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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 Modern Political Theory (crosslisted)
• GOVT 1817 - Introduction to International Relations
• GOVT 1827 - WIM Section: Introduction to International Relations
• GOVT 1901 - Discussions of Justice (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2002 - [Creating Contemporary Cornell] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2225 - Controversies About Inequality (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2284 - [Capitalism in China] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2432 - Moral Dilemmas in the Law (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2583 - Environmental Issues in the Contemporary Middle East (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2604 - Obama and the Meaning of Race (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2605 - [Social and Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2623 - History and Politics of the Modern and Contemporary Middle East (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2673 - The History and Politics of Modern Egypt (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2676 - Periclean Athens (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2716 - Politics of Violence in Twentieth Century Europe (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2747 - History of the Modern Middle East: Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2947 - [Global Thinking] (crosslisted)
• 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 3021 - Social Movements in American Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3022 - [Terrorism]
• GOVT 3032 - Politics of Public Policy in the U.S.
• GOVT 3044 - [China’s Next Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3052 - Intro to the Structure & System of American Law
• GOVT 3071 - Introduction to Public Policy
• GOVT 3082 - American Political Campaigns (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3091 - Science in the American Polity, 1960 to Now (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3111 - [Urban Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3112 - Congress and the Legislative Process
• 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 3161 - The American Presidency (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3171 - [Campaigns and Elections] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3181 - [U.S. Congress] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3189 - [Taking America’s Pulse: Creating and Conducting a National Opinion Poll] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3191 - [Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S.] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3202 - [The U.S. Supreme Court and Crime] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3212 - [Public Opinion and Representation]
• GOVT 3241 - [Inequality and American Democracy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3262 - [Authoritarian Regimes]
• GOVT 3264 - [National Security in the Middle East]
• GOVT 3273 - [Politics and Markets]
• GOVT 3274 - Game Theory and Politics
• GOVT 3281 - Constitutional Politics: The U.S. Supreme Court (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3283 - [Russian Politics]
• GOVT 3293 - [Comparative Politics of Latin America] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3303 - Politics of the Global North (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3313 - [Middle Eastern Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3323 - Modern European Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3344 - [Islamic Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3353 - [African Politics]
• GOVT 3363 - [Postcommunist Transitions]
• GOVT 3364 - Comparative European Politics
• GOVT 3401 - Migrant Families in Detention: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3403 - China Under Revolution and Reform (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3413 - [Modern European Society and Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3434 - Chinese Empire and the Cambodian Experience (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3437 - [Politics of the European Union]
• GOVT 3443 - Southeast Asian Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3463 - [Modern Japanese Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3503 - [Becoming a China Hand] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3537 - Zionism and Its Discontents (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3547 - U.S. Primacy Challenged: IPE (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3549 - [Capitalism, Competition, and Conflict in the Global Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3553 - Issues Behind the News
• GOVT 3557 - [U.S. Primacy Challenged: CPE] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3570 - [The Average Man] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3605 - [Ideology]
• GOVT 3606 - [Homo Oeconomicus] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3625 - Modern Political Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3626 - [Introduction to Early History of Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3633 - [Politics and Culture] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3635 - [Human Rights and Global Justice] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3636 - Introduction to Critical Theory (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3646 - [The History of the Present] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3655 - Politics and Literature (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3665 - [American Political Thought from Madison to Malcolm X] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3675 - Democracy and its Discontents (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3687 - The US and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3705 - [Political Theory and Cinema] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3706 - [Political Economy of Drug Violence]
• GOVT 3725 - [Ideology 2: Contemporary Continental Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3726 - [Revolution] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3735 - [Political Freedom] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3765 - [Gender, Liberalism, and Postcolonial Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3766 - [Multicultural Israel] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3785 - [Civil Obedience]
• GOVT 3809 - Politics of ‘70s Films (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3827 - China and the World (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3837 - The Cold War (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3847 - [Weapons of Mass Destruction]
• GOVT 3857 - [American Foreign Policy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3867 - The Causes of War
• GOVT 3877 - Nuclear Security in a Changing World
• GOVT 3897 - [Human Rights at War]
• GOVT 3898 - International Law
• GOVT 3927 - [Understanding Israeli-Lebanese Relations] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3937 - [Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies]
• GOVT 3944 - [Comparative Foreign Policy]
• GOVT 3957 - [New Forces in International Politics]
• GOVT 3967 - China Transnationalized (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3977 - History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3988 - [Democracy, Dictatorships & US Foreign Policy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3990 - Puzzle Solving with Data
• GOVT 3999 - [How Do You Know That?]
• GOVT 4000 - Major Seminar
• GOVT 4015 - Existentialism or Marxism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4019 - Introductory Probability and Applied Statistics
• GOVT 4021 - American Conservative Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4032 - Immigration and Politics Research Seminar (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4041 - [American Political Development in the Twentieth Century] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4061 - [Politics of Slow-Moving Crisis] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4092 - [Persuasive Politics]
• GOVT 4102 - [Urban Ecology and Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4112 - [The Politics of Change] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4142 - [Causes and Consequences of U.S. Foreign Policy] (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 4241 - [Contemporary American Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4264 - Social Movements in Latin America (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4274 - [Politics of Energy and Natural Resources]
• GOVT 4279 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4281 - [Government and Public Policy: An Introduction to Analysis and Criticism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4283 - Latino Politics as Racial Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4291 - [Politics of Science] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4293 - Comparative Urbanization
• GOVT 4303 - The GMO Debate: Science and Society (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4339 - [Nationalism(s) in Arab World] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4353 - [The Political Development of Western Europe]
• GOVT 4354 - [Comparative Political Economy of Advanced Industrialized States]
• GOVT 4367 - Geopolitics on Ice: Technology, Resources, and War in the Polar Regions (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4374 - [States and Societies in the Middle East] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4403 - [War and the State in Comparative Perspective]
• GOVT 4414 - Politics, Violence, and the Study of Cambodia (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4424 - [The Theory & Practice of Democratic Politics in Africa]
• GOVT 4435 - [Education, Social Justice, and the Law] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4496 - [Power]
• GOVT 4574 - [Comparative Political Theorizing] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4578 - [Critical Race Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4585 - [American Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4603 - Politics and Social Change in Southern Africa (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4605 - [Theoretical Approaches to Ideology]
• GOVT 4606 - Politics and Social Change in the Caribbean (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4615 - [Islamic Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4616 - [Interpreting Race and Racism: DuBois] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4625 - [Sexuality and the Law] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4635 - [Feminist Theory/Law and Society] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4636 - [The Will of the People] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4646 - [Derrida and the Philosophy of Hospitality]
• GOVT 4655 - Topics in Social and Political Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4665 - [Islamism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4696 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4705 - [Contemporary Readings of the Ancients] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4706 - The Black Trans-Atlantic (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4726 - [Punitive Society]
• GOVT 4735 - Marx, Freud, Nietzsche (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4769 - [Spinoza and the New Spinozism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4786 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4796 - [Justice and Equality]
• GOVT 4805 - [Race & Racism/Law & Society] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4807 - [Social Studies of Space, Technologies and Borders] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4817 - [International Law and Conflict]
• GOVT 4819 - [Human Rights and Governments]
• GOVT 4827 - China, Tibet and Xinjiang (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4847 - Realist Theories of International Relations
• GOVT 4867 - Through the Prison Threshold (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4877 - Asian Security (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4888 - [Normative Issues in International Relations] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4917 - [Ethics in International Relations]
• GOVT 4937 - [Going Nuclear: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and Energy]
• GOVT 4949 - Honors Seminar: Thesis Clarification and Research
• GOVT 4959 - Honors Thesis: Research and Writing
• GOVT 4987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 4998 - Politics and Policy: Theory, Research, and Practice (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4999 - Undergraduate Independent Study
• GOVT 6011 - [The American State] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6019 - Introduction to Probability and Applied Statistics
• GOVT 6022 - Racial and Ethnic Politics in the U.S. (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6029 - Advanced Regression Analysis
• GOVT 6021 - [Poverty & Social Policy]
• GOVT 6031 - Field Seminar in American Politics
• GOVT 6039 - Advanced Topics in Quantitative Empirical Methodology
• GOVT 6045 - Law and Literature (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6049 - [Categorical & Count Data]
• GOVT 6053 - Comparative Method in International and Comparative Politics
• GOVT 6059 - [Panel & Multilevel Data]
• GOVT 6067 - Field Seminar in International Relations
• GOVT 6072 - [Immigration and Immigrant Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6075 - [Field Seminar in Political Thought]
• GOVT 6092 - [Qualitative Methods]
• GOVT 6101 - [Politics, Groups and Identities] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6102 - [Urban Ecology and Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6121 - American Political Development (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6122 - [Foundations of the Social Sciences] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6132 - [The Politics of Inequality in the United States]
• GOVT 6142 - [Causes and Consequences of U.S. Foreign Policy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6151 - [State and Economy in Comparative Perspective]
• GOVT 6171 - [Politics of Public Policy]
• GOVT 6182 - [Political Communication]
• GOVT 6201 - [The United States Congress] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6202 - Political Culture (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6215 - Michel Foucault: Sovereignty to BioPolitics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6222 - [Political Participation]
• GOVT 6242 - Experiment and Survey Design
• GOVT 6251 - Political Parties in the U.S.
• GOVT 6263 - [Comparative Political Economy]
• GOVT 6264 - [Social Movements in Latin America] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6273 - [War & The State in Comparative Perspective]
• GOVT 6274 - [People, Markets, and Democracy]
• GOVT 6291 - [Contemporary American Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6293 - Comparative Urbanization
• GOVT 6294 - Parties, Populism and Movements
• GOVT 6301 - [Institutions] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6303 - Comparative Political Economy and Global Debates (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6304 - Historical Analysis in Comparative Politics
• GOVT 6313 - [Parties and Political Representation]
• GOVT 6324 - [Proseminar in Chinese Politics]
• GOVT 6334 - [Political Economy of Development]
• GOVT 6353 - Field Seminar in Comparative Politics
• GOVT 6373 - [Seminar in Political Violence]
• GOVT 6403 - [Comparative Political Behavior]
• GOVT 6413 - Comparative Labor Movements: Europe and the United States (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6414 - [European Political & Economic Development]
• GOVT 6424 - [The Theory & Practice of Democratic Politics in Africa]
• GOVT 6434 - [Comparative Authoritarianism]
• GOVT 6454 - [The Politics of Immigration] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6461 - [Public Opinion]
• GOVT 6483 - [Authoritarianism and Democracy]
• GOVT 6494 - [Agrarian Political Economy]
• GOVT 6496 - [Power]
• GOVT 6509 - [Contemporary Readings of the Ancients] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6523 - [Methods for Field Research]
• GOVT 6524 - [GIS and Spatial Aspects of Politics]
• GOVT 6544 - [Gender and Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6564 - [Comparative Political Representation]
• GOVT 6574 - [Comparative Political Theorizing] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6578 - [Critical Race Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6585 - American Political Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6596 - Nonviolence and Political Theory (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6603 - [Contentious Politics and Social Movements] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6605 - [Theoretical Approaches to Ideology] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6606 - [The Politics of Pragmatism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6626 - [Feminist Theory/Law & Society] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6635 - [Education, Social Justice, and the Law] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6636 - [The Will of the People] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6645 - [Democratic Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6646 - [Ethical Idioms in Political Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6656 - Topics in Social and Political Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6665 - [Media Theory: Film and Photograph] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6675 - [Derrida and the Philosophy of Hospitality]
• GOVT 6676 - Critical Continental Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6686 - [Revolution and Counter-Revolution]
• GOVT 6696 - [Melancholy Left: Marx to Benjamin] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6706 - [Marx and Marxisms] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6726 - [Psychoanalysis and Ideology]
• GOVT 6736 - Ancient Political Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6750 - Gramsci and Cultural Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6765 - [The Critical Theory of Jurgen Habermas] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6766 - [Pluralism]
• GOVT 6775 - [Language and Politics]
• GOVT 6776 - [The Problem with Rights] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6779 - [Cosmopolitanism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6786 - [The Holocaust in Postwar Culture (1945-1961)] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6796 - [Justice and Equality] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6805 - [Race & Racism/Law & Society] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6806 - Neoliberalism, Marx, Foucault
• GOVT 6807 - [Topics in Comparative and International Political Economy]
• GOVT 6815 - Political Theory and Aesthetics
• GOVT 6827 - China, Tibet, and Xinjiang
• GOVT 6847 - Realist Theories of International Relations
• GOVT 6857 - International Political Economy
• GOVT 6867 - International Law, War, and Human Rights
• GOVT 6877 - Asian Security
• GOVT 6897 - International Security
• GOVT 6917 - [Normative Issues in International Relations] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6927 - [Planning and Management of Agriculture and Rural Development] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6937 - [Going Nuclear: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons and Energy]
• GOVT 6987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 7073 - Game Theory 1
• GOVT 7074 - Game Theory 2
• GOVT 7281 - [Government and Public Policy: An Introduction to Analysis and Criticism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 7606 - [Jurisprudence and Normative Political Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 7625 - [Sexuality and the Law] (crosslisted)