The study of networks in political science, the social sciences and beyond has grown rapidly in recent years. This course is a comprehensive introduction to methods for analyzing network data. We will cover network data collection and management, the formulation of network theory and hypotheses, network visualization and description; and methods for the statistical analysis of networks. The course will introduce multiple applications of political network analysis in the real world.

Reading of selected political theorists from 16th to 19th centuries: Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Marx, and Nietzsche. Emphasis on the nature of the political world and the forms of understanding and activity appropriate to it.

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This course introduces students to how the Supreme Court works as a legal institution, by examining landmark civil liberties decisions of the Court within their political and historical contexts. As an Integrative Experience course, this course also connects knowledge and skills from multiple sources, helps build oral communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills, and strengthens students' analytical understanding of how the Supreme Court works. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-POLSCI majors.

Development and application to the states and the federal government of the provisions of the Bill of Rights and of the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws. Readings from relevant Supreme Court decisions and supplementary materials. Prerequisite: POLISCI 101; POLISCI 360 recommended.

Principles of American foreign policy with an emphasis on the historical, political, and administrative sources of contemporary policies. Analysis of the foreign policy-making process with specific reference to illustrative case studies. (Gen.Ed. SB)

Recommended: POLISCI 101 or 121 or equivalent course.

The course is an overview of how the world went from being a set of very distinct regions, some unaware of others, c.

This course will cover foundational texts and core debates in the study of development. What is development? How have conceptualizations of "development" and theories of "development" changed over the past century? The course will focus on both domestic and international processes to illuminate a range of development challenges using examples from around the world.