AIIP Track

U.S. Constitution

The Department of Politics, in collaboration with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, offers the Program in American Ideas and Institutions (AIIP) for students who wish to further and to demonstrate their understandings of the three branches of the federal government and the values, ideas, and theories that underlie them and are animated by their workings. It draws together a menu of courses from American politics, political theory, public law, and other departmental offerings.

Spring 2023 Course Offerings (AIIP)

POL 332 Topics in American Statesmanship: The Art of Statesmanship and the Political Life
Instructor: Shilo Brooks, Assistant Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Lecturer in the Department of Politics

POL 493 The Philosophy of Law in America
Instructor: R.J. Snell, Director of Academic Programs, The Witherspoon Institute

POL 494 Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Inquiry
Instructor: Marc DeGirolami, Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics; Cary Fields Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Law and Religion at St. John's University

Fall 2022 Course Offerings (AIIP)

Instructor: Lauren Wright, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer in the School of Public and International Affairs and Politics
 
Instructor: John Kastellec, Professor of Politics
 
Instructor: Paul Frymer, Professor of Politics and Director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs
 
Instructor: Steven A. Kelts, Lecturer in Politics and the University Center for Human Values
 
Instructor: Allen C. Guelzo, Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship

Spring 2022 Course Offerings (AIIP)

Instructor: Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
 
Instructor: Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics
 
Instructor: John Kastellec, Associate Professor of Politics
 
Instructor: Frances Lee, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs
 
Instructor: Charles Cameron, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs

Fall 2021 Course Offerings (AIIP)

Instructor: Lauren Wright, Associate Research Scholar in Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
 
Instructor: Allen Guelzo, Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
 
Instructor: Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
 
Instructor: Sara Staszak, Research Scholar and Lecturer, School of Public and International Affairs
 
Instructor: Stephen Macedo, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values

Spring 2021 Course Offerings (AIIP)

Instructor: Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
 
Instructor: Keith E. Whittington, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics
 
Instructor: Charles M. Cameron, Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
 
Instructor: Matthew J. Franck, Associate Director, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Lecturer in Politics
 

Fall 2020 Course Offerings (AIIP)

Instructor: Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence
 
Instructor: Lauren A. Wright, Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs