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Courses in Political Science, Spring 2015
POSC-119 Violence and Politics
Jonathan M. Obert
(Section 01)
POSC-130 Climate Change and Civil Unrest
Eleonora Mattiacci
(Section 01)
POSC-206 Race and American Politics
Kristin Bumiller
(Section 01)
Ashley Brown Burns (Section 01)
Jonathan M. Obert
(Section 01)
POSC-207 The Home and the World: Women and Gender in South Asia
Krupa Shandilya
(Section 01)
POSC-208 Power and Politics in Contemporary China
Kerry E. Ratigan
(Section 01)
POSC-245 Modern Political Thought
Andrew Poe
(Section 01)
POSC-248 Cuba: The Politics of Extremism
Javier Corrales
(Section 01)
POSC-260 African Politics
Kim Y. Dionne
(Section 01)
POSC-302 Disabling Institutions
Kristin Bumiller
(Section 01)
POSC-316 Politics of Place: Poverty, Policy and Housing
Kristin Bumiller
(Section 01)
Ashley Brown Burns (Section 01)
Jonathan M. Obert
(Section 01)
POSC-319 History, Time, and American Political Development
Jonathan M. Obert
(Section 01)
POSC-346 Philosophy of Freedom
Alicja A. Gescinska (Section 01)
POSC-360 Punishment, Politics, and Culture
Austin D. Sarat
(Section 01)
POSC-380 Kremlin Rising: Russia's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
Constantine V. Pleshakov
(Section 01)
POSC-400 Domestic Politics
Kristin Bumiller
(Section 01)
POSC-401 Fanaticism
Andrew Poe
(Section 01)
POSC-403 Social Policy in China
Kerry E. Ratigan
(Section 01)
POSC-475 Personality and International Politics: Gorbachev, the End of the Cold War and the Collapse of the Soviet Union
William C. Taubman
(Section 01)
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