People’s Republic of China and to develop the analytical skills to understand and explore the underlying factors that shape Chinese political institutions, culture, politics, and social movements. The focus of the first half of the course is on understanding the causes that have contributed to the outcomes of the key political events in China and on analyzing the long-term consequences of these events. The second half of the course examines some of the most important and intellectually interesting topics in contemporary Chinese politics, society, and economy, such as politics reform, democratization, mass media, civil society, corruption, social conflict, ethnic minorities, sustainable development, and China’s experience viewed from a comparative perspective.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT142E CM
  
  • GOVT 143C CM - International Political Economy of Money and Finance

    This course seeks to provide students with an overview of several key international monetary and financial policy issues. We will begin with an historical overview of the international monetary system, from the gold standard to the contemporary monetary system. We will then examine how financial globalization affects the national policy autonomy of advanced industrialized countries. Subsequently, we turn to the international monetary experience of developing countries in the global economy, focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, post-Communist states and Asia, paying particular attention to the causes and consequences of the major financial crises.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT143C CM
  
  • GOVT 144A CM - Sixties Movements

    This course explores the movements that led to the social, cultural, and political upheavals of the sixties. They include movements on the left, such as campaigns for civil rights, participatory democracy, gay liberation, and feminism, as well as movements on the right, such as the Goldwater insurgency, Campus Crusade, and the anti-abortion campaign. It further explores how movements work and why some succeed, while others fail. It also pays special attention to the ways in which these movements have remade American democracy and considers their place in our constitutional democracy.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT144A CM
  
  • GOVT 144B CM - Comparing Social Movements Across the World

    This course attempts to understand similar expressions of collective protest, referred to as “social movements”. Analyzing a variety of such movements in both the West and the developing world, we will explore the following questions: What social and political conditions give rise to such movements? How do social movements affect political institutions and vice-versa? What determines their success or failure? What is the impact of social movements both on public policy and on patterns of everyday interaction? In short, we will be concerned with the relationship between social movements, political institutions and public policies.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT144B CM
  
  • GOVT 144D CM - Democracy in Developing Countries

    This seminar explores the various underlying factors associated with the emergence of democratic political institutions in developing countries as well as analyzes representative cases of transition to democracy in the last century. Students are encouraged to critically examine theories of democratization and question their relevance to the actual historical cases. The seminar intends to generate lively discussions among students and between the students and the instructor on the most important questions about how democratic institutions emerge, evolve, and consolidate themselves in countries that do not necessarily have the most hospitable conditions for such institutions. The reading assignments and classroom discussions should enable students to have a comprehensive, albeit basic, understanding of the theoretical literature on democracy in general, on the relationship between democratic institutions and government performance, on variations of democratic institutions, on the causes of the breakdown of democracy, and on democratic assistance from external actors.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT144D CM
  
  • GOVT 145 CM - Globalization and East Asian Capitalism

    This course examines the interaction between states and markets in modern Japan, Korea and China, paying special attention to the similarities and differences in the course of economic development and each government’s attempt to reform its economy in response to globalization. The course will explore how each country has commonly achieved rapid economic growth, while developing substantially different models of economic development due to the peculiar institutional environment of each country. Similarly, the course will also explore the economic reforms pursued by each country in response to economic globalization, and how they resulted in different outcomes due to their unique institutional settings.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT145 CM
  
  • GOVT 145E CM - Security Studies

    This course will introduce students to the study of how states provide for their security through the use of military force. The course will first explore the origin and nature of threats to states’ security. It will then examine the key military implements and strategies that states employ in attempting to deal with these threats. Finally the course will study several historical cases of military conflict in light of its earlier theoretical and strategic findings.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT145E CM
  
  • GOVT 146 CM - Chinese Foreign Policy

    Examines China’s contemporary foreign policy with emphasis on its structure and processes and on the consequences of its rise in world affairs and analyzes China’s relations with the United States, Japan, Korea, Russia, India, Europe, and other countries and regions. It focuses on such issues as diplomatic negotiations, economic interdependence, containment strategies, and constructive engagement.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT146 CM
  
  • GOVT 148 CM - Leadership in Politics and Diplomacy

    Through the study of biography, autobiography, political and diplomatic history, and classical and contemporary theories of leadership, the course examines the actions of leaders in the United States who were active in important ways in conceiving and carrying out American foreign policy.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT148 CM
  
  • GOVT 149 CM - Foreign Relations of the United States

    Studied are premises and implementation of American foreign policy, particularly in relation to the former Soviet Union, China, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Topics include inter-allied relations, covert and overt intervention, nuclear weapons, and the increasing demand for energy, raw materials, and food.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT149 CM
  
  • GOVT 150E CM - Diplomacy and Military Power in U.S. Foreign Policy

    The course examines instances in which the United States has sought to combine diplomacy and military power to accomplish the ends of policy. They include World Wars I and II, the Korean, Vietnam, and Gulf Wars, as well as interventions in Lebanon, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, and Kosovo. The course is based on readings in the classics of strategy and diplomacy, such as Clausewitz and Thucydides, and of the works of more recent strategists and historians, including George Kennan, Bernard Brodie, Colin Gray, Albert Wohlstetter, and John Lewis Gaddis.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Occasionally

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT150E CM
  
  • GOVT 151 CM - The United States, Israel, and the Arabs

    Emphasizes U.S. responses to the Arab-Israeli dispute, Cold War competition with the Soviet Union, the politics of oil, and the major wars in the region since 1945. It includes the role of Britain and France in the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, and the independence of the states of the contemporary Middle East.

    Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM 

    Offered: Every other year

    Credit: 1

    Course Number: GOVT151 CM
 

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