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Classes
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:Human Rights Activism
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- TR Uris Hall 260
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Taylor, W
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For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
GOVT 1313
Course Description
This course will introduce students to comparative politics—the study of the political institutions, identities, and organized interests in countries around the world. Emphasis is on how to make meaningful ... 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 Klarman Hall KG70
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van de Walle, N
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This course will be offered in partnership with the German Studies Program. Students enrolled in GOVT 1313 may enroll in an optional one credit course, GERST 3013. Interested students should contact the instructor.
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- M Rockefeller Hall 127
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- M McGraw Hall 145
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- W Uris Hall G26
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- W McGraw Hall 145
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- W McGraw Hall 145
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 122
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- F McGraw Hall 145
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- F McGraw Hall 365
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- M McGraw Hall 365
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Sahasrabuddhe, A
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- F White Hall 110
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Staff
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 122
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- M McGraw Hall 365
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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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- TR Rockefeller Hall 103
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Grovogui, S
GOVT 1615
Course Description
This course offers a survey of political theory in the West. We will examine some of the persistent dilemmas of politics and the attempts of several canonical political theorists to respond to them: Plato, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: PHIL 1920
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Markell, P
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- M Uris Hall G26
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Staff
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- T McGraw Hall 366
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- R White Hall 110
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- R Rockefeller Hall 127
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- F McGraw Hall 366
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- F McGraw Hall 365
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GOVT 1623
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In 1868, samurai revolutionaries and their allies seized the reins of power and established a new capital they called Tokyo. Against all odds, this fragile regime survived and made Tokyo a center of power ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 2222, CAPS 1622, HIST 1622
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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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Roebuck, K
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- M Goldwin Smith Hall 122
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- W McGraw Hall 365
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- M McGraw Hall 366
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 122
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- M White Hall B14
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Roebuck, K
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 William T. Keeton House 141
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Esposito, A
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Weekly discussions of urgent moral and political questions about democratic values and social justice, such as controversies over inequality of political power (“The system is rigged”); inclusion, diversity and political action (including “identity politics”); patriotism and cosmopolitanism; immigration; economic and racial inequality; and the global prospects of democracy. Brief readings as well as lectures (available in video) in the Spring Ethics and Public Life series on democracy will be starting points for mutual learning.
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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- W Carl Becker House G32
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Faller, A
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Weekly discussions of urgent moral and political questions about democratic values and social justice, such as controversies over inequality of political power (“The system is rigged”); inclusion, diversity and political action (including “identity politics”); patriotism and cosmopolitanism; immigration; economic and racial inequality; and the global prospects of democracy. Brief readings as well as lectures (available in video) in the Spring Ethics and Public Life series on democracy will be starting points for mutual learning.
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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- M William T. Keeton House 141
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Paskell, M
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Weekly discussions of urgent moral and political questions about democratic values and social justice, such as controversies over inequality of political power (“The system is rigged”); inclusion, diversity and political action (including “identity politics”); patriotism and cosmopolitanism; immigration; economic and racial inequality; and the global prospects of democracy. Brief readings as well as lectures (available in video) in the Spring Ethics and Public Life series on democracy will be starting points for mutual learning.
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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- M Hans Bethe House 240
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Proios, J
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Weekly discussions of urgent moral and political questions about democratic values and social justice, such as controversies over inequality of political power (“The system is rigged”); inclusion, diversity and political action (including “identity politics”); patriotism and cosmopolitanism; immigration; economic and racial inequality; and the global prospects of democracy. Brief readings as well as lectures (available in video) in the Spring Ethics and Public Life series on democracy will be starting points for mutual learning.
GOVT 2041
Course Description
Factors ranging from the difficulty of registration and costs of voter ID, the purging of voter rolls, a bungled election featuring mis-marked butterfly ballots, concerns about foreign influence or even ... 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 142
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Corrigan, B
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- M McGraw Hall 145
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- W Stimson Hall 206
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- W White Hall 106
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- M White Hall B14
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GOVT 2152
Course Description
One in ten residents of the United States was born outside the country. These people include international students, temporary workers, refugees, asylees, permanent residents, naturalized U.S. citizens ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 2152, LSP 2152
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- MW Goldwin Smith Hall 142
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Garcia-Rios, S
GOVT 2673
Course Description
This lecture class will explore the socio-cultural history of modern Egypt from the late 18th century to the 21st century "Arab Spring." We will explore Egyptian history under the Ottomans and the Mamluks, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 2670, HIST 2672, NES 2670
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
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Fahmy, Z
GOVT 2807
Course Description
In the early twentieth century, a series of movements arose in the Middle East and South Asia, calling Muslims to return to Islam. Today, leaders and members of such groups –now known as Islamists –insist ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2607, NES 2607, RELST 2617
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Rockefeller Hall 115
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Rock-Singer, A
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. Combined with: AMST 3071
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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.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 3112
Course Description
The course will be a lecture course on Congress, introducing them to the political science literature on the topic and the major research questions and approaches. We will examine the development of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Malott Hall 253
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Bateman, D
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- M White Hall 104
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Staff
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- M Uris Hall 498
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- W McGraw Hall 365
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- W White Hall 104
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GOVT 3121
Course Description
This is a class about the American criminal justice system—from policing to prisons, from arrest to reentry. In many ways, the operation of the modern criminal justice system is taken for granted, which ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 3121
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW Malott Hall 228-Bache Aud
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Margulies, J
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Additional Information
This class was formerly GOVT 3141, Prisons, taught by Prof. Margulies. It has been renamed and renumbered as GOVT 3121 to distinguish it from the distance learning course taught by Prof. Katzenstein. If you have taken GOVT 3141 with Prof. Margulies, you cannot take GOVT 3121.
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- T White Hall 110
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- T Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G24
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- R White Hall 110
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- T Uris Hall G26
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Margulies, J
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- R White Hall 104
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Staff
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- M White Hall 104
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- W White Hall 114
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GOVT 3131
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A general-education course to acquaint students with how our legal system pursues the goals of society. The course introduces students to various perspectives on the nature of law, what functions it ought ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3131, LAW 4131
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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- MW Myron Taylor Hall 184
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Chutkow, D
GOVT 3142
Course Description
This class is intended to provoke some hard thinking about the relationship of committed "outsiders" and advocates of change to the experience of crime, punishment, and incarceration and to the men we ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3142, EDUC 3143
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- T McGraw Hall 366
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Reed, M
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Additional Information
Prerequisite: participation as a Teaching Assistant in the CPEP program in Auburn or Cayuga or work in a juvenile or other correctional facility.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 3401
Course Description
Topic Spring 2019: Child Refugees and Politics: Children comprised 52 percent of the worldwide refugee population of 68.5 million in 2017. Traveling with families as well as unaccompanied, they appear ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3420, FGSS 3400, LSP 3402
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- MW White Hall 110
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Juffer, J
GOVT 3443
Course Description
This course will give students the historical background and theoretical tools to understand the politics of Southeast Asia, one of the world's most diverse and fascinating regions. The first part of the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASIAN 3334
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Mcgraw Hall 165
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Pepinsky, T
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- T Uris Hall 262
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Staff
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- W Mcgraw Hall 165
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Pepinsky, T
GOVT 3503
Course Description
This seminar examines the various issues that surround being a specialist of one of the world's most complex and exciting places. The course will first look at the various groups of people that have been ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CAPS 3502
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Uris Hall G20
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Weiss, J
GOVT 3566
Course Description
This seminar will provide an overview of four key figures in political theory: Marx, Gramsci, Foucault, and Fanon. The focal theme of the course is power. Some of the questions we will grapple with include: ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Uris Hall 202
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Adalet, B
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- R White Hall 104
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Adalet, B
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- F McGraw Hall 145
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Adalet, B
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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- TR Morrill Hall 111
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Young, P
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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Topic: Authoritarianism
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- M McGraw Hall 215
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Wallace, J
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Additional Information
Government Seniors/Juniors given preference. This course fulfills the Government senior seminar requirement.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Campaigns & Elections in Europe
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- M McGraw Hall 215
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Krewel, M
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Additional Information
Government Seniors/Juniors given preference. This course fulfills the Government senior seminar requirement.
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Checks & Balances or Imperial Presidency?
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- W Uris Hall G88
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Kriner, D
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Additional Information
Government Seniors/Juniors given preference. This course fulfills the Government senior seminar requirement.
Regular Academic Session.
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: The Politics of National Decline
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- R Uris Hall G22
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Ward, S
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Government Seniors/Juniors given preference. This course fulfills the Government senior seminar requirement.
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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- F Olin Library 403
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Bensel, R
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Additional Information
Preference given to government Seniors and Juniors. This class satisfies the government major senior seminar requirement.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4279
Course Description
In recent years literary representations and philosophical discussions of the status of the animal vis-à -vis the human have abounded. In this course, we will track the literary phenomenology of animality. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4240, ENGL 4260, GERST 4260
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 232
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Gilgen, P
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Additional Information
Taught in English.
GOVT 4451
Course Description
This course focuses on what happens when science meet the policy-making world. We will discuss theoretical and empirical studies in Science & Technology Studies that analyze the interactions between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: STS 4451
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
GOVT 4655
Course Description
Advanced discussion of topics in social and political philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4655, AMST 6656, GOVT 6656, PHIL 4470, PHIL 6430, SOC 4430, SOC 6430
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: Equality, Democracy, and Solidarity
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- T Stimson Hall 206
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Miller, R
GOVT 4723
Course Description
This course focuses on issues of conflict, peace, and reconciliation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories as well as Sub-Saharan Africa. Both regions exemplify how issues ranging from nationalism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4721, DSOC 4721, IARD 4721, JWST 4721, NES 4721, STS 4721
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- R Washington, DC
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Leuenberger, C
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Additional Information
Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4769
Course Description
Spinoza was excommunicated, wrote under death threats, and has remained a scandal to philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, ethics, literature. "Every philosopher has two philosophies, his own and Spinoza's" ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4090, GERST 4290, JWST 4790
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
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Waite, G
GOVT 4786
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- M McGraw Hall 145
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Traverso, E
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.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- W Uris Hall G26
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Adalet, B
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Additional Information
Government Seniors/Juniors given preference. This class fulfills the government senior seminar requirement.
GOVT 4835
Course Description
This seminar considers new directions in thinking about political authority that focus on the claims of non-state groups. It considers leading 20th century political theorists who have recognized authority ... view course details
GOVT 4846
Course Description
This seminar inquires into the interrelations among three meanings of equality that initially appeared in the ancient world: equality before the law, isonomia; equality of voice or participation, isegoria; ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 6846
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T Sibley Hall 208
Instructors
Frank, J
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Additional Information
Preference given to: government Seniors and Juniors. This class satisfies the government senior seminar requirement.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
GOVT 4959
Course Description
GOVT 4959 is the second semester of honors thesis research, limited to students who have completed GOVT 4949 - Honors Seminar: Thesis Clarification and Research. There is no formal class meeting. Instead, ... view course details
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TBA
Instructors
Bateman, D
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- TBA
Instructors
Bensel, R
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TBA
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TBA
Instructors
Bunce, V
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Additional Information
To apply for independent study, please complete the on-line form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- TBA
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Carlson, A
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GOVT 6029
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This course builds upon 6019, covering in detail the interpretation and estimation of multivariate linear regression models. We derive the Ordinary Least Squares estimator and its characteristics using ... view course details
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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- M White Hall 106
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Garcia-Rios, S
George, J
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GOVT 6031
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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
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall G19
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Kriner, D
GOVT 6045
Course Description
What can lawyers and judges learn from the study of literature? This course explores the relevance of imaginative literature (novels, drama, poetry, and film) to questions of law and social justice from ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 3762, ENGL 6710, LAW 6710
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- TR Myron Taylor Hall 277
- Jan 22 - Apr 29, 2019
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Anker, E
GOVT 6053
Course Description
An in-depth, graduate-level introduction to qualitative and comparative methods of political analysis, with special emphasis on the application of these methods in comparative and international politics. ... view course details
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- T White Hall B06
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Flores-Macias, G
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GOVT 6069
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In this seminar we study the assumptions and estimators that can estimate causal effects in the social sciences, with particular emphasis on addressing effect heterogeneity and robustness to assumption ... view course details
Seven Week - First.
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- MW White Hall 104
- Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019
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Corrigan, B
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GOVT 6079
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In this 7-week seminar we elaborate social statistics topics only briefly covered in earlier courses, depending on student research interests. Example broad approaches could include Bayesian or nonparametric ... view course details
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- Mar 11 - May 7, 2019
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Corrigan, B
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GOVT 6132
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- W Uris Hall 360
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Mettler, S
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GOVT 6201
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The United States Congress will be examined: first, as a "closed system" in which institutional arrangements decisively apportion political power; and, second, as the product of electoral and social forces ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 6201
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 164
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Bateman, D
GOVT 6215
Course Description
This course will explore the ways in which Michel Foucault's oeuvre transitions from a concern with sovereignty to a preoccupation with biopolitics. Foucault's early work (one understands that there is ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 6212, ENGL 6912
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- M Uris Hall G88
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Farred, G
GOVT 6246
Course Description
This seminar will study the problem of transmission in psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on its stakes for political history and theory. Freud's Moses and Monotheism addresses the unconscious and intersubjective ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6778, FREN 6240
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- W Goldwin Smith Hall 124
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McNulty, T
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GOVT 6304
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This is a graduate seminar in political science on the application of historical analysis in comparative politics. The goals of the course are for students to understand the contemporary application of ... view course details
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T Uris Hall 369
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van de Walle, N
GOVT 6483
Course Description
Officials come to their positions of power in ways that vary over time and space. Comparativists have, historically, focused their attentions on democracies and on transitions from authoritarian regimes ... view course details
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- W White Hall 106
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Wallace, J
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GOVT 6656
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Advanced discussion of a topic in social and political philosophy. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4655, AMST 6656, GOVT 4655, PHIL 4470, PHIL 6430, SOC 4430, SOC 6430
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Topic: Equality, Democracy, and Solidarity
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- T Stimson Hall 206
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Miller, R
GOVT 6786
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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- M McGraw Hall 145
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Traverso, E
GOVT 6816
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- R Stimson Hall 206
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Markell, P
GOVT 6835
Course Description
This seminar considers new directions in thinking about political authority that focus on the claims of non-state groups. It considers leading 20th century political theorists who have recognized authority ... view course details
GOVT 6846
Course Description
This seminar inquires into the interrelations among three meanings of equality that initially appeared in the ancient world: equality before the law, isonomia; equality of voice or participation, isegoria; ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 4846
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4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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- T Sibley Hall 208
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Frank, J
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GOVT 7937
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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