Courses

• GRS PO 741: The Politics of Public Policy
  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 751: Approaches to the Study of Comparative Politics
  Graduate Core Seminar. In this intensive reading seminar on the political approaches to the study of comparative politics, students get acquainted with the key epistemological and methodological writings that have formed the basic inquiry known today as comparative politics.
• GRS PO 756: The Political Economy of the European Union
  Meets with GRS IR 760. Investigates major issues of European economic integration, including the Single Market and European Monetary Union. Explores the theoretical and practical problems of integration. Considers the crisis of the Euro and its consequences for European member-state economies and democracies.
• GRS PO 760: Problems and Issues of Contemporary Africa
  Topics vary. Topic for Fall 2016: Religion and Politics in Africa. Explores 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 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 789: The United States and the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific
  Focuses on contemporary issues in U.S. relations with Japan, China, Taiwan, North and South Korea, and Russian involvement in East Asia. The implications of social economic, political, strategic changes in East Asia for U.S. policy and the management of international affairs are highlighted.
• 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 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
  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
  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 903: Research Workshop
  This course is for Political Science PhD students of all years. It includes preparation for the second year paper, the dissertation prospectus, the dissertation, job talks, and grant and fellowship proposals.
• 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. Topics vary. Descriptions available in the main office of the Psychology Department.
• 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.

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