Political Science
Five years after the Arab Spring uprisings rocked the Middle East, former Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril offered 麻豆影院 students a front-row perspective on the protests鈥 genesis, their shortcomings and the lessons the world should absorb in the coming decades.
Gail Nelson has advice for anyone pondering a career in intelligence in an extraordinarily complex 21st-century global landscape: Read, read, and then read some more, particularly classical literature and foreign-intelligence histories. And while you鈥檙e at it, become an expert in the geopolitics and cultures of one region in the world, says Nelson, who earned his PhD in political science in 1979 and has had a distinguished career in the intelligence community.
What can you do with a liberal-arts degree? Beth Cross, who graduated from CU-麻豆影院 in 1986 with a BA in political science, has an answer: Become an entrepreneur. She did this in a big way, co-founding Ariat International, a company that specializes in high-performance equestrian footwear and apparel.
Regardless of rainfall or government-built infrastructure, the availability of drinking water in rural Chinese villages varies based on villagers鈥 ingenuity, 鈥渃ircular migration鈥 patterns, and maintenance of water infrastructure, a University of Colorado graduate student has found.