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  • POSC 100.00 Political Culture & Political Communication 22/FA
  • POSC 100.00 Society in Silico 20/FA
  • POSC 100.00 Governing with the News 19/FA
  • POSC 100.01 Science & Humanity 22/FA
  • POSC 100.01 Society In Silico 18/FA
  • POSC 100.02 American Elections of 2018 18/FA
  • POSC 120.00 Democracy & Dictatorship 24/SP 24/WI 23/FA 23/SP 23/WI 22/FA 22/SP 22/WI 21/FA 21/SP 21/WI 20/FA 20/SP 20/WI 19/FA 19/SP 19/WI 18/FA
  • POSC 122.00 Politics in America: Liberty & Equality 24/SP 24/WI 23/FA 23/SP 23/WI 22/FA 22/SP 22/WI 21/FA 21/SP 21/WI 20/FA 20/SP 20/WI 19/FA 19/SP 18/FA
  • POSC 150.00 The Political Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, & the American Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968 21/FA
  • POSC 160.00 Political Philosophy 24/SP 24/WI 23/FA 23/SP 22/FA 22/SP 22/WI 21/FA 21/SP 21/WI 20/FA 20/SP 20/WI 19/FA 19/SP 18/FA
  • POSC 170.00 International Relations & World Politics 24/SP 24/WI 23/FA 23/SP 23/WI 22/FA 22/SP 22/WI 21/FA 21/SP 21/WI 20/FA 20/SP 20/WI 19/FA 19/SP 19/WI 18/FA 18/SP 18/WI
  • POSC 190.00 In the News: U.S., China, & World Politics 23/SP
  • POSC 201.00 Tools of National Power: Statecraft & Military Power 23/SP 20/FA
  • POSC 202.00 Tools of National Power: Statecraft & Diplomatic Power 21/WI
  • POSC 204.00 How American Campaigns & Elections Work (& Don’t Work) 22/FA
  • POSC 204.00 Media & Electoral Politics: 2020 U. S. Election 20/FA
  • POSC 204.00 Media & Electoral Politics: 2020 U. S. Election 18/FA
  • POSC 205.00 Congress & the Presidency 24/SP
  • POSC 205.00 Governing with the News 19/FA
  • POSC 206.00 Judges & Courts 24/SP
  • POSC 206.00 Tools of National Power: Statecraft & Economic Power 21/SP
  • POSC 209 Money & Politics 21/WI 19/FA
  • POSC 210.00 Misinformation, Political Rumors & Conspiracy Theories 24/SP 23/SP 22/SP 20/SP 20/FA 18/FA 18/WI
  • POSC 211.00 Media, Politics & Difference: How Film Teaches Us Who We Are(n’t) 23/FA
  • POSC 212.00 Political Psychology of Elites 23/WI
  • POSC 212.00 Environmental Justice 22/WI 21/WI 20/WI 19/SP
  • POSC 213.00 Psychology of Mass Political Behavior 20/SP
  • POSC 214.00 Visual Representation of Political Thought & Action 23/SP
  • POSC 215.00 Comparative Political Communication: News Coverage of Elections 22/FA
  • POSC 216.00 Politics in the Post-Truth Society 21/SP
  • POSC 217.00 Monuments, Museums & Meaning: How Politics Shapes memory in Artifacts 21/SP 19/SP
  • POSC 218.00 Schools, Scholarship & Policy in the United States 21/FA 18/FA
  • POSC 220.00 Politics & Political History in Film 20/FA
  • POSC 221.00 Latin American Politics 21/FA 20/SP
  • POSC 222.00 Political Science Lab: Interviewing Techniques 22/SP
  • POSC 223.00 Political Science Lab: Content Analysis 21/FA
  • POSC 223.00 Political Science Lab: Electoral Politics 20/FA 19/FA 18/FA
  • POSC 225.00 Prisons & Punishment 24/SP 23/FA
  • POSC 227.00 Contemporary Capitalisms 23/SP
  • POSC 229.00 The U.S. Congress: Coordination & Conflict 21/WI
  • POSC 230.00 Methods of Political Research 24/SP 23/FA 23/SP 23/WI 22/FA 22/SP 22/WI 21/FA 21/SP 21/WI 20/FA 20/SP 20/WI 19/FA 19/SP 19/WI 18/FA
  • POSC 231.00 American Foreign Policy 21/SP 20/SP
  • POSC 232.00 Political Science Lab: Focus Group Analysis 23/SP 22/FA
  • POSC 232.00 Chinese Foreign Policy 20/SP 19/SP
  • POSC 232.00 Political Philosophy & the Art of Reading 24/WI
  • POSC 232.01 Political Science Lab: Focus Group Analysis 24/SP 23/FA
  • POSC 232.02 Political Science Lab: Agent-Based Models 23/FA
  • POSC 235.00 The Endless War on Terror 22/WI 21/WI
  • POSC 238.07 Sport & Globalization London/Seville Program: Globalization & Development: Lessons from Int’l Football 22/WI 20/WI
  • POSC 239.00 The Poor & the Powerless 20/WI
  • POSC 239.00 Globalization & Economic Development in the African Diaspora 18/FA
  • POSC 240.00 At the Corner of Broadway & Main Street: The Contrasting Politics of Northfield & The Twin Cities 22/FA
  • POSC 240.00 The Costs of Conflict 19/WI
  • POSC 241.00 Ethnic Conflict 24/WI 20/WI
  • POSC 242.00 Middle East Politics 24/SP 20/WI 20/FA
  • POSC 244.00 The Politics of Eurovision 23/SP 22/SP
  • POSC 247.00 Comparative Nationalism 22/WI 19/FA
  • POSC 249.00 From the International to the Global: Critical Theories of World Politics 23/SP 22/WI
  • POSC 250/350 Ancient Political Philosophy: Plato’s Republic 24/WI 19/FA
  • POSC 251/371 Modern Political Philosophy: Liberalism & Its Critics
  • POSC 252.00 Free Expression: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly 21/FA
  • POSC 253.00 Welfare Capitalisms in Post-War Europe 22/FA 21/FA
  • POSC 254/354 Freedom, Excellence, Happiness: Aristotle’s Ethics 24/SP 20/FA
  • POSC 255.00 Post-Modern Political Thought 22/WI 19/FA
  • POSC 256/350 Nietzsche: Beyond Good & Evil 22/SP 19/SP
  • POSC 257.00 Marxist Political Thought 24/SP 23/WI
  • POSC 258/357 Politics & Ambition 23/SP 19/WI
  • POSC 259.00 Justice Among Nations 20/WI
  • POSC 260/350 “A Savage Made to Inhabit Cities”: The Political Philosophy 20/SP
  • POSC 262.00 Displaced Lives: Freedom & Meaning 21/WI
  • POSC 264.00 Politics of Contemporary China 23/FA 22/FA 21/FA 21/SP 19/FA 18/FA
  • POSC 265.00 Public Policy & Global Capitalism 23/FA 23/WI 21/FA 21/WI 20/WI 19/WI 18/SP
  • POSC 266/366 Urban Political Economy 21/SP
  • POSC 267.00 Comparative Foreign Policy 19/SP
  • POSC 268.00 Global Environmental Politics & Policy 24/SP 21/SP
  • POSC 269.00 I Did My Own Research: Information & Political Division in America 22/WI
  • POSC 271.00 Constitutional Law I 23/FA 23/WI 20/FA
  • POSC 272.00 Constitutional Law II 24/WI 23/SP 21/FA 19/FA
  • POSC 273.00 Race & Politics in the U.S. 24/WI 22/FA 21/FA 19/FA 18/FA
  • POSC 274.00 Globalization, Pandemics, & Human Security 23/FA 21/FA
  • POSC 275.00 Black Radical Political Thought, 1919-1969 24/WI 20/SP 19/SP
  • POSC 276.00 Imagination in Politics: Resisting Totalitarianism 22/FA 20/FA 18/FA
  • POSC 278.00 Memory & Politics 21/FA 19/WI
  • POSC 279.00 Global Challenges & Civil Society Solutions 22/SP
  • POSC 280.00 Feminist Security Studies 24/WI 21/FA 19/FA
  • POSC 280.00 Covid-19 & Globalization 20/FA
  • POSC 281.00 U.S.-China Rivalry: The New Cold War? 23/FA
  • POSC 282.00 Terrorism & Counterterrorism 23/WI 19/WI
  • POSC 283.00 Separatist Movements 23/WI 20/FA 18/FA
  • POSC 284.00 War & Peace in Northern Ireland 23/SP 21/WI 19/WI
  • POSC 285.00 The U.S. Intelligence Community 22/FA 19/SP
  • POSC 286.00 Leaders & Advisors: Who Makes Foreign Policy & Why Does It Matter 19/SP
  • POSC 294.07 Central & Eastern European Politics Program: Perceptions of Otherness in Modern Eastern & Central Europe 23/SP
  • POSC 295.07 Central & Eastern European Politics Program: Nation-Building in Central & Eastern Europe between Politics & Art 23/SP
  • POSC 296.07 Central & Eastern European Politics Program: Challenges to the Nation-State in Eastern & Central Europe: Immigrants & Minorities 23/SP
  • POSC 302.00 Subordinated Politics & Intergroup Relations 24/SP 23/SP 22/SP 20/SP 19/SP
  • POSC 304.00 Media & Electoral Politics: 2020 United States Elections 20/FA
  • POSC 305.00 News Media & Democratic Electoral Processes 19/FA
  • POSC 306.00 Identity Politics and Group Behavior in America 22/WI
  • POSC 306.00 The Psychology of Identity Politics and Group Behavior 21/WI
  • POSC 307.00 Go Our Own Way: Autonomy in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement 1954–1978 21/FA 19/WI
  • POSC 308.00 Global Gender Politics 23/FA 22/WI
  • POSC 313.00 Legal Issues in Higher Education 24/SP 22/FA 19/WI
  • POSC 314.00 Constitutional Convention 2020 20/SP
  • POSC 315.00 Polarization, Parties, & Power 20/FA 20/WI
  • POSC 318.00 Advanced Topics Urban Policy 19/WI
  • POSC 320.00 Authoritarianism & Democratization in the Middle East 18/SP
  • POSC 323.00 Revolutionary Politics in Latin America 21/SP
  • POSC 324.00 Rebels & Risk Takers: Women & War in the Middle East 21/SP 20/SP
  • POSC 325.00 Corruption Clientelism & Political Machines 18/SP
  • POSC 328.00 Foreign Policy Analysis 22/FA 21/WI 18/FA
  • POSC 329.00 Reinventing Humanism: A Dialogue with Tzvetan Todorov 22/SP
  • POSC 330.00 The Complexity of Politics 22/SP 19/WI
  • POSC 331.00 Cooperation & Conflict 20/WI
  • POSC 333.00 Global Social Changes & Sustainability 23/SP 21/SP 18/SP
  • POSC 334.00 Global Public Health 19/SP
  • POSC 335.00 Navigating Environmental Complexity – Challenges to Democratic Governance & Political Communication 23/WI
  • POSC 336.00 Global Populist Politics 23/FA 21/FA 19/FA
  • POSC 337.00 The Political Economy of Happiness 19/WI
  • POSC 338.00 Politics of Inequality & Poverty 18/SP
  • POSC 339.00 LGBTQ Politics in America 22/SP
  • POSC 345.00 The Politics of Dictatorship 24/WI 20/WI
  • POSC 348.00 Strangers, Foreigners & Exiles 23/WI 20/SP 18/WI
  • POSC 350.00 Ancient Political Philosophy: Plato’s Republic 19/FA
  • POSC 350.00 Nietzsche: Beyond Good & Evil 19/SP
  • POSC 351.00 Political Theory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 18/WI
  • POSC 352.00 Political Theory of Alexis de Tocqueville 23/FA 21/SP 19/WI
  • POSC 354.00 Freedom Excellence Happiness: Aristotle’s Ethics 20/FA
  • POSC 355.00 Identity, Culture, & Rights 21/WI
  • POSC 358.00 Comparative Social Movements 22/FA 20/FA 18/FA
  • POSC 359.00 Cosmopolitanism 21/SP 19/SP
  • POSC 361.00 Approaches to Development 24/WI 23/WI 22/SP 20/FA 19/FA
  • POSC 366.00 Urban Political Economy 21/SP
  • POSC 367.00 Social Welfare in the Time of Crisis 22/SP
  • POSC 372.00 Mansions & Shantytowns: Politics of the Spaces We Live In 23/WI 22/WI
  • POSC 378.07 Political Economy & Ecology of Southeast Asia: Social Changes in Southeast Asia 20/WI
  • POSC 379.07 Political Economy & Ecology of Southeast Asia: Diversity of Social Ecological Systems in Southeast Asia 20/WI
  • POSC 392.07 Political Economy & Ecology of Southeast Asia: Field Research Experiences & Methods 20/WI