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Fall 2013 | PA 5890 Section 001: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Globalization and the World Food Supply (29239)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 5 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Carlson School of Management 1-127
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- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Description:
- The course examines the effects of markets, governmental policies and the process of globalization on world food, feed and fuel from biomass production. The course begins with a look at why agricultural issues are important both in developed countries and in poorer countries struggling to escape their poverty and hunger. It reviews the kinds of policy choices that are made with respect to agricultural production, international trade and, more recently, biofuels development. It looks at how these issues and the policy choices made with respect to each have evolved. It compares those choices with their effects. And it asks whether alternative policy choices would be better, in what ways and for whom. (See syllabus on Course Guide for more information.)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/29239/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 11 December 2013
Fall 2013 | PA 5890 Section 002: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- Human Rights and Development (34180)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 5 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 175
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Notes:
- Please contact the instructor or Stacey Grimes (grime004@umn.edu) for a permission number if you wish to enroll.
- Class Description:
- This class explores the synergies between human rights and development. It begins with a close reading Katherine Boo's award winning book on life in a Mumbai slum, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House, 2012). We then (briefly) reviews basic human rights and development debates, and then explore the "rights-based approach" to development by international and local NGOs. We also discuss religion, human rights and development; rights-based approaches to flood management, health, and sanitation; NGO efforts to protect sex workers; and the right-to-food movement in India. The class combines conceptual and practical readings. Your final assignment involves writing a proposal for a rights-based project on an issue of your own choosing. The class is taught by James Ron, the Stassen Chair of International Affairs (www.jamesron.com), whose work focuses on rights-based NGOs in the developing world. This graduate level offering is open to advanced undergraduates with instructor permission.
- Grading:
- 50% Reports/Papers
20% Reflection Papers
15% In-class Presentations
15% Class Participation
- Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
50% Discussion
20% Student Presentations
10% Web Based
- Workload:
- 150 Pages Reading Per Week
40 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34180/1139
- Past Syllabi:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/jamesr_PA5890_Fall2017.pdf (Fall 2017)
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 11 December 2013
Fall 2013 | PA 5890 Section 003: Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs -- US Foreign Policy: The Institutional Basis (34194)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 5 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 184
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Selected topics.
- Class Description:
- This course will examine the institutions that influence American foreign and development policy. Institutions provide the organizational framework, rules and social structures that in turn impact on the work product of those who are part of them. One will often hear in places like Washington, DC, that "Where you sit determines what you think." This is only true up to a point as effective leadership and dynamism within the ranks of a change-oriented organization can enhance the capacity of an institution to innovate or respond to the demands of policymakers. However, bureaucratic structures are primarily designed to sustain themselves and often purposefully encumber themselves with rules that inhibit creative behavior. In the US Government, this creates tension with political appointees whose tenure is limited and whose need to achieve an externally generated set of goals (e.g. campaign promises) is often in conflict with the inertia that bureaucracies create. Some bureaucracies are crisis-oriented and their systems are designed for rapid response. Others have longer-term horizons and programmatic needs that inhibit fast response. Others are dominated by a largely domestic mission and are looking to utilize international engagement primarily to support their domestic objectives. The course will not limit itself to executive branch organizations. We will look at the roles of the Congress, the media, think tanks special interest groups. We also will review the role that international organizations like the United Nations play in influencing the policy choices of the United States Government. Special attention will be given to the political science theory known as liberal institutionalism. We will explore the practical challenges of implementing this theory in institutions that are often less responsive to the needs of policymakers.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34194/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 14 August 2013
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