GOVT-349 Honors Seminar: International Politics

Professor Lieber

This seminar prepares students to write a senior honors thesis in International Politics. To achieve these goals, the semester is divided into three sections. First, we examine how scholars choose research questions, evaluate possible answers, and select research strategies. A critical initial task is to frame an important yet manageable question. Second, we spend five weeks discussing some major questions and arguments in the IPOL literatures on international institutions and rules, trans-state actors, security, foreign policy, and international political economy. These are the subfields that make up the IPOL major. We then spend the last two weeks of the semester discussing and critiquing initial drafts of the introductory chapters.

This course counts toward the International Relations distribution requirement.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: None

Other academic years
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• 2004-2005 Fall and Spring
• 2005-2006 Fall and Spring
• 2006-2007 Fall and Spring
• 2008-2009 Fall and Spring
• 2009-2010 Fall and Spring
• 2010-2011 Fall and Spring
• 2011-2012 Fall and Spring
• 2012-2013 Fall and Spring
• 2013-2014 Fall and Spring

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