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Spring 2021 | POL 1025 Section 001: Global Politics (48554)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Full Year Registration
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed,
Fri 08:00AM - 08:50AM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
Open (75 of 83 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Global politics is complex, fast-paced, and often confusing. Seeking to reveal the deeper processes at work in the international system, this introductory course explores both the enduring challenges of international politics as well as more recent transformative trends? What has changed and what has stayed the same. It introduces theoretical traditions, but the course's focus is on making sense of real-world problems, both today and in the past. Why and when do states go to war and use military force? Why do they sign international agreements and treaties, on matters from arms control to investment? What effect does international trade have on the distribution of global wealth, and why do barriers to trade arise? Why has human rights emerged as a central problem in world politics? Why has our world become an increasingly legalized and regulated space? And what difference does it make? What good are nuclear weapons? Why do some turn to terrorism to advance their political agenda? Does foreign aid make the world a better place? How can we reduce global inequality? What are the prospects for international cooperation to address climate change? These are among the pressing real-world questions that this course in Global Politics will address? And that it will give you the tools to answer, though particular instructors will naturally choose to emphasize different topics and questions. But the course will also highlight how our answers to these questions are changing along with the deep power structures of global politics-as US dominance wanes and others, most notably China, rise; as core ideas and discourses underpinning the international system, such as sovereignty, come under assault; and as institutions, such as those governing international law, thicken. Global Politics is an essential guide to our increasingly globalized world.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times. http://classinfo.umn.edu/?freeman+POL1025+Spring2021
- Class Description:
- Global politics introduces students to the study of the world's political systems and to the debates over certain global issues. Various theroretical frameworks are examined throughout the semester, but the emphasis is on the so-called realist and liberal perspectives. Related middle range accounts of war and of international political economy also are studied. While many global political issues will be mentioned, the focus will be on the legacies of the East-West conflict, particularly nuclear proliferation, and on the North-South conflict, expecially Southern demands for distributional justice. At the end of the semester, students will be able to describe and predict the evolution of a global political system. In addition, they will be able to carve out and defend a stand on one of the global issues mentioned above.
- Exam Format:
- 20% Midterm Exams (3)
40% Final Exam Other Grading Information: Weightings are approximate
- Class Format:
- Some digitized video materials are used.
- Workload:
- 50-75 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Exam(s)
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48554/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 25 October 2016
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2021 Political Science Classes