PUBPOL 3071 - Enduring Global and American Issues

(crosslisted) AMST 3071, GOVT 3071
(CA-HE, SBA-HE) (CA-AG, SBA-AG)

Summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only (no audit).

Offered in Washington, D.C. Co-meets with AMST 5071/GOVT 5071/PUBPOL 5071.

D. Silbey.

The US and the global community face a number of complex, interconnected and enduring issues that pose challenges for our political and policy governance institutions and society at large. Exploring how the US and the world conceive of the challenges and take action on them is fundamental to understanding them. This course investigates such issues, especially ones in the critical areas of sustainability, social justice, technology, public health and globalization, security and conflict. Students will engage with these areas and issues and the challenges they pose, using multiple frameworks and approaches, through weekly class discussions and lectures.

Outcome 1: Students will have identified and analyzed multiple critical issues in America and the world.

Outcome 2: Students will have formulated a number of public-facing analyses of these issues.

Outcome 3: Graduate students will have analyzed the current understanding of each issue at a scholarly level (for grad students).