This course is part of the Political Science and Legal Studies Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (UREP). When possible, student interests are paired with faculty in need of research assistance.

This course is part of the Political Science and Legal Studies Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (UREP). When possible, student interests are paired with faculty in need of research assistance.

This course is part of the Political Science and Legal Studies Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (UREP). When possible, student interests are paired with faculty in need of research assistance.

This course is part of the Political Science and Legal Studies Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (UREP). When possible, student interests are paired with faculty in need of research assistance.

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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.

The United States leads the world in spending on health care and is without peer in terms of biomedical research. However, the United States is not the healthiest country in the world as measured by key indicators of population health like infant mortality and life expectancy. Unequal access to quality health care is certainly part of the explanation in a country where, even after the new health care reform legislation, some 25 million Americans will have no insurance.

This course will focus on immigration in the United States in recent years, but will look at historical and cross-national perspectives as well, to better ground our understanding of what is happening here and now.

This course will provide a broad survey of anticolonial thought and politics in the twentieth century. In exploring the intellectual foundations of anticolonial political thought, we will use the works of leaders and intellectuals of a wide array of anticolonial movements as lenses through which to examine the politics of decolonization. Readings will come from a wide array of figures, including but not limited to C.L.R. James, Aime Cesaire, Mahatma Gandhi, Frantz Fanon, B.R. Ambedkar, George Manuel, Huey Newton, and Abdullah Ocalan.

Satisfies Junior Year Writing requirements for POLISCI majors, through assignments practicing the types of writing used by citizens, policy advisers, and politicians in public debates about contemporary issues.