Upcoming Program Themes

Fall 2012

Program Professor: Mark Fowler
Department: Environmental Science and Policy
Theme/ Course Description: "The Ethics of Sustainability" (pdf)

Spring 2013

Program Professor: Greg Bowers
Department: Music
Theme/Course Description: "Interdisciplinary Art in Washington: The Promise for a New National Arts Policy" (pdf)

Fall 2013

Program Professor: Berhanu Abegaz
Department: Economics
Theme/Course Description: "The International Economy and Deepening Globalization in the 21st Century" (pdf)

Spring 2014

Program Professor: Hiroshi Kitamura
Department: History
Theme/Course Description: "US Foreign Relations -- Then and Now" (pdf)

Fall 2014

Program Professor: Arnab Basu
Department: Economics
Theme/Course Description: "International Development -- Poverty, Policy, and Change" (pdf)

Current Theme Description

Spring 2012

The 2012 Election: Parties, Campaigns, Consultants, and Elections
(Taught by Professor Ron Rapoport of the Government Department)

The focus of this semester is the interaction of individuals, groups and organizations which make up the electoral context and which are particularly evident during presidential election years. Students will see how party and candidate organizations, think tanks, interest groups, campaigns consultants and pollsters all interact around the primary goal of shaping the agenda and winning elections. Through speakers and site visits spanning all facets of the 2012 election, students will see what few people – let alone undergraduate students – have the opportunity to witness and participate in firsthand.

Find out more about the classes offered this semester here.
See previous semester themes here.