{"id":60487,"date":"2025-08-19T13:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/psc-492-controversies-in-political-science\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:15:33","slug":"psc-492-controversies-in-political-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/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%20Summer%20Sessions:%20PSC%20492:%20Controversies%20in%20Political%20Science%20-%20Session 1'>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>Session 1<\/strong> (5\/18-6\/20)<br \/>\n<strong>Schedule:<\/strong> Online<br \/>\n<strong>Course delivery:<\/strong> Online-Asynchronous<br \/>\n<strong>General education outcome:<\/strong> N\/A<br \/>\n<strong>Additional fees:<\/strong> No additional fees.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cl-button prominent\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/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":5152,"featured_media":54344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[1045],"class_list":["post-60487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-session-1","tag-n-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61277,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60487\/revisions\/61277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/summer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}