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Aug 21, 2024
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POSC 362 - International Relations of the Americas Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D Study of international relations in the Americas: Latin America and United States figure prominently. Topics include foreign interventions; foreign relations with China, Russia, and EU; international institutions, policy coordination on terrorism, environment, infectious diseases, and migration, among others.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice) Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Discuss Latin America’s history in the international community and assess different theories’ abilities to explain national behavior and collective action.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role extra-hemispheric actors have played in the Americas.
- Identify key regional institutions, their objectives, membership, and activity in the region.
- Discuss efforts in regional policy coordination, both successes and failures.
- Make well-substantiated and educated predictions about the future of political relations in the region.
UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes
- analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
- demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.
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