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GOVT 1101
Course Description
This First-Year Writing Seminar is devoted to the study of political power and the interaction of citizens and governments and provides the opportunity to write extensively about these issues. Topics vary ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS:Cities, China, and the Environment
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- TR Uris Hall G88
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Wallace, J
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: FWS: Genocide
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- MW Uris Hall 398
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Toor, G
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/
GOVT 1111
Course Description
A policy-centered approach to the study of government in the American experience. Considers the American Founding and how it influenced the structure of government; how national institutions operate ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1115
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Klarman Hall KG70
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Kriner, D
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- M Uris Hall 204
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Staff
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall 350
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Howard, K
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- M White Hall 104
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Howard, K
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- W Stimson Hall 206
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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- W Rockefeller Hall 103
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- R McGraw Hall 366
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- R Rockefeller Hall 128
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- M Stimson Hall 206
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- W Uris Hall 262
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- F McGraw Hall 215
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- F McGraw Hall 215
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GOVT 1503
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This course offers an introduction to the study of Africa, the U.S., the Caribbean and other diasporas. This course will examine, through a range of disciplines, among them literature, history, politics, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 1500, ASRC 1500
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Grovogui, S
GOVT 1817
Course Description
An introduction to the basic concepts and practice of international politics with an emphasis on learning critical thinking. The course is divided into two parts. In the first half, we will learn about ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
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Kreps, S
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- M Stimson Hall 206
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Staff
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- M McGraw Hall 366
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- M Uris Hall 369
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- T White Hall 110
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- T White Hall 104
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- W Uris Hall 262
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- W Rockefeller Hall 110
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- R White Hall 110
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- F White Hall 110
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- F White Hall B14
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GOVT 1901
Course Description
This course will address questions of justice posed by current political controversies, for example, controversies over immigration, economic inequality, American nationalism, the government's role in ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 1901, SOC 1900
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Democracy, Equality, and Justice, Now
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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Appel, A
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Weekly discussions of urgent moral questions about politics and society in the United States and American conduct toward people abroad. Brief readings will be starting points for mutual learning about issues such as inequality of political power (“The system is rigged”); inclusion, diversity and political action (including “identity politics”); constitutional order and its vulnerability; patriotism and cosmopolitanism; immigration; economic and racial inequality; and global uses of American power.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 1901, SOC 1900
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Democracy, Equality, and Justice, Now
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- M Hans Bethe House 240
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Gounot, Q
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Weekly discussions of urgent questions of political and social justice, such as controversies over inequality of political power (“The system is rigged”); inclusion, diversity and political action (including “identity politics”); economic and racial inequality; patriotism and cosmopolitanism; immigration; and America’s role in the world. Brief readings, often from relevant controversies in political philosophy, will be starting points for mutual learning about these vital issues.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 1901, SOC 1900
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Democracy, Equality, and Justice, Now
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- W Hans Bethe House 240
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Southgate, E
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Weekly discussions of urgent moral questions about politics and society in the United States and American conduct toward people abroad. Brief readings will be starting points for mutual learning about issues such as inequality of political power (“The system is rigged”); inclusion, diversity and political action (including “identity politics”); constitutional order and its vulnerability; patriotism and cosmopolitanism; immigration; economic and racial inequality; and global uses of American power.
GOVT 2055
Course Description
This course introduces topics in law that vary each semester. Past topics have included: International Law, Due Process Law, and Business Law. view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: Psychology and Law
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- R Moravia, NY
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Buxton, C
Dekolf, B
Garavito, D
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Additional Information
Taught in Moravia, NY. This is part of CPEP.
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Topic: Property Theory & the Law
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- T Romulus, NY
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Chawla, G
Kinel, D
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Taught in Romulus, NY. This is part of CPEP.
GOVT 2225
Course Description
In recent years, poverty and inequality have become increasingly common topics of public debate, as academics, journalists, and politicians attempt to come to terms with growing income inequality, with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2225, DSOC 2220, ILROB 2220, PAM 2220, PHIL 1950, SOC 2220
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Klarman Hall KG70
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Young, C
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Department Consent Required (Add)
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- F Malott Hall 207
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Young, C
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- F Uris Hall 204
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Young, C
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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Young, C
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- F Uris Hall 204
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Young, C
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- F Malott Hall 207
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Young, C
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- F Malott Hall 207
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Young, C
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- F Uris Hall 202
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Young, C
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- F Malott Hall 224
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Young, C
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- F Morrill Hall 111
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Young, C
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- F Morrill Hall 110
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Young, C
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GOVT 2264
Course Description
This course explores the causes and consequences of modern day civil wars. The first part of the course looks at individual, group, and state level factors that might cause civil wars to break out. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Klarman Hall KG70
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Karim, S
GOVT 2432
Course Description
The course concerns the principles and philosophical arguments underlying conflicts and moral dilemmas of central and ongoing concern to society as they arise within legal contexts. We consider questions ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 2430
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Marmor, A
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- T Rockefeller Hall 104
- Sep 10, 2019
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- T Rockefeller Hall 104
- Sep 24, 2019
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- T Rockefeller Hall 104
- Oct 8, 2019
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- T Rockefeller Hall 104
- Oct 22, 2019
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- T Rockefeller Hall 104
- Nov 5, 2019
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- T Rockefeller Hall 104
- Nov 19, 2019
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- T Rockefeller Hall 104
- Dec 3, 2019
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- W Rockefeller Hall 104
- Sep 11, 2019
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- W Rockefeller Hall 115
- Sep 25, 2019
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- W Rockefeller Hall 115
- Oct 9, 2019
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- W Rockefeller Hall 115
- Oct 23, 2019
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- W Rockefeller Hall 115
- Nov 6, 2019
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- W Rockefeller Hall 115
- Nov 20, 2019
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- W Rockefeller Hall 115
- Dec 4, 2019
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GOVT 2523
Course Description
Islamophobia and Judeophobia are ideas and like all ideas they have a history of their own. Although today many might think of Islamophobia or Judeophobia as unchangeable---fear of and hatred for Islam ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: COML 2523, JWST 2523, NES 2523, RELST 2523
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Baker Laboratory 219
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Brann, R
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- F Lincoln Hall B08
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Staff
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- F Lincoln Hall B08
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- F Lincoln Hall B08
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- F White Hall 104
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GOVT 2553
Course Description
This course will cover current events in Europe as they unfold during the semester. Each week the two meetings will features a "topic" day in which students learn about a current issue of importance for ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Way, C
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- M McGraw Hall 366
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Staff
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- W White Hall 106
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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GOVT 2605
Course Description
This course will examine key issues in social and political philosophy. Topics may include the legitimacy of the state, political obligation, the nature and demands of justice, equality, liberty, and autonomy. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: PHIL 2420
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 127
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Yost, B
GOVT 2755
Course Description
This seminar offers an introduction to the humanities by exploring the historical, cultural, social and political stakes of the Society for the Humanities annual focal theme. Students will consider novels, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2750, ENGL 2950, SHUM 2750
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Energy
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- TR A D White House 110
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Pinkus, K
GOVT 2817
Course Description
Donald Trump and Barack Obama give us two visions of America and of the world: xenophobic nationalism and pragmatic cosmopolitanism. America and the world are thus constituted by great diversity. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2817
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Mcgraw Hall 165
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Katzenstein, P
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- T Morrill Hall 102
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Staff
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- T Morrill Hall 102
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- R Stimson Hall 206
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- R McGraw Hall 366
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- T White Hall 114
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G20
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GOVT 3032
Course Description
Public policies are political outcomes determined by processes that are complex, convoluted and often controversial. The aim of this course is to equip students with the conceptual tools necessary to understand ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3033
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Michener, J
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- M McGraw Hall 365
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Staff
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- M Uris Hall G26
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- M White Hall 106
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- W McGraw Hall 365
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- W White Hall 110
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- F McGraw Hall 365
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- F McGraw Hall 145
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GOVT 3071
Course Description
The US and the global community face a number of complex, interconnected and enduring issues that pose challenges for our political and policy governance institutions and society at large. Exploring how ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- F Washington, DC
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Silbey, D
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Additional Information
Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.
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GOVT 3082
Course Description
This course focuses on political campaigns, a central feature of American democracy. We will examine how they work and the conditions under which they affect citizens' decisions. The course looks at campaign ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3082
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
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Levine, A
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- R Rockefeller Hall B15
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Levine, A
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- R White Hall B14
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Levine, A
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall G19
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Levine, A
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- F Rockefeller Hall 110
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Levine, A
GOVT 3091
Course Description
This course reviews the changing political relations between science, technology, and the state in America from 1960 to the present. It focuses on policy choices involving science and technology in different ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3911, STS 3911
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 112
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Hilgartner, S
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GOVT 3152
Course Description
Prisons are social and political institutions governed by local, state and national policies. They have a profound influence on American society, especially on our political community. They amplify inequality ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3155
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Michener, J
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- M Uris Hall 262
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Staff
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- W White Hall 106
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall G22
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- F White Hall 106
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- F White Hall 106
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- F White Hall 104
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- T McGraw Hall 366
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- R White Hall B06
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GOVT 3161
Course Description
This course will explore and seek explanations for the performance of the 20-21st century presidency, focusing on its institutional and political development, recruitment process (nominations and elections), ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3161
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Baker Laboratory 135
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Kriner, D
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- W McGraw Hall 366
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- W Uris Hall 262
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GOVT 3192
Course Description
This course offers students a chance to write and reflect intensively on their engagement inside Auburn, Cayuga, Elmira or Five Points Correctional Facilities. We will read essays by incarcerated writers ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3895
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 348
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Wheelwright, T
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Students must be current or recent volunteers for the Cornell Prison Education Program, for Art Beyond Cornell at MacCormick Secure Facility or Finger Lakes Residential Center, or for another prison education volunteer program.
GOVT 3281
Course Description
This course investigates the United States Supreme Court and its role in politics and government. It traces the development of constitutional doctrine, the growth of the Court's institutional power, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3281, LAW 3281
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Myron Taylor Hall 184
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Chutkow, D
GOVT 3303
Course Description
From a perspective based on comparative political economy, this course examines pressing contemporary issues such as the politics of growing inequality. We consider conflicts around markets, democracy, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ILRIC 4330
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4 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
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- TR Ives Hall 305
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Turner, L
GOVT 3353
Course Description
This is an introductory course on the politics of Sub-Saharan Africa. The goal is to provide students with historical background and theoretical tools to understand present-day politics on the continent. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 3353
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Baker Laboratory 335
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van de Walle, N
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- T McGraw Hall 366
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- R Uris Hall 312
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- F Uris Hall 398
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- F White Hall 106
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GOVT 3354
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Three decades from the fall of the Berlin Wall, we have gained broad perspective on the challenges of societal transformations away from socialism. This course explores the process and social consequences ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 3430
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR White Hall 106
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Young, P
GOVT 3494
Course Description
This course addresses pertinent issues relative to the subject of regional development and globalization. Topics vary each semester. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3854, CRP 3854
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Growth and Development
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- M Washington, DC
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Fridl, D
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Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.
GOVT 3547
Course Description
Do you want to learn the discussion-based case method as taught at the Harvard Business School? Do you want to learn how to write a long research paper? Do you not want to take a final examination? If ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AEM 3547, DSOC 3547, ILRIC 3547
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- TR Malott Hall 253
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Katzenstein, P
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- M McGraw Hall 145
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- M McGraw Hall 365
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- W White Hall 106
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- W McGraw Hall 365
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- M White Hall B02
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- M Uris Hall 204
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GOVT 3595
Course Description
This course examines the contemporary transformation processes in the higher education with special emphasis on everyday academic life. The course starts with an exploration of space accorded to (academic) ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Stimson Hall 206
Instructors
Cosar, H
GOVT 3636
Course Description
Shortly after the last election, The New Yorker published an article entitled "The Frankfurt School Knew Trump was Coming." This course examines what the Frankfurt School knew by introducing students to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: COML 3541, ENGL 3920, GERST 3620
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Fleming, P
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Goldwin Smith Hall 283
Instructors
Staff
GOVT 3683
Course Description
Corruption, and the perception of corruption, pervades many aspects of society and has become a source of political protest around the world. This course focuses on the similarities and differences between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 3680
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Caldwell Hall 250
Instructors
Young, P
GOVT 3715
Course Description
This seminar overviews political theories of colonialism and empire, and in doing so, allows us to pose questions about the constitutive elements of our modernity, such as slavery, racism, dependency, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 122
Instructors
Adalet, B
GOVT 3736
Course Description
Ancient political debates about democracy, empire, and justice appear in late fifth-century BCE Athenian dramatic, historical, and philosophical literatures composed against the backdrop of the 27-year ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3676
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Morrill Hall 107
Instructors
Frank, J
Rusten, J
GOVT 3786
Course Description
When Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced the concept of the "general will" in his classic text The Social Contract, he made what was then an unprecedented and scandalous claim: that the people as a whole, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3780, FREN 3780
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
McNulty, T
GOVT 3805
Course Description
We are all the living dead – alive but bound to die, and know it. In this course we will learn how existential fears and anxieties shape our politics, partly through moral meaning-making. While the politics ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 3805, NES 3805
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Abulof, U
GOVT 3867
Course Description
The possibility of major war – on the Korean Peninsula, in the Persian Gulf, in Eastern Europe, in the South China Sea – is higher today than it has been at any point since the end of the Cold War. This ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Ward, S
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Staff
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F McGraw Hall 365
Instructors
Staff
GOVT 4000
Course Description
Major seminars in the Government department are small, advanced courses that cover an important theme or topic in contemporary politics in depth. Courses place particular emphasis on careful reading and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Democracy and Representation
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Rockefeller Hall 185
Instructors
Bateman, D
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Additional Information
Preference given to Government Seniors and Juniors. Fulfills government senior seminar requirement.
GOVT 4019
Course Description
The goal of this course is to introduce probability and statistics as fundamental building blocks for quantitative political analysis, with regression modeling as a focal application. We will begin with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 6019
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 231
Instructors
Corrigan, B
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Additional Information
This class does not fulfill the government senior seminar requirement. Co-meets with GOVT 6019.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall G28
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4021
Course Description
American conservative thought rests on assumptions that are strikingly different from those made by mainstream American liberals. However, conservative thinkers are themselves committed to principles ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4021
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Olin Library 403
Instructors
Bensel, R
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Additional Information
Preference given to Government Seniors and Juniors. Fulfills government senior seminar requirement.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4022
Course Description
This course explores how a rapidly changing media environment and popular cultural are changing American governance and popular perceptions of democratic institutions. The course examines more than eighty ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R White Hall 106
Instructors
Israel, S
GOVT 4283
Course Description
This class will examine the history and contemporary role of Latinos as a minority group in the U.S. political system. This course is intended as an overview of the political position of Latinos y Latinas ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4283, LSP 4283
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M White Hall 104
Instructors
Garcia-Rios, S
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Additional Information
Government Seniors and Juniors given preference. This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
GOVT 4293
Course Description
For the first time in history, more than half of the world's people reside in cities. Why do people congregate in cities? How do states address urbanization, and how does urbanization affect states? This ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6293
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Wallace, J
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Additional Information
Government Seniors and Juniors given preference. This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4365
Course Description
Throughout human history, and its modern incarnation, communities have clashed just as often as states. This course sheds light on ethnic communities and conflicts, explicating their historical dynamics ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: JWST 4365, NES 4365
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Goldwin Smith Hall 144
Instructors
Abulof, U
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Additional Information
This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement. Government Seniors and Juniors given preference.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4403
Course Description
The goal of the course is to introduce students to the study of the nexus between violence and the creation of the modern state. It is intended to familiarize students with the role that war and other ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall G26
Instructors
Flores-Macias, G
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Additional Information
Government Seniors/Juniors given preference. This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4543
Course Description
This course a offers comparative political sociology of democratic and non-democratic institutions in the United States and beyond. Topics will include nationalism, fascism and populism. My focus will ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: SOC 4540
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 320
Instructors
Berezin, M
GOVT 4735
Course Description
This is an introduction to the three 'master thinkers' who have helped determine the discourses of modernity and post-modernity. We consider basic aspects of their work: (a) specific critical and historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4250, GERST 4250
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Malott Hall 251
Instructors
Waite, G
GOVT 4816
Course Description
This course examines the role of space and geography in shaping political projects, imaginaries, and subjectivities. We will approach the question of space from multiple scales (urban, national, transnational) ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6826
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Adalet, B
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Additional Information
Preference given to: Government Seniors and Juniors. This class satisfies the government senior seminar requirement.
GOVT 4827
Course Description
Seminar intended to examine the increasingly complex relationship that has evolved between China and the rest of the international system, with particular focus on the rise of Chinese nationalism and the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4448, CAPS 4827, GOVT 6827
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Carlson, A
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Additional Information
Government Seniors and Juniors given preference. This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
GOVT 4949
Course Description
This seminar creates a structured environment in which honors students will examine different research approaches and methods and construct a research design for their own theses—a thesis proposal that ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M White Hall 106
Instructors
Garcia-Rios, S
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Additional Information
This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
Department Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4999
Course Description
One-on-one tutorial arranged by the student with a faculty member of his or her choosing. Open to government majors doing superior work, and it is the responsibility of the student to establish the research ... view course details
GOVT 6019
Course Description
The goal of this course is to introduce probability and statistics as fundamental building blocks for quantitative political analysis, with regression modeling as a focal application. We will begin with ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 4019
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Rockefeller Hall 231
Instructors
Corrigan, B
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Additional Information
Co-meets with GOVT 4019.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall G28
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 6031
Course Description
The major issues, approaches, and institutions of American government and the various subfields of American politics are introduced. The focus is on both substantive information and theoretical analysis, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F McGraw Hall 215
Instructors
Bateman, D
GOVT 6049
Course Description
This course continues the path of 6019 and 6029 in offering a hybrid of applied social statistics and econometric modeling for graduate students, with a focus on the analysis of categorical and count data ... view course details
Seven Week - First.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 114
- Aug 29 - Oct 18, 2019
Instructors
Corrigan, B
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 6059
Course Description
This course continues the path of 6019 and 6029 in offering a hybrid of applied social statistics and econometric modeling for graduate students, with a focus on panel, time-series cross-section, and multilevel ... view course details
Seven Week - Second.
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Credits and Grading Basis
2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 114
- Oct 21 - Dec 10, 2019
Instructors
Corrigan, B
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 6202
Course Description
This course will explore the relationship between popular belief, political action, and the institutional deployment of social power. The class will be roughly divided in three parts, opening with a discussion ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6202, ANTHR 6102, HIST 6202, SOC 6200
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M White Hall 104
Instructors
Bensel, R
GOVT 6293
Course Description
For the first time in history, more than half of the world's people reside in cities. Why do people congregate in cities? How do states address urbanization, and how does urbanization affect states? This ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4293
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Wallace, J
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 6353
Course Description
This course provides a graduate-level survey of the field of comparative politics, introducing students to classic works as well as recent contributions that build upon those works. Readings will draw ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Stimson Hall 105
Instructors
Pepinsky, T
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 6426
Course Description
Contemporaries Read Ancients has twin pedagogic goals. The first is to deepen the understanding of antique thought and build upon prior study of canonical texts (Phaedrus, Republic, Nicomachean Ethics); ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Frank, J
Rubenstein, D
GOVT 6525
Course Description
What is the relationship of history to the practice of contemporary political theory? What role does attention to history—or its neglect—play in the reproduction and contestation of theoretical authority? ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 254
Instructors
Markell, P
GOVT 6619
Course Description
This is a course on networks and text in quantitative social science. The course will cover published research using text and social network data, focusing on health, politics, and everyday life, and it ... view course details
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Academic Surge A 109
- Sep 3 - Dec 10, 2019
Instructors
Hobbs, W
GOVT 6779
Course Description
This course will examine cosmopolitanism as a cultural, moral, and political concept both historically, with reference primarily to the eighteenth century, and theoretically, in contemporary debates. The ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6970, ENGL 6970
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Goldwin Smith Hall 234
Instructors
Saccamano, N
GOVT 6826
Course Description
This course examines the role of space and geography in shaping political projects, imaginaries, and subjectivities. We will approach the question of space from multiple scales (urban, national, transnational) ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4816
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M Uris Hall G22
Instructors
Adalet, B
GOVT 6827
Course Description
This seminar is intended to examine the increasingly complex relationship that has evolved between China and the rest of the international system, with particular focus on the rise of Chinese nationalism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASIAN 4448, CAPS 4827, GOVT 4827
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W McGraw Hall 366
Instructors
Carlson, A
GOVT 6897
Course Description
This course will examine a variety of international relations theories in studying a broad range of security issues, including the causes of war, alliance formation, balance-of-power politics, security ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W White Hall 114
Instructors
Ward, S
GOVT 6946
Course Description
This course explores the philosophical concept of biopolitics and its diverse translations and/or adaptations across multiple disciplines and across the globe (Africa, Far East, South East Asia, and the ... view course details
GOVT 6987
Course Description
How do states make foreign policy decisions? What factors influence states' international behavior and prospects for war and peace? This seminar has two main goals: to familiarize students with the burgeoning ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F Uris Hall 301
Instructors
Weiss, J
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 7073
Course Description
Game theory provides a scientific approach to the study of social, political, and economic interactions that focuses on the strategic aspects of decision-making between two or more individuals or groups. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one seminar and one discussion.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW Uris Hall G88
Instructors
Cirone, A
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Additional Information
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F White Hall 114
Instructors
Cirone, A
GOVT 7937
Course Description
The Proseminar in Peace Studies offers a multidisciplinary review of issues related to peace and conflict at the graduate level. The course is led by the director of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace ... view course details
GOVT 7999
Course Description
Individualized readings and research for graduate students. Topics, readings, and writing requirements are designed through consultation between the student and the instructor. Graduate students in government ... view course details