This seminar is designed to serve five goals: To acquaint students with many of the leading theories within the field of comparative politics. Students will be made aware of the relevant literatures so that they will be able to connect their own research to broad disciplinary concerns. The weekly …
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PS 837 Formal Models of International Relations
The purpose of this course is to survey applications of game theory to in-ternational relations and further develop students’ game theoretic modeling skills. Students should have some familiarity with both game theory and international relations …
PS 818 Maximum Likelihood Estimation
The aim of this course is to expand your portfolio of tools for data anal-ysis. Maximum likelihood methods open the door wide for a variety of substantive areas of interest. We will not be able …
PS 817 Empirical Methods of Political Inquiry
Political science, like all mature academic fields, advances by scholarly research. This course introduces graduate students to the issues that commonly arise in qualitative and quantitative empirical political science research designs and their execution. Because …
PS 800 Political Science as a Discipline and Profession
This course provides an introduction to political science as a discipline and a profession. For our review of the discipline, we will consider a variety of approaches to the study of policies. For our review …
PS 704 International Security, Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
This course will introduce the student to the politics of nuclear weapons. The course will cover the origins of nuclear weapons, the reasons states seek them, the strategies developed for their use, the consequences of …
PS 701 American Foreign Policy
The purpose of this class is to undertake a historical and analytical examination of U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II. The course is divided into three main topics. First, we will discuss the history …
PS 683 Senior Honors Thesis Seminar
This semester, you will settle on a topic for your senior thesis, learn the basics of research design, develop a research design, a working bibliography, a timeline for the second semester, write a thesis proposal, …
PS 667 Introduction to Contentious Politics
What explains when, where, and why people come together to engage in acts of political protest? How do we understand the emergence and growth of social movements? Of political upheavals dramatic enough to be understood …
PS 663 Russian Politics
A historic transition is underway in Russia. Breaking with its authoritarian past, Russia is making an effort to become a market democracy. During the upcoming semester, we will assess the progress to date and try …