PS 801: Research and Writing Seminar
Course Description: Intended for PhD students in political science to develop a seminar or conference paper into a publishable journal article. Emphasis on editing, revising, and peer feedback
Pre-reqs: Enrollment in Political Science Ph.D. program
PS 821: Mass Political Behavior
Course Description: An empirical analysis of the role of mass publics in political life and the factors which determine the formation and expression of political beliefs and attitudes.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 823: Political Psychology
Course Description: The relationship between psychological processes and political thinking and behavior.
Topics may include the development and functioning of mass and elite level ideology and behavior, political communication, decision-making, perception, and the impact of political experiences on psychological states and processes.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 825: Race and Politics in the United States
Course Description: Analysis of the role of race, class and ethnicity in the political process. Evaluation of theories from political science, economics and sociology. Topics may include policy analysis, political organizations, immigration, political behavior and culture.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 826: The Legislative Process
Course Description: Analysis of legislative process and the role of the legislature in the political system, emphasizing current research.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 827: Interest Groups in American Politics
Course Description: The formation, structure, activities and power of interest groups in the United States with comparisons to interest groups in other countries.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 829: Political Communication
Course Description: This course examines the role of communication in American politics. Topics covered include the communication of politics (e.g., communication by politics elites, effects of mass media and interpersonal communication on political attitudes) as well as the politics of communications (regulation of political communication, policy issues, etc.).
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 830: Constitutional Theory
Course Description: A review of a variety of modern approaches to constitutionalism and its challenges from a theoretical and comparative perspective.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 831: Concepts in Political Theory
Course Description: Studies in normative, analytical, or historical thought about politics
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 833: Topics in Ancient Political Thought
Course Description: Considers varied topics in Greek, Roman, early Christian and Medieval political theory; topics in non-Western ancient and medieval thought may also be offered.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 835: Game Theory and Political Analysis
Course Description: An introduction to the tools of game theoretic analysis, with reference to the use of game theory in political science. Intended for those desiring a basic familiarity with the theory, and for those planning further work in formal modeling.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 840: Comparative Political Economy
Course Description: Survey of field of comparative political economy and in-depth study of political economy of democratic and non-democratic capitalist systems. Key themes include: business and labor relations, globalization and its impact on domestic political economies, rise of emergent powers.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 853: Comparative Political Institutions
Course Description: Comparative theoretical and empirical analysis of political institutions, including electoral systems, legislatures, executives, executive-legislative relationships, political parties, party systems, federalism, economic governance, and link between institutions and internationalization.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 855: Politics and Culture in Comparative Perspective
Course Description: Scholarly approaches linking cultural phenomena. Both theoretical and empirical patterns of politics and culture in several regions. The course also explores systematic linkages between politics and culture, evaluates common ways of studying them, and assesses their contemporary importance.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 860: Authoritarianism and Its Aftermath
Course Description: Analysis of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes: how and why they came about, what sustains them, the reasons they fall, and what comes after.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 861: Challenges of Democratization
Course Description: Explores the problems of crafting democracies in the broadest comparative perspectives to comprehend the benefit of democracy. Covers democratic drafting in terms of center/federalism, president/parliament, voting systems, party systems, civilian control of the military, etc.; as these relate to particulars of religion, region, language and other communalist identity.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 862: State and Society in Comparative Perspective
Course Description: Reviews a range of approaches that focus on civil society, social movements, ethnic and religious based mobilization, as well as gender and class based approaches to state-society relations.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 863: The Judicial Process
Course Description: Describes and evaluates major approaches used in political science. Explores issues related to professional development and political science careers.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 864: International Political Economy
Course Description: Analysis of key classical and contemporary theories in international political economy.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 865: The Supreme Court and the Constitution in American Politics
Course Description: Analysis of the development of major constitutional doctrines and their impact on politics and public policy in the United States.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 872: Institutional Policy Analysis
Course Description: Analyzes public policy on how political institutions should be structured. Reforms of different branches of government are assessed through empirical research..
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 873: American Political Parties
Course Description: Reviews major approaches to analyzing political parties and understanding their developmental changes. Examines the parties in operation and the relationship of parties to the state and society.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 874: Policy-Making Process
Course Description: An intensive study of policy-making processes involved in the formulation of public policies.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 881: American Political Development
Course Description: Examination of critical transformations in the structure and activities of the U.S. national state; political models of economic development; periodization versus non-periodization approaches; topics include liberalism and republicanism, southern exceptionalism, labor, race, populism, war and statebuilding; construction of the corporate economy.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 931: Seminar-Political Theory
Course Description: Analysis of and research on problems of theorizing in and about political life. Topics will vary.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 932: Seminar-Political Theory
Course Description: Analysis of and research on problems of theorizing in and about political life. Topics will vary.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 949: Seminar-Post Communist Politics
Course Description: Comparative study of political processes in the fomer Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe states, focusing on the transition from and the continuing legacies of the communist experience; methodological issues in the study of post-communist politics.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 954: Seminar-Revolution and Violence
Course Description: Investigation of theories and case studies of the causes, methods, processes, and consequences of revolutionary movements and violent change.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 979: Seminar-Administration in Developing Countries
Course Description: Special problems of developmental administration in nations newly organizing modern bureaucracies and public services.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
PS 981: Seminar in the Analysis of Western Europe
Course Description: Focus on a topic of comparative interest to historians, political scientists, and sociologists to provide opportunity to integrate the various perspectives for a more complete analysis.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student and consent of instructor
No comments:
Post a Comment