INTRODUCTION TO GEOPOLITICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and distinguish between traditional and critical approaches to geopolitics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Discuss the main elements of the geopolitical imagination that shape our understanding of the world and our place in it. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe, provide examples of, and critically analyze the formal, practical, and popular geopolitics that interact to produce our geopolitical understandings of the world. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Trace the continuities and discontinuities of United States geopolitics across imperial, cold war, post-cold war, and post-9/11 eras. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Situate course themes in the larger contemporary critical geopolitics literature. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Define and distinguish between traditional and critical approaches to geopolitics. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Discuss the main elements of the geopolitical imagination that shape our understanding of the world and our place in it. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe, provide examples of, and critically analyze the formal, practical, and popular geopolitics that interact to produce our geopolitical understandings of the world. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Trace the continuities and discontinuities of United States geopolitics across imperial, cold war, post-cold war, and post-9/11 eras. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Situate course themes in the larger contemporary critical geopolitics literature. Audience: Graduate