DPI-420: Culture, Politics, and Power

Semester: Spring

Credit: 1.0

Faculty: David King

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 1/25
Meet Day M/W 11:40 AM - 1:00 PM L130
Review

Description

This skills-based course imagines what it would be like to enter a country knowing little about that countrys culture, its politics, and how power is distributed.  What questions does one need to ask – and have answered – to analyze the political system and to operate within it?  Students are introduced to cultural and political theories and to the literature on comparative institutions.  Simulations and case studies have a central place in the course.  While democratic and non-democratic regimes around the world are discussed, examples are largely drawn from Latin America, from countries within the former Soviet Union, and from the United States