POLITICAL SCIENCE

190.101 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICS (AP) (3) Ginsberg  Limit 200  This course is an introduction to government and politics through the study of the government and politics of the United States.  All governments combine coercion and legitimacy.  In a stable and legitimate system of government, coercion is hardly noticed by most citizens.  Government comes to be seen as a source of benefits.  The purpose of this course is to look behind institutions, practices, and benefits to appreciate how, for what and by whom we are governed.

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MW 11-11:50

F 11-11:50

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W 1:30-2:20

W 3-3:50

W 3-3:50

F 11-11:50

Th 1:30-2:20

Th 3-3:50

Th 3-3:50

Th 12-12:50

190.213 (S)

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (IR) (3) Deudney   Limit 20 per section Intensive analysis of major approaches to international politics (realism, liberalism, Marxism).  Topics include: anarchy, geopolitics, states, nations, balance of power, hegemony, empire, democratic peace, regimes, nuclear weapons, European Union.

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MW 1:30-2:20

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Th 3-3:50

Th 3-3:50

F 1:30-2:20

F 3-3:50

F 1:30-2:20

W 3-3:50

190.214 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO RACIAL AND ETHNIC POLITICS (AP) (3) Spence   Limit 20  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

Th 1:30-4

190.221 (S)

POLITICAL THEORY OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY (PT) (3) Chambers 
Limit 30  Feminist theory and queer theory have been important resources for contemporary political thought, at the same time that key issues concerning gender and sexuality have proved central to both political theory and contemporary politics. This course focuses on theories of gender and sexuality through a selective encounter with feminist and queer theories, and it examines political theories that draw from and speak to those other fields. Texts may include: Beauvoir, Sedgwick, Butler, Scott, Warner, Halperin, and Edelman.

Sec. 01

TTh 10:30-11:45

190.225 (S)

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS (AP) (3) SaldinLimit 15  This course will examine the historic development of the presidential selection process as well as the features of contemporary campaigns and elections. Course canceled 4/09/08

Sec. 01

T 5-7:30

190.301 (S)

GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY (IR) (3) Marlin-Bennett  Limit 35    Prereq: CIP (190.309) or introductory IR course   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

MWF 11-11:50

191.303 (S)

ISRAELI "EXCEPTIONALISM" ISRAELI POLITICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (CP) (3) Barnea Limit 20 This course is dedicated to the analysis and assessment the Israeli political system in comparative perspective. It has two primary objectives. First, explore the Israeli political system, its origins, development, the social context in which it operates, and its current state. Second, using Israel as a case study, explore the questions, tools, and practices of political science in general and comparative politics in particular. The Israeli case, in that sense, serves here as a laboratory for scientifically experimenting in politics. Key themes include state and nation building; social cleavages; political institutions - structure, performance, and reform; Israel as a Jewish democracy; Israel as a ‘defensive democracy’. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies   Course added 4/09/08

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4

190.309 (S)

POLITICS AND POLICY DESIGN (3) Teles Limit 25 Examines the politics of the policy process, and how knowledge of policy dynamics should influence policy design. Includes case studies of health care, taxation, incarceration and global warming.  Course added 6/06/08

Sec. 01

TTh 3-4:15

191.317 (S)

INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS (IR) (3) Gould  Limit 30     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.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies Course canceled 4/09/08

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

191.322 (S)

CONCEPTS OF POWER (PT) (3) Kwek Limit 30 35 What is power? This seminar examines different concepts of power. How does power differ from brute force or domination? What is its relation to justice and morality? Special attention will be paid to how power works in the relations between the State and the individual. Readings from Plato, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Kafka. A movie by Pasolini will be screened and discussed. Course added 6/03/08

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MW 4-5:30pm

190.325 (S)

FINDING DEMOCRACY (PT) (3) Chambers Limit 15 Democracy frequently stands for, equates with, or reduces to, an array of other concepts: majoritarianism, proceduralism, and liberalism; representation, institutions, and rights. This seminar will explore writings in contemporary political theory that seek distinct understandings of democracy and thereby offer alternative approaches to politics and political theory. Texts may include: Rancière, Zizek, Agamben, Honig, Brown, and Mouffe.

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

190.326 (S)

DEMOCRACY AND ELECTIONS (CP/PT) (3) Katz  Limit 20 per section An examination of most aspects of democratic elections with the exception of the behavior of voters.  Topics include the impact of various electoral systems and administrative reforms on the outcome of elections, standards for evaluations of electoral systems, and the impact of the Arrow problem on normative theories of democratic elections.

Secs. 02 & 04 canceled 5/05/08

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W 1:30-3:20

F 1:30-2:20

F 1:30-2:20

Th 1:30-2:20

Th 1:30-2:20

190.329 (S)

NATIONAL SECURITY IN THE NUCLEAR AGE (IR) (3) David Limit 20   This course examines the impact of weapons of mass destruction on international politics with an emphasis on security issues. The first half of the course focuses on the history of nuclear weapons development during the Cold War and theories of deterrence. The second half of the class considers contemporary issues including terrorism, chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missile defense and proliferation. Requirements include a midterm, final and a ten page paper.

Sec. 01
     

MWF 10-10:50

191.329 (S)

THE POLITICS, HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE MAGHREB (IR) (3) Lawrence   Limit 25   This lecture-seminar seeks to describe and analyze patterns of domestic and international politics in the Maghreb, or "Arab West," including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Libya, and focusing on how political contestation, social change, and the dynamic political culture of each country affect the region and the globe.  Topics and approaches include those of social history, nationalism and complex colonial and post-colonial relationships, Islamism, the politics of identity and the "hybrid" identities of youth, political economy and efforts at integration, and the challenges of democratization and globalization.  Core and primary source material will feature Maghrebi perspectives and debates and local cultural production.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies 

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W 6:30-9pm

190.330 (S)

JAPANESE POLITICS (CP) (3) Chung  Limit 20     This course introduces students to the major debates and issues of postwar Japanese politics.  Topics include nationalism, electoral politics, civil society, and immigration. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

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T 1:30-4

190.331 (S)

RACE AND RACISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (AP/CP) (3) Hanchard   Limit 40 (formerly ‘Comparative Racial Politics’)     Students will learn to utilize qualitative, interpretive methods of comparative politics to examine dynamics of racial and/or ethnic tension in the nation-states of Brazil, Britain France, Germany, and the United States. Readings will emphasize the role of the state, political economy, national culture, racist ideologies and anti-racist politics in the formation, maintenance and transformation of conditions of race-based inequalities.  Students will also become familiar with theories and concepts of race and ethnicity, and their relationship to issues of state power, national identity and social policy.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 01
     

TTh 1:30-2:45 10:30-11:45

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 3-4:15

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. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies

Sec. 01
     

T 4-6pm

190.336 (S)

PUBLIC OPINION (AP) (3) Spence  Limit 20     (formerly ‘Racial Politics and Public Opinion’)

Sec. 01
     

TTh 9-10:15

190 191.338 (S)

COURTS, JUDGES, AND LAWYERS (AP/LP) (3) Grossman   Limit 25   (formerly ‘The American Judiciary’) An exploration of the changing role and function of courts, judges, and lawyers in the American legal system, and of our increasingly litigious, rights conscious and adversarial culture.  It will address how and why people use the courts to resolve civil disputes, how the courts handle those disputes, and the increasing reliance on alternative and less formal dispute processing forums.  It will also examine the role of courts in the criminal justice system.

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TTh 4:30-5:45

191.345 (S)

RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY (IR) (3) Freedman   Limit 35   This course will explore the evolution of Russian Foreign Policy from Czarist times to the present. The main theme will be the question of continuity and change, as the course  will seek to determine to what degree current Russian Foreign Policy is rooted in the Czarist(1613-1917) and Soviet(1917-1991) periods, and to what degree it has operated since 1991 on a new basis. The main emphasis of the course will be on Russia's relations with the United States and Europe, China, the Middle East and the countries of the former Soviet Union--especially Ukraine, the Baltic States, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

190.346 (S)

U.S. IN THE MIDDLE EAST (IR) (3) HazbunLimit 40   Prereq: IR course or instructor’s consent   A critical survey of US policy and interests in the Middle East set against the context of national struggles for self-determination, regional geopolitical conflicts, and ideological challenges to US influence in the region.

Sec. 01
     

MW 3-4:15

190.348 (S)

DOMESTIC POLITICS OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA (CP) (3) Tsai  Limit 40  This course examines key issues in contemporary Chinese politics, spanning the period from the Communist Revolution (1949) through the Maoist (9149-1976) and reform eras (1978 to present).  Particular emphasis will be placed on contemporary challenges, including the emergence of mass unemployment, gaps in urban-rural incomes, and alternative means of political expression.
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 02 added 7/21/08

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MW 10-10:50

F 10-10:50

F 9-9:50

191.351 (S)

FILM, MEDIA AND POLITICS (3) Shogan   Limit 15  
Aitchison Fellowship students only
Taught in Washington D.C.

Sec. 01

T 1-2:50

191.357 (S)

AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (3) Wolfson   Limit 15
Aitchison Fellowship students only
Taught in Washington D.C.  

Sec. 01

T 3:15-5:05

190.380 (S)

LAW MORALITY AND THE STATE (PT/LP) (3) Arnold Culbert   Limit 25   What is law? How is law related to the state? Does the state have a relationship to morality or a sense of justice? Does law? This course examines how these questions have been posed by various schools of legal thought. Readings will include texts by Austin, Hart, Dworkin, Unger, Fish,
MacKinnon, and Cover.

Sec. 01

TTh 12-1:15

190.389 (S)

SEMINAR ON THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGRESS AND PRESIDENCY (AP) (3) Cooper  Limit 15  An examination of the development of the modern Congress and the presidency.  Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation of patterns of structure, process and leadership, and their impact o the roles of Congress in the American political system.

Sec. 01

T 3-5:30

190.398 (S)
(W)

THE POLITICS OF GOOD AND EVIL (PT) (3) Connolly   Limit 16  Prereq:  Previous course in political theory or permission of professor  An examination of good and evil through readings of the Book of Job, Genesis, Sophocles, Nietzsche, and William James.  High tolerance for theory needed.  A comparison of tragic, theological and secular visions of good and evil.  Class presentations and two papers.

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4

190.402 (S)

WASHINGTON INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (3) Ginsberg  Coreq: 190.403  
Taught in Washington D.C.  

Sec. 01

TBA

190.403 (S)

WASHINGTON SEMINAR (3) Ginsberg   Coreq: 190.402  
Taught in Washington D.C.  

Sec. 01

T 10-11:50

190.405 (S)
(W)

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

T 1:30-4

190.409 (S)

COMPARATIVE POLITICS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (CP) (3) Keck  Limit 20     Course examines major approaches to social movement organizations, dynamics, and significance.  Case materials come from U.S., Europe, and Third World examples.  Students are expected to write a significant research paper.

Sec. 01

W 1:30-4

190.412 (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.
(Formerly 190.372)

Sec. 01

T 1:30-4

190.422 (S)

REPUBLICANISM (IR) (3) Deudney  Limit 60     Readings in classical and contemporary texts (Polybius,  Machiavelli,  Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, the Federalist, Calhoun, World Federalism, and nuclear arms control).  Focus on security, freedom, and geopolitics, both domestic and international.

Sec. 01

T 5-7:30pm

190.426 (S)

TOURISM AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST (IR) (3) Hazbun  Limit 15   (formerly ‘Geographies of Global Tourism’)    Prereqs: 190.311, 191.335, or other course on Middle East Politics or instructor’s permission   This reading seminar explores the history, political economy, and  international relations of travel and tourism with a focus on the  region of the Arab Mediterranean and the Middle East. Topics include the geo and cultural politics of leisure travel and transborder  mobility, efforts to promote peace, development, and environmentalism  through tourism, and issues related to travel, power, and national  identity. Course canceled 5/12/08

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

190.471 (S)
(W)

SENIOR THESIS SEMINAR: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (3) Hazbun Katz    
Limit 25 50   Seminar designed to familiarize majors in political science and international studies with the requirements of writing a senior thesis. Lectures, group work, and writing assignments help students formulate a topic, research the relevant literature, and write the first chapter. Participation in the seminar is required for students writing a senior honors thesis.

Sec. 01

F 1:30-4

361.315 (H,S)

PROTEST, POLITICS, AND DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA (3) Pugh   Limit 25  Are protests as characteristic of democracy as elections? This course examines challenges to traditional ideas of democratic participation in Latin America, focusing on nonelectoral contestation such as protest, charismatic populism, and violent insurgencies.  
Cross-listed with Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

MW 3-4:15

361.353 (S)

HISTORY OF U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS (3) Smith   Limit 35
History of U.S. relations with Latin America, from founding of the U.S. until today.
Cross-listed with Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-4

300.344 (H)
(W)

GENOCIDE AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM (3) Shuster Limit 20 30
Cross-listed with Anthropology, Jewish Studies, History, Philosophy and Humanities  Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

M 1:30-4 4:30-7pm

230.321 (S)
(W)

REVOLUTION, REFORM, AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN CHINA (3) Andreas Limit 30
Cross-listed with East Asian Studies, Public Health Studies, and Sociology

Sec. 01

W 3-5:30

230.345 (S)

HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY OF AFRICA (3) Arrighi Limit 30 
Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Public Health Studies, and Sociology

 Sec. 01

           T 3-5:30

195.477 (S)
(W)

INTRODUCTION TO URBAN POLICY (3) Newman   Limit 15  
Perm. Req’d.  195.477 & 195.478 must be taken together by undergraduates 
Cross-listed with Public Policy, Sociology, Public Health Studies, Geography and Environmental Engineering, and Africana Studies

Sec. 01

T 5-7pm

195.478
(W)

URBAN POLICY INTERNSHIP (3)Newman    Limit 15   Perm. Req’d.  
195.478 & 195.477 must be taken together by undergraduates
Cross-listed with Public Policy, Sociology, Public Health Studies, Geography and Environmental Engineering, and Africana Studies

Sec. 01

TBA

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 Leslie
Sec. 08 Crenson
Sec. 09 Grovogui

190.503

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

190.535

INDEPENDENT STUDY - FRESHMAN

190.537

INDEPENDENT STUDY - SOPHOMORES
Sec. 01 Deudney
Sec. 02 Grovogui
Sec. 03 Bennett
Sec. 04 Sheingate
Sec. 05 Marlin-Bennett

190.539

INDEPENDENT STUDY - JUNIORS
Sec. 01 Blyth
Sec. 02 David
Sec. 03 Deudney
Sec. 04 Thornton
Sec. 05 Keck
Sec. 06 Smith
Sec. 07 Grossman
Sec. 08 Crenson
Sec. 09 Grovogui
Sec. 10 Marlin-Bennett

190.541

INDEPENDENT STUDY - SENIORS
Sec. 01 Smith
Sec. 02 Cooper
Sec. 03 Keck
Sec. 04 Crenson
Sec. 05 Culbert
Sec. 06 David
Sec. 07 Deudney
Sec. 08 Blyth
Sec. 09 Sheingate
Sec. 10 Marlin-Bennett

190.543

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH
Sec. 01 Culbert
Sec. 02 Grossman
Sec. 03 Crenson

190.602

INTRODUCTION TO QUANTITATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE 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

190.607

COMPARATIVE RACIAL POLITICS  Chung   Limit 15   Graduate students only   This course surveys the major trends in the comparative study of race in political science and critically examines the link between race and politics.  Topics include the racial state, neo-racism, and immigration politics. Course canceled 4/17/08

Sec. 01

T 10:30-12:20

190.616

AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (AP) Sheingate  Limit 15   Graduate students only   An examination of state-building and nation-building throughout American political history.

Sec. 01

W 3-4:50

190.618

NATIONALISM Hanchard Limit 15   Despite the clamor over globalization and regionalization in the contemporary world, nationalism remains a central preoccupation for both political actors and students of politics. Though motivated by questions resonant within the discipline of political science (and the field of comparative politics in particular), this course is designed to familiarize students with key texts and debates in the literatures on nationalism in political science, sociology, history and anthropology. The objective of this course is to provide students with a comprehensive overview of major themes, scholarly approaches and forms of nationalist mobilization in national and cross-spatial perspective. Some of the questions to be addressed in this course are a) what are the roots and routes of nationalism?; b) who are nationalist political actors, and where do they come from?; c) what is nationalism’s relation to race, racism and ethnicity d) what is the relationship between various forms of nationalism and contemporary considerations of regionalism and globalization? Course canceled 4/17/08

Sec. 01

W 11-1

190.624

POIESIS LIKE POLITICS Bennett/ Culbert   Limit 15   Graduate students only     This course explores three thinkers-Plato, Heidegger, and Whitman-who imagine politics as a creative act or artistic composition.

Sec. 01

Th 1:30-3:20

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

W 1-3

190.637

WORLD GOVERNMENT Deudney   Limit 20   Graduate students only  An intensive analysis of large-scale post-anarchic arrangements in theoretical and historical perspective. The course begins with historical  ‘universal’ empires and cosmopolitanism, and extends to late modern concepts of international organizations, world confederations and federations and world states, and their relationship with ‘sovereign’ states and political plurality and freedom.

Sec. 01

M 5-7pm

190.641

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY Marlin-Bennett   Limit 15  Prereqs: Graduate students, BA/MA students and interested seniors with instructor’s permission. Seminar on theories of international relations.  Surveys schools of thought through critical reading of seminal texts.  Focuses on key concepts such as order/disorder, agents/structures, power, causality, sovereignty and the nature of the state, and differing epistemologies.

Sec. 01

T 1-3

190.645

IMMIGRATION DIFFERENCE AND CITIZENSHIP Chung / Hanchard   Limit 15  Prereqs: Graduate students, Upperlevel with instructor’s permission.
This course examines the general and anomalous forms of interaction between racism and immigration, and their combined effect upon how state and non-state actors shape citizenship laws and practices. Topics include state sovereignty, jus soli and jus sanguinis citizenship models, multiculturalism, immigrant incorporation, and racial hierarchy.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies & Sociology Course added 4/17/08

Sec. 01

T 10:30-12:20

190.673

SEMINAR ON INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS (AP) Cooper   Limit 15 Graduate students only   This seminar focuses on the major variants of institutional analysis in the political science literature.  Agency approaches are distinguished from structural approaches and the premises, claims, and problems of leading examples of each examined.  Emphasis is placed on the manner and success of these various forms of “new institutionalism” in explaining the processes and politics of democratic regimes.

Sec. 01

F 10-12

190.674

WORKSHOP IN RESEARCH AND WRITING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE Keck   Limit 10  

Sec. 01

TBA

190.691

COMPLEXITY THEORY AND POLITICS Blyth/ Connolly   Limit 15  
Graduate standing or instructor’s consent     A study of complexity theory as used in biology, comparative politics and political theory.  Approach will be compared to other traditions in political science.  Involves rethinking causality, explanation, time materiality and political culture.  Texts to be decided.

Sec. 01

T 3-4:50

070.651

ANTHROPOLOGY OF “THE EVERYDAY” Khan   Limit 15   
Cross-listed with Anthropology, German and Romance Languages and Literatures, the Humanities Center, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

F 10-12

213.652

ETERNAL RETURN Pahl   Limit 15
Cross-listed with German and Romance Languages and Literatures Course canceled 7/23/08

Sec. 01

T 5-7pm

190.800

INDEPENDENT STUDY
Sec. 01 Staff
Sec. 02 Keck
Sec. 03 Connolly
Sec. 04 Grossman
Sec. 05 Katz
Sec. 06 Cooper
Sec. 07 Hanchard
Sec. 08 Crenson
Sec. 09 David
Sec. 10 Deudney
Sec. 11 Chambers
Sec. 12 Tsai
Sec. 13 Sheingate
Sec. 14 Grovogui
Sec. 15 Spence

190.849

DISSERTATION RESEARCH
Sec. 01 Marlin-Bennett
Sec. 02 Keck
Sec. 03 Connolly
Sec. 04 Grossman
Sec. 05 Katz
Sec. 06 Cooper
Sec. 07 Hanchard
Sec. 08 Crenson
Sec. 09 David
Sec. 10 Deudney
Sec. 11 Chambers
Sec. 12 Tsai
Sec. 13 Sheingate
Sec. 14 Bennett
Sec. 15 Grovogui
Sec. 16 Culbert
Sec. 17 Blyth