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First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• GOVT 1101 - FWS: Power and Politics

Courses:

• GOVT 1111 - Introduction to American Government and Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 1313 - Introduction to Comparative Government and Politics
• GOVT 1503 - Introduction to Africana Studies (crosslisted)
• GOVT 1615 - [Introduction to Modern Political Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 1616 - Introduction to Political Philosophy
• GOVT 1623 - The World of Modern Japan (crosslisted)
• GOVT 1817 - Making Sense of World Politics
• GOVT 1901 - Discussions of Justice (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2041 - Electoral (mal)practice
• GOVT 2152 - (Im)migration and (Im)migrants: Then and Now (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2225 - Controversies About Inequality (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2264 - Contemporary Civil Wars
• GOVT 2284 - [Capitalism in China] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2293 - Politics and Music
• GOVT 2432 - Moral Dilemmas in the Law (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2553 - Inside Europe
• GOVT 2604 - Obama and the Meaning of Race (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2605 - [Social and Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2623 - History and Politics of the Modern and Contemporary Middle East (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2665 - [American Political Thought]
• GOVT 2673 - [The History and Politics of Modern Egypt] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2676 - [Periclean Athens] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2747 - History of the Modern Middle East (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2807 - Islam and Politics: Between an Islamic State and Daily Life (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2817 - America Confronts the World (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3001 - [Constitutional Law and U.S. Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3002 - [Civil Rights and Civil Liberties] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3012 - [The Politics of Poverty in the U.S.] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3021 - Social Movements in American Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3032 - Politics of Public Policy in the U.S.
• GOVT 3044 - China’s Next Economy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3052 - Intro to the Structure & System of American Law
• GOVT 3071 - Introduction to Public Policy
• GOVT 3082 - American Political Campaigns (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3091 - [Science in the American Polity, 1960 to Now] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3112 - Congress and the Legislative Process
• GOVT 3128 - America’s Changing Faces (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3131 - The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3141 - Prisons (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3142 - Incarceration, Policy Response, and Self-Reflection (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3150 - The American Legal System
• GOVT 3152 - [Prisons, Politics & Policy]
• GOVT 3161 - [The American Presidency] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3168 - [The Road to the White House, 2016]
• GOVT 3171 - [Campaigns and Elections] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3189 - [Taking America’s Pulse: Creating and Conducting a National Opinion Poll] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3212 - [Public Opinion and Representation]
• GOVT 3241 - [Inequality and American Democracy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3262 - [Authoritarian Regimes]
• GOVT 3273 - [Politics and Markets]
• GOVT 3274 - [Game Theory and Politics]
• GOVT 3281 - Constitutional Politics: The U.S. Supreme Court (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3283 - [Russian Politics]
• GOVT 3284 - Populism, Democracy & Authoritarianism
• GOVT 3293 - [Comparative Politics of Latin America] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3303 - Politics of the Global North (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3323 - Modern European Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3364 - Europe in Times of Crisis
• GOVT 3384 - The Asian Century? The Rise of China and India (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3401 - Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3403 - [China Under Revolution and Reform] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3413 - [Modern European Society and Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3434 - Chinese Empire and the Cambodian Experience (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3443 - [Southeast Asian Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3503 - Becoming a China Hand (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3537 - [Zionism and Its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3547 - America, Business and International Political Economy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3549 - [Capitalism, Competition, and Conflict in the Global Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3553 - [Issues Behind the News]
• GOVT 3557 - [U.S. Exceptionalism Questioned: Comparative Political Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3570 - [The Average Man] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3605 - Ideology
• GOVT 3606 - [Homo Oeconomicus] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3625 - [Modern Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3626 - [Introduction to Early History of Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3633 - Politics and Culture (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3636 - Introduction to Critical Theory (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3646 - [The History of the Present] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3655 - [Politics and Literature] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3675 - [Democracy and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3705 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3715 - [Political Theories of Colonialism]
• GOVT 3726 - [Revolution] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3735 - [Political Freedom] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3736 - Ancient Political Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3765 - [Gender, Liberalism, and Postcolonial Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3766 - [Multicultural Israel] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3785 - Civil Disobedience (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3809 - [Politics of ‘70s Films] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3827 - China and the World (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3837 - The Cold War (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3847 - [Weapons of Mass Destruction]
• GOVT 3867 - [The Causes of War]
• GOVT 3877 - [Nuclear Security in a Changing World]
• GOVT 3897 - [Human Rights at War]
• GOVT 3887 - Int’l Human Rights in Theory & Practice
• GOVT 3957 - [New Forces in International Politics]
• GOVT 3967 - [What is China?] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3977 - [History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3988 - [Democracy, Dictatorships & US Foreign Policy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3990 - Puzzle Solving with Data
• GOVT 3999 - How Do You Know That?
• GOVT 4000 - Major Seminar
• GOVT 4015 - Existentialism or Marxism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4019 - Introductory Probability and Applied Statistics
• GOVT 4021 - American Conservative Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4031 - Social Movements in American Politics: Then and Now (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4032 - [Immigration and Politics Research Seminar] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4041 - [American Political Development in the Twentieth Century] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4092 - [Persuasive Politics]
• GOVT 4102 - Governing Green Cities (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4105 - [Writing America Post 9/11] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4112 - [The Politics of Change] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4142 - [Causes and Consequences of U.S. Foreign Policy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4194 - Asian Political Economy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4218 - History of the United States Senate (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4232 - The Politics of the Inner City
• GOVT 4264 - [Social Movements in Latin America] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4265 - Postcolonial Theory
• GOVT 4279 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4283 - Latino Politics as Racial Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4291 - [Politics of Science] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4293 - [Comparative Urbanization]
• GOVT 4303 - [The GMO Debate: Science and Society] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4339 - [Nationalism(s) in the Arab World] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4354 - [Comparative Political Economy of Advanced Industrialized States]
• GOVT 4403 - [War and the State in Comparative Perspective]
• GOVT 4414 - [Politics, Violence, and the Study of Cambodia] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4424 - [The Theory & Practice of Democratic Politics in Africa]
• GOVT 4496 - [Power]
• GOVT 4543 - Fascism, Nationalism and Populism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4566 - Critical Theories of Power
• GOVT 4585 - [American Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4636 - [The Will of the People] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4655 - [Topics in Social and Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4696 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4705 - [Contemporary Readings of the Ancients] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4706 - [The Black Trans-Atlantic] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4726 - [Punitive Society] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4735 - [Marx, Nietzsche, Freud] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4769 - [Spinoza and the New Spinozism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4786 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4807 - Social Studies of Space, Technologies and Borders (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4816 - Topographies of Power
• GOVT 4819 - [Human Rights and Governments]
• GOVT 4827 - [China, Tibet and Xinjiang] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4847 - [Realist Theories of International Relations]
• GOVT 4877 - China and Asian Security (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4937 - [Going Nuclear: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and Energy]
• GOVT 4949 - Honors Seminar: Thesis Clarification and Research
• GOVT 4959 - Honors Thesis: Research and Writing
• GOVT 4967 - [The Collapse of the Soviet Union]
• GOVT 4986 - [Other Feminisms]
• GOVT 4987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 4998 - Politics and Policy: Theory, Research, and Practice (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4999 - Undergraduate Independent Study
• GOVT 6011 - The American State (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6019 - Introduction to Probability and Applied Statistics
• GOVT 6021 - [Poverty & Social Policy]
• GOVT 6022 - [Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S.] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6029 - Advanced Regression Analysis
• GOVT 6031 - Field Seminar in American Politics
• GOVT 6039 - [Advanced Topics in Quantitative Empirical Methodology]
• GOVT 6045 - Law and Literature (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6049 - Categorical and Count Data
• GOVT 6053 - [Comparative Method in International and Comparative Politics]
• GOVT 6059 - Panel and Multilevel Data
• GOVT 6067 - [Field Seminar in International Relations]
• GOVT 6069 - [Causal Inference]
• GOVT 6075 - [Field Seminar in Political Thought]
• GOVT 6079 - [Advanced Topics Mini-Course]
• GOVT 6089 - [Time Series Analysis]
• GOVT 6102 - Governing Green Cities (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6121 - [American Political Development] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6122 - [Foundations of the Social Sciences] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6142 - [Causes and Consequences of U.S. Foreign Policy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6171 - [Politics of Public Policy]
• GOVT 6182 - [Political Communication]
• GOVT 6201 - [The United States Congress] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6202 - Political Culture (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6215 - Michel Foucault: Sovereignty to BioPolitics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6242 - Experiment and Survey Design
• GOVT 6251 - [Political Parties in the U.S.]
• GOVT 6263 - [Comparative Political Economy]
• GOVT 6273 - [War & The State in Comparative Perspective]
• GOVT 6293 - [Comparative Urbanization]
• GOVT 6294 - Parties, Populism and Movements
• GOVT 6303 - Comparative Political Economy and Global Debates (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6304 - [Historical Analysis in Comparative Politics]
• GOVT 6313 - [Parties and Political Representation]
• GOVT 6324 - Proseminar in Chinese Politics
• GOVT 6353 - Field Seminar in Comparative Politics
• GOVT 6384 - The Asian Century: The Rise of China and India (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6414 - [European Political & Economic Development]
• GOVT 6424 - [The Theory & Practice of Democratic Politics in Africa]
• GOVT 6433 - Quantitative Text Analysis
• GOVT 6461 - Public Opinion
• GOVT 6483 - [Authoritarianism and Democracy]
• GOVT 6494 - [Agrarian Political Economy]
• GOVT 6496 - [Power]
• GOVT 6509 - [Contemporary Readings of the Ancients] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6517 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6566 - Critical Theories of Power
• GOVT 6585 - [American Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6586 - [Schmitt, Strauss, Arendt] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6596 - Theories of Non/Violence (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6603 - [Contentious Politics and Social Movements] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6606 - [The Politics of Pragmatism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6636 - [The Will of the People] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6645 - [Democratic Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6656 - [Topics in Social and Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6676 - Critical Continental Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6696 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6706 - [Marx and Marxisms] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6736 - [Ancient Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6750 - [Gramsci and Cultural Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6765 - [The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6766 - [Pluralism]
• GOVT 6775 - Language and Politics
• GOVT 6776 - [The Problem with Rights] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6785 - Persecution and the Art of Writing (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6786 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6815 - [Political Theory and Aesthetics]
• GOVT 6827 - [China, Tibet and Xinjiang]
• GOVT 6847 - [Realist Theories of International Relations]
• GOVT 6857 - International Political Economy
• GOVT 6867 - [International Law, War, and Human Rights]
• GOVT 6877 - China and Asian Security
• GOVT 6897 - International Security
• GOVT 6927 - [Planning and Management of Agriculture and Rural Development] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6937 - [Going Nuclear: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and Energy]
• GOVT 6946 - Biopolitics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6969 - Research, Writing & Teaching in the Profession
• GOVT 6986 - [Other Feminisms]
• GOVT 6987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 7035 - [Political Economy]
• GOVT 7073 - [Game Theory 1]
• GOVT 7074 - [Game Theory 2]
• GOVT 7274 - Civil War
• GOVT 7937 - Proseminar in Peace Studies (crosslisted)
• GOVT 7999 - Independent Study