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Approaches to the study of conflict and cooperation in world affairs. Applications to war, terrorism, trade policy, the environment, and world poverty. Debates about the ethics of war and the global distribution of wealth.

This Student-Initiated Course focuses on the main issues and themes surrounding international responses to mass atrocities and genocide. We will explore the events and international norms that led to the creation of "The Responsibility to Protect" Doctrine, the main thematic dilemmas surrounding international action, and a brief history of international responses to past genocides. The objective of this course is to give each student a better idea of what the realistic possibilities are for international action on grave human rights violations of this kind.

This Student-Initiated Course will explore the broad array of issues associated with the use of military force in conflicts with state and non-state actors. Through a variety of guest lecturers, readings, and facilitated discussions, students will have an opportunity to examine military history and tactics, as well as their impact on politics, policymaking, and international relations. Focus will be on theories of military strategy, supplemented by popular case studies.

This 1-unit Alternative Spring Break course and trip will explore the world of international human rights advocacy, and the ethics of humanitarianism in the 21st Century. The course will examine the history of human rights and the international system that has been created to promote them. By looking at case studies of historical and current human rights violations, specifically those associated with mass atrocities, we hope to develop our understanding of the term human rights and how it is applied in our world today. We will critically analyze the strategies employed by governments and NGOs to address these crimes committed against humanity.

When we hear the phrase, "human trafficking", we usually envision brothels in India or red light districts in Nepal. Yet, trafficking is a worldwide phenomenon that is occurring right in our backyard, from the massage parlors of San Francisco to the small night clubs of Gilroy. Throughout our course and trip, we will shed light on the impact of trafficking in our daily lives, and why this billion dollar industry is occurring right here in the Bay Area. We will examine trafficking as an intersection of issues, and how topics such as gender, politics, immigration, and, even, economics fuel this dangerous industry. Through arming ourselves with awareness, we, as students, can equip ourselves with knowledge to identify and fight trafficking in our own community.

This course will use insights from behavorial economics and social pyschology in attempt to explain our irrationality. This knowledge can be used to design interventions to inspire behavorial change. We seek to understand the process of such design and how it can be used to create change in the global scale.

In this course, we will explore the broad array of issues associated with the use of military force in conflicts with state and non-state actors. Through a variety of guest lecturers, readings, and facilitated discussions, students will have an opportunity to examine military history and tactics, as well as their impact on politics, policymaking, and international relations.

The course will provide a broad overview of key policy issues concerning agricultural development and food security, and will assess how global governance is addressing the problem of food security. At the same time the course will provide an overview of the field of international security, and examine how governments and international institutions are beginning to include food in discussions of security.

Censorship, Borges tells us, is the mother of metaphors. The Islamic regime in Iran censors all aethetic production in the country. But Iranian dissident artists, from film-makers and fiction writers to composers in a thriving under-ground musical scene, have cleverly found ways to fight these draconian measures. They have developed an impressive body of work that is as sophisticated in style as it is rich in its discourse of democracy and dissent. The purpose of the seminar is to understand the aesthetic tropes of dissent in Iran, and the social and theological roots of rules of censorship. Masterpieces of post-revolutionary film, fiction, and music will be discussed in the context of tumultuous history of dissent in Islamic Iran.