POLITICAL SCIENCE

American Political Systems
International Politics: How the World Works
Introduction to Political Thinking
The First Amendment
U.S. Workers in the New Global Economy
History of Western Political Thought
Basic Issues in Political Science
American Constitutional Law
Civil Liberties and the U.S. Constitution
Congress and the Presidency
The Politics of Personal Identity
Public Administration and Public Policy
Contemporary European Politics
Topics in the Politics of the Third World
Topics in 20th-Century
Political Theory
Topics in American Politics
American Political Parties and Elections
Politics and Popular Culture
Comparative Politics
Intro to Chinese Politics
Utopias, Dystopias and Manifestoes
Art and Politics in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
History and Politics of Women's Rights in Asia
Special Topics
Independent Study
Field Study
Honors

All members of the Moravian College community have access to networked Windows and Macintosh microcomputers in the academic computing laboratory in Monocacy Hall. The lab provides laser printing capabilities for Macintosh and Windows computers. Students with their own computers who purchase a network kit from the Center for Information Technology may connect to the campus network directly from their dormitory rooms. This connection provides 24-hour access to network services, including printing, file servers, electronic mail, and the Internet, plus storage for personal files and access to campus software programs needed for academic pursuits.

Field study is available in public policy advocacy organization, business, law, and local government. Special topics courses have included offerings in environmental politics, the politics of the 1960s, political propaganda, and women in Middle Eastern politics, as well as study trips to Israel and Egypt, the Soviet Union, and Cuba. The department supervises the Student Society for International Relations, which participates in the College Model United Nations, held annually in New York. Students may participate in the Washington Semester at American University, which includes opportunities to study abroad. The department’s visiting lecture series brings to campus international specialists.

LISA FISCHLER

Associate Professor of Political Science

EDUCATION: B.A., University of Puget Sound; M.A., Monterey Institute of International Studies; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison

INTERESTS: China, East Asia, comparative politics, women and politics, gender and politics, culture and politics, states and social movements, and contentious politics.

KHRISTINA HADDAD

Associate Professor of Political Science

EDUCATION: B.A. Reed College, M.A. McGill University, Ph.D., University of Michigan

INTERESTS: Politics of time and temporality, Hannah Arendt, political action, fear, feminist theory, women's studies, and, in particular, the politics of women's health. Dr. Haddad teaches a writing-intensive course on visionary political writing and is affiliated with German Studies and Women's Studies.

GARY L. OLSON

Professor of Political Science; Chair of the Department of Political Science

EDUCATION: B.A., Concordia College; M.A., University of South Dakota; Ph.D., University of Colorado; Postdoctoral summer fellow at UCLA, UNC-Chapel Hill and UC-Berkeley

INTERESTS: International political economy, labor politics, U.S. foreign policy in the Third World. His books include How the World Works, The Other Europe, and U.S. Foreign Policy and the Third World Peasant. In 1977, Dr. Olson was awarded a Fulbright to Finland; in 1990, he received a Fulbright to Egypt and Jordan, and he received another in 1995 to Mexico. He was also awarded the Malone Fellow to Syria and Kuwait in 1993. He is a recipient of the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

JOHN V. REYNOLDS

Professor of Political Science

EDUCATION: B.A., Lehigh University; Ph.D., Rutgers University

INTERESTS: The formulation and implementation of public policy, interest group advocacy, politics and popular culture, diversity issues, and the political and economic implications of Internet technology. Dr. Reynolds is the director of the Promise of the Rainbow Diversity Initiative, vice chairperson of the Children’s Coalition of the Lehigh Valley, and program chair for the Bethlehem Area Education Foundation.

Hwa Yol Jung