Introductory Courses

CAS PO 101 Introduction to Political Science
Overview of political science and its subfields: American politics, public policy, comparative politics, international relations, and political theory. Focus on core questions and issues in the discipline, with lectures on their specialties by members of the department faculty. This course is no longer required for all political science majors.

Undergraduate Core Courses

CAS PO 211 Introduction to American Politics
Core Course. Study of the national political structure; emphasis on Congress, the executive, administrative agencies, and the judiciary. Relations between formal institutions, parties, and interest groups.

CAS PO 241 Introduction to Public Policy
Core Course. Analysis of several issue areas: civil rights, school desegregation, welfare and social policy, education and urban housing, energy and the environment, etc. Characteristics of policy systems in each issue area analyzed to identify factors which may affect the content and implementation of public policies.

CAS PO 251 Introduction to Comparative Politics
Core Course. Examines different patterns of political development and contemporary politics in Western Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the former Soviet bloc. Introduces the comparative method in political science and competing theories of political development and political change.

CAS PO 271 Introduction to International Relations
Core Course. Study of basic factors in international relations, Western state system, balance of power, nationalism, and imperialism. Primarily for concentrators.

CAS PO 291 Introduction to Political Theory
Core Course. Examines classic and current views on the nature of authority, liberty, and justice. Topics include civil disobedience, freedom of expression, abortion rights, and affirmative action.

American Politics

CAS PO 300 Topics in American Politics
Prerequisites: Junior standing or consent of the instructor. Topics vary. Possible offerings include American Congress, Voting Behaviors, Separation of Powers, Use of Force, Race and Politics. Topic for Fall 2006: Congress and the American Political System. Surveys the legislative branch, including representation and elections, party leadership, committee power, rules and procedures, and inter-branch relations. Special attention to changes in Congress, current controversies such as war powers and campaign finance, and the U.S. separation of powers system.

CAS PO 315 The Judicial Process
Prerequisites: CAS PO 211. Introduction to the judicial process. Topics include the role of lawyers and judges, the structure of the court system, juries, and legal reasoning. Primarily intended for student who have little or no exposure to law courses.

CAS PO 317 Presidential Leadership
Presidential power and functions; relations with Congress, political party, and the public; personality and leadership; and comparative study of selected presidents.

CAS PO 318 United States Political Parties
Detailed consideration of the political party as a functional organization: party leaders and followers, partisanship and electoral strategy, shifts and realignments in party politics.

CAS PO 324 Media and Politics in the United States
Prerequisite: PO 211 or consent of the instructor. Examines changes over time in the American polity's assumptions about what the press ought to do. In particular, relates our understanding of the press's role to contemporary media developments including technological changes, corporate media ownership, and the re-amateurization of journalism.

CAS PO 512 Informal Political Processes
Prerequisite: PO 211 or consent of instructor. Study of informal political processes which link private demands and supports to formal institutions. Emphasis primarily on media, political parties, and interest groups. Political communications in literature and the arts are also covered.

CAS PO 513 Development of American Constitutional Law
Prerequisite: PO 211. A survey of the development of constitutional law and the exercise of power by the US Supreme Court. The course is drawn entirely from decisions of the US Supreme Court and the principal theme is the development of national constitutions and power.

CAS PO 514 The Judiciary and Civil Liberties
Prerequisite: PO 513. First Amendment rights of speech, press, assembly, religion; rights of defendants in criminal cases; and the constitutional protection of racial minorities. Supreme Court decision making processes and modes of compliance with its decisions are also considered.

CAS PO 518 American Politics and the Use of Force
Prerequisite: PO 211 and junior standing or consent of the instructor. Examines how domestic politics drive the use of force in the postwar United States. Explores how Congress, courts, interest groups, media, and public opinion define Presidential action in times of crisis, as well as the kinds of crises that evoke action.

CAS PO 625 Political Movements in America
Prereq: CAS PO 211 or consent of instructor. Study of historical and current political movements in United States, including populism, environmentalism, civil rights, peace, and welfare. Why movements arise, why they fail, or why and how they are transformed; what role strategies, values, and leaders play; and what impact these movements have on political institutions and public policy.

GRS PO 711 Approaches to the Study of American Politics
Graduate Core Course. Introduces students to major theoretical, substantive, and methodological problems in the study of American politics by examining two sets of literature: scholarly debates and discussion of theory and research, and the concrete research of leading Americanists.

GRS PO 721 Political Power in the American City

GRS PO 723 Constitutional Theory
Focuses on selected topics in the development of American constitutional law. Topic for the current academic year is the legitimacy of judicial review in a constitutional democracy. Requirements are a seminar-length paper and a class presentation. Offered alternate years.

GRS PO 733 Comparative Public Administration

GRS PO 811 Special Topics in American Government

GRS PO 911 Directed Study in American Politics

Methodology

CAS PO 502 Political Analysis: A Primer
Prerequisite: MA 113 or higher level statistics course. (This course may be used for elective credit only.) The logic and methods of empirical analysis in political science. Includes discussion of experimental, observational, ehtnographic, and mass survey research designs. Recommended for students pursuing Work for Distinction or considering graduate work in political science.

GRS PO 840 Political Analysis
An introduction to the methodology of social science as applied to the study of politics. Includes discussion of core debates in philosophy of science, various approaches to political science, and questions of research design.

GRS PO 841 Quantitative Research
Quantitative research methods and designs used in political analysis and policy evaluation. Students gain a basic knowledge of research design, research issues, data file construction, multiple regression analysis, and time series cross-sections using Stata and graphical presentation of data with Stata and Excel.

Public Policy

CAS PO 341 Comparative Public Policy
Prereq: CAS PO 241 or consent of instructor. Comparative study of the public policies of advanced industrialized socieities in such areas as health training, unemployment, poverty, and budget. Explores why countries develop different solutions to policy needs, and evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of various national approaches.

CAS PO 544 Interest Groups, Public Opinion, and the Policy Process

Focuses on public opinion and interest group activities as they affect the policy-making process in the United States. Attention is paid to the role of the media, of lobbying, of litigation, and of the electoral process.

CAS PO 548 The Politics of Education
Overview of the origins of public schooling, the purpose of public education, and current educational policy and research.

CAS PO621 The Political Economy of Advanced Industrialized Societies
Economic development creates certain requirements for government action, yet policies differ widely across countries. This course investigates the interaction between politics and economics in advanced industrialized societies.

GRS PO 741 Public Policy Analysis
Graduate Core Seminar. Seminar in analytical concepts and rational policy-making models applied to each of several issue areas: education, welfare, health care, economy, and the environment in the United States and Europe.

Comparative Politics

CAS PO 342 Women and Politics-Course counts toward Women's Studies minor credit
Readings, discussion, and field research on issues of women's relationship to the processes of political influence, change, and empowerment.  Analysis of public policy related to women and children. (Meets with CAS WS 350).

CAS PO 351 The Politics of Race and Ethnicity
Definitional hypotheses of race and ethnicity based on cultural, sociological, and biological determinants tested against concrete examples of plural societies in Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Correlations between racial/ethnic differentiation and sociopolitical stratification and cleavages examined.

CAS PO 352 North-South Relations
Recommended: EC 101 and EC 102 . Employs a multidisciplinary approach to analyze the relations between the industrialized nations of the "North" and the developing nations of the "South." Addresses historical and current issues in North-South relations, including trade, investments, migration, regional economic integration, and the environment. (Meets with CAS IR 395).

CAS PO 355 International Political Economy
Prereq: CAS EC 101 and EC 102.  Emphasizes the dynamic interaction between politics and economics to understand and explain historical and contemporary issues in international political economy, including international monetary, trade, investment, financial, and environmental relations. Considers emerging challenges and structures in the international political economy. (Meets with CAS IR 390).

CAS PO 361 European Politics
Comparative study of politics in member states of the European Union, with emphasis on political development, institutions, major issues in contemporary politics, and the impact of European integration. Selective references to original and new member states of the EU.

CAS PO 363 Soviet Politics, 1917-1991
Analysis of the structure and functioning of major political institutions-government bureaucracy. Communist party, and others-and polity-society relations during the 74 years of the USSR's existence. Prime focus is institutional rather than historical and deals with the Soviet political "game" as it was played. (Meets with CAS IR 363).

CAS PO 364 The Politics of Post-Communist Russia
Analysis of the emergent political focus, institutions, and alliances in the post-soviet Russian Federation, against the background of the unresolved economic, ethnic, and social problems that are the USSR's legacy to the "new Russia"; prospects for stabilization are assessed in the context of the multiple crises facing Russia in the 1990s. (Meets with CAS IR 364).

CAS PO 365 The Pacific Challenge
The dynamic growth of the Pacific Rim countries poses an impressive array of challenges for the United States and the world. Analyzes Japanese trade and defense policies; the rise of "mini-dragons" (Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore); and "new mini-dragons" (Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia); "Confucian capitalism"; democratization (and its failure in China); legacies of the Indochina war; etc. (Meets with PO IR 275).

CAS PO 367 Introduction to Latin American Politics and International Relations
Introduction to the patterns and complexities of Latin American politics and foreign policies. Focuses on the distinctive Latin American political experience and alternative explanations for it, including colonization, the international economy, and human and material resource capacity and utilization. Includes an honors section. (Meets with PO IR 367).

CAS PO369 China: From Revolution to Reform
Explores the economic, political, and social upheavals that followed the Chinese revolution in 1949 and the cause of subsequent inauguration of reform in the late 1970's. Analyzes the tensions that brought about the 1989 upheaval in Tiananmen Square, as well as the implications of China's emergence as an economic power. (Meets with CAS IR 370).

PO 521 Democratic Governance
What is good governance, and what are its social and political bases? These questions, at the heart of political science since Aristotle, are addressed empirically, through case studies tracing the performance of democratic nation-states across several policy dimensions.

PO 523 Global Justice
Charts the course of human development over history and inquires why the quality of life varies so dramatically in the world today. Geographic, economic, cultural, and poitical factors are explored

CAS PO 550 Political Economy of Latin America
Prereq: CAS EC 101 and CAS EC 102. Recommended: CAS EC 369. Addresses historical and contemporary issues in Latin American political economy. Uses case studies and cross-regional comparisons to assess competing explanations. Analyzes the current political and economic situation facing Latin America in its quest for economic growth and development. (Meets with CAS IR 590).

CAS PO 551 Comparative Political Development
An investigation of contemporary debates on democracy and the state with implications for contemporary American society as well as that of developing nations.

CAS PO 553 Political Economy of Mexico and NAFTA
Recommended: EC 101 and EC 102 . Explores the dynamics of Mexico's political economy and Mexico's participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement in order to understand the causes and effects of the profound transformation of Mexico in recent years. Addresses challenges that lie ahead. (Meets with CAS IR 575).

CAS PO 556 The Reemergence of Russia
Disintegration of the old Soviet system and signs of a reemerging Russia; careers of Gorbachev and Yeltsin and their attack on the foundation of Stalinism; Moscow's role in the 1989 revolutions; the August 1991 coup d'etat. The legacy of communism in the present medical and ecological crises; current political developments. Also offered as UNI SS 542 Seminar in Russian and East European Studies. (Meets with CAS IR 542).

CAS PO 557 The Changing Face of Eastern Europe
Domestic and foreign policies of East European states, their relationships with the former Soviet Union and with each other. Emphasis is on the period 1989-92, but recent events are presented with the historical contexts. Analysis of the formation and subsequent implosion of the Soviet sphere in Europe. The collapse of communism in Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria and its impact on the Soviet crisis, the Western alliance, and international relations. Also offered as UNI SS543. (Meets with CAS IR 543).

CAS PO 558 Problems and Issues in Post-Mao China
An in-depth examination of politics in post-Mao China, the course focuses on several critical issues and uses various conceptual frameworkds to try to understand why the reform process broke down and examines prospects for the future. (Meets with CAS IR 585).

CAS PO 559 Reckoning with the Past: Reparations and Justice in Comparative Perspective
The debate about reparations for slavery and Jim Crow segregation in the United States examined critically as conversation about, and movement for, retrospective justice. Includes discussion of war crimes tribunals and truth commissions. Also offered as CAS AA 559.

CAS PO 560 Politics and Society in North Africa and the Middle East
An investigation of contemporary North Africa and the Middle East, with emphasis on current socioeconomic and political trends and tensions.

CAS PO 562 The State and Public Purpose in Asia
Explores how non-communist Asian governments have attempted to advance public purpose, and how organizational factors in countries' governments affect their ability to do so. These questions are addressed in a comparative framework, considering both theory and cases. (Meets with CAS IR 520).

PO 564 From Slavery to Freedom: Abolition in Comparative Perspective
How did legalized slavery, a world-wide practice for thousands of years, end? The process of abolition in the Americas, Africa, and elsewhere is examined and compared to the later regulation of forced labor and to contemporary slavery. (Meets with CAS AA 564.)

CAS PO 565 Government and Politics of Contemporary Africa
Analysis of independent black Africa; factors of continuity and change in modern Africa, problems of political order, ambiguities of independence. Case studies of individual countries selected for additional emphasis on specific issues and problems of the developing countries.

CAS PO 566 Political Systems of Southern Africa
Analysis of the balance of political forces in the multiracial societies of southern Africa; emphasis on the problems of governmental stability, the prospects for integration and disintegration, the range of responses to interracial tensions, and the international repercussions.

CAS PO 567 Latin American Politics
The nature and evolution of politics in the region, with emphasis on 20th century patterns in specific countries. Considers the physical, historical, social and economic constraints which have affected political development and the various explanations available to advance our understanding.

CAS PO 569 Politics and Social Change in Postwar Japan

CAS PO 580 Democracy in Latin America and Its Challenges
Provides an overview of democracy's achievements and challenges in Latin America. Draws comparisons between stable and unstable democracies in the region, and analyzes the reasons for, and implications of, these differences. (Meets with CAS IR 566.)

CAS PO 586 Nationalism in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Nationalism as a force for conflict and integration in the former USSR and the emergent nations of central Eurasia. Origins, characteristics, and interactions of these nations. It is possible to reconcile human rights, national rights, and international peace?

CAS PO 588 Turkey and the European Union: The History and Contemporary Aspects of Turkey's European Path
Prerequisite: Junior standing. Examines the relationship between Turkey and the European Union (EU). Interaction of two data sets is considered: key concepts, actors, concerns and issues of European integration; historical and contemporary hallmarks of Turkey's political, economic, cultural, and military development. (Meets with CAS IR 558.)

CAS PO 621 Seminar: The Political Economy of Advanced Industrialized Societies
Survey forces contributing to national differences in social and economic policy; identifies current challenges to state sovereignty, such as globaliztion and immigration; and examines how nations from different welfare regimes are coping with these threats to the nation-stae.

CAS PO 657 Problems in Comparative Political Analysis
Focuses on the problem of nationalism. Distinguishes between and compares types of nationalism, examines their origins, and analyzes their political, social, and economic implications using as examples England, France, Germany, Russia, and the United States. A particular emphasis is placed on the possible role on national consciousness as a stimulus of radical political change, specifically revolutionary change. Time permitting, the extent to which various nationalisms may be affected by certain economic trends, such as globalization and conditions for the emergence of supra-national identities is also discussed. (Meets with UNI SS 657).

CAS PO 661 Continental Western European Governments
Seminar on political development, contemporary institutions, and political economy of several West European countries. Examines competing explanations of differing outcomes in these areas, as well as aspects of the process of European integration, and its impact on domestic politics.

GRS PO 750 Political Reform in the Middle East
This seminar analyzes and rethinks Middle East politics. Authoritarian governments rule most of the Middle East, but internal and external pressures for change are mounting. Given the tenuousness of the status quo, political reform will be hard to avoid. (Meets with GRS IR 707).

GRS PO 751 Approaches to the Study of Comparative Politics
Graduate Core Seminar. An intensive reading seminar on the political approaches to the study of comparative politics, student get acquainted with the key epistemological and methodological writings that have formed the basic inquiry known today as comparative politics.

GRS PO 754 Civil Society and the State
This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on the civil society-state nexus. The seminar features a critical analysis of the civil society construct, including its value for understanding democratization and liberalization in developing areas, and its role in mature democracies. (Meets with GRS IR 711).

GRS PO 759 Japanese Political Economy
Examines various aspects of the Japanese economy, ranging from the Occupation to the roles of political parties and the bureaucracy. Considers state-society relations and the nature of the Japanese state from both the theoretical and empirical angles. (Meets with CAS IR 765).

GRS PO 760 Problems and Issues of Contemporary Africa
The range of problems selected for emphasis varies from year to year but has recurrently encompassed such issues as governance, state-society relations, the ambiguities of independence, nation building, and democratization, the role of the military, the incidence of religion and ethnicity, the problematics of grass roots participation, mobilization, class consciousness, civil society, and electoral systems.

GRS PO 767 Seminar: Latin American Comparative Politics
Review of comparative politics literature, combined with country case studies, to assess to what degree Latin America is "the graveyard of development theories." Particular attention on recent patterns of redemocratization and economic liberalism and their multiple challenges. (Meets with GRS IR 767).

GRS PO 842 Comparative Development and Underdevelopment
A comprehensive course designed for graduate students interested in issues of development. Its principle objective is to provide a forum for the systematic consideration of a host of current practical problems and controversies in development, as well as introduce students to theoretical trends in development studies. The emphasis is at once international and comparative.

GRS PO 853 Selected Topics in Comparative Politics
Prerequisite: GRSPO840 and graduate standing, or consent of instructor. GRS PO 751 recommended. Seminar exploring the implications of European social theories for research in
comparative politics. Surveys key debates among European theorists over such
questions as the relationship between culture and power, political identity in postcolonial
states, and cosmopolitanism.

GRS PO 951 Directed Study in Comparative Politics

International Relations

CAS PO 366 History of American Foreign Relations Since 1898
Analysis of the history of American foreign policy from the perspective of the changing world and regional international systems; emphasis on the effect of these systems and the impact of America on the creation and operation of international systems. (Meets with CAS HI 366 and CAS IR 365).

CAS PO 370 International Conflicts and Cooperation
Prerequisites: CAS PO 271/ IR 271. Is world politics "winner take all" or mutual gain? Do individuals count? Why do nations expand? Does it pay to fight? How do friends become foes and foes friends? Can swords become plowshares? Can we make a better world? Organizing for peace and human rights.

CAS PO 372 Making Sense of the World: Conceptual Foundations of International Relations
Introduction to various analytical approaches for understanding the dynamics of global interaction. Explores the variety of "worlds" made visible through the lens of theory. Fosters critical thinking about how conceptual tools shape our understanding of the world and attempted solutions to global problems. (Meets with CAS IR 360).

CAS PO 375 Russian and Post-Soviet Foreign Relations
Decisive factors in the foreign relations of Russia and the other former Soviet republics, including historical continuity and change, survival and change of ideology, domestic politics, economic and geographical factors, military and external political considerations. The future of arms control, nuclear weapons, the economy, and relations among the former republics are also examined.

CAS PO 504 Political and Cultural Foundations of Human Developement
Prerequisite: Junior Standing or consent of the instructor. Examines how the United Nations and Freedom House rank human development across different countries and civilizations; how revolutions in mass literacy, individual freedom, and respect for human dignity have shaped human development; benefits and threats from technology and globalization.

CAS PO 568 U.S. - Latin American Relations
The international context within which Latin American countries operate, with primary emphasis on U.S. policy toward the region. Includes historical overview, the policymaking process itself, and case studies of specific policy issues. (Meets withs IR 568).

CAS PO 570 U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Examines half a century of extensive and often intrusive involvement of the United States in the Middle East. Analyzes the extent to which U.S. policies in the region have been driven by real politik versus idealism, especially in terms declared commitments to protect the flow of oil from the region, insure the security of Israel, and promote the development of democracy. Analyzes the importance of the Cold War for understanding previous U.S. policies in the Middle East, as well as the quest for a post-Cold War paradigm. Students form working groups to write and present papers on key policy themes. (Meets with CAS IR 503).

CAS PO 576 Decision Making in U.S. Foreign Policy
Examination of international crises from the perspective of the individual decision maker. Critical analysis and testing of the theoretical frameworks used to explain how states and statesmen behave in a crisis situation.

CAS PO 577 Negotiation in World Affairs
What makes for success/ failure in negotiation? Examines how international actors use negotiation to advance their interests, resolve disputes, and mediate others. Case studies are drawn from crisis management, arms control, environmental controversies, and third-party interventions.

CAS PO 578 The Foreign Policy of the People's Republic of China
Explores the evolution of China's perceptions of its role in the world. Emphasizes both China's changing security and economic relationships within the international system, and its attempts to evolve from a regional to a world power. In addition to a critical examination of China's relationships with the superpowers and Third World, this course examines China's changing relationship to the world economy, with particular reference to technology and capital transfers. (Meets with CAS IR 577)

CAS PO 579 Japan in International Politics
International and domestic influences on Japan's international behavior in the past as a predictor of Japan's future role in international politics. Covers Japan's role in the Cold War, post-war Asia, and the management of the global economy. Examines viability of the post-Cold War U.S.-Japan relationship. (Meets with CAS IR 579)

CAS PO 581 National Development and International Politics
An examination of North-South relations in the postwar era, with emphasis on the connections between internal and external dimensions of national and international development. Develops theoretical implications relevant for students of comparative politics, foreign policy, and international relations.

CAS PO 674 The United States as a World Power
The course material is organized along a debate format. Although the course is primarily concerned with twentieth-century US foreign policy, attention is also given to eighteenth-and nineteenth-century issues. Open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students only.

CAS PO 676 Political Biography
This course uses political biographies and memoir literature to evaluate twentieth-century international relations and statecraft. Topics vary year to year. Possible topics include an examination of biographical literature related to World War II, the Cold War, and Third World political leaders.

CAS PO 684 Russia and the World
Anaylsis of Russian foreign policy in the late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Shifting policy patterns toward Russia's border lands, Europe, the United States, China, and the Third World.

GRS PO 771 Approaches to the Study of International Relations
Graduate Core Seminar. Focuses on approaches and theories of international relations, rather than international events. Compares historical, descriptive, normative, and scientific approaches. Surveys a variety of theories on international conflict (e.g., war, arms races), and theories of international integration (e.g., alliances, trade).

GRS PO 782 Negotiation in World Affairs
How states and other international actors use negotiation to advance their interests, resolve their own disputes, and mediate others. Case studies are drawn from crises management, arms control, environmental controversies, and third-party interventions. What makes for success and failure in negotiation?

CAS PO 786 Africa in International Relations
Deals with the preconditions of foreign policy autonomy, the encapsulation of African actors in the dynamics of non-African foreign policy conceptualizations, and the range of options available to African states - from neutrality to alignment and from dependency to collective action.

GRS PO 787 Latin American Policies of the United States
Examination of the key factors shaping past and present U.S. policies toward Latin America -- including political, economic, and beaurocratic, as well as domestic, regional, and international factors. Includes case studies of contemporary issues to highlight decision-making processes, instruments of implementation, and policy consequences.

GRS PO 971 Directed Study in International Politics

Political Theory

CAS PO 390 Utopias and Dystopias
A study of the more famous fictitious political communities: Plato's Republic, Machiavelli's Prince, More's Utopia, and Orwell's 1984. Issues include the nature of the good society, the tension between political ideals and political realities, and the role of imagination in political theory and political practice.

CAS PO 391 Classical and Early Modern Political Theory
A substantive, nonhistorical study of the principal political ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, and the Protestant reformers.

CAS PO 392 Modern Political Theory
Intensive study of the political philosophy of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, and Nietzsche. Classes are generally a combination of lecture and discussion but will also include formal debates, guest lectures, and films.

CAS PO 393 Writers and Politics
Examines the response of some major twentieth-century writers to the political events of their day. Among the writers discussed are Kafka, Brecht, Mann, Malraux, Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and Kundera.

CAS PO 394 Introduction to Political Theory

CAS PO 395 The European Enlightenment
Survey of the intellectual and social transformation of Europe from the 1680s to the
French Revolution. Readings draw on both eighteenth-century sources (including
Voltaire, Diderot, Condorcet, Lessing, Smith, and Hume) and recent work by historians.
Also offered as CAS HI 314.

CAS PO 396 Development of American Political Thought
American political theory from its origins in English liberalism to the present day. Our political tradition in contrast to major political ideas of Europe; uniqueness of our historical inheritance.

CAS PO 691 Seminar in Political Philosophy
An in-depth study of a major political philosopher or topic in political philosophy. Open to juniors, seniors, and graduate students.

CAS PO 693 Enlightenment and Its Critics
Explores how eighteenth-century criticisms of the Enlightenment have been taken up by
twentieth-century thinkers such as Heidegger, Horkeimer, Adorno, Gadamer, and
Foucault; discusses recent defenses of Enlightenment ideals of reason, critique and
autonomy by Habermas and others. Also offered as CAS HI 514.

GRS PO 791 Approaches to the Study of Political Theory
Graduate Core Seminar. Three questions are central to the field that is called "political theory": What is the purpose of government? What is the purpose of political philosophy? and What is the relation between government and political philosophy?

GRS PO 795 Advanced Seminar in Political Philosophy
Prerequisites: graduate standing and consent of instructor. Detailed examination of topics in the history of Greek, Roman, and/or European Political Philosophy. Taught in conjunction with the Benedict Lecture in the History of Political Thought. Topic for 1998: Solitude and Society in Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

CAS PO 796 Ethics and the Use of Force
Acquaints students with the great debates in the ethics and law of war, and examines
how the resort to and conduct of war is, or is not, circumscribed by normative concerns.

Distinction Work

CAS PO 401, 402 Independent Work in Political Science
Open to upper division concentrators. Students have a minimum GPA of 3.5 with 3.7 in the concentration plus the ability to do independent work in the judgment of the concentration faculty advisor.

Directed Study or Research

CAS PO 491, 492 Directed Study or Research in Political Science
Prerequisite: consent of instructor, stamped approval, and approval of the Academic Advising Center, CAS room 105.

GRS PO 901, 902 Directed Study in Methodology

GRS PO 911, 912 Directed Study in American Politics

GRS PO 941, 942 Directed Study in Public Policy

GRS PO 951, 952 Directed Study in Comparative Politics

GRS PO 971, 972 Directed Study in International Relations

GRS PO 991, 992 Directed Study in Political Theory