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Select a link at the left for a list of the courses within each concentration, or consult a summary of all Politics courses and concentrations.

This list is subject to change as courses are added to and dropped from the curriculum.

INSTITUTIONAL POLITICS:
Formal organizations with written rules such as political and electoral institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and international organizations.

IDENTITIES AND INTERESTS:
Politics, power relations, and movements embedded in and constructed through issues such as ethnicity, nationality, gender, race, sexuality, religion, kinship, class, and political affiliation.

POLITICAL ECONOMY:
Interactions of political and economic institutions and organizations, among states, within states, and across ethnic or national boundaries.

PHILOSOPHICAL, LITERARY, AND LEGAL STUDIES:
Close study of texts in political philosophy and contemporary theory, literature and other cultural productions, and legal cases and interpretations.

GOVERNANCE AND CONFLICT:
Global politics; conflict resolution; issues of legitimacy, civil strife, peace, and war.


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