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Public and International Affair Courses For Graduate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University

GIA 5004 - Power and Policy in the U.S.
Social science theory and research on the distribution of power in the US, especially as it shapes important national policy outcomes. Institutional and class bases of power will be examined, including membership on corporate boards and in policy-shaping think tanks. Implications for democracy in society will be drawn. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5034 (UAP 5034) (PAPA 5034) - Democratic Governance in the Economy
An international and comparative examination of workplace and economic relations around the world, with special focus on efforts to build collaborative work processes that would extend the voice, ownership and control rights of workers. The interface between state institutions and economic organizations is also considered, especially insofar as government prescriptions and processes that may impede or extend democratic governance of the economy. Graduate Standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5104 (UAP 5104) - Urban and Regional Development Theory
An examination and critique of theories relating to socio-economic development and change at three major scales (international, national/regional, and intra-urban) and of theories relating to the linkages between the dominant processes operating at these major scales. Particular emphasis is given to the role of the state in urban and regional development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5115 - Research Methods I
The purposes, problems, and strategies of political science research, emphasizing concept and hypothesis formulation, operationalization, research design, data collection techniques, data processing, and multivariate data analysis.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5116 - Research Methods I
The purposes, problems, and strategies of political science research, emphasizing concept and hypothesis formulation, operationalization, research design, data collection techniques, data processing, and multivariate data analysis.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5154 (UAP 5154) - Global Accountabilities
Provides a comparative perspective on “accountability” among nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, private corporations, governmental organizations, and inter-governmental organizations. Theories and practices of accountability, reporting, monitoring, compliance and learning are considered.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5164 (UAP 5164) (PSCI 5164) - Collaborative Gov
Theoretical foundations of collaborative policy and governance approaches are examined. Strategies and methods for forming and sustaining collaborative coalitions are discussed. Case studies are used to illustrate the effectiveness of collaborative approaches in different policy domains. I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5214 (PSCI 5214) - Contemporary Political Theory
Selected topics in contemporary political theory, including different models of social science inquiry and the use of basic concepts like power, ideology, rationality, and the state in the study of politics.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5224 (PSCI 5224) - Perspectives Pol Theo
Analysis of selected perspectives on politics including rational choice theory, critical theory, neo-marxism, neo-conservatism, post-industrialism, and post-structuralism.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5254 (UAP 5254) (PSCI 5254) - Global Conflicts
Examines theoretical issues in the study of global conflicts. Reviews theories of nationalism, states and territory as factors. Examines dynamics of contemporary conflicts from different regions of globe as case studies illustrating theoretical issues. Reviews role of leaders in conflict processes. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5274 (UAP 5274) - Comparative Social Movements
This course will investigate the forms of public protest that occur all over the world, with special attention to activism in poor nations and to the recent emergence of transnational movements. Also examines why and when governments repress social movements. Explores movements that are grounded in collective identities based in class, race/ethnicity, gender, religion, and culture. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5284 (UAP 5284) (PSCI 5284) - Transnational Migration
Overview of the dynamics, policies, governance, and citizenship regimes associated with the phenomenon of transnational migration. The course will emphasize local, national, and supranational examples and comparisons to explore these themes. Graduate standing
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5354 (PSCI 5354) - Public Policy Analysis
Approaches to policy analysis and program evaluation including the techniques appropriate to various stages of the policy process.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5364 (STS 5364) (PSCI 5364) - Public Ecology
Examines policy developments and practices that move beyond the conceptual divisions and policy operations begun during the 1970’s, which largely divided the more natural science- based environmental sciences from social science-based environmental based studies. Mixes the insights of life science, physical science, social science, applied humanities, and public policy into a cohesive conceptual and operational approach to environmental protection in the 21st century. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5374 (PSCI 5374) (PAPA 5374) - Electronic Governance
Examines applications of information technology in government from the point of view of governments and citizens. Survey of the relationship between e-government and e-democracy and of government management techniques. Explores problematic issues related to e-government, such as privacy, the digital divide, and information security.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5404 - Topics in Political Geography
Territorial basis of political systems, political processes, and political behavior from local to global scales; evolution of contemporary political geographic patterns, territorial divisions, and process of partitioning the earth. II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5414 (PSCI 5414) - Industrial Democracies
Political pattern and processes of development in selected democracies in Europe, North America, and Asia emphasizing the political problems of contemporary industrial societies and their likely evolution in a “post-industrial” era.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5424 (PSCI 5424) - Comm & Post-Comm Sys
Political processes and developmental trends in communist and post-communist systems in Russia and other CIS states, Eastern Europe, the People’s Republic of China, and the Third World. Current economic, political, and social issues and their likely development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5434 (PSCI 5434) - Politics of Developing Areas
Political structures, economic growth, and cultural frameworks of developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America emphasizing the political and economic challenges of industrial development in a global economy.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5444 (PSCI 5444) - International Politics
Theories of international organizations and relations among nations focusing on research in foreign policy formulation and implementation, international integration, conflict resolution, and global political economy.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5454 (SPIA 5454) (PSCI 5454) - Adv Info Tech Policy
In-depth study and critical evaluation of selected complex issues related to information technology, society, governance, and public policy. Focused attention is given to theoretical and methodological foundations of the area of inquiry and to specific domains of policymaking and implementation. Topics will be selected from IT-related issues in such areas of concern as: cities, local communities, nonprofit organizations, governments, and global networks. May be repeated on a different topic. Must meet prerequisite or have permission of instructor.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5464 (UAP 5464) (PAPA 5464) - Qualitative Research Methods in Global Studies
Examines the philosophies and procedures guiding various qualitative methods used in the social science fields, such as global studies, planning and policy. Exploration of alternative understandings of normal science and consideration of the merits of adopting qualitative research approaches to disciplined analysis, including ethical issues in research. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5474 (PSCI 5474) - Global Governance
Examination of the norms, institutions and practices developed by the international community to address systemic global governance problems: genocide, failed states, transnational corruption, displaced persons, AIDS, poverty. Role of United States in world community examined. Power of international organizations versus states. Capacity problems of both. Future of United Nations and global governance considered. Graduate Standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5484 (PSCI 5484) (HIST 5484) - Contemporary American Foreign Policy
Covers U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War, the stalemate with the Soviet Union, armament and arms control, containment and deterrence, detente and Reaganism, and the end of the Cold War. Briefly covers events from 1989 to the present. Designed for students with an interest in foreign policy and global affairs. Prereqs or instructor’s permission.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5504 (UAP 5504) (PSCI 5504) - Discourse Analysis
Examines the key theoretical sources and major practical applications of discourse analysis as a contemporary social science methodology. Origins, major variants, and critical uses of discourse analysis in cultural studies, semiotic methods, policy analysis, and organizational communication techniqeus also are considered. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5514 (PSCI 5514) - Global Security
Security examined as an essentially contested concept. Traditional national security and emergent global security discourses and agendas explained. Security institutions and organizations analyzed. Questions of power, identity and representation examined as factors delimiting security conceptions, practices and agendas. Graduate Standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5524 (UAP 5524) - Internat Development
Social and cultural factors in the development of societies, including the role of women in development. Contemporary developing countries, and historical material from developed countries; policy issues facing governments of developing countries and those interested in assisting their development.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5534 (PSCI 5534) - Regionalism and Political Development
Provides a systematic review of regional organizations, the theories and factors that explain their recent emergence and an analytical framework for studying regional policy objectives such as peace and security, economic growth, environmental protection and the pursuit of human rights. Regional variations between Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East are examined.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5554 (SPIA 5554) (PSCI 5554) - Cult Pol Soc Network
Historical origins, institutional foundations, and theoretical interpretations of cultural, political, and social interaction through computer mediated communication are examined. Particular attention is given to new types of discourse, sources of power, and structures of society at all geographical levels in global computer and communications networks.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5574 (UAP 5574) (PSCI 5574) - Arts, Culture and Society
Considers the role of the arts in society, including architecture, music companies, or theater productions to heritage sites, science museums, and art galleries. Effective arts policy in revitalizing urban economies also examined. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5584 (UAP 5584) (STS 5584) (PSCI 5584) - Environmental Politics and Policy
Course provides a broad introduction to the key ideas, actors and institutions related to environmental politics and policy in the United States, with some coverage of global issues. It is intended to provide students with basic interdisciplinary knowledge and an intellectual framework for understanding and thinking critically about environmental politics and policy.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 5654 (UAP 5654) - Environmental Risk Analysis
This course will provide an overview of risk analysis as it pertains to environmental policy, including distinguishing among various concepts of risk, methods employed in risk analysis, public policies regarding risk analysis, the risk communication, proposed alternative approaches to risk assessment, and the political controversies surrounding risk analysis in the broad field of environmental regulation.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5904 (UAP 5904) (TA 5904) (STAT 5904) (PPWS 5904) (PHYS 5904) (PAPA 5904) (NR 5904) (NE 5904) (MSE 5904) (MKTG 5904) (MINE 5904) (ME 5904) (ISE 5904) (HTM 5904) (HORT 5904) (GEOG 5904) (FST 5904) (FOR 5904) (FIW 5904) (ESM 5904) (ENT 5904) (ENGR 5904) (EDPE 5904) (EDHL 5904) (EDCT 5904) (EDCI 5904) (ECPE 5904) (ECE 5904) (DASC 5904) (CSES 5904) (CS 5904) (COMM 5904) (CHEM 5904) (CHE 5904) (CEE 5904) (BSE 5904) (BMES 5904) (BC 5904) (ARCH 5904) (APSC 5904) (AOE 5904) (ALS 5904) (AHRM 5904) (AEE 5904) (AAEC 5904) - Project and Report
The major paper is one option (together with the Practicum and Thesis) which GIA candidates may elect to complete their degree requirements. It provides the candidate with an opportunity to demonstrate: (1) a required degree of comprehension of the concepts, principles and theories relevant to their fields and (2) the ability to apply this understanding in a professional manner to a specific policy, planning or methodological issue by means of a sustained analytic argument. The exact character of the concerns to be examined in a major paper will be approved by a student’s committee and may take the form of case studies, literature reviews, or sustained examination of policy or planning processes or outcomes.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 5974 - Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Lecture Hours: 1 to 19
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Independent Study

GIA 5984 - Special Study

Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Lecture Hours: 1 to 19
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Online Course

GIA 5994 - Research and Thesis

Credit Hours: 1 to 19
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Research

GIA 6114 - Critical Geopolitics
Critical analysis of geopolitics as spatial discourse about world politics. Examines major concepts in critical geopolitics. Critically reads colonial, fascist, Cold War and post-Cold War geopolitical discourses. Discusses geopolitical knowledge in popular culture. Reviews latest research in the field of critical geopolitics. Graduate standing.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture, Online Course

GIA 6124 - Topics in Security Studies
Surveys the interface of globalization and security and the changing paradigm of security within global society. Reviews the impact of globalization on traditional understandings of state security, and provides an advanced understanding of the emerging challenges and threats to human and state security. May be repeated with a different topic content for a maximum of 12 credits.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 6134 - Topics in Conflict Analysis
Provides a comprehensive guide to the understanding of contemporary global conflicts and conflict resolution. Reviews the field of conflict analysis, demonstrates the various approaches to conflict resolution and explores the dynamics of conflict settlement. May be repeated with a different topic content for a maximum of 12 credits.
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

GIA 6144 - Topics in Global Governance

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Level(s): Graduate
Instruction Type: Lecture

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