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Politics and Society

TikTok, Taiwan and Beyond: How China is Changing the World

Leland Lazarus

Tues., Thurs., 2:00P-3:15P

This interdisciplinary course will explore China's foreign policy from 1949 to today, blending history, international relations theory, business/ economics, and national security. We will hold rigorous debate about the economic and national security implications of China's engagement in various regions, including economic coercion and espionage, cybersecurity, disinformation, supply chain resilience, military expansion, and technological competition. The course will also incorporate Collaborative Online International Learning, as well as guest lectures from U.S., Chinese, and Taiwanese practitioners in the field.

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Being a Man

Ruben Garrote

Tues., Thurs., 12:30P-1:45P

This course will enter the fray by engaging in an interdisciplinary study of what it means to be a man, and what manliness has meant in the past and still means in societies around the world. It will offer definitions from fields such as anthropology, psychology, biochemistry, and philosophy, while also engaging how masculinity is contested in contemporary popular American culture.

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Deconstructing Race Power & Privilege in America

Trina Sanders

Online

This course will explore the phenomena of race, class, oppression, power, and privilege. Students will critically analyze their own identities within the context of power, privilege, and inequity. Through the course lectures, required readings, films/clips, and discussions, students will also critically examine and describe the social, political, and historical construction of inequality while recognizing structures of power and privilege in the U.S.

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Culture And Expression: Censorship, Suppression, And Propaganda Today

Jason Calloway

Wed., 9:00AM - 11:45AM

For as long as humankind has gathered in groups, we have sought to express ourselves through various means: music, visual art, dance, speech, literature, and now digital media.

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The Special Relationship: United Kingdom, the United States, the Common Law and the Foundations of Economic Liberty, Democracy and Freedom

Anthony Rionda

Online

This interdisciplinary course focuses on our constant political cycle, a cycle that includes politics, government, communications, business interests, government funding, data analysis (specifically voter targeting, social media, and polling), law (constitutional, state and local, and administrative), and advocacy (how individuals, businesses, and associations lobby government for their interests).

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Marxism Beyond Politics

Matthew Shafer

Tues., 2:00PM-4:30PM

Marxism is most frequently associated with politics: with leftwing activist movements and the socialist states of the twentieth century. This course intensively surveys that interdisciplinary milieu, approaching Marxism not simply as a political project but as a method for the study of the world as a whole. The course is organized thematically and (more loosely) historically, moving from the nineteenth century to the present.

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Washington Seminar

Charlyn Stanberry

FIU in DC, Tues., 5:30P- 6:45P (HYBRID)

A course designed to help students get the most of their Washington, D.C. semester experience by providing access to elected officials and their teams, government agencies, advocacy organizations, private sector businesses, etc.

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What's Going On: Frontline --- America and the World

Elizabeth Hanly

Online

This course sets out to untie the knot we are living. It presumes that we can agree that Frontline, a documentary series aired on the Public Broadcasting Network, is a reliable source, or at least a place to begin.

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Diplomacy Lab

Brian Fonseca

Thurs., 5:00P-7:30P

The U.S. Department of State's Diplomacy Lab at FIU's Honors College affords students the opportunity to explore real-world challenges identified by State Department officials.

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