CPOL - Political Science
The course focuses on defining the objects of study of this discipline, the aspects that justify its scientific character, as well as the characters of the main concepts where this science is supported to produce knowledge. Although in the course we study the relation of political science with other disciplines, it has a disciplinary character.
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3
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Wills Obregon Maria
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Comparative politics is one of the core areas within Political Science. The explanation for this lies on the fact that a considerable amount of the academic production comes precisely from this field, as well as from numerous theoretical and methodological innovations that have come up in Political Sciences as a result of comparative studies. Unlike other areas within the same discipline, comparative politics is not defined under a topic-based criteria but rather by a methodological criteria, thus the study of comparative politics implies an approach to a methodology of political analysis. This course intends to familiarize the student with the comparative analysis on Political Science. To this end, during the first classes, we will discuss the usefulness of comparisons and their logic. Afterwards, through the discussion of the different compared studies, we will introduce to the students the diversity of comparative politics, its scope, and some of the theoretical and methodological debates from this field.
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3
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In this course we will introduce the concepts and central issues of present-day international relations. The presentations, lectures, discussions and activities to be carried out will be based upon real world problems, from the present and from the past alike. However, the main emphasis will be given to the concepts, processes and relevant theories to analyze global politics, and not to current or historical events. This course pursues three objectives: to provide the basic knowledge on the international system, to develop the necessary analytical tools to critically study the global relations, and to prepare students for more advanced courses on the international relations by introducing them to the basic theories of this discipline.
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3
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Borda Sandra
This introductory course is the starting point to understand the Area of Colombian Politics as a key component within the undergraduate program offered by the Department of Political Sciences of Universidad de los Andes. First of all, we will apply several basic concepts from political sciences to the Colombian political process. Furthermore, we seek to explore the political, economic and social conditions that characterized the structuring of the Republic of Colombia and its evolution during the 20th century. We intend to familiarize our students with some of the most important historic concepts on political science, and allow them to understand its complexities, features and impacts on the current political development.
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3
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Pachon Buitrago Monica
In the past, normative questions controlled the political theory. Only after the beginning of the 20th century and especially after World War II, the political science was established as an empirical doctrine different to disciplines as philosophy, law and sociology. The main objective of the course is to familiarize the students with some of the normative and empirical theories that have structured the political science. Instead of making a fast study on the past, it deepens some classical texts, and it establishes a dialog between authors from different times. With this course, we intend to provide the students with an adequate framework to the specific problems that may go over other subjects, as well as different conceptual tools for its study.
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3
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This course introduces the students to the basic concepts and problems of research methodology in social sciences. Within this context, the course starts by going over the philosophical debates related to methodological issues. Later on, based on the aforesaid, we concentrate on the idea of research design. In a particular fashion, it focuses on the different proceedings to produce information and on the relevant techniques to collect that information.
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3
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Garcia Sanchez Miguel
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3
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Rettberg Angelika
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3
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Laurent Virginie
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3
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The general objective of this course is to offer the students with a basic knowledge on the main theories of international relations. To this end, we will present and discuss field debates, their theoretical approaches and the fashion how each theoretical approach may be used to interpret different topics from the global agenda.
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3
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Tickner Arlene
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3
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Tickner Arlene
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3
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3
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Leiteritz Ralf
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3
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3
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Tickner Arlene
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3
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3
What are the political effects of electoral regulations? What factors determine the number of political parties of a country and its political strength? What are the effects of the political party system concerning representation or governability? These are some of the questions addressed in this course. The objective is to provide students with conceptual and practical tools about the electoral systems, the parties and the interactions among them. The course includes a compared approach that privileges the study of the Latin-American case, with special emphasis made on the Colombian case.
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3
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3
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3
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Pachon Buitrago Monica
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3
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3
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3
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Within the horizon of reflection on the relations taking place between Justice and memory, that permitted the awakening of a new humanitarian conscience in the aftermath of the Second World War, the main purpose of this course is to show the most significant processes and decisions of the so called transitional justice as the privileged object of the battles waged in memory. The objective is to provide the students with criteria for analysis and historical examples, enhancing their understanding on the role of justice in the construction processes of collective memory.
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3
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3
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Masias Nuñez Rodolfo
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3
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As the name implies, the goal of this course is to have the student develop a research experience, after presenting a research design as the first step of the workshop, the students are expected to put into practice the skills gained in the previous course, by making that design a reality. Likewise, the course will reinforce the knowledge acquired while offering new learning within the field of methodology. The knowledge has to do, especially, with the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data.
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3
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0
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This option intends the student to put into practice the skills he/she has gained during the undergraduate studies as to present a research problem and solving it. We expect the degree monograph to have a clear formulation of the problem regarded as interesting to the Political Sciences, at the same time, it shall display an adequate knowledge on the literature and it shall also have a research approach whose realization is feasible in one academic semester with the corresponding hours of classes and 6 credits.
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6
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Rettberg Angelika
The goal of the research is to have the student practicing the skills he/she has gained in the undergraduate studies by registering his/her degree project within a broader research, led and conceived by a professor member of the department.
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6
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Rettberg Angelika
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3
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3
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The main objective of this course is to develop theoretical and analytic skills of the student regarding specific problems on international relations. For the purpose of developing this objective, the course will focus on the development and analysis of an area of specific problem in the domain of international relations that is to be established by the corresponding professor.
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3
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In this course we intend to develop the analytical thinking of the student on Colombia´s politics, as well as the relation of problems with the main subsystems (economic, social, environmental and cognitive).
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3
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Wills Otero Laura
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3
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The objective of this seminar is to conduct a research project, which, should the student prefer, may become his/her degree project (monograph). A research project is a document reflecting a purpose of knowledge and the way to execute it. It is a key skill in the training of a Political Scientist and anyone who studies social sciences. During this semester, the students design their project by different stages that, at the end, are assembled within a single document. This work includes: the formulation of a research problem, the development of a theoretical framework, the status of the issue to be studied, the determination of the methodology and the drafting of a schedule and budget for the research.
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3
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Laurent Virginie
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This is a code that must be registered when registering the code of the Degree Project (Degree Monograph).
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Villate Bocconello Tatiana
The practice is geared to undergraduate students and it may be developed in any enterprise or private/public institution at local, regional, national or international level. The goal is to have a formative practice, it is a complement of the academic lessons, and therefore, it is given academic credits. They shall have a minimum duration of four (04) months and maximum of six (06).
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6
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The practice is geared to undergraduate students and it may be developed in any enterprise or private/public institution at local, regional, national or international level. The goal of the practice is to complement the academic knowledge of the student, so therefore, it is given academic credits. It shall have a minimum duration of two (02) months and a maximum of two and a half months (2, 5).
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3
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Rettberg Angelika
The objective of the Degree practice is to have the student using the knowledge gained on an Institution registered in the Centro de Trajectories Profesional of the University, as a future Political Scientist. The chores the student will be linked to must be related to the degree.
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6
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Bolivar Ramirez Ingrid
With the teaching practice the goal is to make the student put into practice the skills and knowledge he/she has gained on the undergraduate studies by having the responsibility of teaching a course, related to political sciences, in one of the schools of the Asociacion Alianza Educativa, or in any other that may be approved by the department, or any school the University has agreements with. The practice is conducted during a semester with full-time dedication.
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6
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2
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The first course on methodology focuses on the current methodologies within the domain of social sciences.
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4
In this course the students must finalize their degree project, with the support of the corresponding academic director. The two previous courses are a prerequisite for this project.
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4
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Nasi Lignarolo Carlo
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4
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4
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This course will study the Colombian democracy on the second half of the XX century and the beginnings of the XXI. It focuses on the approach on the configuration of Colombia´s politics over the said period, from an approach that emphasizes on an institutional perspective from the concepts and the methodology of political sciences.
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4
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Wills Otero Laura
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4
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The goal is to familiarize students with the comparative method that seeks to explain the political and social phenomena based on differences and similarities between cases in different regions and countries of the world. Comparative politics has privileged the search for explanations for variations between cases, for example in terms of regimes, political choices, socioeconomic results, and the interaction between these variables. It also studies the differences between social stakeholders in terms of efficacy, organizational capacity and political impact.
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4
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Nasi Lignarolo Carlo
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4
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4
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This is an organized course on the central and classis topics of Political Sciences as power, the State, democracy and society. In debates on ideologies they have been largely regarded as a false consciousness or as constitutive in terms of the sense we attribute to it. Furthermore, in recent years, ideologies have evolved from being based on class-dependent actors to non classist interests as culture, gender or environment, among other. Within that framework, the purpose of this course is to contribute to raise the political criteria, by the analysis of the evolution of the main political ideologies.
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4
This course reviews theories representing culturalistic, hermeneutic positions which are post-modern in inspiration. The objective of the seminar is to explore the limits of what constitutes one of the main debates of contemporary political theory: that posed between the autopoietic paradigm of Niklas Luhmann, heir of the liberal-positivist tradition as well as that of functionalism, and two traditions which directly or indirectly confront it: French post-structuralism, both in its own exponents as well as in the Marxist hybrid of Negri and Hardt and the Frankfurt School, especially in its second and third generations.
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3
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4
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The purpose of the course is for students to learn more about Habermas’s political and social philosophy. This author presents a way of thinking where historical development is interpreted as a process of technical rationalization that reaches its peak in the domination of the administered society over the world of life. Habermas’s conception of society and politics is based on a critique of functionalist and instrumental reasoning and on the need to recover dialectical reason and discourse ethics.
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3
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Orjuela Escobar Luis
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4
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15
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