Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: AP CREDIT IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Transfer

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AP/IB credit in American government.

Long Title: AP CREDIT IN COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Transfer

Credit Hours: 3

Description: AP/IB credit in comparative government.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO CONSTITUTIONALISM AND MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of constitutionalism and authoritarianism from Machiavelli to Marx. Includes an introduction to contemporary ideologies. With POLI 210 meets state professional requirements for teachers.

Long Title: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Major topics in American politics: public opinion, group politics, political parties, elections, congressional-presidential-bureaucratic politics, and judicial politics. Together with POLI 209 meets state professional requirements for teachers.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the study of international relations. The course examines topics from the role of individuals to the impact of the international system. Major issues, such as the causes of war and problems of development in the Third World are also discussed.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of political institutions and behavior in selected democratic, communist, and Third World countries.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GENDER

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores the relationship between women's lives, gender ideologies, and international and domestic politics and economics. We will examine women's experiences with and resistance to the sexual division of labor, imperialism, capitalism, consumerism, domestic service, war, slavery, and migration across different geographical and historical contexts. Cross-list: SWGS 250.

Long Title: FEDERALISM AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An exploration of the politics, demographics, technology, and legal environment of twenty-first century legislative redistricting. In addition to lectures and readings, the course includes an introduction to a computer based geographical information system that the students will use to complete a redistricting simulation.

Long Title: STATE POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is organized around the themes of the constraints and influences on the adoption and implementation of public policies in the American states.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING I

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Independent reading under the supervision of a member of the department. Open to junior majors in the honors program and to others in special cases with the permission of the instructor. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING II

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See POLI 305. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNSHIP I

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: This course is the in-class component of the political science internship program. Students will read both a common set of materials and a set that is oriented to their forthcoming internship. A final paper is required. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNSHIP II

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 2

Prerequisite(s): POLI 307

Description: This course is the work component of the political science internship program. Students will be required to submit weekly progress reports and a final portfolio. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: ELECTIONS AND VOTING BEHAVIOR

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of voting behavior and elections. Includes consideration of both individual level behavior and aggregate level patterns of election results.

Long Title: THE CONGRESS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the role of Congress in the American political system. Attention is given to the historical development of Congress, the current status of the Congress, and the functions of Congress in the American political system.

Long Title: THE PRESIDENCY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Analysis of presidential powers and behavior in the context of legal, electoral, personal, and other forces that shape and limit the actions of the President.

Long Title: AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court. (Juniors and Seniors preferred).

Long Title: HEALTH POLICY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health policy. Objectives are to provide students with a broad introduction to the healthcare system, identify stresses on the current system, and explore possible public policy decisions that may transform the healthcare system.

Long Title: MINORITY POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the political and social position of minority groups (African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and women) in the U.S. This course explores the political power and behavior of these groups. The key concepts include racism, discrimination, resources, political power, culture, leadership, class, and inequality.

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course considers the major issues in the increasingly important public policy area of the environment. It emphasizes the American experience, but also considers certain crucial international aspects of these issues.

Long Title: URBAN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of issues of political behavior and public policy in urban and metropolitan areas. Includes urban decline, regional governance, revitalization, and issues of ethnic and racial conflict.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of similarities and differences of legislatures in different countries. Includes the causes and consequences of these differences.

Long Title: AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of the American political party system both historically and contemporarily, with important emphasis on the nomination, campaign, and election functions of political parties. Party organization in government will also be explored.

Long Title: POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the foundation of government involvement in public policy and the institutional process guiding executive, legislative, and bureaucratic officials. Includes theories of collective action and their application in the political world.

Long Title: POLITICS OF REGULATION

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will focus principally on government regulation of business and the political factors that shape its content.

Long Title: PUBLIC POLICY AND BUREAUCRACY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the role that public bureaucracy plays in national policy making. Includes an examination of sources of agency power, which are linked to different policy outcomes.

Long Title: POLICY ANALYSIS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class familiarizes students with the analytical tools necessary for evaluating and analyzing public policies. Cross-list: SOSC 301.

Long Title: SOUTHERN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of selected political patterns and trends in the modern South. Includes political developments within the region and the impact of the South on American politics generally.

Long Title: GENDER AND POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of politics through the lens of gender hierarchy. Emphasis on how the constructions of masculinity and femininity shape and are shaped by interacting economic, political, and ideological practices.

Long Title: POLITICS OF THE JUDICIARY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Explores the role of courts and judges in American politics. Will illustrate major characteristics of judicial institutions in the U.S. and provide understanding of forces influencing judicial decisions. Will cover federal and state organization of trial and appellate courts, judicial selection methods, and the politics of judicial decision-making.

Long Title: MEDIA AND POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the role of media in politids. Attention is given to the media as a quasi-political institution. It elaborates the role the media plays in elections and the policy process.

Long Title: ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to the analysis design, and management of organizations with an emphasis on incentives and information. Principles from economics, political science, and game theory will be applied to problems in project and team management, in organizational computing, and in allocating and pricing share facilities. Cross-list: ECON 348.

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the political process in contemporary Latin America, with emphasis on selected major countries.

Long Title: GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Provides an introduction to politics in the Middle East. Brief historical overview is combined with detailed description of political systems in the area. The region is then used to examine empirically, critique and revise theories of comparative politics. Emphasis on whether the region would be considered unique or exceptional.

Long Title: THE POLITICS OF LATIN AMERICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the evolution of economic development in Latin America, focusing on its political foundations. Special attention will be given to the interaction between economic growth and the construction of democratic political institutions in Latin America.

Long Title: DEMOCRACY AND DEMOCRATIZATION

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the theoretical and practical idea of democracy. It will do so by trying to explore the following questions: What is democracy? How does democracy arise? How may democracy survive and consolidate?

Long Title: WESTERN EUROPEAN DEMOCRACIES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of government and politics in Western European democracies, with primary emphasis on Great Britain, France, and Germany.

Long Title: EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the process of European integration since World War II. Special attention is given to the European Community (EC), its institutions and policy processes as well as the consequences of European Unity for the political process in European societies.

Long Title: BRITISH POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An examination of British politics and government, with emphasis on both the contemporary and historical setting. This course also emphasizes a comparison of the British political system with the American political system.

Long Title: TRANSITIONS TO DEMOCRACY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course uses recent examples from East-Central Europe to illustrate a variety of transitions to democracy. Procedures which are vital to a successful transition, such as setting up electoral laws, economic reform, constitution-making, and transitional justice are discussed from an institutional design perspective.

Long Title: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of internal and external aspects of foreign policy leadership, presidential initiative, congressional control, press, public opinion, and crisis management. Not a Managerial Studies elective.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Exploration of the theoretical basis of, and empirical evidence for, a number of explanations for interstate war. Includes contemporary theories dealing with dispute escalation, arms races, deterrence, crisis management, and low-intensity conflict.

Long Title: STRATEGIC INTERACTIONS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to the uses of game theory in the study of international relations.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the development and role of international organizations in world politics. Topics include the history and evolution of international organizations, the effects of international law on behavior, and the extent to which international cooperation has been effective at resolving global problems.

Long Title: POLITICS OF AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of major issues of national security policy. Includes strategic doctrines, policy-making processes on defense issues, arms control, and the defense of Europe. Not a Managerial Studies elective.

Long Title: PROBLEMS IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): POLI 395

Description: Explores the relationship between politics and economics. The objective is to understand the historical development of trade and monetary relationships between the countries of the world. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines basic concepts in political behavior including political socialization, models of voting behavior, public opinion, and political participation.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to research design and quantitative methods used in contemporary political science research. Students will apply the tools of social science inquiry in a series of projects designed to examine political attitudes and behavior.

Long Title: STATE POLITICS RESEARCH SEMINAR

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A research seminar in state politics and policy with an emphasis on state institutions.

Long Title: SENIOR THESIS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Open to senior honors majors with the permission of the department. Students must complete both POLI 405 and 406 to obtain credit. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SENIOR THESIS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: See POLI 405. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SEMINAR ON THE PRESIDENCY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Provides students with a broad introduction to the presidency. Topics include a review of the executive's constitutional powers and their changes over time; processes and politics of presidential nomination and election; struggles between the president and other political elites and dynamics of White House decision-making.

Long Title: AMERICAN POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the creation and evolution of American political institutions using new institutionalism as a theoretical perspective. New institutionalism focuses on how rules influence the behavior of individuals, having important consequences for political outcomes. Explores the impact of political preferences on congressional development, political parties, interest groups, and bureaucratic agencies.

Long Title: BIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is an introduction to the biological underpinnings of political behavior. The influence of genes and evolution are covered, as well as the relevance of neural structures, brain organization, and neuro-chemistry for both universal political traits and individual variation in political orientations. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN TEXAS POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar in the history of Texas politics. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the role of campaigns in determining the outcome of political races.

Long Title: URBAN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar on political behavior and public policy in urban and metropolitan areas.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Research seminar comparing similarities and differences of legislatures in various countries.

Long Title: PUBLIC POLICY AND METROPOLITAN AREA GOVERNANCE

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will examine the market-like relationship among metropolitan area governments. It will address questions of urban/suburban relationships as well as policy topics such as education and local service provision.

Long Title: SEMINAR

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar will consider normative issues, theories, and empirical evidence relating to the value, meaning, and consequences of political participation, with readings taken from American and comparative politics.

Long Title: POLITICS OF REGULATION

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the government's regulation of business and the political factors that shape its content.

Long Title: EDUCATION POLICY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines educational politics and policy from micro and macro perspectives. We will focus on school governance, structure, and finance at the federal, state, and local levels and examine the design, implementation and effects of various school reform initiatives in U.S., and to a more limited extent in other countries.

Long Title: RACE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of minority group politics and how race structures contemporary U.S. politics. Includes myths and realities of minority groups, symbolic politics and race, pluralism as a model of U.S. democracy, the intersection of class, race, and gender, civil rights movements, group consciousness, public opinion regarding minorities, and responses of national institutions to race issues.

Long Title: RESEARCH SEMINAR ON SOUTHERN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of political behavior and political institutions in the southern states, with emphasis on contemporary Texas politics.

Long Title: COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Common Property Resources (CPRs), such as fisheries, aquifiers, and the Internet, appear in many guises and pose a fundamental problem for governing. Exploration of theoretical underpinnings for CPRs, their growing literature, and the political and economic institutions mediating CPR dilemmas. Included is an original research project in conjunction with the instructor. Cross-list: ENST 441.

Long Title: SUBNATIONAL POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the role of subnational political institutions in the development and implementation of policy. It compares the myriad of subnational institutions. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for POLI 442 if student has credit for POLI 542.

Long Title: ELECTIONS IN THE AMERICAS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course examines the electoral process in Latin American countries during the campaign season. In the course we will follow, disscuss, and analyze the campaigns and elections in a selected group of countries while at the same time developing an expertise in the general functioning of the respective countries' political systems. In the course we will follow the campaigns and elections in each country by reading local newspapers and watching local news broadcasts. An intermediate reading knowledge of Spanish is required for this course. All course discussion will be in English, but much of the reading material for the course will be in Spanish. Information on the specific elections to be examined in this year's course may be obtained from the instructor. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: RESEARCH PRACTICUM IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will teach students how to design and conduct empirical research in political science, with a focus on subjects in comparative politics. Students will conduct their own original research and produce a research report or paper.

Long Title: REGIME TRANSFORMATIONS AND TRANSITIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines why political systems may change from democratic to authoritarian, or vice versa. Distinguishes between different regime types and explores the conditions promoting social movements, political unrest, and military coups. Examines factors that help to consolidate newly formed regimes. Examples are drawn from a variety of postcolonial states.

Long Title: CONDITIONS OF DEMOCRACY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course starts with definitions and theories/preconditions of democracy and then looks at specific cases of democratic transition throughout the world, democratic consolidation, reaction, and the prospects for the future.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This seminar will analyze authoritarian regimes from a comparative perspective.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar examining the process and substance of public policy across nations, with emphasis on social policy in industrialized democracies.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar exploring the interrelationship of economics and politics in advanced industrial societies. Includes economic policy making, political behavior and economic conditions, and the role of institutions in channeling conflicts between democracy and capitalism.

Long Title: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPING NATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A central priority developing nations face today concerns establishing economic growth. How best to achieve strong economic performance has both an economic and political dimension. This course seeks a rudimentary understanding of economic growth, concentrating on its political determinants.

Long Title: POLITICAL PARTIES AND VOTING BEHAVIOR IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on the determinants of party systems, the structure and functions of parties, and theories of voting behavior in Western democracies.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topic varies from year to year. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: POLITICS OF THE UNITED NATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Provide students with a broad introduction to the politics of the United Nations. Topics include roll-call voting, policy choices of the security council, and issues of membership and representation.

Long Title: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The content of American foreign policy, its sources, and the process of policy formulation.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): POLI 395

Description: Research seminar on theories and evidence of international cooperation. The course will explore conditions conducive to establishing and maintaining cooperation in international politics, the design of international agreements and institutions, and the influence of international agreements and institutions on international relations.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course is designed to survey the theoretical and empirical analysis of the politics of international economic relations. In particular, the course is designed to examine the interrelationships of economics and politics by applying economic theory to the study of politics.

Long Title: DOMESTIC POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar on the influence of domestic politics on international relations. The course will explore when, why, and how the political, economic, and social conditions within countries affect international political and economic relations. Instructor Permission Required.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN QUANTITATIVE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar exploring the quantitative study of international relations, with a focus on the study of international conflict. Students will be required to write a quantitative research paper. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Undergraduate research seminar covering the field of political behavior with special emphasis on the application of social and cognitive psychology to the study of mass political behavior. Topics include political socialization, models of voting behavior, and political participation.

Long Title: HURRICANE RISK ASSESSMENT & THE DESIGN OF EVACUATION POLICIES FOR HOUSTON

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: This course provides students an opportunity to learn about apply tools and technologies from civil and environmental engineering, politcal science, and computer science to evaluate plans for Houston's reponse to a major hurricane and flood hazards. This course will include field work to survey residential neighoods and visits to the state-of-the-art Emergency Management Operations Center of the City of Houston. This course may be repeated once forward beginning Fall 2007, but topic must be different. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MODERN POLITICAL THEORY AND INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELDS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the development of modern political theory and its relevance to contemporary problems. NOTE: This seminar is in the theory and methods field. It is not an American politics seminar.

Long Title: SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THINKING I

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course introduces students to the practice of social science research including empirical description, theoretical development, and hypothesis generation and testing. It includes projects on the design and implementation of surveys, controlled experiments, archival data collection, fieldwork, case studies, and qualitative analysis.

Long Title: SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THINKING II

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): POLI 500

Description: This course is a continuation of POLI 500. Students will plan and execute an original research project and write a paper reporting the results.

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course aims at providing students with a working knowledge of statistics in political science. It involves the study of descriptive and inferential statistics, as well as hands-on experience with computer statistical packages.

Long Title: TOPICS IN METHODS AND DATA ANALYSIS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Applications of least squares and general linear mode. Cross-list: STAT 503.

Long Title: METHODOLOGY AND DATA ANALYSIS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of applications of maximum likelihood estimation.

Long Title: TOPICS IN POLITICAL METHODOLOGY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Special topics in political methodology. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MEASUREMENT AND RESEARCH DESIGN

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of advanced topics in research design and measurement theory.

Long Title: APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Core graduate course analyzing basic approaches to the study of comparative government.

Long Title: INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Theories of institutional analysis and design.

Long Title: APPROACHES TO AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Core graduate course. Includes an analysis of basic approaches to the study of American politics.

Long Title: STATE POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines similarities and differences in the organization of state politics. Major issues include state legislative organization, state elite behavior, and policy implementation.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE LEGISLATURES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Provides the student with the basic concepts and theories necessary to understand the functions and organization of legislatures/parliaments/assemblies in democratic societies. This course takes a broad-based perspective, including research that focuses on national parliaments and U. S. state legislatures.

Long Title: ADVANCED TOPICS IN POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate research seminar in the subfield of political behavior. Content varies from year to year. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: INTEREST GROUPS AND POLITICAL PARTIES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate research seminar in the subfields of interest groups and political behavior.

Long Title: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND AMERICAN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate seminar that examines the role of race and ethnicity in American politics. This course provides an examination of the behavioral and electoral implications of racial and ethnic diversity.

Long Title: PUBLIC POLICY AND BUREAUCRACY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of the administration and implementation of public policies across federal, state, and substate governments.

Long Title: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF POLICY CHANGE

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will explore policy and political change primarily, but not exclusively, in the United States. Using a political economy approach, we will explore different models of change and identify the actors, institutions, and conditions that facilitate stability in change in state, local and national policymaking.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Core graduate course. Includes an analysis of basic approaches to the study of international relations.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate seminar on theories and evidence of international cooperation. Discussion of the difficulties in establishing cooperation under anarchy and the conditions under which international cooperation is most likely to occur.

Long Title: SUBNATIONAL POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the role of subnational political institutions in the development and implementation of policy. It compares the myriad of subnational institutions. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for POLI 542 if student has credit for POLI 442.

Long Title: POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEVELOPMENT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A central priority developing nations face today concerns establishing economic growth; how best to achieve strong economic performance has both an economic and political dimension. This course seeks a rudimentary understanding of economic growth, concentrating on its political determinants.

Long Title: POLITICAL PROTEST

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course looks at various theories of collective action and social movements. It will examine theoretical debates about why individuals and groups occasionally redress their grievances through protest and more often endure hardships passively. It will evaluate the relative merit of these theories in explaining cases of protest and passivity worldwide.

Long Title: POLITICAL PARTIES AND VOTING BEHAVIOR IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Graduate seminar that examines the theoretical literature on party development, orgnization, and change in Western democracies.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: In this course we will explore the nature and sources of cross-national differences in mass political behavior.

Long Title: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines the design of political institutions in democracies, and their effect on elections, governance, and representation. Explores topics such as the presidential-parliamentary debate, electoral laws and party systems, political parties, electoral institutions and the election of women and minorities, institutional engineering, and U.S. experiences with alternative electoral systems.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar in international conflict. Emphasis on formal theories and quantitative analysis of the causes of war.

Long Title: FOREIGN POLICY DECISION MAKING

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Study of foreign policy, its sources, and the process of policy formulation.

Long Title: COLLECTIVE SOCIAL CHOICE

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to a growing body of literature on how and why individual preferences dominate those of others. Includes the relationship between decision-making structures and the nature of decisional outcomes.

Long Title: GAME THEORY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of current developments in game theory with application to political science.

Long Title: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Seminar surveying some of the primary theoretical perspectives and analytical approaches for studying international political economy. Includes a survey of contemporary literature, with special emphasis on theory and research, as well as instructions in how to critically evaluate research and set up a research project.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN MODELING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topic varies from year to year. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: SEMINAR IN AMERICAN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Topics vary from year to year. Instructor Permission Required. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING-METHODOLOGY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING METHODOLOGY

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING-AMERICAN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING-AMERICAN POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING-INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING-COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: DIRECTED READING-COMPARATIVE POLITICS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 3

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: TEACHING POLITICAL SCIENCE

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 1

Description: This course prepares graduate students to design and teach classes at the college level. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: MA RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description: Research and thesis for resident students. Repeatable for Credit.

Long Title: PH.D. RESEARCH AND THESIS

Department: Political Science

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 15

Description:  Repeatable for Credit.