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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 - The World of Modern Japan (crosslisted)
• GOVT 1817 - Making Sense of World Politics
• GOVT 2041 - Electoral (mal)practice
• 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 2432 - Moral Dilemmas in the Law (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2523 - [Islamophobia and Judeophobia] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2553 - Inside Europe
• GOVT 2605 - [Social and Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2623 - History and Politics of the Modern and Contemporary Middle East (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2665 - [American Political Thought]
• GOVT 2673 - The History and Politics of Modern Egypt (crosslisted)
• GOVT 2817 - America Confronts the World (crosslisted)
• 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
• GOVT 3044 - China’s Next Economy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3052 - Introduction to the Structure and System of American Law
• GOVT 3071 - Enduring Global and American Issues (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3072 - The U.S. Constitution: Crisis, Change and Legitimacy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3082 - [American Political Campaigns] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3091 - [Science in the American Polity, 1960 to Now] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3112 - [Congress and the Legislative Process] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3121 - Crime and Punishment (crosslisted)
• 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 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 3192 - [Reflecting on the Prison Classroom] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3212 - [Public Opinion and Representation]
• GOVT 3241 - [Inequality and American Democracy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3251 - [Health Equity, Politics and Policy]
• GOVT 3273 - [Politics and Markets]
• GOVT 3281 - Constitutional Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3284 - Populism, Democracy and Authoritarianism
• 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]
• GOVT 3323 - Modern European Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3353 - African Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3354 - Transformation of Socialist Societies (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3384 - The Asian Century: The Rise of China and India (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3401 - Refugees and the Politics of Vulnerability: Intersections of Feminist Theory and Practice (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3431 - American Impeachment (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3437 - Politics of the European Union
• GOVT 3443 - Southeast Asian Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3547 - [WIM: America, Business and International Political Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3549 - [Capitalism, Competition, and Conflict in the Global Economy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3553 - [Issues Behind the News]
• GOVT 3557 - Exceptionalism Questioned: America and Europe (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3566 - [Critical Theories of Power]
• GOVT 3595 - [Academe, Work, Politics]
• GOVT 3605 - [Ideology]
• GOVT 3606 - [Fables of Capitalism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3625 - Modern Political Philosophy (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3626 - [Introduction to Early History of Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3633 - Politics and Culture (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3636 - [Introduction to Critical Theory] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3655 - [Politics and Literature] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3675 - [Democracy and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3683 - Comparative Corruption (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3686 - What Makes Us Human? An Existential Journey amidst Crises
• GOVT 3705 - Political Theory and Cinema (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3715 - Colonialism and Postcolonialism
• GOVT 3726 - [Revolution] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3735 - [Political Freedom] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3736 - [Ancient Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3785 - Civil Disobedience (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3786 - [What is a People? The Social Contract and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3805 - Israeli Politics (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3827 - China and the World (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3837 - WIM: The Cold War (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3867 - War: Causes and Conduct
• GOVT 3877 - [Nuclear Security in a Changing World]
• GOVT 3887 - International Human Rights in Theory and Practice
• GOVT 3967 - [What is China?] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 3977 - [History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict] (crosslisted)
• 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 or Marxism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4019 - Introductory Probability and Applied Statistics
• GOVT 4021 - American Conservative Thought (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4022 - Politics, Media and Popular Culture
• GOVT 4032 - [Immigration and Politics Research Seminar] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4037 - Making Sense of China: The Capstone Seminar (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4051 - The Postmodern Presidency: Election 2020 (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4092 - [Persuasive Politics]
• GOVT 4112 - [The Politics of Change] (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 4264 - Social Movements in Latin America (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4265 - [Postcolonial Theory]
• GOVT 4279 - [The Animal] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4283 - [Latino Politics as Racial Politics] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4293 - [Comparative Urbanization]
• GOVT 4339 - [Nationalism(s) in the Arab World] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4356 - Race and Critical Theory (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4365 - From Existential Conflict to Coexistence? The Case of Israel-Palestine (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4403 - [War and the State in Comparative Perspective]
• GOVT 4424 - [The Theory and Practice of Democratic Politics in Africa]
• GOVT 4451 - Making Science Policy: The Real World (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4496 - [Power]
• GOVT 4503 - Becoming a China Hand (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4543 - Fascism, Nationalism and Populism (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4655 - [Topics in Social and Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4723 - Peace Building in Conflict Regions: Case Studies Sub-Saharan Africa Israel Palestinian Territories (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4726 - [Punitive Society] (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 4827 - China, Tibet and Xinjiang (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4846 - Making Equality (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4877 - [China and Asian Security] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 4949 - Honors Seminar: Thesis Clarification and Research
• GOVT 4959 - Honors Thesis: Research and Writing
• GOVT 4987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 4998 - Inquiry in Politics and Policy (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 6039 - [Advanced Topics in Quantitative Empirical Methodology]
• GOVT 6045 - [Law and Literature] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6049 - [Categorical and Count Data]
• GOVT 6053 - Comparative Method in International and Comparative Politics
• GOVT 6059 - Panel and Multilevel Data
• GOVT 6067 - Field Seminar in International Relations
• GOVT 6069 - Causal Inference
• GOVT 6075 - Field Seminar in Political Thought
• GOVT 6079 - [Advanced Topics Mini-Course]
• GOVT 6089 - [Time Series Analysis]
• 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 6182 - Political Activism and Organizing
• GOVT 6201 - The United States Congress (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6202 - [Political Culture] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6242 - [Experiment and Survey Design]
• GOVT 6246 - [Psychoanalysis and Historical Transmission] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6251 - [Political Parties in the U.S.]
• GOVT 6263 - [Comparative Political Economy]
• GOVT 6264 - Social Movements in Latin America (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6273 - [War and The State in Comparative Perspective]
• GOVT 6284 - Culture, Religion, and Politics
• GOVT 6293 - [Comparative Urbanization]
• GOVT 6294 - [Parties, Populism and Movements]
• 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 6365 - [Political Theories of Comparison, Creolization, Decolonization]
• 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 6461 - [Public Opinion]
• GOVT 6483 - Authoritarianism and Democracy
• GOVT 6495 - The Politics of Critical Theory
• GOVT 6496 - [Power]
• GOVT 6517 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6525 - [Contemporary Political Theory and Its Histories]
• GOVT 6585 - [American Political Thought] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6586 - [Schmitt, Strauss, Arendt] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6593 - HOPE: Human Odyssey to Political Existentialism
• GOVT 6594 - Comparative Political Behavior
• GOVT 6596 - Violence, Power, and Nonviolence (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6603 - [Contentious Politics and Social Movements] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6606 - [The Politics of Pragmatism] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6645 - Democratic Theory (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6656 - [Topics in Social and Political Philosophy] (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6676 - [Critical Continental Thought] (crosslisted)
• 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 6766 - [Pluralism]
• GOVT 6775 - [Language and Politics]
• GOVT 6779 - [Cosmopolitanism and Post-Enlightenment] (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 Ardent]
• GOVT 6827 - China, Tibet and Xinjiang
• GOVT 6846 - Making Equality (crosslisted)
• GOVT 6857 - International Political Economy
• GOVT 6867 - [International Law, War, and Human Rights]
• GOVT 6877 - China and Asian Security
• GOVT 6897 - [International Security]
• GOVT 6977 - [Research in International Relations]
• GOVT 6987 - [Domestic Politics and International Relations]
• GOVT 7073 - Game Theory 1
• GOVT 7074 - [Game Theory 2]
• GOVT 7274 - [Research Seminar in Political Violence]
• GOVT 7937 - Proseminar in Peace Studies (crosslisted)
• GOVT 7999 - Independent Study