Consider independently exploring a topic of interest under the guidance of a faculty member. Once you identify the subject, take time to research our faculty and their publications. It is important to ensure your interests intersect before asking if they will work with you. This work will be graded and may apply to your upper-level Political Science degree requirements.

The relationships among reporters, publishers, and politicians, and how each uses the media. Using historical biographies and other texts, the class will examine past strategies by politicians and media figures. Topics include campaign strategies, Washington politics, day-to-day effectiveness in office, making arguments through the media, and how those not elected use the media.

This course will explore the causes and consequences of cross-national variation in judicial and constitutional systems, and in the politics of law. From where do these differences emerge? To what degree do they persist? What does it mean to say that there has been a global trend towards a judicialization of politics? Does that trend suggest some kind of cross-national convergence? Do judicial empowerment and rights consciousness look the same in every national context? How should scholars understand the spread of bill of rights?

This course is part of the Political Science and Legal Studies Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (UREP). When possible, student interests are paired with faculty in need of research assistance.

This course is part of the Political Science and Legal Studies Undergraduate Research Engagement Program (UREP). When possible, student interests are paired with faculty in need of research assistance.

The world will end. Political science can shed light on how--and can also help us avoid that date for as long as possible. In this course, we will investigate the role of politics in the end of the world, from nuclear war to global climate change to asteroid strikes.

This course uses popular music - rock, hip hop, blues, country, jazz, and other genres - as a entryway to analysis of major themes in American politics, including American culture and values, patriotism, race relations and immigration, civil rights and liberties, and war and peace. It takes the view that popular music, in addition to being a form of entertainment, often offers incisive commentary on the state of American politics.

This course uses popular music - rock, hip hop, blues, country, jazz, and other genres - as a entryway to analysis of major themes in American politics, including American culture and values, patriotism, race relations and immigration, civil rights and liberties, and war and peace. It takes the view that popular music, in addition to being a form of entertainment, often offers incisive commentary on the state of American politics.

This course uses popular music - rock, hip hop, blues, country, jazz, and other genres - as a entryway to analysis of major themes in American politics, including American culture and values, patriotism, race relations and immigration, civil rights and liberties, and war and peace. It takes the view that popular music, in addition to being a form of entertainment, often offers incisive commentary on the state of American politics.

A reexamination of central concepts in the history of political thought - e.g. power, equality, freedom, capitalism, domination, responsibility, citizenship, empire, and revolution - from the perspective of African American political struggles. Particular attention will be paid to how political thinkers have theorized the complex and contradictory relationship between race and modern democracy. Readings draw from David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, WEB Du Bois, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and Toni Morrison. (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)