Areas of Concentration

Courses are in the political science department unless otherwise noted.

American Government and Politics

102. American National Government
128. Mathematics & Redistricting
200. Environmental Movements
205. Legal Mobilization
207. COVID and the American State
222. Social Inequality in the United States
238. Prisons & Justice in America
241. Empirical Pol. Methods and Data Analysis
242. Political Science Research Methods
243. Racial Politics: Research Methods
258. How Democracy Works
301. American Political Parties and Interest Groups
307. Constitutional Power and Civil Rights
309. Congress and Public Policy
310. Tax, Policy & Inequality in Htfd./CLIC 290
311. Polarization and Policy Making
316. Civil Liberties
317. American Political Thought
320. Autocracy in America
325. The American Presidency
326. Gender, Politics & Policy
328. American Conservatism
335. Becoming American: Immigration and Integration Policy
345. Debt and American Citizenship
348. Social Inequality in the United States
355. Urban Politics
366. State and Local Policy
372. The American Welfare State
373. Law, Politics, and Society
378. Election Law & Policy
379. American Foreign Policy
382. American Pol Geography
392. Legislative Internship Program
402. Senior Seminar: Amer. Government – Democratic Representation
408. Senior Seminar: Racial and Ethnic Politics
412. Advanced Topics in Law & Society
PBPL 251. Judicial Process in America
PBPL 264. Urban Policy and Politics in America
PBPL 331. Becoming American: Immigration and Integration
PBPL 351. Managing Diversity in the City
PBPL 375. Federalism and Public Policy
PBPL 377. Law, Gender and Supreme Court
PBPL 378. Election Law & Policy
PBPL 382. American Political Geography
AMST 200.  Environmental Movements
Math 114. Judgement & Decision Making (does not count toward major after Spring 2023)

Comparative Politics

103. Introduction to Comparative Politics
237. Building the European Union
247. Global Inequalities
256. Comparative Political Analysis
257. Politics of Violence
258. How Democracy Works
263. Global Environmental Politics
265. Understanding Conflict in Africa
312. Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
314. Comparative Urban Development
318. State Formation and Statebuilding
320. Autocracy in America
331. Comparative Politics of East Asia
332. Understanding Civil Conflict
341. Policing and Human Rights
344. The Politics of Africa
347. The Politics of Race in Latin America
352. Comparative Political Economy
353. Authoritarianism
376. Latin American Politics
385. Crossing Borders: Logics and Politics of Transnational Migration
397. Comparative Policing
418. Senior Seminar: State Formation and State-Building
419. Senior Seminar: Money & Politics
426. Senior Seminar: Who Are We?
427. Senior Seminar: Ethnicity/Imm./Religion in Western Europe
INTS 263. Global Environmental Politics
ROME 327. EU (note: Can’t take ROME 327 and POLS 337 due to overlap)
ROME 347. Visual World Politics
ROME 361. Migration
ROME 370. Urban and Global Rome
INTS 242. Global Inequalities

International Relations

104. Introduction to International Relations
228. The Challenges facing the UN
232. International Pol of Pandemics
265. Understanding Conflict in Africa
305. International Organizations
312. Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
313. National and European Foreign Policies
322. International Political Economy
323. Gender & Global Politics
324. Environmental Issues in International Relations
332. Understanding Civil Conflict
343. Theory & Politics of African Decolonization
344. The Politics of Africa
346. World Econ of Higher Education
354. International Relations Theory
361. Race and War
362. Military Industrial Complex
369. International Human Rights Law
378. International Security
379. American Foreign Policy
380. War and Peace in the Middle East
381. Global Nuclear Politics
390. Theories of Intl. Political Economy
407. Senior Seminar: Decolonizing World Politics
415. Senior Seminar: War, Peace and Strategy
ROME 347. Visual World Politics

Political Theory

105. Introduction to Political Philosophy
216. American Political Thought
218. Slavery and the Archive
219. The History of Political Thought (1)
220. The History of Political Thought (2)
221. Machiavelli
235. Colonization and the Canon
238. Prisons and Justice in America
302. Hegel and Heidegger
307. Constitutional Power & Civil Rights
317. American Political Thought
319. Foucault
328. American Conservatism
329. Political Philosophy and Ethics
334. The Origins of Western Political Philosophy
337. Democratic Theory
338. Liberalism and Its Critics
339. Contemporary and Postmodern Thought
340. Republicanism Ancient and Modern
343. Theory & Politics of African Decolonization
347. The Politics of Race in Latin America
349. Black & Indigenous Political Thought
357. Hannah Arendt
359. Feminist Political Theory
365. Decolonial Feminist Theory
370. Shakespeare and Pol Philosophy
383. Assembly, Empire and Utopia
384. Democracy on Stage
390. Theories of Intrnl. Political Economy
406. Senior Seminar: Why Political Philosophy?
409. Senior Seminar: Change Everything: Theories of Revolution
416. Senior Seminar: Biopolitics
417. Senior Seminar: Theories of Empire
AMST 465. Decolonial Feminist Theory
PHIL 281. Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 323. Adorno
PHIL 325. Nietzsche
PHIL 335. Heidegger (doesn’t count after Fall ’21)
PHIL 355. Moral Theory and Public Policy (doesn’t count after Fall of 2021)