This course investigates how political processes shape human geography and, conversely, how assumptions about places underpin world politics. It presents the main theories of political geography, as well as essential concepts and terminology. It points to the historical contingency of political identities and organizations and reveals how major world events as well as spaces are shaped by everyday politics.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 16:55 | 18:15 | C-102 |
Friday | 16:55 | 18:15 | C-102 |
This course analyses the basic setting, structure and dynamics of world politics with emphasis on current global problems, practices and processes. In doing so, it introduces the major theoretical approaches to international politics, and uses theory as a methodological tool for analyzing sources of change and causes of conflict and/or cooperation in the global arena.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-103 |
Friday | 15:20 | 16:40 | C-103 |
This course examines the nature of knowledge claims in political science: how we know what we know and how certain we are. Research schools, the nature of description and explanation in political science, and basis issues of quantitative analysis will form the core elements of this course, while substantive themes may vary each year.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-505 |
Friday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-505 |
What are the justifications and implications of using markets, and what arrangements are necessary to establish and protect the commons? This course studies foundational texts of (neo-)liberal economics that aim to legitimize market mechanisms; philosophical treatments and critiques of key concepts, such as rationality and motivation, property and common goods; political analyses of how allocative institutions produce distributional outcomes.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-505 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | C-505 |
This course explores international political affairs from psychological perspectives. It examines how psychology contributes to politics while being shaped by it. Students learn about a range of psychological phenomena – such as emotion, memory, socialization, resilience, self, and identity – in the contexts of political institutions, political movements, cultural politics, and governmentality.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Tuesday | 15:20 | 16:40 | PL-2 |
Friday | 15:20 | 16:40 | PL-2 |
Topics vary by semester
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 09:00 | 11:55 | C-103 |
Topics vary by semester
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 12:10 | 13:30 | Q-704 |
Thursday | 12:10 | 13:30 | Q-704 |
This course provides an overview of political communication theories, modes, means and institutions and serves as an introduction to how communication scholars study politics and the media. We will cover prevalent political communication theories and trends, the relationship between political institutions and the press both in the US and in other countries, elections, debates, political campaigning and advertising, new media and politics, political socialization, education, politics and popular culture.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday | 13:45 | 16:40 | C-104 |
Is it unjust that there are huge economic inequalities between people of different countries? If so, who is responsible for rectifying these injustices? Should individuals enjoy the liberty to move freely across countries? How fair is free trade? The course explores these and other questions of global justice from philosophical and social-scientific perspectives.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-102 |
Thursday | 13:45 | 15:05 | C-102 |
International human rights law established the norms, jurisprudence and legal infrastructure necessary to promote the implementation of international human rights standards. This course introduces key substantive and institutional issues and explores the establishment of standards, international human rights treaties, their implementation mechanisms and the expanding body of jurisprudence that make up this discipline at the crossroads of law and development.
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 15:20 | 16:40 | PL-3 |
Thursday | 15:20 | 16:40 | PL-3 |