Courses

• 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.
• 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 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 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 bureaucratic, as well as domestic, regional, and international factors. Includes case studies of contemporary issues to highlight decision-making processes, intruments of implemention, and policy consequences.
• 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
  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 811: Special Topics in American Government
  
• GRS PO 840: Political Anal
  
• GRS PO 841: Quantitative Research Methods
  
• GRS PO 842: Comparative Development and Underdevelopment
  A comprehensive course designed for graduate students interested in issues of development. Its principal objective is to provide a forum for the systematic consideration of a host of current practical problems and controversies in development, as well as to introduce students to theoretical trends in development studies. The emphasis is at once international and comparative.
• GRS PO 853: Selected Topics in Comparative Politics
  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 PS 699: Teaching of Psychology I
  Goals, contents, and methods of instruction in psychology. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all new teaching fellows. Yearlong course.
• GRS PS 704: Contemporary Trends in Psychology
  MA and PhD proseminar. Required for all MA candidates and for all PhD candidates in the programs in clinical and human development.
• GRS PS 711: Statistics in Psychology I
  General linear models including multiple regression and logistic regression; multilevel models; survival analysis; interaction effects.
• GRS PS 712: Statistics in Psychology II
  Statistical analysis with latent variables including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation models, latent growth models, psychometrics.
• GRS PS 716: Psychological Research Methods
  The methodological foundations of psychological research, including issues in general scientific practice, research design, measurement, methods of data collection, and practical and ethical problems arising in the conduct of psychological research.
• GRS PS 732: Behavioral Medicine
  Examines applications from the social and behavioral sciences and the allied health professions as they are integrated within the practice of traditional medicine. Examples of interventional strategies, treatments, and procedures, including biofeedback and hypnosis.
• GRS PS 734: Psychopharmacology for the Behavioral Scientist
  Basic principles of pharmacology, drugs used in treatment of mental illness, drugs having abuse potential. Current issues in psychopharmacology.
• GRS PS 737: Memory Systems of the Brain
  Survey of investigations into the brain systems and neurobiological mechanisms of memory. Includes experimental studies of amnesia associated with brain damage in humans, experimental models of amnesia in animals, and neurophysiological studies of brain activity that encodes memories in animals and humans. Focus on evidence for multiple forms of memory and distinct brain systems that mediate them.
• GRS PS 747: Infant Development
  The origins of human cognition, specifically, how infants come to perceive a unified, stable, and meaningful world despite the ever-changing and fragmentary nature of sensory input. A number of topics bearing on social and nonsocial cognition are examined in the light of major theories of cognitive development

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