ECON1111.31 - Economic Geography 

Professor: Dr. Richard Nisa

Days: Tues/Fri

Times: 1:00 - 2:15

Location: TBA

Description: This course serves as an introduction to the core principles, theories, and histories of economics, with specific attention to the issues that shape the spatial contours of the global economy. We will work to develop a basic understanding of contemporary public debates about economic policy and explore the relationships between spaces, labor, and markets. By the end of the semester, we will have engaged with concepts like globalization, austerity, and neoliberalism and studied the often-conflicting roles of economic actors like states, producers, and consumers.

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GOVT1000.31 - American Government & Politics 

Professor: Dr. Bruce Peabody

Days: Mon/Thurs

Time: 11:30 - 12:45 

Location: TBA

Description: Structure and function of American national government: roles of interest groups and political parties, voting behavior, powers of president, Congress, bureaucracy and federal judiciary, Fall, Spring.

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GOVT3841.31 - Torture 

Professor: Dr. John Schiemann 

Days: Mon/Thurs

Time: 1:00 - 2:15

Location: TBA

Description: This course explores a wide range of questions about a particular form of political violence practiced by many states: torture. Examining state-sponsored torture from empirical, normative, and analytical perspectives over time and across political space, we explore the what, why, when, where how and who of torture.

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GOVT4402.31 - Philosophy of Law

Professor: Dr. John Schiemann

Days: Weds

Times: 11:15 - 1:45

Location: TBA

Description: This seminar surveys some of the most important questions, approaches, and theories in the philosophy of law. Topics covered include the question of just what law is, how laws differ from custom, morality, and threats, the legal naturalist, legal positivist, and legal realist approaches to analytical jurisprudence, questions in normative jurisprudence such as restrictions on freedom, obligations to obey the law, and the grounds for punishment, and the challenges presented by critical theories of law.

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HIST1151.31 - World History Since 1500

Professor: Dr. Robert Houle

Days: Mon/Thurs

Times: 2:30 - 3:45

Location:  TBA

Description: A survey of the development of the modern world from about 1500 to the present. In particular this course will explore the challenges emanating from an increasingly interconnected world during this period.

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HIST2401.31 - Pacific Worlds 

Professor: Dr. Gary Darden

Days: Tues/Fri

Times: 10:00 - 11:15

Location: M11

Description: This course broadly covers the history of the diverse cultures connected to the Pacific Ocean, to include the changing interaction between East Asia, the Pacific Islands, Australia and the Americas from the emergence of the early modern world in the 15th century through the era of globalization today. Particular focus will be on the Rise of the West and its interaction with East Asia from colonial imperialism through World War II and the Cold War eras.

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HIST3250.31 - Crime & Punishment in South Africa

Professor: Dr. Robert Houle

Days: Weds

Times: 11:15 - 1:45 

Location: TBA

Description: This course examines the complex history of criminality and state response in the African subcontinent. Although we will examine the nature of pre-colonial crime and punishment, the focus of the course will be on the colonial period and the apartheid era that followed. Because of the ugly realities of race and class, distinguishing what was, or was not a criminal act in Southern Africa is not as easy as it might at first seem. Nelson Mandela served nearly his entire adult life in prison, while Cecil Rhodes , the founder of De Beers diamond, strong-armed his company into a monopoly and became prime-minister of the Cape Colony. Rogues, rebels, shebeen queens, tsotsis (gangsters), highwaymen, and corporate raiders all make appeareances in this course that mixes traditional lectures with seminar style discussions.

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HIST3322.31 - The Roman Empire 

Professor: Dr. Pete Burkholder

Days: Tues/Fri

Times: 11:30 - 12:45  

Location: TBA

Description: Roman civilization from the creation of the imperial system by Augustus to its collapse in the West under the impact of the Germanic invaders.

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