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Course Schedule—Fall 2004

Political Science

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POLITICAL SCIENCE

190.101 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICS (AP)  (3) Ginsberg
Limit 20 per section

Section 12 cancelled 8/18/04

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

MT 2

T 3

T 3

W 1

W 2

W 3

W 3

T 4

Th 1

Th 2

Th 3

Th 12

F 1

190.211 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL ECONOMY I  (CP/PT) (3) Blyth  

Limit 20 per section

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

05

06

TW 11

T 1

Th 3

Th 11

W 4

Th 4

M 1

190.213 (S)

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (IR) (3) Duedney   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.

Lec.

Sec. 01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

TW 1

Th 1

W 3

W 3

Th 1

T 3

Th  3

M 1

Th 2

Th 2

Th 2

W 4

W 2

190.225 (S)

COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT (CP) (3) Dietze   Limit 50

Sec. 01

ThF 12

190.311 (S)

MIDDLE EAST POLITICS (IR/CP) (3) Hazbun    Limit 35   Prereq: 190.209 or another course in IR theory    A study of the dynamic of state building, identity construction, and foreign policy across the Middle East framed by the evolution of regional geopolitics and US foreign policy.

Sec. 01

MT 3

190.320 (S) (W)

POLITICS OF EAST ASIA (CP) (3) Chung    Limit 35  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 run relations, late development, nationalism, democratization, political culture, social movements, and globalization. Course added 5/26/04

Sec. 01

Th 2-4
Th 10:30-12:30

190.323 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (IR) (3) Grovogui   Limit 45 Course cancelled 4/15/04

Sec. 01

Th 1-3

190.333 (S)

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (LP) (3) Grossman

Sec. 01

MW 3-4:30

190.351 (S)

PUNISHMENT AND POLITICS: THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE UNITED STATES, (PT/PL) (3) Culbert   Limit 30 

Sec. 01

TW 1

190.354 (S) (W)

THE POLITICS OF HEALTH POLICY (AP) (3) Sheingate   Limit 50   Prereq: Previous course in political science 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. Sec. 02 added 9/7/04.
Cross-listed with Public Health Studies

Sec. 01

Sec. 02

TW 2

TW 2

190.365 (S)

POLITICS IN EUROPE (CP) (3) Katz   Limit 47

Sec. 01

TW 2

190.372 (S)

POLITICAL VIOLENCE (IR) (3) David  Limit 25   Prereq: 190.209 190.101 or equivalent  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

T 1-3

190.380 (S) (W)

LAW, MORALITY, AND THE STATE, (PT/PL) (3) Culbert   Limit 20

Sec. 01

T 10-12

190.384 (S)

URBAN POLITICS AND POLICY (AP) (3) Crenson   Limit 64

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

190.387 (S)

ANCIENT POLITICAL THOUGHT (PT) (3) Bennett  Limit 30   Examination of the relationship between metaphysics and politics in three sets of thinkers, ancient Greek tragedians, Plato and his followers; and Augustine and early Christians. Course concludes with Nietzche’s Birth of Tragedy.

Sec. 01

ThF 10:30-11:30

190.389 (S) (W)

SEMINAR ON THE INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CONGRESS AND PRESIDENCY (AP) (3) Cooper   Perm. Req=d.   Limit 15   

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm W 3-5

190.398 (S) (W)

THE POLITICS OF GOOD AND EVIL (PT) (3) Connolly   Limit 15 Prereq: a previous course in political theory An examination of good and evil through readings of Job, Sophocles, Augustine, Bloom, Todorov and Nietzsche.

Sec. 01

W 2-4

190.402 (S)

WASHINGTON INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (3) Ginsberg  Coreq: 190.403

Sec. 01

Th 3-5pm

190.403 (S)

WASHINGTON SEMINAR (3) Ginsberg  Coreq: 190.402

Sec. 01

TBA

190.404 (S) (W)

REALIST IR THEORY (IR) (3) Deudney   Limit 30   BA/MA students, seniors and graduate field survey

Sec. 01

T 5-7pm

190.419 (S) (W)

IDENTITY AND NATION IN LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS (CP) (3) Keck  Limit 20      Juniors and Seniors only

Sec. 01

W 10-12

190.426 (S) (W)

GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBAL TOURISM (IR/CP) (3) Hazbun  Limit 15  Juniors, Senior and Graduate students only  Research seminar explores the formation of global travel networks, the politics of border crossing and airline security, the economic and cultural geography of tourism development, and issues related to travel, power, and national identity. Cross-listed with East Asian Studies

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-12:30

190.471 (S)

SENIOR SEMINAR: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE (3) Rahman

Sec. 01

Th 2:15-4

191.335 (S)

THE HISTORY AND DYNAMICS OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT (IR,CP) (3) Freedman Limit 35 This 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 wars of 1956, 1967, 1973, and 1982, 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, 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 and the dynamics of intra-Arab politics. Course added 4/8/04

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

191.369 (S) (W)

IMPERIALISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (PT) (3) Hindess  Limit 15 20   The history of Western political thought is usually seen as a largely internal development (albeit with a little help from the Islamic world during the European middle ages). The seminar questions the conventional perpective by examining the impact on political thought of European attempts, beginning with the European invasion of the Americas, to understand, to rationalize their domination over, and to govern non-European peoples. Alongside this historical focus, the seminar will also be concerned to identify the legacies of these imperial interactions which remain influential in political thought today for example, in notions of social and political development, influential conceptions of world order, and contemporary social scientific approaches to non-Western cultures and ways of life. Course added 4/20/04

Sec. 01

Th 2-4
T 2-4

195.477 (S) (W)

INTRODUCTION TO URBAN POLICY (3) Newman   Limit 12 per section    Perm. Req=d.  Coreq: 195.478    Cross-listed with Policy Studies, Public Health Studies,   Sociology, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

Sec. 01

02

T 5-7pm

T 5-7pm

195.478 (W)

URBAN POLICY INTERNSHIP (3) Newman Limit 12   Perm. Req=d.   Coreq: 195.477 Cross-listed with Public Policy, Sociology, and Geography and Environmental Engineering

 

TBA

360.217 (H,S)

RICHARD WRIGHT AND MODERNISM: PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE, AND POLITICS (3) Hayes   Limit 25
This seminar provides an interdisciplinary examination of Richard Wright's fictional and nonfictional works. Considers Wright's critique of modern western civilization, interpretation of the black experience, and political activism
Cross listed with Africana Studies and Interdepartmental Course added 4/29/04

Sec. 01

W 2-4:30

190.501

POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNSHIP Staff   Perm. Req=d

   

190.502

INTERNSHIP Staff   Perm Req=d.

   

190.503

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS INTERNSHIP Staff   Perm Req=d.

   

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 QUANTITATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE (CP) Katz

Sec. 01

T 10-12

190.616

AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (AP) Sheingate  Graduate students only    Examination of the historical evolution of American political institutions, political organizations, and public policies; special emphasis on the process of state-building and nation-building from the Founding Period onwards.

Sec. 01

M 3-5pm

190.625

THEORIES OF COMPARATIVE POLITICS (CP) Blyth  Limit 15 
Graduate students only 
An overview and critical analysis of some of the major contemporary issues and debates in comparative politics.  The primary purpose is to ‘survey the subfield’ by introducing the student to the intellectual history of the subdiscipline and the current state of theory and research.

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

190.635

CONVENTIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS Grovogui Course cancelled 4/15/04

Sec. 01

F 1-3

190.638

CONTENTIOUS POLITICS (CP) Keck Limit 20      Graduate students only

Sec. 01

Th 10-12

190.671

THE POLITICS OF NATURE (PT) Bennett/ Connolly   Limit 15  What happens to environmentalism when classical divisions between nature/culture and human/nonhuman lose credibility?  An examination of Diderot, Hegel, and Latour in conjunction with new developments in complexity theory.

Sec. 01

T 3-5pm

190.673

SEMINAR: INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS (AP) Cooper

Sec. 01

Th 4-6

190.676

POLITICS OF DEVELOPING WORLD (IR) David

Sec. 01

M 1-3

190.685

PROSEMINAR: POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A PROFESSION Ginsberg

Sec. 01

T 10-12

191.613 IMPERIALISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES (PT) Hindess  Limit 5 Same description as 191.369. Courses meet together.
Sec. 01
Th 2-4
T 2-4

040.689

CLASSICS AND/IN ANTHROPOLOGY: HISTORICAL & COMPARATIVE APPROACHES Detienne, Yatromanolakis
Cross-listed with Anthropology, Classics and Humanities Center

Sec. 01

W 2-4

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. 11 Berger

Sec. 12 Tsai

Sec. 13 Sheingate

   

190.849

DISSERTATION RESEARCH Please use the sections listed for 190.800 when registering.

   

 

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