IRLS501 - Comparative Political Systems

Course Details

Course Code: IRLS501 Course ID: 3549 Credit Hours: 3 Level: Graduate

This course examines a broad range of governments utilizing the comparative method of analysis. Students will study democracies, monarchies, dictatorships and authoritarian forms of government. Students will participate in various class projects emphasizing contemporary problems of the various forms of governments of nation states today. This will take into consideration cultural differences and similarities, human nature, and the approaches of individual governments different from that of the American norm in carrying out their basic responsibility to maintain and strengthen society by equal justice for all of its citizens.

Course Schedule

Registration Dates Course Dates Start Month Session Weeks
Registration06/30/2025 - 11/28/2025 Course Dates12/01/2025 - 01/25/2026 Start Month December SessionFall 2025 Session D Weeks8 Week session
Registration09/29/2025 - 02/27/2026 Course Dates03/02/2026 - 04/26/2026 Start Month March SessionWinter 2026 Session D Weeks8 Week session
Registration06/30/2025 - 11/28/2025 Course Dates12/01/2025 - 01/25/2026 Start Month December SessionFall 2025 Session D Weeks8 Week session
Registration09/29/2025 - 02/27/2026 Course Dates03/02/2026 - 04/26/2026 Start Month March SessionWinter 2026 Session D Weeks8 Week session

Previous Syllabi

Not current for future courses.