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Course Level: Undergraduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. A capstone experience for SIS majors. Designed to facilitate integration of knowledge in the international relations field. Development and oral defense of significant research projects. Usually offered every term. Prerequisite: senior standing in SIS, or permission of instructor.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Senior Seminar in International Relations (3)

Honors Senior Seminar I

The Honors senior seminar is designed for students to pursue their University Honors capstone in a structured course setting. The fall semester focuses on the capstone research design. The spring semester enables students to write, share, and receive feedback on their capstones. This course is particularly relevant to students wishing to pursue graduate coursework. Open only to students in the University Honors Program.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Senior Seminar in International Relations (3)

Literary Geography of Nature

This seminar uses scholarly and literary works to analyze global environmental issues across time and space. Drawing from a broad range of intellectual disciplines including environmental philosophy, anthropology, sociology, politics, and law, and from classic nature-writing and recent imaginative works of fiction, the class probes the past and future, developing and developed worlds in an effort to find solutions to global environmental problems.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Senior Seminar in International Relations (3)

Honors Senior Seminar II

The Honors senior seminar is designed for students to pursue their University Honors capstone in a structured course setting. The fall semester focuses on the capstone research design. The spring semester enables students to write, share, and receive feedback on their capstones. This course is particularly relevant to students wishing to pursue graduate coursework.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Senior Seminar in International Relations (3)

International Environmental Aid

This course explores and identifies the evolving international environmental aid architecture and the critical drivers for the billions of dollars flowing from the rich to the poor regions and countries (North/South, but also South/South and, on occasion, South/North). It also addresses the question if the aid provided addresses real global commons problems. Finally, the course considers potentially innovative pathways of generating and managing critically-needed sustainable financial resources in response to a host of international environmental challenges. Meets with SIS-620 003.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Senior Seminar in International Relations (3)

Environmental Politics of Asia

This senior seminar focuses on the environmental politics of Asia. It covers global, regional, and local environmental challenges. The class considers the transboundary impact of Asia's environmental problems, including air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, and ozone depletion through the theoretical lenses of international relations theory, environmental security, human security, and anthropology.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Senior Seminar in International Relations (3)

Journey into America

This multidisciplinary course examines how the Muslim experience in the United States challenges and relates to core features of American identity. It is based on an unprecedented research trip across the United States and includes notes, films and ethnography from Muslims and non-Muslims, encompassing the full range of American life and culture. The course examines how American identity was shaped over American history through the work of writers such as Alexis De Tocqueville and the role that minorities played in shaping that identity. Using the Muslim experience as a case study, the course examines how American ideals key to its identity, such as pluralism, have held up in a post 9/11 society.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Senior Seminar in International Relations (3)

The United Nations

This course explores the birth, evolution, and performance of the United Nations. Students also examine how (and how well) the UN has addressed specific issues through cases studies in areas including peacekeeping, environment, poverty reduction, humanitarian assistance, and the war in Iraq. Meets with SIS-696 007.

Course Level: Undergraduate

Senior Seminar in International Relations (3)

The United States and Pakistan

This course examines the sources and consequences of U.S. foreign policy towards Pakistan since 1947. It includes the current war against the Taliban, nuclear weapons and proliferation, democracy promotion and development, and the impact of U.S. policy towards Afghanistan and India on U.S.-Pakistan relations.