Courses

    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. 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. 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. 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 (CRWR), English Literature (ENLT) or English (ENGL) 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. 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. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Introduces students to research design, with a subsequent focus on professional development. Students learn about different styles of research, central methodological points surrounding (and differentiating) these styles, and standards for evaluating research, regardless of approach or content. 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. 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. 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.

    Advanced seminar dealing with different specialized topics in neuroscience. Prereq., NRSC 5110 or instructor consent required. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.

    Intensive study of selected topics in behavioral genetics. Emphasizes recent research. Attention to both human and animal studies. May be repeated up to 8 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Various topics not normally offered in the curriculum. Topics vary each semester. May be repeated up to 12 total credit hours. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Topics vary. Emphasis is on gaining expertise in using archaeological reports in tandem with (or contradiction to) textual sources, on reading and using critical theory, on improving analytical skills and discussion, and on honing discussion leadership abilities. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours providing the topics are different. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Discusses the concepts and methods that inform the field of Atlantic history in the early modern era. Readings and research papers explore the interactions of peoples from Europe, Africa, and the Americas, including the exchange of ideas, peoples, commodities, and cultural practices. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Student and faculty discussions and reports on research advances in electrochemistry. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Prereq., instructor consent. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Intensive examination of the structure and rules of different political institutions in the United States. Explores both the changing approaches to the study of American political institutions as well as many ofthe major research topics on the presidency, Congress, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
    Denotes third graduate course in sequence of quantitative methods. Following basic inferential statistics (SOCY 5111) and multivariate regression analysis (SOCY 6111), students study advanced statistical techniques such as event history analysis, multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, and latent class analysis. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours when topics vary. Prereqs., SOCY 5111 and 6111 and graduate standing. Prerequisites: Restricted to graduate students only.

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