printer friendly pagePOLISCI 136: Philosophical Issues Concerning Race and Racism (PHIL 177)
Concepts of race, race consciousness, and racism, and their connections. What is race and what is its role in racism? How should ethnic and racial identities be viewed to secure the conditions in which humanity can be seen as a single moral community whose members have equal respect? What laws, values, and institutions best embody the balance among competing goals of group loyalty, opposition to racism, and common humanity? Philosophical writings on freedom and equality, human rights, pluralism, and affirmative action. Historical accounts of group exclusion.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul
POLISCI 140: Political Economy of Development
Emphasis is on the interplay between political economic processes, and national and international factors from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Do governments provide the foundations for economic development? The role of the state in solving problems of violence and capital accumulation.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
POLISCI 142Z: Politics in the Name of Identity
How national, ethnic, religious, racial, tribal, and regional identities have been politicized. How identity is used as a motive, cause, or justification for peaceful or violent political actions. Issues such as suicide bombers, the U.S. immigration bill, and ethnic cleansing. Case studies.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci
POLISCI 151B: Data Analysis for Political Science
Operationalization of concepts, measurement, scale construction, finding and pooling/merging data, cross-tabulations, tests of association, comparison of means, correlation, scatterplots, and regression models. How to present the results of data analysis in research reports, essays, and theses. Emphasis is on getting and using data with appropriate statistical software. Prior mathematics not required.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Math
POLISCI 222S: Topics in Constitutional History
Ideas of rights in American history emphasizing the problem of defining constitutional rights, the free exercise of religion, freedom of expression, and the contemporary debate over rights talk and the idiom of human rights.
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-AmerCul
POLISCI 225S: Public Leadership in Theory and Practice (PUBLPOL 112)
Models from Aristotle to the Harvard School of Business concerning what leaders are supposed to do. Students develop expectations of what interactions between national political leaders would be like under each of these theories and a reasonably large (n=300-800) database of actual interactions between presidents and other leaders in business, unions, congress, and administration, using recorded conversations from Kennedy through Nixon. Students assess their expectations and reach conclusions about the usefulness of these theories of leadership and how leadership in public policy making might differ substantially from leadership in enterprise.
POLISCI 231S: Contemporary Theories of Justice
Social and political justice and contemporary debates in political theory. Recent works that develop the principles of justice, and the political arrangements that best satisfy their requirements. Limited enrollment. WIM
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-EthicReas
POLISCI 240T: American Efforts at Promoting Democracy Abroad: Theory and Reality
Theoretical and intellectual debates about democracy promotion with focus on realism versus liberalism. The evolution of these debates with attention to the Cold War, the 90s, and American foreign policy after 9/11. Tools for and bureaucratic struggles over how to promote democracy. Contemporary case studies.
POLISCI 311C: Workshop in International Relations
Organized around presentation of research by students and outside scholars. May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
for credit
POLISCI 314: The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation
(Graduate students register for 314.) The origins and effects of the spread of nuclear weapons at international and domestic levels. The role of faulty intelligence, clandestine proliferation networks, and nuclear assistance from third parties on proliferators' programs. Case studies of relevant programs, including Iran and North Korea.
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