| Course # (Section) | Title | Day/Times | Instructor | Location | Term | Course Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AS.190.616 (01) | American Political Development | M 3:00PM - 5:00PM | Lieberman, Robert C | Mergenthaler 366 | Fall 2025 | An examination of state-building and nation-building throughout American political history. (AP) |
| AS.190.619 (01) | Nature, Climate, Civilization | W 2:30PM - 4:30PM | Connolly, William E; Phillips, Chas. | Mergenthaler 366 | Fall 2025 | A course designed to rework embedded images of nature, climate and civilization by rethinking how each actuality folds into, supports, and disrupts the others in multiform ways. Recent critiques of the very ideas of “nature” and “civilization” exposed how those western practices carried imperialism and racism. But those who then dropped, rather than reworking, the two concepts first contributed to the cultural opacity of climate change rumbling beneath their feet and may underestimate how several key issues are densely interwoven today. It is thus timely to rethink the three actualities together. The course may include texts from Rousseau, Freud, Nietzsche, Serres, Deleuze & Guattari, and Hanson & de Castro. |
| AS.190.634 (01) | Federalism, Sovereignty, and The State | W 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Jabko, Nicolas; Mazzuca, Sebastian L | Mergenthaler 366 | Fall 2025 | Federalism has become an increasingly widespread constitutional form in the world — in America, but also in Europe, the "cradle of the nation-state," and on other continents. While it typically resolves political problems, it also raises many questions about the nature of states and of sovereignty. This course will discuss scholarship that addresses federalism, sovereignty, and the state, both in contemporary politics and in historical perspective. |
| AS.190.653 (01) | Comparative Political Behavior | M 1:00PM - 3:00PM | Mason, Lily Hall; Rehm, Philipp | Mergenthaler 366 | Fall 2025 | The course surveys major topics in political behavior, based on scholarship in political psychology, political science (American politics, comparative politics), and neighboring disciplines. |
| AS.190.667 (01) | Theories of Justice | TTh 3:00PM - 4:15PM | Culbert, Jennifer | Bloomberg 172 | Fall 2025 | This course will explore the classic question, “What is justice?” While we will entertain several different answers to the question, the course will focus on how these answers speak to and past one another, illuminating contemporary quandaries related to intergenerational justice, global justice, and the justice of resistance. Guided by Nietzsche, we will read texts by authors including, among others, Plato, Kant, Bentham, Marx, Rawls, Nozick, and West. Over the course of the semester, students will write three papers. There will also be a final exam. |
| AS.190.671 (01) | Research and Inquiry in the Social Sciences | T 2:00PM - 4:30PM | Lawrence, Adria K | Mergenthaler 366 | Fall 2025 | How do we assess research in the social sciences? What makes one study more persuasive than another? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the main methods used in research in the social sciences? What are the elements that go into designing a research project? This course considers these questions, introducing students to the basic principles of research design. |
| AS.190.676 (01) | Field Survey of International Relations | T 10:30AM - 12:30PM | Allan, Bentley; Marlin-Bennett, Renee E | Mergenthaler 366 | Fall 2025 | This course provides a scaffold for the study of international relations theory, organized historically and by major approaches. The focus is on close reading and discussion of exemplars of important bodies of theory. Intended for doctoral students with IR as their major or minor field. Graduate students only. |
| AS.190.691 (01) | The Hopkins Seminar on Racial Politics | W 10:00AM - 12:00PM | Shilliam, Robbie; Weaver, Vesla Mae | Mergenthaler 366 | Fall 2025 | Race and racism are political productions and—as such—have significantly shaped the study of political science, whose origins in the race science and eugenics milieu of the late nineteenth century (largely at Johns Hopkins) led to a discipline that evolved to systematically exclude and distorts serious consideration of race and racism as constitutive of politics. This exclusion and distortion has resulted in a social science that fails to effectively predict, explain, and diagnose political phenomenon. In this seminar, we will explore both the formative effect of racism in political science and its implications for how political science subfields study race as a political concept and practice, and the tradition of racial capitalism, “written out” of political science until very recently. Students will emerge from this seminar with a solid account of the racial foundations of political science, a critical view on existing approaches to the study of politics, and a grasp of a sidelined tradition of the joint study of race and capitalism. |
| AS.190.800 (01) | Independent Study | Bennett, Jane | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (02) | Independent Study | Allan, Bentley | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (03) | Independent Study | Chambers, Samuel Allen | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (04) | Independent Study | Chung, Erin | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (05) | Independent Study | Connolly, William E | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (06) | Independent Study | Brendese, PJ Joseph | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (07) | Independent Study | Culbert, Jennifer | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (08) | Independent Study | David, Steven R | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (09) | Independent Study | Deudney, Daniel Horace | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (10) | Independent Study | Ginsberg, Benjamin | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (11) | Independent Study | Zackin, Emily | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (12) | Independent Study | Mazzuca, Sebastian L | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (13) | Independent Study | Lieberman, Robert C | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (14) | Independent Study | Jabko, Nicolas | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (15) | Independent Study | Katz, Richard Stephen | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (16) | Independent Study | Lawrence, Adria K | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (17) | Independent Study | Marlin-Bennett, Renee E | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (18) | Independent Study | Sheingate, Adam | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (19) | Independent Study | Spence, Lester | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (20) | Independent Study | Teles, Steven Michael | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (21) | Independent Study | Parkinson, Sarah | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (22) | Independent Study | Schlozman, Daniel | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (23) | Independent Study | Schmidt, Sebastian | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (24) | Independent Study | Amat Matus, Consuelo | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (26) | Independent Study | Shilliam, Robbie | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (27) | Independent Study | Yasuda, John Kojiro | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (28) | Independent Study | Barkawi, Tarak Karim | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.800 (29) | Independent Study | Valdez, Inés | Fall 2025 | Intended for specific research projects designed in conjunction with a supervising faculty member. | ||
| AS.190.849 (01) | Graduate Research | Bennett, Jane | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (02) | Graduate Research | Allan, Bentley | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (03) | Graduate Research | Chambers, Samuel Allen | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (04) | Graduate Research | Chung, Erin | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (05) | Graduate Research | Connolly, William E | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (06) | Graduate Research | Brendese, PJ Joseph | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (07) | Graduate Research | Culbert, Jennifer | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (08) | Graduate Research | David, Steven R | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (09) | Graduate Research | Deudney, Daniel Horace | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (10) | Graduate Research | Ginsberg, Benjamin | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (11) | Graduate Research | Zackin, Emily | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (12) | Graduate Research | Mazzuca, Sebastian L | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (13) | Graduate Research | Lieberman, Robert C | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (14) | Graduate Research | Jabko, Nicolas | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (15) | Graduate Research | Katz, Richard Stephen | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (16) | Graduate Research | Lawrence, Adria K | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (17) | Graduate Research | Marlin-Bennett, Renee E | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (18) | Graduate Research | Sheingate, Adam | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (19) | Graduate Research | Spence, Lester | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (20) | Graduate Research | Teles, Steven Michael | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (21) | Graduate Research | Parkinson, Sarah | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (22) | Graduate Research | Schlozman, Daniel | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (23) | Graduate Research | Schmidt, Sebastian | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (24) | Graduate Research | Valdez, Inés | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (26) | Graduate Research | Shilliam, Robbie | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (27) | Graduate Research | Han, Hahrie | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (28) | Graduate Research | Yasuda, John Kojiro | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (29) | Graduate Research | Simon, Josh David | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (30) | Graduate Research | Teele, Dawn Langan | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (31) | Graduate Research | Amat Matus, Consuelo | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.190.849 (32) | Graduate Research | Barkawi, Tarak Karim | Fall 2025 | This course is for Graduate students who have completed their coursework and are working toward the other program requirements. | ||
| AS.300.618 (01) | What is a Person? Humans, Corporations, Robots, Trees. | MW 12:00PM - 1:15PM | Siraganian, Lisa | Gilman 208 | Fall 2025 | Knowing who or what counts as a person seems straightforward, until we consider the many kinds of creatures, objects, and artificial beings that have been granted—or demanded or denied—that status. This course explores recent debates on being a person in culture, law, and philosophy. Questions examined will include: Should trees have standing? Can corporations have religious beliefs? Could a robot sign a contract? Materials examined will be wide-ranging, including essays, philosophy, novels, science fiction, television, film. No special background is required. |