Courses

• CAS HI 584: Labor, Sexuality, and Resistance in the Afro-Atlantic World
  The role of slavery in shaping the society and culture of the Afro-Atlantic world, highlighting the role of labor, the sexual economy of slave regimes, and the various strategies of resistance deployed by enslaved people. Also offered as CAS AA 514.
• CAS HI 588: Women, Power, and Culture in Africa
  Understanding the role of women in African history. Topics include the Atlantic slave trade, power, religion, the economy, resistance movements, health, the state, and kinship. Emphasis on the period before independence. Also offered as CAS AA 588.
• CAS HI 589: Nature's Past: Histories of Environment and Society
  Historians' approaches to environmental history, including human elements of technology, demography, local knowledge, political ecology, and social organization. Geographical foci include North America, Atlantic World, Asia, and Africa.
• CAS HI 590: The World and the West
  Explores relations between the West and the Third World from 1850, focusing on national and cultural movements in the Third World, and places the African American struggle for freedom in the United States in global and comparative perspective. Also offered as CAS AA 590.
• CAS HI 591: The Making of the Modern Middle East
  Examines the modern Middle East, with its new and old states and its current contested frontiers, as a product of European rivalries in the region in war and peace, 1798-1922. Also offered as CAS IR 591.
• CAS HI 594: The Armenian Genocide
  Examines the emergence of the Armenian Question in the Ottoman Empire as a national and international issue. Analysis of Armenian-Turkish relations after the Young Turk revolution in 1908. Focuses on the processes of genocide, survivor memory, and international responses.
• CAS HI 595: Morocco: History on the Cusp of Three Continents
  Explores the range and limits of social mixture - cultural, political, economic - as three civilizations met at the northwest corner of Africa and influenced one another from the eighth to the twenty-first centuries.
• CAS HI 596: Muslim Societies: An Interdisciplinary History
  Examines the states, empires, faiths, and ideologies of the Muslim world over a 1500-year period, including states from North and West Africa, through the Middle East, to Turkey, Iran, and then to Central and Southeast Asia. Also offered as CAS AH 539, AN 548, and RN 563.
• CAS HI 597: Diasporas and Identity
  History of diasporan commercial networks during the past four centuries in the West and other parts of the world, and emergence of modern global political economy. Focuses on transformation from exilic nationalism to diasporization, transnationalism, and deterritorialization of diasporic identity.
• CAS ID 116: Africa Today: The Beat of Popular Culture
  Core course in the African Studies minor concentration. Provides a fresh view of African popular culture through the lens of contemporary literature, film, television, music, dance, and the visual arts.
• CAS IR 230: Fundamentals of International Politics
  Introduction to basic concepts of international politics: the state system and types of states, modern ideologies, legal frameworks of international transactions, and political regions. Also raises key issues such as population, the environment, war, and international law. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS IR 242: Globalization and World Poverty
  (Meets with CAS SO 242.) Globalization and world poverty; how and why over 80% of the world remains poor and inequality increases despite economic modernization and democratization. Addresses urbanization, immigration, religion, politics, development politics, foreign aid, women, drugs, environment, food security. Special attention to Latin American, African, and Asian experiences. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS IR 250: Europe and International Relations
  Meets with CAS PO 382. Provides an overview European affairs. Topics include the foreign policies of European nations, the dynamics of European integration, NATO, international migration and ethnic conflict, and European relations with the United States, Russia, and neighboring countries.
• CAS IR 251: Introduction to Comparative Politics
  Meets with CAS PO 251. Examines different patterns of political development and contemporary politics in Western Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the former Soviet bloc. Introduces the comparative method in political science and competing theories of political development and political change.
• CAS IR 271: Introduction to International Relations
  (Meets with CAS PO 271.) Undergraduate required principal course. Study of basic factors in international relations, Western state systems, the concept of balance of power, nationalism, and imperialism. Primarily for concentrators. Carries social science divisional credit in CAS.
• CAS IR 275: The Pacific Challenge
  (Meets with CAS PO 365.) The dynamic growth of Pacific Rim countries poses an impressive array of challenges for the U.S. and the world. Analyzes Japanese trade and defense policies, the rise of the "mini-dragons" (Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore) and "new mini-dragons" (Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia), "Confucian capitalism," democratization (and its failure in China), and legacies of the Indochina war.
• CAS IR 292: Fundamentals of International Economics
  Basic issues of international finance. Topics include the balance of payment adjustment, theories of exchange rate determination, and case studies in international economic policy. Geared for international relations students; does not count toward economics requirements for economics concentrators.
• CAS IR 303: Universal History
  Surveys the birth and the rise of the human race; the flourishing of a variety of civilizations; and the triumph, as of 2000, of modernism. Focus on political history and public affairs with some reference to cultural, scientific, and intellectual issues.
• CAS IR 304: Environmentally Sustainable Development
  (Meets with CAS EE 304.) Traces the emergence of sustainable development as the defining environmental challenge of our times. Surveys and evaluates policies for balancing ecological sustainability and economic development in various parts of the world and at the global level.
• CAS IR 309: America at War: The Response to 9/11
  Meets with CAS PO 309. Investigates America's wars against terrorism, focusing on Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, from 9/11 to the present. Traces the decisions that led to the wars, the military strategies employed, and the political ramifications of these conflicts in the U.S. and abroad.

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