15 courses with the subject IS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
See description under IS 101 .
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of International Studies. Key themes and issues focused on include globalization, development, poverty, and human rights. The course explores how political, social and economic inequalities are produced and how they affect a variety of peoples and regions differently. Students examine the evolution of nation-state sovereignty and the inter-related impacts of other subnational and supra-national actors, groups and forces such as those of global markets and non-governmental and intergovernmental organizations. In addition, students learn how the disciplines of history, anthropology, political science and economics engage the central topics of International Studies in distinct ways.
This course introduces students to critical challenges in global health using multidisciplinary perspectives. Issues at the nexus between development and health are explored through millennium development goals, disease burden, environmental health and safe water, epidemiology and demography of disease, AIDS and HIV prevention, chronic diseases, nutritional challenges, social determinants of global health, harm reduction and behavioral modification, health professionals and capacity development, as well as human rights and bioethical issues in a global context.
(also listed as HS 130 ) Three continents converge on the Mediterranean Sea: Europe, Africa and the Middle East/Asia. This makes the region unequaled in the world for interactions across race, religion, and culture. Europeans, Africans and Asians have jostled together, coexisting, cooperating and clashing in unique and fascinating ways. The course is organized around five case studies: how France has responded to having the largest Muslim minority in Europe, mainly of North African descent; the origins and course of the Arab-Israeli situation in the Middle East; the rise of organized crime and the mafia in Italy; the fall of Yugoslavia into ethnic-religious wars in the 1990s, the worst conflicts in the region since World War II; and the migrant/refugee/terrorism crisis of the early 21st century, spilling over from tensions both within the region and from elsewhere.
This course provides students an intensive introduction to discipline-focused research and writing in their International Studies field(s) of interest. Students are introduced to a variety of types of primary and secondary sources. They learn about how to search for and locate these different sources, how to evaluate them, and how to utilize the sources in their research-based writing. Students learn how to develop research projects from the initial topic of interest through to the final written product; this work includes the generation of research proposals, re-drafting of papers, and practice in formulating different kinds of arguments depending on audience, sources, and written form.
(also listed as PS 221 ) This course focuses on global interconnections and the consequences of humans’ use and frequent degradation of natural resources around the planet. All continents are explored. Readings, discussions, and written assignments examine such topics as the shifting demand for and politics of resource extraction, trends in energy use (past, present and future), environmental health and justice, and how and the extent to which ecological balances have been imperiled by human economic and social development.
(also listed as HS 224 ) This class presents an overview of Latin America by focusing on the historical processes and contemporary socio-political practices that produce conflict and inequality in the region. Why has a region so rich in resources been historically underdeveloped? What issues have recurred across contexts as causes of conflict and inequality in the region? And how have people mobilized to address these causes? Through an examination of several specific case studies, from the Zapatista rebellion in Mexico to community health care activism in Chile, we will explore the similarities and differences in the nature of conflict and inequality found in countries across Latin America. As part of this, we will consider the role the United States has played in shaping the political economy of the region.
This course examines the politics of migration with a focus on the dynamics of national identity and national belonging within migrant communities and between those communities and the countries to which they migrate. A central objective of the class is to investigate how language practices-from people’s routine talk, to media coverage, to immigration policies-shape migration politics. Through this investigation, the course explores the historical formation and contemporary realities of migration and its related language practices, highlighting that “politics” refers not only to the workings of government. It is also a feature of everyday life that is shaped by language. The course concentrates on migration between Latin America and the United States. However, during class discussions and in their coursework, students have the opportunity to explore other migrations in the Americas, if they choose.
Debates that surround poverty and inequality are some of the most urgent in our time. This advanced seminar critically analyzes the causes of poverty and inequality and applies this analysis to new approaches to development around the world. Students explore historical efforts to address poverty as well as contemporary texts that offer cutting edge solutions to development challenges.
In the late 20th century, there was a global turn towards criminalization and incarceration as responses to social problems-to “disorder.” While justified by claims about increases in crime, this “penal turn” often precedes such increases, and so cannot be explained by crime rates alone. The politics of crime are a useful way to examine many social and political changes, such as the criminalization of poor and African-American youth and “urban decline” in U.S. inner cities. This course will examine how these politics help construct inequality in the U.S.; we will also consider how they shape international relationships between the U.S., Europe, and nation-states in Latin America and Africa. As part of this, we will examine how criminalization creates social hierarchies, in which some types of people and some nation-states are seen as inherently criminal and disorderly. We will discuss a range of specific cases that allow us to understand the factors that motivate the penal turn, exploring the ways the penal turn has material consequences that encourage future criminalization, such as for-profit prisons.
PS355 This seminar explores the origins and solutions to environmental racism and injustice. In particular, we examine the Environmental Justice Movement, the political economy of environmental injustice, and institutionalized racism that contribute to the degradation of environmental conditions in low income and BIPOC communities in North America and around the world. By discussing local and global case studies of environmental injustice and by taking virtual toxic tours we think through possibilities for resistance and sovereignty. The seminar materials draw from Native American and Indigenous studies, Black studies, environmental anthropology, and feminist theory to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on the ongoing project for environment justice.
This course introduces students to the main issues in post conflict reconstruction and the multiple challenges facing societies emerging from conflict. The objective of the course is to highlight the various dilemmas and needs of reconstruction and how these are generated by the specific dynamics of conflict. To do so, we adopt a comparative political economy approach that addresses many of the key issues affecting post conflict reconstruction in different conflict spaces, including the role of international actors; the relationship between socio-political peace and economic stability; the financing of reconstruction; the challenges of reconstituting domestic political relations after conflict; governance and institutional development; and the importance of social policy in facilitating reconstruction. This course also places emphasis on the applied side of post conflict reconstruction by introducing some of the techniques, policies and needs assessment strategies employed by international organizations in advancing reconstruction policies and strategies.
This course explores war and violent conflict from a socio-cultural perspective. The course explores the ways in which war and violent conflict reshape social structures, create new cultural processes in reaction to altered reality, and reconstitute identities. Students read and discuss ethnographic accounts that show how war and violent conflict are experienced at the personal, cultural and social level. This course enhances and complicates understanding of what conflict is and what it means for people and social groups who are forced to endure it.
In this two-semester Capstone course, students explore research methods and develop and complete a substantial research project. Project topics are chosen by students in consultation with the seminar professor. (490 in fall only; 491 in spring only)
In this two-semester Capstone course, students explore research methods and develop and complete a substantial research project. Project topics are chosen by students in consultation with the seminar professor. (490 in fall only; 491 in spring only)
Source: Arcadia University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
