Identities and Interests

Politics, power relations, and movements embedded in and constructed through issues such as ethnicity, nationality, gender, race, sexuality, religion, kinship, class, and political affiliation.

Identities and Interests Courses

This list is subject to change as courses are added to and dropped from the curriculum.
115: American Political Institutions and Processes (Baughman)
117: Contemporary Political Freedom (Brendese)
121: Moral Questions and Political Choice/or FYS 330 (MacLeod)
155: Women, Power, and Political Systems (Hill)
160: Politics in the Muslim World (Hooglund)
165: Environmental Conflicts in Latin America (Haughney)
211: American Parties and Elections (Baughman)
215: Political Participation (Baughman)
219: Social Movements in Latin America (Haughney)
220: Gender, War and Peace (Plastas)
229: Race and Civil Rights in Constitutional Interpretation (Kessler)
232: Politics of Post Communism (Richter)
235: Black Women in the Americas (Hill)
243: Politics and Literature (MacLeod)
244: Political Imagination (MacLeod)
245: Democracy in the State and in the Home (Hill)
254: Religion and Politics in South Asia (Nelson)
255: Sex Matters? U.S. Women and Politics (Hill)
257: African American Women’s History (Plastas)
260: Nationalism and Nation Building (Aslan)
282: Rights and Identities (Engel)
298: Sexuality and the Politics of Difference (Corlett)
310: Public Opinion (Baughman)
329: Law, Gender and Sexuality (Kessler)
344: Ethnicity and Conflict (Richter)
345: NGOs and World Politics (Richter)
347: Gender and the State (Hill)
349: Indigenous Movements in Latin America (Haughney/Soifer)
376: National Identity and Foreign Policy (Richter)
390: Race and U.S. Women’s Movements (Plastas)
s13: Immigration Reform (Pérez-Armendáriz)
s14: Gender and Tobacco (Plastas)
s15: Unheard Voices and the Politics of Immigration (Pérez-Armendáriz)
s16: Arab and Iranian Films as Indicators of Social Change (Hooglund)
s17: Latin American Politics in Film (Haughney)
s18: Immigration Rights Theory and Practice (Kawar)
s22: Politics of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe (Richter)
s24: Chinese Foreign Policy (Gayazova)
s27: Feminisms of the 1970’s and 80’s (Plastas)
s28: Sufi Saints and Muslim Missionaries (Nelson)
s29: Politics and the Essay (MacLeod)
s32: Global Flows: Sex, Politics, and War (Hill)
FSA: Vienna: Vienna, Budapest, Prague (Richter)