Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World

Course Outlines

Spring 2024 - IS 210 D100

Comparative World Politics: Trajectories, Regimes, Challenges (3)

Class Number: 5146

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Jan 8 – Apr 12, 2024: Tue, 2:30–4:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Apr 22, 2024
    Mon, 12:00–3:00 p.m.
    Burnaby

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Introduces students to the variety of systems of governance in the world today, examines the historical and cultural sources of their different developmental trajectories, and assesses the challenges they face in the future. Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course will introduce students to the developing world or the Global South. Introduces students to the variety of systems of governance in the world today, examines the historical and cultural sources of their different developmental trajectories, and assesses the challenges they face in the future. Various themes and issues which are significant to the Global South countries will be discussed. Students will learn about these issues and also the primary divide between the Northern and Southern countries.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Participants will: (a) acquire a detailed and theoretically informed understanding of the historical development of the Global South and its relationship to such key events colonization, nationalism and nation-building. Students will learn to display this engagement through analytical essay writing and the presentation of complex arguments in tutorial discussions and presentations. By the end of the course, they should have acquired a sound knowledge of key theoretical and practical debates of the Global South.

Grading

  • Attendance & Tutorial Participation 10%
  • Term Paper 30%
  • Midterm Exam 30%
  • Final Exam 30%

Materials

REQUIRED READING:

Introduction to International Development, Approaches, Actors, and Issues, By: Paul Haslam; Jessica Shafer; Pierre Beaude, Oxford University Press Canada, Edition: 4th

Readings will be placed on Reserve

REQUIRED READING NOTES:

Your personalized Course Material list, including digital and physical textbooks, are available through the SFU Bookstore website by simply entering your Computing ID at: shop.sfu.ca/course-materials/my-personalized-course-materials.

Registrar Notes:

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