by Sue Davis, PhD
APSA Program Director

Award-Winning Teachers Syllabi Collection

Other APSA Syllabi

Every year, colleges and universities across America recognize exceptional teachers by giving out awards for excellence. APSA publishes the names, and often the pictures, of as many of these award winners as possible in our journal, PS: Political Science and Politics, each year. In addition, these wonderful teachers are acknowledged at the APSA Annual Meeting and on APSANet in recognition of their campus-wide teaching awards.

This collection continues in that tradition of acknowledging excellence in teaching by showcasing those who win campus-wide teaching awards.

In addition to the syllabi, each author was asked to write a short essay explaining their teaching philosophy, the way they addressed the particular course to which the syllabi refers, and/or why they think they received a teaching award. Hopefully, these essays also will help shed light on what makes a good teacher and a good course. These will also be of particular interest to those on the job market who are often asked to write such statements when applying for jobs.

These syllabi come from a variety of different types of colleges and universities and cover many different courses and subjects: graduate, upper and lower division, international relations, political theory, American government, comparative politics, women and politics, public law, public policy, race and ethnic politics, conflict resolution, and methods. Our hopes for this compilation are that this diverse group of syllabi will help us to better understand what constitutes exceptional teaching in a variety of ways, that the collection helps teachers to feel more valued in the profession, and that the syllabi give those who read it interesting ideas and useful methods for improving our teaching.

The collection is organized in alphabetical order by author. The table of contents lists the title of the course, its course number, the institution of the author, and their contact information.

I hope you find this collection useful and I hope it is only the first installment of syllabi on teaching award winners. If you have received, or know someone who has received, a teaching award and would like to be included in a second compilation, please contact me .

I would like to thank David Allen, Colorado State University, for the title of the collection.

SYLLABI COLLECTION INCLUDES:

Civil Rights in the United States
Empirical Political Analysis
David W. Allen, Colorado State University

Introduction to Political Thought
Marc Belanger, Saint Mary's College

Women and United States Politics
MaryAnne Borrelli, Connecticut College

Law and Society
Civil Liberties and the Constitution
Steven Brown, Auburn University

Ethnopolitical and Community Based Conflict
Theories of Conflict and Conflict Resolution I
Sean Byrne, Nova Southeastern University

African American Women and Politics
Rosalee Clawson, Purdue University

Problems of Contemporary Political Theory
Suzanne Dovi, University of Arizona

Women's Lives in Asian & African Cultures
Joe Dunn, Converse University

Campaigns and Elections
Paul Fabrizio, McMurray University

Research Seminar: Political Participation
Mobilization: Exploring African American and Latinos
John Garcia, University of Arizona

Research and Writing in Political Science
Stephen J. Farnsworth, Mary Washington College

Soviet and Post Soviet Russian Foreign Policy
Regime Transformations
Gordon Hahn, Stanford University

Political Change in America
Ronald Kahn, Oberlin College

The National Executive
Karen Kedrowski, Winthrop University

Special Topics: Japanese Politics
Vincent Kelly Pollard, University of Hawaii, Manoa

The New World Order/Disorder in The Post-Cold War Era
Martin Rochester, University of Missouri, St Louis

Introduction to Public Policy
Martin Sellers, Campbell University

Introduction to Comparative Politics
Stephen M. Shellman, Florida State University

Senior Seminar: Law and Social Movements
Helena Silverstein, Lafayette College

Interest Groups and Money in Politics
Gary Wekkin, University of Central Arkansas