Graduate Courses
The following graduate seminars are regularly taught in the Department of Political Science.
All seminars are 3 semester hours unless otherwise noted.
American Politics
POL 500 – Seminar in American Politics
POL 701 – Judicial Behavior
POL 702 – Judicial Politics
POL 703 – American Legislative Politics
POL 704 – Executive Politics
POL 706 – Media Politics
POL 709 – Southern Politics
POL 712 – American Political Parties
POL 713 – State Politics and Policy
POL 714 – Political Participation and Voting
POL 715 – Public Opinion and Political Psychology
Comparative Politics
POL 523 – Concepts and Theories of Comparative Political Analysis
POL 720 – Seminar in Advanced Industrial Societies
POL 721 – Seminar in European Comparative Government
POL 722 – Political Development and Change
POL 724 – Asian Government
POL 725 – Reform in Post-Communist Political Systems
POL 726 – Comparative Bureaucracies
POL 727 – Comparative Legislatures
POL 728 – Comparative Parties and Elections
POL 730 – Comparative Democratic Institutions
POL 741 – Latin American Comparative Government
POL 742 – Quantitative Approaches to Comparative Politics
International Relations
POL 531 – Seminar in International Relations
POL 723 – Regime Change and Democratization
POL 729 – Political Conflict and Violence
POL 732 – Quantitative Approaches to International Relations
POL 733 – Global Strategy and Alliances
POL 734 – Formulation of American Foreign Policy
POL 735 – International Conflict in the Nuclear Age
POL 736 – International Security Law and Policy
POL 737 – International Political Economy
POL 738 – Intrastate War
Pol 739 – Int’l Organizations and Cooperation
Political Methodology
POL 550 – Research in Politics
POL 551 – Empirical Political Analysis
POL 552 – Applied Political Research
POL 753 – Advanced Topics in Political Methodology
POL 754 – Formal Models of Politics
Other
POL 598 – Special Topics in Political Science
POL 696 – Advanced Readings
POL 699 – Readings and Research in Political Science (Independent Study Projects)
POL 791 – Seminar in Teaching (1 hour, pass/fail)
POL 795 – Research Practicum
POL 798 – Special Topics in Political Science
Thesis and Dissertation
POL 697 – Thesis (M.A. students only)
POL 796 – Dissertation Prespectus (Ph.D. students only)
POL 797 – Dissertation (Ph.D. students only)
Outside the Department
Graduate students sometimes supplement the courses offered by the department with classes offered by other departments in the university, such as Economics, Sociology, and Psychology. In addition, students in comparative politics may want to enroll in appropriate language classes for their region of interest.
