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Political Science

An array of political science related courses, which, for example, include:

Political Philosophy: Global Justice

Power: Interpersonal, Organizational and Global Dimensions

Political Economy I: Theories of the State and the Economy

The Politics of Global Financial Relations

Human Rights in Theory and Practice

Causes and Prevention of War

Economics

An array of economics courses, which, for example, include:

Principles of Microeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics

Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy

Public Finance and Public Policy

Environmental Policy and Economics

Labor Economics and Public Policy

Economic History of Financial Crises

American Dream: Exploring Class in the U.S.

Considers a variety of classic frameworks for analyzing social class and uses memoirs, novels and ethnographies to gain a sense of how class is experienced in daily life and how it intersects with other forms of social difference such as race and gender.

Marketing, Microchips and McDonalds: Debating Globalization

This course begins by offering a brief overview of historical “world systems,” including those centered in Asia as well as Europe. It explores the nature of contemporary transformations, including those in economics, media & information technologies, population flows, and consumer habits, not through abstractions but by focusing on the daily lives of people in various parts of the world. This course considers such topics as the day-to-day impact of computers in Silicon Valley and among Tibetan refugees; the dilemmas of factory workers in the US and rural Java; the attractions of Bombay cinema in Nigeria, the making of rap music in Japan, and the cultural complexities of immigrant life in France. This course seeks not only to understand the various forms globalization takes, but to understand its very different impacts world-wide.

Consumer Culture

The class will explore what it means to belong to a consumer society—to think of ourselves, as Douglas Rushkoff puts it, less as citizens than as consumers. We’ll read essays that explore a variety of cultural meanings of shopping and that analyze the way advertising works. We will also read essays that critique consumer culture from several perspectives, including those of psychology, gender, art, environmentalism and ethics.

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