Courses

American poetry from its beginning to 1900.

This course explores selected problems related to American political culture with particular emphasis on the question of the cultural preconditions of free government. Beginning with Alexis de Tocqueville's classic study of American political culture, the course explores different Tocquevillian themes in a contemporary American context.

This class identifies the way political discourse and social and political cultures connect within Americans' minds. Diverse theoretical perspectives will be used to explore the phenomena involved in social and political issues regarding values, meanings, norms, and prejudices and methods of improving political discourse within American political culture.

An analysis of the roles of the policy making processes, power, procedures, relationships, and history of American national governmental institutions.

Study of the political process in America, focusing on national political institutions.

Students examine political parties in American politics. Topics may include and organization.

This course presents the study of the activities of political parties and pressure groups in American politics. Attention is given to party organization and finance, to the electorate, nominating procedures, elections, and campaign techniques.

This course examines key topics in U.S. politics, specifically looking at national problems, actors and proposed solutions.

This course offers the principal movements in American Political thought from the colonial period to the present. Special emphasis is placed on the liberal-democratic ideas of the American constitutional system.

A survey of American political thought from America’s beginning as a colony to the present. Among the themes to be addressed are the nature and evolution of liberalism, the fusion of liberalism and capitalism, and the accommodation between democracy and liberalism-capitalism.