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Undergraduate Course Syllabi - Fall 2012

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INTRODUCTORY COURSES

• POS 101 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICS B. MIROFF
• POS 102 INTRODUCTION TO COMPARATIVE & V. ASAL
• POS/PUB 140 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC POLICY P. TERPELETS
  

TOPICS COURSES

• UFSP 100: Current Controversies in American Politics
• POS 204Y THE POLITICS OF ELECTION REFORM A. HILDRETH
• POS 204Y LOBBYISTS & SPECIAL INTERESTS IN NEW YORK GOV'T S. NEJAME
• TPOS 260 Honors Course on Political Violence V.ASAL

COURSES IN POLITICAL THEORY

• POS 103 INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL THEORY O. BILGINER
• POS 103 INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL THEORY P. BREINER
• POS 307 AMERICAN POLITICAL THEORY C. DOW
  
• POS 310 CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL THEORY M. SCHOOLMAN
  
• POS 399 COMPARATIVE POLITICAL THEORY W. NISHIYAMA
  
• RPOS 399 Moral and Political Issues in Resistance O. Bilginer

COURSES IN AMERICAN POLITICS

• POS/PUB 321 STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT J.ZIMMERMAN
• POS 323 URBAN GOVERNEMENT J. CRUZ
• POS/PUB 325 GOVERNMENT & POLITICS OF NEW YORK STATE F. MAURO
• POS 329Z BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS M. CHRISTAKIS
• POS 331 AMERICAN LEGISLATURES M. MALBIN
• POS 337 CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS IN US B. MIROFF
• POS 365 GOVERNMENT AND MASS MEDIA C. FERRADINO
• RPOS 399 SELECTED TOPICS: VOTING TRENDS IN NATIONAL AND STATE ELECTIONS B. GYORY
• POS 410Z MINORITIES AND THE POLITICO-LEGAL SYSTEM J. CRUZ
• POS 439Z POLITICAL REPRESENTATION S. FRIEDMAN
  

COURSES IN PUBLIC LAW

• POS 317 COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE M. INGRAM
• POS 326 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC LAW J. NOVKOV
• POS 327 COMPARATIVE JUDICIAL POLITICS M. INGRAM
• POS 328 LAW AND POLICY A. JOHNSON
• POS 330 LAW, COURTS AND POLITICS J. PARENT
• POS 336 CIVIL LIBERTIES A. JOHNSON
• POS 346 LAW, CIVIL RIGHTS, & SEXUAL ORIENTATION N. KAPUR
• POS 399 CLIMATE CHANGE LAW AND POLICY: E. STEIN
  

COURSES IN GLOBAL POLITICS

• POS/PUB 350 COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY J. Olufowote
  
• POS 360 VIOLENT POLITICAL CONFLICT S. PAMPINELLA
  
• POS 367 POLITICS OF THE MIDDLE EAST G. NOWELL
  
• POS 373 GOVERNMENT & POLITICS IN THE PEOPLE’S C. CHEN
  
• POS 377 POLITICS OF SOUTHEAST ASIA M. WEISS
  
• POS 399 CLIMATE CHANGE LAW AND POLICY: E. STEIN
  
• POS 448Z IDENTITIES, BOUNDARIES, & MOBILIZATION M. WEISS
  
• POS 479Z BUILDING DEMOCRACY M. BASKIN

COURSES IN PUBLIC POLICY

• POS/PUB 140 INTRO TO PUBLIC POLICY P. TERPELETS
  
• POS/PUB 316 METHOD. TOOLS FOR PUBLIC POLICY J. LEE
  
• POS/PAD 329Z BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS M. CHRISTAKIS
  
• POS/PUB 340 INTRO TO POLICY ANALYSIS E. MARTIN
  COURSES CROSS-LISTED WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE
  
• POS 363/CRJ 353 AMERICAN CRIMINAL COURTS
  

HONORS & ARRANGED COURSES

• POS 300 HONORS TUTORIAL IN POLITICAL SCIENCE ALL FACULTY
  
• POS 390/PUB 390 POLITICAL INTERNSHIP B. SLATER
  
• POS 400 HONORS TUTORIAL IN POLITICAL SCIENCE ALL FACULTY
  
• POS 496Z GREAT IDEAS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE P. BREINER
  
• POS 498 INDEPENDENT STUDY (A-E) (PERM. OF INST.)
  
• POS 498 INDEPENDENT STUDY (S/U) (PERM. OF INST.)
  
• POS 498Z INDEPENDENT STUDY (PERM. OF INST.)
  
• POS 499Z HONORS THESIS C. CHEN
  

Graduate Course Syllabi - Fall 2012

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• POS 513 Field Seminar in Public Policy P. Strach
• POS 514 Intro to Discipline of Political Science J. Novkov
• POS 516 Introduction to Political Inquiry S. Friedman
• POS 522/R State Government J. Zimmerman
• POS 526 FEDERALISM AND SEPARATION OF POWERS J. NOVKOV
• POS 529 Law and Policy D. Liebschutz
• POS 539/R Seminar on Campaigns & Elections M. Malbin
• POS 552/R Communist & Post-Communist Systems C. Chen
• RPOS/RPAD 554: Political Violence, Terrorism, and Insurgency
• POS 557/R Politics of Southeast Asia M. Weiss
• POS 570 Field Seminar in International Political Systems G. Nowell
• POS 599 Latinas/os and the New Political Economy P. Caban
• POS 618 Qualitative Methods P. Strach
• POS 695 Research and Writing Seminar M. Schoolman
• POS 697 Selected Problems
• POS Research All Faculty
• POS 698 Masters Essay All Faculty
• RPOS 787 & RPOS 787R: Researching Repression, Contention And Inclusion V. ASAL
• POS 789/R SEMINAR IN INT’L POLITICS M. Weiss
• POS 798 Readings In Political Science All Faculty
• POS 897 Independent Research POS All Faculty
• POS 899 Doctoral Dissertation All Faculty