Courses

Surveys the history and current status of capital punishment in the United States, with a critical examination of arguments both for and against the death penalty. Prereq., graduate standing. Formerly SOCY 5414.

Provides policy sciences frameworks for analyzing policy processes and designing political strategies to influence those processes in the direction of the preferred alternative. Emphasizes applications to problems selected by students for term projects. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Same as ENVS 5730. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Examines the main schools of feminist thought and their impact upon sociological theories. Also examines current feminist theoretical debates and their relevance to feminist sociology. Prereq., graduatestanding. Formerly SOCY 5036. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Presents the theoretical and empirical application of dynamic macro programming models. Topics include consumption, investment, labor, money, and credit theories. Covers the theory of economic fluctuations and business cycles employing dynamic general equilibrium models. Prereq., ECON 7020.

Studies selected problems concerning administration and operation of public international organizations, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies. Considers decision making, executive leadership, internal organization, personnel policies, coordination of activities, and financing. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Focuses on formulation, revision, and outcomes of public policy in American urban communities. Also uses some comparative Canadian and European literature. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

Discusses advanced topics in game theory and general equilibrium. Prereqs., ECON 7010, 7030, 7818, 7828. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Comprehensively examines literature and selected research topics concerning the United States Congress. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

Examine differences between democracies and authoritarian regimes; the choices and the consequences of democratic institutions in authoritarian regimes; and the causes of authoritarian survival and demise and the subsequent political choice. Recommended prereq., PSCI 7012. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides systematic treatment of theories, concepts, and data addressing the conditions and processes of international conflict, violence, and stability, with attention to historical and contemporary cases. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

Develops competence in engaging formal theories of politics and in constructing and solving basic game-theoretic models of political behavior. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Explores diverse approaches to policy choice, change, and learning processes. Overviews literature on policy determinants and typologies, policy subsystems, innovation and diffusion, agenda setting, implementation, problem definition and social construction, policy design, institutional analysis, and policy and democratic values. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Studies special topics in romantic, Victorian, modern and postmodern writing. Topics will vary. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Recommended prereq., ENGL 5059. Prerequisites: Restricted to English Literature-Creative Writing, English Literature or English graduate students only.

Explores the political aspects of pluralism, ethnonationalism, separatism, and related phenomena. Examines theories of ethnic mobilization, conflict,and accommodation in the context of political development and nation building. Includes cross-polity comparisons and case studies of multiethnic societies in the developed and developing world. Prereq., at least one course in comparative politics. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

Provides an intensive, critical examination of theoretical and substantive literature dealing with the behavior of the primary actors in the legal system---police, lawyers, judges, and citizens. Emphasizes empirical approach and quantitative methods. Requires research papers. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Formerly PSCI 7077. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces graduate students to concepts, theories, and data used to study the global system from a political-economic framework. Examines world systems analysis, regime change theory, and dependency theory with respect to operation of the exchange and power relationship within the contemporary world system. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces graduate students to intellectual foundations and historical development of political science; epistemologies, subfields, intellectual approaches, methodological strategies of the discipline; and ethics and norms of professional conduct. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Provides intensive experience with quantitative techniques commonly employed in political science research; builds on a review of multivariate regression, inferential statistics, and causal modeling. Students undertake substantive research projects, requiring lab instruction in the use of the computer in quantitative applications of political science research. Prereq., graduate standing in PSCI or instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Political Science (PSCI) graduate students only.

Examines theoretical and empirical research on American social movements. Emphasizes the role of movements as political actors and their ability to bring about changes in public policy and national political institutions. Restricted to graduate students or instructor consent required.

Provides advanced training in empirical and analytic methods of political analysis. Covers general multivariate linear (regression) model as employed in political science. Also covers a variety of dynamic approaches to empirical analysis (stochastic models, time series, and simulation). Prereq., PSCI 7085. Restricted to graduate students. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Covers dynamical systems defined by mappings and differential equations. Hamiltonian mechanics, action-angle variables, results from KAM and bifurcation theory, phase plane analysis, Melnikov theory, strange attractors, chaos, etc. Prereq., APPM 5460. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.

Introduces the process of discovering structure of a language from data obtained directly from its speakers. Emphasizes effectiveness in the field context, rapid recognition of structural features,and preliminary formulation using computational tools. Prereqs., LING 5410 and 5420, or equivalent.

Explores major cognitive theories related to language, including connectionism, information processing, andcognitive mechanisms of early lexical learning. Discusses data from children and adults. Prerequisites: Restricted to Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) or Audiology (AUDD) graduate students only.

Student and faculty discussions and reports on research advances in chromatography, trace analysis,and environmental chemistry. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to Graduate Students only.