POL 380 - Global Politics Seminar

FDR: SS2
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Offered when interest is expressed and departmental resources permit.

Prerequisite: POL 105 or permission of the instructor. Examination of selected topics dealing with international and comparative politics. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topic for Fall 2011

POL 380: Collective Action (3). Open to majors and non-majors of all classes. Meets the global politics field requirement or elective credit in the politics major. Recommended for students interested in environmental studies, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), not-for-profit enterprise, social movements, political science graduate study. This course explains cooperative political outcomes under anarchy, from small utopian collectives to mass mobilizations. Special attention to elusive cooperative outcomes outside the state, such as public goods, common-pool resources, positive externalities.Student assignments assess voluntary associations and movements (like Amnesty International, Oxfam, Wikileaks). Syllabus and other information: mccaughrinc@wlu.edu C. McCaughrin.