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Course Listing for POLITICAL SCIENCE - Fall 2026 (ALL: 09/08/2026 - 12/23/2026)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
2567 POLS-102-01 American Natl Govt 1.00 LEC Dudas, Mary TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: 13 seats reserved for First Year students, 9 seats for sophomores, and 3 seats for Juniors who have declared a POLS Major. No Seniors unless by Permission of Instructor.
  How do the institutions of American national government shape our politics and policies? This introductory course examines the nation’s founding documents (including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Federalist Papers), the goals they sought to achieve, and the institutional framework they established (including Congress, the Presidency, and the courts). It then evaluates the extent to which these institutions achieve their intended aims of representing interests and producing public goods, taking into account the role of parties, interests groups, and the media. Throughout the course, we will attend to the relevance of race, class, religion, and gender.
2568 POLS-102-02 American Natl Govt 1.00 LEC Dudas, Mary TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: 13 seats reserved for First Year students, 9 seats for sophomores, and 3 seats for Juniors who have declared a POLS Major. No Seniors unless by Permission of Instructor.
  How do the institutions of American national government shape our politics and policies? This introductory course examines the nation’s founding documents (including the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Federalist Papers), the goals they sought to achieve, and the institutional framework they established (including Congress, the Presidency, and the courts). It then evaluates the extent to which these institutions achieve their intended aims of representing interests and producing public goods, taking into account the role of parties, interests groups, and the media. Throughout the course, we will attend to the relevance of race, class, religion, and gender.
3276 POLS-103-01 Intro Compar Politics 1.00 LEC Thompson-Brusstar, Michael MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: 13 seats reserved for First Year students, 9 seats for sophomores, and 3 seats for Juniors who have declared a POLS Major. No Seniors unless by Permission of Instructor.
  This course introduces the study of comparative politics which is a subfield of political science. More specifically, it introduces many of the key concepts and theoretical approaches that have been adopted in comparative politics and surveys the political institutions and politics of select foreign countries. Students of comparative politics primarily focus on the political processes and institutions within countries (whereas students of international relations primarily, but not exclusively, study interactions among countries). Inspired by current world events and puzzles, comparativists investigate such major questions as: Why are some countries or regions more democratic than others? How do different countries organize their politics, i.e., how and why do their political party systems, electoral rules, governmental institutions, etc. differ?
2570 POLS-104-01 Intro Intl Relations 1.00 LEC Flibbert, Andrew TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to seniors.
  NOTE: 13 seats reserved for First Year students, 9 seats for sophomores, and 3 seats for Juniors who have declared a POLS Major. No Seniors unless by Permission of Instructor.
  This course offers an introduction to international relations (IR), addressing fundamental questions in the fields of international security, international political economy, and international law & organization. We learn about the leading theoretical perspectives in political science-Realism, Liberalism, and Constructivism-as well as a range of alternatives rooted in domestic politics, political psychology, postmodernism, Marxism, and feminism. The course serves as a foundational introduction to the IR subfield, with equal emphasis on substantive issues and theoretical concerns.
3277 POLS-218-01 Slavery and the Archive 1.00 SEM Salgado, Gabriel MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA SOIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  As political theorists increasingly make use of archival research, they have had to grapple with significant ethical, political, and methodological concerns. These concerns are all the more pressing when such research includes materials that document the histories and legacies of slavery, racism, and colonization. This course explores the possibilities and limits of archival research, as well as how to engage in this research responsibly. The course also includes a significant Community Learning component. We will be working with the Witness Stones Project to help document the history of slavery in Connecticut. Please note that this may involve occasional commitments outside of our regularly scheduled class time.
2571 POLS-219-01 History of Pol Thought I 1.00 LEC Smith, Gregory TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 40 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLASSCIVIL
  NOTE: No Seniors unless by Instructor Permission.
  NOTE: 15 seats reserved for first-year students.
  This course provides the historical background to the development of Western political thought from Greek antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. Readings from primary sources (Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, etc.) will help the students to comprehend the foundations of Western political philosophy and the continuity of tradition.
3448 POLS-241-01 Race, Capitalism, and Wrld Pol 1.00 LEC Kamola, Isaac TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA SOIP  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: No Seniors unless by Instructor Permission.
  The study of International Relations has long been "an American social science"-seeking to describe and understand the world from the vantage of American empire. This course offers an introduction to the field of International Relations through the work of scholars, activists, and political struggles from the Global South. Topics include: coloniality and decoloniality, the global color line, and struggles for indigenous sovereignty and environmental sustainability.
2572 POLS-242-01 Pol Sci Research Methods 1.00 LEC Thompson-Brusstar, Michael MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA NUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Why do people participate in politics? Which government policies best serve the public good? What prevents wars between nations? Political scientists employ a toolbox of research methods to investigate these and other fundamental questions. By learning the strengths and weaknesses of various qualitative and quantitative methods, students in this course will identify how best to answer the political questions about which they feel most passionate. They will apply these practical skills in assignments that ask them observe, analyze, and report on political phenomena. Research skills will include field observation, interviewing, comparative case studies, and data analysis using statistical software. No previous statistical or programming experience is necessary. NOTE: Students may not earn credit for PBPL 220 and POLS 242.
3278 POLS-243-01 Racial Politics: Res. Methods 1.00 LEC Do, Dang TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA NUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Race plays an essential role in American politics in meaningful ways. At the same time, data about individuals, organizations, and government has become increasingly available, and social data analytics are transforming how we think about politics and society. This course is a survey of historical and contemporary issues of racial and ethnic minority politics, combined with the teaching of skills necessary to navigate social data. Students will learn basic research design principles, statistical concepts, and foundational R statistical programming. Students will use research methods skills from this foundation to explore how race and ethnicity affect political attitudes, participation, and representation. They will conclude this course by evaluating whether we are in a post-racial society or whether race continues to be at the center of politics.
2573 POLS-258-01 How Democracy Works 1.00 LEC Matsuzaki, Reo TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 25 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Students who have taken POLS 256 or POLS 320 may not enroll in this course.
  NOTE: Seniors may not enroll in this course.
  How do democratic countries function across the globe and how does the United States compare to its peers? What are the causes and consequences of these differences and what does the future of democracy hold? This course will examine these and other questions on the state of democracy in the world by examining the social and institutional foundations of democratic regimes; legacies of colonialism; ethnic politics and conflict; political contestation and violence; and the causes of democratic deconsolidation and collapse. This course is part of the two-course foundational sequence in comparative politics (POLS 257 and POLS 258). Students may choose to take one or both courses in the sequence and in whichever order. Note: Students who have taken POLS 256 or POLS 320 may not enroll in this course.
3341 POLS-301-01 Amer Political Parties & Elec 1.00 LEC Gawehns, Florian MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 12 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: PBPL-301-01
  An analysis of American political parties, including a study of voting behavior, party organization and leadership, and recent and proposed reforms and proposals for reorganization of existing party structures.
3279 POLS-309-01 Congress and Public Policy 1.00 SEM Do, Dang TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  A study of the structure and politics of the American Congress. This course examines the relationship between Congress members and their constituents; the organization and operation of Congress; the relationship between legislative behavior and the electoral incentive; and the place of Congress in national policy networks.
3280 POLS-316-01 Civil Liberties 1.00 SEM Sklaroff, Miranda MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  An analysis and evaluation of US Supreme Court decisions (and related materials) dealing principally with freedom of expression; the right to privacy; freedom of religion; and, liberty and security.
1831 POLS-318-01 Statebuilding 1.00 SEM Matsuzaki, Reo T: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: 6 seats reserved for Sophomores, 6 seats reserved for Juniors, and 7 seats reserved for Seniors
  Strong governmental institutions are necessary for providing security, protecting human rights, and advancing material wellbeing. This insight provided the moral justification for the various statebuilding missions the United States and its allies undertook across the globe in the last three decades. However, these efforts to build strong and democratic states have largely ended in failure and suffering. Is statebuiding through foreign intervention and occupation even feasible? If so, is it ethically justifiable? This course examines these and other questions surrounding statebuilding in three parts. First, we examine the factors that led to the development and adoption of the modern state in Europe and elsewhere. Second, we turn our attention to the imposition of modern state institutions onto the rest of the world under colonialism, and the outcomes and legacies of colonial statebuilding in Africa and Asia. Finally, we will discuss the strategic and normative rationales undergirding US and UN-led statebuilding campaigns in the contemporary period.
3441 POLS-323-01 Gender and Global Politics 1.00 SEM Hussain, Shaznene TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA SOIP  
  Enrollment limited to 6 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: HRST-324-01, AMST-324-01
  NOTE: 5 seats reserved for POLS majors.
  This course will examine gender roles and relations of power in international and transnational politics. The course focuses on the constructions of gender difference, experiences of women and LGBTQ+ people, as well as efforts to transform uneven or unjust gendered relations of power in global politics. We will further consider how gender, in combination with constructs of race, class, sexuality, nationality, and citizenship, serves as a basis for political organization, the distribution of power and resources, and participation in global politics. Topics covered will include conflict, security, economic globalization, labor, migration, environment, human rights, humanitarian intervention, nation-building, and transnational justice.
3343 POLS-325-01 American Presidency 1.00 SEM Gawehns, Florian MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 12 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: PBPL-325-01
  An explanation of the institutional and political evolution of the presidency with an emphasis on the nature of presidential power in domestic and foreign affairs. Attention is also given to institutional conflicts with Congress and the courts. The nature of presidential leadership and personality is also explored.
2832 POLS-327-01 International Law 1.00 SEM Hamidi, Sidra MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  What is the impact of international law on international politics? Can the law constrain state behavior? Starting from the landmark Lotusprinciple, which established that sovereign states are allowed to conduct any behavior that is not explicitly prohibited by international law, to the contemporary legal challenges surrounding war crimes and genocide, this course explores how the international legal system works. We will begin with a foundational discussion of treaties and customary international law along with jurisdiction and compliance issues and then cover two arbiters of international law: the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. We will then move to specific legal regimes that govern warmaking, nuclear weapons, the oceans, the environment, trade, and human rights.
3304 POLS-327-02 International Law 1.00 SEM Hamidi, Sidra MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  What is the impact of international law on international politics? Can the law constrain state behavior? Starting from the landmark Lotusprinciple, which established that sovereign states are allowed to conduct any behavior that is not explicitly prohibited by international law, to the contemporary legal challenges surrounding war crimes and genocide, this course explores how the international legal system works. We will begin with a foundational discussion of treaties and customary international law along with jurisdiction and compliance issues and then cover two arbiters of international law: the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. We will then move to specific legal regimes that govern warmaking, nuclear weapons, the oceans, the environment, trade, and human rights.
2563 POLS-328-01 American Conservatism 1.00 SEM Dudas, Mary TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course examines two interrelated questions: What is conservatism as an ideology and how was the American conservative movement built? To answer these questions, we will examine the American conservative movement as an organized movement and as a set of ideological debates and commitments. We will first survey the origins of conservatism as an ideology before turning to the development of the different ideological strands of American conservativism The course then explores the building of the modern American conservative movement: postwar Goldwater Movement Conservativism, the New Right, and the contemporary conservative movement. The course will focus on the building of the conservative movement through its engagement with the Republican Party as well as the family as the site of cultural and economic intervention.
3281 POLS-333-01 Eugenics in the United States 1.00 SEM Sklaroff, Miranda MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Eugenics is an ideology that seeks to shape society by encouraging the reproduction of "desirable" citizens and limiting the population of "undesirables." From the early twentieth-century, when American eugenicists influenced Nazi sterilization policies, to contemporary debates over COVID-19 and public health, eugenics has played a significant but underexplored role in US politics. This course explores the often forgotten legacies of eugenics in the United States. We will discuss topics including: eugenics and environmentalism, the role of eugenics in debates on abortion, and how mass incarceration continues to create the conditions of possibility for eugenic practices. The class will look at primary sources, scholarly articles, and representations of eugenics in popular media to define what eugenics is and explain why it continues to this day.
3282 POLS-333-02 Eugenics in the United States 1.00 SEM Sklaroff, Miranda MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Eugenics is an ideology that seeks to shape society by encouraging the reproduction of "desirable" citizens and limiting the population of "undesirables." From the early twentieth-century, when American eugenicists influenced Nazi sterilization policies, to contemporary debates over COVID-19 and public health, eugenics has played a significant but underexplored role in US politics. This course explores the often forgotten legacies of eugenics in the United States. We will discuss topics including: eugenics and environmentalism, the role of eugenics in debates on abortion, and how mass incarceration continues to create the conditions of possibility for eugenic practices. The class will look at primary sources, scholarly articles, and representations of eugenics in popular media to define what eugenics is and explain why it continues to this day.
3283 POLS-334-01 Origins of West Pol Phil 1.00 LEC Smith, Gregory TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Prerequisite: C- or better in Political Science 105, 219, or 220.
  This course examines the works of Plato with the aim of understanding the contribution he made to the transformation of thought that helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophic tradition. Readings will be from primary sources.
3322 POLS-354-01 Climate Change Global South 1.00 SEM Fernandez Milmanda, Belen TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ENVS-354-01, INTS-354-01
  The course analyzes the domestic and global politics of how countries in the Global South are dealing/preparing to deal with climate change and its effects. We will discuss the particular challenges that climate change presents to countries across the Global South characterized by weaker institutions, lower state capacity, and scarce economic resources. Using countries and subnational units in the Global South as case studies, we will discuss issues: how interest groups shape mitigation and adaptation strategies, why citizens support climate denialists, and how different political regimes (autocracies vs. democracies) approach climate change. We will also study the global and domestic aspects of environmental injustices created by climate change and the world's current mitigation and adaptation strategies.
3325 POLS-354-02 Climate Change Global South 1.00 SEM Fernandez Milmanda, Belen TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA GLB5  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: ENVS-354-02, INTS-354-02
  The course analyzes the domestic and global politics of how countries in the Global South are dealing/preparing to deal with climate change and its effects. We will discuss the particular challenges that climate change presents to countries across the Global South characterized by weaker institutions, lower state capacity, and scarce economic resources. Using countries and subnational units in the Global South as case studies, we will discuss issues: how interest groups shape mitigation and adaptation strategies, why citizens support climate denialists, and how different political regimes (autocracies vs. democracies) approach climate change. We will also study the global and domestic aspects of environmental injustices created by climate change and the world's current mitigation and adaptation strategies.
3284 POLS-359-01 Feminist Political Theory 1.00 SEM Terwiel, Anna MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA SOIP  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: WMGS-359-01
  This course examines debates in feminist political theory. Topics will include liberal and socialist feminist theory, as well as radical, postcolonial, and postmodern feminist theory. We will also consider feminist perspectives on issues of race and sex, pornography, law and rights, and “hot button” issues like veiling. We will pay particular attention to the question of what feminism means and should mean in increasingly multicultural, global societies. Readings will include work by Mary Wollstonecraft, Carol Gilligan, Catherine MacKinnon, Chandra Mohanty, Wendy Brown, Audre Lorde, Patricia Williams, & Judith Butler.
2649 POLS-381-01 Global Nuclear Politics 1.00 SEM Hamidi, Sidra MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Nuclear politics dominates headlines in contemporary international relations. From the growing threat of nuclear weapons proliferation to controversies over the safety of nuclear power plants, the conflict over nuclear energy and weaponry continues to be a major site of conflict in global politics. What are the political consequences of the development of nuclear technology? How is nuclear technology governed? This course will explore early history in the Manhattan Project, nuclear use in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with contemporary case studies like North Korea and Iran. We will also explore nuclear accidents at the Chernobyl and Fukushima power plants.
3285 POLS-383-01 Assembly, Empire and Utopia 1.00 LEC Litvin, Boris TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
    Cross-listing: CLCV-383-01
  This course examines the perspectives, problems, and disagreements that occupied Athenian democracy as it changed from the 6th to 4th centuries BCE. Doing so, this course proposes that current-day students of politics benefit from critically reassessing questions examined by ancient Athenian thinkers. These include the following: how do we distinguish public and private life? What makes a community powerful? What is the place of discord in political life? What is the nature of justice, and what is its relationship to democracy? Interrogating these questions, we focus on close readings of Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle in conversation with contemporary commentaries.
1430 POLS-399-01 Independent Study 0.50 - 2.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and chairperson are required for enrollment.
2574 POLS-406-01 Sr Sem: Why Political Phil? 1.00 SEM Smith, Gregory W: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is open only to senior Political Science majors.
  This seminar will be devoted to a close reading of a major political philosopher in the Western tradition.
3286 POLS-407-01 Sr Sem:Decolonizing World Poli 1.00 SEM Cancelled WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is open only to senior Political Science majors.
  How is the world organized as a political unit? This class examines that questions by examining the long history of colonialism, the enduring relations of coloniality, and the lasting politics of anti-colonial struggle. In order to study how race, class, and gender continue to structure and organize political relations at a planetary scale, this class focuses on thinkers, activists, and political struggles from the Global South. Organized around ongoing challenges to coloniality, possible topics include: indigenous notions of pluriverality, post-capitalist economies, challenges to the global color line, epistemic justice, decolonial democracy, and struggles for environmental sustainability.
3287 POLS-407-02 Sr Sem:Decolonizing World Poli 1.00 SEM Kamola, Isaac T: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is open only to senior Political Science majors.
  How is the world organized as a political unit? This class examines that questions by examining the long history of colonialism, the enduring relations of coloniality, and the lasting politics of anti-colonial struggle. In order to study how race, class, and gender continue to structure and organize political relations at a planetary scale, this class focuses on thinkers, activists, and political struggles from the Global South. Organized around ongoing challenges to coloniality, possible topics include: indigenous notions of pluriverality, post-capitalist economies, challenges to the global color line, epistemic justice, decolonial democracy, and struggles for environmental sustainability.
3288 POLS-409-01 Sr Sem: Change Everything 1.00 SEM Terwiel, Anna MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is open only to senior Political Science majors.
  Historically, the political Left has been associated with a desire for change, including revolutionary projects to overhaul the existing order. Yet for many, the global hegemony of capitalism and the ascendency of authoritarianism have called into question earlier visions of revolution. Is it still possible to imagine revolution today? What would radical change look like? This political theory course takes up these questions by examining key revolutionary texts and events from the past 250 years, ranging from the American and Haitian Revolutions to Marxist, feminist, and anti-colonial approaches. Readings will include works by CLR James, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, and Angela Davis.
2575 POLS-415-01 Sr Sem: War, Peace & Strategy 1.00 SEM Flibbert, Andrew TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is open only to senior Political Science majors.
  This seminar explores the problem of war in international relations, including its nature, forms, strategy, causes, prevention, and ethics. Is international politics bound to remain inherently conflictual in a world of sovereign states, or is war becoming obsolete in an era of institutional innovation and normative change? To address this and related questions, we read and engage a wide range of classic and contemporary texts from political science and beyond. Special attention is devoted to the strategic logic that connects the use of military force with political objectives, hopes, and fears.
2562 POLS-419-01 Sr Sem: Money & Politics 1.00 SEM Fernandez Milmanda, Belen TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is open only to senior Political Science majors.
  NOTE: Students who have taken POLS/INTS 352 may not enroll in this course.
  This course studies the interrelationships between politics and economics from a comparative perspective. Topics include: the relationship between political institutions and economic development, inequality and political stability, business power, the politics of economic reforms, and corruption. We will look at both developed and developing countries, with an emphasis on understanding why they choose (or end up with) the policies and institutions that they have, even when in some cases these policies and institutions might hamper economic development and political stability.
1743 POLS-425-01 Research Assistantship 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
1431 POLS-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
1432 POLS-490-01 Research Assistant 0.25 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y SOC  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to undertake substantial research work with a faculty member. Students need to complete a special registration form, available online, and have it signed by the supervising instructor.
2405 POLS-496-01 Senior Thesis Colloquium 1.00 SEM Salgado, Gabriel M: 1:30PM-4:10PM TBA Y WEB  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is open only to senior Political Science majors.
  NOTE: This course is open only to senior Political Science majors.
  This is a required colloquium for senior political science majors writing theses. The class will proceed in part through course readings about research methods and aims, and in part through offering students the opportunity to present and discuss their thesis projects. All students will be required to write a (non-introductory draft) chapter by semester's end.