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  • 3.00 Credits

    Compares the incidence, trends, control, treatment and prevention of crime across nations using mainstream criminological theories. Examines criminal justice systems from an international perspective and draws lessons for the American society. Explores forms of international cooperation and difficulties in the control of transnational crimes.
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    Offers students the opportunity to learn about the history of the Holocaust as they visit various sites in Central Europe where the events themselves occurred, such as Berlin, Warsaw, Krakow and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Dual listed with INST 4315 / INST 5315 and HIST 5315. Prerequisites: HIST 1120 or 2010 or INST 2350.
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    Analyzes American foreign policy decision-making process and selected contemporary foreign policy problems. Stresses political and institutional factors, along with analysis of policy options. Cross listed with POLS 4330. Prerequisite: 9 hours of political science including POLS 2310 or consent of instructor. (Normally offered once a year)
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    Encompasses development of world organizations, such as League of Nations, United Nations and its affiliate bodies. Also studies regional organizations and private international bodies. Cross listed with POLS 4340. Prerequisite: 9 hours of political science including POLS 2310 or consent of instructor.
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    Examines representative theories of change, factors involved, dynamics of modernization and applied anthropology. Identical to ANTH 4340. Prerequisite: ANTH 1200.
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    Why do nations go to war, engage in atrocities such as genocide, or move toward peace following conflict? Examines underlying processes behind both conflict and peace in the international system, including sources of conflict and ways conflicts might be moved toward sustainable peace. Dual listed with INST 5360. Cross listed with POLS 4360. Prerequisites: 9 hours of political science or international studies including POLS 2310.
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    Examines the interaction of politics and the economy at the global level. Evaluates how political and economic decisions of one country or groups of countries affect social institutions and life circumstances in others. Assesses the causes and consequences of globalization as rooted in political economy. Cross listed with SOC 4370. Prerequisites: SOC 1000 and junior standing or SOC 3000.
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    Mechanisms provide accountability for gross human rights violations and acts of mass atrocity within nations. Case studies are used to examine types of transitional justice interventions; tensions between demands of justice at local, national, and international levels; and transitional justice's role in post-conflict peace-building and reconciliation. Dual listed with INST 4375. Cross listed with POLS 4375. Prerequisites: Consent of instructor. POLS 2310 strongly recommended.
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    Examine the modern history of human rights in the global system, with particular emphasis on developments since the Second World War. Topics include the philosophy of human rights ideas; the histories of rights and rights violations in various regions; and the resulting international responses. Cross listed with HIST 4380, dual listed with INST 5380. Prerequisites: 9 hours of HIST or INST.
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    Drawing on key theory and contemporary real-world case studies this course explores how environmental change and the competition for scarce resources (such as food, water, oil, gems, and timber) have increasingly been linked to violent interstate and intrastate conflict and how such conflicts might be addressed, managed, or resolved through international and national action. Dual listed with INST 5385; cross listed with POLS 4385. Prerequisite: 9 hours of POLS or INST, including POLS/INST 2310.