Graduate Courses
Fall 2013
Credit Hours: 0.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 6.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Hershey,Marjorie R.
Day & Time: F 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Building & Room Number: Bldg Not Assigned TBA
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Note: This course required for ALL POLITICAL SCIENCE FIRST YEAR STUDENTS
Teaching Political Science I: Understanding and Negotiating the Teaching Environment
(semester I only) Date and time to be arranged by participants; 1 credit
NOTE: Y550 for Political Science and Joint Ph.D. Program Students Only
This seminar, which is the first step in the department's Preparing Future Faculty Program, will meet five times during fall semester, at a mutually convenient time (TBA) during the second week of classes and bi-weekly after that. No readings are required. Students enrolling in the course (which will continue during the spring semester) will receive departmental certification in the Preparing Future Faculty Program. Topics for the five sessions during fall semester are: the nature and rules of the IU teaching environment; effective methods of leading discussions; a micro-teaching session in leading discussions; various methods of assessing students' learning and grading; and resources available for getting help with teaching. First-year students are expected to attend, but the seminar will also be open to continuing graduate students.
(Note: Graduate students who are teaching independent sections during fall semester will enroll in a separate section of Y550 designed to support their immediate teaching needs. Y550 may be repeated for credit.)
Credit Hours: 1.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Hershey,Marjorie R.
Course Description:
This course for Political Science and JT Program Associate Instructors concurrently teaching independent classes.
Note: This course is open to Political Science and Joint Ph.D. program students only.
This weekly one-hour seminar is meant to provide Associate Instructors teaching independent sections with immediate support for their teaching. Members of the seminar will gain information and exchange ideas about various teaching techniques, methods of lecturing and leading discussions, engaging students in the work of their course, assessing students' learning through a variety of types of exams and other assignments, dealing with individual students and incidents of academic misconduct, grading, recording grades, and all of the other issues that instructors face. AIs teaching independent sections are expected to attend, but the seminar is also open to AIs who anticipate teaching such a section in an upcoming semester.
Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: McGinnis,Michael Dean
Day & Time: W 3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Building & Room Number: SPEA 270
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Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Thompson,William R.
Day & Time: W 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Building & Room Number: Swain East 009
Course Description:
Y569 is considered the gateway course (A and I) for further study in International Relations. It assumes no previous background in IR, but it also assumes that all students in the course have a professional interest in the development of the subfield. The emphasis throughout is theoretical, as opposed to descriptive, empirical or normative concerns. The study of international relations is cursed or blessed with a wide spectrum of alternative assumptions and frameworks for its study. Surveying this spectrum of choices, and their historical and analytical evolution, is the primary objective of the course. After completing the survey, students cannot expect to be experts in IR theory but, at least, they will have some better-than-average understanding of the theoretical landscape that will serve as one prerequisite to preparing for preliminary exams.
Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
Day & Time: W 10:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Building & Room Number: Woodburn Hall 218
Course Description:
This course is the core seminar in the graduate program in political science. Its main purpose is to provide Ph.D. students with a basic introduction to three seemingly straightforward but foundational questions for all political scientists: What is power, and how best can we study it? What is the modern state, where does it come from, and where is it going? Last but by no means least: what is science, and how best can we pursue it? Of course, political scientists and their allies have tackled many other important issues. Nonetheless, these three have remained central to the discipline since its inception over a century ago. Presumably, they will remain so in the future as well. Students can expect to leave the course with an overview of some of the most fruitful attempts to answer them, as well as useful practical knowledge about the discipline and its history, as well as the competing analytic and methodological approaches scholars have employed in trying to answer them. Hopefully, the materials discussed in the seminar will prove useful as you pursue your graduate course work and then write a dissertation. An implicit assumption underlying the organization of the seminar is that the best way to garner a sense of the strengths and weaknesses of competing approaches to political inquiry is by engaging those key questions most political scientists tackle either directly or indirectly.
Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: DeSante,Christopher David
Day & Time: T 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Building & Room Number: Woodburn Hall 220
Course Description:
A course in computational statistics focusing on both description and inference with an emphasis ordinary least squares regression. Specifically, we will examine the assumptions of the Gauss-Markov theorem and how violations of these assumptions affect statistical estimates. Additional topics will be covered as time permits. The course will culminate in student presentations of quantitative research.
Books: TBD
Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Kasza,Gregory J.
Day & Time: T 2:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Building & Room Number: Woodburn Hall 112
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Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Kennedy,Scott
Day & Time: M 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
Building & Room Number: Goodbody Hall 228
Topic Title: TOPICS IN CHINESE POLITICS
Course Description:
This graduate seminar provides an indepth introduction to the scholarly study of contemporary Chinese politics with the aim of preparing students to independently conduct research involving China. Some important questions we consider include: How do China¿s political elites interact with each other, and what are the consequences for public policy? How has the nature of China¿s political institutions changed over the past few decades? How are non-state actors relevant to making or changing China's domestic and foreign policies? How threatening is protest to one-party rule? We will regularly consider China in light of general theories and place China in comparative perspective. Requirements include 200-250 pages per week of reading, a strong desire to engage in discussion and debate, five short papers, and a ¿fun¿ final exam.
Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: MacLean,Lauren Mathews Morris
Day & Time: R 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Building & Room Number: Political Theory 102
Topic Title: DEMOCRACY & DEV IN AFRICA
Course Description:
Africa and African politics is not simply tragedy. While not glossing over the depth and recurrence of crises in Africa, this course seeks to uncover our commonly-held assumptions and go beyond simple stereotypes. During the course, we will try to understand the complexity, variety and fluidity of African politics. Perhaps more than any other continent, politics are not always what they seem on the surface; they vary tremendously from place to place; and they change sometimes quickly and radically.
The course is organized around four main sets of issues:
1) the legacies of the past for African politics today;
2) the economic challenges continuing to face Africa;
3) the prospects for democracy in Africa; and,
4) Africa¿s relationship with other countries, donors, and NGOs.
This course is intended as a graduate-level introduction to the politics of Sub-Saharan Africa and does not require that students have prior experience or background in the area. The course will be enriched by the participation of Africanist political scientists, Africanists outside of political science, as well as those non-Africanist students with relevant theoretical interests in comparative politics, public policy, IR, and political theory. During the fall of 2013, the course is offered jointly with the African Studies program and will feature the participation and presentation by three outstanding guest speakers from outside of IU.
Not only will we learn more about Africa, but Africa can test our theories about democracy, state-building, political economy, participation, citizenship, etc., and teach us about other parts of the world and ourselves. By the end of the course, we will see how the challenges and problems confronting African societies concern us all.
While the course focuses more heavily on the events of the last two decades, approximately one quarter of the course delves into the political history of the pre-colonial, colonial and independence eras. In my view, in order to understand present politics in Africa, it is vital to examine the past.
The course is intended as a broad survey of sub-Saharan Africa, but several country cases will be highlighted, including: Ghana, Cote d¿Ivoire, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and South Africa.
The course will require: a diversity of required readings and films; active participation in discussions; one-time service as a co-facilitator of our discussion; several short ¿article briefs¿; and a seminar paper. The specific format of the seminar paper is flexible but will be agreed upon after discussion with the professor of the student¿s particular goals. NB: This course is usually only offered every three years.
Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Smyth,Regina
Day & Time: T 5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Building & Room Number: Woodburn Hall 218
Topic Title: POST COMMUNIST POLITICS
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Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Bianco,William
Day & Time: M 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Building & Room Number: Woodburn Hall 218
Topic Title: LEGISLATIVE POLITICS
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Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Fraga,Bernard L.
Day & Time: W 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Building & Room Number: Woodburn Hall 218
Topic Title: ELECTORAL POL&POL PARTICIP
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Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Winecoff,William Kindred
Day & Time: R 4:45 PM - 6:45 PM
Building & Room Number: Swain East 009
Topic Title: INTERNATIONAL POLICY ECONOMY
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This seminar provides an overview of theoretical and empirical work in International Political Economy (IPE). IPE is an interdisciplinary field -- drawing from international relations, comparative politics, economics, sociology, and other realms -- concerned with the study of the interaction of politics and economics in the global system. In addition to providing a broad survey of the development of thought in IPE, we will explore substantive topics including the politics of trade, investment, and development. In so doing, this course will mix "classic" theoretical works with "up to date" empirical analyses, for the purpose of laying a foundation for future research into the global political economy. Students will be expected to write a seminar paper exploring an IPE topic in some depth, as well as shorter analyses of assigned readings.
Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: McGinnis,Michael Dean
Day & Time: T 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Building & Room Number: Political Theory 102
Topic Title: INST ANALYSIS & DVPT: MICRO
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Credit Hours: 3.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Craiutu,Aurelian
Day & Time: R 10:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Building & Room Number: Woodburn Hall 218
Topic Title: APPROACHES & ISSUES
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 4.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 4.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 4.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 4.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 4.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 4.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 4.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 4.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 12.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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Credit Hours: 1.0 - 12.0 | CASE Requirement: None
Instructor: Scheuerman,William
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