Section Info: POLIT-106-01

Course Title: Comparative Politics

Start Date: 01/28/2025 End Date: 05/13/2025

Term: Spring Semester 2025

Description: This course provides an introduction to comparative political analysis, one of the four subfields of political science. The primary objective is to help students understand how the 'modern' world, one characterized by the rise of industrialized nation-states, took form and what shape it might take in the post-Cold War era. We will examine how the challenges of economic development, social transformation, and nation-building sparked the emergence of alternatives to 'modernity' characterized by diverse configurations of political institutions and social forces. We will also assess how globalization and the re-emergence of local identities may be redefining our understanding of 'modernity.'

Distribution(s): III - Social Sciences

Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate

Credits:4.00

Faculty	Phone	Email address
Robert Darrow		rdarrow@mtholyoke.edu

Meeting Dates	Method	Meeting days	Meeting times	Building name	Room	Frequency
01/28/2025 - 05/13/2025	Lecture	Tuesday and Thursday	01:45PM - 03:00PM	TBA	TBA	Weekly

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Requisite Courses
None

Comments

Additional Comments

Course Tags
POLIT-COMPAR	POLIT-COMPAR: Politics - Comparative subfield	This course has been approved to count towards the Comparative Politics subfield of the Politics major (100-200-level courses only) and minor (all courses).

Cross-listed Sections

None

Course Availability
Section status: Waitlisted	Capacity: 28	Enrollment: 27	Available: 0	Waitlist: 8

Please note: The "Available" count will equal 0 in a Waitlisted course where spaces in the course have recently opened and students have not yet been moved into them from the waitlist.

BOOK INFORMATION

Book List	Required	Publisher Full Price
To be determined.

Additional Book Comments

This is NOT the complete book list for this class.