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Teaching an introductory laboratory section-e.g., to prepare for a teaching assistantship in graduate school. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

This course introduces students to early American political thought and its crowning political achievement, the United States Constitution. Focusing on The Federalist Papers and other original source documents from the Founding period, students learn...

This course focuses on the political thought of the late 19th century through today with special emphasis on the Progressive movement, New Deal, Great Society and contemporary politics.

This course will offer an overview of major themes in classical political philosophy. The course will focus on the writings of Plato and Aristotle and selections from other writers such as Thucydides, Aristophanes, Xenophon and Cicero.

This course will analyze the emergence of early modern political philosophy beginning with Machiavelli and developed later by Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and other social contract theorists.

This course begins with Rousseau's philosophic critique of human nature and examines the development of that critique in the political philosophy of Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche and other late modern theorists.

American statesmen have defended the principles of the regime and the rights of its citizens in a world of empires and nation-states. This course provides an overview of controversies over independence and imperialism, modern tyranny and regime...

This course focuses on the relationship between the major institutions of American government with a special emphasis on the relationship between the Presidency and the Congress in the formation of policy and in the control of the bureaucracy.

This course is a study of the legislative power in the American regime. It focuses on the nature of the legislative power, and how that power was institutionalized in the Constitution. Emphasis is also placed upon the way the theory of the modern...

This course is an intensive study of the American presidency. It seeks to understand the structure and function of executive power in the American constitutional order. It will begin with the place of the president in the constitutionalism of the...