CPO 2001 - Comparative Politics
The classification of political systems according to institutional and developmental characteristics. Causes and costs of political stability and instability. Comparison relates to contemporary political institutions and processes in specific countries. (S and N)
CPO 2001 Syllabus | Amie Kreppel
CPO 2001 UFO - Comparative Politics
The classification of political systems according to institutional and developmental characteristics. Causes and costs of political stability and instability. Comparison relates to contemporary political institutions and processes in specific countries. (S and N)
CPO 2001 UFO Syllabus | Sarah Snowmann
CPO 3103 - Western European Politics
Comparative analysis of the government and politics of the major Western European countries. Emphasizes party systems and the social bases of politics in industrialized societies. (S and N)
CPO 3103 Syllabus | Hannah Alarian
CPO 3303 - Introduction to Latin American Politics
Introductory overview of political patterns and political behavior in Latin America within comparative and developmental perspectives. Emphasizes the social, economic, and political factors shaping contemporary political structures and processes.
CPO 3303 Syllabus | Juliana Restrepo Sanin
CPO 3713 - Women and Politics in the Modern Middle East
Examines women and gender in the politics of the modern Middle East from the late 19th century through the 1990s.
CPO 3713 Syllabus | Patricia J. Sohn
CPO 4000 - Selected Studies in Comparative Politics
Variable topics in comparative politics; precise course content will be announced in advance.
CPO 4000 Syllabus | Patricia J. Sohn
CPO 4000 - Women and Politics in Africa
Variable topics in comparative politics; precise course content will be announced in advance.
CPO 4000 Syllabus | Agness N Leslie
CPO 4053 - Politics Under Authoritarianism
Investigates the sources of durable authoritarianism in Asia and around the world and contrasts the survival of dictatorships with successful democratic transitions.
CPO 4053 Syllabus | Mai Frndjibachian
CPO 4721 - The Politics of Ethnic Conflict
Introduces the systematic study of communal violence, to the major concepts in conflict studies, to the main approaches to studying conflict and to many of the major episodes of communal violence in contemporary Asia and beyond.
CPO 4721 Syllabus | Prajakta Gupte
CPO 4731 - Democratization in Global Perspective
Introduces literature on democratization, including familiarization with important theoretical and conceptual issues and empirical data on major regions of the world.
CPO 4731 Syllabus | Andrew Janusz
CPO 6091- Introduction to Comparative Political Analysis
Introduction to major theoretical and methodological approach to study of comparative politics.
CPO 6091 Syllabus | Bryon Moraski
CPO 6107 - West European Politics
Western European politics with emphasis on Britain, France, Spain, and Scandinavia. Addresses major themes in the politics of these nation-states or sub-regions. Addresses key relevant theories.
CPO 6107 Syllabus | Leslie Anderson
CPO 6728- Ethnicity and Nationalism
Introducing the main approaches to the study of how ethnic and national identities are formed, and how they are activated in politics. Exploration of various forms of ethnic politics: peace, rioting, and the most extreme forms, genocide and secession.
CPO 6728 Syllabus | Benjamin Smith
INR 2001 - Introduction To International Relations
The course is designed as a broad introduction to contemporary issues, actors, theories, debates, and major scholarly traditions in the study of world politics. The course introduces the foundational assumptions, methods, and scope of world politics as defined by a variety of perspectives and approaches. In doing so the course guides the students to core concepts necessary for understanding how the world, although diverse in composition and often, but not always, divided against itself, governs its affairs, and decides whose preferences will win out and whose welfare will be fostered in ways that are viewed as legitimate and authoritative by the contending populations of the world.
INR 2001 Syllabus | Badredine Arfi
INR 2001 UFO - Introduction To International Relations
Examines philosophical, theoretical and methodological approaches to the student of international relations, the interaction of major global actors in the post-World War II and post-Cold War eras, the structure of the global economy and various issues such as arms proliferation and conflict associated with ethnicity and nationalism. (S and N)
INR 2001 UFO Syllabus |Long Xiao
INR 3102 - The U.S. and World Affairs
The tradition and development of American foreign policy and contemporary foreign policy problems.
INR 3102 Syllabus | Richard Nolan
INR 3333 - Introduction to International SecurityExamines and applies the major theoretical and methodological approaches to international security. Analyzes the impact of domestic, state, regional and global system factors in international security. Familiarity with the basic concepts of world politics, particularly the dominant actors, issues and paradigms, is recommended.
INR 3333 Syllabus | James Biondi
INR 3603 - Theories of International RelationsExamines a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of international relations.
INR 3603 Syllabus | Ido Oren
INR 4085 - Gender and International RelationsDespite the importance of gender in global politics, gender is still not fully integrated in the academic study of international politics. Examines the study of feminist work in international relations.
INR 4085 Syllabus | Lindsey A. Goldberg
INR 4262 - Russian Foreign PolicyExamines the principal factors influencing the formulation of Russian foreign policy and its evolution over time.
INR 4262 Syllabus | Bryon Moraski
INR 4303 - The Making of American Foreign PolicyExamines the principal factors influencing the formulation of US foreign policy, including the international environment, information processing, personality factors, political culture, decision-makers and decision-making. Also considers the institutional setting, including the President, Congress, and public opinion.
INR 4303 Syllabus | Richard Nolan
INR 6337 - Survey of International Security
Principal problems and issues in the area of international security, considered by examining samples of scholarly literature in the subfield.
INR 6337 Syllabus | David Siroky
INR 6507 - International Organization
Advanced reading and research. Special focus on international norms, regimes, formal intergovernmental and supranational organizations, and global constitutions.
INR 6507 Syllabus | Zhiyuan Wang
POS 2041 - American Federal Government
This class provides a college-level introduction to American Federal Government. Students are expected to improve their knowledge necessary for informed civic participation. Each week introduces an important topic in American government to prepare you for further study in upper division Political Science courses.
POS 2041 Syllabus | Michael D. Martinez
POS 2041 UFO - American Federal Government
In this course, students will investigate how the national government is structured and how the American constitutional republic operates. It covers the philosophical and historical foundations of American government, including but not limited to the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and all its Amendments, and the Federalist Papers. The course examines the branches of government and the government’s laws, policies, and programs. It also examines the ways in which citizens participate in their government and ways their government responds to citizens.
POS 2041 UFO Syllabus | Juliana Mucci
POS 3233 - Politics and Public Opinion
Studies the definition and measurement of political opinion by polls and surveys, and the developmental character of opinions. Includes variables in opinion formation, experiments in opinion measurement and the relation of political opinion to public policy.
POS 3233 Syllabus | David Macdonald
POS 3603 - American Constitutional Law
Studies and analyzes the Federal Constitution, with study and briefing of leading cases in constitutional law. (WR)
POS 3603 Syllabus | Samuel P. Stafford
POS 3606 - American Civil Liberties
Discusses statutes and court decisions emphasizing First Amendment freedoms, equal protection of the law, due process and rights of defendants, implied rights, and the rights of women, juveniles, students, prisoners and the mentally ill. (WR)
POS 3606 Syllabus | Samuel P. Stafford
POS 4077 - African American Politics
Examines the political behavior of African Americans in the United States. Discusses the civil rights movement, the black power movement, black political thought (conservatism, liberalism and nationalism), blacks and the court system, the role of blacks in political parties, blacks and the presidency and contemporary issues in African American politics.
POS 4077 Syllabus | Sharon Austin
POS 4025 - Technology and Politics
Identification and evaluation of the political, social and ethical challenges and choices presented by transformative technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital media, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, robotics, quantum computing, augmented reality and virtual reality.
POS 4025 Syllabus | Leslie Paul Thiele
POS 4258 - Politics in Fiction and Film
Uses make-believe stories told in popular novels and Hollywood motion pictures to provide insights into the nature of real-life politics in the United States. (WR)
POS 4258 Syllabus | Stephen C. Craig
POS 4413 - The Presidency
The central role of the American Presidency in the political process. Emphasizes the contemporary institutional nature of that office and the behavior of its occupants.
POS 4413 Syllabus | Richard Conley
POS 4734 - Research Methods in Political Science
Introduces the theory and method of contemporary political analysis. Emphasizes alternative analytical frameworks, concepts, research design, variables, measurement, and quantitative analysis of political data.
POS 4734 Syllabus | Matthew Uttermark
POS 4911 - Introduction to Law at Levin
Provides firsthand, supervised research. Projects may involve inquiry, design, investigation, scholarship, discovery, or application.
POS 4911 Syllabus | Bernard O’Donnell
POS 4931 - Data and African PoliticsSelected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Nicholas Kerr
POS 4931 - Advanced Social Psychology
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Colin Smith
POS 4931 - Applied Political Behavior
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Hannah Alarian
POS 4931 - Emotions, Affect, Politics
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Esther Romeyn
POS 4931 - Feminist Political Thought
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Stacey Liou
POS 4931 - Judicial Politics
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Jake Truscott
POS 4931 - Modern Middle East
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Onursal Erol
POS 4931 - Native American Politics
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Richard Conley
POS 4931 - Politics Institutions of EU
Selected topics in political science; precise course content will be announced in advance.
POS 4931 Syllabus | Amie Kreppel
POS 6274 - Political Campaigning
Overview of tasks and challenges, including strategy, uses of campaign polls, organization, management, communication, and mobilization.
POS 6476 Syllabus | Roger Austin
POS 6476 - Bureaucratic Politics
Examining how public bureaucracies in the U.S. relate to one another and their political environments. Topics include the growth of the administrative sector, regulatory federalism, representative bureaucracy, and political control of the bureaucracy.
POS 6476 Syllabus | Matthew Uttermark
POS 6716 - Scope & Epistemologies of Political Science
Overview of development of political science as discipline and pluralistic introduction to epistemological perspectives that characterize field.
POS 6716 Syllabus | Stacey Liou
POT 2002 - Introduction to Political Theory
Basic principles of political thought. Examines the nature of the state and of the relationship between the individual and the state. Covers topics such as authority, consent, freedom and obligation. (H)
POT 2002 Syllabus | Cristian Pérez Muñoz
POT 4204 - American Political Thought
Examines the history of American political thought, including an analysis of Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence, the federalist papers and the ideology of Thomas Paine. Also includes African American political thought, feminist political theories, liberalism, and the contribution of Mark Twain.
POT 4204 Syllabus | Dan O’Neill
POT 6056 - Modern Political Thought
Close reading of political theorists and themes from the Renaissance through the 19th century. Emphasizes thinkers regarded as central to the development of republicanism, absolutism, liberalism, democracy, conservatism, and feminism.
POT 6056 Syllabus | Dan O’Neill
PUP 3002 - Current Controversies in Public Policy
Framework to understand the formation, adoption, budgeting, implementation and evaluation of public policy. This framework provides a basis for detailed discussions and debates about current policy issues.
PUP 3002 Syllabus | Carlos A. Suárez Carrasquillo
PUP 6007 - Policy Process
General examination of public policy formulation and implementation. Special emphasis upon political and economic determinants and relationship to social theory.
PUP 6007 Syllabus | Cristian Pérez Muñoz