Political Science at Boston College
Boston College Political Science courses: 55 listings with descriptions, sections, instructor ratings, and teaching history.
Political Science at Boston College offers 55 courses in the current catalog, from POLI1021 How to Rule the World: Introduction to Political Theory to POLI7996 Dissertation Seminar. Each course page on Linden Study shows the catalog description, credits and prerequisites, the sections offered each term, and the instructors who have taught it, with aggregate ratings from Boston College's published course evaluations, and from Rate My Professors where available, each labelled with its source. Teaching records here cover 50 instructors across 16 terms, from Fall 2021 to Fall 2026.
1000-level courses
- POLI1021 How to Rule the World: Introduction to Political Theory
- POLI1041 Fundamental Concepts of Politics
- POLI1042 Introduction to Modern Politics
- POLI1061 Introduction to American Politics
- POLI1081 Introduction to International Politics
- POLI1091 Introduction to Comparative Politics
- POLI1209 Visions of Authoritarianism
- POLI1229 African Political Parties
- POLI1266 State Building and Conflict in Africa
- POLI1267 Politics of Development in Africa
- POLI1270 The High Price of Free Speech
2000-level courses
- POLI2263 International Environmental Policy and Law
- POLI2301 Policy and Politics in the U.S.
- POLI2304 Constitutional Law: Rights and Liberties
- POLI2306 Parties and Elections in America
- POLI2325 The 'Administrative State' and Its Critics
- POLI2339 State and Local Government
- POLI2367 Media and Politics
- POLI2368 Sem:Urban-Rural Politics
- POLI2402 Comparative Revolutions
- POLI2407 Introduction to South Asian Politics
- POLI2412 Political Parties, Voters and Party Systems in Comparative Perspective
- POLI2419 Chinese Politics
- POLI2439 Cops, Colonels, and Spies
- POLI2440 A Continent on the Move: Immigration in Contemporary Europe
- POLI2506 UN and International Security
- POLI2515 The Politics of International Money and Finance
- POLI2542 Nuclear Weapons Politics and Governance
- POLI2549 United States Foreign Policy 1945 to Present
- POLI2615 Islam and Liberal Democracy
- POLI2619 Religion and Politics in Late Modernity
- POLI2625 Islam, the Muslim World, and Democratic Politics
3000-level courses
- POLI3340 Sem: Democracy and Our Schools
- POLI3404 Seminar: The Anatomy of Dictatorship
- POLI3405 The Politics of the European Union
- POLI3406 Irish Politics 1916 to Present
- POLI3505 The Future of War
- POLI3510 Globalization
- POLI3521 International Law
- POLI3527 Terrorism, Insurgency, and Political Violence
- POLI3570 The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- POLI3604 Capitalism and Socialism
4000-level courses
- POLI4397 New Questions in American Politics
- POLI4483 Game Theory and Modeling in Political Analysis
- POLI4595 Current Issues in U.S. Foreign Policy
- POLI4597 Realist Theories of International Relations
- POLI4931 Honors Seminar
- POLI4951 Senior Thesis I
- POLI4961 Honors Thesis in Political Science I