Preparation of a senior thesis over two or three quarters, beginning in any quarter. The grade and evaluation submitted for the final quarter apply to each of the previous quarters. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
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Preparation of a senior thesis over two or three quarters, beginning in any quarter. The grade and evaluation submitted for the final quarter apply to each of the previous quarters. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
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Individual studies undertaken off-campus for which faculty supervision is not in person (e.g. supervision is by correspondence). Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Individual studies undertaken off-campus for which faculty supervision is not in person, but by correspondence. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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A student normally approaches a member of the staff and proposes to take a course 199 on a subject he or she has chosen which is not offered in other politics courses. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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A student normally approaches a member of the faculty and proposes to take a course 199 on a subject he or she has chosen which is not offered in other politics courses. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. May be repeated for credit.
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Examines intersections of philosophy of language, language philosophy, political theory, and politics. How can we read texts and discourses in a manner both historically and textually grounded? Must these readings be compatible with a democratic ethos? If so, how? (Formerly Interpretive Methods in Political Theory: Language and Politics.) Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Concerns transformation of social forces into political ones. Focuses on formation, articulation, mobilization, and organization of political interests and identities, their mutual interaction, and their effects on state structures and practices and vice versa. Major themes are 1) social bases of political action: class, gender, race, and other determinants of social division and political identity and 2) relevant forms of political agency and action, including development of political consciousness and representation of interests and identities in the public sphere. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Introduces study of political institutions as instruments of collective decision making and action. Explores alternative theoretical approaches to development of political institutions, state and political economy, and security dilemmas. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Introduction to the theories and methodologies of political economy. Focuses on the relationship between states and markets and considers the politics of economic choices and institutions germane to both national and global political institutions. Addresses origins and development of markets and capitalism; historical evolution of states and their economies; relationship between labor, capital, production, and consumption; regulation of production; macroeconomics and management of economies; and issues of national and global social welfare. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Investigates approaches to study of politics and to enterprise of social science in general. Works from positivist, interpretive, historical, and critical approaches provide examples held up to critical and epistemological reflection. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Introduces, at the graduate level, some of the central conceptual categories and material implications that underwrite the world of the modern. Explores concepts including the individual, historicism, contract, and objectivity. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Investigates issues about identity and recognition as basis for claims about institutional legitimacy and social struggle. Paradigm is Hegel's account of relation of master and slave in Phenomenology of Spirit. Contemporary political philosophy examines differing accounts of reason, power, resistance, liberation, morality, difference, and the other. Concludes with discussion of identity and interest politics, multiculturalism and assimilation, and moral bases of struggle, reconciliation, and compromise in the political arena. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Examines how Marx arrived at his substantive political standpoint through a critique of the modes of theory through which state and society are interpreted from within. Also considers how far it is possible to apply the methods Marx used, in learning from the sources available in our own contemporary material, and whether this process of interpretation will lead us to similar conclusions. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Green political thought, philosophy, debates, and practices; history of ecological thought and comparative study of competing ideas and proposals. Critical examination of neo-liberal environmentalism. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Considers origins and consequences of inequality in modern societies, focusing on intersection between class, race, and gender inequality. Examines discourse of equality, in particular, the relationship between democratic politics and equality and role of political institutions in promoting or diminishing inequality. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Covers several important themes and sets of readings from the literature on American political development. Topics include the origins and development of American political institutions, the evolution of democratic mechanisms, the rise and fall of social movements, and debates about the sources of policy regimes and political change, including the role of war. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Critically examines alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to study of race and racism. Considers alternative explanations for origins and persistence of racism and racial inequality and suggests the relevance of a socio-political understanding. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between culture and politics in Latin America, drawing on current critical debates in anthropology, history, cultural studies, feminist and poststructuralist theories, as well as political science. Students cannot receive credit for this course and course 140C. Enrollment restricted to graduate politics majors. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Surveys the Latin American political literature by studying: 1) critical moments in political development (e.g., state formation, democratization); 2) important political institutions (e.g., presidentialism, party, and electoral systems); and 3) influential political actors (e.g., unions, business associations, social movements). Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Utilizing a variety of approaches—discourse analysis, semiotics, critical theory, and linguistics—analyzes how language constructs the political world. Focuses on the symbolic mediation, normalization, and reproduction of power and subjugation present in the discourses through which they are apprehended and expressed. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Political thought of anti-colonial movements in comparative, historical perspective, including 18th- to 20th-Century European colonies of America and Asia. Focuses both on the contemporary political thought of these movements as well as on historiographical approaches of secondary literature. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Focuses on basic comparative politics concepts—such as the state, regime transition, economic development, and social movements—and then considers how the global context challenges these very same political phenomena. Explores the ontological and methodological repercussions of the nexus between the global and the domestic. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Seminar examines selections from the canonical literature in international relations theory and global political economy through a number of critical lenses, including constructivist, feminist, historical materialist, and subaltern approaches. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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Examines genesis of new institutions within the force of social ties and networks. Studies how social and organizational relationships achieve individual or group goals in political and economic life, and influence institutional design. Considers when and what ties contribute to governance and economic performance, and when informal and formal organizations constitute an obstacle. Enrollment restricted to graduate students. Enrollment limited to 15.
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