{"id":28363,"date":"2025-09-19T14:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/psc-492-controversies-in-political-science\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T13:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:24:33","slug":"psc-492-controversies-in-political-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/psc-492-controversies-in-political-science\/","title":{"rendered":"PSC 492: Controversies in Political Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> <a href='mailto:pingxu@uri.edu?subject=Questions%20regarding%20Winter%20J%20Term:%20%20-%20'>Xu, Ping<\/a><br \/>\nSignificant questions persist in the field of political science. This class brings together conflicting scholarship around debates that drive research in the field: definition, measurement, historical dynamics, causes, and consequences. (Online) Pre: PSC 113 and 116.<br \/>\n4 crs.<br \/>\n<strong>Schedule:<\/strong> Online<br \/>\n<strong>Start Date &#8211; End Date:<\/strong> 1\/2-1\/16<br \/>\n<strong>General education outcome:<\/strong> N\/A<br \/>\n<strong>Course delivery:<\/strong> Online-Asynchronous<br \/>\n<strong>Inclusive access fee: <\/strong>N\/A<br \/>\n<strong>Additional fees:<\/strong> No additional fees.<\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1909\/PSC-492-2020.pdf\" title=\"\">Syllabus<\/a>\n<p><a class=\"cl-button prominent\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/register\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn how to register<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant questions persist in the field of political science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":28378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-28363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-undergraduate","tag-n-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29233,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28363\/revisions\/29233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/jterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}