What is democracy? We begin with readings of Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill to introduce some issues associated with the ideal of democratic self-government: participation, equality, majority rule vs. minority rights, the common good, pluralism, community. Readings will include selections from liberal, radical, socialist, libertarian, multiculturalist and feminist political thought. Not open to first-year students.

An analysis of the causes of the dispute and of efforts to resolve it; an examination of Great Power involvement. An historical survey of the influence of Great Power rivalry on relationships between Israel and the Arab States and between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs. Consideration of the several Arab-Israeli wars and the tensions, terrorism, and violence unleashed by the dispute. No prerequisites.

This course begins with an examination of the broad theoretical paradigms in international political economy (IPE), including the liberal, economic nationalist, structuralist, and feminist perspectives. The course analyzes critical debates in the post-World War II period, including the role of the Bretton Woods institutions (World Bank group and IMF), international trade and development, the debt question, poverty and global inequality, and the broad question of "globalization." Prerequisite: 241 or permission of the instructor.

This course focuses on the development of European democratic institutions in the context of military and economic conflict and cooperation. Includes an introduction to the process of European integration.

An analysis of the legislative process in the United States focused on the contemporary role of Congress in the policy making process. In addition to examining the structure and operation of Congress, we will explore the tension inherent in the design of Congress as the maker of public policy for the entire country while somehow simultaneously representing the diverse and often conflicting interests of citizens from 50 different states and 435 separate Congressional districts. Enrollment limited to 20.

A thorough introduction to the study of public policy in the United States. A theoretical overview of the policy process provides the framework for an analysis of several substantive policy areas, to be announced at the beginning of the term.

A study of the occurrence, movement, and exploitation of water in geologic materials. Topics include well hydraulics, groundwater chemistry, the relationship of geology to groundwater occurrence, basin-wide groundwater development, and groundwater contamination. A class project will involve studying a local groundwater problem. Prerequisites: 101, or 102, or 108, or FYS 103 and MTH 111. Enrollment limited to 14.

Topics course. This course provides a broad survey of women in American films from the silent period to the present.

Topics Course Discussion of the relation between the "hard-boiled" school of American writing?from Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler in the 1930s to Dorothy B. Hughes and Patricia Highsmith in 1950?and the film genre that emerged when these works were adapted for the screen. The films of such directors as John Huston, Michael Curtiz, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Howard Hawks, Nicholas Ray, and Alfred Hitchcock will be discussed, with some attention to the Neo-Noir phenomenon of the 1970s (Roman Polanski) and after.

Often invisible but crucial, servants in English literature have served as comic relief, go-betweens, storytellers, sexual targets, and sometimes as central protagonists. But what roles do they play in contemporary literature and film? What can we learn from them about modernity, class, power relations, sexuality, gender, marriage or family? What new responses do they evoke from us?