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PT 370 - Artist in Residence Seminar (1.00 cr.)
A seminar led by and related to the work of the current semester's Artist in Residence at the Julio Fine Art's Gallery. Students collaborate with the artist on a project of a group or individual nature related to the artist's exhibition and practice. Varies by semester. May be repeated three times for degree credit. Same course as SA 370 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 375 - Silver Processes (3.00 cr.)
An intermediate study of black and white silver photography. Students produce their own darkroom work. Exposure, development, and printing are explored in detail in the darkroom. Students are expected to furnish a 35-millimeter film SLR camera.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 376 - Directed Workshop (3.00 cr.)
Designed to allow students to pursue an interest in a specific area of photography such as sports, portraits, landscape, nature, etc. Weekly critiques of ongoing projects and a final exhibition portfolio required. May be repeated twice for credit.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 377 - Landscape and Nature Photography (3.00 cr.)
An intensive workshop in photographing the landscape and elements from it as an expression of personal statement. Some weekend field trips required.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IES
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PT 378 - Alternative Photographic Processes (3.00 cr.)
A study of the early processes by which photographic images were recorded and displayed. Students make their own pinhole cameras and light sensitive materials, and produce original photographs. Explores the aesthetic and expressive possibilities of alternative photographic processes, including cyanotype, Van Dyke brown, and wet-plate collodion. Same course as SA 378 .
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 379 - Color Photography (3.00 cr.)
Students study the history and production of color photographic processes. Students explore making color photographs using digital cameras. Color theory, history, and practice are studied through numerous readings and image analyses.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 380 - Studio Lighting (3.00 cr.)
Aims at expanding students' visual awareness and their ability to create fine art imagery through the controlled use of studio lighting. Students work in film or digital as they explore a variety of light sources from natural light, to hot lights, to professional strobe lights in a studio environment. Same course as CM 378 .
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 381 - Photojournalism (3.00 cr.)
Photography in print and online media as illustration and narrative vehicle: the photo-essay and photo documentary. Basic graphics in print journalism. Same course as CM 381 .
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IPJ
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PT 383 - The Photographic Essay (3.00 cr.)
Under the instructor's direction, students develop a body of photographic images exploring, in depth, a specific photographic subject. Frequent classroom critiques of the ongoing project, technical demonstrations, and museum/gallery visits.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 386 - Video Art (3.00 cr.)
An examination of the aesthetics and history of video art, as well as a study of the techniques of video production. Students produce numerous short and long video works.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IF
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PT 391 - Image and Text (3.00 cr.)
Explores the dynamic relationship between photographic imagery and text. Students study the history of art that combines text and visual imagery. They also explore in their own work the ways that text as an interactive, subversive, or antithetical element can conspire with the photographic image to construct or deconstruct opinions and provoke new responses.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 393 - Portraiture (3.00 cr.)
Provides a basic foundation for students interested in portraiture. By examining the evolving roles of the photographer and the person being photographed, students are acquainted with contemporary trends in portraiture. Students work on projects that explore different ways of making portraits. Instruction includes slide presentations on the history and aesthetics of portrait photography.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Recommended Prerequisite: PT 380 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 394 - The Human Subject (3.00 cr.)
Throughout history the human image has been the most important subject through which artists have expressed their personal visions. Students have an opportunity, through the use of lighting and composition, to study the human form as an artistic, photographic subject.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Recommended Prerequisite: PT 380 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 395 - Moving Pictures, Still Pictures (3.00 cr.)
Concentrates on the historical and aesthetic relationships that are present throughout the histories of both media. Movie clips, slides, and still photographs are shown and discussed. Assignments focus on narrative, passage of time, point of view, dramatic artifice, and stylistic and formal aspects of cinematography and still photography.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 399 - Special Topics in Photography (3.00 cr.)
An intensive examination of a specific topic utilizing lens-based production. Topics may be historical, cultural, or genre generated. Bi-weekly critiques and a final portfolio are required. May be repeated four times for degree credit with different topics.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PT 400 - Professional Practices for Artists (3.00 cr.)
Students are introduced to the working world of the professional artist. Students create a cohesive body of work that is critiqued throughout the semester and exhibited at the end of the semester. Students produce a portfolio of digital images of their artwork with accompanying professional materials aimed at being able to participate in the art world in some form upon graduation. Students enter at least one exhibition, mat and frame an artwork, and attend at least one opening reception for an exhibition off-campus. Normally taken in the fall semester of the senior year. Senior photography minors must have written permission of the instructor. Required for all visual arts majors who are not enrolled in PT 412 . Same course as SA 400 .
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Restrictions: Restricted to senior visual arts majors with a concentration in photography.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
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PT 403 - Advanced Photography (3.00 cr.)
An intensive study of advanced black and white techniques in the studio, darkroom, and on location. Emphasizes final print quality, technically and aesthetically.
Prerequisite: PT 270 or PT 300 or PT 301 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PT 412 - Senior Project in Photography (3.00 cr.)
Students develop an advanced project under the direction of a faculty member. Work on the project continues throughout both semesters of the student's senior year. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Proposals for senior projects must be approved by the fine arts faculty during the spring semester of the student's junior year.
Restrictions: Restricted to Seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 101 - Introductory Physics I with Lab (4.00 cr.)
A non-calculus-based introduction to physics. Fundamental concepts of classical physics including mechanics, fluids, heat, and thermodynamics. Lab component introduces basic principles of experimentation, error analysis, and report writing. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 102 - Introductory Physics II with Lab (4.00 cr.)
A continuation of PH 101 which includes wave motion, sound, electrostatic and electromagnetic fields, DC and AC circuits, geometric and physical optics, and selected topics in atomic and nuclear physics. Lab component introduces basic principles of experimentation, error analysis, and report writing. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Prerequisite: PH 101 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 116 - Integrated Science I (4.00 cr.)
An interdisciplinary presentation of the sciences, focusing on unifying concepts and real-life examples from physics, chemistry, biology, earth science, and astronomy. A particular focus is placed on areas where these traditional disciplines overlap. Hands-on activities and inquiry-based learning methods are used extensively to help in the development of a conceptual understanding of the material. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Restrictions: Restricted to elementary education majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 117 - Integrated Science II (4.00 cr.)
A continuation of PH 116 . Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Prerequisite: PH 116 .
Restrictions: Restricted to elementary education majors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 120 - Introduction to the Universe (3.00 cr.)
A survey of the history of astronomy and the current state of this science. A look at the probabilities of, and search for, extraterrestrial life. A study of our solar system, stars and their evolution, our galaxy and other galaxies, supernovas, pulsars, black holes, quasars. Fulfills one math/science core requirement. Closed to students who have taken PH 140 or PH 141 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 150 - Energy and Environment (3.00 cr.)
An examination of energy sources for the future: nuclear power, breeder reactors, gasoline substitutes, the future of coal, solar and geothermal sources are studied in view of the laws of thermodynamics. Studies the impact of energy use on resource conservation, water resources, air quality, waste disposal, and land use. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IES
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PH 160 - Light and Color (3.00 cr.)
Light and its behavior influences our perception of the world around us. Reflection, refraction, polarization, diffraction and interference are investigated, as well as optical instruments, vision and the phenomena of color. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PH 170 - Music and Sound (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the physical basis of sound in general and of music in particular. The nature of sound as a wave in air is treated first, and the physical quantities which correspond to pitch, volume, and timbre are examined. Topics include sound production in wind, stringed, and electronic instruments; underlying basis of harmony, dissonance and scales; and the human auditory detection system. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PH 200 - Opportunities in STEM (1.00 cr.)
The colloquium focuses on internships, research, and career options available to students in Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, and Statistics (CPaMS) through speaker talks, career center workshops, and field trips to research and industry partners. This course is intended for natural and applied science majors. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Required for all CPaMS Scholars in their second year. Same course as CS 200 , MA 200 , ST 200 . (Pass/Fail).
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 201 - General Physics I (4.00 cr.)
Designed for majors in the physical sciences. Topics include vectors, kinematics, Newton's laws and dynamics, conservation laws, rigid body equilibrium, rotational mechanics, oscillatory motion, fluid mechanics and motion in a gravitational field, and wave motion. Fundamental concepts of vector analysis and calculus are developed. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Concurrent Requisite: MA 251 , PH 291 or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 202 - General Physics II (4.00 cr.)
A continuation of PH 201 which includes classical electromagnetic theory and geometrical optics. Fulfills one math/science core requirement.
Prerequisite: PH 201 .
Concurrent Requisite: MA 252 ; PH 292 or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 291 - General Physics Lab I (1.00 cr.)
An introduction to experimental physics stressing principles of measurement, treatment and presentation of data and error analysis with experiments taken primarily from mechanics.
Concurrent Requisite: PH 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 292 - General Physics Lab II (1.00 cr.)
A continuation of PH291 with experiments taken from sound, wave motion, electrostatics, DC and AC circuits, and geometrical optics. Basic electronic instrumentation introduced.
Prerequisite: PH 291 or written permission of the department chair.
Concurrent Requisite: PH 202 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 293 - Intermediate Laboratory I (1.00 cr.)
A variety of illustrative and sometimes classic experiments in optics, thermal physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and quantum physics; also introduces the rigorous analysis of experimental errors.
Prerequisite: PH 202 and PH 292 , or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 294 - Intermediate Laboratory II (1.00 cr.)
A continuation of PH 293 , with further experiments in optics, thermal physics, mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and nuclear and quantum physics. Extends discussion of error analysis to include use of partial derivatives and statistical distributions.
Prerequisite: PH 293 or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 299 - Haig Scholars Seminar (1.00 cr.)
Offers students from all disciplines within the Natural and Applied Sciences the opportunity to partake in professional and social activities planned to enrich the academic experience, develop professional skills, foster entrepreneurial mindset, nurture community engagement, and expose students to leaders in technical fields with proven social impact. The activities designed for this seminar course mainly take place on campus but may also include events in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. Students must enroll in this course only once and after they have been admitted as a Haig scholar. Generally completed during the fall semester of either the junior or senior year. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Does not count toward the 120-credit graduation requirement. (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory).
Restrictions: Restricted to Haig Scholars.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 303 - Discovering Information in Data (3.00 cr.)
Students use tools for acquiring, cleaning, analyzing, exploring, and visualizing data. This course teaches students how to make data-driven decisions and effectively communicate results. A major component of this course is learning how to use python-based programming tools to apply methods to real-life datasets including those that arise from physics applications. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Fulfills the natural science core requirement. Does not count toward the computer science, data science, and/or mathematics minors for physics majors. Closed to students who have taken CS 403 , DS 303 , or MA 303 . Same course as DS 303 .
Prerequisite: CS 151 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
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PH 307 - Mathematical Methods in Physics (3.00 cr.)
Development of the mathematical methods needed to describe waves and vector fields. Topics include power series, complex numbers, linear algebra, Fourier series, and vector calculus. Physical examples cover harmonic oscillations, coupled oscillations, and traveling waves. The course provides a solid mathematical foundation for the advanced physics courses.
Prerequisite: MA 252 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: DS
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PH 312 - Modern Physics (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the two major revolutionary developments in physics during the twentieth century, namely Einstein's special theory of relativity and quantum physics. Topics in relativity include simultaneity, the Lorentz transformations, and mass/energy equivalence. Topics in quantum physics include wave/ particle duality, the Uncertainty Principle, quantization of energy and angular momentum, atomic orbitals, and the infinite square well model.
Prerequisite: PH 202 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 316 - Classical Mechanics (3.00 cr.)
Foundations and applications of Newtonian dynamics are applied to single particle systems, many particle systems, and rigid bodies in two and three dimensions.
Prerequisite: PH 202 and MA 351 .
Recommended Corequisite: MA 304 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 317 - Thermal Physics (3.00 cr.)
An examination of classical thermodynamic concepts including temperature, heat, entropy, free energy, and thermodynamic cycles. Also introduces the concepts of probability and statistical physics with an emphasis on the kinetic theory of gases.
Prerequisite: PH 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 383 - Physics of Medicine and the Human Body (3.00 cr.)
Expands on introductory physics courses through the study of mechanics, fluids, and sound as they are applied to the human body. Examples include biomechanics, metabolism, cardiovascular system, lungs, and alveoli, and hearing. Modern medical instrumentation is covered, particularly MRI, PET, and the gamma camera. Hands-on activities are included. A field trip may be required.
Prerequisite: PH 101 or PH 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Even Years
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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PH 384 - Waves and the Physics of Medicine (3.00 cr.)
Expands on introductory physics courses through the study of geometric optics, interaction of light with tissue, nuclear physics, and ultrasound, as they are applied to modern medical instrumentation. Examples include fiber optics, CT, gamma camera, PET, MRI, and ultrasound imaging. Hands-on activities are included. One field trip may be required.
Prerequisite: PH 101 or PH 201 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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PH 388 - Independent Project in Physics or Astronomy (1-3.00 cr.)
A supervised project including a public presentation of results. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PH 391 - Physics Research (3.00 cr.)
A supervised research project including a public presentation of results. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PH 397 - Experimental Methods I (2.00 cr.)
A combined lecture/laboratory course treating the methods and instrumentation used in contemporary physics (along with other technological fields). The major emphasis of the course is on analog and digital electronics.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 398 - Experimental Methods II (2.00 cr.)
A continuation of PH 397 , including an extended treatment of computer interfacing and automated data acquisition.
Prerequisite: PH 397 or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 415 - Quantum Mechanics I (3.00 cr.)
A study of quantum physics based on the Schrödinger Wave Equation and its solutions for various physically interesting systems. Applications include atomic and molecular physics, plus other topics contingent on time and interest.
Prerequisite: PH 307 and PH 312 , or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 416 - Quantum Mechanics II (3.00 cr.)
A study of the formal structure of quantum mechanics including matrix mechanics, operators, and spin. Includes more advanced applications such as scattering theory, perturbations, and quantum statistics.
Prerequisite: PH 415 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Even Years
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PH 417 - Electricity and Magnetism I (3.00 cr.)
An examination of Maxwell's equations in free space. Includes the calculation of electric and magnetic fields from charge and current distributions, as well as the creation/propagation of electromagnetic waves.
Prerequisite: MA 351 , PH 316 or written permission of the department chair.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PH 418 - Electricity and Magnetism II (3.00 cr.)
Electric and magnetic fields in matter and the relativistic formulation of electrodynamics.
Prerequisite: PH 417 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Odd Years
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PH 480 - Advanced Topics in Physics (3.00 cr.)
An advanced course in one or more areas of special interest. Possible topics include solid state physics, nuclear and particle physics, general relativity, astrophysics, statistical mechanics, advanced mechanics, optics, or computational physics. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PH 488 - Introduction to Quantum Computing (3.00 cr.)
Students gain an understanding of the transformative impact of this new technology through simulation of a quantum computer and studying the mathematical principles that underlie quantum computation. Topics include quantum logic gates, quantum circuits, quantum entanglement, the measurement problem, and the quantum Fourier transformation. Python programming is used to reinforce student understanding. Advanced topics such as Shor's algorithm and quantum error correction are considered. A course project provides an opportunity for the student to study an open research problem in quantum computation. Same course as EG 488 .
Prerequisite: CS 151 or EG 140 , MA 251 , or written permission of the instructor.
Restrictions: Restricted to juniors and seniors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PH 491 - Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3.00 cr.)
A survey of technical innovation and entrepreneurship. Introduces theoretical frameworks and examples of issues, skills, and challenges of innovating in the fields of science and engineering. Establishes multi-disciplinary skill sets for creating and managing technology-based entrepreneurship. Includes idea generation, evaluation, intellectual property, teamwork, business plans, financing through private and public sources, developing and marketing products, and legal issues. Includes a semester-long group project with a faculty and/or industrial mentor. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. Same course as CS491 and EG491.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IEN
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PH 493 - Advanced Laboratory (3.00 cr.)
A laboratory that emphasizes extended experiments requiring equipment design and originality. A public presentation of results is required.
Prerequisite: PH 294 , PH 312 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall
Years Typically Offered: Odd Years
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PS 101 - Politics (3.00 cr.)
The basic principles and problems of political science centered on the origin, powers, and limitations of the state and the nature of the political process.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
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PS 102 - American Politics (3.00 cr.)
The nature and concepts of the federal government; the function and operations of its three branches- executive, legislative, and judicial; the role of political parties and pressure groups.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 300 - Research Practicum: Special Topics (1.00-3.00 cr.)
Students participate in a Political Science faculty member's research project. Tasks vary by research project and may include study conceptualization and design, archival work, literature review, writing manuscripts, conference presentations, data collection, coding, processing, or analysis. Written or electronic permission of the instructor. May be repeated for credit with written or electronic permission of the department chair.
Prerequisite: PS 101 or PS 102 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 302 - Chinese Politics (3.00 cr.)
China is likely the most important country rival for the U.S. in the twenty-first century. The economy has greatly developed in the last 25 years but the ruling Chinese Communist Party faces enormous political challenges today. What major political events in the Mao Zedong era (1949-1976) have shaped China's political culture today? What is it like to live in China and seek justice today? Will the Chinese Communist Party survive or collapse or will China democratize? How is it possible that religious groups like Chinese Protestant congregations can set up and grow rapidly, despite state prohibitions? What explains their suppression? What explains the surge of protests in Hong Kong or the imprisonment of over one million Muslims in China today? These topics form the major topics of the course, which draw on the latest scholarship, documentaries, and a novel to unravel directions about China's future.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IA
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PS 303 - Latin American Politics (3.00 cr.)
The politics of Latin America in comparative perspective.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IL
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PS 304 - Politics of the Middle East (3.00 cr.)
The Middle East is a region grabbing the attention of world powers such as the U.S. and Russia like never before. From the rise of a new global jihadi organization (ISIS) to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this course covers a variety of topics through discussion of the daily news, documentary films, role plays, and recent scholarship. Topics such as the following are covered: How did the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 open the way for the rise of the brutal ISIS group? Why is a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians so difficult to achieve? The course tackles these questions and introduce students to a region of unparalleled importance.
Sessions Typically Offered: Spring
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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PS 305 - Natural Law in Political and Legal Thought (3.00 cr.)
A study of natural law doctrines from Greek and Roman speculations to contemporary debates on the possibility and content of a natural law. A review of the writings of various natural law thinkers is undertaken from both an historical and analytical perspective.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 306 - Politics of Russia (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to Russia in the twenty-first century, emphasizing its political system and foreign policy. An independent research paper on one aspect of this fascinating country is required.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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PS 307 - The Global Politics of Migration (3.00 cr.)
One of the most enduring questions of global politics is why humans move from their home communities to other places, often at great cost and personal risk. This course introduces students to the main approaches to the study of international migration, including the impact of immigration on the host nation. A significant portion of the course focuses on forced migration and refugee policies. Students complete an independent research paper using migration data, in addition to course readings.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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PS 308 - China and Globalization (3.00 cr.)
The US-China trade war grabs headlines, while the Chinese Communist Party quietly sells surveillance technologies and spreads authoritarian values across the world as it secures access to critical oil and mineral resources. Taking advantage of the "global war on terror," the Party has interned as many as a million Uighur Muslims in camps at home in the name of security and propagates a parallel world with Chinese versions of "human rights" and "democracy" that are empty of their traditional meanings. China is analyzed through various issue areas (religion, politics, economics, ideology, global production, military conflict) to make sense of how China is being remade by globalization and remaking the world in its image.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IA
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PS 309 - Political Economy of Development (3.00 cr.)
There is a growing realization among academics and policy-makers that economics and politics are deeply interconnected. Political economy is a field of study that engages both disciplines in order to better understand important questions such as: Are some political institutions more conducive to economic development than others? Under what conditions does economic development foster political development and democratization? What are some macro and micro policy interventions that academics and policy-makers can design to reduce corruption, improve governance, and further development? These are some of the central questions that the field of political economy of development seeks to answer and hence are major topics of this course. Particular attention is given to the developing regions of Africa, Latin America, and South Asia.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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PS 310 - Protest and Mobilization in Authoritarian Regimes (3.00 cr.)
Popular movements and protests mobilize aggrieved citizens under repressive authoritarian regimes but they face a number of obstacles to success. Activists seek to fashion slogans that resonate with the discontented, employ new communication technologies to outflank regime controls, and draw supporters from the existing collectives in society. What explains how these movements get off the ground, how they develop over time, and what outcomes they achieve? Students examine the challenges of high-risk activism in authoritarian regimes by drawing on cases from different time periods and regions of the world: the Arab Spring in the Middle East, a major movement in China or Hong Kong, and the mobilizations in Eastern Europe that sparked the fall of Communism, among others.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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PS 311 - African Politics (3.00 cr.)
Africa is often described as the "last frontier of development." It is a continent full of challenges but also full of opportunities and fast-paced political and socioeconomic change. We examine why African countries are poorer and less democratic on average than those of other continents. We also investigate why some African countries, such as Botswana or Mauritius, are much more developed and democratic than others, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. In order to answer these questions, we examine Africa's political and economic history in the twentieth century, including colonialism, because such an examination is fundamental to make sense of current events in Africa ranging from Chinese investment to electoral results.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IAF
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PS 313 - American Economic Inequality and the Law (3.00 cr.)
The United States has one of the highest levels of economic inequality in the developed world. While some level of economic inequality is inherent and even desirable in a capitalistic economy, many scholars believe that the level of inequality that prevails in the U.S. erodes generalized levels of trust, poisons interpersonal relationships, and ultimately makes it far more difficult to govern a democratic society. This course examines the roots of American economic inequality, with a tight focus on how laws adopted through democratic processes have resulted in a huge transfer of wealth from the hands of the many to the hands of the few.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 314 - Public Opinion and American Democracy (3.00 cr.)
Deals with the origins, nature, content, and impact of American public opinion. Role of demographics and economics on the distribution of public sentiment is noted; so are surprising departures from "conventional wisdoms" regarding its character.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 315 - American Political Development (3.00 cr.)
What factors explain the "exceptional" character of the American state and American politics more generally? What roles have America's political institutions as well as its political ideas and rhetoric played in society and the economy? What are the dominant patterns, causes, and consequences of political change in American history? Answers to these and other questions concerning the development of the American state are sought through focus on key moments of state-building and institutional development from its founding to the present.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 316 - American Political Parties (3.00 cr.)
The continuing combat between Democrats and Republicans in the electoral arena. Focus on contemporary studies of the American electorate and its behavior. Attention to congressional and other elections as well as those at the presidential level.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 317 - Contemporary Campaigns and Elections (3.00 cr.)
A thorough examination of modern campaigns, electoral strategy, and campaign finance.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 318 - Media and Politics (3.00 cr.)
What impact do media institutions and actors have on public opinion, governing, and the substance of public policy? Students examine how media routines affect what constitutes news; how political elites use media strategies for campaigning and governing; and how the public consumes and perceives media messages about politics.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 319 - Interest Groups in American Democracy (3.00 cr.)
An in-depth look at how interest groups and lobbyists function inside the Washington beltway. The course strikes a balance between practical, strategic, and theoretical issues, including interest group formation and maintenance, lobbying, influencing elections, and group representation in a democratic society.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 320 - Environmental Politics and Sustainability in U.S. (3.00 cr.)
Explores the politics of a variety of environmental issues in the United States, including climate change, energy usage, food policy, and urban planning. Particular attention is given to the role played by public opinion, media, interest groups, and social movements in shaping environmental politics and policy, and to the practical, political, and ethical dilemmas raised by these issues.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IES
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PS 321 - Religion and Politics in America (3.00 cr.)
Examines the attempts by religious groups, movements, and interests to influence American politics through agenda setting, lobbying, lawsuits, and electoral activities. Includes case studies following litigants who pursued their vision of the First Amendment to the Supreme Court.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 322 - Mock Trial (3.00 cr.)
Students gain a hands-on appreciation of trial court practice and procedures. In this course, students participate in a mock criminal or civil trial, playing the role of an attorney in one and a witness in the other. Students learn how to work with statutes and precedents and rules of evidence, and they also do opening statements, direct and cross examine witnesses, and present documentary and physical evidence. Designed for students who want to improve skills in making complex arguments and presentations.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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PS 324 - State and Local Politics and Policymaking (3.00 cr.)
Examines the process and politics of policymaking at the state level in our federal system. Students seek understandings of the fluctuations in national and state government power over time, as well as how politics and policymaking differ among the states and between the states and the federal government.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 325 - Introduction to Public Policy (3.00 cr.)
Examines the politics and processes that govern policy making and policy implementation in the American political system. Combining substantive knowledge about a variety of public policy areas with multiple theoretical perspectives about policy processes and political institutions, this course focuses on how the national policy agenda is set, where policy alternatives are developed, and the influence of governmental and nongovernmental actors in policy making.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 326 - Congress: The Legislative Process (3.00 cr.)
Explores the political and institutional factors that determine how and whether legislation becomes law. The role of parties, committees, and other House and Senate legislative institutions in the legislative process are examined. What factors promote and hinder Congress' ability to pass laws in the public interest?
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 327 - Congressional Politics (3.00 cr.)
Explores the politics of Congress, both as a collection of individual members and as an institution. Using the whole of congressional history, students examine changes in congressional representation and elections, the politics of lawmaking, the role of Congress in the separation of powers, and Congress' impact on society.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 328 - Statesmen and Tyrants (3.00 cr.)
Explores the nature and dilemmas of political leadership. Examines the actions and reflections of notable rulers from a variety of regimes and historical periods. Pericles, Caesar, Charlemagne, Bismark, Lincoln, Lenin, Churchill, DeGaulle.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 329 - The Modern American Presidency (3.00 cr.)
Examines the presidency since FDR in theory and practice, placing special emphasis on the concept of presidential power. The personal and institutional politics of the oval office in war and peace, crisis and conspiracy.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 330 - Strategic Intelligence and American Democracy (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to one of the least understood sectors of the American government, the intelligence community. Examines the missions of the major agencies linked to intelligence collection and analysis, and explores the roles they have played and the challenges they have posed to the democratic state since the second World War.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IU
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PS 331 - Political Responses to Crisis (3.00 cr.)
Explores the reactions of the executive branch to unanticipated domestic and international events. Students examine both the institutional mechanisms and the political imperatives generated in cases such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the onset of the First World War, and 9/11. Is the "energy in the executive" touted by Hamilton up to the challenges of the twenty-first century?
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 333 - History and Politics of the Balkans (3.00 cr.)
Addresses the historical and political development of Yugoslavia and its successor states (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Kosovo). Field site visits and conversations with local and international policymakers, NGOs, and other key actors are used to highlight core concepts. Special attention is paid to issues of identity, conflict, and post-conflict processes, as well as development and democratization challenges. Offered abroad only. A fee is charged. Same course as HS 333 .
Sessions Typically Offered: Summer
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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PS 337 - Analytical and Legal Reasoning (3.00 cr.)
Uses various texts from judicial politics, legal theory, and rhetoric to explore the relationship between law and reason. Ideally suited for students interested in taking the LSAT, attending law school, or simply developing their reasoning skills.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IEN/IFS
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PS 338 - Constitutional Law: Federalism and Separation of Powers (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to the constitutional principles that structure governmental power, focusing in particular on the limits on governmental action imposed by federalism and the separation of powers.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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PS 339 - Constitutional Law: Individual Liberties (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to the constitutional principles that govern the relationship between individuals and the state, focusing in particular on the limits on governmental action imposed by the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: FO/IFS
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PS 340 - Politics of the Judicial Process (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to the politics of the judicial process, how it works at national, state, and local levels, and the relationships between the judiciary and other components of the US political system. It typically covers topics such as the organization of courts, selection of judges, judicial decision-making and policy-making, and distinctions between state and federal court systems as well as appellate and trial courts.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 346 - Law and Religion (3.00 cr.)
Introduces students to the religion clauses of the First Amendment -- the establishment clause, which prohibits the government from promoting religion, and the free exercise clause, which guarantees religious liberty.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
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PS 350 - Comparative Politics (3.00 cr.)
An introduction to the study of countries through comparing and contrasting their domestic political, economic, and social institutions and practices. Deliberate comparison of two or more different political systems and cultures enable students to develop a global perspective in understanding government in our current era of transformation.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL
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PS 352 - Gender, Human Rights, and Conflict (3.00 cr.)
Examines armed conflict as a gendered phenomenon. It begins by asking how gendered relations of power sustain and reproduce various aspects of contemporary warfare and its aftermath. In order to address this query, students engage with readings on how gender figures in the causes of war; the barriers to promoting and protecting gender rights during war and how they may be overcome; and the global movements to incorporate gender more fully in post-conflict reconstruction policies and reforms. Readings include feminist theories on international relations, peace and conflict; substantive empirical work on gender rights violations in conflict zones; and policy documents from both domestic and international forums on peace-building efforts.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IG/IPJ
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PS 357 - The Politics of Globalization (3.00 cr.)
In globalization flows of people, ideas, and resources across state borders affect politics, power, and wealth in often unpredictable ways. Through film, supplemented by written texts, students study transnational issues such as international trade, the environment, social movements, and immigration.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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PS 358 - Global Environmental Politics (3.00 cr.)
Why is global cooperation on climate change so difficult? What assumptions, interests, and strategies are the main obstacles to successful environmental international relations? This course analyzes environmentalism and climate change in three modules: theory, policy, and activism. Students are expected to be active participants, invest time in substantial readings, and develop an independent project with an activism component. The experience of indigenous and native peoples is at the center of this course.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: IES/GT
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PS 360 - Transitional Justice (3.00 cr.)
Since World War II, the use of human rights trials, truth commissions, and other justice mechanisms has become a common strategy to hold nonstate and state actors accountable for human rights violations. The origins of this international norm of accountability and the various mechanisms states have designed and implemented to remedy past injustices are examined.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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PS 361 - 9/11 and American Foreign Policy (3.00 cr.)
The events of September 11, 2001, changed U.S. politics in profound and lasting ways. This course examines foreign policy patterns prior to the events of 9/11, analyzes the events themselves, and traces their impact on U.S. foreign policy, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A central theme is the rise of anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, and anti-immigrant policies. Students should expect to read a significant amount of primary and secondary material.
Restrictions: Closed to students who have taken PS 359.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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PS 363 - Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (3.00 cr.)
Despite increasing global integration, identity-based conflicts persist throughout the world. This course provides an overview of the comparative study of nationalism and ethnic conflict, juxtaposing classic texts from the nationalism literature with contemporary cases to illustrate key themes. The course is divided into two complementary parts: theories of nationalism and explanations of nationalist conflict. Beginning with a theoretical exploration of the origins of national identity, the course addresses concepts including types of nationalism (ethnic, civic, revolutionary, and counter-revolutionary); aims and goals of nationalist movements (especially recognition, remedial policies, autonomy, and/or independence); nationalism and rationality; the ethnic security dilemma; democratization and nationalist conflict; colonial legacies; and structural solutions to violent nationalism, culminating in discussion on the future of nationalism in light of increasing global interconnectedness.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT/IPJ
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PS 364 - International Relations through Non-Western Lenses (3.00 cr.)
Students study global politics through the lenses of gender, race, and ethnicity. Suspending the traditional view of international relations as the study of how nation-states make war, this course emphasizes the processes by which gendered and racialized local communities act to challenge dominant cultures, ideologies, and institutions. Students are encouraged to question the role of their own social locations and identities in their interpretations of the world.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL/IG
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PS 365 - International Politics (3.00 cr.)
Students are introduced to the main arguments about the causes of war and peace in today's world. The course covers current debates over whether conflict will continue to occur among states; the role of human rights; and if globalization and trade will bring more cooperation to the world stage.
Sessions Typically Offered: Fall/Spring
Years Typically Offered: Annually
Interdisciplinary Studies: CU/GT/ICL
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PS 369 - Russian Foreign Policy (3.00 cr.)
Examines historical roots, sources, and major issues of Russia's foreign policy in its relations with the Eastern European states, EU, U.S., and other nations. Students sharpen analytical skills for evidence-based examination of different aspects of past, present, and future directions of Russian foreign policy. This course covers the key actors, ideologies, and strategies in Russian foreign policymaking. In the second part of the course, students apply this knowledge to develop conflict resolution recommendations and comprehensive strategies of dealing with Russia from the perspective of other global actors.
Sessions Typically Offered: Varies
Years Typically Offered: Varies
Interdisciplinary Studies: GT
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