{
  "college": "uc-irvine",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "POL SCI",
  "name": "Political Science",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/pol_sci/",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 11A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "11A",
      "title": "Introduction to Political Science: Political Analysis",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Presents various modes of understanding politics. Emphasis on basic approaches to political analysis, their uses in constructing theories, and their application to particular national political systems.",
      "notes": [
        "(III and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 21A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "21A",
      "title": "Introduction to American Government",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to American political processes and institutions. Topics include elections, political participation, parties, interest groups, the Presidency, Congress, the bureaucracy, and the judiciary.",
      "notes": [
        "(III)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 13,
          "open": 10,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-21a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 31A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "31A",
      "title": "Introduction to Political Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Types of questions: What is politics? What are the theoretical and philosophical bases for different types of political arrangements? How do these perspectives get translated into reality? Among others, the works of Rousseau, Locke, Mill, and Marx are read.",
      "notes": [
        "(III)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-31a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 32A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "32A",
      "title": "Dilemmas of Diversity",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on racial, ethnic, and gender diversity, multiculturalism, and their impact on our social and political ideals. Traces the sources of ideas about difference, equality, and toleration, and examines tensions that occur when forms of identity conflict with one another.",
      "notes": [
        "(VII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 41A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "41A",
      "title": "Introduction to International Relations",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Analysis of political relations between and among nations with emphasis on explanations of conflict and cooperation. The role of ideologies and their relation to international problems are also examined.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors and International Studies majors have the first consideration for enrollment",
        "(III and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 7,
          "open": 5,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-41a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 51A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "51A",
      "title": "Introduction to Politics Around the World",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces comparative politics. Compares political systems in a variety of countries. Includes elections, parties, parliaments, presidents, protest movements, and other aspects of national politics. Addresses how to make meaningful comparisons across countries.",
      "notes": [
        "(III and VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 10,
          "open": 10,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-51a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 61A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "61A",
      "title": "Introduction to Race and Ethnicity in Political Science",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines major theories that attempt to explain the roles of race and ethnicity in U.S. politics.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as CHC/LAT 64",
        "(III and VII.)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 7,
          "open": 4,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-61a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 71A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "71A",
      "title": "Introduction to Law",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "An introduction to the study of judicial politics. Questions include: what is law?; what is a court?; who are the judges? Analysis of a wide range of judicial decisions illustrates the political importance of courts in the U.S. and elsewhere.",
      "notes": [
        "(III)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 10,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-71a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 111",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "111",
      "title": "Public Policy and Evaluation",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "EDUC 15 or SOCECOL 13 or STATS 7 or ANTHRO 10B or COGS 10B or SOC SCI 10B or SOCIOL 10B",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Covers qualitative and quantitative research methods relevant for the evaluation of educational programs. Students have the opportunity to plan, execute, and write-up a small evaluation project.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as EDUC 157",
        "Restrictions: Education Sciences majors and Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 120",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "120",
      "title": "Public Opinion",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Theories concerning sources of public opinion, processes by which it is altered, organization of citizens’ belief systems, and role of public opinion in government policy. Students analyze survey data as a research project.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-120"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 121A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "121A",
      "title": "The American Presidency",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Presents a comprehensive survey of the American presidency and considers the question of political power.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 121C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "121C",
      "title": "U.S. Elections and Voting Behavior",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines how voters evaluate political parties, candidates, and issues in electoral campaigns to reach their decisions. Numerous controversies concerning the degree of issue voting, sophistication of candidate evaluations, and the decline of political parties are discussed.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 121D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "121D",
      "title": "Gender and Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the role of gender in American politics. We begin by considering women and men as citizens and voters. How do women and men differ in their political opinions and behavior?",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 121F",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "121F",
      "title": "Presidents Since World War II",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "POL SCI 21A",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Reviews the actions and character of presidents from Harry Truman through Bill Clinton. Each week a different president is examined from a variety of perspectives. Students are expected to write a substantial original research paper.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 121G",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "121G",
      "title": "American Public Policy",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on the development and implementation of public policy in the United States. Lectures cover theoretical models of the policy process as well as significant problems facing contemporary American decision-makers.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as PUBHLTH 132, SOC SCI 152C, UPPP 129"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 121HW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "121HW",
      "title": "Writing for the President of the United States",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "POL SCI 21A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Imagines how White House staffers can help presidents with clear, focused, and effective writing. Through a variety of formats, students study, hone, and practice writing skills that will prove useful in and out of the White House.",
      "notes": [
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 121J",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "121J",
      "title": "John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Investigates the politics of the 60s through the lens of the presidents who defined them: John F. Kennedy (JFK) and Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ). Studies each president’s campaign and election, options and actions, successes and failures.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 124A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "124A",
      "title": "The Politics of Protest",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the Civil Rights, Black Power, and women’s movements in relationship to the Asian American movement. Uses social movement theories to illuminate the cases, and the cases to critique and revise the theories.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as ASIANAM 144",
        "(VII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 124B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "124B",
      "title": "Latinos in U.S. Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Comparing the political issues facing Latino groups by examining their migration histories, voting behavior, nonelectoral participation, and policy issues. Latino issues are examined on the national, state, and local levels, including formal representation, immigration, affirmative action, and language policy.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as CHC/LAT 151",
        "(VII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 124D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "124D",
      "title": "Black Political Thought",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Due to Black people’s existence on margins of Western society, Black political thought necessarily opens up new possibilities beyond the political present and towards a free future. Surveys texts that re-imagine the state beyond its current formation.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 124E",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "124E",
      "title": "African American Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines politics of African Americans in order to gain a broader perspective of the American political process. Major developments in African American politics (including the civil rights movement, Black presidential bids), continuing problem of racism, responsiveness of key governing institutions.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as AFAM 152"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 125A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "125A",
      "title": "The United States Congress",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Does the Congress do a good job of representing the American citizenry? Is it the most appropriate mechanism for the creation, resolution, and implementation of public policy?",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-125a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 126C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "126C",
      "title": "U.S. Immigration Policy",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines selected immigration policy debates since the nineteenth century, rationale and consequences of immigration law since 1965, problems of administration, implementation and enforcement, impact of immigration policy on foreign relations, and contemporary debate regarding the future of U.S. policy.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as CHC/LAT 163",
        "(VII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 126F",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "126F",
      "title": "Politics of Animal Rights",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines animal rights/welfare movement’s efforts to transform moral, practical, and legal standing of nonhuman animals in contemporary U.S. Explores intersection of racism, sexism, and speciesism informed by theories of race and ethnicity, including Asian American Studies.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as ASIANAM 168",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors and Asian American Studies majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 126G",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "126G",
      "title": "Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll: The Politics of Prohibition",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Why and how does the U.S. government prohibit, regulate, or try to control sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Reveals the motivations and politically strategic decisions that underpin these governmental efforts.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-126g"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 127A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "127A",
      "title": "Mass Media and Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the ways in which news and popular media constitute a major American institution by influencing public attitudes and government outcomes. Discusses the main functions of media, and how they are shaped by the particular medium.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-127a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 128BW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "128BW",
      "title": "Political Ideologies: The Way We View Our World",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Politics has become divisive and ideological. But ideologies are poorly understood and have become mere labels for identifying friends and enemies. Course analyzes the nature of ideology, focusing on liberalism, conservatism, fascism, socialism, and contemporary \"liberation\" ideologies.",
      "notes": [
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 128C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "128C",
      "title": "Political Psychology",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examination of how psychological theory and research may be used to better understand political thought and behavior. Drawing on theories of learning, cognition, and personality, discusses such topics as the formation of political attitudes, and the process of political decision-making.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as COGS 176A"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 129",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "129",
      "title": "Special Topics in American Politics and Society",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas of American politics and society. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-129"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 130A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "130A",
      "title": "Game Theory and Politics I",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to game theory and a survey of its political applications. Examples of topics covered include voting in small committees, legislatures, and mass elections; interest group activities and environmental issues; institutional design, and the evolution of cooperative behavior.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as SOCIOL 134, SOC SCI 103A",
        "Restrictions: Social Policy and Public Service majors, Political Science majors, International Studies majors, and Sociology majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 131C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "131C",
      "title": "Modern Political Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines major thinkers and intellectual movements in the political thought of the 17th and 18th centuries.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 131F",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "131F",
      "title": "Modern Political Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "POL SCI 31A",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines major thinkers and intellectual movements in the political thought of the 20th century.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 134F",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "134F",
      "title": "Social and Political Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focus is on recent major work in social and political theory. An in-depth analysis of a relatively small body of writing. Authors discussed include Jurgen Habermas, Anthony Giddens, and Richard Rorty.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 135B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "135B",
      "title": "Just War Revisited",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the evolution of the doctrine of the just war across the history of Western political thought, the importance of changes in the doctrine and whether it applies today; examines international relations case studies to determine today's relevancy.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-135b"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 136BW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "136BW",
      "title": "Cannibals and Conquistadores: The Philosophy of the Other",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines critically the notion of the \"other\" by looking at the philosophical challenges difference poses in the context of the European discovery of the New World. Seeks to understand the naissance of the concept of human rights and tolerance.",
      "notes": [
        "Overlaps with POL SCI 136B",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 138AW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "138AW",
      "title": "Moral of the Story: Introduction to Ethics",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on how we learn about ethics from stories, in the form of fables, bedtime stories, religious stories, soap operas, television, and movies as adults. Students bring in stories that informed their own ethical development.",
      "notes": [
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 138CW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "138CW",
      "title": "Ethics of Difference",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines differences traditionally judged politically salient—race, ethnicity, religion, gender. Personal interviews with an elderly person encourage students to understand the social construction of difference and to reexamine their own attitudes by putting themselves in the place of another.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 138DW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "138DW",
      "title": "The Moral Life During War",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Can people keep their humanity during war? What does the term humanity signify when simply surviving requires faith, courage, and desperation? When facing wartime brutality, must we abrogate morality? What does it mean to compose a moral life during war?",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 139",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "139",
      "title": "Special Topics in Political Theory and Methods",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas of political theory and methods. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-139"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 141",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "141",
      "title": "International Security",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces students to debates in the subfields of security studies, peace and conflict studies within the field of International Relations. Topics explored range from causes of war, civil wars, nuclear deterrence, human security, peacekeeping, peace processes to peace-building.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 141B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "141B",
      "title": "International Political Economy",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examination of problems in global political-economic relations through competing conceptual lenses or grand theories: mercantilism, liberalism, and Marxism. Surveys North-North and North-South issues relating power and wealth.",
      "notes": [
        "(VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-141b"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 141C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "141C",
      "title": "International Political Economy of East Asia",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Integration of theoretical perspectives in international political economy with the study of economic development in East Asia, with special emphasis on regional integration.",
      "notes": [
        "(VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 141E",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "141E",
      "title": "US Foreign Policy Toward Asia",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "U.S. policy toward the countries of East Asia: bilateral and regional security relationships, U.S. economic relations with the major Asian countries, the development of regional institutions, and human rights.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 142B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "142B",
      "title": "The International Relations of East Asia",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Surveys various aspects of relations between the nations of East Asia. Topics include the historical development of the region; current political and security relations, including the impact of the American military presence.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors and International Studies majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-142b"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 142D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "142D",
      "title": "U.S. Foreign Policy I: Globalism and Cold War",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Looks at changing international perspectives, policy responses, and military strategies of presidential administrations from Truman to Reagan. In assessing the motives and objectives of U.S. foreign policy leaders during the “Cold War” era, the concept of “national interest” is examined.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors and International Studies majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 142J",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "142J",
      "title": "U.S. Intervention in Latin America",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores political, economic, social, and cultural ties that bind Latin America to the United States. Focuses on U.S. intervention and Latin American response from early nineteenth century to present day. Case studies include Mexico, Guatemala, Cuba, Chile, and Central America.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as HISTORY 166, INTL ST 177D, CHC/LAT 150"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 143D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "143D",
      "title": "East Asian Security",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Provides an overview of issues in East Asian security including U.S.-China relations, economic interdependence, global supply chains, South China Sea, environmental cooperation, COVID-19, and others. Includes Oxford-style debates.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 143G",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "143G",
      "title": "Homeland Security ",
      "units": "4.0",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the 9/11 origins of the concept of homeland security; assess the evolution, structure, and operations of the Department of Homeland Security; critically examines the evolution of threat assessment to the U.S. and the utilization of risk management methodologies.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as INTL ST 141B"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 147CW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "147CW",
      "title": "International Humanitarianism",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines, analyzes, and evaluates the humanitarian phenomenon, the actors involved in it (including states, international organizations (IOs), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)), the rise of a body of international humanitarian law, and the problems and debates associated with international humanitarianism today.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as SOC SCI 147CW",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 147D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "147D",
      "title": "International Organizations",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Active learning course that examines origins, decision-making processes, activities, and evolution of leading international organizations (e.g. U.N., NATO, EU, AU, WTO, World Bank, IMF). Activities include drafting reforms, applying theory, assessing dysfunctions, and participating in U.N. negotiation simulations.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 147E",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "147E",
      "title": "Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores the complex phenomenon of aid to Africa (emergency and development aid), and the representational, cultural, historical, and other reasons why some participants and many observers critique it. Students occasionally engage with peers and faculty in African institutions.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as SPPS 102",
        "Repeatability: May be taken for credit 1 time",
        "(VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 148B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "148B",
      "title": "War, Peace, and Gender",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on the diverse ways that gender affects human security, civil wars, peacekeeping, peace processes, and post-conflict peacebuilding, among other topics in the field of peace and conflict.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 149",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "149",
      "title": "Special Topics in International Relations",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas of international relations. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-149"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 151B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "151B",
      "title": "Political Power in Contemporary China",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Analyzes the sources of political power in contemporary China, including historical legitimacy, political institutions, and Chinese Communist Party power. Identifies challenges to the CCP’s rule and rising socio-political issues such as mass protest, censorship, and the environment.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as INTL ST 176C",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors and International Studies majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 151H",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "151H",
      "title": "Voting and Political Manipulation",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to social choice and cooperative games. Topics include majority rule, types of voting methods, apportionment and proportional representation, agenda manipulation, coalition formation, voting power, political consequences of electoral laws.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as ECON 154, SOC SCI 121T",
        "Restrictions: Business Economics majors, Political Science majors, International Studies majors, and Social Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 152B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "152B",
      "title": "Gender and Power",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the intersection of gender and development, focusing on gender influences and shapes experiences within political, economic, and social institutions. Explores why gender disparities persist in various sectors and investigates the role of gender in development outcomes.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 152C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "152C",
      "title": "Politics of Decolonization",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The politics of colonization and decolonization are explored with examples from around the world. We begin looking at global political history as well as specific histories of colonial subjects in the Americas, including the United States; Africa; Asia; Europe; Mideast.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 152D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "152D",
      "title": "Politics of Global Development",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines how politics shapes global development. Evaluates how social, political, and economic institutions influence development prospects. The guiding question is: What political factors help explain patterns of development – pertaining to health, education, prosperity, and security?",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 152F",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "152F",
      "title": "Politics of Genetics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "The politics of identity, especially the politics of genetic identity are explored. Begins with a discussion of the politics of identity including especially racial and ethnic identity. How do these identities matter for politics, if at all?",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 152JW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "152JW",
      "title": "Political Economy of Development",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Why are some countries rich and some countries poor? In Political Economy of Development, students assess and evaluate competing hypotheses on what drives social, economic, and political development around the world.",
      "notes": [
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 152K",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "152K",
      "title": "Immigration Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines immigration politics in advanced democracies, analyzing trends and policy from the postwar period through to today. Topics include citizenship, immigrant integration, asylum, the far-right, and a rotating focus on contemporary issues, e.g., terrorism, birthright citizenship.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 153G",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "153G",
      "title": "Cuban Society and Revolution",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores the causes, development, and legacy of the 1959 Revolution. Themes include economic dependency, democracy, race, gender, culture, and the always volatile relations between Cuba and the United States.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as INTL ST 177E, HISTORY 166C, CHC/LAT 157"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 154F",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "154F",
      "title": "Peoples and Cultures of Post-Soviet Eurasia",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the cultures and political conflicts of the more than 130 indigenous ethnic groups in the European and Asian territories of the former U.S.S.R. Emphasis is on the theoretical issues of ethnicity, nationalism, and conflict management.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as INTL ST 162B, ANTHRO 164P",
        "(VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 154G",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "154G",
      "title": "Conflict Resolution in Cross-Cultural Perspective",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines theories of conflict management. Analyzes how conflict is mitigated in diverse cultures: at the interpersonal level, between groups, and on the international scale. Students discuss readings, hear from conflict management practitioners, and simulate negotiations.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as ANTHRO 136D, SOC SCI 183E, INTL ST 183E",
        "(VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-154g"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 154H",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "154H",
      "title": "Arab Uprisings",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines political mobilization against authoritarian rule in individual Arab countries, explaining specific outcome in each. Addresses the movement’s second wind nearly a decade later, which affected a new subset of Arab countries.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as SOC SCI 188B",
        "Restrictions: Formerly offered under SOC SCI 189/INTL ST 179/POL SCI 149"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-154h"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 154J",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "154J",
      "title": "Jews and Power",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examines the relationship between the Jewish people and political power over a 3500 year period. How have Jews preserved their communal interests and personal safety? How have they defined the proper relationship of the people to political authority?",
      "notes": [
        "Same as HISTORY 130F, REL STD 130F"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 154K",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "154K",
      "title": "Antisemitism",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Covers the key concepts, sources, and dynamics of historical and contemporary antisemitism. Topics covered include the politics of anti-Jewish hatred, conspiracy theories, and the Holocaust.",
      "notes": [
        "(III and (VII or VIII))"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-154k"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 154KW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "154KW",
      "title": "US Government in Comparative Perspective",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to the United States in comparative perspective, covering general features of the United States and other countries, such as institutional design and policy choices. Addresses the debates about American exceptionalism and American decline.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 155A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "155A",
      "title": "Failed States",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "What is a “failed” state? How is it measured? Covers the theories, processes, and outcomes of state fragility and failure from both comparative politics and international relations perspective.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 155B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "155B",
      "title": "Making Government Work",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Government, whether democratic or not, is expected to provide public goods and services to its citizens. With a limited budget but potentially unlimited needs and wants from its citizens, how best should government decide which goods and services to provide.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 155C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "155C",
      "title": "Organizations",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "How bureaucracies, formal organizations, and voluntary associations work, how/why they grow, and where they are going. History and structure of organizational rationality; dynamics of organized groups; behavior in organizations; limits of bureaucratization and attempts to overcome these limits through decentralization.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as SOCIOL 141",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors and Sociology majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 156B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "156B",
      "title": "Political Violence",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Designed to provide the student with advanced knowledge of main theoretical issues surrounding violence in politics. Although violence is virtually everywhere in political life, focuses especially on the causes and consequences of genocide and war.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 156D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "156D",
      "title": "Protests, Movements, and Revolutions",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "SOCIOL 1 or POL SCI 11A or ECON 1",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "A survey of models of collective action drawn from sociology, economics, psychology, and political science. Focus on areas such as social movements, strikes, crowd psychology, cults, fads, fashions, public opinion, and symbolic and mythical elements in collective culture.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as SOCIOL 174",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors and Sociology majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 157B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "157B",
      "title": "International Divided Cities",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Investigates urban divisions in international cities where deep-seated nationalistic ethnic differences create pressures for intergroup conflicts, autonomy, or territorial separation, and can incite violence. Urban political polarization as it is manifest in the urban setting.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as UPPP 178, SOCIOL 176"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 158D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "158D",
      "title": "Introduction to Contemporary Middle East Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "An overview of basic issues that shape the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. Themes include implication of the colonization era, nation-state formation, inter-Arab relations, nationalism, Arab-Israel conflict, Islamic resurgence, and more.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as INTL ST 165, SOC SCI 188A"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 159",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "159",
      "title": "Special Topics in Comparative Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas of comparative politics. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 6,
          "open": 5,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-159"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 171AW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "171AW",
      "title": "Law and Society",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "POL SCI 71A. Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Law and its various roles in society. The nature and meaning of law; legality and power in the American system; law as a mechanism for social change; the role of law in dispute processing, social control, compliance with judicial decisions.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 172A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "172A",
      "title": "International Law",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "POL SCI 71A",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examination of the origin, changing structure, application of international law, and the role of legal norms in regulating the behavior of states and maintaining international order.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as INTL ST 145A",
        "(VIII)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-172a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 173A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "173A",
      "title": "Law and Race",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "American political culture is principled upon the self-evident truth that all people are created equal, held equal before the law, and that human rights are inalienable and inviolable. Surveying American legal history and addresses whether it is actually practiced.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 174A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "174A",
      "title": "Civil Liberties",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "POL SCI 71A",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Political analysis of selected Supreme Court cases involving claims under the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment. Topics include: race, sex, and other forms of discrimination; criminal justice; privacy; freedom of speech and related claims.",
      "notes": [
        "Overlaps with CRM/LAW C122",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-174a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 174B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "174B",
      "title": "Justice",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores questions related to the endlessly complex concept of justice. Studies various theories of justice (utilitarian, libertarian, Kantian, egalitarian), elements of justice (rights, freedom, equality, virtue, fairness), institutions of justice (state) and frameworks of justice.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 174C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "174C",
      "title": "U.S. Supreme Court",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Overview and analysis of the role played by the U.S. Supreme Court in the American political system. Judicial review, appointment of justices, judicial activism and judicial restraint, process of case selection, court deliberation, land decision-making, impact of Supreme Court decisions.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 4,
          "open": 0,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-174c"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 174CW",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "174CW",
      "title": "U.S. Supreme Court",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Overview and analysis of the role played by the U.S. Supreme Court in the American political system. Judicial review, appointment of justices, judicial activism and judicial restraint, process of case selection, court deliberation, land decision-making, impact of Supreme Court decisions.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 175A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "175A",
      "title": "Art of Trial Law",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "A hands-on introduction to trial advocacy and the Rules of Evidence, modeled after traditional law school evidence courses but focused on practical application. Using a fictional case, students break down the components of a trial.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 179",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "179",
      "title": "Special Topics in Public Law",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas of public law. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors have the first consideration for enrollment"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-179"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI H180D",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "H180D",
      "title": "Honors Seminar in Political Science",
      "units": "2-4",
      "prerequisite": "Only open to students in the Political Science Honors Program",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Course for students enrolled in the Honors Program in Political Science.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI H182A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "H182A",
      "title": "Honors Thesis Workshop",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "A weekly seminar/workshop to facilitate the exchange of ideas and research strategies among students and to review their progress in writing the thesis.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Open only to students in the Political Science Senior Thesis program"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 2,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-h182a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 190",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "190",
      "title": "Senior Thesis",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Thesis research with Political Science faculty.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken for credit 3 times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 28,
          "open": 28,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-190"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 190W",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "190W",
      "title": "Senior Thesis",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Thesis research with Political Science faculty.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken for credit 3 times",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 198",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "198",
      "title": "Directed Group Study",
      "units": "1-4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Directed group study with Political Science faculty.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 6,
          "open": 5,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-198"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 199",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "199",
      "title": "Independent Study",
      "units": "1-4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Independent study or research with a Political Science faculty member.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 29,
          "open": 29,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-199"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 200",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "200",
      "title": "Research Design",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces the fundamentals of research design. The central goal is to train students to conduct and evaluate research design for qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method work. Topics range from case selection to disciplinary standards of replication and transparency.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 210",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "210",
      "title": "Colloquium",
      "units": "1",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Doctoral training requires more than learning substantive debates and research methods; it also requires students learn professional practices, routines, and expectations. This workshop offers students a mix of professional development, outside speakers, and discussions regarding research with departmental faculty.",
      "notes": [
        "Grading Option: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-210"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 211A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "211A",
      "title": "Introduction to Statistics for Political Science I",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Serves as the foundational introduction to quantitative methods for political science research. Prioritizes developing a deep understanding of statistical concepts, enabling students to intuitively grasp what statistical output means and how to apply it.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-211a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 211B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "211B",
      "title": "Introduction to Statistics for Political Science II",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "POL SCI 211A with a minimum grade of B",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Provides an overview of fundamental notions and recent advancements in quantitative social science, with focus on how data- driven approaches can be used to better understand the political world and test theories of politics and political behavior.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 211C",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "211C",
      "title": "Introduction to Statistics for Political Science III",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "POL SCI 211B with a minimum grade of B",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Builds on POL SCI 211B, focusing on more advanced statistical techniques essential for research in political science. It aims to deepen understanding of theoretical underpinnings of statistical models and equip students with practical skills to apply methods.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 212",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "212",
      "title": "Advanced Qualitative Methods: Analyzing Qualitative Data",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to the theory and practice of analyzing qualitative data. Students must have already learned about data collection and research design for qualitative research and must have qualitative data they can analyze.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as UPPP 213, MGMTPHD 297K"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 212B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "212B",
      "title": "Ethics Workshop",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Students find an important question in ethics, search literature to assess topic's importance, post question to be researched, propose method of analysis and type of data, analyze data, and note how their works contribute to knowledge in the field.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 219",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "219",
      "title": "Special Topics in Politics and Society",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Current research in politics and society.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 220",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "220",
      "title": "American Politics Field Seminar",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces students to some of the major works, questions, and debates that have defined the subfield in American political behavior and political institutions.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: Political Science majors only"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-220"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 221A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "221A",
      "title": "Public Policy",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores different approaches to public policy analysis, the diverse conceptions of the goals and objectives that should be served by policy, and the appropriate role of the policy analyst. Policy consequences are traced to indirect and subtle incentives and disincentives.",
      "notes": [
        "Same as UPPP 221, CRM/LAW C255"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 229",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "229",
      "title": "Special Topics in American Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Current research in American Politics. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 230A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "230A",
      "title": "Theory Field Seminar: Political Epistemology",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Focuses on fundamental issues of knowledge in the study of politics, especially interconnections and tensions between politics and knowledge. Counts as the Field Seminar in Political Theory.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 230B",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "230B",
      "title": "Theory Field Seminar: Theories of Textual Interpretation",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Examination of different theories of textual interpretation, including Straussian, hermeneutical, poststructuralist, feminist, postcolonial, and critical race theories. Key questions include: How does one go about the task of interpreting texts? What makes one interpretation better or more insightful than another?",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 239",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "239",
      "title": "Special Topics in Political Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Current research in political theory. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 240",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "240",
      "title": "International Relations Field Seminar",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Overview of the major theories guiding research and scholarship in international relations. Focus on major conceptual approaches (realism, neoliberalism, marxism) and levels of analysis (systemic, state, and subnational), as well as on methodological/epistemological debates engulfing the field.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 241E",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "241E",
      "title": "Research Design in International Relations",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Surveys research design primarily through substantive readings in international relations. The purpose is to familiarize students with choices/dilemmas relevant to IR-specific research. Students at various stages in the graduate program and with different methodological orientations are welcome.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 242",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "242",
      "title": "International Political Economy",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Politics of cross-border flows of money, goods, and services, with an emphasis on how ideas, institutions, interests, and structures shape the global distribution of resources in ways that can variously challenge or reinforce power dynamics and inequality.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 249",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "249",
      "title": "Special Topics in International Relations",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Current research in international relations. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-249"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 250",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "250",
      "title": "Comparative Politics Field Seminar",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces students to the political science subfield of comparative politics. Readings draw from leading theoretical approaches, including structural, institutional, rational choice, and cultural perspectives, and covers a range of substantive topics, like the state, regimes, identity, and representation.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 252",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "252",
      "title": "Introduction to Voting Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to voting models. Substantive topics include majority rule, voting methods and their properties, apportionment and proportional representation, agenda manipulation, coalition formation, voting power, political consequences of electoral laws.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 254A",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "254A",
      "title": "Introduction to Game Theory",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to non-cooperative games. The prisoner's dilemma, Nash equilibrium, sequential games, subgame perfection. Applications include collective action, agenda-setter models, spatial competition of political parties, models of revolution and arms race.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 259",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "259",
      "title": "Special Topics in Comparative Politics",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Current research in comparative politics. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-259"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 290",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "290",
      "title": "Dissertation Research",
      "units": "1-12",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Dissertation research with Political Science faculty.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 26,
          "open": 26,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-290"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "POL SCI 299",
      "subject": "POL SCI",
      "number": "299",
      "title": "Independent Study",
      "units": "1-12",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Independent research with Political Science faculty.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 26,
          "open": 26,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/pol-sci/#pol-sci-299"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}