SPRING 2000
This information effective for Spring 2000.
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Instructor: Isebill V. Gruhn
Politics 100 is a writing intensive seminar required of all politics majors and recommended for early completion in the major. This particular Politics 100 course focuses on nationalism; its historic evolution and contemporary manifestations; the role of nationalism in contemporary international affairs; the phenomena of ethnic nationalism today. During our examination of nationalism, the goal will be to develop skills in speaking and writing about politics. Students will be expected to complete all the required reading before the class for which it is assigned and to be prepared to discuss the readings. Failure to attend class or lack of preparation for class session will lead to course failure.
REQUIRED TEXTS
Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New
Nationalism
David Miller, On Nationality (Oxford Political Theory)
Rogers Brubaker, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National
Question in the New Europe
John Hutchison and Anthony Smith (eds.), Ethnicity (Oxford
Readers)
There will also be occasional handouts. All students are also urged to become regular readers of a quality newspaper such as the New York Times and to bring relevant materials from current events into their class discussions and written work. There will be five short 3-5 page take-home essays on topics provided by the instructor. Grades will be based on written work and oral participation.
Instructor: Isebill V. Gruhn
An advanced research seminar. The first half of the quarter will be spent in collective reading and discussion of Henry Steiner and Philip Alston's, International Human Rights in Context: Law, Politics, Morals. During the second half of the quarter, seminar participants will present oral reports on their research. Each student will select a research topic in consultation with the instructor, will make an oral report on an assigned date, will submit a draft of the research paper by week seven and a final paper 20-35 pages in length the last day of classes. Seminar participants will be given reading assignments from appropriate sections of the course text prior to each oral report by the report giver. Seminar participants must attend all seminar sessions (exceptions: doctor certified medical excuses). Participants will be graded on their research paper and their seminar participation.