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This course offers a study of the history of migration in Argentina. It examines the various historical contexts in which immigrant communities arrived in Argentina and how they were integrated into, or marginalized by, a larger national community. This course discusses how migratory phenomena affect the position and relationship of Argentina with other countries in the region and on a global scale.

This course provides students with theoretical knowledge, which is essential for discussing critical issues on public bureaucracy in modern liberal democracies. The course is divided into four main parts. In Part I examines the primary concepts of this course (i.e., bureaucracy, democracy, and their relationships). Part II focuses on the administrative branch by discussing traditional scholarly debates and recent controversial topics such as representativeness, democratic control, political neutrality, and the brain drain of government bureaucracy. Part III discussions are expanded to the other government institutions: the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and their relationships with the administrative branch. Part IV includes in-depth discussions on how we could blend in our understanding of the essential values and relationships revolving around public bureaucracy which is especially helpful for those who plan to work in the (quasi-) public sector.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) is a computer system designed to collect, manage, edit, analyze and present spatial information. This course introduces the basic concepts and methods in mapping, spatial analysis, and GIS that enable students to make use of GIS software to study social phenomena. The following concepts are covered: an introduction to cartography and GIS; map design and visualization; map projections and spatial representations; GIS project design and implementation; collection and management of spatial data; spatial analysis and statistics; network analysis; qualitative GIS; uncertainty and how to deal with it; and open source data and software. A series of seminar exercises enables students to make practical use of GIS with hands-on experience. Throughout the course, students learn how to develop spatial research questions and how to conduct spatial analysis using ESRI ArcGIS Pro software and different open-source alternatives. A group project integrates the concepts covered in the lectures with experience from the seminars to explore a current research question.

This course introduces fictional and other critical and cultural perspectives from the postcolonial world. It focuses on selected texts from postcolonial Asia. The course begins by critically investigating the concept of the nation—what Benedict Anderson has famously called an “imagined community.” It explores this concept through reading and discussing texts representing the complexities of imagined communities in Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines, texts that also represent uneven power relations with China, Japan, the UK, the US, and elsewhere. The course explores the question: why should these texts and ideas matter to us now? 

This course examines ways to contribute to and influence policy.

This course examines key concepts that underlie gender analysis, and how they are expressed in politics, culture and society. It examines the meaning of gender across a range of subjects and issues on the global stage and in our everyday lives.

"Marxism" has played an enormous role in the shape of 20th-century history. But what did Marx really believe, and how can his "critique of political economy" help us to understand the historical development of capitalism, and its modern dynamics? What are the main challenges Marxian political economy faces? In this course, students examine Marx's materialist theory of human history, his critique of capitalism, and the extent to which his conceptual tools offer us a useful framework for understanding global socioeconomic change and continuity today, compared to other social scientific methods.