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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 - [From Samurai to Superpower: Japan in World History II] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 1817 - Making Sense of World Politics
• 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 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 2847 - The Cultural and Political History of Modern Afghanistan
• 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 3071 - Enduring Global and American Issues (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3087 - International Human Rights Law and Advocacy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3091 - Science in American Politics (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 3131 - The Nature, Functions, and Limits of Law (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3141 - Prisons (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 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 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 3443 - [Southeast Asian Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3494 - Special Topics in Regional Development and Globalization (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3512 - United We Stand - Divided We Fall: The Rise of Polarization and Social Division - and What it Means (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3547 - [WIM: America, Business and International Political 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 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 3636 - Introduction to Critical Theory (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 3745 - Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3785 - Civil Disobedience (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3786 - [What is a People? The Social Contract and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3796 - Freedom
• 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 (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3938 - Legislative Agenda (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3947 - Race and World Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3948 - Organization of Today’s Congress (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3958 - CIW Inside Congress (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3967 - [What is China?] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3977 - [History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3987 - Governing the Global Economy
• 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 4037 - Making Sense of China: The Capstone Seminar (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 4246 - Psychoanalysis and Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4264 - [Social Movements in Latin America] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4279 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4283 - Latino Politics as Racial Politics (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 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 4998 - Experiential Learning in Policy Making in Washington DC (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 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, Movements, and Populism: Crises of Democractic Representation]
• 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 6375 - German Critical Theory and American Radical Thought (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 6512 - United We Stand - Divided We Fall: The Rise of Polarization and Social Division - and What it Means (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6517 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6525 - [Contemporary Political Theory and Its Histories]
• GOVT 6585 - [American Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6594 - Comparative Political Behavior
• GOVT 6596 - [Violence, Power, and Nonviolence] (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 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 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 6836 - Gandhi’s Politics
• GOVT 6837 - International Organizations
• GOVT 6856 - [The Politics of Affect]
• 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 6885 - Race, Empire, and Worldmaking (crosslisted)
• 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 6995 - Trans Theory and Politics Across the Americas (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6998 - Experiential Learning in Policy Making in Washington, DC (crosslisted)
• 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