POSC 362 - International Relations of the Americas

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4
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.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
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.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral 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.