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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 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 - [Political Violence]
• GOVT 2284 - [Capitalism in China] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2293 - Politics and Music
• GOVT 2432 - [Moral Dilemmas in the Law] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2523 - [Islamophobia and Judeophobia] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2553 - Inside Europe
• 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 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 - Enduring Global and American Issues (crosslisted)
• 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 3121 - Crime and Punishment (crosslisted)
• 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 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 3242 - Down the School to Prison Track, and Back (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 3294 - Post-Truth Politics
• GOVT 3303 - [Politics of the Global North] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3323 - Modern European Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3353 - African Politics
• GOVT 3354 - Transformation of Socialist Societies (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 3434 - [Chinese Empire and the Cambodian Experience] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3443 - Southeast Asian Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3503 - Becoming a China Hand (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3547 - [America, Business and International Political Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3549 - [Capitalism, Competition, and Conflict in the Global Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3557 - [U.S. Exceptionalism Questioned: Comparative Political Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3605 - [Ideology]
• GOVT 3606 - Fables of Capitalism (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 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 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 3867 - War: Causes and Conduct
• GOVT 3877 - [Nuclear Security in a Changing World]
• GOVT 3887 - Int’l Human Rights in Theory & Practice
• GOVT 3897 - [Human Rights at War]
• GOVT 3967 - [What is China?] (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 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 4293 - [Comparative Urbanization]
• GOVT 4365 - [Ethnonational Communities and Conflicts]
• 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 4451 - Making Science Policy: The Real World (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4496 - [Power]
• GOVT 4543 - Fascism, Nationalism and Populism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3566 - Critical Theories of Power
• GOVT 4585 - [American Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4595 - [Academe, Work, Politics]
• GOVT 4626 - Disobedience, Resistance, Refusal (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4645 - Recognition, Abjection, and State Ideology (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4655 - Topics in Social and Political Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4705 - [Contemporary Readings of the Ancients] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4706 - [The Black Trans-Atlantic] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4723 - Peace Building in Conflict Regions: Case Studies Sub-Saharan Africa Israel Palestinian Territories (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 - Space, Territory, Politics
• GOVT 4827 - [China, Tibet and Xinjiang] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4846 - Equality
• GOVT 4847 - [Realist Theories of International Relations]
• GOVT 4877 - [China and Asian Security] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4949 - Honors Seminar: Thesis Clarification and Research
• GOVT 4959 - Honors Thesis: Research and Writing
• GOVT 4986 - Other Feminisms
• GOVT 4987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 4998 - Inquiry in Politics and Policy (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 6109 - Field Methods
• 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 6246 - Psychoanalysis and Historical Transmission (crosslisted)
• 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 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 6424 - [The Theory & Practice of Democratic Politics in Africa]
• GOVT 6426 - [Contemporaries Read Ancients]
• GOVT 6433 - Quantitative Text Analysis
• GOVT 6461 - [Public Opinion]
• GOVT 6483 - Authoritarianism and Democracy
• GOVT 6496 - [Power]
• GOVT 6517 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6525 - Contemporary Political Theory & Its Histories
• 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 6645 - [Democratic Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6656 - Topics in Social and Political Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6676 - [Critical Continental Thought] (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 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 6845 - Recognition, Abjection, and State Ideology (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6846 - Equality
• 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 6986 - Other Feminisms
• GOVT 6987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• 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