Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to International Relations
POLS 285 | Northern Illinois University
Theories, models, and concepts commonly used to explain international relations with an emphasis on the use of these constructs to analyze contemporary international problems and issues.
International Law and Organization
POLS 389 | Northern Illinois University
Principles of the international law of peace, war, and neutrality. The origins, structure, and functioning of the United Nations and its specialized agencies.
International Security
POLS 387 | Northern Illinois University
Survey of the most salient issues in international security, including topics such as nuclear proliferation, intrastate conflicts, conflict management, and interstate rivalry.
Topics in Contemporary Security: Global Protest Movements
POLS 382 | Northern Illinois University
Analysis of major theoretical perspectives and debates associated with contemporary conflicts, including issues such as terrorism, drone warfare, civil wars, conflict in developing nations, inter-state conflict, nuclear weapons development, small-arms proliferation, and religious violence.
Graduate Courses
Introductory Analysis of Political Data
POLS 641 | Northern Illinois University
Consideration of basic concepts in data analysis and statistics such as central tendency, dispersion, probability, confidence intervals, statistical significance, correlation, and bivariate regression.
International Security
POLS 681 | Northern Illinois University
Seminar addresses major theoretical perspectives in security studies, surveys some of the most important substantive areas and debates in the field, and applies theories and arguments from the academic literature to contemporary policy problems. Topics to be covered include but are not limited to the use of force, weapons of mass destruction, intra-state conflict, and great power rivalry.
Contentious Politics
POLS 689 | Northern Illinois University
Seminar addresses major theoretical perspectives in security studies, surveys some of the most important substantive areas and debates in the field, and applies theories and arguments from the academic literature to contemporary policy problems. Topics to be covered include but are not limited to the use of force, weapons of mass destruction, intra-state conflict, and great power rivalry.
Intermediate Analysis of Political Data
POLS 642 | Northern Illinois University
Regression analysis techniques in political research. Simple bivariate statistical models through structural modeling.
Theories of International Relations
POLS 680 | Northern Illinois University
Seminar surveying the major theories and methods used in contemporary international relations. Consideration of the nature of international relations and provides a broad sampling of systemic and subsystemic approaches.