Political Science

2026–2027

162 courses

PLSC 0243The American Death Penalty
PLSC 1113Introduction to International Relations
PLSC 114Introduction to Political Philosophy
PLSC 1222Introduction to American Politics
PLSC 1327Introduction to Political Philosophy
PLSC 1335The Moral Foundations of Politics
PLSC 1413Comparative Politics: States, Regimes, and Conflict
PLSC 2105Globalization and Domestic Politics
PLSC 2111International Security
PLSC 2116Nuclear Politics
PLSC 2127Technology and War
PLSC 2140Immigration
PLSC 2200America From Scratch
PLSC 2213Constitutional Law
PLSC 2219Election Fundamentals and Forecasting
PLSC 2232The Politics of "The Wire": HBO's Portrayal of the American City
PLSC 2234The Politics of American Public Policy
PLSC 2244The American Presidency
PLSC 2255Special Interest Politics in the US
PLSC 2259Bureaucracy and Democracy
PLSC 2331Lincoln's Statecraft and Rhetoric
PLSC 2351Socialist Political Ideas
PLSC 2363Topics in Contemporary Social Theory
PLSC 2370The Politics of Expertise
PLSC 2381The Politics of Empire
PLSC 2404Capitalism and Crisis
PLSC 2417Contesting Injustice
PLSC 2430Introduction to Latin American Politics
PLSC 2433Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy
PLSC 2437Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
PLSC 2453Repression and Control in Dictatorships
PLSC 2466The Rise of China
PLSC 2509YData: Data Science for Political Campaigns
PLSC 2513Introduction to Using AI to Study Society
PLSC 2600Game Theory and Political Science
PLSC 270Capitalism: Success, Crisis, and Reform
PLSC 2846The Media and Democracy
PLSC 3101Chinese Foreign Policy
PLSC 3108National Security in India in the Twenty-first Century
PLSC 3115Media and Conflict
PLSC 3124Studies in Grand Strategy I
PLSC 3125Studies in Grand Strategy II
PLSC 3136Peacebuilding
PLSC 3144The Greater War (1911–1923)
PLSC 3211Congress in the Light of History
PLSC 3214The Politics of Crime and Punishment in American Cities
PLSC 3217Democracy and Sustainability
PLSC 3221First Amendment and Ethics of Law
PLSC 3224Cities: Making Public Choices in New Haven
PLSC 3228Political Leadership
PLSC 3230Political Representation
PLSC 3233The Politics of Public Education
PLSC 3236The Chief and the Bureaucrats: Power Dynamics in the U.S. Executive Branch
PLSC 3238American Progressivism and Its Critics
PLSC 3241Data Analytics for Redistricting and Voting Rights
PLSC 3249Learning Democracy: The Theory and Practice of Civic Education
PLSC 3250U.S. State and Local Politics
PLSC 3251US Federal Education Policy
PLSC 3256Elite Behavior in Congressional Elections
PLSC 3257Institutions of Public Participation in American Policymaking
PLSC 3258Bodies, Labor, and Politics
PLSC 3301Advanced Topics in Modern Political Philosophy
PLSC 3324Justice, Taxes, and Global Financial Integrity
PLSC 3338Order and Disorder
PLSC 3339Participatory Democracy
PLSC 3340Philosophy of Science for the Study of Politics
PLSC 3341Plato
PLSC 3345Radical Classics
PLSC 3346Recent Work on Justice
PLSC 3366What is the University?
PLSC 3378Economic Inequality: Canonical & Contemporary Critiques
PLSC 3379The Politics of Solitude
PLSC 3380Max Weber
PLSC 3403Bureaucracy in Africa: Revolution, Genocide, and Apartheid
PLSC 3410Comparative Constitutionalism and Legal Institutions
PLSC 3411Comparative International Education
PLSC 3418Democratic Backsliding
PLSC 3426Politics of China
PLSC 3435Law & Society in Comparative Perspective
PLSC 3439Pandemics in Africa: From the Spanish Influenza to Covid-19 and Ebola