PS 551: Introduction to Statistical Inference for Political Research
Course Description: Basic statistics course intended to provide students skills essential to read quantitative literature in Political Science and use basic empirical analyses. Fundamentals of probability theory and statistical inference up through bivariate regression and correlation.
Pre-Reqs: Completion of QRA. Sophomore standing
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PS 552: Multivariable Statistical Inference for Political Research
Course Description: Extensive treatment of multiple regression and its variants.
Pre-Reqs: PS 551 or equivalent
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PS 553: Introduction to Statistical Computing in Political Science
Course Description: Introduction to the issues of statistical computing in political science using statistical packages such as STATA and R with emphasis on developing sound practices for organizing data, protocols, and results in empirical research.
Pre-Reqs: Grad student or consent of instructor
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PS 800: Political Science as a Discipline and Profession
Course Description: Describes and evaluates major approaches used in political science. Explores issues related to professional development and political science careers.
Pre-reqs: 1st year doctoral student in Political Science
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PS 801: Research and Writing Seminar
Course Description: Intended for PhD students in political science to develop a seminar or conference paper into a publishable journal article. Emphasis on editing, revising, and peer feedback
Pre-reqs: Enrollment in Political Science Ph.D. program
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PS 814: Social Identities: Definition and Measurement
Course Description: Analyzes the concept of social identities with a focus on definition, comparison, and measurement. Explores a range of theories as well as methodological techniques for measurement. Examines classic works on race, ethnic, national, class, gender, and religious identities.
Pre-reqs: Graduate student
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PS 816: Empirical Methods of Political Inquiry: Qualitative
Course Description: Acquaints students with a wide variety of research methods used to analyze political phenomena, emphasizing qualitative approaches.
Pre-reqs: Graduate student
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PS 817: Empirical Methods of Political Inquiry: Quantitative
Course Description: Acquaints students with a wide variety of research methods used to analyze political phenomena, emphasizing quantitative approaches.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 818: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Course Description: Develops the theory of maximum likelihood estimation and applies it to models for discrete and limited dependent variables common to political and social science data.
Pre-reqs: PS 551 or equivalent
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PS 820: Empirical Political Theory
Course Description: Analysis of contemporary behavioral theories of politics which apply broadly across the sub-fields of political science in relation to analogous theories in other social science disciplines
Pre-reqs: Graduate student
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PS 821: Mass Political Behavior
Course Description: An empirical analysis of the role of mass publics in political life and the factors which determine the formation and expression of political beliefs and attitudes.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 823: Political Psychology
Course Description: The relationship between psychological processes and political thinking and behavior.
Topics may include the development and functioning of mass and elite level ideology and behavior, political communication, decision-making, perception, and the impact of political experiences on psychological states and processes.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 825: Race and Politics in the United States
Course Description: Analysis of the role of race, class and ethnicity in the political process. Evaluation of theories from political science, economics and sociology. Topics may include policy analysis, political organizations, immigration, political behavior and culture.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 826: The Legislative Process
Course Description: Analysis of legislative process and the role of the legislature in the political system, emphasizing current research.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 827: Interest Groups in American Politics
Course Description: The formation, structure, activities and power of interest groups in the United States with comparisons to interest groups in other countries.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 828: The Contemporary Presidency: Issues and Approaches
Course Description: Current topics of research interest on the American presidency. Alternative approaches and methods for the study of the presidency.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 829: Political Communication
Course Description: This course examines the role of communication in American politics. Topics covered include the communication of politics (e.g., communication by politics elites, effects of mass media and interpersonal communication on political attitudes) as well as the politics of communications (regulation of political communication, policy issues, etc.).
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 830: Constitutional Theory
Course Description: A review of a variety of modern approaches to constitutionalism and its challenges from a theoretical and comparative perspective.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 831: Concepts in Political Theory
Course Description: Studies in normative, analytical, or historical thought about politics
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 833: Topics in Ancient Political Thought
Course Description: Considers varied topics in Greek, Roman, early Christian and Medieval political theory; topics in non-Western ancient and medieval thought may also be offered.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 835: Game Theory and Political Analysis
Course Description: An introduction to the tools of game theoretic analysis, with reference to the use of game theory in political science. Intended for those desiring a basic familiarity with the theory, and for those planning further work in formal modeling.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 836: Formal Models in Political Science
Course Description: Provides an overview of formal, i.e., mathematical, models in political science. It is the second course in a two-semester sequence in formal theory, and builds directly upon the material presented in Political Science 835.
Pre-reqs: PS 835; working knowledge of basic differential and integral calc
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PS 837: Formal Models of International Relations
Course Description: Provides an overview of the formal theory literature in international relations, including international security and international political economy.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student and PS 835
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PS 839: Methods of Political Theory
Course Description: An overview of the central disciplinary approaches to interpreting, teaching, and writing about philosophical texts.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 840: Comparative Political Economy
Course Description: Survey of field of comparative political economy and in-depth study of political economy of democratic and non-democratic capitalist systems. Key themes include: business and labor relations, globalization and its impact on domestic political economies, rise of emergent powers.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 841: Seminar in International Business and Government
Course Description: This course examines and critiques evolving business-government relationships especially in advanced industrialized democracies; the effects of globalization on these relationships; varying business-government relationships at national, subnational and international levels.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 853: Comparative Political Institutions
Course Description: Comparative theoretical and empirical analysis of political institutions, including electoral systems, legislatures, executives, executive-legislative relationships, political parties, party systems, federalism, economic governance, and link between institutions and internationalization.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 854: Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
Course Description: Comparative analysis of nationalism, national identity, and ethnicity and their impact on domestic and international conflict. Examines relationship between nationality, citizenship, and minority rights; territoriality and identity, contemporary religious nationalism; relationship between globalization and nationalism.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 855: Politics and Culture in Comparative Perspective
Course Description: Scholarly approaches linking cultural phenomena. Both theoretical and empirical patterns of politics and culture in several regions. The course also explores systematic linkages between politics and culture, evaluates common ways of studying them, and assesses their contemporary importance.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 856: Field Seminar in Comparative Politics
Course Description: A broad introduction to the field of comparative politics. It combines a theory-driven approach with a problem-driven approach to analyze key themes in comparative politics. Four paradigms in comparative politics--structural, cultural, rational-choice and institutional--will be reviewed.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 857: International Relations Theories
Course Description: Analysis of the major theories on the functioning of the international political system and the behavior of nations within it.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 860: Authoritarianism and Its Aftermath
Course Description: Analysis of totalitarian and authoritarian regimes: how and why they came about, what sustains them, the reasons they fall, and what comes after.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 861: Challenges of Democratization
Course Description: Explores the problems of crafting democracies in the broadest comparative perspectives to comprehend the benefit of democracy. Covers democratic drafting in terms of center/federalism, president/parliament, voting systems, party systems, civilian control of the military, etc.; as these relate to particulars of religion, region, language and other communalist identity.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 862: State and Society in Comparative Perspective
Course Description: Reviews a range of approaches that focus on civil society, social movements, ethnic and religious based mobilization, as well as gender and class based approaches to state-society relations.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 863: The Judicial Process
Course Description: Describes and evaluates major approaches used in political science. Explores issues related to professional development and political science careers.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 864: International Political Economy
Course Description: Analysis of key classical and contemporary theories in international political economy.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 865: The Supreme Court and the Constitution in American Politics
Course Description: Analysis of the development of major constitutional doctrines and their impact on politics and public policy in the United States.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 866: Global Environmental Governance
Course Description: In-depth examination of the political and policy challenges posed by global environmental degradation. Analysis of international institutions for managing the global environment.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 871: Public Program Evaluation
Course Description: Compares the conceptual, statistical, and ethical issues of experimental, quasi-experimental and non-experimental designs for program evaluation. Definitions of outcomes, sample size issues, statistical biases in measuring causal effects of programs, and the reliability of findings will be emphasized using case studies selected from current public programs.
Pre-reqs: Graduate student and Public Affairs 818 or equivalent, or cons inst
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PS 872: Institutional Policy Analysis
Course Description: Analyzes public policy on how political institutions should be structured. Reforms of different branches of government are assessed through empirical research..
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 873: American Political Parties
Course Description: Reviews major approaches to analyzing political parties and understanding their developmental changes. Examines the parties in operation and the relationship of parties to the state and society.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 874: Policy-Making Process
Course Description: An intensive study of policy-making processes involved in the formulation of public policies.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 875: Public Personnel Administration
Course Description: Analysis of personnel policies and practices in the public sector and examination of patterns of interaction between political executives, personnel professionals, public employees, and interest groups in the development of personnel policies. Compares problems and approaches of different countries as well as those of the various levels of government in the United States.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 878: Public Management
Course Description: Role of administration in American government; problems of organization, bureaucracy and control; public policy as the output of the administrative process.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 881: American Political Development
Course Description: Examination of critical transformations in the structure and activities of the U.S. national state; political models of economic development; periodization versus non-periodization approaches; topics include liberalism and republicanism, southern exceptionalism, labor, race, populism, war and statebuilding; construction of the corporate economy.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 885: Advanced Public Management: Craft, Constraints and Accountability
Course Description: Examines how managers in public and not-for-profit agencies can secure and utilize legal authority, human resources, and funds to accomplish organizational goals. Includes strategies for establishing and maintaining effective external relations and for working through other organizations to accomplish objectives.
Pre-reqs: Pub Affr 878
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PS 890: Federal Budget and Tax Policy and Administration
Course Description: Focuses on national budget and tax policy and administration, and the parallel processes at the state and local levels. Included are discussions of: decision-making theories; budget and tax policy; and analysis of normative and empirical criteria and analytical techniques for assessing alternative policy proposals.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student or consent of instructor
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PS 900: Topics in Political Science
Course Description: An umbrella course for variable credit topic courses, such as colloquia series, workshops, intensive summer courses, half-semester courses, etc. Recent topics have included: Biodiversity, Conservation & Sustainable Development in China, Seminar in International Human Rights, Training Seminar in Gender Research
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student Prerequisites will according to topice
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PS 904: Seminar-American Politics
Course Description: In-depth examination of selected topics on American politics and governmental institutions.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 905: Seminar-American Public Policy
Course Description: Selection of problems and design of research in the study of public policy.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 915: Seminar-Urban Politics
Course Description: Selection of problems and design of research in the study of public policy.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 917: Time Series Analysis
Course Description: This course introduces students to time series methods and applications, including ARMA models, error corrections models and reduced form specifications. Course also discusses co-integration and fractional integration.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student and PS 551 and PS 552
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PS 919: Advanced Methodology
Course Description: Design of research and adaptation of advanced methods to solve particular methodological problems in original analyses of political data.
Pre-reqs: PS 551 or equivalent
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PS 931: Seminar-Political Theory
Course Description: Analysis of and research on problems of theorizing in and about political life. Topics will vary.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 932: Seminar-Political Theory
Course Description: Analysis of and research on problems of theorizing in and about political life. Topics will vary.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 935: Seminar-Political Socialization
Course Description: Investigation of the processes and effects of political socialization under a variety of cultural conditions using available research data.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 937: Seminar-Topics in Political Psychology and Sociology
Course Description: Investigation of current problems and research strategies in political sociology and psychology; formulation and execution of individual research projects.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 940: Domestic Politics of International Relations
Course Description: Examines how domestic institutions and processes influence the international system. Also examines how international forces influence domestic politics in the areas of foreign policy, international political economy and security.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student and PS 857
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PS 945: Seminar-National Security Affairs
Course Description: Contemporary military strategy, the interaction of military and political factors in international politics, and the processes and content of defense policies, with emphasis on the United States.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 948: Topics in Comparative Politics
Course Description: Research seminar on specific topics in comparative politics. Recent topics have included: Comparative Law, Empirical Study of Violence, Environmetal Sociology
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student and /or consent of instructor
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PS 949: Seminar-Post Communist Politics
Course Description: Comparative study of political processes in the fomer Soviet Union and communist Eastern Europe states, focusing on the transition from and the continuing legacies of the communist experience; methodological issues in the study of post-communist politics.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 954: Seminar-Revolution and Violence
Course Description: Investigation of theories and case studies of the causes, methods, processes, and consequences of revolutionary movements and violent change.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 958: Seminar-Research in Public Affairs
Course Description: Research seminar on public affairs, management and analysis.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 959: Seminar-International Organizations
Course Description: Read, discuss and engage the modern literature on international institutions, regimes, and organizations.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 960: Seminar-International Relations
Course Description: Research seminar on specific topics in international relation politics.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 961: Seminar-African Politics
Course Description: Comparative study of political processes in the emerging states of Africa; emphasis on tropical African states with some consideration to the Mahgreb and Southern Africa; methodological problems in the study of African politics.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student and PS660 or equivalent
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PS 962: Seminar-Latin American Politics
Course Description: This course is intended to provide a graduate-level introduction to the principal issues in the study of Latin American politics.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 964: Seminar-Design and Process of Survey Research
Course Description: Presentation of study designs or research in progress by members of seminar, for critiques leading to further development of project and illustration of research problems in the social sciences.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 969: Seminar-Trends and Issues in Public Planning
Course Description: Topics course that provides a critical review of recent and current thought on the nature and role of planning in governmental and quasi-governmental agencies with particular attention to the adverse critics of planning and the issues they raise about the policy formulation process in public affairs.
Pre-reqs: Consent of instructor
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PS 973: Seminar-Political Parties
Course Description: Selection of problems and design of research in the structure and functions of political parties.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 979: Seminar-Administration in Developing Countries
Course Description: Special problems of developmental administration in nations newly organizing modern bureaucracies and public services.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 981: Seminar in the Analysis of Western Europe
Course Description: Focus on a topic of comparative interest to historians, political scientists, and sociologists to provide opportunity to integrate the various perspectives for a more complete analysis.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student and consent of instructor
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PS 983: Interdepartmental Seminar-African Studies
Course Description: Interdisciplinary inquiry in African society and culture.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student or consent of instructor
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PS 987: Comparative Politics Colloquium
Course Description: Presentation and evaluation of comparative politics research in progress by members of the workshop and invited speakers.
Pre-reqs: Enrollment in the Political Science doctoral program or consent of instructor
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PS 988: International Relations Workshop
Course Description: Presentation and evaluation of International Relations research in progress by members of the workshop and invited speakers.
Pre-reqs: Enrollment in the Political Science doctoral program or consent of instructor
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PS 989: American Politics Workshop
Course Description: Presentation and evaluation of American politics research in progress by members of the workshop and invited speakers.
Pre-reqs: Enrollment in the Political Science doctoral program or consent of instructor
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PS 990: Research and Thesis
Course Description: Describes and evaluates major approaches used in political science. Explores issues related to professional development and political sciPence careers.
Pre-reqs: Graduate Student
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PS 999: Independent Work
Course Description: Under the direction of a staff member.
Pre-reqs: Graduate student and written consent of instructor
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