GOVT 101Introduction to United States Politics
An examination of the American political system, its institutions and processes. Topics studied
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
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GOVT
67 courses with the subject GOVT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
GOVT 102Introduction to International Politics
This course reviews the main issues and problems confronted by the international system and the litera
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 103Introduction to Comparative Politics
A survey of governments and politics in the industrialized and Third World countries. The course examines t
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 104Introduction to Political Theory
This course introduces students to several of the most important thinkers and themes in t
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 207Race and Ethnicity in American Politics
This course examines the role of racial and ethnic minority groups in United States politics. We will focus on four main minority groups (Blacks, Latinos/Hispanics
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 211State and Local Government and Politics
Examines what state and local governments do and why. Topics include state constitutions; state legislative, executive, and judicial processes an
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 213Law and Society
This course explores how law shapes and is shaped by political, social, and cultural contexts. Focusing on the U.S., students w
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 215Campaigns and Elections in the U.S
Elections rest at the heart of America's representative democracy. This course offers a general introduction to the U.S. elections, w
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 218Politics of Public Policy
This course explores how politics influence each step of the U.S. policy making process. We will explore how political dynam
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 220The United States and Latin American Relations
It is impossible to understand the expansion of the US's international role in the past two hundred years without knowledge of our countr
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 223Politics of Africa
This course provides an introductory survey of contemporary politics in Africa, examining forces that shape fundamental outcomes of politi
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 225Politics of Russia, the Other Post-Soviet States, and Eastern Europe
After a brief introduction to the political geography and history of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe before
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 226Political Regimes and Regime Change
There are two main types of political regime: democracy and everything else. Historically, democracies have differed from non-democrac
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 227Latin American Political History from the Conquest to the Present
This course examines Latin American political history since the Iberian conquest. Topics include colonialism and its legacies, the rise of
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 228Democratization and Democratic Breakdown
This course examines democratization and democratic breakdown from the First Wave of Democratization (1828-1922) th
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 229Post-Cold War Political Regimes
This course analyzes post-Cold-War political regimes. We proceed regionally, examining contemporary political systems in (1) Latin Ame
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 230International Politics of the Middle East and Persian Gulf
The course examines topics such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, the struggle for domination in the Arab World, the role of
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 231Global Environmental Politics
Global Environmental Politics bridges international politics and environmental issues, offering an explicit focus on envi
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 232International Political Economy
Investigates the dynamics of wealth and power at work in the contemporary world. The course combines the analysis of politics, governance and institutions, and the production and distribution of wealth with the study of the
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 235International Law and Organization
A study of the rules of public international law, especially as they are related to the development of internationa
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 238East Asian International Relations
This course explores the major analytical perspectives on the sources of stability and conflict in East Asian international relation
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 241The Politics of Fashion
Examining the fashion system, a multi billion dollar worldwide industry, this course raises issues of appearan
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 242African American Political Thought
This course explores classic texts, questions, and debates addressed by contemporary African American political theory. We will a
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 244Modern Political Theory
An examination of selected theoretical texts from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. T
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 245Early American Political Thought
This course studies the theoretical and political struggle to define American politics that took place
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 246Recent American Political Thought
The themes of racial conflict, equality, the rise of the state, social darwinism, education,
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 248Capitalism and its Critics
This course examines both the political goods that are associated with capitalism (freedom, democracy, etc.)-and challengers (
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 258Political Opinion and Participation in the U.S
This course examines Americans' political views and behaviors, including what citizens think about and do politically, as wel
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 270Chinese Foreign Policy
This course examines the sources and conduct of Chinese foreign policy from both historical and theoretical perspectives. The first pa
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 275Political Analysis
This course provides a practical introduction to quantitative political analysis. First, we will explore experimental researc
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 310Politics, Policy, and Law in American Federalism
Explores American federalism as a system of democratic self-rule and share rule, and examines how federal-state-local government relations
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 311Constitutional Law and Politics in the United States
Constitutional adjudication as a political process which generated and manages social conf
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 313First Amendment in the United States: Law and Politics
This course examines the development of constitutional doctrine as it relates to
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 314Liberty in the United States: Law and Politics
Many of the social conflicts that the law considers relate to claims of right grounded upon conceptions of liber
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 315Equality in the United States: Law and Politics
Many of the social conflicts that the law considers relate to claims of right grounded upon conceptions of equality as a funda
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 317Inequality and the American State
This course will explore patterns of political, social, and economic inequality in the United States through the lens of the American state. Specific
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 320The Presidency and Executive Politics
This course explores the dynamics of executive politics, with primary emphasis upon the structure and operation o
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 321Congress and the Legislative Process
This course analyzes the process of lawmaking in the United States Congress within the context of the legislati
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 331Politics of the European Union
Major changes are taking place in governance, decision making, and relations between the people, institutions and states that form the
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 332Globalization and Security
This course explores the various ways in which globalization is (re)shaping the concept and practice of international as we
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 334American Security Policy
A study of the formulation, implementation, and effects of U.S. foreign policy. The course will examine an
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 336International Conflict
This course comprises an assessment of armed violence at the onset of the 21st century. Armed conflict is both a very timely matter of inquiry and an enduring conc
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 341Contemporary Political Thought
This course studies those nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers most discussed by pol
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 342Conservative Political Thought: From Old Right to Alt-Right
This course explores the historic tradition of conservative political theory. To do so, the course will untangle t
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 366367 Special Topics
An offering on a subject selected by the instructor to meet student and depa
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026.json
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 366-367Special Topics1
An offering on a subject selected by the instructor to meet student and departmental needs as conditions permit. Announcement of the subject is made in advance.
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 380Internship
A combination of independent activities including selected reading, satisfactory completion
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 390391 Independent Study
Subjects are chosen and arrangements are made to suit the needs of each stud
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026.json
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 390-391Independent Study1
Subjects are chosen and arrangements are made to suit the needs of each student in consultation with the instructor.
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 401418 One GOVT Seminar
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- 2025-2026.json
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 401-418One GOVT Seminar
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 405US Foreign Policy in a Changing World
This seminar deals with the challenges to American foreign policy in the contemporary world. It compares the predictable environment of the Cold War and the competition with the Soviet Union to the unchartered waters of the post-Cold War era. The seminar begins by analy
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 407Law and Social Movements
This course examines the relationship between law and social movement activism. The course explores whether or not the use of the leg
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 410Personality and Supreme Court Decision Making
This course examines the relationship between the evolution of the personalities of members of th
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 412Politics of European Integration
This will be an advanced course on the challenges as well as the opportunities for further integration that face the European Union. Drawing
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 414Political Thought through Literature
In this course we will study some dimensions and themes of politics that can be reached by literature differently than by traditional wor
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 415Nationalism in World Politics
This course explores the concept and practice of nationalism, with a particular emphasis on the role that it plays in world po
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 416Critical Theory: Power and Resistance
Should theorists just describe the world or, in cases of injustice, should they endeavor to change it? This course will explor
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 418Race, Prisons, Citizenship
Liberal democracies typically promise equal benefits and rights to all citizens. But who gets to count as a cit
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 419Global Governance
This seminar explores the main actors and processes of global governance. We will assess the role of power, international institutions,
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 420Issues in Contemporary Latin American Politics
Government 420 is an advanced seminar in Latin American politics that focuses on present-day issues. The course proceeds thematically, exa
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 421American Political Economy
This course examines the political development and function of the U.S. political economy. We will explore how political institutions and
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 422Britain and Brexit
The culmination of the extraordinary political process of negotiating a Brexit plan with the EU, its resounding failure in the
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 423The Radical Right: Rage, Race, Conspiracy
This course explores the rise and expansion of the extreme right across the globe. Recent years have seen an explosion of far
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 424Immigration Politics in the United States
Immigration has shaped the United States’ population, its culture, and its politics since before the formal founding of the country.
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 425Global Perspectives on American Federalism
More than 41 percent of the world’s people live in federal countries. Because the United States was the first, it has been the main gl
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- GOVT
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
GOVT 495-496Thesis1
An independent research project on a topic to be selected by the student and approved by the department. A student must undertake such a program for two semesters to graduate with honors.
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- GOVT
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- 1
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- 1
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- 2025-2026
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- lafayette.smartcatalogiq.com
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