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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 2006 - Prison Literature: Race, Carcerality, and Abolition (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2011 - September 11 and the Politics of Memory (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2012 - Crime and Policing
• GOVT 2063 - African Union Agenda 2063 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (crosslisted)
• 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 2294 - [Politics of Climate Change]
• GOVT 2432 - [Moral Dilemmas in the Law] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2523 - Judeophobia, Islamophobia, Racism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2545 - [Zionism and Its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2553 - Inside Europe
• GOVT 2605 - Social and Political Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2635 - Twentieth Century Political Theory
• GOVT 2665 - American Political Thought (crosslisted)
• 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 3092 - Strategic Advocacy: Lobbying and Interest Group Politics in Washington, D.C. (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 3211 - The Whites are Here to Stay: US-Africa Policy from Nixon to Date (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3212 - [Public Opinion and Representation]
• GOVT 3221 - Political Journalism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3241 - [Inequality and American Democracy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3242 - Reflecting on the Intersections of Education and Prison Systems (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3251 - [Health Equity, Politics and Policy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3253 - [Germany in Europe]
• GOVT 3265 - Power and Freedom: Words, Concepts, Politics
• GOVT 3273 - [Politics and Markets]
• GOVT 3281 - Constitutional Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3282 - Data Science Applications in Political and Social Research
• GOVT 3284 - Global Democracy in Crisis
• 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 3384 - The Asian Century: The Rise of China and India (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3394 - Politics and History of Southern Africa
• 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 3494 - Special Topics in Regional Development and Globalization (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 3583 - Comparative Public Policy: Political Pathways to Equality (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3595 - [Academe, Work, Politics]
• GOVT 3606 - Fables of Capitalism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3613 - Politics of Sustainable Development in Latin America I (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3614 - Politics of Sustainable Development in Latin America II (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3623 - Politics of Sustainable Development in Latin America III (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 3686 - What Makes Us Human? An Existential Journey Amidst Crises
• GOVT 3705 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3715 - Colonialism and Anticolonialism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3726 - [Revolution] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3735 - [Political Freedom] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3736 - [Ancient Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3781 - [Human Rights in Law and Culture] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3785 - [Civil Disobedience] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3786 - [What is a People? The Social Contract and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3805 - Israel on the Edge (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 3947 - Race and World Politics (crosslisted)
• 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 4339 - [Nationalism(s) in the Arab World] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4356 - [Race and Critical Theory] (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 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 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 6091 - Strategic Advocacy: Lobbying and Interest Group Politics in Washington, D.C. (crosslisted)
• 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 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 6443 - Southeast Asian Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6461 - Public Opinion
• GOVT 6766 - [Pluralism]
• 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 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 6686 - [Revolution and Counter-Revolution]
• GOVT 6695 - [Trans Theory and Politics Across the Americas] (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 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 6817 - Rethinking the Liberal International Order
• GOVT 6827 - China, Tibet and Xinjiang
• GOVT 6837 - [International Organizations]
• GOVT 6857 - International Political Economy
• GOVT 6865 - Du Bois and King (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6867 - [International Law, War, and Human Rights]
• GOVT 6875 - Key Works in Political Theory
• GOVT 6877 - China and Asian Security
• GOVT 6897 - [International Security]
• GOVT 6945 - Pleasure and Neoliberalism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6985 - [Feeling Free: Radical Aesthetics and Political Affects] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 6998 - Inquiry into Politics and 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