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Discussion # 10725 (Section 102) Thursdays 9:30 amFridays 5:00 pm-10:25 am
Discussion # 10726 (Section 103) Thursdays 3:30 pm-4:25 pm
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Class #: 21247
Offered: M/W 3:45pm –4:00 40 pm
Frequency Offered: Every semester
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Discussion # 21250 (Section 301) Thursdays 53:00 30 pm-54:55 25 pm
Discussion # 21251 (Section 302) Thursdays 3:30 pm-4:25 Fridays 10:35 am-11:30 pm
Discussion # 21252 (Section 303) Fridays 912:30 am45 pm-101:25 am40 pm
Discussion # 21253 (Section 304) Fridays 10:35am-11:30amThursdays 5:00 pm- 5:55 pm
Note: Some discussion section seats are reserved for incoming fall matriculants.
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Class #: 13283
Offered: Tu/Th 122:30 00 pm – 13:50 20 pm
Frequency Offered: Special Offering
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PSC 202 m100 Introduction to Political Analysis
Instructor: Simon Weschle Liwu Gan
Class #: 11052
Offered: M/W 3:45 pm – 4:40 pm
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Prerequisites: None
Course Description
PSC 300 m304 Geoeconomics and Statecraft
Instructor: Daniel McDowell
Class#: 20901
Offered: T/TH 12:30 pm – 1:50pm
Frequency Offered: Special Offering
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
This course surveys how strategic and security considerations are transforming interstate economic relations, including how states wield their economic power toward coercive ends, but also how they work to enhance their strategic autonomy and resilience in a riskier, more crisis prone world. The topics we will survey include economic sanctions, domestic reactions to economic coercion, financial statecraft, the weaponization of energy, private sector responses to geopolitical risk, and de-risking in international trade and investment. Weekly readings draw on academic research as well as policy-oriented writing. We will engage with historical cases for additional context and comparison, though contemporary issues are the main event.
PSC 304 m001 The Judicial Process
Instructor: Domenic Trunfio
Class #: 13301
Offered: T/Th 3:30 pm-4:50 pm
Frequency Offered: Yearly
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
This course will take an in-depth examination of the Criminal Justice System from arrest to appeal, taught by an experienced prosecutor. Students will get a practical, realistic view of criminal justice and the court system through readings, lectures, class discussion and guest speakers who work in the legal system. This course is designed to give students a basic understanding of constitutional law and criminal procedure and will attempt to improve analytical ability and critical thought process. It will examine how the rights of those accused of a crime are balanced against the rights of those who are victims of crime. This course will also explore how the judicial process affects average citizens, their communities and American society, and how the system is often inaccurately portrayed in the media and by Hollywood.
PSC 305 m001 U.S. Congressional Politics
Instructor: Danny Daneri
Class #: 13488
Offered: M/W 2:15 pm – 3:35 pm
Frequency Offered: Irregularly
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
This course is about the politics of the United States Congress. We will discuss the historical and contemporary functions of the U.S. Congress, with a focus on representation, elections, political parties, special interest groups, inter-branch relations, and the changing character of legislative politicking and policymaking. As we do so, we continuously consider the questions of how and why certain policy topics rise and fall on the agenda of the U.S. Congress over time.
PSC 306 m001 African American Politics
Instructor: SN Sangmpam
Class #: 12705
Offered: M/W 12:45 pm – 2:05 Artificial intelligence (AI) is a general-purpose technology that will affect nearly all aspects of society, including criminal justice, health care, employment, and international security. Private and governmental entities are already deploying autonomous systems that affect everyday life, such as facial recognition, hiring decisions, and disease diagnoses. Meanwhile, researchers are quickly making advances in developing algorithms that could outperform humans in tasks that require intelligence. While AI has enormous potential to benefit society, it can also introduce many risks to human safety and well-being. This class uses a cross-disciplinary approach to study how tech companies, national governments, international organizations, and civil society groups could manage the development and deployment of AI in the public interest. The class material draws upon research in political science, public policy, philosophy, legal studies, economics, and computer science. Topics include algorithmic fairness; privacy, transparency, and safety; automation and the future of work; the impact of AI on international security.
PSC 300 m304 Geoeconomics and Statecraft
Instructor: Daniel McDowell
Class#: 20901
Offered: T/TH 12:30 pm – 1:50pm
Frequency Offered: Special Offering
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
This course surveys how strategic and security considerations are transforming interstate economic relations, including how states wield their economic power toward coercive ends, but also how they work to enhance their strategic autonomy and resilience in a riskier, more crisis prone world. The topics we will survey include economic sanctions, domestic reactions to economic coercion, financial statecraft, the weaponization of energy, private sector responses to geopolitical risk, and de-risking in international trade and investment. Weekly readings draw on academic research as well as policy-oriented writing. We will engage with historical cases for additional context and comparison, though contemporary issues are the main event.
PSC 304 m001 The Judicial Process
Instructor: Domenic Trunfio
Class #: 13301
Offered: T/Th 3:30 pm-4:50 pm
Frequency Offered: Yearly
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
This course will take an in-depth examination of the Criminal Justice System from arrest to appeal, taught by an experienced prosecutor. Students will get a practical, realistic view of criminal justice and the court system through readings, lectures, class discussion and guest speakers who work in the legal system. This course is designed to give students a basic understanding of constitutional law and criminal procedure and will attempt to improve analytical ability and critical thought process. It will examine how the rights of those accused of a crime are balanced against the rights of those who are victims of crime. This course will also explore how the judicial process affects average citizens, their communities and American society, and how the system is often inaccurately portrayed in the media and by Hollywood.
PSC 305 m001 U.S. Congressional Politics
Instructor: Danny Daneri
Class #: 13488
Offered: M/W 2:15 pm – 3:35 pm
Frequency Offered: Irregularly
Prerequisites: NoneCross Listed with: AAS 306.001
Course Description
This course is an examination of the African American Political experience in the United States with a focus on the nature of the American political system and the status of African Americans in it. The approach will be analytical and theoretical, but the main focus will be on the historical and contemporary political dynamic. Special attention will be given to the interplay of society, state, ideology, and political struggles.
PSC 309 m001 Interest Group Politics
Instructor: Danny Daneri
Class #: 21455about the politics of the United States Congress. We will discuss the historical and contemporary functions of the U.S. Congress, with a focus on representation, elections, political parties, special interest groups, inter-branch relations, and the changing character of legislative politicking and policymaking. As we do so, we continuously consider the questions of how and why certain policy topics rise and fall on the agenda of the U.S. Congress over time.
PSC 306 m001 African American Politics
Instructor: SN Sangmpam
Class #: 12705
Offered: M/W 312:45 pm – 52:05 pm
Frequency Offered: Irregularly
Prerequisites: None
Cross Listed with: AAS 306.001
Course Description
Uses theoretical and real-world materials to examine the strengths and weaknesses of interest groups in American politics. The role of groups in shaping public interest and influencing policy decisions.
PSC 310 m001 Refugees in International Politics *
Instructor: Lamis Abdelaaty
Class #: 13302
Offered: Tu/This course is an examination of the African American Political experience in the United States with a focus on the nature of the American political system and the status of African Americans in it. The approach will be analytical and theoretical, but the main focus will be on the historical and contemporary political dynamic. Special attention will be given to the interplay of society, state, ideology, and political struggles.
PSC 309 m001 Interest Group Politics
Instructor: Danny Daneri
Class #: 21455
Offered: M/W 3:45 pm – 5:05 pm
Frequency Offered: Irregularly
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
Uses theoretical and real-world materials to examine the strengths and weaknesses of interest groups in American politics. The role of groups in shaping public interest and influencing policy decisions.
PSC 310 m001 Refugees in International Politics *
Instructor: Lamis Abdelaaty
Class #: 13302
Offered: Tu/Th 12:30 pm – 1:50 pm
Frequency Offered: Irregularly
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This course deals with the global politics of refugee issues, broadly defined to include the movement of people displaced by persecution, conflict, natural or human-made disasters, environmental change, or development projects. It is grounded in the international relations subfield, but students are expected to engage with ideas from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Topics covered include historical trends in, analytical approaches to, and the international legal framework-governing refugees. We also explore the causes, consequences, and responses by state and non-state actors to refugee flows. A series of examples from recent and current events are examined, including a case study on refugees and the Syrian civil war.
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313.001
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Campaign Analysis
Instructor: Steven White Mark Brockway
Class #: 1271120903
Offered: T/Th 5:00 pm – 6:20 pm
Frequency Offered: YearlySpecial Offering
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
The New Deal transformed American politics, setting the framework for modern day debates about the role of the federal government in American society. This course examines the New Deal and the years immediately following it (roughly 1933-1953) from a range of historical and theoretical perspectives, as well as original source materials. Among other topics, we will consider the crisis of the Great Depression; the international context of fascism, Nazism, and Communism; the development of major public policies like Social Security; the role of labor unions and business; the role of southern Democrats in “limiting liberalism,” especially when it seemed to involve issues of race; and the Second World War. We will also examine how the New Deal set into motion important shifts in party politics that would define the remainder of the twentieth century.
PSC 313.001 Campaign Analysis
Instructor: Mark Brockway
Class #: 20903
Offered: T/Th 5:00 pm – 62020 election cycle was one of the most contentious, and craziest, in modern memory. Barely a day went by without a scandal, momentous change, or seething conflict in presidential, and congressional races. This course is designed for political junkies who want to participate in an intricate post-mortem of the 2020 election cycle while remaining rooted in scholarship about modern campaigns and elections. Who won and why? How did the campaigns adapt and react to a political environment that transformed at a furious pace? What can we learn about the strategies of the two major parties and their electoral hopes for the future? These questions will guide our investigation of individual races, and the 2020 electoral landscape. Our goal is to gain practical skills informed by rigorous academic research. Your job will be to play the part of a campaign manager and advisor. You will be asked to pick one Congressional race and dive into the strategies and outcomes of the race. You will watch debates and speeches, gather communications and press releases, and comb websites and polling data to see what worked, what didn't, and why to produce memos and suggestions based on the information you have gathered.
PSC 314 m001 Public Opinion & Electoral Behavior
Instructor: Emily Thorson
Class #: 13303
Offered: T/Th 2:00 - 3:20 pm
Frequency Offered: Special OfferingIrregularly
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
The 2020 election cycle was one of the most contentious, and craziest, in modern memory. Barely a day went by without a scandal, momentous change, or seething conflict in presidential, and congressional races. This course is designed for political junkies who want to participate in an intricate post-mortem of the 2020 election cycle while remaining rooted in scholarship about modern campaigns and elections. Who won and why? How did the campaigns adapt and react to a political environment that transformed at a furious pace? What can we learn about the strategies of the two major parties and their electoral hopes for the future? These questions will guide our investigation of individual races, and the 2020 electoral landscape. Our goal is to gain practical skills informed by rigorous academic research. Your job will be to play the part of a campaign manager and advisor. You will be asked to pick one Congressional race and dive into the strategies and outcomes of the race. You will watch debates and speeches, gather communications and press releases, and comb websites and polling data to see what worked, what didn't, and why to produce memos and suggestions based on the information you have gathered.
PSC 314 m001 Public Opinion & Electoral Behavior
Instructor: Emily Thorson
Class #: 13303
Offered: T/Th 2:00 - 3:20 pm
Frequency Offered: Irregularly
Prerequisites: None
Course Description
This course will tackle a series of big questions about the role of citizens' attitudes and opinions in contemporary democracy: How do people make sense of the political world? How does public opinion shape policies? How can we understand today's politically polarized climate? We will consider the history of public opinion as well as how our understanding of it is changing in an era of Facebook and Twitter. The course will go beyond discussions of polling data to explore the role of media content, political talk, and social identities in shaping what we think about politics and public life. Students will write an original research paper about a public opinion topic of their choice.
PSC 317.001 Local Internship
Instructor: Grant Reeher
Class #: 10456
Offered: M/W/F 11:40 am – 12:35 pm
Frequency Offered: Every semester
Prerequisites: The internship program is intended for juniors and seniors only.
Course Description
The course is based on a local internship experience in politics, public affairs, or the law. Placements are found at the beginning of the semester based on a list provided by the professor. Students also meet once a week in the classroom for organizational discussions, Q&A sessions with local political figures, and advice from professional development experts. Interested students are advised to review a FAQ sheet and recent syllabus, which can be found in 100 Eggers Hall or by contacting the professor.
PSC 319 m001 Gender and Politics
Instructor: Jenn M. Jackson
Class #: 20927
Offered: M/W 2:15 pm – 3:35 pm
Frequency Offered: Yearly
Prerequisites: None
Cross-listed with WGS 319
Course Description
This course examines the intersection of gender and politics in the United States with an emphasis on women and formal political processes like elections, political institutions and legislation, public opinion formation, running for elected office, and political participation. We will begin the course by examining gender formation, the history of gender in political struggle, gender as an organizing category for both politics and Political Science, and the work of conforming to or transgressing gender norms in electoral politics. In the remainder of the course, we will cover the following topics: gender in society; media, politics, and gendered expectations and stereotypes; women’s social movements; gender and power, political engagement and political participation; voice, choice and party identification; the gender gap in running for office; political representation and policy-making; the effects of public policy on gender; and the political intersection of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, and embodiment.
In this course, we will use gender and identity politics as a way to enter debates about inclusion and democracy in political life. Although gender is the primary lens through which we will examine efforts of underrepresented groups to achieve equality, students are encouraged to examine how gender is mediated by multiple and overlapping identities such as race, class, sexuality, and religion both within the U.S. and in other national contexts.
PSC 322 m001 International Security
Instructor: Colin Elman
Class #: 20929
Offered: M/W 3:45 pm – 5:05 This course will tackle a series of big questions about the role of citizens' attitudes and opinions in contemporary democracy: How do people make sense of the political world? How does public opinion shape policies? How can we understand today's politically polarized climate? We will consider the history of public opinion as well as how our understanding of it is changing in an era of Facebook and Twitter. The course will go beyond discussions of polling data to explore the role of media content, political talk, and social identities in shaping what we think about politics and public life. Students will write an original research paper about a public opinion topic of their choice.
PSC 317.001 Local Internship
Instructor: Grant Reeher
Class #: 10456
Offered: M/W/F 11:40 am – 12:35 pm
Frequency Offered: Every semester
Prerequisites: The internship program is intended for juniors and seniors only.
Course Description
The course is based on a local internship experience in politics, public affairs, or the law. Placements are found at the beginning of the semester based on a list provided by the professor. Students also meet once a week in the classroom for organizational discussions, Q&A sessions with local political figures, and advice from professional development experts. Interested students are advised to review a FAQ sheet and recent syllabus, which can be found in 100 Eggers Hall or by contacting the professor.
PSC 319 m001 Gender and Politics
Instructor: Jenn M. Jackson
Class #: 20927
Offered: M/W 2:15 pm – 3:35 pm
Frequency Offered: Yearly
Prerequisites: None
Cross-listed with WGS 319
Course Description
This course is an introduction to the field of security studies within the discipline of Political Science. Topics to be covered include: the motivations for, and consequences of, nuclear proliferation; the origins of ethnic violence and the capacity for humanitarian intervention to successfully prevent mass killings and genocide; the likelihood that enlarged ‘zones of democracy’ will foster zones of peace; and the sources of terrorist violence and the implications of counter-terrorism policies. The course will also include ‘hot’ topics currently debated among scholars and policymakers, including piracy and other non-conventional forms of force; the out-sourcing of war; and the connection between climate change and violent conflict. Throughout the course, we will consider these topics via the lens of real-world examples and ‘case studies’. While these cases will be cross-regional, special focus will also be placed on the US role in fostering international security and contemporary US national security dilemmasexamines the intersection of gender and politics in the United States with an emphasis on women and formal political processes like elections, political institutions and legislation, public opinion formation, running for elected office, and political participation. We will begin the course by examining gender formation, the history of gender in political struggle, gender as an organizing category for both politics and Political Science, and the work of conforming to or transgressing gender norms in electoral politics. In the remainder of the course, we will cover the following topics: gender in society; media, politics, and gendered expectations and stereotypes; women’s social movements; gender and power, political engagement and political participation; voice, choice and party identification; the gender gap in running for office; political representation and policy-making; the effects of public policy on gender; and the political intersection of gender with race, class, sexual orientation, and embodiment.
In this course, we will use gender and identity politics as a way to enter debates about inclusion and democracy in political life. Although gender is the primary lens through which we will examine efforts of underrepresented groups to achieve equality, students are encouraged to examine how gender is mediated by multiple and overlapping identities such as race, class, sexuality, and religion both within the U.S. and in other national contexts.
PSC 324 m100 Constitutional Law I
Instructor: To be Announced
Class #: 10820
Offered: T/Th 9:30 am – 10:50 am
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Course Description
This course will examine the American legal system as embedded within America's separation of powers system. Legal institutions and legal decision making can define, refine, or uproot congressional policy; they can enable or hinder its implementation by the executive branch; and they can manage and regulate private behavior. This course will consider the scope, capacity, and potential of the American legal system as an integral component of policymaking and policy implementation in the American political system, and will address three guiding questions:
What is the regulatory potential, or limits, of law and the American legal system?
How has litigation developed as a tool for regulation in America?
How does the American legal system differ from that of other countries and what political factors explain this variation?looks at how the rules of the game are made and remade through interactions between the state and society. It takes a diachronic view of legal institutions and norms in the making rather than a view of “the” law as a body of synchronic and pre-established norms. Students will learn about the law’s complex role as a constitutive, regulative, and coercive force in public and private spheres. In the process, they will think critically about how law shapes and enables social and individual interactions, how law constructs difference, how law mediates power relationships, how law demarcates communal boundaries, and how the law operates as an instrument of violence, domination, and control in various jurisdictions across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the US.
PSC 375 m001 Philosophy of Law
Instructor: Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson Chris Bousquet
Class #: 12505
Offered: T/Th 9:30 am – 10:50 am
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PSC 382 m001 Contemporary Political Philosophy
Instructor: Kenneth Baynes Dave Sobel
Class #: 11690
Offered: T/Th 11:00 am – 12:20 pm
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The program requires the student to produce a senior thesis that reflects an understanding of the contemporary literature relevant to the thesis topic, advances an original argument, and presents evidence appropriate to the underlying inquiry. The thesis should generally be modeled after a typical academic journal article in the field of Political Science. The thesis will be read and evaluated by a committee of three, consisting of the main advisor and two additional readers. Two of the readers must be members of the Political Science department. One of the readers may be a graduate student in Political Science. An oral defense will determine if tthe thesis meets the departmental requirements for distinction.