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POLI 4595

Current Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy · 1 instructor on record · 3 sections

What the course score is made of

95BC evaluations3 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Fall 2025

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What the challenge rank is made of

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This course is class-restricted to juniors, seniors, and graduate students. This seminar will look at current issues in U.S. national security policy. The class is structured in three parts: The first section will consider America's general role in world politics in 2024. The second section will focus on the foreign policy of the Biden administration and how the 2024 presidential election might impact U.S. foreign policy going forward. The remainder of the class will focus on a new international hot spot and discuss recent academic and policy pieces related to that topic. The course has three main objectives: 1) to gain a better understanding of current U.S. foreign policy debates, 2) to better understand ongoing international disputes, and 3) to apply theoretical insights derived from the international relations literature to the policy debates surrounding those disputes.

The only instructor on record

3 sections · nobody else has taught itFull record

Instructor	Overall	Workload	Challenge	RMP overall
Lindsey O'rourkeAssociate Professor · Political Science	943 records	—	—	964 ratings · all classes

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Also taught by Lindsey O'rourke

4 other classes

Class	Instructors	Course score
POLI 2548The World Wars: Causes, Conduct, and Unintended Consequences	14 records	86
POLI 2549United States Foreign Policy 1945 to Present	14 records	89
POLI 2550Nuclear Weapons and International Relations	14 records	87
POLI 2500International Politics and Morality	11 record	65

Other POLI classes

All of them

Class	Instructors	Course score
POLI 1021How to Rule the World: Introduction to Political Theory	645 records	82
POLI 1041Fundamental Concepts of Politics	1037 records	76
POLI 2360Seminar: Rights in Conflict	923 records	84
POLI 1042Introduction to Modern Politics	519 records	83
POLI 2665The Question of Justice	919 records	80
POLI 2440A Continent on the Move: Immigration in Contemporary Europe	110 records	86

The line

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Nothing reported

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Game log

3 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Lindsey O'rourke	Fall 2025	01	98	100	—
Lindsey O'rourke	Fall 2024	01	90	93	—
Lindsey O'rourke	Fall 2021	01	93	91	—

How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.