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 742: Comparative Public Policy
  Analyzes the policy problems facing industrial countries, identifies clusters of national solutions, and investigates the institutional structures contributing to cross-national variations in policy experiments. Relevant to students interested in public policy and/or comparative politics.
• GRS PO 750: Political Reform in the Middle East
  
• GRS PO 751: Approaches to the Study of Comparative Politics
  
• GRS PO 760: Problems and Issues of Contemporary Africa
  Topic for Fall 2012: Religion and Politics in Africa. The politics of indigenous African religions, Islam, and Christianity. Topics include Islamist and Christian fundamentalist movements, religion and social conflict, and religious engagement on democracy, women's rights, and gay rights.
• 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 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
  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 Anal
  
• GRS PO 841: Quantitative Research Methods
  
• GRS PO 843: Techniques in Political Analysis: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  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.
• 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 PO 912: Directed Study in American Politics
  
• GRS PO 941: Directed Study in Public Policy
  

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