POL 380 - Global Politics Seminar

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

Prerequisite: Normally POL 105 or instructor consent, though prerequisite may vary with topic. Open to majors and non-majors of all classes. Meets the global politics field requirement in the politics major. Examination of selected topics dealing with international and comparative politics. May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.

Winter 2014 Topic:

POL 380: Global Politics Seminar: Food, Shelter, Space, Voice: Movements for Democratic Renewal (3). Prerequisite: One 100-level politics course or instructor consent. Open to majors and non-majors of all classes. Meets the global politics field requirement in the politics major. This class studies grassroots efforts to re-vision liberal democracy in the midst of prolonged economic crisis. We examine the political critique embedded in international movements to rethink how and what we eat, investigate the reworking of the relationship between community belonging and housing practices following the global mortgage crisis, and dig into the challenges to the demarcation of the public and private posed by movements such as Occupy, the Puerto del Sol protests in Madrid, and the recent conflict that emerged from government plans to redevelop Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul. (SS2)