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SIS 103 Society and the Oceans (5) I&S/NW
Explores the social and policy dimensions of the ocean environment and ocean management policy. Attention to how human values, institutions, culture, and history shape environmental issues and policy responses. Examines case studies and influential frameworks, such as the ocean as "tragedy of the commons". Offered: jointly with SMA 103
Instructor Course Description:
Patrick John Christie
SIS 111 Global Youth (5) I&S Jeffrey
Examines how a focus on young people might inform our understanding of key aspects of global social and political change. Students discuss the links between their own lives and those of students in other global contexts, with particular reference to health threats, environmental transformations, and educational change. Offered: jointly with GEOG 111; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Craig J Jeffrey
SIS 123 Introduction to Globalization (5) I&S Sparke
Provides an introduction to the debates over globalization. Focuses on the growth and intensification of global ties. Addresses the resulting inequalities and tensions, as well as the new opportunities for cultural and political exchange. Topics include the impacts on government, finance, labor, culture, the environment, health, and activism. Offered: jointly with GEOG 123.
Instructor Course Description:
Douglas Mercer
Matthew Sparke
SIS 150 Israel: Dynamic Society and Global Flashpoint (5) I&S Barzilai, Migdal, Pianko, Sokoloff
Introduces the people, institutions, and culture of Israel is the context of larger global forces. Examines domestic, regional, and international elements, both historically and in the contemporary period, that have shaped Israel's culture, politics, and special role in world affairs. Topics include nationalism, ethnicity, politics, religion, film, literature, and culture. Offered: jointly with NEAR E 150.
Instructor Course Description:
Joel S Migdal
Noam Pianko
SIS 200 States and Capitalism: The Origins of the Modern Global System (5) I&S Kasaba, Migdal, Yang
Origins of the modern world system in the sixteenth century and its history until World War I. Interacting forces of politics and economics around the globe, with particular attention to key periods of expansion and crisis. Offered: A.
Instructor Course Description:
Anand A Yang
Daniel Chirot
Resat Kasaba
SIS 201 The Making of the 21st Century (5) I&S Bachman, Callahan, Migdal, Radnitz
Provides a historical understanding of the twentieth century and major global issues today. Focuses on interdisciplinary social science theories, methods, and information relating to global processes and on developing analytical and writing skills to engage complex questions of causation and effects of global events and forces. Recommended: SIS 200. Offered: WSp.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher D Jones
David M Bachman
Jose A Lucero
Jessica Beyer
Joel S Migdal
Mary P. Callahan
T. J. Pempel
Scott B. Radnitz
SIS 202 Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World (5) I&S Robinson, Sorensen, Warren, Wellman
Cultural interaction among societies and civilizations, particularly Western and non-Western. Intellectual, cultural, social, and artistic aspects; historical factors. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
James A. Quitslund
James K. Wellman
Mike W. Campbell
R Kent Guy
SIS 216 Science and Society (5) I&S/NW Chaloupka
Investigation of the relationship between science, technology and society. Nuclear physics and molecular biology serves as concrete examples of fields with significant impact on society. Offered jointly with PHYS 216, Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Vladimir Chaloupka
SIS 301 War (5) I&S
Origins and conduct of war; readings from anthropology, political science, economics, and history, as well as novels and some recent works on the arms-control controversy. Modern forms of warfare, including guerrilla war, world war, and nuclear war. Offered: jointly with SOC 301.
Instructor Course Description:
Peter Soverel
SIS 302 Intercultural Relations (5) I&S Warren
Perspectives on foreign cultures through literary example. Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of culture as such and problems of intercultural relations. Prerequisite: either one 200-level ANTH course, LING 203 or SIS 202.
Instructor Course Description:
R Kent Guy
Jonathan W. Warren
SIS 322 Human Rights in Latin America (5) I&S Godoy
Overview of human rights issues and their recent evolution in Latin American history; military dictatorships; contemporary challenges in the region's democracies. Human rights concerns in relation to broader sociopolitical context. Recommended: knowledge of modern Latin American history. Offered: jointly with LSJ 322.
Instructor Course Description:
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
SIS 325 Immigration (5) I&S Friedman
Introduces key theoretical debates in international migration. Examines immigrants' political, economic, religious, and social integration into host societies, and continued ties to homelands. Experiences of voluntary and involuntary immigrants, of the second generation, and of incorporation into America and Europe. Designed around interdisciplinary texts and fieldwork in Seattle.
Instructor Course Description:
Kathie Friedman
Kathie Friedman
SIS 330 Political Economy of Development (5) I&S Latsch, Poznanski
Growth, income distribution, and economic development in less-developed countries today. Policies concerning trade, industrialization, the agricultural sector, human resources, and financing of development. Prerequisite: either ECON 201, GEOG 123 or SIS 120 any of which may be taken concurrently.
Instructor Course Description:
Christine Wong
Gary G. Hamilton
Wolfram W. Latsch
T. J. Pempel
Sanjeev Khagram
SIS 332 Political Economy of International Trade and Finance (5) I&S Poznanski
Theoretical and historical analysis to explore the causes and effects of the rise and decline of four major international trade and monetary regimes. Foundations and emerging features of the new international trade and monetary regime and its implications for the world economy.
Instructor Course Description:
Kazimierz Poznanski
Kenneth G Lawson
SIS 333 Gender and Globalization: Theory and Process (5) I&S Ramamurthy
Theoretical, historical, and empirical analysis of how current processes of globalization are transforming the actual conditions of women's lives, labor, gender ideologies, and politics in complex and contradictory ways. Topics include feminist exploration of colonialism, capitalism, economic restructuring policies, resistance in consumer and environmental movements. Offered: jointly with WOMEN 333.
Instructor Course Description:
Priti Ramamurthy
Serena D. Maurer
SIS 335 Geography of the Developing World (5) I&S
Characteristics and causes, external and internal, of Third World development and obstacles to that development. Special attention to demographic and agricultural patterns, resource development, industrialization, and urbanization, drawing on specific case studies from Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Offered: jointly with GEOG 335.
Instructor Course Description:
Clare L. Newstead
SIS 336 The Place of Law in Multicultural Conflicts (5) I&S Barzilai
Global and regional issues of multicultural conflict and the law. Covers the multiplicity of theories, facts, and interpretations that shape this field of study, some of which are controversial, including: legal identities, cultural difference and human rights, multicultural jurisdictions, international/transnational immigration, and legal pluralism. Offered: jointly with LSJ 336.
Instructor Course Description:
Gad Barzilai
SIS 337 Collective Violence and the State (5) I&S
Comparative study of collective violence in modern states with emphasis on riots and pogroms. Readings include case materials drawn from Russian pogroms of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hindu-Muslim riots in modern India, and race riots in the United States and Great Britain. Offered: jointly with POL S 337.
SIS 342 Social Theory in International Context (5) I&S
Comparative, historical introduction to the foundations of modern social theory in the work of Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, and Claude Levi-Strauss. Focus on tensions between universalist claims, European origins, and non-European applications of models of cultural formation and development.
Instructor Course Description:
Noam Pianko
Sabrina P. Ramet
SIS 344 Migration in the Global Economy (5) I&S Mitchell
Analyzes the relationship between human mobility in the late 20th century and changes in the global economy. Allows the student to gain familiarity with scholarly research on international migration from a diversity of approaches and methods. Offered: jointly with GEOG 344; W.
Instructor Course Description:
Kathie Friedman
Katharyne Mitchell
SIS 345 Women and International Economic Development (5) I&S Ramamurthy
Questions how women are affected by economic development in Third World and celebrates redefinitions of what development means. Theoretical perspectives and methods to interrogate gender and development policies introduced. Current processes of globalization and potential for changing gender and economic inequalities assessed. Offered: jointly with ANTH 345/WOMEN 345.
Instructor Course Description:
Priti Ramamurthy
Serena D. Maurer
SIS 348 Alternative Routes to Modernity (5) I&S
Routes to modernity followed by non-Western societies between 1600 and 1900. Historical experiences of non-Western societies seen in the context of European history and of development theory. Emphasizes primary sources and techniques for posing theoretical questions of historical data. Offered: jointly with HSTAS 348.
SIS 350 Environmental Norms in International Politics (5) I&S Ingebritsen
Surveys development of international environmental consciousness from 1960s to present. Models of "green development"; ways in which norms for resource use have entered global politics. Patterns of state compliance with international environmental agreements, and why states fall short of meeting their international obligations. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 360/SCAND 350.
Instructor Course Description:
Christine Ingebritsen
SIS 362 Law and Justice: An Introduction to Social Theory (5) I&S Godoy
Provides conceptual tools for understanding law and its role in society by acquainting students with major currents of social theory. Topics include liberalism, Marxism, critical feminist theory, and critical race theory. Offered: jointly with LSJ 362.
Instructor Course Description:
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
SIS 365 World Cities (5) I&S Kasaba, Sparke
Factors that have propelled New York, London, and Tokyo into key positions in the organization of the late twentieth century international system. Asks historical and comparative questions and discusses the reasons behind the diminished position of cities such as Venice, Vienna, and Istanbul in that system.
Instructor Course Description:
Resat Kasaba
SIS 366 Comparative Law, Societies, and Courts: Global and Local Perspectives (5) I&S Barzilai
Explores global issues of comparative law, societies, politics, and courts. Uses criteria, methodologies, and theories to compare legal settings internationally. Covers: what is 'comparative law'; 'families' of law; history of comparative law; models of judicial review; legal cultures; and models of regulation. Can not be taken for credit if student has already taken LSJ/POL S 367. Offered: jointly with LSJ 366.
Instructor Course Description:
Gad Barzilai
SIS 375 Geopolitics (5) I&S
An introduction to both political geography and geopolitics, addressing the fundamental links between power and space. Topics covered include: theories of power, space, and modernity; the formation of modern states; international geopolitics in the aftermath of the Cold War; the post-colonial nation-state; and the geopolitics of resistance. Offered: jointly with GEOG 375.
Instructor Course Description:
Stephen J Young
Matthew Sparke
SIS 377 Turkic Peoples of Central Asia (3) I&S Cirtautas
History of the Turkic peoples, AD 552 to present. Emphasis on current status of Turkic peoples in Central Asia. Geographical distribution, demographic data, reactions and adaptations to changes resulting from the 1917 revolution. Turkic viewpoint on past and present developments. Offered: jointly with NEAR E 375.
SIS 390 Political Economy of Industrialized Nations (5) I&S Ingebritsen
Theoretical bases of various political economic systems of industrialized nations. Several major issues these political economies currently face; usefulness and limits of economic analyses within broader perspective of political economy. Prerequisite: either ECON 201, GEOG 123 or SIS 120 any of which may be taken concurrently.
Instructor Course Description:
T. J. Pempel
SIS 397 Junior Honors Seminar (5) I&S
Designed to facilitate writing of honors thesis through methodological and bibliographical research. Required of honors candidates.
Instructor Course Description:
Deborah Porter
Kathie Friedman
Joel S Migdal
SIS 399 Study Abroad -- International Studies (1-5, max. 15) I&S
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
SIS 401 International Political Economy (5) I&S Ingebritsen, Latsch
Establishment, maintenance, and decay of the post-1945 international economic order. Political economy of international trade, monetary relations, inflation, and North-South relations. Prerequisite: SIS 201 which may be taken concurrently; either ECON 201, GEOG 123 or SIS 120 any of which may be taken concurrently.
Instructor Course Description:
Gary G. Hamilton
Christine Ingebritsen
Kenneth G Lawson
Wolfram W. Latsch
Isik Ozel
SIS 405 Political Economy of Religious Institutions (5) I&S
Comparative study of Buddhist, Taoist, Christian, and Islamic religious institutions as political and economic phenomena. Impact of wealth and power on religious institutions or religious ideas. Temporal coverage from the formative period to the present. Recommended: one China, Japan, Middle East, or Europe course.
Instructor Course Description:
James K. Wellman
SIS 406 Political Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism (5) I&S Robinson
Study of resurgence, since mid-1970s, of political Islam and what has come to be called Islamic fundamentalism, especially in the Middle East. Topics include the nature and variety of political Islam today, causes and implications of the current resurgence, and comparison with previous resurgences. Offered: jointly with POL S 432.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert D Burrowes
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
SIS 410 Introduction to Global Internet Political Economy (5) I&S Hellmann
Impact of the Internet revolution on structure and operating procedures of the international system. Effects of Internet-driven forces on aspects of the global political economy: cultural and political identities; interactions between states and markets; meaning of the boundaries of sovereignty and civil society.
Instructor Course Description:
Donald C Hellmann
SIS 419 Comparative Media Systems (5) I&S
Provides students an understanding of policies that shape national communication processes and systems. Uses comparative analysis to identify both similarities and differences among media structures of nations at different levels of development. Primary emphasis on broadcast media. Offered: jointly with COM 420/POL S 468.
Instructor Course Description:
Anthony B. Chan
Philip Edward Howard
SIS 421 National Security and International Affairs (5) I&S Jones
Major military aspects of contemporary international politics. Uses and limitations of military capabilities for sustaining a stable international order and national security. Processes by which states detect and assess threats to their security; practice of deterrence; transfer of arms among states; pursuit of arms control. Recommended: one SIS or international relations course.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher D Jones
Frederick M. Lorenz
SIS 422 The United States in the Contemporary International System (5) I&S
United States in the world: ways in which international circumstances shape the political-strategic, economic, and cultural dimensions of America's policy. Case studies from post-1945 period. Recommended: one international relations or foreign policy course.
Instructor Course Description:
Robert D Burrowes
SIS 423 Practicing American Foreign Policy (5) I&S
Develops familiarity with tools available to promote international objectives of the United States. International case studies selected to illustrate the diverse considerations inherent in the policy process and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the national institutions involved. Prerequisite: SIS 201.
Instructor Course Description:
Darryl Norman Johnson
Ronald E. Woods
Vi Luat Nhan
SIS 425 International Law and Arms Control (5) I&S
Surveys the political, legal, and technological history of 20th-century arms control agreements with emphasis on the treaties which ended the Cold War. Examines current issues of law, politics, military strategy, and technology in regard to weapons of mass destruction and related topics in international security. Offered: Sp.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher D Jones
SIS 426 World Politics (5) I&S Caporaso, Modelski
Nation-state system and its alternatives; world distributions of preferences and power; structures of international authority; historical world societies and their politics. Offered: jointly with POL S 426.
Instructor Course Description:
Aseem Prakash
Stephen J Majeski
Theresa J. Squatrito
SIS 427 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Development, Deployment, and Detection (5) I&S Fuller
Practical understanding of the development of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons plus missile delivery systems. Proliferation detection technology and its limitations. Case studies of past and current arms control agreements and non-proliferation programs.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher D Jones
SIS 430 International Population (5) I&S Lavely
Demographic situation of the world and of major world regions. The demographic transition. Topics include public health, policies of fertility and mortality control, international migration, relation of population growth to economic development, social change, and resource constraints. Exploration and manipulation of international demographic data.
Instructor Course Description:
William R. Lavely
SIS 432 Population and Modernization (3) I&S Hirschman, Lavely
Examines role of demographic factors in process of social modernization and economic growth. Approach is historical, focusing on populations of developed countries since 1700, and analytic, stressing attempts made by different disciplines to model demographic relationships, with attention to less developed regions. Offered: jointly with SOC 432.
SIS 433 Environmental Degradation in the Tropics (5) I&S/NW Christie
Considers theories and controversies of environmental degradation in the tropics, ecological and social case studies of Central American rain forests and Southeast Asian coral reefs, and implications of environmental management techniques. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 433/SMA 433.
Instructor Course Description:
Patrick John Christie
SIS 436 Ethnic Politics and Nationalism in Multi-Ethnic Societies (5) I&S
Provides a broad theoretical base, both descriptive and analytical, for the comparative study of ethnicity and nationalism. Examples drawn from ethnic movements in different societies. Some previous exposure either to introductory courses in political science or to courses in ethnicity in other departments is desirable. Offered: jointly with POL S 436.
SIS 438 Forced Migrations (5) I&S Friedman
Provides an interdisciplinary understanding of the causes, characteristics, and consequences of forced migration experiences across the global system. Explores how international policy makers, humanitarian workers, and scholars have constructed forced migration as a problem for analysis and action, including some of the ethical dilemmas involved. Recommended: SIS 325 or SIS 344.
Instructor Course Description:
Kathie Friedman
SIS 439 Law and Political Power: Global and Local Issues (5) I&S Barzilai
Explores global and local interactions between political power and rule of law. Studies theory of law and political power; development of the concept of 'rule of law'; development and boundaries of civil democratic supervision; political corruption; relationship between economies and law; warfare; terrorism, counter-terrorism, and human rights. Offered: jointly with LSJ 439.
SIS 440 History of Communism (5) I&S Ellison
Communism from its origins in Bolshevik faction of Russian social democracy to the present, treating the development of the ideology, the various communist parties, and the communist states. Recommended: two history or politics of Europe courses. Offered: jointly with HSTEU 440.
Instructor Course Description:
Scott Alan Brown
Glennys J. Young
Herbert J Ellison
Matthew J. Ouimet
Mike W. Campbell
SIS 444 Peasants in Politics (5) I&S Young
Interdisciplinary study of peasants, with special attention to questions of rural transformation. Peasant involvement in an increasingly independent world. Rebellion and revolution, impact of the international market, agricultural development. Offered: jointly with POL S 446.
Instructor Course Description:
Glennys J. Young
SIS 446 History, Memory, and Justice (5) I&S Giebel
Focuses on the complex interactions between history and historical representation, remembrance and commemoration, memory and identity, and notions of just8ice and reconciliation. Addresses these issues on methodological, theoretical, and practical grounds, drawing on examples from various genres, periods, and world regions. Offered.
Instructor Course Description:
Christoph Giebel
SIS 449 Social Transformation of Modern East Asia (5) I&S Sorensen
Comparative study of social change in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam since 1945. Concentration on small-scale social units in rural and urban areas under both communist and capitalist political systems. Recommended: two history or anthropology of East Asia courses. Offered: jointly with ANTH 449.
Instructor Course Description:
Clark W. Sorensen
SIS 450 Political Economy of Women and Family in the Third World (5) I&S
Theoretical and empirical aspects of the political economy of women and the family in the Third World during the process of development, with a focus on labor. Main theoretical approaches examined and applied to case studies from Asia and Latin America. Offered: jointly with SOC 450.
SIS 452 Law and Politics of International Trade (5) I&S S. Pekkanen
Survey of global trade politics in the context of the World trade Organization (WTO), with attention to positive and negative aspects of its governance. Examines the impact of the WTO legal framework on trade relations among developed and developing countries. Covers topics such as dispute settlement, development, safeguards, antidumping, intellectual property, and regionalism.
Instructor Course Description:
Saadia Pekkanen
SIS 455 Industry and the State (5) I&S Hamilton, Whiting
Builds on states and markets approach of 200 and 201 through specific examination of effects of industry and industrial structure on political outcomes and roles of state. Emphasis on late-developing and newly developing economies. Prerequisite: SIS 200; SIS 201.
Instructor Course Description:
Gary G. Hamilton
Susan H. Whiting
SIS 456 State-Society Relations in Third World Countries (5) I&S Bachman, Callahan, Kasaba
Relationships among political, social, and economic changes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Problems of economic and political development, revolution and reform, state-society relations, imperialism and dependency. Offered: jointly with POL S 450.
Instructor Course Description:
Joseph Hannah
Resat Kasaba
Joel S Migdal
Mary P. Callahan
Nicole F. Watts
Deborah Wheeler
SIS 460 Law, State, and Society (5) I&S Migdal
Examination of both state law and non-state law (rules and ways of ordering behavior such as customary law, religious law, and social conventions). Focuses on the ways non-state law interacts with and affects state law and is affected by state law.
Instructor Course Description:
Gad Barzilai
Patricia J Woods
SIS 465 Deeply Divided Societies (5) I&S Migdal
Ethnic conflict seen from two perspectives: 1. the study of theoretical approaches as a means of understanding deeply divided societies; 2. a focus on one or more specific conflicts. Recommended: SIS 201 or POL S 204.
SIS 467 Nations and States in the Modern World (5) I&S
Development of national consciousness in the "old nations" of Europe before the French Revolution. Replacement by the new nationalism and its spread into East Central Europe, Russia, Ibero-America, Asia, and Africa. Offered: jointly with HIST 467.
Instructor Course Description:
Joel S Migdal
Mike W. Campbell
SIS 476 Comparative International Political Economy (5) I&S Ingebritsen, Pozanaski
Comparative analysis of four major approaches to international political economy: mercantilism, Marxism, liberalism, and evolutionary approach. Focus on international cooperation, social change, and economic institutions. Theoretical analysis of the four paradigms and applications to historic and current issues in international political economy: hegemonic cycle, post-communist transition, and cross-national income inequality.
Instructor Course Description:
Kazimierz Poznanski
SIS 490 Special Topics (1-5, max. 15) I&S
Content varies from quarter to quarter.
Instructor Course Description:
Kathie Friedman
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
Arzoo Osanloo
Brittany Beaulieu
Christopher D Jones
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
Christine Wong
Deborah Porter
Elizabeth L. Kier
Kathie Friedman
Gad Barzilai
Gary G. Hamilton
Christoph Giebel
Michael N. Hechter
Donald C Hellmann
Heidi R. Pauwels
Robert Huber
Christine Ingebritsen
Martin S. Jaffee
James L. Fuller
Kurt E. Engelmann
Frederick M. Lorenz
Marwa M. Maziad
Joel S Migdal
M Jane Meyerding
Nancy Rivenburgh
Patrick John Christie
R Kent Guy
Jonathan W. Warren
Sabine Lang
Clark W. Sorensen
Scott Montgomery
Saadia Pekkanen
Peter Soverel
Matthew Sparke
Scott B. Radnitz
Terri E Givens
Vincent Gallucci
Vladimir Raskin
Brannon M. Wheeler
Deborah Wheeler
Yue Dong
SIS 491 Senior Honors Seminar (5-) I&S
Study of issues related to students' thesis topics. Develops thesis-writing skills. Open only to Jackson School honors students.
Instructor Course Description:
Deborah Porter
Joel S Migdal
SIS 492 Senior Honors Seminar (5) I&S
Students write a senior thesis working with their individual writing advisers.
SIS 494 Senior Research (2)
Independent research and writing under supervision of a faculty member. Open only to International Studies majors.
SIS 495 Task Force (5) I&S
Small-group seminars address current problems in international affairs, each focusing on one specific policy question and producing a joint task force report. Restricted to senior majors in International Studies. Prerequisite: SIS 200; SIS 201; SIS 202; SIS 401.
Instructor Course Description:
Resat Kasaba
Anand A Yang
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
Robert D Burrowes
Christopher D Jones
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
Daniel Chirot
Christine Wong
David M Bachman
Kathie Friedman
Gary G. Hamilton
Herbert J Ellison
Donald C Hellmann
Robert Huber
James K. Wellman
Resat Kasaba
Wolfram W. Latsch
Joel S Migdal
Mary P. Callahan
Robert J. Pekkanen
Jonathan W. Warren
Sabine Lang
Clark W. Sorensen
Scott Montgomery
Sara R Curran
Peter Soverel
Vincent Gallucci
Deborah Wheeler
SIS 497 Internship (1-5, max. 15)
Credit for the completion of an approved internship in international studies. Credit/no credit only.
SIS 498 Readings in International Studies (5) I&S
Reading and discussion of selected works of major importance in interdisciplinary international studies. Restricted to majors in International Studies.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher D Jones
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
Daniel Chirot
David M Bachman
Deborah Porter
Kathie Friedman
Gad Barzilai
Glennys J. Young
Martin S. Jaffee
Jess J Olson
Resat Kasaba
Kazimierz Poznanski
Joel S Migdal
M Jane Meyerding
Mary P. Callahan
Nicole F. Watts
Christian L. Novetzke
Noam Pianko
Jonathan W. Warren
Sabine Lang
Clark W. Sorensen
Scott Montgomery
Stephanie C. Rothmier
Murat Somer
Matthew Sparke
Deborah Wheeler
Yue Dong
SIS 499 Undergraduate Research (1-5, max. 15)
Instructor Course Description:
Clare L. Newstead
SIS 500 Seminar: Origins of the Modern Global System (3) Kasaba, Migdal
Development of global interdependence from the fifteenth century to World War II. Interrelationship of politics and economics. International political economy from contextual, institutional, and historical perspectives.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel Chirot
Christopher D Jones
Daniel Chirot
Resat Kasaba
Kazimierz Poznanski
R Kent Guy
SIS 501 Seminar: Comparative International Studies (3) Bachman, Kasaba, Poznanski
Focuses on comparison across geographical areas including comparative political economy, comparative cultures, and comparative institutions. Provides familiarity with the comparative method of inquiry, an understanding of the interplay between area studies and cross-regional theories, and skills in conducting comparative research and writing. Prerequisite: ECON 200; ECON 201.
Instructor Course Description:
Resat Kasaba
David M Bachman
Christine Ingebritsen
Kazimierz Poznanski
Joel S Migdal
Mary P. Callahan
Nicole F. Watts
SIS 502 Seminar: Globalization and International Relations (3) Jones
Focuses on globalism, including international relations and transnational studies. Provides an understanding of the interplay of area studies with processes that transcend geographical areas and intersect political boundaries, an overview of transnationalism or international relations, and skills in undertaking a major research and writing project.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher D Jones
SIS 511 Practicum: Methods in International Studies (3) Chirot, Curran
Assumptions underlying leading methodologies for comparative study of societies and other large-scale social entities. Quantitative and nonquantitative methods illustrated by recent research.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel Chirot
Resat Kasaba
Kazimierz Poznanski
Niall F O Murchu
Sara R Curran
Wongi Choe
SIS 512 Task Force in International Affairs (3) Chirot, Curran
Seminar addressing a current problem in international affairs and resulting in a joint task-force report. Results presented to, and critiqued by, a distinguished outside evaluator at end of term. Prerequisite: SIS 511.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel Chirot
Christine Ingebritsen
Joel S Migdal
T. J. Pempel
Sara R Curran
SIS 520 Introduction to Theories and Quantitative Methods for Social Science Research (5)
Selected social scientific theories and quantitative methods for students in international and area-studies programs. Introduction to methodological neoclassicism, neo-institutional analysis, "developmentalism," rational choice and dynamic institutionalist approaches, and selected theories from political science. Essentials of statistical analysis.
Instructor Course Description:
Kazimierz Poznanski
SIS 522 Special Topics in Ethnicity and Nationalism (3, max. 6)
Topics vary, but always focus on ethnic group relations and nationalism viewed from a broad, comparative, interdisciplinary perspective. Emphasis is heavily cross-cultural, and the geographical coverage world-wide.
Instructor Course Description:
Daniel Chirot
Kathie Friedman
Resat Kasaba
Uta G. Poiger
Matthew Sparke
Frances Winddance Twine
SIS 523 Seminar on Religious and Political Violence (5) Robinson
Employs ethnographic studies and anthropological theory to examine the relationships between culture and power in the analysis of religious and political violence. Topics include modernity; secularisms and fundamentalisms; ritual, sacrifice, and martyrdom; law, rights, and subject-making. Offered: jointly with ANTH 523.
Instructor Course Description:
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
SIS 524 International Security (5) Kier, Mercer
Introduces some of the major debates concerning the use of force in international politics. Covers traditional issues in international security such as alliances and the causes of war, as well as some of the new and important questions, such as explaining war outcomes and war termination. Offered jointly with POL S 524.
SIS 526 Political Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism (3/5) Robinson
Examines political Islam as a modern phenomenon produced at the intersections between localized and globalized political cultures and between political, religious, and social authority. Focuses on anthropological studies to examine how Islamic publics produce moral judgments about political practices. Offered: jointly with ANTH 526.
SIS 527 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Development, Deployment, and Detection (5) Fuller
Practical understanding of the development of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons plus missile delivery systems. Proliferation detection technology and its limitations. Case studies of past and current arms control agreements and non-proliferation programs.
Instructor Course Description:
Christopher D Jones
SIS 534 International Affairs (3)
Provides a broad understanding of international issues and United States policy. Students explore U.S. foreign policy and theories of major international actors in international trade, security, and strategic concerns, refugee policy, conflict resolution, development assistance, and the environment. Offered: jointly with PB AF 530/POL S 534.
Instructor Course Description:
C. Leigh Anderson
Wolfram W. Latsch
Niall F O Murchu
Peter Wolcott Soverel
SIS 542 Seminar: State and Society (5) Migdal
Examines the mutually conditioning relationship between states and the societies they seek to govern. Studies states as large, complex organizations and their interactions with society on different levels. Shows that interactions on any level affect the nature of the state on other levels as well. Offered: jointly with POL S 542.
Instructor Course Description:
Joel S Migdal
SIS 552 Law and Politics of International Trade (5) I&S S. Pekkanen
Survey of global trade politics in the context of the World Trade Organization (WTO), with attention to positive and negative aspects of its governance. Examines the impact of the WTO legal framework on trade relations among developed and developing countries. Covers topics such as dispute settlement, development, safeguards, antidumping, intellectual property, and regionalism.
Instructor Course Description:
Saadia Pekkanen
SIS 553 Environment and Health in the World Trade Organization (5) S. Pekkanen
Conflicts between global environmental and public health on the one hand and international trade expansion on the other in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Focuses on the state of GAITT/WTO jurisprudence and its interaction with sovereign laws and regulations. Cases include asbestos, reformulated gasoline, beef hormones, shrimp-turtle, and genetically modified organisms.
Instructor Course Description:
Saadia Pekkanen
SIS 562 Law, Globalization, and Multinational Corporations (3)
An interdisciplinary workshop that examines the role of multinational corporations in a global society. Topics include the legal construct of the multinational corporation, the multinational and the state, the multinational and human rights, and the multinational in the international arena. Offered: jointly with LAW E 512.
SIS 575 Advanced Political Geography (5) Sparke
Provides resources for theorizing how politics shapes and is shaped by geographical relationships. Examines how politics are situated in complex material and discursive geographies that are partly reproduced through political negotiations. Examines interrelationships of contemporary capitalism with other complex systems of social and political power relations. Offered: jointly with GEOG 575.
Instructor Course Description:
Matthew Sparke
SIS 580 Teaching International Studies (2, max. 4) Migdal
For current and prospective teaching assistants. Includes teaching writing, leading effective discussions, the art of evaluation, and teaching critical reading skills; videotaping of actual teaching sessions of participants in class. Credit/no credit only.
Instructor Course Description:
Resat Kasaba
Joel S Migdal
SIS 590 Special Topics (2-5, max. 10)
Seminar. Course content varies. Offered occasionally by visiting or resident faculty.
Instructor Course Description:
Donald C Hellmann
Sunila S. Kale
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy
Beth E. Rivin
Christopher D Jones
Cabeiri Debergh Robinson
Daniel Chirot
C. Leigh Anderson
Edward L Miles
Gad Barzilai
Gary G. Hamilton
Mary Kay Gugerty
Sunila S. Kale
Resat Kasaba
Celia Lowe
Laurie J Sears
Mary P. Callahan
Philip L Brock
Sara R Curran
Saadia Pekkanen
Peter Soverel
SIS 600 Independent Study or Research (*)
SIS 700 Master's Thesis (*)
