• This wide-ranging course will develop students' knowledge of history while providing a critical understanding of political issues, concepts, and institutions.
  • Students will tackle such exciting and challenging issues as power and equality, debates in politics at the national and global level, culture and beliefs, imperialism and resistance, class, and gender.
  • Students will learn the skills of both the political scientist and the historian in studying historical and contemporary political debates as well as analyzing contested political issues and future trends and investigating a range of critical approaches to analyzing history and politics.