POLITICAL SCIENCE

190.101 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICS (AP) (3) Cooper  Limit 20 per section 280    This course examines the ideals and operation of the American political system. It seeks to understand how our institutions and politics work, why they work as they do, and what the consequences are for representative government in the United States. Emphasis is placed on the federal government and its electoral, legislative, and executive structures and processes. As useful and appropriate, attention is also given to the federal courts and to the role of the states. The purpose of the course is to understand and confront the character and problems of modern government in the United States in a highly polarized and plebiscitary era.

Secs. 02, 06, 08, & 12 canceled 9/04/07

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190.209 (S)

CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (IR)  (3) David   Limit 20 per section   An introduction to international politics.  Emphasis will be on continuity and change in international politics and the causes of war and peace.  The first half of the course will focus on events prior to the end of the Cold War, including the Peloponnesian War, the European balance of power, imperialism, the origins and consequences of WWI and WWII, and the Cold War.  The second half will focus on international politics since 1990, including globalization, whether democracies produce peace, the impact of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the prospects for peace in the 21st century. Theories of realism and liberalism will also be considered.

Secs. 15-18 added 9/10/07

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190.214 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO RACIAL AND ETHNIC POLITICS (CP) (3) Hanchard   Limit 20  Freshmen only What do scholars mean when they use concepts of race and ethnicity, and what are the political implications of these concepts in everyday life?  One aim of this course is to answer this question. The second aim of this course is to help first-year college students develop familiarity with these concepts and an understanding of how ideas about racial and ethnic difference have impacted the formation of societies, governments, laws, policies and individuals, even themselves. Comparative in scope, this course will lead students through readings about racial and ethnic relations in countries like Brazil, England, Northern Ireland and China, often utilizing the United States as a referent.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

TTh 10

190.220 (S)

AMERICAN POLITICAL IDENTITY IN A TIME OF DECLINE (PT) (3) Arnold   Limit 25  Open to Sophomores, Juniors, & Seniors An examination of elements within the idea of America set against the present possibility of American decline. Themes to be addressed include: American exceptionalism, temporality, individual and community, and the complex relationship of America to Europe. Readings include the Puritans, Madison, Jefferson, Tocqueville, Emerson, Whitman, Arendt, Rorty, and Cavell. Course added 03/28/07

Sec. 01

TTh 2

190.227 (S)

AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT AND INSTITUTIONS (AP) (3) Saldin Limit 25  American Political thought raises many of political philosophy's perennial questions. This course analyzes America's governing institutions (e.g. Congress and the presidency) through the political ideas that informed the nation's establishment and development and that continue to shape contemporary partisan debates. We will consider a range of texts including philosophical treaties, pamphlets, speeches, political essays, contemporary academic writings, judicial decisions, and literature. Course added 03/28/07

Sec. 01

T 5-7pm

190.301 (S)

GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (IR) (3) Marlin-Bennett  Limit 35    Prereq: CIP (190.309)  Examines the intersection of politics and economics in global affairs.  Focuses on theoretical approaches to global political economy; institutions of governance of the global political economy; flows of goods, services, capital, and information; and transborder problems.

Sec. 01

MW 11

190.302 (S) (W)

POLITICS OF BLACK CULTURAL PRODUCTION (AP) (3) Spence  Limit 15
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

191.317 (S)

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS (IR) (3) Gould  Limit 35  This course will introduce the major theories informing the study of international organizations and institutions in political science, and then focus on the major international organizations, from the League of Nations to the WTO.   For each organization, we will consider not only how the organization works and what it does, but also the conceptual puzzles raised by its activities.

Sec. 01

MW 10

190.320 (S)

POLITICS OF EAST ASIA (CP) (3) Chung  Limit 20 per section  Examines some of the central ideas and institutions that have transformed politics in the contemporary world through the lens of East Asia, focusing on Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China.  Topics include state-society relations, late development, nationalism, democratization, political culture, social movements, and globalization.
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

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W 3

190.323 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (IR) (3) Grovogui   Limit 20 35 per section  A limited survey of international law, its sources, and uses in international relations. It has five basic aims: 1) to explore the place, origins and changing contexts of international law and its instrumentality in international life; 2) to examine the sources of personalities and institutions that influence its development; 3) to survey select international legal dispositions concerning the peaceful resolutions of conflict and the immunities that apply to certain legal subjects; 4) to examine the immunities that apply to certain legal subjects; 5) to examine differing views on the future of international law in light of recent  events. Secs. 05 & 06 added 5/01/07

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190.333 (S)

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (AP/LP) (3) Grossman  Limit 75 A two semester exploration of the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Constitution and the Court’s role in the American political system.  The first semester focuses on how the court makes its decisions: on its development and articulation of fundamental principles such as judicial review, federalism, and the separation of powers; and on the powers of Congress and the president. 

Sec. 01

MW 3-4:30

191.335 (S)

ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT (IR) (3) Freedman  Limit 35  The course will focus on the origin and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict from its beginnings when Palestine was controlled by the Ottoman Empire, through World War I, The British Mandate over Palestine, and the first Arab-Israeli war (1947-1949).  It will then examine the period of the Arab-Israeli wars of 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1982, the Palestinian Intifadahs (1987-1993 and 2000-2005); and the development of the Arab-Israeli peace process from its beginnings with the Egyptian-Israeli treaty of 1979, the Oslo I and Oslo II agreements of 1993 and 1995, Israel's peace treaty with Jordan of 1994, the Road Map of 2003; and the periodic peace talks between Israel and Syria.  The conflict will be analyzed against the background of great power intervention in the Middle East, the rise of political Islam and the dynamics of Intra-Arab politics.

Sec. 01

T 4-6

190.347 (S)

THEORIES OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY (PT) (3) Culbert  Limit 20 Beginning with Plato, and using Nietzche's history of metaphysics as a guide, this course analyses the philosophical foundations of political authority.  In addition to works by Plato and Nietzsche, readings will include works by Aquinas, Kant, Mill, Berlin, and Butler. This class is for juniors and seniors only.

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MW 2

191.351 (S)

FILM, MEDIA AND POLITICS (AP) (3) Shogan  Limit 15 Aitchison Fellows Only
Taught in Washington D.C. Course added 3/22/07

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T 1-2:50 10-12

190.354 (S)

THE POLITICS OF HEALTH POLICY (AP) (3) Sheingate   Limit 30   Traces the evolution of the American Health care system, emphasis on the political forces that shape public and private provision of health care in the United States.
Cross-listed with Public Health

Sec. 01

TW 1

191.355 (S)

THEORY AND POLITICS OF TERRORISM (AP) (3) Black  Limit 15 Aitchison Fellows Only
Taught in Washington D.C. Course added 3/22/07 Course canceled 6/04/07

Sec. 01

T 3:30-5:30pm

190.356 (S)

SOCIAL CONTRACT AND ITS DISCONTENTS (PT) (3) Culbert  Limit 20   This seminar will engage selected articulations and criticisms of social contract theory in Europe from the mid-17th century to the early 20th.  It will attend in particular to differences between the three classic expressions of consent theory--Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau--as well as to differences between significant challenges to these earlier notions of a social contract.  The latter may include writings by Hume, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Marx and Freud, among others.

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MW 10

191.357 (S,H)

AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (AP) (PT) (3) Wolfson  Limit 15 Aitchison Fellows Only
Taught in Washington D.C. Course added 3/22/07

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T 3:15-5:05 1-3

190.372 (S)

POLITICAL VIOLENCE (IR) (3) David Limit 20   An examination of the ways in which violence has been used to secure political ends.  Topics include terrorism, assassination, genocide, coups, rebellions and war itself.  Students examine what makes types of political violence unique and what unites them.

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-12:20

190.384 (S)

URBAN POLITICS (AP) (3) Spence    Limit 20  
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-12:30

190.392 (S)
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LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS (CP) (3) Keck  Limit 20 per section  A survey of modern Latin American politics and political development. Cross-listed with Latin American Studies

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190.398 (S)
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THE POLITICS OF GOOD AND EVIL (PT) (3) Connolly  Limit 16  Prereq:  Previous course in political theory or prior permission of professor  An examination of good and evil through readings of Job, Genesis, Sophocles, Nietzsche, Charles Taylor and William James. A comparison of tragic, theological and secular visions of good and evil. Class presentations and 2 papers.

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M 2-4

190.402 (S)

WASHINGTON INTERNSHIP (3) Ginsberg
Coreq 190.403 Taught in Washington D.C . Course added 3/22/07

Sec. 01

TBA

190.403 (S)

WASHINGTON SEMINAR (3) Ginsberg
Coreq 190.402 Taught in Washington D.C. Course added 3/22/07

Sec. 01

T 10-11:50

190.404 (S)
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REALIST IR THEORY (IR) (3) Deudney  Limit 30  This course undertakes a critical survey of the main concepts and theories of Realism.  Readings are a mixture of classic texts and recent social science.

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W 5-7:30pm

190.405 (S)
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FOOD POLITICS (AP/CP) (3) Sheingate Limit 15  Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students Only  This course examines the politics of food at the local, national, and global level. Topics include the politics of agricultural subsidies, struggles over genetically modified foods, government efforts at improving food safety, and issues surrounding obesity and nutrition policy.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 01

M 4-6pm

191.405 (S)
(W)

ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL (AP/CP) (3) Snell Limit 30  The course explores the origins and theoretical underpinnings of the common law through sources ranging from the 14th century through the present - emphasizing the common law's influence on the modern American legal system. Course added 4/03/07

Sec. 01

M 11-1

190.407 (S)             

COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM (3) Satter  Limit 25 Taught in Washington D.C. Course canceled 3/22/07

Sec. 01

F 10:30-12:20

190.420 (S)
(W)

LIBERAL IR THEORY (IR) (3) Deudney  Limit 30  Intensive survey of major liberal and republican international theories, including constitutionalism, federal union, interdependence, democratic peace, capitalism, international organization, regimes, transnational relations, pluralistic security communities, and civic identity    

Sec. 01

Th 5-7:30pm

190.434 (S)
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ADVANCED TOPICS IN CHINESE POLITICS (CP) (3) Tsai  Limit 15     Prereq: 190.348 for undergraduates only  This seminar is structured around key concerns in China's domestic politics,including the politics of economic reform, central-local-relations, corruption, increasing inequality, the role of intellectuals, the rise of quasi-governmental organizations, various channels for political  participation and protest, and other contemporary issues.
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

W 10-12

190.471 (S)
(W)

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (3) Staff      Limit 50

Sec. 01

F 10:30-12:30

195.477 (S)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO URBAN POLICY (3) Newman   Limit 15  Perm. Req’d.  Coreq: 195.478
Cross-listed with Policy Studies, Public Health Studies,   Sociology, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

T 5-7pm

195.478
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URBAN POLICY INTERNSHIP (3)Newman    Perm. Req’d.  Limit 15  Coreq: 195.477 
Cross-listed with Public Policy, Sociology, Public Health Studies, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

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TBA

230.150 (S)

ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (3) Agarwala  Limit 30 (15 per section)   Freshmen & Sophomores only
Cross-listed with Sociology and Public Health Studies

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W 3

W 4

300.337 (H)

THINKING FILMS (3)  Marrati   Limit 35 25  Cross-listed with Philosophy, Anthropology, German and Romance Languages, Political Science, and Film and Media Studies

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm, W 7-9pm

190.501

POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNSHIP  Perm. Req’d
Sec. 01 Ginsberg
Sec. 02 Chung
Sec. 03 Katz
Sec. 04 Grossman
Sec. 05 Blyth
Sec. 06 Cooper
Sec. 07 Staff

190.503

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INTERNSHIP  Perm Req’d.
Sec. 01 Ginsberg
Sec. 02 Chung

190.535

INDEPENDENT STUDY - FRESHMAN

190.537

INDEPENDENT STUDY - SOPHOMORES

190.539

INDEPENDENT STUDY - JUNIORS

190.541

INDEPENDENT STUDY - SENIORS

190.543

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

190.602

INTRODUCTION TO QUANITATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE (Q) Katz   Limit 15  Graduate Students Only  An introduction to measurement and data analysis in contemporary American political science.  Measurement topics will include the formation of indices and cumulative scales.  Analytic topics will topics include sampling variations, statistical association and causation, as manifested in contingency tables and correlation and regression.  Emphasis will be on fundamental concepts and assumptions, and on comprehension and evaluation of the scholarly literature.  No mathematical prerequisites.

Sec. 01

W 10-12

190.604

KNOWLEDGE, POWER AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (IR)  Marlin-Bennett   Limit 15   Prereq: Graduate Standing or Permission of Instructor    Examines information and information flows from the perspective of international relations theory, drawing on insights, as well, from comparative politics, legal theory, and other fields.  Focuses on the relationship between information and power.  Topics to be studied include intellectual property, governance of the Internet, and surveillance.

Sec. 01

T 1-3

190.613

POLITICS OF MATERIALISM   Bennett  Limit 15 Graduate students only Study of philosophies of matter and their implications for politics.  How do natural forces, technological objects, biological bodies, or “inorganic matter” affect public life?  Readings from Spinoza, Diderot, Marx, Bergson, Driesch, Bakhtin and recent writers in the "New Materialism."
Cross-listed with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sec. 01

Th 1-3

190.625

THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS  Tsai   Limit 15 Graduate students only  This seminar is intended for graduate students planning to take the comprehensive exam in comparative politics, either as a major or as a minor. In addition to exploring central methodological debates and analytic approaches, the seminar reviews the literature on state-society relations, political and economic development, social movements, nationalism, revolutions, formal and informal political institutions, and regime durability vs. transition. 

Sec. 01

M 12-2
M 2-4

190.631

COMPARATIVE CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION POLITICS Chung  Limit 15 Graduate students Only Examines the contemporary political dynamics of migration, citizenship, and race in advanced industrial democracies, concentrating on the United States, West Europe, and Japan.  We will focus on how citizenship and immigration policies shape immigrant political identities, claims, and strategies as well as how immigrants impact public debates and policies in receiving societies. Cross-listed with Sociology

Sec. 01

W 2-4 T W 4-6pm 1-3

190.638

CONTENTIOUS POLITICS  Keck   Limit 15  Social movements and revolution in comparative and global perspective.  Exploration of the major theoretical approaches and of what difference globalization makes.
Cross-listed with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sec. 01

Th 3-5

190.642

INSTITUTIONALIZING DEMOCRACY  Katz   Limit 15  Graduate students only Examines the role of political institutions in shaping democratic government.  Focusing on parties, electoral systems, legislators, and executives.

Sec. 01

W 2-4

190.647

BLACK POLITICAL THOUGHT  Hanchard  Limit 15 Graduate students only  This course will focus on black political thought’s engagements with and relevance to nationalism, feminism and diasporic identification as a means of highlighting the ways in which black political thought has both paralleled and distinguished itself from dominant themes, concerns and investigations of Western political and social theory in the 20th century. This aspect of the course will trace black political thought’s relation to Marxism, Cultural Studies, Surrealism, Liberalism and other critical methodologies and perspectives.
Cross-listed with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Sec. 01

W 10-12

190.650

CULTURES OF GLOBALIZATION  (1945-) Grovogui   Limit 15   This course discusses select dimensions and issues of globalization and related debates: the rise force of transnational corporations in international politics, as well as growing concerns over human rights, the environment, migration and pandemic diseases. It also explores the relationships between ideology, identity, and interest in the political action and ethics of the various agents and actors of global politics.

Sec. 01

M 2-4

190.693

SOPHOCLES AND KANT Connolly   Limit 15 What can the Greek tragic tradition teach the Enlightenment and the Enlightenment the tragic tradtion? Texts by Sophocles and Kant will provide focal points, with and responses to each provided by Knox, Nietzsche, Jaspers, B Williams and others.

Sec. 01

T 3-5

100.749

SOCIAL THEORY FOR HISTORIANS Jelavich Cross-listed with History

Sec. 01

T 12-2

300.670
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THE SECULAR LIVES OF GRACE  deVries  Cross-listed with Philosophy, German and Romance Languages, Anthropology, and Political Science

Sec. 01

Th 1-4pm

190.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 Staff
Sec. 02 Keck
Sec. 03 Connolly
Sec. 04 Grossman
Sec. 05 Katz
Sec. 06 Cooper
Sec. 07 Zartman
Sec. 08 Crenson
Sec. 09 David
Sec. 10 Deudney
Sec. 12 Tsai
Sec. 13 Sheingate

190.849

DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Sec. 01 Staff
Sec. 02 Keck
Sec. 03 Connolly
Sec. 04 Grossman
Sec. 05 Katz
Sec. 06 Cooper
Sec. 07 Zartman
Sec. 08 Crenson
Sec. 09 David
Sec. 10 Deudney
Sec. 12 Tsai
Sec. 13 Sheingate
Sec. 14 Bennett
Sec. 15 Grovogui
Sec. 16 Culbert
Sec. 17 Blyth