Political Science (POL SCI)
Political Science Courses
3 cr. Undergraduate.
An introduction to the systematic study of politics, including the democratic process and the legal system, parties and public opinion, power and authoritarian regimes, war and peace, political economy and political ideologies.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Previously POL SCI 103.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Understanding and explaining foreign policies of states, with an emphasis on military security, economic relations, and the larger consequences for the international system.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Previously POL SCI 175.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
How the American political system works, with emphasis on the Constitution, elections, political parties, interest groups, Congress, the presidency, the courts, and national policy making.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
How the American political system works, with emphasis on the Constitution, elections, political parties, interest groups, Congress, the presidency, the courts, and national policy making.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Processes and functions of state governments and their relations with the national government and local governments; special emphasis on Wisconsin politics.
Prerequisites: none.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, UWinteriM 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introduction to political issues facing the governments of industrialized and developing nations, democratic and authoritarian, considering the similarities and differences between these nations and America.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introduction to major political ideologies (from liberalism to fascism) as they have been adopted by different individuals, groups and societies across time and space.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Study of gender, sex, and sexuality as determined by law, power, and politics.
Prerequisites: none.
General Education Requirements: Natural Science and Wellness
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
An introduction to minority voting rights, the Voting Rights Acts, and minority representation.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Cultures and Communities Program course; required service learning component.
Last Taught: Fall 2022, Fall 2018, Fall 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The specific topics are announced in the Schedule of Classes each time the class is offered.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Open only to freshmen. Students may earn credit in just one L&S First-Year Seminar (course numbers 192, 193, 194).
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2019, Fall 2018.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Broad introduction to public service via scholarly and experiential learning.
Prerequisites: none.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
An overview of quantitative political science research. The role of theory, research design, and measurement.
Prerequisites: one pol sci course.
Course Rules: Research methods course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, UWinteriM 2024, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introduction to substantive policy issues and forces which influence their progress. Emphasis upon major values within political conflicts and the gap between policy goals and program implementation.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2021, Spring 2019, Fall 2015, Spring 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The management, politics, and problems of city government.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2018, Fall 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Nationality, racial and religion-based groups in American domestic and foreign policy-making; significance of cultural pluralism as a factor in the American political experience.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: American politics course.
General Education Requirements: Civics and Perspectives
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021, Fall 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introductory course on the politics of environmental decisionmaking. Topics include the environmental movement, capitalism and the environment, climate change, and policymaking for environmental protection.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Counts as a repeat of Pol Sci 299 w/same topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The means used to implement political values with emphasis on problems of administration in modern government.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Pol Sci 243 & Pub Adm 243 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2014.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The law and the operation of the legal system as they relate to contemporary social issues.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Study of the intersecting discourses of politics and health. Topics include (but are not limited to): biopolitics, care, contagion, crisis, disability, immunity, political psychology.
Prerequisites: none.
Course Rules: Political theory course. Repeatable to 6 cr with change in topic.
General Education Requirements: Natural Science and Wellness
Last Taught: Summer 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Power, authority, liberty, justice, law, and other basic ideas of politics and government as treated in the classic works of political thought.
Prerequisites: soph st.
Course Rules: Political theory course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2020, Fall 2012.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Course created expressly for offering in a specified enrollment period. Requires only dept & assoc dean approval. In exceptional circumstances, can be offered in one add'l sem.
Prerequisites: none; add'l prereqs may be assigned to specific topic.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Domestic politics of Russia and the other states of the former Soviet Union; special emphasis is placed on transitions to and from authoritarianism, political institutions, and market reforms.
Prerequisites: junior standing or greater; or graduate standing.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Spring 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Comparison of modern authoritarian regimes. Emphasis is on their domestic politics and methods of rule.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Comparison of modern authoritarian regimes. Emphasis is on their domestic politics and methods of rule.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Historical background. Communism and its reform: leadership and political change; economic policy; corruption; human rights; population; environment; Tibet and Xinjiang; foreign policy.
Prerequisites: jr st or one pol sci course.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Rules and principles of behavior which govern nations in their relations with one another, as illustrated in texts and cases.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Rules and principles of behavior which govern nations in their relations with one another, as illustrated in texts and cases.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
The theory and description of political revolutions and rapid political change in the twentieth century.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Analysis of contemporary governments in Latin America, with particular emphasis on the social way of life, the politics of economic organization and government in action.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Competing views about the Arab-Israeli conflict, especially its Palestinian dimension. History and evolution of the conflict; current issues and possible solutions.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course. Jewish 328 & Pol Sci 328 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another. Counts as a repeat of Hebr St 238 with same topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Competing views about the Arab-Israeli conflict, especially its Palestinian dimension. History and evolution of the conflict; current issues and possible solutions.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course. Jewish 328 & Pol Sci 328 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another. Counts as a repeat of Hebr St 238 with same topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
The process of political change in contemporary Africa, with emphasis on the problems of nationalism and nation-building.
Prerequisites: junior standing and POL SCI 106(R).
Course Rules: Comparative politics course.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Politics of international trade, finance, and investment. Politics of industrial policy and economic development. Economic crisis and policy responses.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Politics of international trade, finance, and investment. Politics of industrial policy and economic development. Economic crisis and policy responses.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Intensive study in selected aspects of comparative politics.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Comparative politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Intensive study in selected aspects of comparative politics.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Comparative politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Government and politics in various Western and developing countries, stressing common experience as well as differences conditioned by diverse circumstances.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Comparative politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Institutions and politics. Collective security, peacekeeping, terrorism, and arms control. International legal tribunals and human rights. International trade and finance. Economic development.
Prerequisites: jr st or one pol sci course.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Summer 2024, UWinteriM 2024, Summer 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Intensive study in selected aspects of international relations. Add'l prereqs announced in Schedule of Classes each time course is offered.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max. International politics course.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Summer 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Intensive study in selected aspects of international relations. Add'l prereqs announced in Schedule of Classes each time course is offered.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max. International politics course.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Summer 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Survey of nuclear war issues, including the effects of nuclear weapons, defense against nuclear attack, arms control, nuclear weapons proliferation, and nuclear ethics.
Prerequisites: junior standing; course in political science or related field recommended.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Summer 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Analysis of recent relations of the major powers in East, Southeast, and South Asia, especially the problems of the smaller states and the role of the United States.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2020, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Explores the changes in politics, economics, society and foreign policy in South Korea, which has rapidly moved from one of the poorest countries in the world to a thriving and important democracy.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Counts as a repeat of POL SCI 338 with similiar topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Analysis of problems confronting the United States in principal regions of the world, emphasizing the content and instrumentalities of recent policy, and considering alternative solutions.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Analysis of problems confronting the United States in principal regions of the world, emphasizing the content and instrumentalities of recent policy, and considering alternative solutions.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
History of international political thought. Statist and internationalist theories of sovereignty, war, intervention, and international law.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Political theory or international politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Empirical, theoretical, and quantitative analyses of international relations.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2018, Fall 2013, Spring 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Theoretical and quantitative studies of international conflict and war. Includes individual, national, and systemic approaches.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Theoretical and quantitative studies of international conflict and war. Includes individual, national, and systemic approaches.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: International politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Origins of nations. Nationalism and the decline of empires. Origins and strategies of ethnic wars. How ethnic wars end. International intervention. Case studies, such as Arab-Israeli and India-Pakistan conflicts. Comparative or international politics course. Prereq: jr st or one pol sci course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, UWinteriM 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
The relationship between the democracies and wealth, and health care outcomes.
Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
Course Rules: The relationship between the democracies and wealth, and health care outcomes.
Last Taught: Summer 2025, Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Summer 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Role of elections in contemporary political regimes; representation, accountability, electoral institutions, elections in new democracies, and electoral authoritarian regimes.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2017, Fall 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examines the conditions that make for war and peace in world politics, and considers relevant moral and ethical arguments about war.
Prerequisites: jr st
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Selective topics in the study of politics.
Prerequisites: 200-level HONORS course and consent of Honors College Director.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max. Political theory course.
General Education Requirements: Social and Behavioral Science
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Spring 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Examination of European theories of politics in their imagined continuity from Greek & Roman antiquity to the present; how theorists argued for representational democracy, individual liberties, and legal transparency while justifying war, colonialism and genocide.
Prerequisites: junior standing and a grade of C or better in ENGLISH 102(P) or score level 4 on EPT.
Course Rules: Political theory course.
Last Taught: Fall 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2012, Spring 2011.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
European and American political theory from the 17th to the 19th century, with a focus on the emergence of the nation-state and related concepts (e.g., authority, democracy, conservatism, liberalism, national economies, war, and patriotism).
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Political theory course.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
European and American political theory from the 17th to the 19th century, with a focus on the emergence of the nation-state and related concepts (e.g., authority, democracy, conservatism, liberalism, national economies, war, and patriotism).
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Political theory course.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Environmental political theory from a global perspective, emphasizing the interlinked nature of security and sustainability.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: GLOBAL 383 and POL SCI 383 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
The idea of law and its relationship to morality. Issues of legal obligation, rights, responsibility, and punishment.
Prerequisites: junior standing; 3 credits in a philosophy, political theory, or law studies course recommended.
Course Rules: PHILOS 384 and POL SCI 384 are jointly offered and count as repeats of one another. Political theory course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Survey of main currents of American political thought from colonial times to the present.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Political theory course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Politics as it emerges in unexpected places, with a focus on one or more unsettled, debatable issues. Examples of such ideological areas include capitalism, artificial intelligence, neurodiversity, biology, postcolonialism, animal rights, or libertarianism.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Political theory course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Intensive study in selected aspects of American politics.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max. American politics course.
Last Taught: Summer 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Intensive study in selected aspects of American politics.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max. American politics course.
Last Taught: Summer 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Ideas and methods in recent political theory, including the history of political thought, analytical political philosophy, and critical theory.
Prerequisites: junior standing and completion of one course in political theory.
Course Rules: Political theory course. May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Research design, measurement, and techniques of political data analysis.
Prerequisites: completion of GER Quantitative Literacy Part A (QL-A) requirement, or Math Placement Level 30, or a grade of C or higher in any 100-level Math course (excluding MATH 194 or MATH 199) or MATH 111/PHILOS 111.
Course Rules: Research methods course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Research design, measurement, and techniques of political data analysis.
Prerequisites: completion of GER Quantitative Literacy Part A (QL-A) requirement, or Math Placement Level 30, or a grade of C or higher in any 100-level Math course (excluding MATH 194 or MATH 199) or MATH 111/PHILOS 111.
Course Rules: Research methods course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examines several current crises or challenging international events--defined as unstable, pressing international situations in which significant change appears imminent.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Theory and practice of survey techniques. Planning, design, sampling, types of data, questionnaire construction, interviewing, field operation, and coding examples in a variety of fields.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Research methods course.
Last Taught: Fall 2019, Fall 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Theory and practice of survey techniques. Planning, design, sampling, types of data, questionnaire construction, interviewing, field operation, and coding examples in a variety of fields.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: Research methods course.
Last Taught: Fall 2019, Fall 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Nature and implications of cyberpolitics, particularly international. Topics include our cyber world; cyberpower; resistance against and efforts to control cyberspace; cyberspace governance. Special thematic focuses: data, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cybercrime, election interference, cyberwarfare.
Prerequisites: junior standing and one social science course.
Course Rules: May not be retaken for degree credit.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Study of the office and powers of the president, with an analysis of his major roles as chief administrator, legislative leader, political leader, initiator of foreign policies, Commander-in-Chief and head of state.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: UWinteriM 2026, Summer 2021, Summer 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Popular media representation of law and courts and attempts to ascertain the impact of those representations on public attitudes about courts, judges, and attorneys.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: Counts as repeat of POL SCI 471 with equivalent topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Constitutional interpretation, with emphasis on separation of powers, federalism, and property.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Cases in civil rights and liberties in such areas as equal protection, due process, and First Amendment freedoms.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Racial/ethnic histories in the US; political difference and commonality; influence of immigration on political behavior and attitudes.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Spring 2021, Spring 2019, Spring 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Trial and appellate court structure; litigation in federal and state contexts; key actors in the judicial process, including litigants, lawyers, judges, and juries.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Summer 2024, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Behavior of U.S. Supreme Court justices and other appellate judges and courts within the judicial and political systems.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Fall 2019.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Analysis of contemporary interpretive themes, including judicial activism, the living Constitution, and critical theories of law.
Prerequisites: POL SCI 411(P) or POL SCI 412(P).
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2000, Spring 1997, Spring 1996, Fall 1993.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
The role of political parties in the nominating process, campaigns, fund raising, voter choice, and the governing processes of Congress and the presidency.
Prerequisites: junior standing and POL SCI 103(P) or POL SCI 104(P).
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Descriptive analysis of the way American foreign policy is formulated and carried out by federal agencies.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: International Politics course.
Last Taught: UWinteriM 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Political attitudes and behavior of women; socialization and selection of women for political offices; and women's issues in politics.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Spring 2011, Fall 2009.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
The role of Congress in shaping public policy, with emphasis on the impact of elections, lawmaking procedures, congressional committees, political parties, interest groups, and presidents.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2014.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Reading and analysis of specific urban problems and governmental responses.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Summer 2007, Summer 2006.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Reading and analysis of specific urban problems and governmental responses.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Summer 2007, Summer 2006.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
An examination of due process, privacy, and other constitutional and legal issues as they arise in the regulatory, investigatory, and enforcement activities of administrative agencies.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course. Pol Sci 452 & Pub Adm 452 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
An examination of due process, privacy, and other constitutional and legal issues as they arise in the regulatory, investigatory, and enforcement activities of administrative agencies.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course. Pol Sci 452 & Pub Adm 452 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Topics in federal and state law pertaining to women, gender, and feminism, such as reproductive rights, domestic violence, and pay equity.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Summer 2020, Spring 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Psychological and social components of voting behavior, current electoral trends, and role of voters in the governing process.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2020, Fall 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Psychological and social components of voting behavior, current electoral trends, and role of voters in the governing process.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2020, Fall 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Discussion of selected problems in contemporary law and politics, such as civil rights movements or law and sexuality.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max. American politics course.
Last Taught: Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2018.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Formation of opinions within and among political publics; role of public opinion in the development and practice of governmental policy.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Formation of opinions within and among political publics; role of public opinion in the development and practice of governmental policy.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Undergraduate.
Examination of the psychological origins of citizens' political beliefs and action. An overview of theories and methods in the field of political psychology.
Prerequisites: jr st.
Course Rules: American politics course.
Last Taught: Fall 2021, Spring 2020.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Application of advanced principles in political science in a governmental or political setting.
Prerequisites: junior standing; 3.0 GPA and consent of supervising faculty member.
Course Rules: One cr earned for academic work related to each 40 hrs of internship work. May be retaken to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-12 cr. Undergraduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work.
Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Course created expressly for offering in a specified enrollment period. Requires only dept & assoc dean approval. In exceptional circumstances, can be offered in one add'l sem.
Prerequisites: jr st; add'l prereqs may be assigned to specific topic.
Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic.
Last Taught: Spring 2013, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Students with superior grade-point averages and special aptitudes may be given permission to earn up to 6 cr toward the major by writing a thesis or doing directed research or reading. See Advanced Independent Study for further information. Consult the Political Science Chair.
Prerequisites: jr st; 2.0 GPA; consent of instructor, department chair, and Assistant Dean for Student Academic Services.
Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Critical examination of the normative and empirical methodologies of political science.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Introduction to basic techniques of collecting, coding, processing, analyzing, and presenting political data.
Prerequisites: grad st; one undergrad stats course or cons instr.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Advanced course in quantitative analysis stressing the application of econometric techniques to the study of politics.
Prerequisites: grad st; Pol Sci 701(P).
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Graduate.
This course will address a specific topic or methodological approach of general disciplinary importance.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic to 6 cr max and consent of advisor.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2017, Spring 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
First part of a two-semester introductory seminar in comparative politics, emphasizing the logic of comparison and introducing broad themes in the subfield.
Prerequisites: grad st
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Fall 2017.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
The second course in a graduate introduction to comparative politics. Foundation for students considering further work in comparative politics; emphasis on empirical research literature.
Prerequisites: grad st; Pol Sci 715(P) or cons instr
Last Taught: Fall 2021, Spring 2013, Fall 2010.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Seminar on theory construction, research design, and the logic of comparative social inquiry.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Fall 2020, Fall 2007, Fall 2003.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Readings in the field of judicial politics and behavior, with particular attention to decision making in collegial courts and to scientific methods of analysis.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Fall 2022, Fall 2017, Fall 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Major trends in constitutional case law and in critical analysis of the role of the court in american democracy.
Prerequisites: grad st; cons instr.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Overview of political institutions including executives, legislatures, bureaucracies, courts, interest groups and others and the role they play in the political and policy process.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Fall 2016, Spring 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Readings and research on a broad range of topics related to political behavior. Concentration on the political science literature on mass political behavior with some attention to the behavior of political elites.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Nature and consequences of constraints upon policy-makers in political institutions.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Political theory for graduate students in any field, based on historical and contemporary texts that illustrate different understandings of politics and political theory.
Prerequisites: grad st
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2020, Fall 2013, Spring 2012.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Consideration of selected political theorists, periods, or traditions. Attention given to issues of textural interpretation, historical context, and conceptual analysis.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Retakable with change in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2014, Spring 1990.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Selected concepts and controversies in the historical and contemporary literature of political theory, such as authority, obligation, equality, justice and the explanation of human conduct.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Course Rules: Retakable w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2019, Fall 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Examination and analysis of historical and theoretical aspects of feminist theory and politics including liberal, cultural, radical, postmodern, and queer political theory.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Analysis of major political theories of international economic relations. Examine international political economy issues in industrial developing, and communist countries.
Prerequisites: grad st; intro courses in Econ & Intlrel.
Last Taught: Fall 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2018, Fall 2014.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Examination of critical roles, structures, and processes of urban politics in different cultural settings. Selected to facilitate comparisons between the urban political process in developed and underdeveloped nations.
Prerequisites: second semester grad student.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
0 cr. Graduate.
Available for graduate students who must meet minimum credit load requirements.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Course Rules: Fee for 1 cr assessed; unit does not count towards credit load for Fin Aid. Repeatable. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
Last Taught: Fall 2020, Summer 2017, Fall 2012, Summer 2012.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Analysis of the forces and processes that shape urban political life, with particular emphasis on patterns of government, political culture, power structures, and civic participation in urban and metropolitan communities.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Course Rules: Pol Sci 913 & Urb Std 913 are jointly-offered; they count as repeats of one another.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Spring 2023, Fall 2019, Spring 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Theoretical foundations of Bayesian in comparison to Frequentist inference as well as applications of MCMC simulation to GLMs, hierarchical, time-series and measurement models.
Prerequisites: grad st; Pol Sci 935(P) or equiv.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Analysis of the legislative process and the role of the legislature in the political system and research in legislative behavior.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Spring 2018, Spring 2012, Fall 2010.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Voter decision making within and between elections.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2021, Spring 2017, Fall 2011, Spring 2009.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
An advanced seminar in selected topics on political science methodology.
Prerequisites: grad st; Pol Sci 701(817)(P).
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2022, Fall 2020, Spring 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Theoretical foundations of Bayesian in comparison to Frequentist inference as well as applications of MCMC simulation to GLMs, hierarchical, time-series and measurement models.
Prerequisites: grad st; Pol Sci 935(P) or equiv.
Last Taught: Fall 2012.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Variable content course.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Course Rules: Retakable w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Analysis-in-depth of selected issues in the formulation and execution of American foreign policy, emphasizing recent problems, changes in world conditions, and methods of studying American policy.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Political culture and mass political behavior in industrialized societies, including theories of ideology, multiculturism, and political parties. A data-based paper is required.
Prerequisites: grad st; Pol Sci 701(817)(P) or equiv prep in statistics.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Examines positive theories and quantitative research pertaining to causes and resolution of international conflict.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2021, Spring 2018, Fall 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
The study of the moral and political philosophy of international relations.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2004, Fall 2002, Spring 2000.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Origins, strategies, duration, and termination of ethnic conflicts; international intervention.
Prerequisites: grad st
Last Taught: Spring 2023, Fall 2019, Spring 2017, Fall 2013.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Various approaches to the study of constitutional politics, including law as ideology, noninterpretivism, originalism, and departmentalism.
Prerequisites: grad st; Pol Sci 727(P).
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Research in the formulation and execution of public policy in a democratic society.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Spring 2016.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Domestic and international politics of authoritarian regimes; methods of rule, regime survival strategies, and political economy.
Prerequisites: grad st.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2018.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
3 cr. Graduate.
Major theories and methods in comparative public policy relevant to specific areas of the world. Area focus varies from semester to semester.
Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2022, Spring 2019, Spring 2015.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Graduate.
Prerequisites: grad st; cons instr.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/
1-3 cr. Graduate.
Individual work directed by a member of the graduate faculty.
Prerequisites: grad st & cons instr.
Last Taught: Fall 2025, Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Fall 2024.
Current Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/