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This course examined the relationship between global political and legal mechanisms, institutions and the biophysical and societal forces of global climate change. The class was designed around a mock UN Climate Summit of representative nations and drafting an authentic Post-Kyoto Agreement. Students, representing their respective country, had to make several presentations on their position on climate change, engage in an ongoing negotiation via online ‘noteboard’, which culminated with the mock summit.

This introductory course examined the relationship between global political forces and environmental change. The focus was on the local-global interactions on environmental issues. Student assignments included analysis papers that engaged their personal contributions and choices on environmental issues, including papers on both their physical support systems (energy, water, waste) and food choices. Students also had to create a short video of an environmental problem in their local community (& post on youtube).

Advanced political science course where global environmental issues were examined through a lens of social justice. The class explored how social and historical forces/interactions affect human communities, as well as what can be done to mitigate differential impacts through environmental justice. Course covered the history of EJ, the context of EJ, environmental racism, gender and EJ, and the links between EJ, sustainability and climate change.

 

 

 

Introductory course on global politics, with an emphasis on current global issues facilitated through formal class debates and critical discussions. Topics include an introduction to IR theory, international security and terrorism, international law, human rights, war crimes, economic globalization and North-South relations, the environment, global governance, and transnational crime and disease.

Advanced political science course with a focus on global environmental issues. The course emphasized legal writing and analysis in drafting legal arrangements to address global climate change. It included a mock UN conference negotiation, from which each student drafted a legal climate accord. The course covered all major environmental treaties, general principles of IEL, monitoring and compliance, and the strengths/weaknesses of IEL. As a class, they reviewed and reported on the Pew Center Evaluation of Climate Change (“Climate Crossroads”) and the Inuit IACHR Petition.

 

 

 

Advanced political science course based on examining differing legal philosophies. Explores jurisprudence as a model of formal rules (‘analytical’) and normative legal theory. Course covered versions of legal positivism, common law, and natural law to more ‘rule-skeptic’ theories of legal realism, sociological jurisprudence, CLS, feminism, critical race theory, and post-modernism.