Government|

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 2011 - [September 11 and the Politics of Memory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2012 - [Crime and Policing]
• GOVT 2152 - (Im)migration and (Im)migrants: Then and Now (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2169 - [Survey Data in the Information Age] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2225 - Controversies About Inequality (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2264 - Political Violence
• GOVT 2274 - Global Studies Gateway
• GOVT 2283 - [Political Institutions Under Autocrats]
• GOVT 2284 - [Capitalism in China] (crosslisted)
• 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 2747 - [History of the Modern Middle East] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2817 - [America Confronts the World] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2897 - WIM: Human Rights at War
• 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 3032 - Politics of Public Policy in the U.S. (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3042 - The Politics of Technology (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3044 - [China’s Next Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3052 - Introduction to the Structure and System of American Law
• GOVT 3071 - Enduring Global and American Issues (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3072 - The U.S. Constitution: Crisis, Change and Legitimacy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3087 - International Human Rights Law and Advocacy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3091 - [Science in the American Polity, 1960 to Now] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3112 - Congress and the Legislative Process (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3121 - Crime and Punishment (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3122 - Democracy (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 and Policy] (crosslisted)
• 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 3251 - Health Equity, Politics and Policy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3265 - [Power and Freedom: Words, Concepts, Politics]
• GOVT 3273 - Politics and Markets
• GOVT 3281 - Constitutional Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3284 - Populism, Democracy and Authoritarianism: Europe and Beyond
• GOVT 3293 - [Comparative Politics of Latin America] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3294 - Post-Truth Politics
• GOVT 3303 - Politics of the Global North (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3313 - Middle East Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3323 - Western European Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3333 - China-Africa Relations (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3353 - [African Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3354 - Transformation of Socialist Societies (crosslisted)
• 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 3437 - Politics of the European Union
• GOVT 3443 - [Southeast Asian Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3547 - [WIM: 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 - [Exceptionalism Questioned: America and Europe] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3566 - [Critical Theories of Power]
• GOVT 3595 - [Academe, Work, Politics]
• 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 3683 - Comparative Corruption (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3686 - What Makes Us Human? An Existential Journey Amidst Crises
• GOVT 3705 - Political Theory and Cinema (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3715 - Colonialism and Decolonization
• GOVT 3726 - Revolution (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3735 - [Political Freedom] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3736 - [Ancient Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3737 - Human Conflict: From Existential Clash to Coexistence in Israel-Palestine (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3785 - Civil Disobedience (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3786 - What is a People? The Social Contract and its Discontents (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3805 - Israeli Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3827 - China and the World (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3837 - [WIM: The Cold War] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3877 - [Nuclear Security in a Changing World]
• GOVT 3887 - International Human Rights in Theory and Practice
• GOVT 3967 - What is China? (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3977 - [History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3990 - [Puzzle Solving with Data]
• GOVT 3999 - How Do You Know That?
• GOVT 4000 - Major Seminar
• GOVT 4012 - [Labor, Class and Race in American Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4015 - Existentialism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4019 - [Introductory Probability and Applied Statistics]
• GOVT 4021 - American Conservative Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4022 - Politics, Media and Popular Culture
• GOVT 4032 - [Immigration and Politics Research Seminar] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4037 - Making Sense of China: The Capstone Seminar (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4112 - [The Politics of Change] (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 4339 - [Nationalism(s) in the Arab World] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4356 - [Race and Critical Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4365 - [From Existential Conflict to Coexistence? The Case of Israel-Palestine] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4424 - [The Theory and Practice of Democratic Politics in Africa]
• GOVT 4451 - Making Science Policy: The Real World (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4496 - [Power]
• GOVT 4503 - [Becoming a China Hand] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4543 - Fascism, Nationalism and Populism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4655 - [Topics in Social and Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4723 - Peace Building in Conflict Regions: Case Studies Sub-Saharan Africa Israel Palestinian Territories (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4735 - [Marx, Nietzsche, Freud] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4745 - [Humanitarian Affects] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4769 - [Spinoza and the New Spinozism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4786 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4816 - [Space, Territory, Politics]
• GOVT 4827 - China, Tibet and Xinjiang (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4877 - [China and Asian Security] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4949 - Honors Seminar: Thesis Clarification and Research
• GOVT 4959 - Honors Thesis: Research and Writing
• 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 6012 - [Labor, Class and Race in American Politics]
• GOVT 6019 - Introduction to Probability and Applied Statistics
• GOVT 6021 - [Poverty and 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 6045 - Law and Literature (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6053 - Comparative Method in International and Comparative Politics
• GOVT 6067 - [Field Seminar in International Relations]
• GOVT 6075 - [Field Seminar in Political Thought]
• GOVT 6089 - [Time Series Analysis]
• GOVT 6109 - [Field Methods]
• GOVT 6122 - [Foundations of the Social Sciences] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6132 - The Politics of Inequality in the United States
• GOVT 6171 - [Politics of Public Policy]
• GOVT 6201 - [The United States Congress] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6202 - Political Culture (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6215 - Michel Foucault: Sovereignty to BioPolitics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6246 - Psychoanalysis and Historical Transmission (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6251 - [Political Parties in the U.S.]
• GOVT 6263 - [Comparative Political Economy]
• GOVT 6264 - [Social Movements in Latin America] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6273 - War and The State in Comparative Perspective
• GOVT 6284 - Culture, Religion, and Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6293 - [Comparative Urbanization]
• GOVT 6294 - [Parties, Populism and Movements]
• GOVT 6304 - Historical Analysis in Comparative Politics
• GOVT 6313 - [Parties and Political Representation]
• GOVT 6344 - Natural Experiments
• GOVT 6353 - Field Seminar in Comparative Politics
• GOVT 6356 - [Race and Critical Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6365 - Political Theories of Comparison, Creolization, Decolonization (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6384 - [The Asian Century: The Rise of China and India] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6424 - [The Theory and Practice of Democratic Politics in Africa]
• GOVT 6426 - [Contemporaries Read Ancients]
• GOVT 6461 - [Public Opinion]
• GOVT 6483 - [Authoritarianism and Democracy]
• GOVT 6495 - [The Politics of Critical Theory]
• GOVT 6496 - [Power]
• GOVT 6517 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6525 - [Contemporary Political Theory and Its Histories]
• GOVT 6585 - [American Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6586 - [Schmitt, Strauss, Arendt] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6593 - [HOPE: Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism]
• GOVT 6594 - [Comparative Political Behavior]
• GOVT 6596 - [Violence, Power, and Nonviolence] (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 6706 - [Marx and Marxisms] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6736 - [Ancient Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6745 - [Humanitarian Affects] (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 6816 - Hannah Arendt
• GOVT 6827 - China, Tibet and Xinjiang
• GOVT 6857 - [International Political Economy]
• GOVT 6867 - [International Law, War, and Human Rights]
• GOVT 6877 - [China and Asian Security]
• GOVT 6897 - International Security
• GOVT 6977 - [Research in International Relations]
• GOVT 6987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 6998 - Inquiry into Politics & Policy
• GOVT 7073 - [Game Theory I]
• GOVT 7074 - [Game Theory II]
• GOVT 7274 - [Research Seminar in Political Violence]
• GOVT 7777 - Topics in International Relations Research
• GOVT 7937 - Proseminar in Peace Studies (crosslisted)
• GOVT 7999 - Independent Study