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271S. International Environmental Regimes (B, D). Law, politics, and institutional design of international regimes
created among nations to cope with environmental problems. Includes study of particular conventions and treaties (for
example, acid rain, ozone, carbon reduction, biodiversity, Antarctica, regional seas, ocean dumping), and the
environmental implications of international trade rules and regimes (for example, GATT). Instructor: McKean. 3 units.
C-L: Public Policy Studies 258S, International Comparative Studies 201CS
272S. International Relations Theory and Chinese Foreign Policy (B,D). Examines range of theories and conceptual
approaches to the study of international relations to see how these may or may not work in explaining Chinese foreign
policy and whether or not patterns of Chinese foreign policy require evaluation of theories. Instructor: Shi. 3 units.
273S. Heidegger (C-N). An examination of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger from its phenomenological beginnings
to its postmodernist conclusions with particular attention to its meaning for questions of identity, history, nihilism,
technology, and politics. Instructor: Gillespie. 3 units. C-L: Philosophy 273S
275. The American Party System (A). Role of political parties and the party system in the origin and perpetuation of
democratic politics. Critical evaluation of different theories and models of the origins, structures, and activities of
American political parties and their contribution to maintenance of a democratic society. Development of original
research or critical evaluation of research findings using an extensive array of evidence, including statistical estimation
and formal modeling. Instructor: Aldrich. 3 units.
276. Media in Post-Communist Societies (B). 3 units. C-L: see Public Policy Studies 243; also C-L: Russian 246
277. Comparative Party Politics (B). The concepts, models, and theories employed in the study of political parties in
various competitive democracies. Focus on advanced industrial democracies where there is a rich empirically oriented
literature on this topic. The resurgence of democracy in developing areas and the role of party competition and
democracies in these regions of the world. Instructor: Lange. 3 units. C-L: International Comparative Studies 201E
278S. Race and American Politics (A). A broad overview of the salience of race in the American political fabric and
how it structures racial attitudes on a number of political and policy dimensions. Instructor: McClain. 3 units. C-L:
African and African American Studies 278S, Public Policy Studies 278S
279S. Contemporary United States Foreign Policy. 3 units. C-L: see Public Policy Studies 279S
280. Comparative Legislative Politics (B). Analysis of legislative politics in comparative perspective. Designed for
seniors and graduate students. Instructor: Staff. 3 units. C-L: International Comparative Studies 202A
281S. Collective Action and Social Movements (B). Seminar course will introduce students to two dominant paradigms
in the study of contentious mobilization: economic theories of collective action and sociological theories of social
movements. Study of dissident collective action in autocracies, democracies, and hybrid regimes (e.g. electoral
autocracies). Explore contemporary movements including civil rights, ethnic and nationalist, religious, feminist, antiabortion,
peasant, and workers movements in Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the U.S.
Draw on historical, quantitative and game-theoretic work. Instructor: Trejo. 3 units.
283S. Congressional Policy-Making (A). Lawmaking and oversight of the executive branch by the U.S. Congress.
Committee, party, executive, and interest group roles. Instructor: Munger. 3 units. C-L: Public Policy Studies 283S
286S. Theory and Practice of International Security (D). Analysis and criticism of the recent theoretical, empirical,
statistical, and case study literature on international security. This course highlights and examines potentially promising
areas of current and future research. No prerequisite, but Political Science 93 recommended. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
289S. Contemporary Ethical Theories (C-N). 3 units. C-L: see Philosophy 203S
291. Research Methods in Japanese (B). 3 units. C-L: see Japanese 291; also C-L: Cultural Anthropology 290, History
292, Sociology 291
299. Advanced Topics in Government and Politics. Topics vary from semester to semester. A. American Government
and Politics B. Comparative Government and Politics C. Political Theory D. International Relations Instructor: Staff.
3 units.
299AS. Advanced Topics in Government and Politics (American Politics). Advanced Topics in Government and
Politics (American Politics). Same as Political Science 299A except in seminar format. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
299BS. Advanced Topics in Government and Politics (Comparative Studies). Advanced Topics in Government and
Politics (Comparative Politics). Same as Political Science 299B except in seminar format. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
299CS. Advanced Topics in Government and Politics (Political Theory). Advanced Topics in Government and Politics
(Political Theory). Same as Political Science 299C except in seminar format. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
299DS. Advanced Topics in Government and Politics (International Relations). Advanced Topics in Government and
Politics (International Relations). Same as Political Science 299D except in seminar format. Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
299S. Advanced Topics in Government and Politics. Same as Political Science 299 except in seminar format. Instructor:
Staff. 3 units.
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