Political Science offers a large number of courses each year, covering a wide range of subject matters from classic to cutting-edge topics. Please see the left navigation for the course description archive, catalogs, and calendars. Please visit my.uchicago.edu for the course offerings for current quarter, which is where the final schedule for each quarter will live.

Tentative Courses Fall 2023

Instructor Course Number Course Name
Albertus & Lessing PLSC 28901 Intro to Comparative Politics 
Brehm, John PLSC 35500  Public Opinion
Carson, Austin PLSC 29202/39202 Secret Side of Int’l Politics
Carson & Staniland PLSC 50901 Qualitative Methods and Research Design
Conley, Patricia PLSC 22913 The Practice of Social Science Research (majors only)
Conley, Patricia PLSC 29800 Honors Thesis Seminar 
Eggers, Andrew PLSC 30500 Introduction to Quantitative Social Science 
Kasimis, Demetra PLSC 22333/32333 Truth-Telling in Times of Crisis
McCormick, John PLSC 42420   Approaches to the History of Political Thought
Pape, Robert PLSC 28602/38602 American National Security Strategy
Pape, Robert PLSC 40605 Seminar on IR Theory
Poast, Paul PLSC 48401 Quantitative Security
Wedeen, Lisa PLSC 33300 Interpretive Methods in the Social Sciences 
Wedeen, Lisa PLSC 48000 Field Seminar in Comparative Politics 1

 

Tentative Courses Winter 2024

Instructor Name Number Course Title
Bloch Rubin, Ruth PLSC 28801 Intro to American Politics
Bloch Rubin & Rogowski PLSC 30301 American Politics Field Seminar I
Conley, Patricia PLSC 22913 The Practice of Social Science Research (majors only)
Cordelli, Chiara PLSC 38813/28813 Justice and the Economy
Grant, Daragh PLSC 20928  Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life
Herrigel, Gary PLSC 43434 Politics and Sociology of Markets
McCormick, John PLSC 27216/52316 Machiavelli's Political Thought
Nalepa, Monika PLSC 29102/30901 Game Theory 1
Offer-Westort, Molly PLSC 28110/48110 Lab and Field experiments in Comparative Politics and Policy
Oliver, Eric PLSC 28620  The Intelligible Self
Oliver, Eric PLSC 24545/34545 Myth and Symbol in American Politics
Padgett, John PLSC 46401 Co-Evolution of States and Markets
Padgett, John PLSC 57200 Network Analysis
Posey, Patricia PLSC 36205 American Political Economy and Race
Strezhnev, Anton PLSC 30600 Causal Inference
Strezhnev, Anton PLSC 40502  Data Analysis with Statistical Models
  PLSC 40100 MA Thesis Prep

Tentative Courses Spring 2024

Name Number Course Title
Bloch Rubin, Ruth PLSC 49200 American Political Development
Bloch Rubin, Ruth PLSC 24810 Politics the U.S. Congress
Brehm, John PLSC 22400  Public Opinion
Brehm & Posey PLSC 30401 American Politics Field Seminar II
Conley, Patricia PLSC 22913 The Practice of Social Science Research (majors only)
Cordelli, Chiara PLSC 21820 Global Justice and the Ethics of Immigration
Cordelli, Chiara PLSC 51002 Rawls and Critics 
Eggers, Andrew PLSC 48101 Field Seminar in Comparative Politics II
Gulotty, Robert PLSC 30700 Intro to Linear Models
Gulotty, Robert PLSC 23501 International Political Economy
Herrigel, Gary PLSC 46666 Democracy, Regulation and Planning 
Luo, Zhaotian PLSC 40815  New Directions in Formal Theory
Nalepa, Monika PLSC 29103/31000 Game Theory 2
Offer-Westort, Molly PLSC 40601 Advanced Topics in Causal Inference
Poast, Paul PLSC 29000 Intro to IR
Posey, Patricia PLSC 30401 American Politics Field Seminar II
Staniland, Paul PLSC 26100/36100 Civil War
Terman, Rochelle PLSC 43701  Constructivism
Terman, Rochelle PLSC 27002 Norms, Ideas, and Identity in International Politics
Zerilli, Linda PLSC 44810 Hannah Arendt: From Kantian Aesthetics to the Practice of Political Judgment
  PLSC 40100 MA Thesis Prep