Courses

    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Examines West European politics in terms of general theories of comparative politics, including institutional, behavioral and political economy approaches. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Allows for intensive research in and presentation of selected topics. Introduces students to the broad context within which political ideas arise. Deals with classical and modern thought. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours for different topics. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    First of two courses designed to prepare graduate teachers in the essentials of political science teaching and provide a background in theories of political science teaching and practical skills development in discipline-specific education. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Core field seminar for students of American politics. Course work emphasizes the diversity of contemporary research on American political history, political institutions, and political behavior. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Discusses current literature on comparative politics including theoretical and methodological issues. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

    Reviews salient literature on international relations, and subsequent presentation and critical discussion of analytical studies. Allows students wide latitude in substantive and methodological approaches. Emphasizes changing trends and efforts to understand the bases for cooperation and conflict. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

    Provides an introduction to the policy sciences as a distinctive tradition within the policy field. Emphasizes the use of conceptual tools to improve analysis of complex problems. Teaches problem solving framework that students apply to an issue of their choice. Same as ENVS 5710. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Examines in depth the theoretical and empirical literature assessing the political situation and activities of Latinos (Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and others) in the U.S. Stresses original research. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

    Covers domestic political and economic development in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, as well as interactions with the global economy. Includes defining, explaining, and prescribing policies for successful development, and comparing the experiences of developing and industrialized countries. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

    Examines sources of foreign policy in terms of international pressures, economic interests, bureaucratic politics, cognitive process, public opinion, elections, congress, and presidential leadership. Examines uses and limitations of economic statecraft, military intervention, and current foreign policy issues. Recommended prereq., PSCI 7013.

    Familiarizes students with selected political philosophies or theories in classical or modern political thought. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours for different topics.

    Teaches basic problem solving framework for policy analysis. Emphasizes applications to develop policy recommendations for issues selected by students. Includes group projects. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Same as ENVS 5720.

    Second course designed to train graduate teachers in the essentials of political science teaching and provide a background in theories of political science teaching and practical skills development in discipline specific education. Prereqs., PSCI 7008, and graduate standing in political science or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Provides an intensive examination of topics in political attitudes and behavior such as political participation, ideology, voting, and elite behavior. Reviews methodology of behavioral research and introduces ICPSR data archive and computer-based research. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

    Stresses intensive study of the political process in Latin America with special emphasis on democratization. Restricted to graduate students orinstructor consent required.

    Provides policy sciences frameworks for analyzing policy processes and designing political strategies to influence those processes in the direction of the preferred alternative. Emphasizes applications to problems selected by students for term projects. Same as ENVS 5730. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Studies selected problems concerning administration and operation of public international organizations, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies. Considers decision making, executive leadership, internal organization, personnel policies, coordination of activities, and financing. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

    Focuses on formulation, revision, and outcomes of public policy in American urban communities. Also uses some comparative Canadian and European literature. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

    Comprehensively examines literature and selected research topics concerning the United States Congress. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

    Examine differences between democracies and authoritarian regimes; the choices and the consequences of democratic institutions in authoritarian regimes; and the causes of authoritarian survival and demise and the subsequent political choice. Recommended prereq., PSCI 7012. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

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