Below is the description of the courses for MA and Ph.D. in Political Science Programs at UIII
Foundation and Scope
| Code | Course Title | Course Description |
| POL201 | Foundation and Scope of Political Science | This course aims at providing an overview of constitutive elements of political science, the logic of inferences, and the types of arguments used in explaining the political phenomena. This course will also survey various approaches or theories used in different fields of political science such as comparative politics and international relations. |
| POL202 | Research Design in Political Science | This course serves as an introduction to empirical research in Political Science. It teaches students basic concepts and ideas of scientific inquiry. The goal of the course is to help students to be able to develop an appropriate research design for different types of research problems or questions in political studies. |
| POL211 | Comparative Politics Theory | This course is designed to provide students with a strong theoretical and methodological foundation in comparative politics. It covers key methodological approaches, issues, and key themes in the comparative study of politics such as political regimes, state formation, democratization, contentious politics, and state-society relations. |
| POL231 | International Relations Theory | This seminar explores the main theories of international relations. The course surveys literature on, and the development of, the IR as a field of study. It is also designed to equip students with an understanding of the potential and limitations of theory in the study of international politics. |
Research Methods
| Code | Course Title | Course Description |
| POL203 | Qualitative and Comparative Research Method | The course provides students with a broad overview of qualitative and comparative methods in political science. It also gives students a solid foundation to conceptualize their research in terms of research questions and design, data collection, and empirical analysis. The course will also introduce students to the foundations of comparative research in political science. |
| POL204 | Statistics for Political Analysis | This is an introductory course to statistical analysis. Other than covering basic elements of statistics such as mean, median, variance, standard deviation, and central limit theorem, the course also introduces regression analysis, especially ordinary least square and categorical dependent analysis. |
| POL205 | Advanced Statistical Analysis | This course aims to equip students with advanced statistical tools that are often required to address more advanced statistical questions. Depending on the needs or interests of students, the course may teach different types of statistical models, such as hierarchical linear models, time series and panel data, and structural equation models. |
Comparative Politics
| Code | Course Title | Course Description |
| POL212 | Comparative Electoral Politics in Muslim Societies | The course provides a survey of major theoretical approaches and empirical research in the field of electoral competition and political behaviors. It focuses on social psychological approaches to understanding political beliefs, attitudes, and actions, and on the implications of individual choices for collective outcomes. |
| POL213 | Religion and State Formation | This course will survey major issues and theories in explaining the effect of religion on state formation. It will discuss how religion affected the formation and development of the modern state. Besides, the course will also discuss how politics may affect religion and other social development. |
| POL215 | Social Movements in the Muslim World | This course explores topics on mobilized collective action aimed at achieving or preventing social and political change. It investigates several issues of abiding concern within the study of contentious politics: repertoires, networks, government responses to protest (repression and concessions), and protest policing. |
| POL218 | Religion, Democracy, and Development | This course will contribute to students’ capacity for critical thinking on socio-political phenomena about religion, democracy, and development, in addition to their ability to ask appropriate questions and develop well-grounded arguments. In this regard, students will encounter readings that may challenge their personal opinions. They should keep in mind that in highly politicized issues there are multiple ways of answering questions. |
| POL219 | Identity and Democratic Citizenship | This course offers a study on the politics of identity with reference to experiences in different world regions. The politics of nationalism that includes ethnicity, religion, race, and gender, and the relationship of such forms of identity politics to democracy, tolerance, pluralism, violence, socioeconomic change, and equality will be explored. |
| POL251 | Islam, the State, and Politics in Indonesia | This course discusses the relationship between Islam, the State, and politics in Indonesia from independence until the present. In general, this course will critically analyze the development of political Islam under Soekarno’s Old Order Regime (1945-1966), Soeharto’s New Order Regime (1966- 1998), and post-Soeharto Indonesia (1998-present). |
International Relations
| Code | Course Title | Course Description |
| POL232 | International Security and Strategic Studies | This course is designed to familiarize students with major theoretical approaches to the study of international security. It will cover key literature on the causes of peace and war. The goal is to help students to grasp the key questions in the study of international security and how International Relations scholars from different major theoretical approaches address the questions. |
| POL235 | Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis | The course will survey the issues and theories of foreign policy analysis. It deals with foreign policymaking from a broad comparative perspective. The goal of the course is to help students to understand major theoretical debates in explaining the primary sources of incentive, constraints, and preferences of decision-makers in foreign affairs. |
| POL236 | Cooperation and Conflicts in the Muslim World | This course is designed to explore the key literature on international cooperation and conflicts. Discussions will focus on crisis/conflict management; bargaining in crisis; UN and superpower crisis intervention; deterrence and war prevention; theories of war, polarity, crisis, and stability, especially as they are applied to the Muslim World. |
| POL237 | Muslim World and Global Affairs | This course covers several dimensions of Muslim societies in world affairs, with a special emphasis on events from the latter half of the 20th century until today. These include the compatibility of Islam and nationalism, the significance of Islamic transnationalism, the role of the pan-Islamic ideal, the impact of radical networks, the position of Muslim minorities, and the effects of globalization. |
| POL238 | Global Competition for Technological Advancement | This course provides an overview of issues and theories in the study of how politics interact with technological changes. The goal of the course is to help the student to develop intellectuals to understand the political and material dimensions of technological developments from both domestic and international perspectives. |
| POL239 | Indonesia’s Foreign Policy Analysis | This course discusses the foundation and the development of Indonesia's Foreign policy from its early independence to the present time. It also covers the practices of foreign policy within the local-global nexus and the dynamic of Indonesia’s regional primary strategic interest. The course also introduces the conceptual framework in the study of Foreign Policy Analysis. |