Teaching
Courses taught by Shuyuan Shen at Loyola Marymount University.
Teaching
Courses that connect political institutions, information, and evidence
My courses invite students to compare political systems, analyze how information changes political behavior, and use empirical evidence to evaluate competing explanations.
Foundational course
Comparative Politics
An introduction to the comparative study of political institutions, regimes, and behavior.
Regional politics
Chinese Politics
The domestic institutions and international politics of contemporary China.
Upper-level seminar
Authoritarian Politics
Institutions, governance, and citizen behavior under authoritarian regimes.
Upper-level seminar
Media, Technology & Democracy
How media systems and information technologies strengthen—or undermine—democratic politics.
Methods course · Fall 2026
Computational Social Science
Computational approaches for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting political and social data.