2019-2020 Bulletin

Dec 04, 2024

2019-2020 Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

Political Science and International Politics, PhD (Interfield Degree)

The rigorous training and applied nature of the Division of Politics & Economics core offerings and several doctoral fields listed below. The department’s various programs provide the analytical expertise and practical experience for both academic and research-based positions.

Admission requirements are detailed in the Admissions section of the Bulletin.

See the Addendum to this Bulletin for updated degree requirements.

Degree Requirements

Coursework. A minimum of 80 units are required for the doctorate degree. In addition to the tools requirements, students are required to complete six-course sequences in two of the program’s field offerings.

Research Tools. Satisfactory completion of research tool requirements through our core methods courses.

Transdisciplinary Requirement. Doctoral students are required to complete a Transdisciplinary course (T-Course) within the first two years of their program or by the completion of 48 units in their program. The course will count as 4 units towards the doctoral degree requirement. It will not add any additional units to the student’s degree requirements nor count against the total number of transfer units from previous graduate coursework.

Qualifying Examinations. Successful completion of the written qualifying examinations in each of two major concentrations (one from the Department of International Studies and one from the Department of Politics and Government). Qualifying examinations are offered once in each of the fall and the spring semesters. An oral examination, if required, is administered within two weeks of the written examination.

Dissertation. Campus policies and procedures are detailed in the Doctoral Degree Regulations section of the Bulletin and on the registrar’s Completion of Degree webpage.

University Policies. University policies detailed in the Academic Policies section of the Bulletin apply.

Research Tools

Take the following sequence if your primary department is the Department of International Studies (16 units):

INST 481 - Statistical Methods for Social Sciences
INST 483 - Multivariate Analysis in International Studies Using SAS
INST 487 - Advanced Topics in Applied Econometrics
INST 489 - Advanced Research Design

Take the following sequence if your primary department is the Department of Politics & Government (16 units):

Take the following three classes (12 units):

PP 480 - The Nature of Inquiry
PP 481 - Introduction to Statistical Analysis
PP 482 - Multivariate Regression Analysis

AND Take a qualitative course (4 units) such as:

PP 483 - Legal Research Methods
SP&E 485 - Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research (offered every 2 years)
Another qualitative course approved by your advisor such as: Oral History, Archival Analysis, Text and/or Content Analysis, Field Research and Ethnographic Methods, Corpus Linguistics, a foreign language, etc.

Transdisciplinary Requirement

One class (4 units).

Doctoral students are required to complete a Transdisciplinary (TNDY) course (T-Course) within the first two years of their program or by the completion of 48 units in their program. The course will count as 4 units towards the doctoral degree requirement. It will not add any additional units to the student’s degree requirements nor count against the total number of transfer units from previous graduate coursework. See the class schedule for TNDY classes.

FIELDS (Department of Politics & Government)

American Politics

Core Course Requirement (4 units)

PP 300 - American Politics & Institutions

American Political Thought & Development (4 units)

PP 301 - American Political Development
PP 310 - The Presidency and the Constitution
PP 315 - Deliberative Democracy
PP 319B - Perspectives on Judicial Powers
PP 319E - Judicial Review, Democracy, and the Constitution
PP 451 - The Federalist

Governmental Institutions (8 units)

PP 326 - American Constitutional Law I: Civil Liberties or PP 327 - American Constitutional Law II: National Powers
PP 305 - Executive-Congressional Relations
PP 306 - Legislative Process & Public Policy
PP 307 - The Modern Presidency
PP 311 - American Presidency
PP 316 - The Administrative State
PP 318 - American Politics, Courts, and Public Policy

Individual & Collective Behavior (8 units)

PP 301 - American Political Development
PP 302 - Political Behavior
PP 308 - Political Psychology
PP 309 - Women, Politics, and Policy
PP 313 - Representation and Elections
PP 314 - Political Parties in the U.S.
PP 323 - Racial & Ethnic Political Behavior
PP 329 - Public Opinion
PP 341 - US Immigration Policy

Political Philosophy

Core Course Requirement (4 units)

PP 450 - Major Works in Political Philosophy

Subfields (12 units)

Choose one course from each of the following subfields listed below:

Ancient & Medieval Political Philosophy (4 units)

PP 304 - Ethics and Politics
PP 456 - Topics in Ancient Political Philosophy: Plato’s Laws
PP 461a - Classical Political Philosophy: Aristotle
PP 461b - Classical Political Philosophy: Cicero
PP 465 - The Philosophic Arts of Reading and Writing
PP 466 - Basic Concepts in Political Philosophy: Plato’s Republic

Modern Political Philosophy (4 units)

PP 451 - The Federalist
PP 453 - Idealism and Nihilism
PP 457 - The Political Philosophy of John Locke
PP 457a - The Political Philosophy of Rousseau
PP 457b - The Political Philosophy of Machiavelli
PP 457c - Political Philosophy of Montesquieu
PP 458 - Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy
PP 459 - Individualism and Communitarianism

Contemporary Political Philosophy (4 units)

PP 454 - Contemporary Figures in Political Philosophy: Ortega y Gasset and Arendt
PP 455 - Feminist Theory and Epistemology
PP 462 - Contemporary Political Philosophy
PP 463 - The Political Philosophy of Heidegger
PP 464 - Comparative Political Philosophy

Expertise in Depth (8 units)

Complete two courses in one of the subfield areas. One course should be a thematic or issues course. The second course should focus on the work of one theorist.

Public Policy

Core Courses (24 units)

PP 330 - Public Policy Process
PP 331 - Policy Evaluation
PP 338 - Policy Design and Implementation
SP&E 313 - Microeconomics and Public Policy
- Note: If students have an equivalent college-level course in Microeconomics, this requirement may be met, but units may only transfer if the Microeconomics course is a graduate-level course that meets the institutional transfer standards. See your advisor for details.
SP&E 318 - Cost-Benefit Analysis
SP&E 410 - Foundations of Political Economy

Substantive Track (4 units)

Policy Emphasis 1: Diversity Policy

PP309 - Women, Politics, and Policy
PP323 - Racial & Ethnic Politial Behavior
PP341 - US Immigration Policy
PP366 - Political and Economic Development in Latin America
SPE371 - Globalization
REL472 - Race and Religion in America
ED699 - Educating Minority Students in Urban Schools: Policy & Practice
EA86 - Environmental Justice (this Pitzer course requires instructor agreement to add
additional work for graduate students)
Or other courses approved by your faculty advisor

Policy Emphasis 2: Evaluation with Division of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences

PSY326 - Foundations of Evaluation (2-unit course)^
PSY315z - Comparative Evaluation Theory
PSY315ee - Evaluation Procedures*
SPE348 - Regulatory Policy OR another course approved by your faculty advisor

^ Note that a 2-unit elective is usually offered to complement PSY 326

* 326 and 315z should be taken before 315ee

Policy Emphasis 3: Education with School of Educational Studies

EDUC 407 - Educational Policy
EDUC 630 - Policy, Practice and High Performing Schools
EDUC 635 - Special Education Trends, Issues, and Policy Development
EDUC 650 - Federal Higher Education Policy
EDUC 654 - Higher Education and the Law
EDUC 676 - The Politics of Urban School reform
EDUC 699 - Educating Minority Students in Urban Schools: Policy and Practice
Or another course approved by your faculty advisor

Policy Emphasis 4: Health Policy with School of Community and Global Health

CGH 300 - Theoretical Foundations in Health Promotion and Education
CGH 302 - Epidemiology

Student-Designed Emphasis - Consult with advisor

Research Methodology

Core Course (4 units)

PP 487 - Applied Data Analysis
- Note: The substantive focus of the course varies from semester to semester (e.g. categorical data analysis, machine learning methods, methods for causal identification, etc.)

Professional and Applied Courses (12 units)

PP 331 - Policy Evaluation
SP&E 318 - Cost-Benefit Analysis
IST 370 - GIS Essential Concepts OR IST 371 - Introduction to Solution Development AND IST 372 - GIS Analytics and Solution Development
IST 344 - Data Analytics an dInformation Visualization
IST 340 - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
IST 302 - Databases and Big Data
ONT105 - Research Methods for Community Change
Other applied methods courses as approved by your advisor

Foundational Courses for Social Science Research (12 units)

Econ 381 - Probability and Statistics
Econ 382 - Econometrics I (prerequisite: Econ 381)
Econ 317 - Game Theory and Asymmetric Information
SP&E 485 - Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research
PP 483 - Legal Studies
HIST 304 - Introduction to Oral History, Methodology, and Theory
CLST 415 - Ethnographic Field Research Methods in Cultural Studies
Psych 315J - Survey Research Methods (students must commit to both semesters of this course; 2 units per each semester)
Other foundational methods as approved by your advisor
- Note: In conferral with an advisor and as appropriate, students can take courses related to research methodology from any department at CGU.

Comparative Politics

Core Courses (12 units)

SP&E 350 - Theories and Issues in Comparative Politics
SP&E 351 - Comparative Institutional Analysis
SP&E 352 - Comparative Political Economy

Complete at least 3 additional classes with Faculty Advisor approval from the following (12 units):

SP&E 485 - Qualitative and Mixed Methods (recommended)
PP 353 - Comparative Parties & Elections
PP 354 - Politics of Developing Countries
PP 356 - Politics of Non-Democratic States
PP 364 - Democracy & Development
PP 366 - Latin American Politics
POST 225 - Politics of Africa
TNDY 405C - Wealth, Poverty and Inequality
Other courses can be taken with the approval of the field chair
- Note: Consult with Faculty Advisor to select best courses for your goals. Pre-approval of electives is required.

Public Law

Core Courses (12 units)

Choose three courses from the following. Students may choose to take additional courses from this section to count towards their electives. PP483 cannot count towards the field if used to satisfy other graduation requirements:

PP 318 - American Politics, Courts, and Public Policy
PP 326 - American Constitutional Law I: Introduction to the Law of the Constitution
PP 327 - American Constitutional Law II: Major Constitutional Developments since the Civil War
PP 328 - Rise & Operations of the Administrative State
PP 483 - Legal Research Methods

Electives (12 units)

Choose three courses as electives from the following. Substitutions require Field Chair approval:

PP 303 - Religion, Law, and American Politics
PP 305 - Executive-Congressional Relations
PP 306 - Legislative Process and Public Policy
PP 307 - The Modern Presidency
PP 310 - The American Presidency
PP 312 - The Supreme Court as a Political Institution
PP 316 - State and Local Institutions
PP 319 - Special Topics (including Perspectives on Judicial Power, National Security and Decision-Making, and Judicial Review)
PP 321 - Representative Democracy in the US
PP 325 - Judicial Power & the Growth of Government
PP 456 - Plato’s Laws

FIELDS (Department of International Studies)

Comparative Politics

Core Courses (16 units)

SP&E 350 - Theories and Issues in Comparative Politics
SP&E 351 - Comparative Institutional Analysis
SP&E 352 - Comparative Political Economy
One regionally-based course (for example, Africa, Asia, Middle East, Latin America, etc.)

Complete at least 2 additional classes with Faculty Advisor approval from the following (8 units):

PP 353 - Comparative Parties & Elections
PP 354 - Politics of Developing Countries
PP 356 - Politics of Non-Democratic States
PP 364 - Democracy & Development
PP 366 - Latin American Politics
POST 225 - Politics of Africa
TNDY 405C - Wealth, Poverty and Inequality
Other courses can be taken with the approval of the field chair

Note: Consult with Faculty Advisor to select best courses for your goals. Pre-approval of electives is required.

Computational Analytics

Core Courses (16 units)

SP&E 316 - Computational Agent-Based Modeling
SP&E 317 - Seminar in Formal Models
SP&E 448 - Seminar in Social Network Analysis
SP&E 486 - Data Analytics and Visualization

Complete at least 2 additional classes with Faculty Advisor approval from the following (8 units):

Computational Analytics

SP&E 488 - SAS Programming and Multivariate Analysis in International Studies
SP&E 318 - Cost-Benefit Analysis
ECON 321 - Advanced Topics in Experimental Economics
Psych 315J - Survey Research Methods
IST 382 - Introduction to GIS Solution Development
IST 333 - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Other approved elective from faculty advisor

Mathematics

MATH 352 - Nonparametric & Computational Statistics
MATH 354 - Reliability Theory
MATH 251 - Probability
MATH 256 - Stochastic Processes
MATH 366 - Data Mining
Other approved elective from faculty advisor

Policy Context

INST 401 - World Politics
SP&E 408 - Political Demography
SP&E 430 - Seminar in Conflict and Peace
SP&E 350 - Theories and Issues in Comparative Politics
SP&E 351 - Comparative Institutional Analysis
SP&E 352 - Comparative Political Economy
SP&E 411 - International Political Economy
SP&E 418 - Political Economy of International Development
Other approved elective from faculty advisor

Note: Consult with Faculty Advisor to select best courses for your goals. Pre-approval of electives is required.

Methods

Special transdisiplinary field by pre-approval only. Requires a pre-approved Ph.D. Exam Committee. Cannot be taken concurrently with Computational Analytics. Please contact your advisor for guidance on course sequences and specialization prior to transferring into this field.

World Politics

Core Courses (16 units)

INST 401 - World Politics
SP&E 430 - Seminar in Conflict & Peace
SP&E 410 - Political Economy of International Development
SP&E 411 - International Political Economy

Complete at least 2 additional classes with Faculty Advisor approval from the following (8 units):

SP&E 408 - Seminar in Political Demography
SP&E 429 - Political Economy of China
TNDY 404U - Energy & the Environment
INST 420A-H - Foreign Policy Courses
Other courses can be taken with the approval of the field chair

Note: Consult with Faculty Advisor to select best courses for your goals. Pre-approval of electives is required.

International Political Economy

This field is available only for students in the Department of International Studies who are interfield with the Department of Economic Sciences.

Core Courses (12 units)

SP&E 350 - Theories and Issues in Comparative Politics
SP&E 410 - Political Economy of International Development
INST 401 - World Politics

Complete at least 2 additional classes with Faculty Advisor approval from the following (8 units):

PP 353 - Comparative Parties & Elections
SP&E 408 - Political Demography
PP 353 - Comparative Parties & Elections
PP 354 - Politics of Developing Countries
PP 356 - Politics of Non-Democratic States
PP 364 - Democracy & Development
PP 366 - Latin American Politics
POST 225 - Politics of Africa
Other approved elective from faculty advisor

Electives

8 units - 12 units depending on coursework plan. See your academic advisor and Program Coordinator for details.