This course examines the individual, institutional, and sociocultural challenges within education today. Students will analyze current issues in the context of historical perspectives as they engage in dialogue on contentious topics, including technology in education, teachers and unions, DEI, immigration, educational access and equity, charter schools, and special education.

This course examines the individual, institutional, and sociocultural challenges within education today. Students will analyze current issues in the context of historical perspectives as they engage in dialogue on contentious topics, including technology in education, teachers and unions, DEI, immigration, educational access and equity, charter schools, and special education.

Consider independently exploring a topic of interest under the guidance of a faculty member. Once you identify the subject, take time to research our faculty and their publications. It is important to ensure your interests intersect before asking if they will work with you. This work will be graded and may apply to your upper-level Political Science degree requirements.

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This course provides an introduction to comparative political analysis, one of the four subfields of political science. The primary objective is to help students understand how the 'modern' world, one characterized by the rise of industrialized nation-states, took form and what shape it might take in the post-Cold War era. We will examine how the challenges of economic development, social transformation, and nation-building sparked the emergence of alternatives to 'modernity' characterized by diverse configurations of political institutions and social forces.