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  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on the complex and checkered relationships between Western-inspired development and African cultures. Striking a balance among ethnographic case studies, theoretical lenses, and practical implications, understand what Euro-American efforts at foreign development, including contemporary globalization, look like from an African perspective. Provides an understanding of African expectations of development and developers. Cross listed with AAST 4050. Dual listed with INST 5050. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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    Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have grown exponentially in number and are often viewed as the new and best vehicle for international development. Focuses on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), in contexts of Western aid to post-colonial societies and the role they play in the international aid system. Understand INGOs from historical, global, and cultural perspectives. Dual listed with INST 5060. Cross listed with AAST 4060. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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    Focuses on the phsical and psychological health of women and children as influenced by armed conflict. Examines the psychosocial, public health, and socioeconomic effects of living in contemporary war zones or conditions of threatened war. Key international documents that address effects upon women and children are discussed in order to evaluate feminist intiatives to prevent and mediate the consequences of war. Prerequisites: upper division standing, lower division social or psychological science course and consent of instructor.
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    Focuses on issues of gender, women and health, including the effects of gender bias in medical research and health care practices and policies. Health care issues of specific concernt to women, both nationally and internationally are examined. Dual listed with INST 5175; cross listed with WMST/NURS 4175. Prerequisites: upper-division standing, lower division social or psychological science course.
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    The economic reforms in China have been political, cultural, and above all, global processes. Understanding these processes of economic reform tells us much about the role of government, culture, and globalization in the transition from socialism to capitalism. It also tells us a great deal about China's future role in the international community of nations. Prerequisites: POLS 1200 or HIST 2041 or SOC 3100.
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    Examines the European Union's history, institutional structures, and policy areas and explores the positive and negative effects of European integration. Dual listed with INST 5215; cross listed with POLS 4215. Prerequisite: POLS 1200 or POLS 1250 or POLS 2310 or permission of instructor.
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    Drawing upon case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, this course explores the gendered intersections of power and privilege through the lens of sex work, broadly defined as the exchange of intimacy for something of value, and trafficking, defined as coerced forms of sex work. Dual listed with INST 5240; cross listed with WMST 4240. Prerequisite: 3-6 hours of WMST or INST.
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    Designed to explore key issues to the historical development of Asian countries from both comparative and international political economy perspectives. Distinctive political, social, and economic characteristics of these nations will be analyzed. Dual listed with 5250. Prerequisites: None.
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    An analysis of the processes of political, economic and social change in the non-Western world. Dual listed with INST 5255. Cross listed with POLS 4255. Prerequisites: 9 hours of political science or international studies.
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    Examines the theoretical/empirical research on causes of democratic transition and consolidation, including new waves of democratization and prospects for democratization in other contexts. Focus is given to a variety of theoretical/methodological perspectives such as the structural, strategic, social/cultural, institutional, and economic approaches. Dual listed with INST 5260. Cross listed with POLS 4260. Prerequisites: 9 hours of political science or international studies.