5 courses with the subject POLS B, 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.
POLS B221GENDER AND COMPARATIVE POLITICS1.0
This course explores the dynamic intersection of gender and politics within a comparative framework. Through a feminist and intersectional lens, students will engage in major debates in the field of comparative politics, including but not limited to the State, social movements, authoritarianism, populism, democracy, institutions, and backlash. The course maps the trajectory of feminist work across various areas of comparative research, using examples from different world regions and periods to analyze similarities and differences across global cases. This course fulfills a 200-level requirement for both Comparative Politics and American Politics for Political Science majors. Prerequisite: Students must have taken either Intro to International Politics, Intro to Comparative Politics, or Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies.
POLS B242GENDER AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS1.0
Employing a multi-disciplinary feminist lens, this class examines women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights within the United Nations system, with a primary focus on human rights and peace & security. This course seeks to expose students to the complex issues - social, political, economic, and legal - that characterize women’s and LGBTQIA+ rights around the globe. The theoretical foundations are in the area of gender mainstreaming, which is the practice of integrating a gender equality perspective across all governing systems including but not limited to policy development, political representation, institutional regulations, program building, and budgeting. Students will be asked to conduct research on women’s and/or LGBTQIA+ rights within a country of their choice. Students will present their findings to the class as well as write a final report. Prerequisite: Introductory Political Science Course or Instructor's permission.
This course will introduce students to important political issues raised by climate change locally, nationally, and internationally, paying particular attention to the global implications of actions at the national and subnational levels. It will focus not only on specific problems, but also on solutions; students will learn about some of the technological and policy innovations that are being developed worldwide in response to the challenges of climate change. Only open to students in 360 program.
This course will focus on the role of the federal bureaucracy in the U.S. political system. It will take an interdisciplinary approach to help us contextualize and understand President Trump’s current efforts to dismantle “the administrative state.” It will wrestle with questions about how we reconcile bureaucracy and democracy in the United States including the bureaucracy’s role in policymaking and the bureaucracy’s vulnerability to presidential power.
Employing a multi-disciplinary feminist lens, this course examines how gender shapes and is shaped by global peace and security governance. With a particular focus on the United Nations Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, students will engage with theoretical, institutional, and empirical perspectives to analyze how global organizations translate gender norms into policy and practice. Through case studies and critical debates, the course interrogates both the promises and limitations of global gender governance in contexts of conflict and peacebuilding. Prerequisite: One Political Science or Gender & Sexuality Studies course.
