Course Description
Political Science 60: Ethics and Governance, POL SCI 60
Enrollment and waitlists for Winter Quarter 2024 will CLOSE on December 22, 2024 at 12:00pm.
To study question of can't we all just get along, students play games of cooperation, coordination, collaboration, and competition and examine whether and how diversity, disagreement, and democracy influence game play, to understand under what conditions diversity feeds productively or counterproductively into group effort. Development of self- and other-awareness of emergent properties of disagreement to appreciate how different kinds of social organization promote or undercut social cognition and collective action. Such understanding needs to develop bottom-up through experiential and interactive learning, active and analytical learning, systems thinking, and real-world application.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Los Angeles, Political Science
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: SS.
UC Irvine:
General Education: III - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Major Requirement: Lower division Political Science
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Social Analysis; meets UCLA’s Diversity Requirement
Major Preparation: pre-major Political Science req
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: POSC Elective Units
UC San Diego:
General Education: Revelle-one social science (no major overlap); Sixth - 1 Social Analysis; Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC/AS; TMC 1 course toward lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Muir: 1 course in a Social Sciences theme in "Government and Economics"
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: This course will apply to Area D automatically upon completion
UC Santa Cruz:
Unit Credit
Course Creator
S. Lohmann
Susanne Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She taught at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business before joining UCLA in 1993. Professor Lohmann was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University; John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Southern California; Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Lohmann's articles on collective action and ce ntral banking have appeared in the American Economic Review, t he Amer ican Political Science Review, t he American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Organization , and other leading social science journals. Her current research focus is the political economy of research universities and higher education. Professor Lohmann is completing a book entitled Genius of Place: Universities and the Making of the Modern Mind , which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She teaches courses on ethics and governance. Professor Lohmann is the recipient of two teaching awards.
Susanne Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She taught at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business before joining UCLA in 1993. Professor Lohmann was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University; ...
Susanne Lohmann received her Ph.D. in economics and political economy from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991. She taught at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business before joining UCLA in 1993. Professor Lohmann was John M. Olin Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University; Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, also at Carnegie Mellon University; James and Doris McNamara Fellow at Stanford University; John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Southern California; Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Professor Lohmann's articles on collective action and ce ntral banking have appeared in the American Economic Review, t he Amer ican Political Science Review, t he American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Organization , and other leading social science journals. Her current research focus is the political economy of research universities and higher education. Professor Lohmann is completing a book entitled Genius of Place: Universities and the Making of the Modern Mind , which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She teaches courses on ethics and governance. Professor Lohmann is the recipient of two teaching awards.
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