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POL 8104 - Professional Development I

Credits:	2.0 [max 4.0]
Prerequisites:	1st year Pol graduate student
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The objectives of this course are as follows: (1) to provide students with professional advice that will help them move with dispatch through the graduate program; (2) to learn the formal and informal norms of the discipline; and (3) to help them prepare to do independent research and dissertation research. prereq: 1st year Pol graduate student

POL 8105 - Professional Development II

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Research ethics. Skills for teaching undergraduate courses in political science. Completion of dissertation prospecti or early chapters. prereq: Pol sci student, ABD, dept consent

AFRO 8910 - Topics in Studies of Africa and the African Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

AMIN 8910 - Topics in American Indian and Indigenous Studies

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

This is a topics shell

AMST 8920 - Topics in American Studies

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ANTH 5021W - Anthropology of the Middle East (SOCS, GP, WI)

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Anth 3021W/Anth 5021W/RelS 370
Typically offered:	Fall Even Year

Anthropological field methods of analyzing/interpreting Middle Eastern cultures/societies.

ANTH 5980 - Topics in Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ANTH 8002 - Ethnography: Contemporary Theory and Practice

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Concepts/perspectives in anthropology. Emphasizes American cultural anthropology. Rrecent work in semiotic, psychological, and feminist anthropology.

ANTH 8203 - Research Methods in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Classic and current issues in research methodology, including positivist, interpretivist, feminist, and postmodernist frameworks. Methodology, in the broadest sense of the concept, is evaluated. Students conduct three research exercises and set up an ethnographic research project. prereq: Grad anth major or instr consent

ANTH 8810 - Topics in Sociocultural Anthropology

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminar examines particular aspects of method and/or theory. Topics vary according to student and faculty interests.

ANTH 8992 - Directed Reading

Credits:	1.0 -18.0 [max 54.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

tbd prereq: instr consent

APEC 5031 - Methods of Economic Data Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course introduces linear statistical economic (econometric) models with and without independent errors. It also introduces econometric models for analyzing discrete response variables, censored response variables, and non-random data samples. It shows how these econometric models can be used to evaluate and quantify theoretical relationships and forecast counterfactual economic outcomes. prereq: APEC 3001, Math 1142 or Math 1272, Stat 3001 or Sco 2550 or grad student or instructor consent

APEC 5032 - Economic Data Analysis for Managerial and Policy Decisions

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The course covers statistical and econometric methods for the analysis of data to support managerial and policy decisions. It includes methods for organizing, accessing, and ensuring the quality of data. The econometric methods covered by the course are applicable to panel, discrete response, duration, and time series data. prereq: 5031 or instr consent

APEC 5151 - Applied Microeconomics: Firm and Household

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course provides a mathematical treatment of cost -benefit analysis in terms of the theory of how prices, income, preferences, and other factors affect consumer choices and the demand for goods and services. It also includes treats the theory of how prices, technology, and other important factors affect producer decisions, the supply of goods and services, and the demand for productive resources. This demand and supply analysis is then combined to explore the theory of price determination in competitive and noncompetitive markets. The optimization theories and economic models are developed without and with uncertainty. prereq: (APEC 3001, Math 1142 or Math 1272, and Stat 3011 or Sco 2550) or equiv or grad student or instr consent

APEC 5451 - Food Marketing Economics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 4451W/ApEc 5451
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Economics of food marketing in the United States. Food consumption trends. Consumer food behavior, expenditure, data collection. Consumer utility models, demand forecasting. Food distribution system. Changes in supply chain, industry structure that serves retail food outlets. Individual/group projects.

APEC 5481 - Futures and Options Markets

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 4481/5481
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Economic concepts related to futures/options trading. Hedging, speculation.

APEC 5721 - Economics of Science and Technology Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course covers the economic effects of science and technology policies, such as intellectual property rights. The course considers the effects of policies on: (1) the economic growth and development levels of countries; (2) the international technology transfers that occur between countries through trade, foreign direct investment, and licensing arrangements; and (3) differences in the economic welfare of developed and developing countries. prereq: APEC 3001 or ECON 3101 or instr consent

APEC 5831 - Food and Agribusiness Marketplace

Credits:	2.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This is a graduate student survey course of the industrial organization and current policy issues in the food and agribusiness marketplace. It represents a collaboration between the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences and the Carlson School of Management. The course uses short readings and speakers. A comprehensive look at all of the sectors in the food and agribusiness value chain is described. Topics include food policies (Farm Bills, food stamps, food labeling, and similar topics); environmental policies (water, invasive species, agriculture production and similar topics); and industrial organization issues (marketing and production contracts, overview of firm strategic orientation, distribution and similar topics). Readings, guest speakers, and presentations are used. prereq: graduate student

APEC 8001 - Applied Microeconomic Analysis of Consumer Choice and Consumer Demand

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 8001/Econ 8001/Econ 8101
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course provides a rigorous mathematical treatment of cost-benefit analysis in terms of the theory of how prices, income, preferences, and other factors affect consumer choices and the demand for goods and services. The optimization theories and economic models are developed with and without uncertainty. Part of four-course, year-long sequence (APEC 8001-2-3-4) prereq: [[5151 or ECON 3101 or ECON 5151 or intermediate microeconomic theory], [[MATH 2243, MATH 2263] or equiv]] or instr consent

APEC 8002 - Applied Microeconomic Analysis of Production and Choice Under Uncertainty

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies:	ApEc 8002/Econ 8002/Econ 8102
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

The course provides a rigorous mathematical treatment of cost-benefit analysis in terms of the theory of how prices, technology, and other important factors affect producer decisions, the supply of goods and services, and the demand for productive resources. The optimization theories and economic models are developed with and without uncertainty. The course also explores the theory of price determination in competitive, monopoly, and monopsony markets. Part of four-course, year-long sequence (APEC 8001-2-3-4) prereq: [[8001 or ECON 8001 or ECON 8101], [[MATH 2243, MATH 2263] or equiv]] or instr consent

APEC 8601 - Natural Resource Economics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Economic analysis of resource use and management. Capital theory, dynamic resource allocation. Applications to renewable and nonrenewable resources. Empirical studies, policy issues. prereq: [5151, 8202, 8206 [ECON 5151 or equiv]] or instr consent

APEC 8793 - Master's Paper: Plan B Project

Credits:	1.0 -6.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Students work under guidance of adviser to complete their Plan B Paper project. prereq: Agri/ApEc MS student or ApEc MS student

APEC 8901 - Graduate Seminar: MS & PhD

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Attendance and active participation in applied economics research seminars. Effective research methods. Research topics and observe professional methods of research presentations.

APEC 8902 - Graduate Research Development Seminar

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Faculty, students, outside speakers present research ideas/results, which participants critique. Topics vary according to interests of speakers. prereq: ApEc MS student or ApEc PhD student

ARAB 5101 - Advanced Arabic I

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Advanced readings in classical/modern Arabic. Compositions based on texts. prereq: Grade B- or higher in 3102 or instr consent

ARAB 5102 - Advanced Arabic II

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Readings of Arabic texts. Writing compositions based on texts. Continuation of 5101.

CHIC 5993 - Directed Studies

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 16.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Guided individual reading, research, and study for completion of the requirements for a senior paper or honors thesis. prereq: instr consent

CLA 8000 - Topics in Graduate Studies

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall, Spring & Summer

This is a topics course related to graduate students in CLA.

COMM 5221 - Media, Race, and Identity

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Critical media studies perspective on cultural politics of race and ethnicity. Social construction of race, politics of racism, media representations of race. prereq: 3211 or instr consent

DSSC 8111 - Approaches to Knowledge and Truth: Ways of Knowing in Development Studies and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Approaches practiced by physical, biological, social science, and humanities scholars. "Ways of knowing" in different cultures/groups. Issues/methodological challenges facing interdisciplinary/international studies. Taught by faculty from biological, social sciences, and humanities. prereq: Grad DSSC minor or instr consent

DSSC 8112 - Scholarship and Public Responsibility

Credits:	1.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Seminar. Concerns/themes relevant to public engagement in academic work. Diverse practices of reading, writing, and pedagogy. Privileged locations of knowledge. Tactics of civil society organizing. Politics of collaborative work. prereq: Grad DSSC minor or instr consent

DSSC 8211 - Doctoral Research Workshop in Development Studies and Social Change

Credits:	3.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Interdisciplinary workshop to assist doctoral students in writing successful research and grant proposals to support their dissertation research on themes related to global social change. Enables students to develop interdisciplinary peer review and feedback skills and consider ethical and practical issues global south research. prereq: Grad DSSC minor or instr consent

DSSC 8310 - Topics in Development Studies and Social Change

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seven-week to full semester seminar. Topical issues in development and social change.

ENGL 5300 - Readings in American Minority Literature

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Course Equivalencies:	EngL 3300/EngL 3300H/EngL 5300
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Contextual readings of 19th-/20th-century American minority writers. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

ENGL 8400 - Seminar in Post-Colonial Literature, Culture, and Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Sample topics: Marxism and nationalism; modern India; feminism and decolonization; "the Empire Writes Back"; Islam and the West. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

EPSY 8266 - Statistical Analysis Using Structural Equation Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	8265, [8252 or equiv]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Quantitative techniques using manifest/latent variable approaches for analysis of educational/social science data. Introduction to structural equation modeling approaches to multiple regression, factor analysis, path modeling. Developing, estimating, interpreting structural equation models. prereq: 8265, [8252 or equiv]

ESL 5008 - Speaking for Professional Settings

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

This course is designed for graduate students who speak a first language other than English and are seeking to improve their English speaking skills for professional contexts. The goal of this course is to help students refine their English skills for effective and culturally appropriate communication in specific professional situations. The course covers topics such as small talk, networking, interviewing, and presentation skills. Students will increase their confidence to communicate in a variety of settings including informal exchanges, career fairs, conference presentations, and job interviews. Prerequisite: Graduate student, a first language other than English

FNRM 5131 - Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for Natural Resources

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	FNRM 3131/FNRM 5131/FR 3131/
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Geographic information systems (GIS), focusing on spatial data development and analysis in the science and management of natural resources. Basic data structures, sources, collection, and quality; geodesy and map projections; spatial and tabular data analyses; digital elevation data and terrain analyses; cartographic modeling and layout. Lab exercises provide practical experiences complementing theory covered in lecture. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

GEOG 8980 - Topics: Geography

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 30.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminar offered by visiting or regular faculty. Topics vary with interests of faculty. prereq: instr consent

GER 5610 - German Literature in Translation

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Study in depth of authors or topics from various periods in German literature. Requires no knowledge of German. prereq: No knowledge of German required; cr toward major or minor requires reading in German

GIS 5578 - GIS Programming

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This Python-focused GIS course is intended for students who have some Python programming experience, or have experience with other programming language(s) and knowledge transferable to Python. Following a review of Python basics, students will use Python modules for spatial data management, mapping, and analysis, including ArcGIS's ArcPy package; work with classes in Python; develop custom modules; and create development environments. A semester-long programming project applying Python skills to a GIS challenge is a significant component of the course. prereq: instr consent

GLOS 5403 - Human Rights Advocacy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	GloS 5403/Law 6058
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Theoretical basis of human rights movement. Organizations, strategies, tactics, programs. Advocacy: fact-finding, documentation, campaigns, trial observations. Forensic science. Human rights education, medical/psychological treatment. Research project or background for case study. prereq: Grad student

GRAD 5105 - Practicum in University Teaching for Nonnative English Speakers

Credits:	2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theory, advanced practice in teaching in higher education for nonnative speakers of English. Emphasizes interactive teaching strategies, awareness of cross-cultural classroom issues,oral classroom presentation skills, and legal/policy issues. prereq: 5102 or English Language Proficiency Rating of 2; Contact cei@umn.edu for permission number.

GRAD 8101 - Teaching in Higher Education

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Teaching methods/techniques. Active learning, critical thinking, practice teaching, and preparing a portfolio to document/reflect upon teaching. Readings, discussion, peer teaching, e-mail dialog, reflective writing, co-facilitation of course. prereq: Non-Degree Students: contact pffcollege consentumn.edu with questions about registration. If adding a section after first class meeting, contact your instructor as soon as you enroll.

GRAD 8200 - Teaching and Learning Topics in Higher Education

Credits:	1.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Create course materials for context/discipline. Assess student learning. Write action plan. Topics may include active learning in sciences, teaching with technology, multicultural education, teaching in clinical settings, learning-community course design.

GWSS 5190 - Topics: Theory, Knowledge, and Power

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Topics specified in Class Schedule.

GWSS 5406 - Black Feminist Thought in the American and African Diasporas

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 4406/Afro 5406/GWSS 4406/
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Critically examines spatiality of African descendant women in Americas/larger black diaspora. Writings from black feminist/queer geographies, history, contemporary cultural criticism. Recent black feminist theorizing.

GWSS 8107 - Feminist Pedagogies

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Explore feminist theories/critical approaches to pedagogy. Develop teaching philosophy statement, design syllabus, practice teach/learn problem-solving strategies for classroom. prereq: Feminist Studies grad student [Maj or Minor] or instr consent

GWSS 8109 - Feminist Knowledge Production

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Two-semester interdisciplinary seminar. First term: debates in gender theory; gender theory, critical race theory, post-colonial theory, sexuality theory, social class analysis. Second term: inter-/multi-disciplinary feminist research methods from humanities/social sciences. prereq: Feminist studies PhD or grad minor student or instr consent

GWSS 8220 - Seminar: Science, Technology & Environmental Justice

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Topics related to science, technology, environmental justice.

GWSS 8490 - Seminar: Transnational, Postcolonial, Diaspora

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Graduate topics in comparative/global studies.

GWSS 8993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -6.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

TBD

GWSS 8995 - Directed Research

Credits:	1.0 -8.0 [max 36.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

TBD

GWSS 8996 - Feminist Studies Colloquium

Credits:	1.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	S-N or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

TBD prereq: Grad major or minor in feminist studies

HIST 5264 - Imperial Russia: Formation and Expansion of the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Credits:	3.0 [max 4.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hist 3264/Hist 5264
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Interaction with Europe and Asia; attempts at modernization and reform; emancipation of the serfs and rise of revolutionary movements.

HIST 5265 - 20th-Century Russia: The Collapse of Imperial Russia, the Revolutions, and the Soviet Regime

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hist 3265/Hist 5265
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Analysis of the factors that led to the collapse of the tsarist regime; discussion of the 1917 revolution, the evolution of the Soviet regime and the collapse of Soviet communism. Emphasis on the role of nationalities and the rise of the Commonwealth of independent states.

HIST 5932 - The Production of Knowledge, Negotiating the Past, and the Writing of African Histories

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Afro 5932/Hist 5932
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Recent scholarship on social history of Africa. Focuses on new literature on daily lives of ordinary people in their workplaces, communities, households.

HIST 5960 - Topics in History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Selected topics in history not covered in regular courses. Taught as staffing permits. prereq: [advanced undergrad with instr consent]

HIST 8801 - Seminar in Early American History

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hist 5801/Hist 8801
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Introduction to literature of early American history. Readings selected from some of best scholarship in field. Questions of colonial historians. Theories, methods, sources used in pursuit of those questions.

HIST 8802 - Readings in American History, 1848-Present

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Hist 5802/Hist 8802
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Readings-intensive course. U.S. history from Mexican-American War to present.

HIST 8900 - Topics in European/Medieval History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8910 - Topics in U.S. History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 15.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8920 - Topics in African History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8960 - Topics in History

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 20.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics not covered in regular courses.

HIST 8993 - Directed Study

Credits:	1.0 -16.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Students work on tutorial basis. Guided individual reading or study. prereq: Grad student, instr consent

JOUR 5251 - Strategic Communication Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course is an introduction to psychologically-grounded concepts, theories and research and their applications for strategic communication. The course objectives involve comprehension and application of a range of psychological concepts and theories related to attitude development, susceptibility to message influence, and opinion formation and change. The course will provide opportunities to apply theoretical concepts to critically evaluate strategic communications (advertising, public relations, brand marketing, etc.) and to use psychological theory and research to inform the development of communication strategies. The course will examine how these theories help us understand communication processes in digital media environments, as well as how they inform relationship-building areas of strategic communication such as reputation and crisis management. The course will provide opportunities for students to apply concepts and theories to potential research for graduate degree capstone projects. Prereq: Strat Comm MA grad major

JOUR 8503 - Advanced Qualitative Methods in Mass Communication Research

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Advanced qualitative research principles/techniques applied to mass communication research, including ethnography, interviews, focus groups, case study, qualitative content analysis, historical research.�� prereq: Grad students enrolled in Mass Communication MA or PhD program or instr consent

JOUR 8504 - Seminar: Analyzing Media Content

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Prerequisites:	Grad students enrolled in Mass Communication MA or PhD program or #
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Methods of analyzing media content/application of methods to theoretically-driven studies of media content. Conceptual/methodological issues surrounding analyzing media content in today's contemporary digital media environment, including collecting social media data, computer-aided analyses. prereq: Grad students enrolled in Mass Communication MA or PhD program or instr consent

JOUR 8650 - Seminar: Psychology of Media Effects

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

In-depth study of psychological concepts/theories concerning individual cognitive processing of content of both traditional/new electronic media. Critically evaluate latest empirical research concerning how individuals respond to the content of both traditional mass media/newest electronic digital media. prereq: Grad students enrolled in Mass Communication MA or PhD program or instr consent

JOUR 8661 - Seminar: Mediated Political Communication in the Digital Age

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Mediated political communication in the digital age. How news, advertising, and entertainment media shape political perceptions, motivate voters, and influence policy decisions. Agenda-setting, priming, and framing, networked communications, micro-targeting, and mobile technology.

JOUR 8681 - Seminar: International Media Perspectives

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Main problems/currents. Concepts, research, policy relevant to global development. Issues of freedom/constraint, media technology, role of journalism in world affairs.

LAW 5000 - Introduction to American Law and Legal Reasoning

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Law 3000/Law 5000
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Law pervades all areas of modern life. Yet it remains mysterious to those without legal training. This course will equip you to better answer such questions by exploring the tools that lawyers use to interpret and apply the law. Students will learn to think like lawyers through a series of contemporary case studies that require reading, writing, thinking, and problem solving like a lawyer. Cases will be drawn from topics such as contracts, torts, civil procedure, property, business law, criminal law, sports law, privacy, and law and science.

LAW 6039 - U.S. Supreme Court and Great Cases that have Shaped the Nation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Discussion of twenty-four U S Supreme Court cases that have shaped the nation, and three sensationalized trial court cases that shocked the nation.

LAW 6071 - International Law

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies:	Law 6011/Law 6071
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

The course is an introduction to public international law. It will examine the sources and history of the law of nations and how international law is formed, interpreted, and (sometimes) enforced. It will also provide a brief introduction to the law of international organizations (specifically the United Nations), concepts of jurisdiction and conflicts of jurisdiction among nation states, international protection of human rights, the law of war, international criminal law, and the control of the use of force (including peacekeeping and related topics). prereq: Upper division students only

LAW 6081 - Constitutional Law: Fourteenth Amendment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

This course offers an overview of civil liberties and civil rights under the United States Constitution. It will cover First Amendment freedoms, including freedom of speech and of the press, freedom of assembly and association, and religious freedoms (prohibition on establishment of religion and protection of free exercise of religion). It will also cover rights protected by the Fourteenth Amendment, including due process of law and equal protection of the laws. A few other individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution will be briefly discussed (takings, contract clause, Second Amendment gun rights, Ninth Amendment "privacy" rights). It does not cover constitutional rights in criminal law matters, which are covered in the Criminal Procedure course.

LAW 6084 - Equal Protection: Race and the Civil Rights Acts

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

The course will cover the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and the three major civil rights acts passed in the 1960s to give content to that clause. The Choper casebook will be used for the equal protection clause and provide materials about the legislative histories and regulatory and statutory constructions of the major provisions of the 1964, 65, and 68 Civil Rights Acts.

LAW 6846 - Philosophy of Punishment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This seminar concerns normative justifications for the substantive criminal law and for state systems of punishment for crime. It examines literatures in the philosophy of punishment from the early 19th century (e.g., Kant, Hegel, Bentham) onwards, in contemporary criminal law and punishment theory (many writers), and in social theory (e.g., Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Foucault, Wacquant), concerning justifications for punishing at all, and whom, and how much, and functional questions about the larger social purposes that punishment serves. A focus is on the usefulness of existing paradigms for understanding and justifying such recent developments as restorative justice, community justice, therapeutic jurisprudence, and specialized drug and domestic violence courts.

LAW 6886 - International Human Rights Law

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Role of lawyers using procedures of the United Nations, Organization of American States, State Department, Congress, U.S. Courts, and nongovernmental organizations to address international human rights problems. Is there a law of international human rights? How is that law made, changed, and invoked? Problem method used.

PA 5012 - The Politics of Public Affairs

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Politics is how we make collective decisions about matters of shared consequence. This course examines politics and introduces students to key concepts and skills needed for effective political analysis. The central themes of the course focus on power; institutions and organizations; discourse; and citizenship.

PA 5041 - Qualitative Methods for Policy Analysts

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Qualitative analysis techniques, examples of application. Meet with researcher. Hands-on experience in designing, gathering, analyzing data.

PA 5401 - Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Nature/extent of poverty/inequality in the United States, causes/consequences, impact of government programs/policies. Extent/causes of poverty/inequality in other developed/developing countries. prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5490 - Topics in Social Policy

Credits:	1.0 -4.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 5501 - Theories and Policies of Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

What makes some countries wealthier than others, one group of people healthier and more educated than another? How does the behavior of rich nations affect poor nations? Origins of development thought, contemporary frameworks and policy debates. Economic, human, and sustainable development. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

PA 5561 - Gender and International Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Women and men are affected differently by development and participate differently in policy formulation and implementation. Gender-sensitive perspective. Historical, political context. Global South. Policy, practice, and experience (theory and measurement; international, national, local stakeholders; effects of policy and practice on development). prereq: Grad or instr consent

PA 5711 - Science, Technology & Environmental Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Interplay of science, technology, the environment, and society. Approaches from across the social sciences will cover how science and technology can create new environmental pressures as well as policy challenges in a range of spheres from climate change to systems of intellectual property and international development.

PA 5790 - Topics in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 5801 - Global Public Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

This course explores the emergence and evolution of rules, norms, and institutions that constitute international relations. It will focus, in particular, on those related to questions of war, peace, and governance. For students with an interest in international security, foreign military intervention, democracy and governance promotion, and the political economy of aid.

PA 5890 - Topics in Foreign Policy and International Affairs

Credits:	0.5 -5.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 8081 - Capstone Workshop

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Project for external client on issue agreed upon by student, client, and instructor. Students apply interdisciplinary methods, approaches, and perspectives from core courses. Written report with analysis and policy recommendations. Oral presentation. Topics vary by term. prereq: completion of core courses or instr consent

PA 8302 - Applied Policy Analysis

Credits:	4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Design/evaluation of public policies. Emphasizes market/non-market contexts. Microeconomics and welfare economics of policy analysis. Econometric tools for measurement of policy outcomes. Applications to policy problems. prereq: Intermediate microeconomics, introduction to econometrics

PA 8690 - Advanced Topics in Women, Gender and Public Policy

Credits:	1.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Selected topics.

PA 8991 - Independent Study

Credits:	0.5 -4.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Independent study. Limit of 6 credits applied toward a Humphrey School of Public Affairs degree or post-baccalaureate certificate program.

PHIL 8110 - Seminar: Metaphysics

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Topics vary by offering. prereq: 4101 or instr consent

PSY 5202 - Attitudes and Social Behavior

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Theory/research on social psychology of beliefs/attitudes. Persuasion principles. prereq: 3201 or instr consent

PSY 8201 - Social Cognition

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Social psychological theory/research on social inference and reasoning processes. Psychology of prejudice/stereotyping. prereq: Psych PhD candidate

PSY 8204 - Social Psychology of Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Approaches, findings, and controversies in research on social psychology of prejudice, racial attitudes, and intergroup relations. Focuses on approaches based in social psychology and on related work from political science and sociology.

PSY 8205 - Principles of Social Psychology

Credits:	3.0 [max 15.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Contemporary theoretical positions and related research. prereq: Psy PhD student

PSY 8208 - Social Psychology: The Self

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Social psychological theory and research concerning the self and social behavior. prereq: Psych background especially in personality and soc psych

PSY 8664 - Personality Assessment

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Even Year

Concepts/issues concerning individual differences in personality and their assessment; content, reality, and significance of personality traits; classification of personality traits; major approaches to measurement of personality. prereq: Psy grad student or instr consent

PUBH 7250 - Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

Credits:	1.0 [max 1.0]
Grading Basis:	OPT No Aud
Typically offered:	Every Spring & Summer

Interactive, intensive overview of focus group procedures for public/non-profit environments. Practical approaches to determining appropriate use of focus groups. Design options, developing questions, recruiting participants, moderating. Analyzing/reporting results.

PUBH 7440 - Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Introduction to Bayesian methods. Comparison with traditional frequentist methods. Emphasizes data analysis via modern computing methods: Gibbs sampler, WinBUGS software package. prereq: [[7401 or STAT 5101 or equiv], [public health MPH or biostatistics or statistics] grad student] or instr consent

SOC 8090 - Topics in Sociology

Credits:	1.5 -3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: instr consent

SOC 8190 - Topics in Law, Crime, and Deviance

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Advanced topics in law, crime, and deviance. Social underpinnings of legal/illegal behavior and of legal systems.

SOC 8311 - Political Sociology

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Social dimensions of political behavior and social origins of different forms of the state. How various theoretical traditions--Marxist, Weberian, and feminist--address key issues in political sociology, including citizenship, revolution, state formation, origins of democracy, welfare state, and fascism.

SOC 8731 - Sociology of Knowledge

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall

Knowledge and related terms (ideology, stereotype, prejudice, belief, truth). Variation of knowledge across social groups/categories (e.g., gender, race, class, generation, nationality); institutions (e.g., politics, law, science); and societies across time and space. Power, rituals, institution, networks, and knowledge. Genealogy of theories.

SOC 8790 - Advanced Topics in Sociological Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Spring

Sample topics: theories of conflict, theories of purposive action, Marxist theory, and structure-agency debate.

SOC 8890 - Advanced Topics in Research Methods

Credits:	2.0 -3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Advanced Research Methods (e.g., multilevel models), historical/comparative, field, survey research. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: 8801, 8811, or instr consent. Cr will not be granted if cr has been received for the same topics title

WRIT 5051 - Graduate Research Writing for International Students

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

Graduate research writing emphasizes writing techniques, structures, style, and formal language for scholarly writing including research proposals and abstracts, critiques/reviews, and thesis/dissertations and publications. Special focus on field-specific scholarly expectations, documentation, structure/style, grammar, formal or scholarly vocabulary, and extensive revising/editing based on instructor and mentor feedback to meet graduate standards. Discussions. prereq: Grad student

WRIT 5052 - Graduate Research Presentations and Conference Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Practice in writing/presenting graduate-level research for conferences or professional seminars. Delivery of professional academic presentations to U.S. audiences. Conference abstract, paper, and poster presentation. Communication in research process. Students select topics from their own research/studies. Format, style, transitions, topic narrowing, non-verbal presentation skills. prereq: [Grad student, non-native speaker of English] or instr consent

POL 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral

Credits:	1.0 -24.0 [max 100.0]
Grading Basis:	No Grade
Typically offered:	Every Fall, Spring & Summer

(No description) prereq: Max 18 cr per semester or summer; 24 cr required

POL 8201 - Understanding Political Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Key concepts/major approaches. prereq: Grad student or instr consent

POL 8235 - Democratic Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Competing models of democracy: classical, republican, liberal, radical, Marxist, neo-Marxist, pragmatist, populist, pluralist, postmodern, participatory. Domestic and international struggles over meaning of "democracy"; social science models of and findings on democracy. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8251 - Ancient and Medieval Political Thought

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Politics and ethics in Greece, Rome, Christendom: Thucydides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, Marsilius. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8252 - Early Modern Political Thought

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Theorists and texts from Renaissance to French Revolution. Selectively includes Machiavelli, More, Calvin, Luther, Grotius, Bodin, Hobbes, Winstanley, Harrington, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hume, Smith, Burke, and Wollstonecraft; key debates over liberty, law, power, and knowledge. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8253 - Late Modern Political Thought

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Theoretical responses to and rival interpretations of Western economy, society, politics, and democratic culture in the modern age; theories of history; class struggle; the end of metaphysics and the death of God; technology and bureaucracy; psychology of culture, in Hegel, Marx, Tocqueville, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8260 - Topics in Political Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings and research in special topics or problems.

POL 8301 - American Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Seminar on main themes of theory and research in American politics, institutions, law, and policy. Major works on individual, mass, elite, and institutional behavior and their relationship to each other. Foundation for advanced seminars in American politics. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8302 - Public Opinion and Political Behavior

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Major theoretical perspectives/research on political participation, voting behavior, public opinion. Voter turnout, importance of party identification, effects of campaigns, long-term change in public opinion, designing/conducting research. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8311 - Political Psychology and Socialization

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to political psychology. Personality and politics; political cognition, emotion, and political behavior; political expertise; media and politics; aggression, authoritarianism, and political behavior; altruism and politics. prereq: Grad pol sci major or pol psych minor or instr consent

POL 8312 - Legislative Process

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Introduction to study of legislative politics; theories of legislative institutions and individual behavior; congressional elections; congressional committees, parties, and leaders. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8337 - Welfare State Theories and American Social Policy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

Rival theoretical explanations for cause and nature of welfare state development in context of four American social policies: social security, welfare, education, and healthcare. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8360 - Topics in American Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings and research in special topics or problems. prereq: instr consent

POL 8401 - International Relations

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Basic theories/approaches to study of international politics. Surveys representative work/central issues of scholarship. prereq: Grad pol sci major or dept consent

POL 8402 - International Security

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Spring Odd Year

Introduction to contending theories of international conflict/security. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8403 - International Norms and Institutions

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Origins, roles, and effectiveness of international norms and institutions; theoretical explanations and debates. Institution of sovereignty; rational choice versus constructivist perspectives; role of international law, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations; and international society and transnational cultural norms. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8405 - International Political Economy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F or Aud
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Theoretical and policy issues in international economic relations. Different approaches for understanding outcomes in international economy. Trade, finance, labor markets, creation and maintenance of international regimes, and "globalization" of economic liberalism. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8460 - Topics in International Relations

Credits:	3.0 [max 6.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings and research in advanced topics or problems. Recent topics: global environmental issues, morality in world politics, and norms and institutions in world politics.

POL 8601 - Introduction to Comparative Politics

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Main theoretical approaches and issues: comparative method, the state and class; political culture; development, democratization, rational choice, social movements. prereq: Grad pol sci major

POL 8637 - Comparative Political Economy

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Connections between democracy and markets, emphasizing experiences of countries in North America and Europe. prereq: Grad pol sci major or instr consent

POL 8660 - Topics in Comparative Politics -- Comparative Political Economy of Development

Credits:	3.0 [max 9.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Readings in advanced topics or problems. Supervised research/training. Topics specified in Class Schedule.

POL 8120 - Core Course in Political Methodology: Modeling Political Processes

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Odd, Spring Even Year

Methods used and potential for creating models of political processes. Designing political institutions, discerning/forecasting election outcomes, producing early warnings of international conflicts, increasing turnout in elections. Using mathematics to study political strategy and collective decision making in committees/legislatures. Using statistics to measure political variables, design experiments with human subjects, and test micro/macro political theories. prereq: Pol sci grad major or instr consent

POL 8107 - Quantitative Political Science II

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis:	A-F only
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Multiple linear regression model applied to political science data. How to use regression techniques to analyze data, interpret statistical results, and summarize/report the findings. Estimation of model. Underlying assumptions. Inference. Model diagnostics. Extensions of model. prereq: Political science grad major or instr consent

POL 8108 - Maximum Likelihood Estimation

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall

This course presents an overview of the likelihood theory of statistical inference, and its wide range of uses in applied quantitative political science. When dependent variables take the form of ordered or unordered categories, event counts, or otherwise violate the traditional assumptions of the linear regression model, models estimated by maximum likelihood provide an essential alternative. Topics covered include binary, multinomial, and ordered logit/probit, Poisson regression, and multilevel models. We will rely heavily on computational methods of analysis using the R statistical computing environment, and instruction on how to use R for applied research will be provided throughout the length of the course.

POL 8124 - Game Theory

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Every Spring

Application of noncooperative game theory in political science. Equilibrium concepts, bargaining, repeated games, games of incomplete information, signaling games, reputation, learning in games.

POL 8125 - Dynamic Analysis

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Periodic Fall & Spring

Time series method, its application in political science. prereq: Pol sci grad student or instr consent

POL 8126 - Qualitative Methods

Credits:	3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered:	Fall Even, Spring Odd Year

Qualitative methods in social science. Hands-on training through fieldwork projects. Interviewing, participant observation, narrative interpretation, ethical problems. Issues of gender/race in fieldwork. prereq: Grad student

POL 8160 - Topics in Models and Methods

Credits:	2.0 -3.0 [max 12.0]
Typically offered:	Every Fall & Spring

Seminars on selected topics, as specified in Class Schedule.

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