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JSIS 100 The Indigenous Pacific Northwest (5) SSc, DIV
Introduction to the cultures and governing structures of indigenous peoples of American Indian and First Nations tribal communities in the North coastal British Columbia and Pacific Northwest region as self-determining political actors in a contemporary multicultural and global region. Offered: jointly with AIS 103; W.
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JSIS 101 Media and Information Technology in Global Conflict (5) SSc
Explores the role media and information technology have played in global conflicts since the twentieth century. How different groups have mobilized new technologies for covert warfare, surveillance, and cyberattacks, as well as for self-determination, cultural survival, and whistleblowing. Includes war photography; bots and election interference; and Indigenous movements and media.
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JSIS 103 Diasporas and Homelands: Theory and Practice (5) SSc
Major modern and contemporary theories about diasporas and homelands in history, sociology, cultural anthropology, and political economy. Applications and limits in understanding historical and current diaspora dynamics. May include nationalism; migration; monetary remittances; political organizing; minority status; racism and discrimination; and cultural and religious traditions across a diaspora.
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JSIS 110 Sports and Global Affairs (5) SSc
Covers the connection between sports and global affairs, including wars, dictatorships, racism, and women and LGTBQIA communities' discrimination, while also examining several socioeconomic, political, and historical issues at local, national, and global levels. Offered: AWSpS.
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JSIS 187 Study Abroad: Global (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 188 Study Abroad: Canadian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 189 Study Abroad: African Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 190 Study Abroad: Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 191 Study Abroad: East Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 192 Study Abroad: South Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 193 Study Abroad: Southeast Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 194 Study Abroad: European Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 196 Study Abroad: Latin American and Caribbean Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 197 Study Abroad: Middle Eastern Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 200 States and Capitalism: The Origins of the Modern Global System (5) SSc
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.
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JSIS 201 The Making of the Twenty-First Century (5) SSc
Provides a historical understanding from the mid-twentieth century to 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.
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JSIS 202 Cultural Interactions in an Interdependent World (5) SSc
Introduces a critical approach to governance, violence, and development. Students learn key concepts of cultural theory to understand how the world is socially constructed. Learning how to use interpretive methods, students acquire new understandings of the varied approaches through which social scientists confront global challenges.
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JSIS 203 Rise of Asia (5) SSc
Key themes in the study of Asia, with focus on the present. Topics include: the notion of "Asia;" cultural and religious similarities and differences; comparison of colonial experiences under Western and Asian powers; World War II and liberation; postwar patterns of economic and political development; social patterns and issues. Offered: A.
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JSIS 222 Global Markets, Local Economies (5) SSc
Introduces basic economic concepts and tools to analyze the growing economic impact of economic globalization on local economies around the world, in areas such as local and foreign investment, supply chains, international trade, financial markets, and economic growth.
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JSIS 278 Global Connections: From Global Challenges to Creative Solutions (5) SSc
Focuses on the identification and understanding of current global challenges from a variety of analytical perspectives. Students from the U.S and from abroad explore creative ways to address these challenges and to effect positive change based on international collaboration.
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JSIS 287 Special Topics in Middle Eastern Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Covers current and historical issues across the Middle East. Topics vary.
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JSIS 300 Claims and Evidence in International Studies Research (5) SSc
Covers the methodology of international and global studies social science research. Introduces different methods of research including quantitative, qualitative, historical, and ethnographic. Offered: AWSp.
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JSIS 310 Data Ethnography and Qualitative Methods (5) SSc
Adapts ethnographic approaches to address problems of replicability, transparency, equity, bias, and ethics in work involving the generation, analysis, and use of big data. Students build skills to interrogate the social context of big data through qualitative methods and techniques, such as participant observation, focus groups, interviewing, case studies, discourse analysis, document analysis, process tracing, and fieldwork.
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JSIS 384 Special Topics in East Asian Studies (5) SSc
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JSIS 385 Junior Honors Seminar (5) SSc
Designed to facilitate writing of honors thesis through methodological and bibliographical research. Required of honors candidates.
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JSIS 387 Study Abroad - International Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 388 Study Abroad: Canadian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 389 Study Abroad: African Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 390 Study Abroad: Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 391 Study Abroad: East Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 392 Study Abroad: South Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 393 Study Abroad: Southeast Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 394 Study Abroad: European Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in Study Abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 396 Study Abroad: Latin American Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 397 Study Abroad: Middle Eastern Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
For participants in study abroad program. Specific course content varies. Courses do not automatically apply to major/minor requirements.
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JSIS 478 Special Topics in International and Global Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Content varies from quarter to quarter.
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JSIS 480 Special Topics in Latin American Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Content varies.
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JSIS 481 Special Topics in African Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
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JSIS 482 Special Topics in Canadian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Content varies.
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JSIS 483 Special Topics in Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Content varies.
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JSIS 484 Special Topics in East Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Course content varies.
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JSIS 485 Special Topics in South Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Topics vary.
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JSIS 486 Special Topics in Southeast Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Content varies.
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JSIS 487 Special Topics in Middle Eastern Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Content varies.
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JSIS 488 Special Topics in European Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
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JSIS 489 Special Topics in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asian Studies (1-5, max. 15) SSc
Topics vary.
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JSIS 491 Senior Honors Seminar (5-) SSc
Study of issues related to students' thesis topics. Develops thesis-writing skills. Open only to Jackson School honors students.
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JSIS 492 Senior Honors Seminar (-5) SSc
Students write a senior thesis working with their individual writing advisers.
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JSIS 493 Senior Research (2)
Independent research and writing under supervision of a faculty member. Open only to International Studies majors.
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JSIS 494 Journal Workshop for Editors (1/2)
Prepares students to be peer reviewers and editors for academic journals. Introduces the format and management processes of scholarly, peer-reviewed publications, as well as training in practical editing skills. Includes opportunities to work for the Jackson School Journal of International Studies. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: W.
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JSIS 495 Task Force (5) SSc
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.
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JSIS 497 Internship (1-5, max. 15)
Credit for the completion of an approved internship in international studies. Credit/no-credit only.
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JSIS 498 Readings in International Studies (5) SSc
Reading and discussion of selected works of major importance in interdisciplinary international studies.
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JSIS 499 Undergraduate Research (1-5, max. 15)
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JSIS 500 Origins of the Modern World (5)
Explores the development of global interdependence from the fifteenth century to World War II; the interrelationship of politics and economics; and international political economy from contextual, institutional, and historical perspectives. Offered: A.
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JSIS 501 Seminar: Comparative International Studies (5)
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. Offered: W.
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JSIS 502 Introduction to Global Studies and Globalization Theory: Culture, Markets, Law, and Politics (5)
Theories and debates in the study of cultural, economic, legal, and political globalization and its intellectual precursors. Highlights contemporary work that exemplifies a global studies approach and introduces students to on-campus resources supporting global studies.
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JSIS 510 Data Literacy for Interdisciplinary Studies (5)
Provides an introduction to analytical frameworks and statistical concepts used by interdisciplinary researchers. Teaches how to integrate quantitative analysis into research, use statistical tools to critically evaluate data, and be analytical consumers of information in academic literature as well as mass media.
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JSIS 511 Research Design and Methods for International Studies (5)
Review of the approaches to posing and answering research questions in the disciplines affiliated with international studies. Explores epistemological approaches and associated methodologies to prepare students to effectively read across the literature of international studies, develop their own research design based on a research question, and write a research proposal. Offered: Sp.
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JSIS 512 Qualitative Data Analysis (5)
Provides training in data analysis for students who have selected qualitative methodological approaches for their research. Students develop skills for systematic analyses, including memo writing, coding, logging evidence, sampling, case development, vignette composition, thematic analyses, and writing of methods sections and research results.
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JSIS 513 Teaching International Studies (2, max. 4)
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.
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JSIS 530 Foundations of the World Order (5)
Covers the economic, political, military, social, and cultural forces that have shaped the foundations of the contemporary world order. Selective examination of major historical events and contemporary issues explains the role of both state and non-state actors in determining the trajectory of the international system.
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JSIS 531 Asia in the Contemporary World (5)
Examines regional dynamics within Asia as well as Asia's role in the global context. It looks at the evolution of longstanding issues on the Asian agenda, including the Taiwan question, the division of the Korean peninsula, the military role of Japan, the Kashmir dispute, and regionalism and regionalization.
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JSIS 532 Global Challenges (5)
Frames the world through a multi-disciplinary lens, exposing students to the growing community of stakeholders within the modern international affairs arena. Examines how government, business, philanthropy, and civil society engage, individually and collectively, in tackling critical global challenges.
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JSIS 533 Frameworks for Health Development (5)
Examines the history and economic and development determinants and impacts of global health problems. Health problems and unequal access to affordable health services contribute to global poverty and inequality. Explores the important relationships between global trade, access to essential medicines, nutrition, the environment, and health.
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JSIS 534 Legal Foundations of World Order (5)
Examines the legal foundations for the use of military force in a time of dynamic change in international relations, to include just-war theory and international humanitarian law. Topics include humanitarian intervention, the UN "responsibility to protect", terrorism, suicide bombers, "unprivileged belligerents", targeted killing, and robotic warfare.
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JSIS 535 Technology, Society, and the Future (5)
Provides understanding of how technology is changing society. Enables students to articulate the risks and opportunities associated with rapid technological change. Students formulate and evaluate the motivations, agendas, and stakeholders shaping technological change, including corporations, civil liberties groups, advocacy groups, NGOs, donors, and government leaders.
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JSIS 536 Global Economic Trends (5)
Examines the global economic system, including trade trends and movement of international financial markets, with emphasis on Asia and Europe through survey of transformative processes associated with the development of global capitalism; presents challenges to world order and economic development.
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JSIS 537 Trends in International Migration (5)
Explores the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of contemporary global population movements, with a focus on migration to the United States and Europe from the top sending world regions. Topics include the relationship of persecution, conflict, and poor economic prospects to migration; the extent to which state policies can control migration.
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JSIS 538 Governance, Transparency, and Anti-Corruption (5)
Examines the structural components of responsible governance in public and private arenas and the causes of implications of corruption on institutions and society. Covers legal frameworks governing corrupt practices, private sector ethics and anti-corruption measures, corruption in development aid, and international transparency initiatives. Offered: W.
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JSIS 539 U.S. Foreign Policy and Diplomatic Engagement (5)
Explores how the U.S. Executive Branch develops and implements foreign and security policy. Examines the actual conduct of foreign affairs, from defining national interest to day-to-day foreign engagement, based on case studies on how the U.S. advances its policy agenda using military, diplomatic and other means. Students refine analytical and presentation skills with short briefings on current topics and concise policy memos.
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JSIS 540 Economics and Poliics of International Development (5)
Examines the political economy of development in less-developed nations in particular, post-World War II development in Africa and East Asia. Covers basic economic theory and surveys the roles and tools of domestic and foreign governments, international organizations, aid agencies, and businesses in affecting development outcomes.
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JSIS 541 Religion and Conflict in International Politics (5)
Covers global issues of religion, politics and internationals conflicts as they relate to question of fundamentalism, nationalism and terror. Investigates fundamentalism as a response to globalization and modernization. Reviews connections between religious violence and international relations, human security and global security.
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JSIS 542 Dimensions of Security (5)
Examines the evolution of global security agendas in response to security challenges that are increasingly non-military and longer term in nature. Through a Middle East lens, students examine traditional security issues, and the emergence of non-conventional challenges and threats, such as environmental degradation and resource scarcity.
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JSIS 543 Professional Skills for Capstone Success and Beyond (4)
Includes public speaking and presentation, project management, effective communication, developing actionable recommendations, and sessions focused on the characteristics and practices of highly effective teams. Designed to help students succeed in capstone courses and careers.
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JSIS 544 Applied Research Client Project - Part I (5)
MAAIS capstone experience. Students work in teams to tackle an international affairs challenge presented by an external client. Students arrange a client briefing, define the scope of the challenge, analyze the underlying issues, and begin to flesh out actionable policy and programmatic recommendations. Credit/no-credit only.
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JSIS 545 Applied Research Client Project - Part II (3)
Students work with an external client to address a challenging international issue and provide actionable recommendations. Teams create a written project report and present their findings to the client.
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JSIS 546 Modernity after Empire: View from the Global South (5)
Interrogates the making of the modern world from the perspective of the global South. Thinking about global post-imperialism political and economic and economic projects in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East, provides a critical introduction to debates over nation, development, and globalization.
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JSIS 547 Changing Nature of States and Societies (5)
Explores global stability and instability, focusing in on four principal domains of transformation in contemporary nation states: poverty, religion, migration, and energy.
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JSIS 548 Geopolitical Issues and Challenges (5)
Examines interconnected challenges affecting global geopolitics, using South Asia as a frame of reference and drawing linkages to the boarder global context. Issues covered include international security decision-making, civil-military relations, state-federal relations, and regional-global dynamics.
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JSIS 549 Crisis Negotiation (4)
Guides students in applying their knowledge to realistic analyses of current problems in international studies through an intensive simulation experience that emphasizes leadership, negotiation, and real-tie crisis management and decision-making.
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JSIS 578 Special Topics (2-5, max. 15)
Course content varies. Offered occasionally by visiting or resident faculty.
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JSIS 582 Special Topics (2-5, max. 10)
Course content varies. Offered occasionally by visitors or resident faculty.
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JSIS 583 Special Topics (1-5, max. 15)
Special topics in Asian Studies. Course content varies by instructor.
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JSIS 584 Special Topics (2-5, max. 15)
Course content varies. Offered occasionally by visiting or resident faculty.
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JSIS 585 Special Topics (2-5, max. 15)
Course content varies. Offered occasionally by visitors or resident faculty.
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JSIS 586 Special Topics (1-5, max. 15)
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JSIS 587 Special Topics (3-5, max. 15)
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JSIS 589 Special Topics (2-5, max. 15)
Course content varies. Offered occasionally by visitors or resident faculty.
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JSIS 591 Colloquium in International Studies (1-, max. 2)
Required colloquium for first-year Master in International Studies (MAIS) students. Informal introduction to the faculty and major avenues of research in international studies. Credit/no-credit only.
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JSIS 592 Colloquium in International Studies (-1-, max. 2)
Required colloquium for first-year Master in International Studies (MAIS) students. Informal introduction to the faculty and major avenues of research in international studies. Credit/no-credit only.
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JSIS 593 Colloquium in International Studies (-1, max. 2)
Required colloquium for first-year Master in International Studies (MAIS) students. Informal introduction to the faculty and major avenues of research in international studies. Credit/no-credit only.
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JSIS 594 International and Area Studies (2)
Exposes students to the four-fold thematic intellectual rubric of the school, and to the wide range of teaching and research agendas represented in the Jackson School. Required common course for all first-year graduate and doctoral students. Credit/no-credit only. Offered: A.
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JSIS 596 Field Seminar in Religions, Cultures, and Civilizations (5)
Exposes students to the diversity of cultural and religious life through world area studies; histories; cultural and political movements; and religious institutions and practices. Topics include religions, cultures, power, colonialism, empire, communities, nations, states, identities, alterities, civilizations, social movements, resistance, development, and security.
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JSIS 597 Field Seminar in States, Markets, and Societies (5)
Exposes students to theoretical and empirical debates about engagement of states with their societies and with transnational actors in their historical, political, and social settings. Topics include state formation, social change, development, state-market relations, globalization, identities, ethnicities, gender, revolutions, democratization, corruption, clientalism, civil societies, NGOs, and social movements. Offered: jointly with SOC 597.
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JSIS 598 Field Seminar in Peace, Violence, and Security (5)
Exposes students to theoretical and foreign policy debates about global security challenges, conflicts, and violence, and issues of their prevention. Topics include balance of power, nationalism, ethnic conflict, genocide, offense-defense balance, weaponry, intelligence, invasions, interventions, peacekeeping, arms control, and national security.
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JSIS 599 Field Seminar in Law, Rights, and Governance (3-5)
Exposes students to theoretical and policy debates about the causes and consequences of legal evolution, rule of law, and a broad range of world governance concerns. Topics include human rights, markets, commerce, climate, environment, migration, institutions, justice, order, and rule of law. Offered: jointly with LAW B 568.
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JSIS 600 Independent Study or Research (*-)
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JSIS 602 International Studies Practicum (2-3, max. 6)
Professional practicum for student in International Studies graduate programs. Credit/no-credit only.
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JSIS 700 Master's Thesis (*)
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JSIS 800 Doctoral Dissertation (*)
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