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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.

This course explores ideas and practices of political protest and dissent through a range of cases drawn from around the globe and utilizing the comparative method. We will explore such questions as, why do people protest? Against whom or what is protest directed? To achieve what ends? What forms of protest are employed? While political activism, marches, riots, strikes, and other tried-and-true forms of protest are easily recognizable, what are the other ways in which individuals and groups might register or express political dissent?

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 evaluates the role of international ethical norms in regulating the practice of organized political violence. We will be gin by considering how to think analytically about the effects of ethical norms on international policy-making. We next consider the origins and evolving dynamics of the laws of war, explore why political actors so often violate these rules and the conditions under which they follow them, and examine the political and ethical dilemmas involved in enforcing them.

This course is an introduction to contemporary indigenous resistance in the Americas. We will examine the history, law, and politics framing indigenous struggles in North, Central, and South America as deal with the political and theoretical issues implicated in these struggles and raised by indigenous activism. We will engage with a wide range of materials in constitutional law, political science, anthropology, history, documentary films, journalism, social media, and indigenous writings and narratives from activists.

This course will focus on election laws in the United States, with a particular focus on the consequences of such laws for either mitigating or enhancing inequalities in who participates and has influence over elections and politics more generally. The class will involve in-depth investigations into laws relating to areas such as voter identification, absentee and early voting, redistricting, and campaign finance. Students will read cutting edge research in each area and will also conduct their own original research into an area of election law.

On February 24, 2022, Russia began the invasion of Ukraine, a neighboring state and a "brotherly nation," as it is often referred to in Russia. The conflict rapidly unfolded, with crushing economic and political sanctions imposed on Russia, oil prices hitting record highs on international commodity markets, and millions of Ukrainian refugees fleeing into Europe. This course attempts to understand the causes and contexts of this conflict and to map the conflicting perspectives on the war expressed by different political commentators.

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.

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.