Government (GOVT)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

GOVT 3141

The United States stands alone among Western, industrialized countries with its persistent, high rates of incarceration, long sentences, and continued use of the death penalty. This "American exceptionalism" ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Winter Session.  Combined with: AMST 3141

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1122 GOVT 3141   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous
    This Online Winter Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ws/courses/courses.php?v=3479

GOVT 3294

We are in an era of unprecedented access to information via digital news, the internet, and social media. This also comes with significant misinformation — for example, in 2016, Oxford Dictionaries named ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Winter Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1103 GOVT 3294   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous
    This Online Winter Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ws/courses/courses.php?v=2093

GOVT 3614

In recent decades the Andean region of Latin America has become a focal point of international debate over alternative models of economic development and their environmental consequences. Windfall revenues ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 3614

  • 2 Credits Multi-Term

  •  1139 GOVT 3614   FLD 801

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Taught in Ecuador. Travel Dates are January 2 and January 16.

GOVT 3686

"What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves," wrote Albert Camus in The Plague. It is not just the current pandemic: climate change, warlike ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Winter Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1159 GOVT 3686   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: Distance Learning-Asynchronous
    This Online Winter Session class is offered by the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. For details visit http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ws/courses/courses.php?v=3092