Soon I will be returning to the Big City and searching for a place to live while completing the final year of my Master’s degree program. I just signed up for classes, and I think they’ll be very interesting:
- Machinery of US Foreign Policy. This is fascinating specifically because of the discussion concerning thosee factors external to the government bureacracy. How do the media, think tanks, and NGOs affect US foreign policy?
- Human Rights Law. When I realized that I was shying away from this class, it made me question my rationale. What I discovered is that, while much of my interest in the international arena technically falls under the heading of “human rights,” there is something about the title that I find objectionable. What better way to understand my own objection (and perhaps that of others) than while learning about the essence that underlies “Human Rights”?
- Europe in the 21st Century. I had to take this because the title is so reminiscent of Buck Rogers.
- Conflict Assessment. A course dedicated to how international groups assess conflict and thereby, the methods they employ in dealing (or not) with it. I’m fascinated by the notion of having multiple theories or contexts within which to place a conflict, each of which may result in a different response. It seems that there is too much categorization of particular events, and I hope that this course will give me some additional tools with which to broaden the discussion of any particular event.
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