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UC Washington Center Fall 2011 Electives
Art in Our Capital
This class is designed as an introduction to the wide spectrum of performing arts, visual arts, museums, monuments and libraries in Washington DC. It will include classroom lectures, meetings with leading DC artists and arts scholars, tours of museum....
Banking, Money and Financial Markets
Basic elements of money and banking: institutional features and economics of financial markets and, in particular, of the U.S. banking system; determinants of interest rates; the Federal Reserve and its role in the money supply process; effects of mo....
Behind the Bully Pulpit: The History of the Presidential Speech
This course will review the history of Presidential speechwriting as well as the tools of the speechwriter. It will emphasize recent Presidential speechwriting including speeches of President Barack Obama.
Beyond Sovereignty
"Beyond Sovereignty" focuses on two interrelated dynamics: the decline of the sovereign state and the spread of globalization. The goal of this course is to provide you with a fuller understanding of these dynamics across a range of selected issue ar....
Thinking Through the Arts: the Late 20th and 21st Centuries
In this course students will examine the arts of the late 20th and 21st centuries with a threefold purpose: - to develop a basic understanding of the parameters of informed criticism with respect to the arts in our time - to develop skills n....
Washington Media
Washington is the hub for America’s media elite, as well as for foreign journalists representing practically every nation overseas. Thousands of correspondents, editors, broadcasters, producers, photographers, cameramen and news technicians work here....
Semester Electives
A Theater of Politics/The Politics of Theater
Over the past four years this course has canvassed the Washington theater scene and discovered a wealth of politically and socially attuned material on DC stages. Washington has, rather surprisingly, emerged as the second most vibrant theatrical city....
Behind the Bully Pulpit-The History of Presidential Speech
As history has shown, there is not bully pulpit n the world like the American presidency. Whether it was Roosevelt declaring war on the Japanese or Regan declaring war on government bureaucracy, they, like all presidents, understood the power of thei....
Environmental Policymaking in the Global Economy
World leaders at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Copenhagen this past December announced that they reached "a meaningful agreement" that will lead to a global treaty to address climate change. Many observer....
Interest Group Politics/Lobbying and Influence
This course will explore the role of interest groups and lobbyists in the American political process. We will discuss what makes an influential lobbyist in Washington. We will examine the ways in which organized interests try to achieve their goals, ....
International Non-governmental Organizations
As the international community seeks to define the “post Cold War era,” and more recently, the “post 9-11 era,” increasing attention is being placed on the role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the international arena. In particular, intern....
The Repeopling of America
As Congress once again turns to comprehensive immigration reform, understanding the evolution of American immigration policy is all the more important. Turn on any of the major cable news channels and immigration is front-and-center, as pundits on al....
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