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Political ScienceThe Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at UCBerkeley welcomes students interested in pursuing graduate study andresearch leading to the Ph.D. in political science. Graduate studentsmay specialize in one of six principal subfields: American Politics,Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, Modelsand Politics, and Methodology. In addition, the Department’s facultyand graduate students work with over twenty interdisciplinary researchinstitutes and centers around campus.

Admission to the UniversityMinimum Requirements for AdmissionThe following minimum requirements apply to all graduate programs andwill be verified by the Graduate Division:

1. A bachelor’s degree or recognized equivalent from an accreditedinstitution;

2. A grade point average of B or better (3.0);

3. If the applicant has completed a basic degree from a countryor political entity (e.g., Quebec) where English is not the officiallanguage, adequate proficiency in English to do graduate work, asevidenced by a TOEFL score of at least 90 on the iBT test, 570 onthe paper-and-pencil test, or an IELTS Band score of at least 7 on a9-point scale (note that individual programs may set higher levels forany of these); and

4. Sufficient undergraduate training to do graduate work in the givenfield.

Applicants Who Already Hold a Graduate DegreeThe Graduate Council views academic degrees not as vocational trainingcertificates, but as evidence of broad training in research methods,independent study, and articulation of learning. Therefore, applicants whoalready have academic graduate degrees should be able to pursue newsubject matter at an advanced level without the need to enroll in a relatedor similar graduate program.

Programs may consider students for an additional academic master’s orprofessional master’s degree only if the additional degree is in a distinctlydifferent field.

Applicants admitted to a doctoral program that requires a master’s degreeto be earned at Berkeley as a prerequisite (even though the applicantalready has a master’s degree from another institution in the same ora closely allied field of study) will be permitted to undertake the secondmaster’s degree, despite the overlap in field.

The Graduate Division will admit students for a second doctoral degreeonly if they meet the following guidelines:

1. Applicants with doctoral degrees may be admitted for an additionaldoctoral degree only if that degree program is in a general area ofknowledge distinctly different from the field in which they earned theiroriginal degree. For example, a physics PhD could be admitted to adoctoral degree program in music or history; however, a student witha doctoral degree in mathematics would not be permitted to add aPhD in statistics.

2. Applicants who hold the PhD degree may be admitted to aprofessional doctorate or professional master’s degree program ifthere is no duplication of training involved.

Applicants may apply only to one single degree program or oneconcurrent degree program per admission cycle.

Required Documents for Applications1. Transcripts: Applicants may upload unofficial transcripts with your

application for the departmental initial review. If the applicant isadmitted, then official transcripts of all college-level work will berequired. Official transcripts must be in sealed envelopes as issuedby the school(s) attended. If you have attended Berkeley, uploadyour unofficial transcript with your application for the departmentalinitial review. If you are admitted, an official transcript with evidenceof degree conferral will not be required.

2. Letters of recommendation: Applicants may request online lettersof recommendation through the online application system. Hardcopies of recommendation letters must be sent directly to theprogram, not the Graduate Division.

3. Evidence of English language proficiency: All applicants who havecompleted a basic degree from a country or political entity in whichthe official language is not English are required to submit officialevidence of English language proficiency. This applies to institutionsfrom Bangladesh, Burma, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Latin America,the Middle East, the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, Japan,Korea, Southeast Asia, most European countries, and Quebec(Canada). However, applicants who, at the time of application, havealready completed at least one year of full-time academic coursework with grades of B or better at a US university may submit anofficial transcript from the US university to fulfill this requirement. Thefollowing courses will not fulfill this requirement:

• courses in English as a Second Language,

• courses conducted in a language other than English,

• courses that will be completed after the application is submitted,and

• courses of a non-academic nature.

If applicants have previously been denied admission to Berkeley on thebasis of their English language proficiency, they must submit new testscores that meet the current minimum from one of the standardized tests.Official TOEFL score reports must be sent directly from EducationalTest Services (ETS). The institution code for Berkeley is 4833. OfficialIELTS score reports must be sent electronically from the testing center toUniversity of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division, Sproul Hall, Rm 318MC 5900, Berkeley, CA 94720. TOEFL and IELTS score reports are onlyvalid for two years.

Where to ApplyVisit the Berkeley Graduate Division application page (http://grad.berkeley.edu/admissions/apply/).

Normative Time RequirementsThe Political Science department at UC Berkeley admits students forthe doctoral degree only. The PhD program has two major phases: (1)coursework and examinations, and (2) dissertation research and writing.

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The two phases typically take approximately five or six years (three yearsto candidacy and two or three for dissertation research and writing).

Time to AdvancementCurriculumCourses Required

POL SCI Electives (12 units may be upper division) per specializedstudy list, includes:

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Preparation in 3 of 11 subfields

The coursework and examination phase requires 40 units (typically10 classes) of graduate-level coursework and competence in three ofeleven subfields (http://polisci.berkeley.edu/research-and-teaching/subfields/). Subfield competence is demonstrated through courseworkand written exams offered each semester. A Preliminary FieldExamination is typically taken in the student’s second or third year ofthe program. All students must pass one exam in one of the followingsubfields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations,Methodology, Models and Politics, or Political Theory. All students mustalso demonstrate competency in two additional subfields, by taking aminimum of three to four courses in two of the following areas: AmericanPolitics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory,Methodology, Models and Politics, Area Studies, Political Behavior,Public Policy & Organization, Race & Ethnic Politics, and InterdisciplinaryStudies in Political Thought. Other appropriate subfields may bedesignated by the department. Students must achieve a combined GPAof 3.5 in these courses.

The particular sequence of courses that a student takes in preparationfor the comprehensive field exam is not prescribed. Rather, the facultyassist students with a selection of courses that best meet their intellectualand academic interests. There are no formal foreign language or statisticsrequirements although many students will find that their program of studyand dissertation research will require the engagement of particular foreignlanguage or methodology coursework.

When the coursework and preliminary examination requirementshave been met, the student prepares a prospectus for dissertationresearch. The student convenes a committee known as the QualifyingExamination Committee, consisting of four faculty members. TheQualifying Examination Committee advises on the prospectus andexamines the student on specific research plans. UC Berkeley is highlycommitted to interdisciplinary scholarly engagement and the studentmay elect to include faculty members from another department or unitat UC Berkeley on both their Qualifying Examination Committee andDissertation Committee. Engagement with members of the faculty fromother departments should begin during the coursework stage so thatthe advice and input of the outside member are represented in theprospectus.

When sufficient preparation for the proposed research has beendemonstrated to the Qualifying Examination Committee, the student isadvanced to doctoral candidacy. It is expected (and for most fundingpackages, required) that the student advance to doctoral candidacy bythe end of their third year.

Dissertation Research and WritingDoctoral candidacy initiates the second phase of the program duringwhich the student normally devotes full attention to the research andwriting of the dissertation. The student's Dissertation Committee istypically comprised of the members from the Qualifying Examination

Committee although there are sometimes changes in committeemembership as the research evolves. The doctorate is awarded whenthe student submits a satisfactory dissertation to the dissertationcommittee. There is no formal dissertation defense at Berkeley. Areasonable estimate of the research and writing phase of the program isapproximately two to three years although students whose dissertationsrequire more extensive research may take longer to earn their degree.

General Curriculum GuidelinesFirst Year

Students are required to complete 24 units of coursework in their firstyear of study. At least 12 of these units must be in political sciencegraduate courses; the remainder may be in graduate or upper divisionundergraduate courses in other departments. The first year is designedto allow the student the opportunity to engage in foreign languagestudy, area specialization, and to meet and study with faculty fromother departments who may become members of the qualifying examor dissertation committees. All students are reviewed at the end of thefirst year of study on their overall academic performance. This overallevaluation will include GPA and successful completion of all 24 requiredunits. In exceptional cases, a student may decide not to continue in thePhD program or may be asked to leave after the first year; in this event,students may either be awarded an MA degree (if they complete therequirements for the degree, see next item) or will leave the programwithout an MA degree.

Second Year

During the second year, students must complete an advanced topicalresearch essay, the second year paper. The student will narrow theirinterests, continue to explore ideas for a dissertation topic, and identifypotential advisers. Coursework continues as students begin preparingfor both preliminary field exams and writing their dissertation prospectus.Additionally, students in their second year usually serve as a graduatestudent instructor (GSI), a 20 hour per week position.

Third Year

During the third year, most students continue to teach as GSIs andcomplete their coursework in addition to taking their field exams.Political Science graduate students must show competency in threesubfield specialties to be eligible to sit for the oral prospectus defense(known formally as the Qualifying Exam). Students must pass a writtenPreliminary Field Examination in one subfield and “course out” of twoother subfields by taking a prescribed set of courses in each.

Students may sit for their Preliminary Field Examination as early as thebeginning of their second year, and if necessary, as late as winter oftheir third year. Field exams are offered at the beginning of the fall andspring semesters. All students are expected to have completed one fieldexam, “coursed out” out of two additional fields, and written & defendedtheir dissertation prospectus (pass their qualifying exam) by the end ofthe third year. It is highly recommended (and essential to most fundingpackages) that students advance to doctoral candidacy by the end oftheir third year. The third year is also when students should begin toapply for extramural fellowships to support their dissertation research.

Fourth Year

Beginning in the third year and continuing into the fourth, studentsshould be collecting much of the information and data necessary for theirdissertation. Many students spend one or both semesters of their fourthyear conducting research, many going abroad to do field work.

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Fifth Year

Like the fourth year, the fifth year is variable according to an individual'sresearch schedule. Often this is a good year to use the Dean’sCompletion Fellowship while focusing on writing the dissertation. Thisis also the time, if research is complete and writing has begun, to applyfor finishing fellowships and extramural dissertation awards. Ideally, ifstudents plan to enter the job market during the fifth year, they shouldhave most of their dissertation completed by then.

Sixth Year and Beyond

Students are normally expected to finish by their sixth year. In thesixth year, students continue to work on completing and revising thedissertation and enter the job market. This is also a time students applyfor post-doctoral fellowships. To fund the final year(s), some studentsteach as adjunct faculty at the many colleges and universities in the area,and some find research assistantships.

SubfieldsAmerican Politics

Subfield Coordinator: Gabriel Lenz

The study of American politics at Berkeley brings together faculty andgraduate students who seek to tackle the most important questionsconfronting the field using diverse methodological approaches.

Among other topics, the faculty’s research agenda encompassesthe quality and meaning of representation in contemporary Americanpolitics, the political implications of rising economic inequality, thepolitics of immigration and of minority group representation, the meaningof American national identity, the sources and implications of partypolarization, the development of American bureaucratic governmentand of the American welfare state, and the balance of power amongCongress, the Presidency, and the Courts. Our program strives to trainstudents to have a diverse methodological toolkit, including quantitative,historical/developmental, game-theoretic, behavioral, and institutionalapproaches.

The department supports several workshops and colloquia that fosterthis diverse intellectual community, including the American PoliticsResearch Workshop, the Positive Political Theory seminar series, theRace, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium, the American PoliticalDevelopment working group, and the Quantitative Methods Workshop.These research units also provide funding for graduate student researchprojects and for faculty-student collaboration. Faculty work closely withstudents to help each student carve out a research agenda that fits his orher interests, while addressing a substantively important problem.

Comparative Politics

Subfield Coordinator: Alison Post

Berkeley has a longstanding tradition of distinction in comparative politics.Members of the department’s comparative politics faculty are widelyrecognized as national and international leaders, and the department’sstrengths have grown in recent years.

The coverage of substantive themes, methodological approaches,and geographic expertise is extremely broad. Comparative politicaleconomy, political regimes and regime change, political parties andorganizations, and social mobilization are the subject of great interestamong faculty and graduate students. Some comparative faculty andgraduate students rely largely upon formal theory in their work. Some arehighly proficient in quantitative methods, while others use case studies

and qualitative methods. Many faculty and graduate students use multi-method approaches. The faculty emphasizes rigor of method—whetherapplied in formal, statistical, or qualitative work. All graduate students incomparative politics are expected to achieve proficiency in all methodsprevalent in the field.

The faculty and graduate student populations are diverse; no singletheoretical orientation or methodology enjoys status as orthodoxy.Generally speaking, Berkeley comparativists pursue “big” questionsthat have broad implications for political life and public policy as well associal science. Such questions include when and why Chinese peasantsresist unjust authority; how transformations in the global economyare reshaping the welfare state in advanced industrialized countries;how economic structures and resource flows mold state and marketinstitutions; why economic liberalization has proved difficult in Japan andhow it may yet come about; why democracy is failing in Russia whileworking in Indonesia; why opposition forces succeed in forging electoralalliances in some African polities but not others; how party systemsinfluence the provision of public goods across the Indian states; and howlabor organizations are responding to transformations in economic policyin Latin America.

International Relations

Subfield Coordinator: Vinod Aggarwal

International Relations at Berkeley focuses on the study of contemporaryand historical problems in world politics. Our faculty and graduatestudents work on an eclectic set of substantive issues that frequentlycross over between international relations theory, security studies, andinternational political economy.

Current research interests pursued by our group include the causes andconsequences of peace and war, the political economy of trade andfinance, American foreign and national security policy, emerging issuesin security, geopolitical order and change, the impact of technology andgeography on world politics, the role of ideas and identities shapinginternational affairs, the link between business and politics, and theinteraction between religion and global politics. In addition to resourcesin the Political Science Department, our work is reflected and supportedby various centers across campus: the Institute for International Studies(IIS), the Berkeley Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center(BASC), the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE),the Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP), Evidence inGovernance and Politics (EGAP) and others. In addition, the journalBusiness and Politics is edited by one of our faculty members.

Our methodologies are equally eclectic, ranging from socio-historicalanalysis to quantitative empirics and formal modeling. Much of ourresearch is interdisciplinary, drawing from fields as disparate aseconomics, psychology, ecology, theology, or history. We take theoryseriously but not to the exclusion of interesting and important globalproblems. Our overarching goal is to contribute to an understandingof how international politics is organized and how it functions aroundsubstantive issues that matter to political actors and human beings.

Methodology & Formal Theory

Subfield Coordinator: Thad Dunning

The Berkeley program in empirical methodology and formal theoryoffers rigorous training that is carefully integrated with major substantiveagendas in political science.

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The program builds centrally on innovative faculty research, whichencompasses new methods for causal inference and program evaluation,as well as statistical computing and survey analysis. The work on surveyshas included path-breaking contributions to developing and refiningexperiments embedded in surveys and computer-assisted telephoneinterviewing; and innovations in measuring issue orientations and inmulti-level modeling of political behavior. In formal theory, faculty havecontributed to opening new lines of inquiry into strategic interactionswhere formal institutions are weak, and to modeling information andincentives in organizations—as they affect both the dynamics ofinstitutions within the United States and those in authoritarian anddemocratizing regimes. Faculty in both traditions play a prominent rolein developing empirical tests of formal theory, based on both laboratoryexperiments and observational data. The faculty has also done influentialwork on qualitative methodology, comparative-historical methods, andlinking qualitative methods with both quantitative tools and with formalanalysis.

The methods/formal faculty make important institutional contributionson the Berkeley campus. They convene the Positive Political TheorySeminar, which draws together a national constituency of leadingmodelers for its biweekly meetings. They have led the campus SurveyResearch Center and helped to sustain its innovative research on surveymethodology; and they were central to launching the Berkeley’s NSF/IGERT training program in Politics, Economics, Psychology, and PublicPolicy (PEPPP). Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies, as wellas the Survey Research Center, are important venues for conveningscholars and graduate students, and they provide support for graduatestudents pursuing methodological and formal training.

Faculty members also play leading roles in the national political scienceprofession. Their contributions have included serving as Chair of theBoard of the American National Elections Studies (ANES); providingcrucial leadership in launching the NSF program on the EmpiricalImplications of Theoretical Models (EITM); co-editing the new OxfordHandbook of Political Methodology; serving as President of the PoliticalMethodology Society; and founding APSA’s Organized Section forQualitative and Multi-Method Research. The political science departmentmaintains close ties with the national Institute for Qualitative/Multi-MethodResearch, and many graduate students attend the institute. Three of themethods/formal faculty are Fellows of the American Academy of Arts andSciences.

Political Theory & Philosophy

Subfield Coordinator: Kinch Hoekstra

Berkeley’s department offers a full range of courses in political theory,including classical, modern, and contemporary political philosophy (bothEuropean and American).

In the history of political thought, faculty have particular strengths inancient moral and political thought, renaissance and early modernpolitical thought, Enlightenment social and political thought, andnineteenth and twentieth century Marxism, British and Continentaltheory, and critical theory. In contemporary political theory, their areasof expertise include liberal and democratic thought, sovereignty andmulticulturalism, and postfoundational approaches to subjectivity andsocial inquiry.

The core curriculum for graduate study in the department involvesthose courses recommended in preparation for the qualifying exam inthe history of political thought (such courses include POL SCI 212APOL SCI 212B, POL SCI 212C, POL SCI 213, and POL SCI 214); and

courses of special relevance to the qualifying exam in contemporarypolitical theory (including POL SCI 215A, POL SCI 215B, andPOL SCI 216). The history of political thought exam has two parts. PartI queries students about the nature of the history of Western politicalthought as a field of knowledge, and/or about debates focused onparticular periods or problems. Part II of the exam asks students torespond to questions about particular theorists or texts in each of threemajor time periods (ancient and medieval; early modern; modern).The contemporary political thought exam approaches twentieth andtwenty-first-century political theory from three angles: subfields of theory,theorists and approaches, and topics.

The research, writing, and pedagogical interests of faculty within politicaltheory are impressively varied. Greater details about the work andinterests of each faculty member may be found on their faculty webpages.

Models & Politics

Subfield Coordinator: Sean Gailmard

Formal models are used in political science as abstract representationsof political institutions and choices in order to focus attention on keylogic and causal mechanisms in a political process. Good modelingrequires fluency in technical fields such as game theory and social choicetheory, as well as the substantive knowledge to craft an appropriate andinsightful model for a specific application.

The Models & Politics subfield, instituted by the faculty in 2007, connectsadvanced training in formal modeling techniques (also commonly referredto as formal theory, positive political theory, or political economy) withinnovative substantive research in political science. It is designed forstudents who plan to make significant use of formal modeling in theirown research in American Politics, Comparative Politics, InternationalRelations, or Political Theory. This subfield is appropriate for studentswho wish to use formal models to structure and inform their empiricalresearch, as well as those who wish to become pure modelers.

Political Behavior

Subfield Coordinator: Gabriel Lenz

Political behavior at UC Berkeley serves as a bridge between politicalscience on the one side and political psychology and political sociologyon the other. Its focus is on the social and psychological processes bywhich individuals (and groups) engage in political life. Although the actualstudies of these matters may occur within a particular geographical orinstitutional context and data are most often drawn from the Americanexperience, the purpose is to generalize to a class of political phenomenaor behavior beyond specific countries or specific institutions. Attention isalso paid to problems of survey design and analysis, the developmentof scales, indices, and other measurement devices, questionnaireconstruction, interviewing, sampling, and other elements of systematicresearch that aim to yield data susceptible to statistical analysis. Amongthe substantive topics covered in the field are: public opinion; politicalleadership; political participation and protest and personality and politics.

PUBLIC LAW & JURISPRUDENCE

Subfield Coordinator: To be determined

Public Law is concerned with the analysis of the actual behavior oflegal decision-makers and the law-related behavior of citizens, aswell as with the study of legal and constitutional doctrine. It seeks todevelop an understanding of the role of law, legal theory, and legalpractice in the governmental process. Courses and faculty research

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focus primarily on how the actions of legal decision-makers (like judges,police, regulatory officials, and bureaucrats) are shaped both by legaldoctrine and philosophy and by political, organizational, economic, andsocial variables. Students are also expected to develop a knowledge ofAmerican Constitutional Law, its political ramifications, and its relationto public theory. Joint work with the UC Berkeley School of Law and itsprogram in Jurisprudence and Social Policy is encouraged.

Public Policy & Organization

Subfield Coordinator: Christopher Ansell

Public policy studies explore political responses to specific publicproblems, like environmental degradation, poverty, or disease. Facultyin this subfield are interested in the political dynamics of policy-makingand policy implementation, including such topics as agenda-setting,regulatory decision-making, and federalism. Since public problemsoften ignore jurisdictions, a policy-oriented approach to political scienceis often concerned about the interplay between different levels ofgovernment (local, regional, national, and international). The PublicPolicy & Organization subfield, therefore, draws on and contributes toscholarship in urban politics, American politics, comparative politics, andinternational relations.

Policy outcomes are typically mediated by organizations that mobilizestakeholders, make authoritative decisions, administer programs, andenforce laws. These organizations range from complex governmentbureaucracies to professional associations and social movementorganizations. The organizational and inter-organizational aspects ofpolicy-making and policy implementation are a particular concern of thissubfield. Important debates in this field often focus on understandinghow specific institutional arrangements are created to govern policyarenas and on whether these institutions produce effective, efficient, andequitable governance.

Sophisticated explanations of policy-making and implementation call forspecific analytical tools and intellectual frameworks. This subfield drawson theories of policy-making and implementation, governance, publicadministration, public law, institutionalism, and organization theory as aframework of analysis.

RACE & eTHNIC pOLITICS


This subfield is concerned with major theories and empirical approachesthe study of race and ethnicity as political identities. Drawing fromworks across the social sciences, we will explore a range of topics withimplications for politics in the United States and countries around theworld. These topics include: how identity should be conceptualized andmeasured; why some forms of identity are activated, mobilized, andcontested; how identities are represented politically; how racial andethnic identities intersect with other salient identities; how social diversityand civil society are interrelated; what factors affect the integration ofimmigrants; and which varieties of democracy enable the flourishing ofplural identities. The subfield focuses on the United States and the otherparts of the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.Because the study of race and ethnicity intersects with all major subfieldsof political science, our goal is to provide students with a fundamentalunderstanding of the current state of knowledge as well as the intellectualresources needed to undertake their own original research.

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES IN POLITICAL THOUGHT


This course-out field option enables students of political thought todeepen their competence in political theory through work outside of thecore theory curriculum, including supplemental disciplines in the socialsciences and humanities. Students satisfy this requirement by taking atleast three (3) graduate-level courses (for a letter grade), which may beoffered by Political Science or other departments, such as Philosophy,History, Classics, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Rhetoric, Sociology orComparative Literature.

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POL SCI 200A Major Themes in ComparativeAnalysis 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019Subject and texts to be studied vary with instructor. See departmentalannouncements.Major Themes in Comparative Analysis: Read More [+]Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of seminar per week

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Subject/Course Level: Political Science/Graduate

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POL SCI 200B Major Themes in ComparativeAnalysis: Research Design 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020This course provides an introduction to research design in comparativepolitics; it is the second semester of the two-semester introductorygraduate sequence for the comparativesub-field. We will focus on various topics relevant to doing research,such as how to formulate research questions; develop concepts andmeasures; bolster the validity of descriptive and causal inferences; anduse various qualitative and quantitative methods in the service of diversesubstantive agenda. Developing the ability to critique research is oneimportant objective. However, the primary goal of the course is to providea first foundation for actually doing research.Major Themes in Comparative Analysis: Research Design: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 201A Comparative Analysis ofIndustrial Democracies 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011The comparative study of politics in Western societies. The place ofparties, political structures, interest groups, and economic institutions.The relation between domestic political developments and theinternational system. The effect of economic development on politicalchange. The effect of labor politics on national politics.Comparative Analysis of Industrial Democracies: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 201B Comparative Analysis ofIndustrial Democracies 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2007, Fall 2006The comparative study of politics in Western societies. The place ofparties, political structures, interest groups, and economic institutions.The relation between domestic political developments and theinternational system. The effect of economic development on politicalchange. The effect of labor politics on national politics.Comparative Analysis of Industrial Democracies: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 201D Governance of the E-conomy 4UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2002New digital technologies, changing market structures, and innovativebusiness organizations are transforming the economic and sociallandscape of the advanced industrial countries. The policy issuesassociated with this transformation pose fundamental philosophical andpolitical questions of how to organize our markets, polity, and society.The means of making and implementing these choices is politics. Thenecessarily global scope of the E-conomy extends the political andpolicy challenges to the international arena. This course will explorethe literature on the political economy of the Internet to determine whatpolicy choices -- hence which political debates -- are and will be mostimportant. We also will examine our conceptual understanding of theburgeoning digital economy and its impact on politics, law, and socio-economic relations.Governance of the E-conomy: Read More [+]Hours & Format

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POL SCI 202A Theories of Development andPolitical Change 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Fall 2011Issues of social organization and political change. Theories of progress,development, modernization and dependence.Theories of Development and Political Change: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 203 Urban and Subnational Politicsin Low- and Middle-Income Countries 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2013, Fall 2011Metropolitan areas in the developing world face enormous challenges.This course will consider the political and institutional environment inwhich efforts to address metropolitan problems are developed, thefinancial and institutional vehicles used to provide services of differenttypes, and the role of political parties and other political organizations inthe development and allocation of services. Readings will be drawn fromPolitical Science, Sociology, Geography, and Economics.Urban and Subnational Politics in Low- and Middle-Income Countries:Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

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POL SCI C203 Subnational and Urban Politicsin Low and Middle-Income Countries 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2013This course will consider the political and institutional environment inwhich efforts to address metropolitan problems are developed, thefinancial and institutional vehicles used to provide services of differenttypes, and the role of political parties and other forms of politicalorganization in the development and allocation of services. Emphasis willbe placed upon fertile areas for research within the social sciences.Subnational and Urban Politics in Low and Middle-Income Countries:Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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POL SCI 206 Comparative Party Systems 4UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2001Why are there political parties? The origins of parties in issue cleavages,legislatures, social movements, and personal followings. Types of parties.The political machine, the ideological party, third parties, flash parties.Federalism and political parties. Intra-party competition and selectionof leaders. What do parties try to maximize: votes? ideological purity?personal security of party professionals? How parties change: reformmovements, issue crises, external social movements.Comparative Party Systems: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 207 Political Violence 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2017, Spring 2014This graduate seminar is designed to introduce students to thecomparative study of political violence. The course examines two broadthemes through a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches. Thefirst theme focuses on why individuals choose to rebel: When doesviolence become a strategy for resolving conflict? Why do individualsparticipate in violence? How is violence organized? The second themefocuses on how states choose to repress citizens: When are humanrights violations committed? When does a state use violence over otherstrategies? What are the effects of state violence?Political Violence: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 209A Comparative PoliticalEconomy 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019This seminar provides an introduction to the major debates incomparative political economy. Although the empirical focus is on theaffluent democracies, many of the debates and issues analyzed haveimplications for other regions. The course is divided into two main parts.The first part examines leading theoretical perspectives on politicaleconomy, such as Friedman, Marx, Weber, and Polanyi. The secondpart of the course is more topical. It probes a number of examples ofeconomic development, crisis, and change, with an eye to assessingalternative theoretical perspectives.Comparative Political Economy: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 209B Post Fordism: New Patternsof Production, Time, and Meaning inContemporary Capitalism 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2009With changes in technology, the internationalization of production andthe massive increase in trans-border transactions of all kinds, it hasbeen argued that we live and work in an era of substantively differentcapitalism. Were this true, it has deep implications for politics and forpolitical economy. This graduate seminar explores the validity of thisclaim of a "new capitalism" through a variety of materials, starting with thequestion of whether "Fordism" ever existed, moving on to the question ofwhether "Post-Fordism" exists and ending with a variety of ethnographicstudies that show how global production chains shape culture, gender,and hieraarchy/power.Post Fordism: New Patterns of Production, Time, and Meaning inContemporary Capitalism: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 210 Selected Topics in ComparativePolitics 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2017See departmental announcements. Topic will vary with instructor.Selected Topics in Comparative Politics: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

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POL SCI 211 Special Topics in PoliticalTheory 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021See department web site for specific course offerings.Special Topics in Political Theory: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

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POL SCI 211A The Law of Nations 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022This graduate seminar course will be dedicated to a detailed studythe law of nations, focusing on (1) its historical origins in classical andmedieval jurisprudence; (2) its development in major treatises, especiallyin those by Grotius and Pufendorf; (3) critiques in recent scholarship onthe legal history and politics of modern empire-building. The course willinvolve a study of original print texts, including the 1646 De Jure Belli acPacis and the 1698 De Jure Naturae et Gentium.The Law of Nations: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 212A History of Political Thought:Ancient and Medieval 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2017A weekly seminar on political thought from the ancient Greeks to theRenaissance. Ancient and medieval political theorist, typically includingPlato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and Aquinas.History of Political Thought: Ancient and Medieval: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 212B History of Political Thought:Early Modern (Renaissance to FrenchRevolution) 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Fall 2015A weekly seminar on political thought from the Renaissance to the FrenchRevolution. Early modern political theorist, typically including Machiavelli,Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau.History of Political Thought: Early Modern (Renaissance to FrenchRevolution): Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 212C History of Political Thought:Modern (French Revolution through WorldWar II) 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2016A weekly seminar on political thought in the 19th and early 20thcenturies. Modern political theorists, typically including Tocqueville,Hegel, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, and Weber.History of Political Thought: Modern (French Revolution through WorldWar II): Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 213 Methodological Topics in theHistory of Political Thought 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2018, Spring 2017, Fall 2012A weekly seminar on approaches to the history of political thought.Theoretical topics, typically including the nature of meaning andtextuality, validity, and historical explanation.Methodological Topics in the History of Political Thought: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 214 Symposium in the History ofPolitical Thought 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Spring 2015An intensive examination of theorists, theories, or concepts in the historyof political thought.Symposium in the History of Political Thought: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.Students may enroll in multiple sections of this course within the samesemester.

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POL SCI 214A Aristotles Politics 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021In this course, we will read the whole of Aristotle's Politics. Priorknowledge of ancient Greek is not necessary, although we will have theoriginal on hand and will be discussing the meaning of the Greek aswe go. This will be a communal scholarly journey, drawing on graduatestudents. Topics to include the polis (city-state), oikos (household),freedom,, slavery, Aristotle's interpretation of Plato, citizenship,democracy, oligarchy, Aristotle's ideal political system, the politicalimplications of economic disparity, and how to think about and avoidpolitical revolution.Aristotles Politics: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 215A Approaches to ContemporaryPolitical Theory 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2017A weekly seminar on contemporary approaches to political theory.Approaches to Contemporary Political Theory: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 215B Topics to ContemporaryPolitical Theory 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2013A weekly seminar on leading topics in contemporary political theory.Topics to Contemporary Political Theory: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 216 Symposium in ContemporaryPolitical Theory 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2016, Fall 2012, Fall 2010An intensive examination of a contemporary theorist, debate, or issue.Symposium in Contemporary Political Theory: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 217 African American PoliticalThought 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2003An examination of interrelationships of politics, personality, and culture,normally with specific focus on American materials. Research papers willbe written and discussed during the semester.African American Political Thought: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: Students will receive no credit for POL SCI 217after completing POL SCI 217. A deficient grade in POL SCI 217 may beremoved by taking POL SCI 217.

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POL SCI 220A Theories of InternationalRelations 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019Origin, application and utility of major concepts featured in the study ofinternational relations. Relation of various strands of political and socialtheory to international relations.Theories of International Relations: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

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POL SCI 221 International Security 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Spring 2018The goal of this course is to introduce advanced political sciencegraduate students to current debates in the field of international securityand to prepare these students for conducting dissertation research intheir own areas of interest within this field. This course is designed foradvanced political science graduate students preparing to commencetheir dissertation research. Its orientation is theoretical rather thanempirical and it is both reading and research.International Security: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Credit Restrictions: If course was taken prior to Fall 2016, students willreceive no credit for Political Science 221 after taking Political Science222.

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POL SCI 222 Religion and InternationalRelations 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2001How has religion shaped the structure of the international system? Howshould IR scholars approach the role that religion plays in contemporaryaffairs? How does religion constrain or motivate international conflict?This seminar seeks to guide students through readings in the socialsciences, from psychology and sociology to anthropology and politicalscience, that explore the intersection of religion and internationalrelations. We will examine a variety of theoretical approaches to thetopic of religion and global politics, explore religious origins of themodern state system, and analyze the influence of religion on historicaland comtemporary conflicts, with a particular focus on ethnic conflict,terrorism, and peacemaking.Religion and International Relations: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 223 Selected Topics in InternationalRelations 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2016See departmental announcements. Topic will vary with instructor.Selected Topics in International Relations: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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POL SCI 224 Sociological Traditions inInternational Relations 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007This seminar traces the development of the constructivist programin international relations in order to better understand its elements,assumptions, and methods and apply those to current issues. We start byuncovering the roots of constructivism in sociology and philosophy andexamine structuation theory, the English School, world systems theory,regime theory, and sociological institutionalism. The second part of thiscourse focuses on the constructivist agenda in international relations,its boundaries and its critics. In the last part of the course we examinecurrent research in IR that draws on sociological methods, including workon the role of norms, epistemic communities, transnational civil society,and the origins of the state.Sociological Traditions in International Relations: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 225 Constructivism 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2010This seminar traces the development of the constructivist programin international relations in order to better understand its elements,assumptions, and methods and apply those to current issues. We start byuncovering the roots of constructivism in sociology and philosophy andexamine structuation theory, the English School, world systems theory,regime theory, and sociological institutionalism. The second part of thiscourse focuses on the constructivist agenda in international relations,its boundaries and its critics. In the last part of the course we examinecurrent research in international relations that draws on sociologicalmethods, including work on the role of norms, epistemic communities,transnational civil society, and the origins of the state.Constructivism: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 225A The Empirical Analysis ofInternational Security 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2007, Spring 2006This course offers an introduction to the empirical analysis of InternationalSecurity. The primary goals are 1) to acquaint students with the empiricalknowledge in the field of International Security that has been producedwith quantitative approaches and 2) to help students develop and honetheir skills in empirical analysis. Therefore, particular emphasis will begiven on how to go beyond being "consumers" of empirical research andhow to become "producers" of novel empirical knowledge.The Empirical Analysis of International Security: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 226A International PoliticalEconomy 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020The creation, maintenance, transformation, and decay of internationalarrangements designed to manage or regulate interstate activitiesrelating to trade, money, resource use, technology, and physicalenvironment.International Political Economy: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Introductory courses (graduate or undergraduate) ininternational relations, foreign policy, international organizations andpolitical economy

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POL SCI 227 International Cooperation 4UnitsTerms offered: Prior to 2007This seminar will cover the topic of international cooperation. We willbegin by reviewing the positions of central IR paradigms on the possibilityof international cooperation and the role of international institutions.We will talk about why states want to cooperate, which obstaclesneed to be overcome, and how international institutions can facilitateinterstate cooperation. We examine questions concerning the design ofinternational institutions, the extent of compliance they evoke, and theireffect in various areas of international cooperation. We also discuss howdomestic politics affect a state’s willingness to cooperate and comply withinternational institutions.International Cooperation: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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POL SCI 228 Civil Conflict and InternationalIntervention 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2015, Spring 1998Civil conflict, committed primarily by non-state actors, often results ininternational interventionin some form. This course, then, focuses on two themes: first, why doescivil conflict occur?What motivates individuals and groups to resort to violence? What tacticsdo they use? How dothey expect to succeed? Second, why do international actors intervene incivil conflict? What aretheir aims in intervening? Are they successful in those goals or in others?Civil Conflict and International Intervention: Read More [+]Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: Broaden your theoretical framework in internationalrelations more generallyEngage with the existing work in the field and begin high-level researchon civil conflict and international interventionThink about the ways in which international actors interveneUnderstand the causes, strategies, and outcomes of civil conflict

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POL SCI 230 Essential Methodological Tools4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010This course presents essential methodological concepts, ideas, andtools students need to know before beginning their study of the formaland quantitative methods tools used in political science research. Topicscovered include functions, limits, continuity, calculus, optimization,probability and statistics, and linear algebra. Entire courses are oftendevoted to each of these topics (e.g., Math 1A-1B, 53, 54; Stat 101, 134,135), and this course clearly cannot provide an equally comprehensivetreatment. Rather, the class selectively focuses on specific mathematicalconcepts that are most commonly used in applied formal and quantitativework in political science. The goal of the class is to ensure that studentshave a sufficiently firm understanding of these critical ideas and facilitywith them that subsequent methods course can build on the foundation.Essential Methodological Tools: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Open only to graduate students. Consent of instructorand graduate adviser


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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture and 1-2 hours ofdiscussion per week

Summer:6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2-5 hours of discussion per week8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 1.5-3.5 hours of discussion per week

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POL SCI 231A Quantitative Analysis inPolitical Research 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2019Introductory course in the analysis of political data.Quantitative Analysis in Political Research: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 132A-132B or Statistics 130A

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of seminar and 2 hours ofdiscussion per week

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POL SCI 231B Quantitative Analysis inPolitical Research 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2019Topics from multi-equation causal modeling and introductoryeconometrics, with special emphasis on procedures appropriate forpolitical data, including survey data.Quantitative Analysis in Political Research: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 231A or equivalent

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-3 hours of seminar and 1-2 hours ofdiscussion per week

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POL SCI 232A Formal Models of PoliticalScience 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020Mathematical models of politics with applications to political learning,bargaining, and democratic theory. Topics from game theory, collectivechoice theory, and mathematical psychology.Formal Models of Political Science: Read More [+]Hours & Format

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POL SCI 232B Formal Models of PoliticalScience 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019This course emphasizes the application of the formal analytic tools tocurrent or significant research in political science.Formal Models of Political Science: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 232A or consent of instructor

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POL SCI 232H Public Policy and Business 4UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2009The course will study public policy in its connection with business. Policyis seen as an endogenous outcome of a game where diverse politicalforces try to shape public decisions to their advantage. The focus isbroad, covering both theory and evidence. The aim is to analyze how awide range of political institutions and processes affect public policy andeconomic performance. The ultimate goal of the course is to acquaintstudents with the topics at hand, and to consolidate their control of formaltheory and quantitative techniques by discussing their application to thesubject.Public Policy and Business: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

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POL SCI 234A Qualitative and Multi-MethodResearch 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2016This course introduces diverse methodological tools, following thepremise that all methods are strengthened if linked to qualitative analysis.Explores alternative approaches to concept formation, measurement,and causal inference, based on large- and small-N analysis and casestudies. Analytic tensions that motivate the course derive from, amongother sources, the pressure on case-study and small-N researchersto strive for analytic rigor and generality; and the skepticism of somestatisticians about quantitative inference - both descriptive and casual - insocial science.Qualitative and Multi-Method Research: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 235 Introduction to ResearchMethods 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2015Overview of methods of political research. Theories, concepts, variables,hypotheses. Research design, quantitative and qualitative methodology.Basic data collection techniques. Approaches to data analysis. Providesan overview of different statistical techniques, but does not teachstatistics .Introduction to Research Methods: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 236A The Statistics of CausalInference in the Social Sciences 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014Approaches to causal inference using the potential outcomes framework.Covers observational studies with and without ignorable treatmentassignment, randomized experiments with and without noncompliance,instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, sensitivity analysis,and random inference. Applications are drawn from a variety of fieldsincluding political science, economics, sociology, public health, andmedicine.The Statistics of Causal Inference in the Social Sciences: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: One multivariate regression course

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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3-4 hours of lecture and 2-1 hours ofdiscussion per week

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POL SCI 236B Quantitative Methodology inthe Social Sciences Seminar 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2016A seminar on successful research designs and a forum for students todiscuss the research methods needed in their own work, supplementedby lectures on relevant statistical and computational topics such asmatching methods, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, andBayesian, maximum likelihood and robust estimation. Applications aredrawn from political science, economics, sociology, and public health.Experience with R is assumed.Quantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences Seminar: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Political Science 236A or STAT 215A or equivalent

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POL SCI C236A The Statistics of CausalInference in the Social Science 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016Approaches to causal inference using the potential outcomes framework.Covers observational studies with and without ignorable treatmentassignment, randomized experiments with and without noncompliance,instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, sensitivity analysisand randomization inference. Applications are drawn from a variety offields including political science, economics, sociology, public health andmedicine.The Statistics of Causal Inference in the Social Science: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI C236B Quantitative Methodology inthe Social Sciences Seminar 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017A seminar on successful research designs and a forum for students todiscuss the research methods needed in their own work, supplementedby lectures on relevant statistical and computational topics such asmatching methods, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity, andBayesian, maximum likelihood and robust estimation. Applications aredrawn from political science, economics, sociology, and public health.Experience with R is assumed.Quantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences Seminar: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI C237A Political Economics 3 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2010, Fall 2009Tools of political economics: preferences and institutions, electoralcompetition, agency, partisan politics. Redistributive politics: generalinterest politics, special interest politics. Comparative politics: electoralrules, separation of powers, political regimes. Dynamic politics: fiscalpolicy, growth.Political Economics: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI C237B Political Economics 3 UnitsTerms offered: Prior to 2007Tools of political economics: preferences and institutions, electoralcompetition, agency, partisan politics. Redistributive politics: generalinterest politics, special interest politics. Comparative politics: electoralrules, separation of powers, political regimes. Dynamic politics: fiscalpolicy, growth.Political Economics: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: ECON C215A is a prerequisite to ECON C215B, andPOL SCI C237A is a prerequisite to POL SCI C237B

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POL SCI 239 Selected Topics in Methodology4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021See departmental announcements. Topic will vary with instructor.Selected Topics in Methodology: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements



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POL SCI 239T An Introduction toComputational Tools and Techniques forSocial Science Research 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2019This course will provide graduate students the critical technical skillsnecessary to conduct research in computational social science and digitalhumanities, introducing them to the basic computer literacy, programmingskills, and application knowledge that students need to be successfulin further methods work. This course is not an introduction to statistics,computer science, or specialized social science / digital humanitiesmethods. Rather, it is meant as a springboard for students to further theirtraining once the course is finished, whether through campus workshops(e.g. D-Lab workshops), online courses, traditional classrooms, orindependent learning.An Introduction to Computational Tools and Techniques for SocialScience Research: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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POL SCI 243B Political Authority andEconomic Exchange in East Asia 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2011, Fall 2009, Fall 2007This course will compare how authority and exchange relations arecombined to regulate political and economic activities in China, Taiwan,South Korea, North Korea, and Japan. The course will examinetheoretical literature on state-society relations, market, world system, latedevelopment, as well as empirical case studies dealing with each nationcovered.Political Authority and Economic Exchange in East Asia: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 243C Japanese Politics 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2014, Fall 2010, Spring 2006Japanese domestic politics--issues in historical development; politicalbureaucratic and legal structures; studies in economic policymaking.Japanese Politics: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 244A Analysis of ContemporaryChina 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Spring 2011This is the first in a two-semester sequence designed to providethe incoming graduate student with a basic grounding in the politicsof contemporary China. The focus will be on wide reading andcomprehension of the available analytical literature; its sequel willbe devoted to integrating that reading with primary source researchmaterials. There are no prerequisites, though undergraduate course workin Chinese politics and/or some acquaintance with the Chinese languagewould be useful.Analysis of Contemporary China: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 244C Approaches to ChinesePolitics 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2015, Fall 2012This course has three main objectives: to expose students to debatesin the study of post-1949 Chinese politics; to consider how research oncontemporary China both draws from and informs political science; and toexplore characterizations of the Chinese state and state-society relations.Emphasis on questions such as: What can we learn by examiningChinese culture and institutions? Do concepts such as fragmentedauthoritarianism, neotraditionalism, state "reach," civil society, andcorporatism produce insights into the structure and dynamics of Chinesepolitics?Approaches to Chinese Politics: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 244D Collective Action in China 4UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2012, Fall 2009This course will explore contentious politics in the People's Republicof China. Special attention to the current era and dissent by peasants,migrants, workers, religious groups, women, students, artists, anddissidents. How do concepts drawn from social movement theory help usunderstand popular activism? What are the consequences of protest forregime stability and the development of a more complete citizenship?Collective Action in China: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 245A South Asian Politics 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2011, Spring 2010Major themes of politics and international relations in India, Pakistan,Burma and the mountain kingdoms.South Asian Politics: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 245B International Relations in EastAsia 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2017, Spring 2015This seminar will focus on postwar relations among the countries in EastAsia. Asia was long divided by colonialism, the Cold War, and America's"hub and spoke" alliance system. Nationalist sentiments and suspicionsremain strong; one scholar characterized the region as "the cockpitof great power rivalries." Northeast Asia has seen no shooting warsbetween states since the Korean armistice in 1953; Southeast Asia hasbeen at peace since the pullback of Vietnam from Cambodia in 1979.International Relations in East Asia: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 246B Ethnic Politics 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2010This graduate seminar is designed to introduce students to thecomparative study of ethnic politics. It provides an overview of theoreticalframeworks and methodological innovations across topics such as groupmobilization, cleavage activation, identity representation, redistributivepolitics, and political violence. The readings are drawn from variouspolitical science subfields as well as other disciplines, reflecting a rangeof regional and country contexts. The purpose of the course is to providegraduate students with the background necessary for undertaking originalresearch on questions relating to various forms of identity politics.Ethnic Politics: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 247A Western European Politics 4UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2013, Fall 2011, Fall 2009Major themes of politics and international relations of Western Europe.Western European Politics: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 247G The Comparative Politics ofthe Welfare State 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2020, Fall 2018, Fall 2015This course analyzes the politics of social protection in Western Europeand the United States. After describing different national welfare regimes,we turn to contemporary challenges, notably globalization, persistentpoverty, and changes in family forms and gender roles. We also look atthe politics of welfare retrenchment and adjustment, paying particularattention to the prospects for progressive social policy. Must reforminevitably scale back protections for the weak and vulnerable, or canequity be safeguarded while promoting efficiency?The Comparative Politics of the Welfare State: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 248A Latin American Politics 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2014Explores different analytical approaches to Latin American politics,focusing both on major concepts (clientelism, corporatism, the state,legitimacy, nationalism) and different explanatory approaches (focusingon factors such as dependency and imperialism, internal social order andeconomic change, political structure and institutions and political culture).Latin American Politics: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

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POL SCI 249A Special Topics in Area Studies4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2011, Spring 2009See department web site for specific course offerings.Special Topics in Area Studies: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 249B Special Topics in Area Studies4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2006See department web site for specific course offerings.Special Topics in Area Studies: Read More [+]Hours & Format



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POL SCI 250 Courts and the State 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2013The course is a political science graduate seminar that will focus oncourts' relationship to other political institutions, particularly but notexclusively in the American separation of powers context, with anemphasis on readings from institutionalist (both historical and rationalchoice) perspectives.Courts and the State: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 252 Legal Theory and Institutions 4UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2015, Spring 2014, Spring 2013The organization and behavior of legal institutions, with particularreference to American courts and administrative agencies. Institutionalresponses to problems of legality, authority, policy choice, and theorganization of enforcement and decision-making processes. Readingsinclude empirical studies, judicial opinions, jurisprudential writings andorganization theory.Legal Theory and Institutions: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 257 Constitutional Law 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2001Fundamental principles of constitutional law, leading cases, judicialdecisions affecting the liabilities, rights, duties and procedures ofgovernmental officers and agencies, causes and consequences of legaldecision, judicial behavior.Constitutional Law: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 259 Selected Topics in Public law 4UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2012, Spring 2008, Fall 2007See departmental announcements. Topic will vary with instructor.Selected Topics in Public law: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements



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POL SCI 261 Political Behavior 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2017, Spring 2016A comprehensive review of the major topics in political behavior throughintensive examination of the theories, findings, and proceedings of themost significant studies in the field.Political Behavior: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 262 Voting Behavior and PublicOpinion 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018Examination of the basic literature on American voting behavior, publicopinion and student research on individually selected topics in this field.Voting Behavior and Public Opinion: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 263 Mass Politics in AdvancedIndustrial Democracies 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2010Theories and evidence concerning political conflict in advanced industrialsocieties. The empirical focus is on mass politics: the beliefs, attitudes,and behaviors of ordinary citizens rather than of activists or elites. Theprincipal theoretical focus is on how changes in social structure, culture,and political institutions influence patterns of political cleavages. Theanalysis is largely comparative, with attention to the issue of Americanexceptionalism versus cultural and policy convergence.Mass Politics in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 269 Selected Topics in PoliticalBehavior 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018See departmental announcements. Topic will vary with instructor.Selected Topics in Political Behavior: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements



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POL SCI 271 American Government andPolitical Field Seminar 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020This seminar is designed to acquaint students with current researchapproaches in various subfields of American Politics. Particular attentionwill be given to debates over theory, methodology, and substance.The seminar is not designed to provide a complete survey of the field.Students planning to be examined in American Politics are expected tomaster recommended readings on their own and should review additionalreadings included in versions of this seminar offered in the past years.American Government and Political Field Seminar: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 273 Urban Politics 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2002, Spring 1998Politics and policy-making in American cities. Historical, economic andsocial context of cities. Major urban political institutions, other levels ofgovernment in urban affairs.Urban Politics: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 274 American Political Development4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2020, Spring 2016, Spring 2012This course will consider several broad themes in American politicaldevelopment. The objective is to extract the central conditions,processes, and controversies that scholars have found running throughAmerican political development and try to come to terms with possiblerelations among them.American Political Development: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 279 Selected Topics in AmericanGovernment 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2019See departmental announcements. Topic will vary with instructor.Selected Topics in American Government: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements



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POL SCI 280A Public Organization Theory 4UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011A survey of the literature of organization and management theory,emphasizing the major writers and distinctive contributions of variousdisciplines.Public Organization Theory: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 284 Strategies of ContemporaryGovernance 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2010This course explores the implications of new strategies for copingwith social problems and managing public programs. In responseto growing criticism of government bureaucracy, public skepticismof expert authority, and an explosion of advocacy groups, a varietyof new governance strategies have been developed. These newstrategies are characterized by five broad themes: the use of marketsor market mechanisms to increase efficiency; an emphasis on holdingpublic agencies accountable and making them more transparent; thedevelopment of coordinating networks to link public agencies with eachother and with stakeholders; the extensive involvement of non-stateorganizations in all aspects of governing; and renewed attention to thecivic role of individuals and communities. The course investigates theextent to which these new strategies succeed in making the governanceprocess more efficient, accountable, effective, representative, and civic.Strategies of Contemporary Governance: Read More [+]Hours & Format


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POL SCI 289 Research Topics in PublicOrganization 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015See departmental announcements.Research Topics in Public Organization: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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POL SCI 290 Dissertation Research 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019Seminar to aid students in initiating, carrying out, and completingdissertation research. Problems of planning dissertation research, thepreparation of research designs and proposals for outside funding, fieldwork, and writing and presenting the results of completed research.Presentations by graduate students working on their dissertations.Dissertation Research: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.

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POL SCI 290A Research and Writing 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019The goal of this yearlong course is to provide a forum in which studentspropose, develop, and complete a research project that producesa journal-length paper of publishable quality. It is primarily orientedtowards second-year Ph.D. students in any subfield (students in otheryears may participate with the professors’ consent). The course meetsregularly during parts of the fall semester and irregularly during the springsemester. In the first few weeks of the course, we discuss the processof moving from research topic to research question; and we surveypublished articles by recent Ph.D. students/assistant professors, focusingon the structure and nature of the writing and presentation as well thequality of the argument and evidence.Research and Writing: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Course is primarily oriented towards second-year PoliticalScience Ph.D. students in any subfield (students in other years mayparticipate with the professors’ consent)

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Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. Aprovisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replacedwith the final grade after completing part two of the series.

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POL SCI 290B Research and Writing 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020The goal of this yearlong course is to provide a forum in which studentspropose, develop, and complete a research project that produces ajournal-length paper of publishable quality. It is primarily oriented towardssecond-year Ph.D. students in any subfield (students in other years mayparticipate with the professors’ consent). During the spring semester,students meet individually with the course instructors and their advisors,develop and revise drafts of their papers, and present their work at adepartment “APSA-style” conference.Research and Writing: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Students must take POL SCI 290A. In order to completethe course and receive credit, students must complete the requirementsfor both semesters

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Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Uponcompletion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.

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POL SCI 290IC Emerging Research inInternational Relations and ComparativePolitics 1 UnitTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021The main aims of this workshop are met through a forum in which facultyand graduate students at various career stages work closely together. Itis an appliedworkshop with an emphasis on learning by doing and on learning how tobe a moreconstructive colleague. Rather than segregate PhD students by cohort,the workshop isdesigned to bring cohorts together in order to facilitate the student-to-student transfer ofskills and knowledge.Emerging Research in International Relations and Comparative Politics:Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

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POL SCI 290SA Africa Research Seminar 2 - 4UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017This seminar is intended for graduate students who are conductingoriginal research in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Primarilyintended for graduate students in the socialsciences and related humanistic fields, the seminar will provide studentswith a framework for engaging recent scholarship, developing their owntheoretically informed questions, andproposing rigorous research designs. Students will also discuss thestructure and quality of scholarly writing. Students will ultimately producea research paper that serves as the basis for a prospectus, dissertationchapter, or publishable article.Africa Research Seminar: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Instructor consent required to enroll


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POL SCI 291 Research Workshop inAmerican Politics 1 or 2 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021A forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progress bygraduate students. To receive two units of credit, a student must makeat least one presentation of work in progress and serve as a discussantfor another student's presentation. To receive one unit of credit a studentmust regularly attend class and participate in discussion, but will not berequired to make a presentation. Appropriate works in progress include(but are not limited to) a paper in preparation for submission to a journal,a dissertation prospectus (including early drafts), a dissertation chapter,or a job market paper. Anyone working on American politics, politicalbehavior, public law, or public administration is welcome.Research Workshop in American Politics: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Graduate student standing (second year or above)


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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2-3 hours of directed group study perweek

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Instructor: Schickler

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POL SCI 291AS Research Workshop in AreaStudies 2 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021A forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progressby graduate students (second year and above). To receive credit forthe course, the student will make at least one presentation of work inprogress per semester and to serve as a discussant for another student'swork. Appropriate works-in progress include (but not limited to) a paperin preparation for submission to a journal a dissertation prospectus(including early drafts), dissertation chapter, or a job market paper.Anyone working on Area Studies is welcome.Research Workshop in Area Studies: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Graduate student (second year or above)


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POL SCI 291F Research Workshop inQuatitative Modeling 1 - 3 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021A forum for the presentation and discussion of research in quantitativemodeling. Anyone working on quantitative modeling or empirical testingof quantitative models is welcome to attend. To receive credit for thecourse, a student must attend regularly, participate actively, and makeat least two presentations per semester. Presentations can be of thestudent's own work-in-progress or of work by other scholars (includingboth influential/classic works or interesting current working papers).Research Workshop in Quatitative Modeling: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements



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POL SCI 291IR Research Workshop inInternational Relations 2.0 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021A forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progressby graduate students (second year and above). To receive credit forthe course, the students will make at least one presentation of work-in-progress per semester and to serve as a discussant for another student'swork. Appropriate works-in-progress include (but not limited to) a paperin preparation for submission to a journal a dissertation prospectus(including early drafts), dissertation chapter, or a job market paper.Anyone working on International Relations is welcome.Research Workshop in International Relations: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements



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POL SCI 291T Research Workshop in Theory2 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021A forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progressby graduate students (second year and above). To receive credit forthe course, the student will make at least one presentation of work inprogress per semester and to serve as a discussant for another student'swork. Appropriate works-in-progress include (but are not limited to) apaper in preparation for submission to a journal, a dissertation prospectus(including early drafts), a dissertation chapter, or a job market paper.Anyone working on theory is welcome.Research Workshop in Theory: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements



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POL SCI 292 Directed Advanced Study 0.5 -12 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019Open to qualified graduate students wishing to pursue special study andresearch under direction of a member of the staff.Directed Advanced Study: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and graduate adviser


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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0.5-12 hours of independent study perweek

Summer:6 weeks - 0.5-8 hours of independent study per week8 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study per week

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POL SCI 296 Directed Dissertation Research4 - 12 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021Open to qualified students advanced to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree.Directed Dissertation Research: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week

Summer:6 weeks - 4-12 hours of independent study per week8 weeks - 4-12 hours of independent study per week

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POL SCI 299 Special Study in PoliticalScience 1 - 12 UnitsTerms offered: Summer 2021 Second 6 Week Session, Spring 2016,Spring 2015Special individual study for qualified graduate students.Special Study in Political Science: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-12 hours of independent study perweek


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POL SCI 375 Graduate Student InstructorTraining Seminar 2 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019This course is intended for all new graduate student instructors (GSI)in the Department of Political Science, and is meant to be takensimultaneously with the first semester of teaching as a GSI. The coursefunctions as a participatory workshop. Although the course is intendedfor first-time GSIs, it is not a course in "how to be a GSI," but rather,how to be an effective political science teacher, now and at later steps inprofessional careers. Workshop time will be divided among presentationsby the instructor, discussion of required readings, and discussion ofweekly assignments in relation to challenges encountered by GSIs in thecourse of their teaching.Graduate Student Instructor Training Seminar: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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Summer:6 weeks - 5 hours of seminar per week8 weeks - 3.5 hours of seminar per week

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Subject/Course Level: Political Science/Professional course forteachers or prospective teachers



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POL SCI 398 Professional Preparation forGraduate Student Instructors. 4 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017Special study under the direction of a staff member with emphasis on theteaching of undergraduate courses in political science.Professional Preparation for Graduate Student Instructors.: Read More[+]Rules & Requirements


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POL SCI 404 Research Skills 1 - 4 UnitsTerms offered: Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015Individual research work under supervision of faculty members. Open tostudents engaged in supervised research projects in Political Science.Research Skills: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of independent study per week

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POL SCI 602 Individual Study for DoctoralStudents 4 - 12 UnitsTerms offered: Fall 2015, Fall 2014, Fall 2013Individual study in consultation with the major field adviser, intended toprovide opportunity for qualified students to prepare themselves for thevarious examinations required of candidates for the Ph.D. May not beused for unit or residence requirements for the doctoral degree.Individual Study for Doctoral Students: Read More [+]Rules & Requirements


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