Lower-Division

POLI1 Politics: Power, Principle, Process, and Policy

Systematic introduction to the nature of politics and government, organized around the dynamic relationship between power, principle, and process in democratic politics. Provides historic and contemporary overview; explores the interactions among government, laws, and societies at the national and international levels.

Credits

5

Instructor

Daniel Wirls

General Education Code

PE-H

Quarter offered

Spring, Summer

POLI3 Keywords: Concepts in Politics

Introduces key concepts in political discourse and key debates generated by contested terms such as powers, ideology, and multiculturalism. Students read from canonical texts, feminist scholarship, historical materials, and contemporary cultural and postmodernist writings.

Credits

5

Instructor

Vanita Seth

Quarter offered

Fall, Summer

POLI4 Citizenship and Action

What does a citizen do? What kind of citizen activity is appropriate to democratic aspirations? Course uses political theory to answer these questions as they relate to current and historical events, primarily in the North American context. Draws on texts ranging from Aristotle, Locke, Thoreau, Ellizon, and Ranciere, as well as present-day debates, to bear on the relationship of citizen action and identity.

Credits

5

General Education Code

TA

Quarter offered

Summer

POLI17 U.S. and the World Economy

Explores intellectual and empirical trends shaping the U.S. relationship with the global economy. Traces debates about liberalism and interventionism, surveys post-war American foreign economic policy and discusses varieties of capitalism emerging around the world.

Credits

5

Instructor

Matthew Sparke

Quarter offered

Winter

POLI20 American Politics

Introduces the study of politics through an analysis of the United States political system and processes. Topics vary, but may include political institutions, public policies, parties and electoral politics, and social forces.

Credits

5

Instructor

M. Springer

American History and Institutions

Yes

General Education Code

TA

Quarter offered

Spring, Summer

POLI21 Governing the Golden State

Introduces key principles for understanding state politics in California and how power is mobilized for transformative change. Analyzes distinctive features of California's political development and culture in the governance of enduring social problems and policy dilemmas.

Credits

5

Instructor

Anjuli Verma

General Education Code

ER

Quarter offered

Winter

POLI45 Music and Politics in Contemporary Society

Introduces music to the study of politics. Considers the fields of music and identity; music and social movements; and theories of music, art, and revolution.

Credits

5

POLI46 Africa in Global Perspective

Explores interdisciplinary methods, theories, and practices involved in producing and reproducing knowledges about Africa and the West within global politics. Examines ideas of international relations, international political economy, development, military structures, cultural formations, and the state through the critical use of film, literature, and scholarly texts.

Credits

5

POLI60 Comparative Politics

Introduces the study of politics through the analysis of national political systems within or across regions from the developing world to post-industrial nations. Typical topics include: authoritarian and democratic regimes; state institutions and capacity; parties and electoral systems; public policies; social movements; ethnic conflict; and globalization.

Credits

5

Instructor

Roger Schoenman

General Education Code

CC

POLI61 Politics of Social Policy

Introduces social policy around the world. Some countries provide free and good-quality health and education, as well as a minimum income to all citizens. Others, instead, provide meager benefits to few citizens.

Credits

5

Instructor

Sara Niedzwiecki

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Fall

POLI70 Global Politics

Can common global interest prevail against particular sovereign desires? Surveys selected contemporary issues in global politics such as wars of intervention, ethnic conflict, globalization, global environmental protection, and some of the different ways in which they are understood and explained.

Credits

5

Instructor

Ronnie Lipschutz

General Education Code

PE-H

Quarter offered

Spring