Discusses advanced topics in game theory and general equilibrium. Prereqs., ECON 7010 and ECON 7030 and ECON 7818 and ECON 7828. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Comprehensively examines literature and selected research topics concerning the United States Congress. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
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. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides systematic treatment of theories, concepts, and data addressing the conditions and processes of international conflict, violence, and stability, with attention to historical and contemporary cases. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Develops competence in engaging formal theories of politics and in constructing and solving basic game-theoretic models of political behavior. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Explores diverse approaches to policy choice, change, and learning processes. Overviews literature on policy determinants and typologies, policy subsystems, innovation and diffusion, agenda setting, implementation, problem definition and social construction, policy design, institutional analysis, and policy and democratic values. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Studies special topics in romantic, Victorian, modern and postmodern writing. Topics will vary. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to English (ENGL) and English Lit- Creative Writing (CRWR) graduate students only.
Explores the political aspects of pluralism, ethnonationalism, separatism, and related phenomena. Examines theories of ethnic mobilization, conflict,and accommodation in the context of political development and nation building. Includes cross-polity comparisons and case studies of multiethnic societies in the developed and developing world. Recommended prereq., at least one course in comparative politics. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces students to debates about the role of institutions, particularly but not exclusively legal institutions, in placing limits on the state and fostering the rule of law. What is law? Why do courts exist and what is their role in the state? What institutions are necessary to establish the rule of law? Why are institutions successful in some contexts and not others? Considers these questions by surveying classic and current research from American and comparative politics literatures on topics such as judicial independence, credible commitments, separation of powers and constitutional design. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces graduate students to concepts, theories, and data used to study the global system from a political-economic framework. Examines world systems analysis, regime change theory, and dependency theory with respect to operation of the exchange and power relationship within the contemporary world system. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces students to research design, with a subsequent focus on professional development. Students learn about different styles of research, central methodological points surrounding (and differentiating) these styles, and standards for evaluating research, regardless of approach or content. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides intensive experience with quantitative techniques commonly employed in political science research, covering basic inferential and descriptive statistics through multiple regression. Students undertake substantive research projects, requiring lab instruction in the use of the computer in quantitative applications of political science research. Requisites: Restricted to Political Science (PSCI) graduate students only.
Examines theoretical and empirical research on American social movements. Emphasizes the role of movements as political actors and their ability to bring about changes in public policy and national political institutions. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Provides advanced training in the statistical modeling of political relationships. Focuses on the properties and assumptions of the ordinary least squares regression model, building on material covered in PSCI 7085: Introduction to Political Science Data Analysis. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of PSCI 7085 (minimum grade B-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Covers dynamical systems defined by mappings and differential equations. Hamiltonian mechanics, action-angle variables, results from KAM and bifurcation theory, phase plane analysis, Melnikov theory, strange attractors, chaos, etc. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of APPM 5460 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces the process of discovering structure of a language from data obtained directly from its speakers. Emphasizes effectiveness in the field context, rapid recognition of structural features,and preliminary formulation using computational tools. Department enforced prereqs., LING 5410 and LING 5420.
Student and faculty discussions and reports on research advances in chromatography, trace analysis,and environmental chemistry. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Advanced seminar dealing with different specialized topics in neuroscience. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of NRSC 5110 (minimum grade D-).
Intensive study of selected topics in behavioral genetics. Emphasizes recent research. Attention to both human and animal studies. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Instructor consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Various topics not normally offered in the curriculum. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Topics vary. Emphasis is on gaining expertise in using archaeological reports in tandem with (or contradiction to) textual sources, on reading and using critical theory, on improving analytical skills and discussion, and on honing discussion leadership abilities. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours providing the topics are different. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Discusses the concepts and methods that inform the field of Atlantic history in the early modern era. Readings and research papers explore the interactions of peoples from Europe, Africa, and the Americas, including the exchange of ideas, peoples, commodities, and cultural practices. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Student and faculty discussions and reports on research advances in electrochemistry. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department consent required. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Intensive examination of the structure and rules of different political institutions in the United States. Explores both the changing approaches to the study of American political institutions as well as many ofthe major research topics on the presidency, Congress, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
