POLITICAL SCIENCE

190.101 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICS (AP)  (3) Ginsberg Permission req’d   Limit 20 per section   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.

Secs. 02 & 06 canceled 5/09/06 Sec. 02 & 06 reinstated 7/24/06

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190.102(S)

INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS  (CP) (3) Blyth    Limit 20 per section     An introduction to political institutions and processes with a stress on how economic and political development occur over time. Interests, Identities and Institutions are compared across countries and contexts.

Secs. 03 & 07 canceled 5/09/06 Sec. 03& 07 reinstated 7/24/06

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M 10

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F 10:30-11:30

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190.213 (S)

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS (IR) (3) Deudeny   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.

Secs. 02 & 10 canceled 5/09/06

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190.225 (S) (W)

COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT (3) Dietze Limit 50  Course added 4/05/06 Course canceled 06/20/06

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-12:30

190.311 (S)

MIDDLE EAST POLITICS (IR/CP) (3) Hazbun  Limit 35  Survey of the state building, ideological trends, and political change across the Middle East. Topics include the struggle for self-determination, politics of nationalism, impact of oil wealth, rise of political Islam, challenge of globalization, and prospects for poltical reform. A study of the dynamics of state building, identity con-struction, and foreign policy across the Middle East framed by the evolution of regional geopolitics and US foreign policy. Course canceled 5/05/06 Cross-listed with East Asian Studies Course reinstated 8/08/06

Sec. 01

MT 3

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.

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W 2-4

Th 12 2

F 10:30-11:30

190.323 (S)

INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (IR) (3) Grovogui   Limit 70 25 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.

Sec. 01

Th 1-3

190.333 (S)

AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (LP) (3) Grossman  Limit 50  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.  The second semester focuses on issues of civil liberties and civil rights, with major emphasis on the rights of defendants and the criminal justice system; issues of racial, gender, and political equality; the constitutional right of privacy; selected free speech and religious freedom issues; and a final assessment of the policy impact and implementation capacities of the Court.

Sec. 01

Discussion Session

MW 3-4:30

Th 12:30

191.335 (S)

THE HISTORY AND DYNAMICS OF THE ARAB – ISRAELI CONFLICT (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 4-6pm

190.340 (S)

BLACK POLITICS (AP) (3) Spence    Limit 30   This course is an historical survey of the bases and substance of politics among black Americans and the relation of black politics to the American politcal system. The sweep of the course covers the period from Emancipation to the present. The intention is both to provide a general sense of pertinent issues and relations over this period as a way of helping to make sense of the present and to develop criteria for evaluating political scientists' and others’ claims regarding the status and characteristics of black American political activity.
Cross-listed with Africana Studies

Sec. 01

Th 10:30-12:20

191.340 (S)

EDUCATION POLITICS IN URBAN AMERICA (3)  Hayes   Limit 25 15  This course analyzes the politics of urban public schooling, concentrating on community political dynamics and the struggle for equal educational opportunity and quality education.  The course emphasizes the impact of urban transformation, socioeconomic class inequality, and racial and ethnic politics on the changing character of public school reform since the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education. Cross-listed with Africana Studies, Anthropology, History, Sociology, and Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

190.351 (S)

PUNISHMENT AND POLITICS: THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE UNITED STATES (PT) (3) Culbert   Limit 20 per section   Focusing on the issue of capital punishment in the United States, this course examines a number of questions related to the negotiation of law, politics, and morality in modern society:  What is the purpose of punishment in our society? What is the proper role of the state in carrying out punishment?  Does capital punishment differ from other kinds of punishment? If so, how? Answering these questions, the course explores topics in political theory, constitutional law, legal interpretation, and cultural studies.

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F 10:30

191.351 (S)

POLITICS AND FILM (AP) (3) Shogan   Limit 15   Aitchison Fellows Only Course added 4/19/06

Sec. 01

W 5-7pm

190.354 (S)

THE POLITICS OF HEALTH POLICY (AP) (3) Sheingate   Limit 30   Prereq: One course in Political Science or Perm. Req’d   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 Studies

Sec. 01

TW 1

191.357 (S)

AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (3) Wolfson   Limit 15   Aitchison Fellows Only Course added 4/12/06

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T 8pm-10pm Th 7:35-9:50pm

191.370 (S)

MEDIA AND POLITICS (3) Staff    Limit 16   Aitchison Fellowship students only Course canceled 4/12/06

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TBA

191.371 (S)

THE MORALITY OF WAR (3) Staff Limit 16  Aitchison Fellowship students only Course canceled 4/12/06

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TBA

190.372 (S)

POLITICAL VIOLENCE (IR) (3) David Limit 20   Prereq: 190.209 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

Th 10:30-12:20

190.379 (S)

MASS MEDIA AND POLITICS (AP, CG) (3) Katz    Limit 30   This class will focus on the mass media, particularly television, as both inputs into the political system (portrayals of politics in drama; framing and reporting of news) and as outputs of the political system (e.g., through regulation).  Although the emphasis will be primarily on the United States, comparisons of the American experience to those of other industrial democracies will be a significant part of the class.

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TW 2

190.389 (S)

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

F 10:30-12:30

190.399 (S)

CAPITALISM AND CHRISTIANITY (PT) (3) Connolly   Limit 15    Prereq: A previous course in Political Theory Seminar examining the history of imbrications between capitalism and Christianity, up to the contemporary era.  Texts will include The Gospels, Calvin, Marx, Weber, Tawney, Deleuze and Kintz.

Sec. 01

M 2-4

190.402 (S)

WASHINGTON INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (3) Ginsberg  Coreq: 190.403 Aitchison Fellows Only

Sec. 01

TBA

190.403 (S)

WASHINGTON SEMINAR (3) Ginsberg  Coreq: 190.402 
Economists believe that policy can be analyzed through the application of cost-benefit analysis.  Philosophers believe that policy can be analyzed through the application of ethical principals.  Political scientists know that policy can only understood in political terms, that is, in terms of underlying struggles among important groups and forces.  The winners of these struggles generally invent the appropriate ethical principles and cost-benefit studies needed to justify the policies they want.  This seminar examines the relationship between political struggles and public policies in contemporary America.  Every student will be asked to prepare a seminar paper dealing with an important current policy issue. 
Meets in Washington,D.C. Aitchison Fellows Only

Sec. 01

W 3-5

190.407 (S)

COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM AND THE RISE OF THE NEW RUSSIAN STATE (3) Satter    Limit 15   Course added 8/11/06

Sec. 01

F 10:30-12:30

190.408 (S)

ADVANCED READINGS IN MIDDLE EAST HISTORY AND POLITICS (IR) (3) Hazbun    Limit 15  Prereq: 190.311 or 190.346 or Perm. Req’d  Intensive readings on Middle East topics, including Islam, Arab political thought, regional politics, nationalism and political identity. Course canceled 5/05/06 Course reinstated 8/08/06

Sec. 01

W 2-4

190.409 (S)

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COMPARATIVE POLITICS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (CP) (3) Keck  Limit 20     Prereq: prior course in Comparative Politics     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

Th 2-4

191.420 (S)

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SPEED AND POLITICS (PT) (3) Glezos Limit 15     Prereq: Junior or Senior standing or permission of instructor    
A theoretical analysis of the effects of speed and thechnology on politics, specificall in the areas of Media, war and democaracy.  Will include readings by Virilio, Baudrillard, Negri, Kant and Schenerman.  Cross-listed with Philosophy

Dean’s Teaching Fellowship Course

Sec. 01

W 2-5

190.422 (S)

REPUBLICANISM (IR/PT) (3) Deudeny Limit 40    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 5-7pm

190.471 (S)

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

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

195.477 (S)

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INTRODUCTION TO URBAN POLICY (3) Newman   Limit 15 per section    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 (W)

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

Sec. 01

TBA

230.150 (S)

ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (3) Agarwala  Limit 15 per section    
Cross-listed with Sociology

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300.343 (H)

BERGSON AND THE PROBLEM OF NOVELTY IN PHILOSOPHY (3)  Marrati  Limit 20   Cross-listed with Anthropology, German & Romance Languages, and Humanities Center

Sec. 01

T 2-4:30

361.353 (S)

HISTORY OF U.S. LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS (3) Smith   Limit 25

Cross-listed with Interdepartmental and Latin American Studies

Sec. 01

T 2-4

190.501

POLITICAL SCIENCE 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 QUANITATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE  Katz   Limit 15  Juniors and Seniors permission req’d.   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 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

T 10-12

190.607

COMPARTIVE RACIAL POLITICS (CP/AP) Chung/Spence   Limit 12  Graduate students only        This course surveys the major trends and approaches to the comparative study of race in the social sciences and critically examines the link between race and politics.  Topics include the racial state, neo-racism, the political economy of race, and racial micro-regimes.

Sec. 01

Th 2-4

190.611

THE CONSTITUTION AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM Deudeny/Grossman   Limit 20   Analysis of interaction between the U.S. Constitution and international threats, crises, and institutions.  Topics include presidential, congressional, and judicial roles, sovereignty, international law and organizations, the ICC, laws of war, torture, and surveillance.  Advanced undergraduates admitted with permission of instructor. Course canceled 7/25/06

Sec. 01

Th 5-7pm

190.616

AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT (AP) Sheingate    Limit 12    Graduate students only   
An examination of state-building and nation-building throughout American political history.

Sec. 01

M 4-6pm

190.619

CAUSES OF PEACE (IR) David      Limit 15  Graduate students only    An examination of why peace (excepting Iraq) has seemingly broken out in the post-Cold War era. Causes of peace to be examined include democracy, nuclear weapons, globalization, changes in human nature, American hegemony and international institutions. Whether peace will continue and its impact on international relations theory, particularly realism, will also be considered.

Sec. 01

T 2-4

190.620

WOMEN IN DARK TIMES Bennett / Culbert   Limit 15   Graduate students only  A survey of female voices—feminist and non-feminist—in political theory. What constitutes political action? What is the relationship of bodies to politics? How is power defined and distributed? Authors included:  Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz, Rosa Luxemberg, Saba Mahmood, Catherine McKinnon, Carol Pateman, Patricia Williams, and other contemporary theorists. Cross-listed with Studies of Women, Gender & Sexuality

Sec. 01

Th 12-2

190.651

SKEPTICISM, ETHICS AND POLITICS  Flathman   Limit 15   An examination of the place of skepticism in political moral thought.  Emphasis will be on David Hume but attention will also be given to Sextus, Hobbes, Montaigne and some 20th Century thinkers.

Sec. 01

W 10-12

190.661

TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS Keck   Limit 15   Graduate students only or permission of instructor     Theoretical issues in the study of local, national, transnational, cross-national, international, universal and other locations and movements of political phenomena.  Course will combine shared readings and the development of a research project by each participant.  Students are encouraged to discuss potential research interests with the professor prior to deciding to take the course.

Sec. 01

T 2-4

190.667

NATIONS, IMPERIALISM, AND DECOLONIZATION Grovogui  Limit 15 Graduate students only or permission of instructor   Structured around the historical advent of imperialism and decolonization, this course places special emphasis on the historical contingency of national identity and the connections between particular forms of national identity and imperialism. It also examines the political alienation of colonial peoples from European political forms leading to decolonization. Theoretical perspectives include liberal / modernist, postmodernist, postcolonial, etc.

Sec. 01

M 2-4

190.672

IDEAS AND POLITICS Blyth   Limit 15 Graduate students only or permission of instructor     Graduate seminar exploring ideational, cultural, and constructivist analyses of politics and economics.

Sec. 01

M 10-12

190.673

SEMINAR: INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS (AP) Cooper   Limit 15  An examination of major variants of the "new institutionalism" as applied to Congress.  Emphasis is placed on the substantive and methodological character of similarities and differences and differences in current institutional approaches to the study of Congress, and their impacts.

Sec. 01

T 4-6pm

190.685

PROSEMINAR: POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A PROFESSION Ginsberg

Sec. 01

T 10-12

190.692

PERCEPTION, THE MEDIA AND POLITICS (PT) Connolly   Limit 15 Graduate students only or permission of instructor   The first half explores imbrications between culture and biology in perception, drawing upon Bergson, Damasio and Merleau-Ponty.  The second half explores the role of the media, including texts by Deleuze, Cinema II: Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: and Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media.

Sec. 01

W 4-6pm

090.341 (H)

MARX, FREUD AND MODERN CRITICAL THEORY  Gold
See German for full description Cross-listed with German,History, and Philosophy

Sec. 01

MTh 3-4:30

300.623

MIRACLES, EVENTS, EFFECTS Hent de Vries   Limit 20 Cross listed with Anthropology, Philosophy, and Humanities Center

Sec. 01

Th 1-4

090.661

ALLEGORY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND HISTORY: BENJAMIN'S ORIGINS OF GERMAN TRAGIC DRAMA  Gold See German for full description Cross-listed with German, and Philosphy

Sec. 01

T 1-3

300.678

DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION AND ITS SOURCES  Marrati  Limit 20 
Cross-listed with Philosophy, Humanities Center, Anthropology, German & Romance Languages

Sec. 01

M 2-5 W 10-12:30

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

Please use the sections listed for 190.800 when registering.