Deborah Seligsohn

PSC 1200 Introduction to International Relations (Fall 2019)
A semester course introducing students to the fundamental analytic approaches to the study of international relations.

Syllabus

PSC 6900 The Politics of Climate Change (Spring 2019)
A seminar offered to seniors in the major as their capstone course. The course offers a comprehensive view of climate politics from both a comparative and international relations perspective. Students write a research paper using primary source data.

Syllabus

PSC 4275 Global Environmental Politics and Policy (Spring 2019)
An upper level political science course focused on analyzing the full range of environmental issues through the tools of political science. The course includes a simulation where students write their own climate change agreement.

Syllabus

Poli 162 Environmental Policy (Summer 2017)
An intensive 5-week course, involving 2 3-hour sessions per week. With a small class, sessions focused on group discussion, teamwork, simulations, peer editing and group preparation for the final debates.

Syllabus

Assignments:

1. Policy memos

   • Assignment

   • Format

   • Rubric

2. Debate

   • Assignment

   • Rubric

   • Team Evaluation Form

   • Critique

Poli 104E Environmental Law and Policy (Spring 2017)
A lecture-format class. The class was conducted with a mix of lecture and pair and small group work.

Syllabus

Lectures:

• Lecture 1: Introduction

• Lecture 2: Why We Regulate

• Lecture 3: Coase Theorem and Project Description

• Lecture 4: Tragedy of the Commons

• Lecture 5: Environmentalism in the US

• Lecture 6: Agenda Setting and Interest Groups

• Lecture 7: Roles within Government

• Lecture 8: Delegation, Accountability and the early 1970s

• Lecture 9: Science in Environmental Policy

• Lecture 10: Cost Benefit Analysis

• Lecture 11: Command and Control

• Lecture 12: Cap and Trade

• Midterm Review

• Lecture 13: Water

• Lecture 14: Flint Case Study

• Lecture 15: Toxics

• Lecture 16: Toxics Group Discussion

• Lecture 17: Federal Land

• Lecture 18: Land Use and Selectorate Theory

• Lecture 19: Energy

• Lecture 20: Climate Change

• Lecture 21: Montreal Protocol

• Lecture 22: Climate Change and International Agreements

Project Documents (Project described in syllabus and lecture 3):

• Project Rubric

• Classmate Commentary

• Presenter's Reflection

• Mock Job Application Cover Letter Rubric

Exams

• Exam Rubric

• Midterm Questions

• Final Exam Questions

Guest Lectures:

• Environmental Regulation in Poli 102L The Politics of Regulation

• International Environmental Relations in Poli 12 Introduction to International Relations

• The Chinese Environment in IRGN 404 Chinese Politics

• China and Climate Change in Poli 130B Politics in the People’s Republic of China