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USC Catalogue 2019-2020 
    
USC Catalogue 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOGUE]

Political Science and International Relations


Return to: USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  

Von KleinSmid Center 327
(213) 740-1695
FAX: (213) 740-0281
Email: cgrose@usc.edu
dornsife.usc.edu/poir

Director: Christian Grose, PhD

Programs

Master’s Degree

Dual Degree

Doctoral Degree

Courses

Political Science and International Relations

  • POIR 507 Gender and International Relations

    Units: 4
    An examination of gender and culture in world society. Feminist perspectives on and critiques of various approaches to international relations theories. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 507
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS 507
  • POIR 509 Culture, Gender, and Global Society

    Units: 4
    Cultural and gendered responses to economic globalization; topics include culture and security, identity politics, clashes of and accommodations among civilizations, modernity, post-modernity and world society. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register in the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 509
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

    Crosslisted as SWMS 509
  • POIR 510 Gender, War and Peace

    Units: 2
    Examination of the extent to which conflict and its resolution have depended on stereotypically gendered associations of men with war and women with peace. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 510
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 516 Advanced Research Methods: Text, Talk and Context

    Units: 4
    Text and discourse analysis methods and strategies. Themes include the roles of ideas, identities, policies and interests in various institutional contexts. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 516
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 517 International Policy Analysis

    Units: 4
    Game theory and other methodologies applied to the study of international relations. Topics include global and regional public goods, collective action, externalities, treaty information, market failures. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 517
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 518 Historical Memory and Public Diplomacy

    Units: 4
    Analyzes national identity formation and justification of foreign policy goals, particularly its impact on international relations. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 518
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 519 Field Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations

    Units: 4
    Methods of social science field research in political science and international relations. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 519
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 520 Formulating US Foreign Policy: How Washington Works

    Units: 4
    Analyzes U.S. foreign policy, with emphasis on numerous inputs to the decision-making process, from media to conceptions of the national interest to organizational processes. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 520
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 521 Foreign Policy Analysis

    Units: 4
    Survey of principal theoretical and empirical approaches to foreign policy analysis; such as bureaucratic politics, game theory, formal theory, rational choice theory, and other topics. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 521
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 525 State and Society in International Relations

    Units: 4
    Assesses the challenges to nation-states and world order presented by trans-border cultural flows, new technologies, and changing patterns of political participation. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 525
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 526 Migration and Diaspora in International Politics

    Units: 4
    Examines issues of migration, the relationship between citizen and state, economic factors triggering emigration/immigration, transnationalism, and explores the phenomenon of diasporas. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 526
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 531 Strategy and Arms Control

    Units: 4
    Impact of nuclear weapons on U.S. and U.S.S.R. postwar military policies and strategies; evolution of postwar deterrence postures; development of superpower arms control since 1945. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 531
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 534 East Asian Security Issues

    Units: 4
    Security politics of China, Japan, ASEAN states, and Southwest Pacific nations; their strategic relations with the superpowers; regional security initiatives: nuclear-free zone politics, ZOPFAN, and indigenous military capacities. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 534
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 535 North African and Middle Eastern Politics

    Units: 4
    The politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) including nation-building; mobilization of human and natural resources; political recruitment, integration, socialization, and conflict. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 535
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 539 Conflict Processes

    Units: 4
    Seminar in international conflict, crisis and war. General perspectives on factors that bring about war or peace. Focus on ethnopolitics and conflict processes. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 539
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 540 Law and Public Policy

    Units: 4
    The study of law in political science; law and politics in organized societies; law as a policy science; legal and political institutions; administration of justice; political forces influencing legal change. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 540
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 541 Politics of the World Economy

    Units: 4
    Survey of approaches to international political economy. Intellectual roots; the management of collective goods; North-South relations are examined. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 541
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 542 Foreign Economic Policies of Industrial Capitalist States

    Units: 4
    Seminar comparing the political economy and economic policies of countries; evaluation of alternative research methods and theories.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 542
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 543 Politics of International Monetary and Trade Relations

    Units: 4
    Political analysis of international monetary and trade relations; emphasis on interactions among industrialized nations.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 543
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 544 Religion, Politics, and Conflict

    Units: 4
    How religion has emerged as a powerful force in politics. Conflict resolution, fundamentalism, terrorism, war, American foreign policy and global civil society. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 540
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 545 Critical Issues in Politics and Policy

    Units: 4
    Selected topics in political science and policy; focus on current issues shaping the U.S. and the world. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 545
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 546 Environmental Policy

    Units: 4
    Issues and theories involved in the formulation, implementation, and effectiveness of different environmental policies. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 546
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 547 Political Economy of Global Space and Environment

    Units: 4
    Regimes in an anarchic world will be examined, particularly global spaces and resources in political economy. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 547
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 548 The International Political Economy of Development

    Units: 4
    The political aspects of economic growth, efficiency and distribution are explored for underdeveloped nations in a political science and international relations context. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 545
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 550 Economic Bargaining Theory and Practice

    Units: 4
    Development of analytical skills and strategies for negotiations over economic and political problems, through study of recent cases, bilateral bargaining, and multilateral bargaining. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 550
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 551 International Political Economy of the Pacific Rim

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Sp
    Political economy of the Pacific Rim; trade, investment and development strategies. The role of Japan’s increasing economic power and that of the changing U.S.–Japan relations and their implications to the rest of the Pacific Rim region. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 551
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 554 Women in Global Perspective

    Units: 4
    (Enroll in SWMS 554 )
  • POIR 555 Democracy and Democratization in Comparative Perspective

    Units: 4
    Seminar generates and tests theories of democratization. Readings will focus on Europe, Latin America, Soviet Eurasia emphasizing core theoretical and methodological aspects. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 555
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 556 Latin America and U.S. Foreign Policy

    Units: 4
    Latin American challenges to U.S. policymakers; U.S. success in achieving its goals; alternative explanations of U.S. behavior. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 556
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 557 Africa and U.S. Foreign Policy

    Units: 4
    Research problems on international issues arising from the emergence of Africa. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 557
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 560 Feminist Theory

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    (Enroll in SWMS 560 )
  • POIR 561 Japanese Foreign Policy and International Relations of East and Southeast Asia

    Units: 4
    Research problems in political, economic, and security issues in East and Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on the role of Japan. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 561
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 563 Chinese Foreign Policy

    Units: 4
    Research problems in political, economic, military, and ideological issues. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 563
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 581 International Relations of the Middle East

    Units: 4
    Examination of salient issues in regional politics such as colonialism, nationalism, identity, religion, development and war. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 581
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 590 Directed Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  • POIR 593 Practicum in Teaching Politics and International Relations

    Units: 2
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Practical principles for the long-term development of effective teaching within political science and international relations disciplines. Intended for teaching assistants in Dornsife College.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  • POIR 596 Internship for Curricular Practical Training

    Units: 1, 2, 3
    Max Units: 03
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Part-time or full-time practical work experience in the student’s field of study. The internship must be located at an off-campus facility. Students are individually supervised by faculty. May not be taken until the student has completed at least one semester of enrollment in the graduate program.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students in POIR
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Credit/No Credit

  • POIR 599 Special Topics

    Units: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Max Units: max 8
    Subjects in one or more fields in political science.
  • POIR 600 Political Theory

    Units: 4
    Survey of literature; examination of approaches, concepts, and issues in the field of political theory.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 530.
  • POIR 610 Research Design

    Units: 4
    The course will cover the design of experimental and observational research. We will examine both quantitative and qualitative approaches to social science research.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 611 Introduction to Regression Analysis

    Units: 4
    The course will introduce students to regression analysis and its application to social science research.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 612 Qualitative Research Design

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa, Sp


    Design multiple research approaches using qualitative evidence to evaluate the observable implications of theory. Learn deductive, construct, internal, external, and conclusion validity.

     
    Recommended Preparation: POIR 610  and POIR 611  
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 613 Topics in Quantitative Analysis

    Units: 4
    Introduces statistical models beyond the standard linear regression model. Topics include maximum likelihood estimation, generalized linear models, and advanced methods.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 614 Experimental Political Science

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSpSm
    Introduction to experimental techniques and applications of experiments in political science. Addresses both the advantages and disadvantages of experiments in political science research.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 615 Formal Models of Politics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Introduces basics of game theory and surveys foundational models of American, comparative, and international politics.
    Recommended Preparation: POIR 610  and POIR 611 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 616 Advanced Quantitative Methods

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Bayesian inference in the social sciences and causal inference literature, including experiments, matching, difference-in-difference and regression discontinuity.
    Prerequisite: POIR 617 
    Registration Restriction: Open only to graduate students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 617 Maximum Likelihood Estimation

    Units: 4
    Maximum likelihood estimation of binary choice models, duration models, count models, and other models in political science, international relations, and social sciences. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 600
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 618 Problems of American Politics

    Units: 4
    Theoretical and methodological problems in American politics with emphasis on emerging research paradigms. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 618
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 619 Supreme Court Politics

    Units: 4
    Role of the Supreme Court in American political institutions. Influences on judicial decision making; appointment and decision making processes; scope of judicial power. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 619
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 620 American Politics and Policy Processes

    Units: 4
    Survey of literature; examination of approaches, concepts, and issues in the field of American politics and policy processes.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 510.
  • POIR 621 American Politics Field Seminar Part II

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    A theoretical and empirical overview of the American politics field. Theoretical topics include behavioralism, rational choice, political psychology; empirical topics include causality.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 622 Political Attitudes and Behavior

    Units: 4
    Determinants, nature, and consequences of political attitudes and behavior exploring psychological-sociological models, political socialization and learning, and factors affecting trends in attitudes and behavior. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 622
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 623 Public Law

    Units: 4
    Problems and research in American constitutional and administrative law and in modern jurisprudence. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 621
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 624 American Constitutional Law and Theory

    Units: 4
    Contemporary debates and research on the nature of constitutional interpretation, separation of powers, federalism, civil and political rights and liberties. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 624
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 625 Political Parties

    Units: 4
    Parties and organizations in the political system; formal and informal organization and roles; party systems; partisanship; and electoral rules. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 610
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 626 Executive and Legislative Institutions

    Units: 4
    Theory and empirical analysis as it relates to the study of political institutions. Legislative politics, executive branch politics, and legislative-executive relations and bargaining. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 611
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 627 Urban Politics

    Units: 4
    Problems of government and politics in urban, county, and metropolitan areas. Local and community politics. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 612
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 630 European Politics

    Units: 4
    Selected research topics in comparative European politics; political behavior, parties, legislative and executive institutions and processes. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 630
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 632 Latin American Politics

    Units: 4
    Comparative analysis of the political structure and institutions of Latin America; participation and alienation; democracies and dictatorships; political science and comparative politics. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 632
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 633 East Asian Politics

    Units: 4
    Comparative politics of East Asia; modernization; the roots of political thought and behavior; peripheral area relationships; modern political processes and institutions. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 633
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 636 Seminar in African Politics

    Units: 4
    Comparative and international politics of Africa. Analysis of ideologies, political behavior, and institutions in African nations. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 636
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 637 Chinese Politics

    Units: 4
    Governmental process in the People’s Republic of China including leadership, ideology, political institutions, behavior, and participation. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 637
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 640 Comparative Politics

    Units: 4
    Survey of literature; examination of approaches, concepts, and issues in the field of comparative politics.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 520.
  • POIR 641 Comparative Judicial Policies, Processes, and Behavior

    Units: 4
    Cross-national and intranational comparative analysis of judicial policies, institutions, and processes; legal and judicial elites. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 641
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 642 Institutions in Comparative and International Politics

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: Fa
    Explores major strands of institutional theory and assesses scholars’ views on design of institutions, institutional change, and effects of institutions on behavior and outcomes.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students in POIR.
  • POIR 648 International Human Rights Law and Policy

    Units: 4
    Historical and contemporary consideration of human rights issues in world politics. Examination of philosophical foundations of human rights and institutions that enforce international standards. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 648
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 649 International Law

    Units: 4
    Topics and cases illustrating general principles and problems in international law. MA and other students outside of POIR must obtain faculty permission to register for the course.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Duplicates Credit in former POSC 670
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 650 Comparative Politics of East and Southeast Asia

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Comparison of significant political phenomena between the countries in the East and Southeast Asia region and the long-term consequences of such comparisons.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 660 Introduction to International Relations Theory

    Units: 4
    The primary objective of this course is to introduce PhD students to theoretical and empirical issues related to the study of international relations.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 661 International Relations Theory: Advanced

    Units: 4
    Examines the specialized nomenclature of international relations and the varied interpretations of basic concepts of international theory; conceptual analysis and criticism.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
    Duplicates Credit in former IR 501.
  • POIR 662 Governance in International Relations

    Units: 4
    Rules and rule structures in international relations; major theoretical perspectives and empirical research.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 670 International Political Economy

    Units: 4
    Survey of approaches to international political economy. Intellectual roots; the management of collective goods; North-South relations are examined.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 671 Political Psychology

    Units: 4
    Terms Offered: FaSp
    Integrates findings of psychology into the study of international relations and political science. Covers foreign policy decision-making, public opinion, ideology, emotion and common heuristics and biases among other topics.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students
    Instruction Mode: Lecture
    Grading Option: Letter

  • POIR 680 International Security and Foreign Policy

    Units: 4
    Examination of the interconnected fields of international security and foreign policy, including decision making and patterns of interaction regarding international conflict.
    Registration Restriction: Open only to doctoral students.
  • POIR 790 Research

    Units: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Research leading to the doctorate. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  • POIR 794a Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  • POIR 794b Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  • POIR 794c Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  • POIR 794d Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 2
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.

  • POIR 794z Doctoral Dissertation

    Units: 0
    Credit on acceptance of dissertation.
    Grading Option: Graded CR/NC.