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POLITICAL SCIENCE (POLI)POLI 110 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENTShort Title: AP/OTH CREDIT AMER GOVERNMENTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: TransferCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This course provides credit for students who havesuccessfully completed approved examinations, such as AdvancedPlacement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hoursrequired for graduation.

POLI 112 - AP/OTH CREDIT IN COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENTShort Title: AP/OTH CREDIT COMPAR GOVERNMNTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: TransferCredit Hours: 3Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: This course provides credit for students who havesuccessfully completed approved examinations, such as AdvancedPlacement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hoursrequired for graduation.

POLI 209 - INTRODUCTION TO CONSTITUTIONALISM AND MODERNPOLITICAL THOUGHTShort Title: INTRO TO CONST & POLI THOUGHTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Study of constitutionalism and authoritarianism fromMachiavelli to Marx. Includes an introduction to contemporary ideologies.With POLI 210 meets state professional requirements for teachers.

POLI 210 - AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICSShort Title: AMERICAN GOVT AND POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Major topics in American politics: public opinion, grouppolitics, political parties, elections, congressional-presidential-bureaucratic politics, and judicial politics. Together with POLI 209 meetsstate professional requirements for teachers.

POLI 211 - INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: INTRO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An introduction to the study of international relations. Thecourse examines topics including the causes of war, political dimensionsof the international economy, the role of international organizations, andcooperation to address contemporary global challenges.

POLI 212 - INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICSShort Title: INTRO TO COMPARATIVE POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An examination of political institutions and behavior inselected democratic and authoritarian countries. Examples will includewealthy as well as developing countries. One recurring theme will be theconditions under which democracy emerges and survives.

POLI 238 - SPECIAL TOPICSShort Title: SPECIAL TOPICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 1-4Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Topics and credit hours vary each semester. Contactdepartment for current semester's topic(s). Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 250 - SEX, MONEY, AND POWER AROUND THE WORLDShort Title: SEX, MONEY, AND POWERDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: An interdisciplinary course exploring lives and well-beingin the context of gendered international and domestic politics andeconomic processes. Emphasis on the implications of power relations atlevels from the household to the global for women and men around theworld (with particular attention to Asia). Cross-list: ASIA 251, SWGS 250.

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POLI 260 - ADVOCATING FOR IDEAS TO CHANGE THE WORLDShort Title: ADVOCATING FOR CHANGEDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Lower-LevelDescription: Advocating for change is an experiential learning course thatteaches students how to engage in issue advocacy as a method of socialchange. Students work in teams with faculty mentors to develop andimplement an advocacy plan for a particular cause or policy of interest.

POLI 301 - STATE POLITICSShort Title: STATE POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course comparatively examines state governments andpolitical institutions in the U.S. states. We will also focus on how statepolitical institutions and organizations influence the creation, adoption,and implementation of public policy.

POLI 305 - DIRECTED READING IShort Title: DIRECTED READING IDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Independent reading under the supervision of a memberof the department. Open to junior majors in the honors program and toothers in special cases with the permission of the instructor. InstructorPermission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 306 - DIRECTED READING IIShort Title: DIRECTED READING IIDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: See POLI 305. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatablefor Credit.

POLI 307 - POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNSHIP IShort Title: POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNSHIP IDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Internship/PracticumCredit Hours: 2Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course is the in-class component of the political scienceinternship program. Students will read both a common set of materialsand a set that is oriented to their forthcoming internship. A final paper isrequired. Instructor Permission Required.

POLI 308 - POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNSHIP IIShort Title: POLI SCIENCE INTERNSHIP IIDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Internship/PracticumCredit Hours: 1-2Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 307Description: This course is the work component of the political scienceinternship program. Students will be required to submit weekly progressreports and a final portfolio. Instructor Permission Required.

POLI 310 - THE BIOLOGY OF POLIITICSShort Title: THE BIOLOGY OF POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course is an interdisciplinary survey of the role thathuman biology plays in our political behavior. The biology covered rangesfrom genes to neural structures to neuro-chemistry, while the politicalbehavior covered ranges from levels of participation to political beliefs toleft/right ideology.

POLI 315 - ELECTIONS AND VOTING BEHAVIORShort Title: ELECTIONS AND VOTING BEHAVIORDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Exploration of voting behavior and elections. Includesconsideration of both individual level behavior and aggregate levelpatterns of election results.

POLI 317 - THE CONGRESSShort Title: THE CONGRESSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examines the role of Congress in the American politicalsystem. Attention is given to the historical development of Congress,the current status of the Congress, and the functions of Congress in theAmerican political system.

POLI 318 - THE PRESIDENCYShort Title: THE PRESIDENCYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Analysis of presidential powers and behavior in the contextof legal, electoral, personal, and other forces that shape and limit theactions of the President.

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POLI 320 - THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK OF RELIGIOUS TOLERANCEShort Title: LEGAL FRMWK RELI TOLERANCEDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 2Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: The American Constitution embodies a complex experimentin religious tolerance, including the promise of "free exercise of religion"and the prohibition of laws "respecting an establishment of religion."In this class we will primarily seek a critical understanding of ourtolerance-rich legal invocations of religious freedom and addressfundamental issues such as how can we distinguish "religious" actionsand commitments from other morally important beliefs and activities.Cross-list: RELI 320.

POLI 321 - AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAWShort Title: AMER CONSTITUTIONAL LAWDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court.(Juniors and Seniors preferred).

POLI 322 - POLITICS OF INFLUENCE IN THE UNITED STATESShort Title: POLITICS OF INFLUENCE IN USDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: The aim of this course is to acquaint students with themajor influences upon who gets what, when and how from Americangovernment. Major issues (e.g., health care, immigration, agriculture)covered will vary by semester. One component of the course will bedevoted to assessing the impact of money on elections and the policyprocess.

POLI 324 - FROM DECOLONIZATION TO GLOBALIZATIONShort Title: FROM DECOLONI TO GLOBALIZATIONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group ICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Taught in English. Novels, and films, from North andWest Africa, and the immigrant population in France, from 1960to 2010. Emphasis on the tensions between narratives of politicalemancipation, modernity, secularism, and religious fundamentalismand mysticism. Extra reading for graduate students in theories ofcolonialism, postcolonialism, globalization. Cross-list: FREN 324,RELI 476. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Any 200 level course or above inEnglish or French, or HUMA 101 or HUMA 102, or a FWIS course.

POLI 325 - AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICSShort Title: AFRICAN AMERICAN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examination of race in U.S. politics. Includes a discussionof the construction of black identity, historical and contemporary blackpolitical leaders and thinkers, and the influence of race in politicalattitudes and behaviors.

POLI 328 - LATINO POLITICS IN THE UNITED STATESShort Title: LATINO POLITICS IN THE USDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Latinos and public policies affecting Latinos have becomea major part of the discourse taking place in American politics as aresult of current and projected demographic trends. After reviewingthe demographic, historic, and social factors distinctive to the Latinopopulation in the United States, this course examines how Latinos haveinteracted with political institutions to shape politics and public policy.

POLI 329 - HEALTH POLICYShort Title: HEALTH POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of healthpolicy. Objectives are to provide students with a broad introduction to thehealthcare system, identify stresses on the current system, and explorepossible public policy decisions that may transform the healthcaresystem.

POLI 330 - MINORITY POLITICSShort Title: MINORITY POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examination of the political and social position of minoritygroups (African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans,Latinos, and women) in the U.S. This course explores the politicalpower and behavior of these groups. The key concepts include racism,discrimination, resources, political power, culture, leadership, class, andinequality.

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POLI 331 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICYShort Title: ENVIRONMENT POLITICS & POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course considers the major issues in the increasinglyimportant public policy area of the environment. It emphasizes theAmerican experience, but also considers certain crucial internationalaspects of these issues. Cross-list: ENST 331.

POLI 332 - URBAN POLITICSShort Title: URBAN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Exploration of issues of political behavior and publicpolicy in urban and metropolitan areas. Includes urban decline, regionalgovernance, revitalization, and issues of ethnic and racial conflict.

POLI 333 - COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURESShort Title: COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examination of similarities and differences of legislaturesin different countries. Includes the causes and consequences of thesedifferences.

POLI 334 - AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIESShort Title: AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examination of the American political party systemboth historically and contemporarily, with important emphasis on thenomination, campaign, and election functions of political parties. Partyorganization in government will also be explored.

POLI 335 - POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESSShort Title: POLI ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Study of the foundation of government involvement in publicpolicy and the institutional process guiding executive, legislative, andbureaucratic officials. Includes theories of collective action and theirapplication in the political world.

POLI 336 - POLITICS OF REGULATIONShort Title: POLITICS OF REGULATIONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course will focus principally on government regulationof business and the political factors that shape its content.

POLI 337 - PUBLIC POLICYShort Title: PUBLIC POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Exploration of the role that public bureaucracy plays innational policy making. Includes an examination of sources of agencypower, which are linked to different policy outcomes.

POLI 338 - POLICY ANALYSISShort Title: POLICY ANALYSISDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Familiarizes students with the analytical tools necessary forevaluating and analyzing public policies. Cross-list: SOSC 301. MutuallyExclusive: Credit cannot be earned for POLI 338 and POST 338.

POLI 339 - SOUTHERN POLITICSShort Title: SOUTHERN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examination of selected political patterns and trends in themodern South. Includes political developments within the region and theimpact of the South on American politics generally.

POLI 340 - ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THEORYShort Title: ANCIENT & MEDIEVAL POLI THEORYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Study of the sources of ancient and medieval politicalthought, with emphasis on the historical analysis of political philosophyand mythology and the influence of Plato and Aristotle.

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POLI 342 - POLITICS OF THE JUDICIARYShort Title: POLITICS OF THE JUDICIARYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Explores the role of courts and judges in American politics.Will illustrate major characteristics of judicial institutions in the U.S.and provide understanding of forces influencing judicial decisions. Willcover federal and state organization of trial and appellate courts, judicialselection methods, and the politics of judicial decision-making.

POLI 343 - MEDIA AND POLITICSShort Title: MEDIA AND POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examines the role of media in politics. Attention is given tothe media as a quasi-political institution. It elaborates the role the mediaplays in elections and the policy process.

POLI 345 - URBAN LAB MIDDLE EASTShort Title: URBAN LAB MIDDLE EASTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LaboratoryCredit Hour: 1Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 355 (may be taken concurrently) or POLI 362(may be taken concurrently) or POLI 464 (may be taken concurrently)or POLI 562 (may be taken concurrently) or POLI 361 (may be takenconcurrently)Description: The course examines the dynamics of urban politics andpolicy in the Middle East. We will focus on social, political, and economicissues, as well as history, culture, architecture and the arts. Weeklyclasses will include case studies, guest lectures, and work on researchprojects. The lab also features a field research trip to one or more cities(Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Doha, etc.) during Spring Break. Prerequisitesmay be taken the same semester with POLI 345/ASIA 345. DepartmentPermission Required. Cross-list: ASIA 345.

POLI 347 - URBAN LAB SHANGHAIShort Title: URBAN LAB SHANGHAIDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LaboratoryCredit Hour: 1Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 362 (may be taken concurrently) or POLI 562 (maybe taken concurrently) or POLI 464Description: This course examines the dynamics of urban politicsand policy in an emerging global city - Shanghai. In addition to social,political and economic issues, we will focus on history, culture, language,architecture and the arts. Weekly class sessions will include lecturescase studies, guest lectures, and group work on research projects. Thelab also features an 8-day field research trip to Shanghai. Prerequisite(s)POLI 362 or POLI 562 may be taken concurrently. Instructor PermissionRequired. Cross-list: ASIA 347.

POLI 348 - URBAN LAB BUENOS AIRESShort Title: URBAN LAB BUENOS AIRESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LaboratoryCredit Hour: 1Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 362 (may be taken concurrently) or POLI 562 (maybe taken concurrently) or POLI 464Description: This course examines the dynamics of urban politics andpolicy in an emerging global city - Buenos Aires. In addition to social,political and economic issues, we will also focus on history, culture,language, architecture and the arts. Weekly class sessions will includelectures, case studies, guest lectures, and group work on researchprojects. The lab also features 8-day field research trip to BuenosAires. Prerequisite(s) POLI 362 or POLI 562 may be taken concurrently.Instructor Permission Required.

POLI 349 - URBAN LAB ISTANBULShort Title: URBAN LAB ISTANBULDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LaboratoryCredit Hour: 1Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 355 (may be taken concurrently) or POLI 362(may be taken concurrently) or POLI 464 (may be taken concurrently) orPOLI 562 (may be taken concurrently)Description: This course examines the dynamics of urban politics andpolicy in an emerging global city - Istanbul. In addition to social, politicaland economic issues, we will also focus on history, culture, language,architecture and the arts. Weekly class sessions will include lectures,case studies, guest lecturers, and group work on research projects. Thelab also features an 8-day field research trip to Istanbul. Prerequisitesmay be taken the same semester as POLI 349/ASIA 349. InstructorPermission Required. Cross-list: ASIA 349.

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POLI 350 - URBAN LAB HOUSTONShort Title: URBAN LAB HOUSTONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LaboratoryCredit Hour: 1Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 332 (may be taken concurrently)Description: This course examines the dynamics of urban politics andpolicy in an emerging global city - Houston. The lab is project-based andallows students to engage in hands-on, policy-focused research under theguidance of the faculty instructor. Weekly sessions will include lectures,case studies, guest lecturers, site visits, and work on research projects.POLI 350 requires either POLI 332 as a pre-requisite, which can be takenconcurrently. POLI 337 may serve as a Co-Requisite for this course.Department Permission Required.

POLI 352 - THE POLITICS AND CULTURE OF MEXICOShort Title: POLITICS & CULTURE OF MEXICODepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Mexico entered the 21st Century as one of the mostdynamic societies in Latin America. But Mexico's fast-paced and chaotictransformation cannot be understood without a look at its past and itsdiverse cultural makeup. This course explores the weight of Mexico'shistory and culture as it seeks to forge ahead economically, socially, andpolitically.

POLI 353 - EAST ASIAN DEMOCRACIESShort Title: EAST ASIAN DEMOCRACIESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course examines the functioning of the political systemin the three principal East Asian democracies: Japan, South Korea, andTaiwan. Particular focus is paid to each country's democratic institutions,electoral politics, and political party system. Cross-list: ASIA 353.

POLI 354 - LATIN AMERICAN POLITICSShort Title: LATIN AMERICAN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Study of the political process in contemporary Latin America,with emphasis on selected major countries.

POLI 355 - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EASTShort Title: GOVERNMENT&POLITICS MID EASTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Provides an introduction to politics in the Middle East. Briefhistorical overview is combined with detailed description of politicalsystems in the area. The region is then used to examine empirically,critique, and revise theories of comparative politics. Emphasis onwhether the region would be considered unique or exceptional.

POLI 356 - REPRESENTATION AND POLICY MAKINGShort Title: REPRESENTATION & POLICY MAKINGDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: The course seeks to understand the relationship betweenpolitical institutions and the representation of social interests in thepolicy-making process across a variety of national contexts. The coursefocuses on the politics behind policy choices and how policy-makers areheld accountable in democratic contexts. Case studies will draw uponexamples in the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

POLI 357 - DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATIONShort Title: DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATIONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course will examine the theory of democracy and thefunctioning of democratic institutions around the world. Themes coveredin the course will include: What is democracy? How does democracyarise? Can institutions influence the survival and consolidation ofdemocracy?

POLI 358 - COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIORShort Title: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIORDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course explores the nature and sources of cross-national differences and similarities in mass political behavior.Topics include contextual and individual level factors that influencepublic opinion, voting behavior, and political participation. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: POLI 567. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannotbe earned for POLI 358 and POLI 567.

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POLI 360 - WESTERN EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIESShort Title: WESTERN EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: A survey of government and politics in Western Europeandemocracies, with primary emphasis on Great Britain, France, andGermany.

POLI 362 - COMPARATIVE URBAN POLITICS AND POLICYShort Title: COMPARATIVE URBAN POL & PLCYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course offers a broad overview of urban politics andpolicies in cities around the world. We will examine how national, regionaland local forces shape the processes and outcomes governance withinand across cities and metropolitan areas, paying particular attentionto critical problems and policies that affect urban centers: growth,immigration, class conflict, public order, service management, education,housing transportation, environmental protection, sustainability, land-useplanning and spatial competition.

POLI 365 - BRITISH POLITICSShort Title: BRITISH POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: An examination of British politics and government, withemphasis on both the contemporary and historical setting. This coursealso emphasizes a comparison of the British political system with theAmerican political system.

POLI 367 - TRANSITIONS TO DEMOCRACYShort Title: TRANSITIONS TO DEMOCRACYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course uses recent examples from East-Central Europeto illustrate a variety of transitions to democracy. Procedures whichare vital to a successful transition, such as setting up electoral laws,economic reform, constitution-making, and transitional justice arediscussed from an institutional design perspective.

POLI 371 - CIVIL WARSShort Title: CIVIL WARSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course seeks to examine the origins and dynamics ofcivil war, including civil war onset, duration, outcome, termination, whypeople join rebellions, the effectiveness of various forms of civil warmanagement and resolution, and more. It aims to impart to students asolid understanding of theories and empirical evidence regarding thecauses, conduct, and termination of civil wars in general.

POLI 372 - AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICYShort Title: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examination of internal and external aspects of foreignpolicy leadership, presidential initiative, congressional control, press,public opinion, and crisis management. Not a Managerial Studieselective.

POLI 373 - WAR AND POLITICSShort Title: WAR AND POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Exploration of the theoretical basis of, and empiricalevidence for, a number of explanations for interstate war. Includescontemporary theories dealing with dispute escalation, arms races,deterrence, crisis management, and low-intensity conflict.

POLI 374 - STRATEGIC INTERACTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: STRATEGC INTERACT INTERN'L RELDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Introduction to the uses of game theory in the study ofinternational relations.

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POLI 375 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONShort Title: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Study of the development and role of internationalorganizations in world politics. Topics include the history and evolution ofinternational organizations, the effects of international law on behavior,and the extent to which international cooperation has been effective atresolving global problems.

POLI 378 - POLITICS OF AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITYShort Title: POLITICS OF AMER NATL SECURITYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: The primary focus on this course is the use of militaryforce in pursuit of the national security of the US. A wide variety oftopics are covered including the people in the military, weapons of massdestruction, and various types of conflict that have involved (or mightinvolve) the United States.

POLI 379 - PROBLEMS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: PROB INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Explores the relationship between politics and economics.The objective is to understand the historical development of trade andmonetary relationships between the countries of the world. InstructorPermission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 380 - POLITICAL BEHAVIORShort Title: POLITICAL BEHAVIORDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Examines basic concepts in political behavior includingpolitical socialization, models of voting behavior, public opinion, andpolitical participation.

POLI 395 - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICSShort Title: INTRO TO STATISTICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Introduction to research design and quantitative methodsused in contemporary political science research. Students will applythe tools of social science inquiry in a series of assignments designedto examine political attitudes and behavior, gaining experience withquantitative analysis in the R software package.

POLI 401 - STATE POLITICS RESEARCH SEMINARShort Title: STATE POLITICS RESEARCH SEMDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: A research seminar in state politics and policy with anemphasis on state institutions.

POLI 405 - SENIOR THESISShort Title: SENIOR THESISDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Open to senior honors majors with the permission of thedepartment. Students must complete both POLI 405 and 406 to obtaincredit. Instructor Permission Required.

POLI 406 - SENIOR THESISShort Title: SENIOR THESISDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: See POLI 405. Instructor Permission Required.

POLI 416 - SURVEY RESEARCH IN AMERICAN POLITICSShort Title: SURVEY RSRCH AMERICAN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: The major objectives of this course are to introduce studentsto the skills and resources needed to design and conduct a survey. Theprinciple substantive focus of the course will be public opinion surveyson topics of politics, public policy and individual political behavior.

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POLI 417 - CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTIONShort Title: CONGRESS & THE CONSTITUTIONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course will examine the constitutional relationshipbetween the Congress, the Executive branch, and the federal courts,evaluating constitutional challenges to current Congressionalinitiatives in health care, immigration reform, campaign financing, andauthorizations for war. We will also discuss the role of congressionaloversight and the influence of money and the media in determining thelaws of the land.

POLI 418 - SEMINAR ON THE PRESIDENCYShort Title: SEMINAR ON THE PRESIDENCYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Provides students with a broad introduction to thepresidency. Topics include a review of the executive's constitutionalpowers and their changes over time; processes and politics ofpresidential nomination and election; struggles between the presidentand other political elites and dynamics of White House decision-making.

POLI 419 - POLITICAL PARTIES AND INTEREST GROUPS IN AMERICANPOLITICSShort Title: PARTIES AND INTEREST GROUPSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: The goal of this seminar is to provide the student withknowledge of the formation, organization, activity, and impact of politicalparties and interest groups in the United States. Special attention willbe given to changes in the operation of these two types of organizationsover the last 20 years.

POLI 420 - ELECTION SYSTEMS, TECHNIQUES, AND ADMINISTRATIONShort Title: ELECTION SYSTEMSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: LectureDistribution Group: Distribution Group IIICredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This multidisciplinary course will consider how elections areconducted to enhance participation, to accurately measure the will of theelectorate, and to be sufficiently rigorous to convince all parties that theresults are legitimate. This course will consider the design and evaluationof election technologies, ranging from voter registration through thepolling booth and vote tabulation. This course will consider threequestions: how do individual voters interact with the voting technology,how are voting technologies engineered to be accurate and secure, andhow do the social aspects of voting fulfill democratic goals for elections?A central requirement for this course will be group research projects,many operating in our community, built around the November election.Cross-list: COMP 435, PSYC 420.

POLI 421 - CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN AMERICAN POLITICSShort Title: CONTMPRY ISSUES AMER POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This seminar will focus on major issues (e.g., immigration,voting rights, budget deficits, healthcare) in American society. Afterexamining the history of national and state policies, seminar participantswill discuss social science contributions to the ongoing policydiscussions. Specific topics covered will vary by semester.

POLI 429 - BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICSShort Title: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLIDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course is an introduction to the biologicalunderpinnings of political behavior. The influence of genes and evolutionare covered, as well as the relevance of neural structures, brainorganization, and neuro-chemistry for both universal political traits andindividual variation in political orientations. NOTE: This seminar is in thetheory and methods field. It is not an American politics seminar.

POLI 430 - SEMINAR IN TEXAS POLITICSShort Title: SEMINAR IN TEXAS POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Research seminar in the history of Texas politics. InstructorPermission Required.

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POLI 431 - ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNSShort Title: ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Examines the role of campaigns in determining the outcomeof political races.

POLI 432 - URBAN POLITICSShort Title: URBAN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Research seminar on political behavior and public policy inurban and metropolitan areas.

POLI 433 - COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURESShort Title: COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: The course aims to understand current challenges relatedto the US Congress -- such as party polarization and gridlock -- using theexperience of the policy-making processes of other nations. In additionto recent discourse on failures of representation in Congress, the coursecovers politics in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

POLI 434 - PUBLIC POLICY AND METROPOLITAN AREA GOVERNANCEShort Title: PUBLIC POLICY&METRO AREA GOV'TDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course will examine the market-like relationship amongmetropolitan area governments. It will address questions of urban/suburban relationships as well as policy topics such as education andlocal service provision.

POLI 435 - SEMINAR ON MONEY AND POLITICSShort Title: SEMINAR ON MONEY AND POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course explores the possible ways money may affectAmerican politics and public policy at the national, state, and local levelsof government. In addition to discussing the strategies used in allocatingmoney in campaigns, we will examine the impact of money on electionsand on the legislative process.

POLI 436 - POLITICS OF REGULATIONShort Title: POLITICS OF REGULATIONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Study of the government's regulation of business and thepolitical factors that shape its content.

POLI 437 - EDUCATION POLICYShort Title: EDUCATION POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Examines educational politics and policy from micro andmacro perspectives. We will focus on school governance, structure, andfinance at the federal, state, and local levels and examine the design,implementation and effects of various school reform initiatives in U.S.,and to a more limited extent in other countries.

POLI 438 - RACE AND PUBLIC POLICYShort Title: RACE AND PUBLIC POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Study of minority group politics and how race structurescontemporary U.S. politics. Includes myths and realities of minoritygroups, symbolic politics and race, pluralism as a model of U.S.democracy, the intersection of class, race, and gender, civil rightsmovements, group consciousness, public opinion regarding minorities,and responses of national institutions to race issues.

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POLI 439 - RESEARCH SEMINAR ON SOUTHERN POLITICSShort Title: RSRCH SEM ON SOUTHERN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Examination of political behavior and political institutions inthe southern states, with emphasis on contemporary Texas politics.

POLI 440 - RESEARCH SEMINAR ON PUBLIC POLICYShort Title: RESEARCH SEM ON PUBLIC POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395 and (POLI 335 or POLI 336 or POLI 337 orPOLI 338)Description: This course provides students an opportunity to conductoriginal research on wide range of public policy questions. Students willbe provided specific research questions to investigate over the course ofthe semester for which they will design and complete an original programof research.

POLI 441 - GOVERNING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMONSShort Title: GOVERNING ENVIRONMNTL COMMONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Common Property Resources (CPRs), such as fisheries,aquifiers, and the Internet, appear in many guises and pose afundamental problem for governing. Exploration of theoreticalunderpinnings for CPRs, their growing literature, and the political andeconomic institutions mediating CPR dilemmas. Included is an originalresearch project in conjunction with the instructor. Cross-list: ENST 441.

POLI 442 - SUBNATIONAL POLITICSShort Title: SUBNATIONAL POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Examines the role of subnational political institutions in thedevelopment and implementation of policy. It compares the myriad ofsubnational institutions. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: POLI 542.

POLI 444 - PRACTICUM IN LEGISLATIVE RESEARCHShort Title: LEGISLATIVE RESEARCHDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course will teach students how to design and conductoriginal empirical research on US, state or world legislatures. Studentswill conduct original quantitative research and produce a research paper.

POLI 445 - SEMINAR IN JUDICIAL PROCESS AND BEHAVIORShort Title: SEM JUDICIAL PROCESS & BEHAVRDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Thinking about law school? This seminar explores socialscientific literature in judicial process and behavior and examinesselected controversies in the study of judicial processes. Learning isbased on active participation in seminars covering assigned readings anda research project on a related topic selected by the student.

POLI 450 - ELECTIONS IN THE AMERICASShort Title: ELECTIONS IN THE AMERICASDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: The course examines the electoral process in Latin America.Students will follow, discuss, and analyze campaigns and elections in aselected group of countries while developing an expertise in the generalfunctioning of the respective countries' political systems.

POLI 454 - RESEARCH PRACTICUM IN COMPARATIVE POLITICSShort Title: RESEARCH PRACTICUM-COMP POLIDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course will teach students how to design and conductempirical research in political science with a focus on the major topics incomparative politics, including constitutional design, electoral systems,democratization, economic development, and political parties. Studentswill conduct their own original research and produce a research paper ona political science topic.

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POLI 457 - CONDITIONS OF DEMOCRACYShort Title: CONDITIONS OF DEMOCRACYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course starts with definitions and theories/preconditions of democracy and then looks at specific cases ofdemocratic transition throughout the world, democratic consolidation,reaction, and the prospects for the future.

POLI 458 - GENDER AND POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EASTShort Title: GENDER & POLITICS MIDDLE EASTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Seminar will provide understanding of intertwinedrelationship between gender and politics in contemporary Middle Eastand North Africa. Will focus on the region’s historical, soci-political,and cultural contexts that have contributed to the current discourseon gender in the Arab World. Will explore the role of Arab women in thepolitical processes across the Middle East. Concrete examples given.

POLI 459 - SEX, GENDER, AND POLITICAL REPRESENTATION IN LATINAMERICAShort Title: GENDER & REP IN LATIN AMERICADepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Latin American countries have elected suprisingly largenumbers of women to presidencies, cabinets, and legislatures inrecent years. This seminar explores how this happened in a region longknown for its culture of cachismo and weak democracy and what theconsequences of gender divesity are for politics.

POLI 460 - SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENTShort Title: SEM IN COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This seminar will analyze authoritarian regimes from acomparative perspective.

POLI 461 - POLITICS, RISK, AND ENERGYShort Title: POLITICS, RISK, AND ENERGYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course develops various linkages between the conceptsof risk identification and mitigation, the political realm and the energysector. Building from mainstream literature, The Black Swan and Outliers,and distribution theory, the concept of risk is defined and applied toPolitical and Energy Markets using case studies and data analysis.

POLI 462 - COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICYShort Title: COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Seminar examining the process and substance of publicpolicy across nations, with emphasis on social policy in industrializeddemocracies. Instructor Permission Required.

POLI 463 - COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMYShort Title: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Seminar exploring the interrelationship of economics andpolitics in advanced industrial societies. Includes economic policymaking, political behavior and economic conditions, and the role ofinstitutions in channeling conflicts between democracy and capitalism.

POLI 464 - RESEARCH SEMINAR ON COMPARATIVE URBAN POLITICSAND POLICYShort Title: SEM COMP URBAN POL & PLCYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course offers a broad overview of urban politics andpolicies in cities around the world. We will examine how national, regionaland local forces shape the processes and outcomes governance withinand across cities and metropolitan areas, paying particular attentionto critical problems and policies that affect urban centers: growth,immigration, class conflict, public order, service management, education,housing transportation, environmental protection, sustainability, land-use planning and spatial competition. Instructor Permission Required.Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: POLI 562. Mutually Exclusive:Credit cannot be earned for POLI 464 and POLI 562. Repeatable for Credit.

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POLI 466 - POLITICAL PARTIES AND VOTING BEHAVIOR IN WESTERNDEMOCRACIESShort Title: PARTIES & VOTING BEHAVIORDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Seminar on the determinants of party systems, the structureand functions of parties, and theories of voting behavior in Westerndemocracies.

POLI 469 - CIVIL WAR AND TERRORISMShort Title: CIVIL WAR AND TERRORISMDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Seminar on causes, consequences and dynamics of civilwars. Will analyze why they break out, how sustained, how ended,thinking conceptually, theoretically, empirically about conflict dynamicsand processes. Explores transnational dynamics, terrorism, roles ofgroups, organizations, insurgency-counterinsurgency dynamics and howthese affect the evolution of civil conflicts. Graduate/UndergraduateEquivalency: POLI 571. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned forPOLI 469 and POLI 571.

POLI 470 - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Topic varies from year to year. Instructor PermissionRequired. Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 471 - POLITICS OF THE UNITED NATIONSShort Title: POLITICS OF UNITED NATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Provide students with a broad introduction to the politics ofthe United Nations. Topics include roll-call voting, policy choices of thesecurity council, and issues of membership and representation.

POLI 472 - AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICYShort Title: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: The content of American foreign policy, its sources, and theprocess of policy formulation.

POLI 473 - THE CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS, PREDICTION ANDCONNECTING THE DOTSShort Title: THE CRAFT OF INTELLIGENCEDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course is designed to introduce students to theproblems faced by intelligence analysts. Students will study examplesof intelligence analysis and hear from current and former analysts.Placed in multidisciplinary teams, students will monitor streams of actualevents and provide assessments of these events. Instructor PermissionRequired.

POLI 474 - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: THEORIES AND PRACTICEShort Title: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course has two goals: First to introduce students tothe current theoretical debates in the field of international organizationsand to assess the value and limitations of these theories; second, tounderstand the working of important world organizations, including (butnot limited to) the UN, the WTO, and IMF. The course assumes somebasic knowledge of IR theory and previous debates about the origin andimpact of international organizations on world politics. It is designedfor students at an advanced stage in the study of political science andInternational Relations.

POLI 475 - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONShort Title: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Research seminar on theories and evidence of internationalcooperation. The course will explore conditions conducive to establishingand maintaining cooperation in international politics, the designof international agreements and institutions, and the influence ofinternational agreements and institutions on international relations.

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POLI 476 - INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMYShort Title: INTERNAT'L POLITICAL ECONOMYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course is designed to survey the theoretical andempirical analysis of the politics of international economic relations.In particular, the course is designed to examine the interrelationshipsof economics and politics by applying economic theory to the study ofpolitics.

POLI 478 - US - CHINA: CONFLICT AND COOPERATIONShort Title: US-CHINA: CONFLICT & COOPRTNDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This is a research seminar for advanced undergraduatestudents to read and discuss international relations theories in thecontext of US-China relations. Students are expected to read cuttingedge IR research, follow current events, think critically of the applicabilityof the existing IR theories on the issues surrounding the bilateralrelationship.

POLI 479 - SEMINAR IN QUANTITATIVE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: SEM-QUANT INTERN'L RELATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Seminar exploring the quantitative study of internationalrelations, with a focus on the study of international conflict. Students willbe required to write a quantitative research paper. Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 480 - SEMINAR IN POLITICAL BEHAVIORShort Title: SEM IN POLITICAL BEHAVIORDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: Undergraduate research seminar covering the field ofpolitical behavior with special emphasis on the application of socialand cognitive psychology to the study of mass political behavior. Topicsinclude political socialization, models of voting behavior, and politicalparticipation.

POLI 481 - UNDERSTANDING WAR AND PEACEShort Title: UNDERSTANDING WAR AND PEACEDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395 or POLI 374Description: Introduces students to current research on the causes andconsequences of international conflict. Students are expected to identifya novel research question, develop an appropriate research design toaddress the question, and care out the research. The emphasis in ondeveloping rigorous theory and using systematic evidence.

POLI 482 - THE CAUSES OF WAR AND THE WAR IN IRAQShort Title: CAUSES OF WAR / IRAQDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Why do states fight wars? Moreover, what can existingtheories of war tell us about the causes of modern conflicts such as the2003 invasion of Iraq? We will begin this course by examining severalprominent theories of the causes of war. We will then turn to a number ofspecific questions related to the recent war in Iraq.

POLI 483 - U.S.: MEXICO BORDER ISSUES IN COMPARATIVEPERSEPCTIVEShort Title: US: MEXICO BORDER ISSUESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelPrerequisite(s): POLI 395Description: This course is designed to explore the problems of bordering,debordering and rebordering today. Specifically, the course deals with theproblem of borders in an increasingly integrated world, where bordersrepresent the symbol of sovereignty at the edges of the nation-statein open contradiction to the growing desire for human, economic andtechnological mobility and the need to deal with globalized crises infragmented spaces and policy processes. To understand these tensionsthe class explores the issues border flows, border security, immigration,human rights, and borders functions and processes.

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POLI 489 - CHINESE POLITICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVEShort Title: CHINESE POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: This course explores the range of theories and empiricalresearch methodologies from comparative political science, political-economy and Asian studies commonly applied to understanding Chinesepolitics: political participation, political organizations, collective actionand popular protest, political culture and political institutional change.This course will be a seminar requiring weekly presentations extensivereadings at the graduate level in social science, and an original researchpaper. There is no prerequisite for this course but participants areassumed to already possess extensive knowledge of Chinese history,culture and society. Cross-list: ASIA 489.

POLI 490 - POLITICS AND THE ARTSShort Title: POLITICS AND THE ARTSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Graduate level students may not enroll.Course Level: Undergraduate Upper-LevelDescription: Study of the development of modern political theory and itsrelevance to contemporary problems. NOTE: This seminar is in the theoryand methods field. It is not an American politics seminar.

POLI 500 - SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THINKING IShort Title: SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THINKING IDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course introduces students to the practice ofsocial science research including empirical description, theoreticaldevelopment, and hypothesis generation and testing. It includes projectson the design and implementation of surveys, controlled experiments,archival data collection, fieldwork, case studies, and qualitative analysis.

POLI 501 - SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THINKING IIShort Title: SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THINKING IIDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduatePrerequisite(s): POLI 500Description: This course is a continuation of POLI 500. Students will planand execute an original research project and write a paper reporting theresults.

POLI 502 - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICSShort Title: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course aims at providing students with a workingknowledge of statistics in political science. It involves the study ofdescriptive and inferential statistics, as well as hands-on experience withcomputer statistical packages.

POLI 503 - TOPICS IN METHODS AND DATA ANALYSISShort Title: TOPICS METHODS&DATA ANALYSISDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Applications of least squares and general linear mode.Cross-list: STAT 503.

POLI 504 - INTRODUCTION TO MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATIONShort Title: INTRO MAX LIKELIHOOD ESTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Graduate.Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Study of applications of maximum likelihood estimation.

POLI 505 - ADVANCED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATIONShort Title: ADV MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment limited to students with a class of Graduate.Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduatePrerequisite(s): POLI 504Description: Special topics in political methodology. InstructorPermission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 506 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN POLITICAL METHODOLOGY IShort Title: ADV TOPICS POLI METHODS IDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduatePrerequisite(s): POLI 505Description: Advanced topics in statistical methods, with an emphasis onBayesian statistics and R-programming.

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POLI 507 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN POLITICAL METHODOLOGY IIShort Title: ADV TOPICS POL METHODS IIDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduatePrerequisite(s): POLI 505Description: Advanced topics in political methodology, with an emphasison non-parametric statistical models, causal inference, and machinelearning techniques.

POLI 511 - MEASUREMENT AND RESEARCH DESIGNShort Title: MEASUREMENT & RESEARCH DESIGNDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Study of advanced topics in research design andmeasurement theory.

POLI 512 - EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORShort Title: EXPRMNTL DSGN & SOCIAL BHVRDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This seminar develops tools for the design and conduct ofexperiments in the social sciences. At the conclusion of the course eachstudent will have developed and implemented an experiment testingsome aspect of human social behavior.

POLI 520 - APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENTShort Title: APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE GOVTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Core graduate course analyzing basic approaches to thestudy of comparative government.

POLI 527 - INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSISShort Title: INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSISDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Theories of institutional analysis and design.

POLI 530 - APPROACHES TO AMERICAN GOVERNMENTShort Title: APPROACHES TO AMERICAN GOV'TDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Core graduate course. Includes an analysis of basicapproaches to the study of American politics.

POLI 531 - STATE POLITICSShort Title: STATE POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Examines similarities and differences in the organization ofstate politics. Major issues include state legislative organization, stateelite behavior, and policy implementation.

POLI 532 - COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURESShort Title: COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Provides the student with the basic concepts and theoriesnecessary to understand the functions and organization of legislatures/parliaments/assemblies in democratic societies. This course takes abroad-based perspective, including research that focuses on nationalparliaments and U. S. state legislatures.

POLI 533 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN POLITICAL BEHAVIORShort Title: ADV TOPIC POLITICAL BEHAVIORDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Graduate seminar in the subfield of political behavior.Content varies from year to year. Instructor Permission Required.Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 534 - INTEREST GROUPS AND POLITICAL PARTIESShort Title: INTEREST GROUP&POLITICAL PARTYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Graduate research seminar in the subfields of interestgroups and political behavior.

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POLI 535 - RACE, ETHNICITY, AND AMERICAN POLITICSShort Title: RACE,ETHNICITY&AMER POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Graduate seminar that examines the role of race andethnicity in American politics. This course provides an examination of thebehavioral and electoral implications of racial and ethnic diversity.

POLI 536 - WOMEN AND MINORITY REPRESENTATIONShort Title: WOMEN & MINORITY REPRESENTATNDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Women and minority groups have long beenunderrepresented in politics. Course explores patterns of cf, explanationsfor representation of women and minority groups in many worldcountries, including the US. Evaluates the vast theoretical and empiricalresearch on underrepresented group representation. Maps future pathsfor the study of group representation in politics.

POLI 537 - PUBLIC POLICY AND BUREAUCRACYShort Title: PUBLIC POLICY AND BUREAUCRACYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Study of the administration and implementation of publicpolicies across federal, state, and substate governments.

POLI 538 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POLICY CHANGEShort Title: POL ECONOMY OF POLICY CHANGEDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course will explore policy and political change primarily,but not exclusively, in the United States. Using a political economyapproach, we will explore different models of change and identify theactors, institutions, and conditions that facilitate stability in change instate, local and national policymaking.

POLI 539 - POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGYShort Title: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Broad survey of the theoretical and methodologicalapproaches used in political psychology. Topics include politicalinformation processing, knowledge, attitudes, political trust, emotions,and personality.

POLI 540 - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Core graduate course. Includes an analysis of basicapproaches to the study of international relations.

POLI 541 - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONShort Title: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Graduate seminar on theories and evidence of internationalcooperation. Discussion of the difficulties in establishing cooperationunder anarchy and the conditions under which international cooperationis most likely to occur.

POLI 542 - SUBNATIONAL POLITICSShort Title: SUBNATIONAL POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Examines the role of subnational political institutions in thedevelopment and implementation of policy. It compares the myriad ofsubnational institutions. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: POLI 442.

POLI 544 - PRACTICUM IN LEGISLATIVE RESEARCHShort Title: LEGISLATIVE RESEARCHDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course will teach graduate students how to design andconduct original empirical research on US, state, or world legislatures.Students will conduct original quantitative research and produce apublishable research paper. Instructor Permission Required.

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POLI 562 - RESEARCH SEMINAR ON COMPARATIVE URBAN POLITICSAND POLICYShort Title: SEM COMP URBAN POL & PLCYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course offers a broad overview of urban politics andpolicies in cities around the world. We will examine how national, regionaland local forces shape the processes and outcomes governance withinand across cities and metropolitan areas, paying particular attentionto critical problems and politics that affect urban centers: growth,immigration, class conflict, public order, service management, education,housing transportation, environmental protection, sustainability, land-useplanning and spatial competition. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency:POLI 464. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for POLI 562 andPOLI 464.

POLI 563 - COALITION POLITICS AND PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENTShort Title: COALITION POLI & PRLMTY GOVTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course examines the extensive scholarship on coalitionpolitics in parliamentary democracies. Topics include coalition formation,the allocation of government ministries, coalition termination, coalitionpolicymaking, and the interaction between coalition governance, partycompetition, and mass voting behavior.

POLI 564 - POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENTShort Title: POLI ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: A central priority developing nations face today concernsestablishing economic growth; how best to achieve strong economicperformance has both an economic and political dimension. This courseseeks a rudimentary understanding of economic growth, concentratingon its political determinants.

POLI 565 - POLITICAL PROTESTShort Title: POLITICAL PROTESTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course looks at various theories of collective actionand social movements. It will examine theoretical debates about whyindividuals and groups occasionally redress their grievances throughprotest and more often endure hardships passively. It will evaluatethe relative merit of these theories in explaining cases of protest andpassivity worldwide.

POLI 566 - POLITICAL PARTIESShort Title: POLITICAL PARTIESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Graduate seminar that examines the theoretical andempirical literature on party development, organization, and change.

POLI 567 - COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIORShort Title: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIORDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: In this course we will explore the nature and sourcesof cross-national differences in mass political behavior. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: POLI 358. Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannotbe earned for POLI 567 and POLI 358.

POLI 568 - COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONSShort Title: COMP POLITICAL INSTITUTIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Examines the design of political institutions in democracies,and their effect on elections, governance, and representation. Explorestopics such as the presidential-parliamentary debate, electoral laws andparty systems, political parties, electoral institutions and the election ofwomen and minorities, institutional engineering, and U.S. experienceswith alternative electoral systems.

POLI 569 - REPRESENTATION IN CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACIESShort Title: REP. CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRACIESDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: In this course, we explore the conceptual meanings ofdemocracy and representation, and then examine the theoretical andempirical linkages between citizen preferences, electoral systems,executive and legislative institutions, policymaking and advanceindustrial democracies. The aim of the course is to understand howcitizen preferences ultimately get translated into policy outcomes andhow political institutions shape this relationship.

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POLI 570 - SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTShort Title: SEM IN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICTDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Seminar in international conflict. Emphasis on formaltheories and quantitative analysis of the causes of war.

POLI 571 - CIVIL WAR AND TERRORISMShort Title: CIVIL WAR AND TERRORISMDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Seminar on causes, consequences and dynamics of civilwars. Will analyze why they break out, how sustained, how ended,thinking conceptually, theoretically, empirically about conflict dynamicsand processes. Explores transnational dynamics, terrorism, roles ofgroups, organizations, insurgency-counterinsurgency dynamics and howthese affect the evolution of civil conflicts. More work will be requiredof the Graduate level. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: POLI 469.Mutually Exclusive: Credit cannot be earned for POLI 571 and POLI 469.

POLI 572 - FOREIGN POLICY DECISION MAKINGShort Title: FOREIGN POLICY DECISION MAKINGDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Study of foreign policy, its sources, and the process of policyformulation. Instructor Permission Required.

POLI 574 - COLLECTIVE SOCIAL CHOICEShort Title: COLLECTIVE SOCIAL CHOICEDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Introduction to a growing body of literature on how andwhy individual preferences dominate those of others. Includes therelationship between decision-making structures and the nature ofdecisional outcomes.

POLI 575 - GAME THEORYShort Title: GAME THEORYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Examination of current developments in game theory withapplication to political science.

POLI 576 - INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMYShort Title: INTERNAT'L POLITICAL ECONOMYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Seminar surveying some of the primary theoreticalperspectives and analytical approaches for studying internationalpolitical economy. Includes a survey of contemporary literature, withspecial emphasis on theory and research, as well as instructions in howto critically evaluate research and set up a research project.

POLI 577 - DOMESTIC POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: DOMESTIC POLITICS & INT'L RELADepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Graduate research seminar on the influence of domesticpolitics on international relations. The course will explore when, why, andhow the political structures and conditions within countries affect foreignpolicy and international relations.

POLI 580 - SEMINAR IN AMERICAN POLITICSShort Title: SEM IN AMERICAN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Topics vary from year to year. Instructor PermissionRequired. Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 581 - SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE POLITICSShort Title: SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE POLTICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: SeminarCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Topics vary from year to year. Instructor PermissionRequired. Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 591 - DIRECTED READING-METHODOLOGYShort Title: DIRECTED READING-METHODOLOGYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.

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POLI 592 - DIRECTED READING METHODOLOGYShort Title: DIRECTED READING METHODOLOGYDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 593 - DIRECTED READING-AMERICAN POLITICSShort Title: DIRECTED READING-AMER POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 594 - DIRECTED READING-AMERICAN POLITICSShort Title: DIR READING AMERICAN POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 595 - DIRECTED READING-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: DIR READ-INTERNT'L RELATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 596 - DIRECTED READING-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSShort Title: DIR READ-INTERNAT'L RELATIONSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 597 - DIRECTED READING-COMPARATIVE POLITICSShort Title: DIR READ-COMPARATIVE POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 598 - DIRECTED READING-COMPARATIVE POLITICSShort Title: DIR READ-COMPARATIVE POLITICSDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hours: 3Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 599 - TEACHING POLITICAL SCIENCEShort Title: TEACHING POLITICAL SCIENCEDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Standard LetterCourse Type: Independent StudyCredit Hour: 1Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: This course prepares graduate students to design and teachclasses at the college level. Repeatable for Credit.

POLI 600 - MA RESEARCH AND THESISShort Title: MA RESEARCH AND THESISDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 1-15Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Research and thesis for resident students. Repeatable forCredit.

POLI 800 - PH.D. RESEARCH AND THESISShort Title: PH.D. RESEARCH AND THESISDepartment: Political ScienceGrade Mode: Satisfactory/UnsatisfactoryCourse Type: ResearchCredit Hours: 1-15Restrictions: Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.Course Level: GraduateDescription: Repeatable for Credit.