Week 1
Class 1: Introduction
Class 2: Issues in political science
Assignment: Each student will choose and illustrate an article and an image on any issue relating to political science
Part I. Origins, definitions, political thought
Week 2
Class 3: Origins and definitions
Reading: Textbook, Introduction plus Sartory (2004) Where is Political Science Going?
Class 4: Epistemological and methodological foundations and approaches
Reading: Textbook, pp 15-20,, Voegelin on Gnosticism, Modernity and Balance of Consciousness
Week 3
Class 5: Relationship with neighboring disciplines
Reading: Textbook, Chapter 3
Class 6: Political science and visual studies
Reading: Bleiker (2018) Visual Globall Politics, Introduction
Week 4
Class 7: The social basis of politics
Reading: Textbook, Chapter 4
Class 8: History of the Discipline: Positivism and Its Critique
Reading: 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook
Class 9: Cont.
Part II. Macropolitics
Week 5
Class 10: Democracies
Reading: Textbook Chapter 5
Class 11: Democratization
Reading: Textbook Chapter 6
Class 12: Non-democratic regimes
Reading: Textbook Chapter 7
Week 6
Class 13: Government, parliament, judiciary plus REVIEW
Reading: Textbook Chapter 8
Class 14: Visiting the Margaret Burke-White photo exhibition, Museum of Trastevere
Week 7
Class 15: Midterm exam
Part III: Meso- and micro-politics :
Class 16: Public policies and public administration
Reading: Textbook Chapter 9
Week 8
Class 17: Political communication and media
Reading: Textbook Chapter 11
Class 18: Political parties
Reading: Textbook Chapter 13
Week 9
Class 19 Political participation, social movements, protests revolutions
Reading: Textbook Chapter 10
Part IV: International politics
Class 20 The globalization of international politics
Reading: Textbook Chapter 15
Week 10
SPRING BREAK
Week 11
Class 21: Oral presentations and class discussion
Class 22: Oral presentations and class discussion
Week 12
Class 23: International organizations and regionalism
Reading: Textbook Chapter 16
Class 24: The Role of the EU on the global stage
Reading: IAI report 2020
Week 13
Class 25: a post-Covid era?
Reading: People in Advanced Economies Say Their Society Is More Divided Than Before Pandemic
Publics disagree about whether restrictions on public activity have gone far enough to combat COVID-19
Class 26: The Future of IR theory
Reading: B. Badie (2020) Rethinking International Relations, Introduction and A. Acharya and B. Buzan, Barry (2017) Why is there no non-Western International Relations theory? Ten years on
Week 14
HOLIDAY
Class 27: The Future of Political Science, Individual research
Week 15
HOLIDAY
Class 28: Review