PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Designed around substantive topic areas, including reputation, personality, and emotions. Covers the broad patterns of scholarship in political psychology over the last 50 years. The larger methodological issues around political psychology and International Relations (IR) (how do you study this? what tradeoffs do the various approaches entail?) will form a backdrop to most of our discussions.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain important concepts and arguments made by prominent scholars in political psychology and international relations Audience: Graduate 2. Assess a variety of research designs on several dimensions Audience: Graduate 3. Apply course concepts to analysis of current research and contemporary social scientific debates Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain important concepts and arguments made by prominent scholars in political psychology and international relations Audience: Graduate 2. Assess a variety of research designs on several dimensions Audience: Graduate 3. Apply course concepts to analysis of current research and contemporary social scientific debates Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027