PSC 251 - American Foreign Policy

Course Units: 1.0

This course will offer a brief overview of US Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the present, emphasizing the last decade and Trump’s current attempts to dismantle the traditional American-led international economic and security systems. Topics will include Chinese and Russian challenges to America’s global position, and Trump evolving policies, such as those regarding NATO, Ukraine, Canada, Greenland, Venezuela, tariffs, the termination of AID, the shuttering of VOA, and the hollowing out of the Foreign Service. The course will analyze policy-making procedures as well as policies themselves Prerequisite(s): PSC 111 or PSC 112 or PSC 113 or sophomore standing. CQ: SOCS ISP: AMS