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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.010.634 (01)
Rethinking the Renaissance: Alternatives to "Early Modernity"
M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Campbell, Stephen
Gilman 177
HART-RENBAR
Rethinking the Renaissance: Alternatives to "Early Modernity" AS.010.634 (01)
"The Renaissance" as a periodization under attack, and its persistance; the hermeneutics of the Pre-Modern Image since Panofsky; the critique of Eurocentrism; challenges to and recuperations of iconology, assessing the contributions of semiotics, psycholanalysis and queer theory.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/10
PosTag(s): HART-RENBAR
AS.190.612 (01)
Comparative Citizenship and Immigration Politics
W 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Chung, Erin
Mergenthaler 366
Comparative Citizenship and Immigration Politics AS.190.612 (01)
Graduate students only. Examines the contemporary political dynamics of migration, citizenship, and race concentrating on North America, Europe and East Asia. We will focus on how citizenship and immigration policies shape immigrant political identities, claims, and strategies as well as how immigrants impact public debates and policies in receiving societies.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 9/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.626 (01)
Quantitative Methods for the Study of Politics
MF 12:00PM - 1:15PM
Kocher, Matthew A
Bloomberg 168
POLI-CP, POLI-AP, POLI-IR
Quantitative Methods for the Study of Politics AS.190.626 (01)
This course is intended as Ph.D.-level introduction to applied statistics, with a focus on the identification of causal effects in the tradition of the Neyman/Rubin potential outcomes framework. Prior coursework in applied statistics or quantitative methods will be useful but is not required. Upon completion of the course, students will be in a position to understand and critically assess scholarship that uses instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, regression discontinuity, and other quasi- and natural-experimental research designs. Formal mathematical proof will be kept to a minimum. Students will be asked to adapt existing code and write some of their own code in R.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): POLI-CP, POLI-AP, POLI-IR
AS.190.632 (01)
The Development of American Political Institutions
W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Lieberman, Robert C, Schlozman, Daniel
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-AP
The Development of American Political Institutions AS.190.632 (01)
This course explores institutional development in American national politics, from the Founding until the present. It traces parties, Congress, the presidency, bureaucracy, and courts, and also examines how those institutions have interacted with one another across American history. Throughout the course, we will consider how ideas, interests, procedures, and sequence together shape institutions as they collide and abrade over time. Finally, although it hardly covers the entire corpus across the subfield, the course is also designed to prepare students to sit for comprehensive examinations in American politics.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): POLI-AP
AS.190.604 (01)
Foucault and Kant
W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Connolly, William E
Mergenthaler 366
Foucault and Kant AS.190.604 (01)
This seminar will explore Kant and Foucault comparatively across the registers of ontology, morality, epistemology, time, and politics. How does each move into and across these registers? How do the two thinkers inform and challenge one another? Texts will include: Kant, The Critique of Practical Reason, Conflict of the Faculties, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays, The Anthropology (sections); Foucault, The Order of Things (chapters), Discipline and Punish, “On the Genealogy of Ethics,” “What Was Enlightenment?”, and Subjectivity and Truth.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.322 (01)
Future of American Democracy
T 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Lieberman, Robert C
Gilman 377
POLI-AP, INST-AP
Future of American Democracy AS.190.322 (01)
For the most part, observers of American politics have not considered the possibility that the American democratic regime might be at risk. But the unexpected election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the subsequent course of his presidency have occasioned a great deal of uncertainty and anxiety about whether democracy in the United States is at risk and whether American political institutions can withstand the stresses of contemporary politics. This course will use the Trump era to explore the conditions that seem to threaten the stability of the American regime. We will begin by exploring the political circumstances that led to Trump’s rise. We will then examine what we can learn from the experience of other countries about the conditions that make democracy either robust or fragile. Finally, we will consider how a set of contemporary political conditions in the United States — extreme partisan polarization, intense racial antagonism, growing economic inequality, and expanded executive power — contribute to the challenges facing American democracy today and in the future.
Credits: 3.00
Level:
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/19
PosTag(s): POLI-AP, INST-AP
AS.190.607 (01)
Decolonizing the Episteme: Knowledge, Empire and the Academy
M 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Shilliam, Robert
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-IR
Decolonizing the Episteme: Knowledge, Empire and the Academy AS.190.607 (01)
What complicity does the Western academy have with empire? How might the development of certain intellectual dispositions be implicated in the challenges of imperial rule? And how might such implications have produced influential concepts and theories? In this course we will consider the ways in which - and extent to which - the academy’s claim to epistemic privilege has a colonial provenance. Seniors permitted with instructor permission only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.634 (01)
Political Corruption
T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Katz, Richard Stephen
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-CP
Political Corruption AS.190.634 (01)
Political corruption is widely seen to be an impediment to economic and political development and stability. But what is political corruption? The common definition of corruption as abuse of power for private gain is too vague to be of serious scholarly use. Is “abuse” culturally specific or merely a synonym for “illegal” - or even worse, for undesirable according to some unspecified standard? Does “private gain” refer only to under-the-table cash payments to a corrupt official, or does it extend to intangible private benefits, and does it extend to gains for identifiable favored groups (“club goods”) and may or may not include the corrupt official him or herself?
This seminar will focus on several questions. How should political corruption be defined, and what is at stake in the choice if definition? Are there identifiable patterns to, or types of, political corruption? What conditions encourage or discourage corruption, and how might corruption be controlled or limited? What are the consequences of corruption - and are they necessarily all negative?
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): POLI-CP
AS.190.613 (01)
Political Arts: Dada, Surrealism, and Societal Transformation
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Bennett, Jane
Mergenthaler 366
Political Arts: Dada, Surrealism, and Societal Transformation AS.190.613 (01)
An exploration of the political aims and tactics, and strengths and liabilities, of Dada and Surrealism, as it operated in Europe and the Americas in the years between and after the World Wars. Readings by Andre Breton, Leonora Carrington, Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois, Meret Oppenheim, College of Sociology, and others. Seniors allowed by permission of instructor only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 10/18
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.635 (01)
Theories of Constitutional Governance
T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Zackin, Emily
Mergenthaler 366
Theories of Constitutional Governance AS.190.635 (01)
This class is focused on the nature of constitutions and the way that they should and do work within a political system, with particular emphasis on the U.S. context. We will examine both normative and empirical arguments about the relationship between politics and constitutional law. More specifically, we will think about how societies and individual actors should make meaning out of constitutional texts, how they do seem to make meaning out of those texts, and the conditions that give rise to constitutional drafting and change. Graduate students only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/10
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.636 (01)
Politics of Information and Information Technologies
M 1:00PM - 3:00PM
Marlin-Bennett, Renee
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-IR
Politics of Information and Information Technologies AS.190.636 (01)
What information is and how it flows in the world are questions that are now obviously relevant to the fraught politics of today. We live in a time in which the facticity and authenticity of information is often questioned, in which the flood of “too much” information is often blamed for problematic outcomes, and in which information technologies and social media have (perhaps) upended previous expectations about how communication happens. This course explores the politics of information and information technologies from ancient times to the present, drawing from a substantial body of scholarship in political science and other fields to apply older and more recent wisdom to contemporary problems. Among the themes to be explored are: the differences between knowledge, information, and data; embodied (corporeal) information; commodification of information; securitization of information; technological change, information, and the political; information, cyberspace, and governance; and information privacy/transparency. And, of course: “fake news,” “cyber,” and “bots.”
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.800 (16)
Independent Study
Lawrence, Adria K
Independent Study AS.190.800 (16)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (26)
Independent Study
Shilliam, Robert
Independent Study AS.190.800 (26)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (10)
Dissertation Research
Ginsberg, Benjamin
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (10)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.638 (01)
Racial Capitalism
M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Chambers, Samuel Allen, Spence, Lester
3003 N. Charles OMA Lounge
POLI-AP, POLI-PT
Racial Capitalism AS.190.638 (01)
This graduate seminar will explore the imbrication of the theory, history, and politics of the logic of race and the logic of capital.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/15
PosTag(s): POLI-AP, POLI-PT
AS.190.625 (01)
Theories-Comp Politics
W 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-CP
Theories-Comp Politics AS.190.625 (01)
This seminar is intended for graduate students planning to take the comprehensive exam in comparative politics, either as a major or as a minor. In addition to exploring central methodological debates and analytic approaches, the seminar reviews the literature on state-society relations, political and economic development, social movements, nationalism, revolutions, formal and informal political institutions, and regime durability vs. transition. Graduate students only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Canceled
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): POLI-CP
AS.190.800 (02)
Independent Study
Allan, Bentley
Independent Study AS.190.800 (02)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (04)
Independent Study
Chung, Erin
Independent Study AS.190.800 (04)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.657 (01)
Re-Turn to Language
T 4:00PM - 6:00PM
Culbert, Jennifer
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-PT
Re-Turn to Language AS.190.657 (01)
A central claim of structuralism is that all systems of meaning are structured along the lines of language. Post-structuralism challenges this claim but does not dismiss it so much as probe the ways in which these systems fail and reveal interesting things about how communication may (not) take place. What is sometimes called "post-post-structuralism" rejects the focus on language, emphasing instead how meaning is generated in and by culture or with the (mostly) unacknowledged collaboration of matter. This course will revisit these claims, challenges, and refusals within the context of contemporary, philosophy, literary theory, and political thought. We will read, among others, texts by Saussure, Liev-Strauss, Lacan, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Kristeva, Butler, and Barad. Students will be required to submit weekly response papers and write a final 20-30 page paper on a topic related to the course.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/15
PosTag(s): POLI-PT
AS.190.800 (01)
Independent Study
Bennett, Jane
Independent Study AS.190.800 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.651 (01)
Policy Dynamics
M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Teles, Steven Michael
Mergenthaler 366
Policy Dynamics AS.190.651 (01)
Policy dynamics is the study of changes of the political system in its entirety, from the point of view of the system's outputs--what government actually does, or fails to do. It is dynamic in that it seeks to explain changes in what matters governments feel can or must be addressed, the tools that are available to deal with problems, and the interactions of government and non-government actors that generate change. Particular emphasis will be placed on studying policy dynamics over long periods of time, including such post-enactment issues as implementation, policy feedback on political identities and group formation, and policy durability.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 19/20
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (20)
Dissertation Research
Teles, Steven Michael
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (20)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (21)
Dissertation Research
Weaver, Vesla
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (21)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (22)
Dissertation Research
Schlozman, Daniel
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (22)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (03)
Independent Study
Chambers, Samuel Allen
Independent Study AS.190.800 (03)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (05)
Independent Study
Connolly, William E
Independent Study AS.190.800 (05)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (08)
Independent Study
David, Steven R
Independent Study AS.190.800 (08)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (11)
Independent Study
Zackin, Emily
Independent Study AS.190.800 (11)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (07)
Independent Study
Culbert, Jennifer
Independent Study AS.190.800 (07)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (15)
Independent Study
Katz, Richard Stephen
Independent Study AS.190.800 (15)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (06)
Independent Study
Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
Independent Study AS.190.800 (06)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (14)
Independent Study
Jabko, Nicolas
Independent Study AS.190.800 (14)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (13)
Independent Study
Parkinson, Sarah
Independent Study AS.190.800 (13)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (09)
Independent Study
Deudney, Daniel Horace
Independent Study AS.190.800 (09)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (10)
Independent Study
Ginsberg, Benjamin
Independent Study AS.190.800 (10)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (12)
Independent Study
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Independent Study AS.190.800 (12)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
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PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (18)
Independent Study
Sheingate, Adam
Independent Study AS.190.800 (18)
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Status: Open
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PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (25)
Independent Study
Kocher, Matthew A
Independent Study AS.190.800 (25)
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Status: Open
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PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (22)
Independent Study
Schlozman, Daniel
Independent Study AS.190.800 (22)
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Level: Graduate
Status: Open
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PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (20)
Independent Study
Teles, Steven Michael
Independent Study AS.190.800 (20)
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Level: Graduate
Status: Open
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PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (24)
Independent Study
Lieberman, Robert C
Independent Study AS.190.800 (24)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
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PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (19)
Independent Study
Spence, Lester
Independent Study AS.190.800 (19)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (21)
Independent Study
Weaver, Vesla
Independent Study AS.190.800 (21)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (23)
Independent Study
Schmidt, Sebastian
Independent Study AS.190.800 (23)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (06)
Dissertation Research
Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (06)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (07)
Dissertation Research
Culbert, Jennifer
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (07)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (04)
Dissertation Research
Chung, Erin
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (04)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (09)
Dissertation Research
Deudney, Daniel Horace
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (09)
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Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 1/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (05)
Dissertation Research
Connolly, William E
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (05)
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Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 2/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (17)
Independent Study
Marlin-Bennett, Renee
Independent Study AS.190.800 (17)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (02)
Dissertation Research
Allan, Bentley
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (02)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
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AS.190.849 (01)
Dissertation Research
Bennett, Jane
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Status: Open
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AS.190.849 (08)
Dissertation Research
David, Steven R
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AS.190.849 (11)
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Zackin, Emily
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AS.190.849 (16)
Dissertation Research
Lawrence, Adria K
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PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (15)
Dissertation Research
Katz, Richard Stephen
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AS.190.849 (14)
Dissertation Research
Jabko, Nicolas
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AS.190.849 (17)
Dissertation Research
Marlin-Bennett, Renee
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AS.190.849 (12)
Dissertation Research
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
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AS.190.849 (13)
Dissertation Research
Lieberman, Robert C
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Status: Open
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AS.190.849 (18)
Dissertation Research
Sheingate, Adam
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Status: Open
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AS.190.849 (03)
Dissertation Research
Chambers, Samuel Allen
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Status: Open
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AS.190.849 (19)
Dissertation Research
Spence, Lester
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AS.190.849 (23)
Dissertation Research
Schmidt, Sebastian
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AS.190.849 (24)
Dissertation Research
Kocher, Matthew A
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AS.190.849 (26)
Dissertation Research
Shilliam, Robert
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AS.190.849 (25)
Dissertation Research
Parkinson, Sarah
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Status: Open
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AS.190.890 (07)
Independent Study
Smith, Wayne
Independent Study AS.190.890 (07)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (02)
Independent Study
Cummings, Milton C., Jr.
Independent Study AS.190.890 (02)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (10)
Independent Study
Grovogui, Siba N
Independent Study AS.190.890 (10)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (08)
Independent Study
Deudney, Daniel Horace
Independent Study AS.190.890 (08)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (05)
Independent Study
Culbert, Jennifer
Independent Study AS.190.890 (05)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (04)
Independent Study
Keck, Margaret E
Independent Study AS.190.890 (04)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (09)
Independent Study
Sheingate, Adam
Independent Study AS.190.890 (09)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (01)
Independent Study
David, Steven R
Independent Study AS.190.890 (01)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (06)
Independent Study
Grossman, Joel B
Independent Study AS.190.890 (06)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (12)
Independent Study
Staff
Independent Study AS.190.890 (12)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (11)
Independent Study
Katz, Richard Stephen
Independent Study AS.190.890 (11)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (14)
Independent Study
Spence, Lester
Independent Study AS.190.890 (14)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.893 (01)
Political Science Practicum
Katz, Richard Stephen
Political Science Practicum AS.190.893 (01)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Approval Required
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (03)
Independent Study
Ginsberg, Benjamin
Independent Study AS.190.890 (03)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.890 (13)
Independent Study
Spence, Lester
Independent Study AS.190.890 (13)
Credits: 0.00 - 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
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Course # (Section)
Title
Day/Times
Instructor
Room
PosTag(s)
Info
AS.190.637 (01)
The Colonial Constitution of the "Human"
W 3:00PM - 5:00PM
Shilliam, Robert
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-IR
The Colonial Constitution of the "Human" AS.190.637 (01)
This course inquires into the colonial constitution of the "human" across philosophical, legal, political, social and economic dimensions. Special attention is paid to the ways in which sexuality, gender, race, class and faith are complicit in this constitution. The course finishes by critically considering theories of the "post-human" from the perspective of both a colonial genealogy of the "human" and anti-colonial claims upon humanism.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): POLI-IR
AS.190.602 (01)
Introduction to Quantitative Political Science
T 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Katz, Richard Stephen
Mergenthaler 366
Introduction to Quantitative Political Science AS.190.602 (01)
An introduction to measurement and data analysis in contemporary American political science. Measurement topics will include the formation of indices and cumulative scales. Analytic topics will topics include sampling variations, statistical association and causation, as manifested in contingency tables and correlation and regression. Emphasis will be on fundamental concepts and assumptions, and on comprehension and evaluation of the scholarly literature. Advanced undergraduates by permission only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.641 (01)
Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States
W 9:00AM - 11:00AM
Weaver, Vesla
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-AP
Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States AS.190.641 (01)
Race has been and continues to be centrally important to American political life and development. In this course, we will engage with the major debates around racial politics in the United States, with a substantial focus on how policies and practices of citizenship, immigration law, social provision, and criminal justice policy shaped and continue to shape racial formation, group-based identities, and group position; debates around the content and meaning of political representation and the responsiveness of the political system to American minority groups; debates about how racial prejudice has shifted and its importance in understanding American political behavior; the prospects for contestation or coalitions among groups; the “struggle with difference” within groups as they deal with the interplay of race and class, citizenship status, and issues that disproportionately affect a subset of their members; and debates about how new groups and issues are reshaping the meaning and practice of race in the United States.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 13/15
PosTag(s): POLI-AP
AS.190.625 (01)
Theories of Comparative Politics
Th 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Mazzuca, Sebastian L
Mergenthaler 366
Theories of Comparative Politics AS.190.625 (01)
This seminar is intended for graduate students planning to take the comprehensive exam in comparative politics, either as a major or as a minor. In addition to exploring central methodological debates and analytic approaches, the seminar reviews the literature on state-society relations, political and economic development, social movements, nationalism, revolutions, formal and informal political institutions, and regime durability vs. transition. Graduate students only.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.601 (01)
Qualitative Research
T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Lawrence, Adria K
Mergenthaler 366
Qualitative Research AS.190.601 (01)
This class is designed to introduce students to qualitative methodology. Practically, students will gain first hand experience with qualitative research methods via research design, ethics review, in-depth interviewing, participant observation, and archival/primary source research. They will learn to deploy analytical techniques such as discourse analysis and process tracing. Students will also be asked to consider the merits of qualitative approaches more generally, and discuss the relative advantages of qualitative, experimental, and quantitative approaches. Questions that we will discuss include: What place should qualitative research have in a research design? Can qualitative research test hypotheses, or only generate them? Can qualitative research explain social phenomena, or only interpret them? What are the disadvantages and advantages of qualitative approaches compared to quantitative approaches? For what kinds of research questions are ethnographic techniques best suited? Is replicability possible for ethnographic field research? What criteria of evidence and analytical rigor apply on this terrain?
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 12/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.649 (01)
The Economic and the Political
M 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Chambers, Samuel Allen
Mergenthaler 366
The Economic and the Political AS.190.649 (01)
The neoclassical paradigm of economics utterly excludes politics, yet a large swath of the subfield of “political economy” presupposes or is predicated upon that very paradigm. Neither approach can account for the distinct force of “the economic” as it continually interacts with “the political” (and the social, the cultural, etc.) This graduate seminar will be an experimental effort in exploring a whole new terrain of the economic — not another critique of the neoclassical paradigm, but the initial (re)formulation of a new approach to the economic and the political.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.433 (01)
Race and the Politics of Punishment in the US
Th 1:30PM - 4:00PM
Weaver, Vesla
Bloomberg 276
INST-AP, SPOL-UL
Race and the Politics of Punishment in the US AS.190.433 (01)
Contact with criminal justice has become a primary way that many Americans see and experience government, particularly those from race-class subjugated communities. Yet, our field has been slow to appreciate the development of the carceral state or to consider its manifold for citizenship. In this advanced undergraduate seminar, we will survey key debates around punishment, state violence, and surveillance, with a particular focus on research that takes institutional development, history and racial orders seriously. Why did the carceral state expand in "fits and starts" and with what consequence for state-building? We explore its (racialized and gendered) relationship to other key systems: foster care, social provision, labor relations and the labor market, and immigration enforcement. A core preoccupation of this course will be to understand the ways in which the criminal justice system "makes race" and how debates about crime and punishment were often debates about black inclusion and equality. How does exposure to criminal justice interventions shape political learning, democratic habits, and racial lifeworlds? In addition to policy, political discourse, and racial politics, we will employ works from a range of fields - history, sociology, law and criminology - and a range of methods (ethnography, historical analysis, quantitative and qualitative). Required books include: Khalil Muhammad's Condemnation of Blackness: race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Elizabeth Hinton's From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, David Oshinsky's Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice, Bruce Western's Punishment and Inequality in America, and Michael Fortner's Black Silent Majority: The Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Politics of Punishment.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 6/15
PosTag(s): INST-AP, SPOL-UL
AS.190.628 (01)
Contemporary Issues in Political Theory
Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Bennett, Jane, Culbert, Jennifer
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-PT
Contemporary Issues in Political Theory AS.190.628 (01)
This graduate course explores contemporary themes and trends in political theory, including recent work on sense, sensibility, discrimination, justice, and walking away. Students enrolled in the course will be required to turn in response papers throughout the semester and write a final paper of 20-30 pages on two or more of the assigned texts.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 7/15
PosTag(s): POLI-PT
AS.190.655 (01)
Decolonizing Time and Memory
T 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Brendese, Philip Joseph, III.
Mergenthaler 266
POLI-PT
Decolonizing Time and Memory AS.190.655 (01)
This graduate seminar is a critical encounter with the colonial imprint on the politics of memory, temporality and race. We shall investigate the recent turn to “decolonize” virtually everything and ask what such efforts might entail given that the hallmarks of colonialism include a disavowal of the past, the capacity to set the clock to zero and begin the world anew, a linear conception of time and an abiding desire for temporal sovereignty. While investigating the possibility of decolonizing futurity, we will pay particular attention to the Promethean construction of the human race (and its constitutive others) across history. We shall confront the role of segregated temporality and mnemonic politics in modern race-making projects and their impact on the contemporary political imagination. Authors may include Nietzsche, Wynter, Fanon, Foucault, Deleuze, Anzaldúa, Baldwin, & Du Bois.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): POLI-PT
AS.190.676 (01)
Field Survey of International Relations
Th 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Allan, Bentley, Marlin-Bennett, Renee
Mergenthaler 366
Field Survey of International Relations AS.190.676 (01)
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.
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (01)
Independent Study
Bennett, Jane
Independent Study AS.190.800 (01)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (20)
Independent Study
Teles, Steven Michael
Independent Study AS.190.800 (20)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (16)
Dissertation Research
Lawrence, Adria K
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (16)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (15)
Dissertation Research
Katz, Richard Stephen
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (15)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (07)
Independent Study
Culbert, Jennifer
Independent Study AS.190.800 (07)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.849 (05)
Dissertation Research
Connolly, William E
Dissertation Research AS.190.849 (05)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (03)
Independent Study
Chambers, Samuel Allen
Independent Study AS.190.800 (03)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 5/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.800 (04)
Independent Study
Chung, Erin
Independent Study AS.190.800 (04)
Credits: 0.00
Level: Graduate
Status: Open
Seats Available: 4/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.642 (01)
Institutions, Power, Ideas and Practices
W 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Jabko, Nicolas
Mergenthaler 366
POLI-CP
Institutions, Power, Ideas and Practices AS.190.642 (01)
Comparative politics scholars have long identified institutions as a crucial source of cross-national variation in political life. Yet institutions are not static. We know from everyday experience that institutions change over time, sometimes quite fast. Scholars have attempted to address the problem of institutional change in various ways. Some institutionalist scholars underscore the endogenous logic of institutional evolution, whereas others resort to exogenous factors such as power. Constructivist and pragmatist scholars foreground ideas and practices as sources of institutional change. This course will explore these different strands of scholarship and attempt to reconstruct a fruitful dialogue between them."
