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• POLI 370: Sustainable Development

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course is designed as a foundational course for examining the concepts, principles and practices of sustainable development (SD). It focuses on the unsustainability problems of industrial countries (i.e., social disconnection, political fragmentation, aging of populations, sustainable consumption, etc.) as well as developing states and economies in transition (i.e., managing growth, social conflict, pressures of population change, etc.) within a global context. SD is a reformative approach to our current systems, one that attempts to understand problems and solutions through an interconnected, holistic lens that includes dimensions of the environment, economies and society. The focus is on how to achieve continual development-economically and socially while protecting the environment. We will examine the global trajectory of SD, and then how it can be applied effectively at scale. Students will have the opportunity to engage in case study research in applying these concepts and principles to provide specific insight and examples.
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• POLI 379: Spec Top in Internat'L Reltns

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  These courses examine selected topics in international politics not covered in other courses. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• POLI 380: Jurisprudence

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course studies the historical and theoretical development of the concept of law. It will examine problems in the field ranging from general principles on which legal rules are based to analysis of fundamental concepts and normative theories. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• POLI 381: Democracy and Discipline

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This is first and foremost a political theory course; as such, its focus will be normative. In this class, we will examine the relationship between liberal democratic forms of politics and punitive social control practices. The first part of the class will raise basic issues connected to punishment, social discipline, and democratic politics. The second and third sections will closely engage influential texts in the history of social thought, familiarizing you with the core ideas related to the relationship between social organization and discipline. The fourth section will engage with current political theory scholarship on punishment and politics, including a particular focus on the injustices arising from (and inherent in) mass incarceration and mass conviction. The final section of the course will consider alternative models of discipline (including restorative justice) and the place of forgiveness in democratic politics.
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• POLI 382: Exile

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course theorizes exile- or the involuntary expulsion of a citizen from their community-as a specifically political phenomenon. Beginning with an examination of political community and inclusion, the course will progress to explore historic and contemporary forms of political expulsion and their relationships with different legal and political regimes. The course will conclude with a critique of contemporary iterations of exile in liberal democracies like the United States.
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• POLI 387: American Political Thought

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course examines the evolution of political though in the United States from the time of the first settlers to the present day. Students analyze the key primary documents in the founding, revolutionary and Civil War eras and consider these in light of contemporary research by political scientists. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• POLI 390: Contemporary Liberalism

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course focuses on the work of John Rawls and his critics in order to analyze the key principles of liberalism and the arguments, internal and external to liberalism itself, concerning those principles. The course emphasizes philosophical arguments and the political applications of such arguments with a sustained analysis of particular issues (such as abortion, euthanasia, education and disablity). NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• POLI 391: Utopia/Dystopia

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  The study of utopia, or the ideal, yet non-existent, place is a staple of Western political thought. Utopias criticize one's own world while simultaneously setting out a framework for a better future. Dystopias sharpen this criticism by presenting a vision of the worst place. This class analyzes these criticisms and evaluates proposals about, among other things, ideal government, family life and education. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• POLI 395: Global Political Thought

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course explores the multiple perspectives of political thought outside of the Western Canon. We will explore perspectives from around the globe, including African and Buddhist political philosophy to post-colonial feminisms, to consider political theorizations of freedom, equality, justice, security and political organization. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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• POLI 396: African Political Thought

  3.00 Credits

  College of Charleston

  
  This course introduces students to some of the main currents and themes in African political thought. This effort will emphasize the perspective of African statesmen. African political thinkers, as well as scholars of African Studies, whose ideas and impression about politics, state, and society reflect how power has been exerted and resisted in Africa from precolonial times. during the colonial period, and since independence through to the contemporary era. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
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