Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the Student Link for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• 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 702: Professional Development for PhD Candidates in Political Science
  For political science PhD students in their second or third year of study and who are preparing for comprehensive exams or are working on a PhD prospectus. Addresses core issues in numerous fields and is taught by members of the GFPS.
• 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 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 760: Problems and Issues of Contemporary Africa
  Topics vary. Topic for Spring 2019: Transitional Justice: Explores the use of trials, truth commissions, memorialization, and amnesia as strategies for dealing with legacies of authoritarianism and violence.
• 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 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 PO 904: 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 proseminar. Offered in the fall, a number of department faculty present their current research. Topics covered include areas such as brain functioning, cognition, genetic bases of behavior, drugs and behavior, addiction, social and developmental psychology and clinical interventions.
• 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 730: Major Perspectives in Psychology: History and Systems
  Provides exposure to the history of major perspectives in psychology, increases understanding of contemporary literature on fundamental issues in psychology, and promotes an integrated understanding of the link between psychological theories and applied psychological principles.

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