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ADVANCED IR THEORY (PO3100)

Students investigate contending views of the world system and consider the relative validity of competing theories to see how theory relates to practice. They do so by re-examining classic definitions of "realism" along with concepts of neo-realism (structural realism) and geopolitics, liberalism/international ethics, neo-liberalism, pluralism, the English school, Marxism, social constructivism, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, neo-conservatism, feminism, green theory, among others.

TOPICS IN POLITICS (PO3910)

Topics vary by semester

TOPICS IN POLITICS (PO3910)

Topics vary by semester

INTERNSHIP (PO3980)

Internships may be taken for 0 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

INTERNSHIP (PO3980)

Internships may be taken for 1 or 4 credits. Students may do more than one internship, but internship credit cannot cumulatively total more than 4 credits.

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECT ON POLIT'L ECON (PO4037)

As the bridge-course for the major in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, this team-taught course offers a multidisciplinary perspective on key questions of political economy. First presenting the similarities and differences between philosophical, political and economic approaches to political and economic rationality, the course offers varied analyses of representation and government, the commons, security, inequality and debt. The overall purpose of the course is to engage students, at various levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical precision, with the fundamental issues lying between ethics, politics, and economics.

TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE (PO4040)

This class critically examines the phenomenon of transitional justice, surveying the methods used, the problems inherent therein, and the assumptions underlying the application of transitional justice tools.
We will work on case studies, looking at the main actors and institutions. Particular attention will be given to the Colombian transitional justice process.
Students will be required to work individually and in groups.

POLITICS WORKSHOP (PO4050)

This Politics Workshop fulfills the senior seminar capstone requirement for the International and Comparative Politics Major. This course is designed to be as individualized as possible, organized around the student's particular research interests with regular one-on-one sessions with the professor. This is also a course in the international and global politics in which students learn about the discipline and subdisciplines of political science.

ECOLE DE GUERRE PRACTICUM (PO4075)

This course is a polyvalent simulation of a military intervention organized and operated by the French War College (École de Guerre), with civilian partners. After several months of preparation, AUP students join French War College officers for Exercise Coalition, a war games simulation where AUP students play the role of UN and NGO humanitarian workers on the ground in a conflict zone.