Teaching

University of Houston

Undergraduate Courses

POLS 3319 - Politics of Social Policy

Fall 2025 Syllabus

GOVT 2305 - American and Texas Government II

Fall 2026 Syllabus

Spring 2026 Syllabus

Fall 2025 Syllabus

POLS 3375 - Health Care Policy and Politics

Last taught in 2023.

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Graduate Courses

POLS 6309 - American Politics Field Survey

Spring 2026 Syllabus

POLS 6394 - Social Science Computation and Data Science

Term: Fall 2026
Institution: University of Houston
Meeting: Tuesday/Thursday, 1:00–2:20 PM, PGH 310
Instructor: Boris Shor
Teaching assistant: Amanda Austin

This practical computing course covers R, data wrangling, graphics, web APIs, GitHub, Quarto, and AI-assisted work. It is taught in two parts: AI tools are prohibited in the first and required in the second.

Syllabus (Markdown)

Syllabus (PDF)

Reading List

POLS 6316 - Health Care Politics and Policy

Last taught in 2024.

POLS 6360 - State Politics

Last taught in 2023.

POLS 6366 - Political Parties

Last taught in 2017.