Complex Problems Int'l Affairs

Catalog description

Complex Problems in International Affairs (3) This course explores how to integrate different perspectives on a given issue and consider the wide-ranging implications of possible courses of action by using multiple analytical frames. Students analyze a set of modules addressing a complex, interdisciplinary international problem such as expanding water access in Sub-Saharan Africa, modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal, designing institutions that increase political accountability, and addressing terrorist violence in the Philippines. Usually Offered: fall. Grading: A-F only.