Core Course Requirements

Other Required Courses

Focus Areas

American
Politics

251. American Political Institutions

AND

252. American Politics: Behavior

OR

257. Voting and Elections                     

1.  Two graduate seminars numbered

POLI 252-258 and 261-265 

POLI 259s or other courses may be used by petition to the American Field Coordinator.

2.  Methods Reqmt:

POLI 204B        

POLI 271B

AND

One additional approved methods or analytical theory course to be completed before advancement to candidacy

 

American Institutions

American Political Development

Analytical Theory and Methods

Congress

Courts and Public Law

Elections, Voting, and the Media

Parties and Political Organizations

Presidency and Executive Branch

Urban Politics

Comparative
Politics

220B. Comp Politics: Institutions

AND

220A. Comp Politics: State and Society

OR

220C. Origins of the State
 

1.  At least one seminar in political development, democratization, or regime change

2. One additional seminar in comparative politics

East and Southeast Asia

Europe

Latin America

Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Political Development

Comparative Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes

Comparative Governmental Institutions

Comparative Public Policy

Political Parties, Interests Groups, and Social Movements

International
Relations

240. International Relations Theory

Three graduate seminars numbered

POLI 241-249

IRPS IP/Gen 200-220 (except 209) 

To be taken for at least one year:

283A-C. Workshop in Int’l Relations

Comparative Foreign Policy

International Political Economy

International Security

Political
Theory

Two of the following courses:

210A.  Thucydides to Augustine

210B.  Machiavelli to Rousseau

210C.  Kant to Nietzsche 

210D. Contemporary

Either:

TWO seminar courses numbered 211-219

 OR

One of the above and one POLI 298 approved by the political theory field coordinator

A subject (e.g., social contract, authority, power, obligation)

A genre (e.g., liberalism, Marxism, feminist political thought)

A period with/without regional specialization (e.g., contemporary continental thought, 17th century English thought)