Political Science

• GRS PO 699: Teaching College Political Science I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in Political Science. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• 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 741: Public Policy Analysis
  Seminar in analytical concepts and rational policymaking models applied to each of several issue areas: education, welfare, health care, economy, and the environment in the United States and Europe.
• GRS PO 750: Political Reform in the Middle East
  
• GRS PO 751: Approaches to the Study of Comparative Politics
  
• GRS PO 756: The Political Economy of the European Community
  Meets with GRS IR 760. Investigates major issues of Western European economic integration, utilizing theories of political/classical economics. Since all previous schemes for economic/monetary integration have failed, identification of conditions, winners, and losers of the integration process is focal.
• GRS PO 764: Seminar on China in the Contemporary World
  (Meets with GRS IR 764.) Examines the various dimensions of China's rise-- economic, military, and in reputation-- and its implications for Asia and the world. Special attention to the links between domestic and foreign policy and to the dynamic of Sino-U.S. relations.
• GRS PO 768: Contemporary Issues in Latin America
  Meets with GRS IR 766. Review and analysis of contemporary developments in Latin America from major print and on-line news sources and journals. Focuses on breaking issues and develops capacity for critical analysis. Required for LASMA students.
• GRS PO 771: Approaches to the Study of International Relations
  Graduate core course. Focuses on approaches and theories of international relations rather than international events. Compares historical, descriptive, normative, and scientific approaches. Surveys a variety of theories of international conflict (e.g., war, arms races), and theories of international integration (e.g., alliances, trade).
• GRS PO 785: Comparative Political Economy of China and India
  (Meets with GRS IR 758.) Compares China and India's economic reform, focusing on their reform policies and government-business relationships. Examines their political development (or lack thereof) during their economic reform. Discusses China and India's rise and implications for the global system.
• GRS PO 786: Conflict and State-Building in Africa
  Meets with GRS IR 786. Examines conflict in contemporary Africa at both the international and domestic levels. Addresses the dynamics of insurgency and inter-state war, as well as the ways in which these conflicts have affected African state-building.
• GRS PO 791: Approaches to the Study of Political Theory
  Graduate core course. An overview of some of the more significant opinions for the study of political theory today, with attention to both substantive and methodological issues.
• GRS PO 796: Ethics and the Use of Force
  Graduate Prerequisites: graduate standing.
  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.
• GRS PO 840: Political Analysis
  An introduction to methodological issues faced in empirical work across the social sciences, with primary reference to political science. Addresses issues using different empirical approaches -- qualitative or quantitative, experimental or observational -- to any sort of theory.
• GRS PO 841: Quantitative Research Methods
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: Social Science Math Boot Camp or consent of instructor.
  An introduction to probability, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, and ordinary least squares regression analysis as used in the social sciences. Emphasizes both theory and applications.
• GRS PO 843: Techniques in Political Analysis: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: GRS PO 841; or equivalent, or consent of the instructor.
  An applied course in quantitative empirical analysis on maximum likelihood models of inference. Topics may include hypothesis testing, linear regression, binary response models, ordered response models, and event count models.