Fall 2024 Course List

Who sets policy under the U.S. Constitution? Arizona? Congress? President Biden? Beginning with a discussion of the American Founding, we will learn about how and where the Constitution allocates power among the states, Congress, presidents, and justices. This is the first of a two-part sequence on the U.S. Constitution and its development.

M/W 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Sean Beinberg | Tempe Campus | Session C: #73693

This course covers the period from 1776 until 1800 from the Revolution until the peaceful transfer of power between parties. The Constitutional Convention and the early debates about the meaning of the Constitution will be a particular focus.

M/W 1:30pm - 2:45pm | Colleen Sheehan | Tempe Campus | Session C: #74025

A survey of economic thought from classical to modern economics; including classical economics, Marxist economics, neoclassical economics, institutionalist economics, Austrian economics, Keynesian economics, Chicago economics, new institutionalist economics, and public choice.

T/Th 10:30am - 11:45am | Ross Emmett | Tempe Campus | Session C: #76847

Prepares the foundation for students to become active participants, as citizens and leaders, in a liberal democratic society that faces an uncertain future. Provides familiarity with core conceptual tools provided by philosophy, politics, and economics, and an appreciation for the foundation they provide together to address social and political uncertainties we face today as well as in the future. Reliance on any one disciplinary set of tools and skills is useful, of course, but the real challenges of any liberal democracy are met by neither technocratic nor bureaucratic solutions. They require an awareness of the relevance of ethics, politics, and economics, as well as an appreciation for the limitations of each and the necessity of thinking through their interactions.

Available as an iCourse and oCourse

Session B: #80758

This course considers the distinctive political economy of the United States. Political economy is usefully defined as the arrangements and interactions between the government and the economy. Some attention will be given to the period from 1776-1900, but the emphasis will be on the period from 1900 until the present, especially the key transformations in the relationship between the government and the economy (the Progressive Era, the New Deal, the Reagan Revolution, and the Progressive Revival under Barack Obama). We will explore the interplay of ideas, policy, and politics. We will in addition explore specific policy issues such as economic growth, inequality, the environment, the regulatory state, immigration, inflation, public debt, and trade.

TTH 1:30pm - 2:45pm | Peter McNamara | Tempe Campus | Session C: #80077

Conquer your fear of Shakespeare! Read, perform, and discuss Shakespeare's oh-so-relevant lessons for 21st-century leadership through three classic plays with two nationally acclaimed leadership experts. Study Henry V in preparation for a SCETL faculty-student retreat where we will explore the Tragedy of Macbeth and The Tempest in the pines, on hiking trails, and over meals in Prescott, Arizona. Spend the final two days in workshops back at the ASU Tempe campus being coached in a leadership lab, focusing on Henry V, by the dynamic "Movers and Shakespeares." This is boot camp the Bard's wav!

 Susan Carrese | 10/11/2024 to 10/15/2024 & 10/19 8:00am-8;00pm &10/20 8:00 am - 3:00pm | Session B: #87971

Why are sports important to society? Discover why fans are obsessed with their favorite teams, by taking Sports and Leadership with Professor Jack Doody. Enroll today!

Jack Doody | ICourse | Session A: #86338

In “Left and Right Around the World,” we will explore how various ideologies emerged in Europe as responses to the French Revolution and the shift from absolute monarchy to republicanism, looking particularly at conservatism, nationalism, liberalism, and socialism. We will then move from a discussion of ideas and theory to an investigation of institutions and behaviors in contemporary societies worldwide. What does it mean to be on the political left or right today? Why can third parties win elections in other countries, but not in the United States? And how do parties of the extreme left and extreme right that reject democratic norms gain and maintain power?

MW 1:30pm - 2:45pm | Matthew Slaboch | Tempe Campus | Session C: #85029

This will be a seminar-style class that will rely heavily on class discussion to review the foundational principles that underlie civil-military relations (CMR) in the United States, identify the historical and current controversies, and explore the ‘big ideas’ frequently associated with this topic.

T/TH 1:30am - 2:45am | Bruce Pagel | Tempe Campus | Session C: #76485

In partnership with the nonprofit organization, Veterans Heritage Project, students will interview a military veteran preserving the veteran's oral history in video and written form, submitting both to the Library of Congress and publishing it in a hardbound book, 'Since You Asked.' Students will become published authors, test their leadership skills and learn about civic responsibility, all while performing a valuable service to both the individual veteran and the larger national community.

F 10:30am - 11:30am| Bruce Pagel | Tempe Campus | Session C: #80078

Romania plays an increasingly military, strategic, and humanitarian role as a member of both the EU and NATO. While in Romania you will learn about the country's geo-strategic positioning and explore the Black Sea and Danubian region as a gateway to "the Other Europe". Stepping back in history, you will also learn about the country's ties with the former Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires as well as the USSR that will cast a long shadow over the nations of Central and Eastern Europe. Students will also participate in academic visits to Ceausescu's People Palace, Dracula's Castle in the Carpathians, Transylvania Castles, and more!

 Ileana Orlich | ICourse | Session A: #80079

This course looks at Europe, past and present, and the interdependency of history, religion, politics and political statesmanship, societies and culture through incomplete but indefinitely expandable groupings selected for their transmission dimensions—a transmission that includes historically effective patterns of cultural power projection and appropriation beyond the national focus.

This course is part of the European Studies Certificate

1:30pm - 2:45pm | Ileana Orlich | Tempe Campus | Session C: #88515

Students deepen their understanding of the different and alternate political forms or bodies that communities have taken, including but not limited to national states and global empires, and what advocates and critics alike have said about the advantages and shortcomings of each. Students also examine the varieties of citizenship from the ancient and modern world, including different perspectives on what citizenship entails and how it is defined or delineated; what rights and/or responsibilities may be involved; and what such concepts as "global citizen" may or may not mean.

MW 12:00pm - 1:15pm | Trevor Shelley | Tempe Campus | Session C: #86191

We will discuss issues relating to the three empires spread across Central and Eastern Europe, the fault line of the Western, Islam and Orthodox civilizations, the Soviet and Communist Gulag, Stalinist tactics, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution, the dramatic execution of the Ceausescus in Romania two centuries to the year after the French guillotined Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and stormed into the Bastille (1789), and the new, emerging democracies of a fragmented Central and Eastern Europe. Finally, we will examine the crisis triggered by BREXIT, the rising of Islam and ascending secularization of Western Europe, the ongoing war in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea (2014), NATO presence 1 of 13.

MW 3:00pm - 4:15pm | Ileana Orlich | Tempe Campus | Session C: #80508