The class will examine how political scientists use surveys to measure and understand public opinion and election outcomes. A significant component of the course will be a class project to develop, conduct, and analyze an exit poll survey of voters during the elections. In the process of conducting this survey, students will learn valuable skills including how to write survey questions, how to properly sample and interview respondents, and how to analyze survey data.

This course explores the development of Islamic political thought from the mid 19th-century to the present. Major themes include the ideas of Islamic modernism and reformism, the question of the caliphate and the birth of the modern nation-state, Islam and feminism, the rise of Islamism (or Islamic ?fundamentalism?), theories of Islamic democracy, and the question of jihad and violence. Satisfies Integrative Experience requirement for BA-POLSCI majors.

This course examines contemporary forms of political activism, participation, and protest. Drawing on select case studies, principally from Latin America, the U.S, and Europe, we will pay particular attention to the dynamic development of feminisms, anti-racist/Black mobilizations, anti-austerity and pro-democracy protests, and LGBTQ organizing.

In the early 1990s, UN Secretary General Boutrous-Boutrous Ghali suggested that the protection of national borders should be replaced with a concern for human security - the protection of individuals from fear, want and repression by their own governments. This has now become an important mantra of the United Nations, which itself was founded not to protect humans from their own governments but to prevent the scourge of interstate war. What is "human security"? Is it a paradigm shift for thinking about global order or just a bunch of hot air?

This course will focus on immigration in the United States in recent years, but will look at historical and cross-national perspectives as well, to better ground our understanding of what is happening here and now.

This course explores the politics of energy policy by examining a range of cases from around the world, including the United States. What is energy? How does energy impact politics and everyday lives in energy-rich and energy-important countries? What are energy transitions and when do they occur? How do energy markets work? This course provides the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical tools to think critically about such questions.

This course explores the politics of energy policy by examining a range of cases from around the world, including the United States. What is energy? How does energy impact politics and everyday lives in energy-rich and energy-important countries? What are energy transitions and when do they occur? How do energy markets work? This course provides the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical tools to think critically about such questions.

This course explores the politics of energy policy by examining a range of cases from around the world, including the United States. What is energy? How does energy impact politics and everyday lives in energy-rich and energy-important countries? What are energy transitions and when do they occur? How do energy markets work? This course provides the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical tools to think critically about such questions.

This course explores the politics of energy policy by examining a range of cases from around the world, including the United States. What is energy? How does energy impact politics and everyday lives in energy-rich and energy-important countries? What are energy transitions and when do they occur? How do energy markets work? This course provides the conceptual, theoretical, and empirical tools to think critically about such questions.

Satisfies Junior Year Writing requirements for POLISCI majors, through assignments practicing the types of writing used by citizens, policy advisers, and politicians in public debates about contemporary issues.