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Congress and Public Policy<br \/>\n311. Polarization and Policy Making<br \/>\n316. Civil Liberties<br \/>\n317. American Political Thought<br \/>\n320. Autocracy in America<br \/>\n325. The American Presidency<br \/>\n326. Gender, Politics &amp; Policy<br \/>\n328. American Conservatism<br \/>\n333. Eugenics in the United States<br \/>\n335. Becoming American: Immigration and Integration Policy<br \/>\n342. Gender and Politics<br \/>\n345. Debt and American Citizenship<br \/>\n348. Social Inequality in the United States<br \/>\n355. Urban Politics<br \/>\n366. State and Local Policy<br \/>\n372. The American Welfare State<br \/>\n378. Election Law &amp; Policy<br \/>\n379. American Foreign Policy<br \/>\n382. American Pol Geography<br \/>\n392. Legislative Internship Program<br \/>\n402. Senior Seminar: Amer. Government &#8211; Democratic Representation<br \/>\n408. Senior Seminar: Racial and Ethnic Politics<br \/>\n411. Senior Seminar: Environmental Justice Policy<br \/>\n412. Advanced Topics in Law &amp; Society<br \/>\nPBPL 251. Judicial Process in America<br \/>\nPBPL 264. Urban Policy and Politics in America<br \/>\nPBPL 310. Tax, Policy &amp; Inequality in Htfd.\/CLIC 290<br \/>\nPBPL 331. Becoming American: Immigration and Integration<br \/>\nPBPL 351. Managing Diversity in the City<br \/>\nPBPL 375. Federalism and Public Policy<br \/>\nPBPL 377. Law, Gender and Supreme Court<br \/>\nPBPL 378. Election Law &amp; Policy<br \/>\nPBPL 382. American Political Geography<br \/>\nPBPL 387. Political Leadership and Policy<br \/>\nAMST 200.\u00a0 Environmental Movements<br \/>\nMath 114. Judgement &amp; Decision Making (does not count toward major after Spring 2023)<\/p>\n<h2>Comparative Politics<\/h2>\n<p>103. Introduction to Comparative Politics<br \/>\n237. Building the European Union<br \/>\n247. Global Inequalities<br \/>\n257. Politics of Violence<br \/>\n258. How Democracy Works<br \/>\n263. Global Environmental Politics<br \/>\n265. Understanding Conflict in Africa<br \/>\n312. Politics in the Middle East and North Africa<br \/>\n314. Comparative Urban Development<br \/>\n318. State Formation and Statebuilding<br \/>\n329. The Politics of China<br \/>\n330. US- China Relations<br \/>\n331. Comparative Politics of East Asia<br \/>\n332. Understanding Civil Conflict<br \/>\n341. Policing and Human Rights<br \/>\n344. The Politics of Africa<br \/>\n347. The Politics of Race in Latin America<br \/>\n352. Comparative Political Economy<br \/>\n353. Authoritarianism<br \/>\n<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">354: Climate Change in the Global South<\/span><br \/>\n376. Latin American Politics<br \/>\n385. Crossing Borders: Logics and Politics of Transnational Migration<br \/>\n397. Comparative Policing<br \/>\n419. Senior Seminar: Money &amp; Politics<br \/>\n426. Senior Seminar: Who Are We?<br \/>\n427. Senior Seminar: Ethnicity\/Imm.\/Religion in Western Europe<br \/>\nINTS 263. Global Environmental Politics<br \/>\nROME 327. EU (note: Can\u2019t take ROME 327 and POLS 337 due to overlap\/ROME 327 no longer counts after Spring 2026)<br \/>\nROME 347. Visual World Politics<br \/>\nROME 361. Migration<br \/>\nROME 370. Urban and Global Rome<br \/>\nINTS 242. Global Inequalities<\/p>\n<h2>International Relations<\/h2>\n<p>104. Introduction to International Relations<br \/>\n228. The Challenges facing the UN<br \/>\n232. International Pol of Pandemics<br \/>\n241. Race, Capitalism, and World Politics<br \/>\n265. Understanding Conflict in Africa<br \/>\n305. International Organizations<br \/>\n312. Politics in the Middle East and North Africa<br \/>\n313. National and European Foreign Policies<br \/>\n322. International Political Economy<br \/>\n323. Gender &amp; Global Politics<br \/>\n324. Environmental Issues in International Relations<br \/>\n327. International Law<br \/>\n330. US-China Relations<br \/>\n332. Understanding Civil Conflict<br \/>\n343. Theory &amp; Politics of African Decolonization<br \/>\n344. The Politics of Africa<br \/>\n346. World Econ of Higher Education<br \/>\n350. International Organizations<br \/>\n354. International Relations Theory<br \/>\n361. Race and War<br \/>\n362. Military Industrial Complex<br \/>\n369. International Human Rights Law<br \/>\n378. International Security<br \/>\n379. American Foreign Policy<br \/>\n380. War and Peace in the Middle East<br \/>\n381. Global Nuclear Politics<br \/>\n386. Asia and World Politics<br \/>\n390. Theories of Intl. Political Economy<br \/>\n407. Senior Seminar: Decolonizing World Politics<br \/>\n415. Senior Seminar: War, Peace and Strategy<br \/>\nROME 347. Visual World Politics<\/p>\n<h2>Political Theory<\/h2>\n<p>105. Introduction to Political Philosophy<br \/>\n216. American Political Thought<br \/>\n218. Slavery and the Archive<br \/>\n219. The History of Political Thought (1)<br \/>\n220. The History of Political Thought (2)<br \/>\n221. Machiavelli<br \/>\n235. Colonization and the Canon<br \/>\n238. Prisons and Justice in America<br \/>\n302. Hegel and Heidegger<br \/>\n317. American Political Thought<br \/>\n319. Foucault<br \/>\n328. American Conservatism<br \/>\n329. Political Philosophy and Ethics<br \/>\n333. Eugenics in the United States<br \/>\n334. The Origins of Western Political Philosophy<br \/>\n337. Democratic Theory<br \/>\n338. Liberalism and Its Critics<br \/>\n339. Contemporary and Postmodern Thought<br \/>\n340. Republicanism Ancient and Modern<br \/>\n343. Theory &amp; Politics of African Decolonization<br \/>\n347. The Politics of Race in Latin America<br \/>\n349. Black &amp; Indigenous Political Thought<br \/>\n357. Hannah Arendt<br \/>\n359. Feminist Political Theory<br \/>\n365. Decolonial Feminist Theory<br \/>\n370. Shakespeare and Pol Philosophy<br \/>\n383. Assembly, Empire and Utopia<br \/>\n384. Democracy on Stage<br \/>\n390. Theories of Intrnl. Political Economy<br \/>\n406. Senior Seminar: Why Political Philosophy?<br \/>\n409. Senior Seminar: Change Everything: Theories of Revolution<br \/>\n416. Senior Seminar: Biopolitics<br \/>\n417. Senior Seminar: Theories of Empire<br \/>\nAMST 465. Decolonial Feminist Theory<br \/>\nPHIL 281. Ancient Philosophy<br \/>\nPHIL 323. Adorno<br \/>\nPHIL 325. Nietzsche<br \/>\nPHIL 335. Heidegger (doesn\u2019t count after Fall \u201921)<br \/>\nPHIL 355. Moral Theory and Public Policy (doesn\u2019t count after Fall of 2021)<\/p>\n<h2>Methods<\/h2>\n<p>242. Political Science Research Methods<br \/>\n243. Racial Politics: Research Methods<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Government and Politics 102. American National Government 128. Mathematics &amp; Redistricting 200. Environmental Movements 205. Legal Mobilization 207. COVID and the American State 222. Social Inequality in the United States 258. How Democracy Works 273. Law, Politics, and Society 301. 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