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POL 1025 is also offered in Fall 2024
POL 1025 is also offered in Spring 2024
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POL 1025 is also offered in Spring 2022
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Fall 2024 | POL 1025 Section 001: Global Politics (17176)
- 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:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 250
- Enrollment Status:
Open (2 of 85 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Global politics is complex, fast-paced, and often confusing. This introductory course explores both the enduring challenges of international politics as well as more recent transformative trends. The course introduces theoretical traditions, but its focus is on making sense of real-world problems, both today and in the past. Why is the world organized into states, and what implications does the states system have for indigenous populations globally? 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? In what ways do existing systems of international law and trade exacerbate or mitigate global inequities? Why has human rights emerged as a central problem in world politics? What are the prospects for international cooperation to address climate change? How have inequities and prejudices, along the lines of race and other categorical identities, shaped our world - from the practice of global security to the structures of the international political economy? 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 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; as institutions, such as those governing international law, thicken; and as attention grows to the structuring effects of race and other ascriptive categories. Global Politics is an essential guide to our increasingly globalized world.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?POL1025+Fall2024
- Class Description:
- Americans hardly need to be told that international politics matters. US forces are still deployed around the globe, and economic uncertainty has barely abated. Knowing that international politics matters is one thing, making sense of it is another. This course will give students the tools they need to begin to understand patterns and trends in global politics. Students will be introduced to international relations' theoretical traditions, but the course will focus primarily on explaining and understanding historical and especially current problems in world politics. It will explore, among other issues, the causes of war and peace, the limited use of force, humanitarian intervention, nuclear proliferation, nationalist conflict, international ethics, the politics of international trade and finance, foreign aid, globalization, the prospects for environmental cooperation and human rights norms, migration, terrorism, and the future of world politics. By the end of the course, students should be familiar with all these issues and others, should have developed their own views on these much-debated questions, and should be able to apply basic analytical frameworks to answer them.
- Grading:
- 25% Midterm Exam
40% Final Exam
20% Essay, Quizzes15% Class Participation
- Exam Format:
- Identifications; short paragraphs; essays; reading quizzes
- Class Format:
- 80% Lecture
20% Discussion
- Workload:
- 50-75 Pages Reading Per Week
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17176/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 October 2015
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