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  • American Politics

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  • An introduction to the national institutions and political processes of American government. Topics include the Constitution, the American political tradition, public opinion, interest groups, political institutions, civil rights, civil liberties, and public policy. Two lectures, one preceptorial.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Paul Frymer

  • Capacity Remaining: -2

  • Semester Dates: 9/3/2025 - 12/3/2025 

  • Times: 10:40 AM - 11:30 AM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: M W

  • Building: ROBEH

  • Room: Robertson Hall 100
 

  • Constitutional Interpretation

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  • A study of the structure of the American constitutional system and of the meaning of key constitutional provisions. Students will critically evaluate competing theories of, and approaches to, constitutional interpretation.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Robert George

  • Capacity Remaining: -1

  • Semester Dates: 9/2/2025 - 12/2/2025 

  • Times: 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM

  • Sessions: 12

  • Days: Tu

  • Building: ROBEH

  • Room: Robertson Hall 100
 

  • International Relations

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  • This course introduces major theories of international relations, uses them to explain historical events from 10,000 BC to the present, and investigates contemporary policy issues such as human rights, terrorism, US foreign policy, climate change and global environmental regulation. The course also trains students how to write academic analyses, policy memos and media opinion pieces, thus preparing them for more specialized courses and research in international relations, as well as jobs in foreign policy.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Andrew Moravcsik

  • Capacity Remaining: 1

  • Semester Dates: 9/3/2025 - 12/3/2025 

  • Times: 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: M W

  • Building: ROBEH

  • Room: Robertson Hall 100
 

  • Judicial Politics

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  • An introduction to the political science of law and courts. Topics typically include: bargaining and decision making on the U.S. Supreme Court; political struggles over doctrine within the judicial hierarchy; the politics of Supreme Court nominations; juries as political institutions; court packing, jurisdiction stripping, and judicial intimidation; political use of litigation by activists, firms, and interest groups; judicial oversight of the administrative state; judicial activism by state attorneys general; and the social and economic impact of courts. 

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Jonathan Kastellec

  • Capacity Remaining: -4

  • Semester Dates: 9/2/2025 - 12/4/2025 

  • Times: 3:30 PM - 4:20 PM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: Tu Th

  • Building: JRRB1

  • Room: Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building A98
 

  • Policy Making in America

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  • This course provides a realistic introduction to how public policy is made in the United States. It examines how people and political institutions come together to create and implement public policy. The course combines cutting edge social science with cases, simulations, and role playing exercises to provide students with concrete skills and practical tools for actual policy making.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Charles Cameron

  • Capacity Remaining: -1

  • Semester Dates: 9/2/2025 - 12/4/2025 

  • Times: 1:20 PM - 2:10 PM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: Tu Th

  • Building: ROBEH

  • Room: Robertson Hall 002
 

  • Political Theory

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  • This introduction to political theory will examine different conceptions of the ends of politics, and the means to achieving those ends. In particular, we will be concerned with two problems central to politics. What is the relationship between politics and truth? But the public authority is also a system of power that obliges us and has the threat of force behind it. What justifies this power? In discussing these questions, we will come to understand key concepts: truth, power, violence, authority, equality, liberty, justice, and identity. Readings include, Plato, Augustine, Hobbes, Mill, Marx, Rousseau, Beauvoir, Du Bois, Fanon and Arendt.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Temitayo Onaoluwape Ogunye

  • Capacity Remaining: -2

  • Semester Dates: 9/3/2025 - 12/3/2025 

  • Times: 2:25 PM - 3:15 PM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: M W

  • Building: ROBEH

  • Room: Robertson Hall 100
 

  • Political Theory, Athens to Augustine

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  • A study of the fundamental questions of political theory as framed in context of the institutions and writings of ancient Greek and Roman thinkers from the classical period into late antiquity and the spread of Christianity in Rome. We will canvass the meaning of justice in Plato's "Republic", the definition of the citizen in Aristotle's "Politics", to Cicero's reflections on the purpose of a commonwealth, and Augustine's challenge to those reflections and to the primacy of political life at all in light of divine purposes. Through classic texts, we explore basic questions of constitutional ethics and politics. Two lectures, one preceptorial.

     

  • Fee: $250.00

  • Instructor: Melissa Lane

  • Capacity Remaining: 0

  • Semester Dates: 9/3/2025 - 12/3/2025 

  • Times: 9:35 AM - 10:25 AM

  • Sessions: 24

  • Days: M W

  • Building: FRIEN

  • Room: Friend Center 101
 

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