These are some recent courses, with syllabi. Students, please note that these are samples only and that I update my courses every semester.
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Courses Taught at Simmons University
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Current Graduate Rotation
MPP 501 Policy Analysis and Theory (Syllabus Fall 2025)
MPP 507 U.S. Public Policy in a Capitalist World (Syllabus Spring 2024)
Current Undergraduate Rotation
CDA 201 Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Public Issues
POLS 104 Introduction to Comparative Politics
POLS 229 Comparative Foreign Affairs (Syllabus Fall 2025)
POLS/HIST 249 U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945-present (Syllabus Fall 2025)
POLS 252 Post-Communist Russian Empire (forthcoming)
POLS 315 US Public Policy in a Capitalist World
WRI 101 (Honors) Writing Boston: Athens of America (Syllabus Spring 2025)
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Courses Previously Taught (often, to fill in for colleagues on leave)
LDR 101 When to Follow/Refuse?
POLS 101 Introduction to American Government
POLS 226 State and Local Politics (Syllabus Fall 2023)
Courses Taught at University of Northern Colorado
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Regular Rotation
PSCI 100: United States National Government (Spring 2020)
PSCI 215: Post-Communist Russian Empire (Fall 2021)
PSCI 240: Globalization (Spring 2020)
PSCI 303: Public Policy in the United States (Fall 2018)
PSCI 321: War & Peace (Spring 2022)
PSCI 425: Seminar in Intl. Relations (theme = hegemony) (Fall 2020)
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Courses Previously Taught (often, to fill in for colleagues on leave)​
PSCI 220: Introduction to International Relations (Fall 2017)
PSCI 317: Dictatorship to Democracy (Fall 2019)
PSCI 425: Seminar in Intl. Relations (theme = world-systems) (Fall 2018)
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Photo by Gregory Williams, Boulder, Colo.
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