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Instructor
Room
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AS.190.615 (01)
War and Society in World Politics
M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Barkawi, Tarak Karim
Gilman 77
War and Society in World Politics AS.190.615 (01)
This course is an advanced introduction to war in the modern world, encompassing its political, social, cultural and ecological dimensions. It adopts a “war and society” approach in that it covers the ways in which society shapes war and, in turn, how war shapes society. It situates “war and society” in an historically evolving global context, attending to the nature of war in both the core and the periphery of world politics. Topics include the totalization and industrialization of war; civil-military relations; modernity, reason and war; “small war”; and race, culture and war.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 4:30PM - 7:00PM
Instructor: Barkawi, Tarak Karim
Room: Gilman 77
Status: Open
Seats Available: 3/5
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.630 (01)
Interpretation and Critique of Political Ideas
Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Simon, Josh David
Mergenthaler 366
Interpretation and Critique of Political Ideas AS.190.630 (01)
This is a graduate seminar on the interpretive and critical problems that arise when political theorists read and write about texts from long, long ago or far, far away. The first part of the course will consider approaches to the history of European political thought influenced by Marx, Foucault, Strauss, Skinner, and Arendt, amongst others. Readings will include both major methodological statements and examples of interpretive and critical scholarship undertaken by proponents of these different schools of thought. In the second part of the course, we will ask whether and how methods developed to analyze and learn from the history of political thought can be applied to the study of political thinkers who lived and wrote outside western Europe and North America. Major questions for consideration in both parts of the course include: Can old ideas help us solve problems arising in contemporary politics and political theory? What can we learn from intellectual traditions unconnected to our own? What do we have to do in order to understand the ideas contained within a given text? Do we have to understand a text for it to be useful to us?
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: Th 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Simon, Josh David
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.648 (01)
Writing for Research
W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Amat Matus, Consuelo; Lieberman, Robert C
Mergenthaler 366
Writing for Research AS.190.648 (01)
This course is designed to help graduate students in political science craft an original piece of high-quality writing. This class is open to students in their first, second, or third years of the graduate program. We will work on developing the skill of academic writing step by step, focusing first on the question of how to identify and articulate a good question, second on the skill of literature review, third on the art of theoretical engagement, and fourth on the presentation of evidence. During the semester, students may choose to turn a set of interests and questions into a prospectus draft. Alternatively, they may decide to use the class to turn a seminar paper into a dissertation chapter, or a revise a dissertation chapter into an article manuscript. Special sessions will bring other faculty to the class to talk about writing a dissertation and the peer-review process.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 12:00PM - 2:00PM
Instructor: Amat Matus, Consuelo; Lieberman, Robert C
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 14/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.676 (01)
Field Survey of International Relations
W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Marlin-Bennett, Renee E; Schmidt, Sebastian
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: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: W 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Instructor: Marlin-Bennett, Renee E; Schmidt, Sebastian
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 11/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.691 (01)
The Hopkins Seminar on Racial Politics
M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Valdez, Inés
Mergenthaler 366
The Hopkins Seminar on Racial Politics AS.190.691 (01)
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.
Credits: 3.00
Level: Graduate
Days/Times: M 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Instructor: Valdez, Inés
Room: Mergenthaler 366
Status: Open
Seats Available: 15/15
PosTag(s): n/a
AS.190.693 (01)
Directed Readings: Research Methods & Perspectives on China
Th 9:30AM - 11:30AM
Ang, Yuen Yuen
Mergenthaler 366
Directed Readings: Research Methods & Perspectives on China AS.190.693 (01)
Focusing on directed readings, this PhD seminar will first explore the logic of research design in the social sciences, before applying these techniques to China. Then we will survey the history of Chinese studies in the United States, the evolution of data sources, research methods, and compare perspectives in the study of Chinese politics and political economy. Taught in conjunction with speaker events at 555 Penn, the first half of the course will be taught at Homewood and the other half at 555.
