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POL 1000 Introduction to Political Science
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An overview of the discipline and introduction to the basic concepts and vocabulary of political science and its subfields. Its purpose is to enable students to grasp the nature and scope of the discipline and to equip them with the conceptual tools with which to examine the complexities of politics in greater depth. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2010 Introduction to Law and the Judiciary
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Surveys the American legal system. Provides an understanding of the strengths and weakness of law and the role law plays in a complex modern society. The course is a blend of theory and case analysis in areas such as constitutional interpretation, due process, criminal law, civil law, torts, contracts, and property. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2020 Criminal Law and Procedure
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A study of criminal law and procedure that focuses on the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. A survey of the process from the arrest stages through sentencing and appeals. Included in the survey is search and seizure, right to an attorney, and the exclusionary rule. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2030 Topics in Legal Issues
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Provides students with an opportunity to fully investigate a legal issue from all aspects of the political arena and at all levels. Topics may include: civil, criminal, civil rights, gender rights, right to privacy, or sexuality. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2040 Tort Law
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A survey of the areas of tort law including intentional, negligence, and strict liability. Topics include assault and battery, false imprisonment, defamation, the right of to privacy, malpractice, duty of care, and product liability. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2050 Political Fiction
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Exploration of the premise that significant insight into politics can be gained through the medium of political fiction. The class, by reading fictional accounts of politics from a variety of historical eras and settings, attempts to define political fiction and discern political meaning from these fictional artifacts. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2100 American Politics
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An introduction to the study of American politics. Familiarizes students with the basic concepts of the American political system: its foundations (or roots), its primary institutions and their interaction with one another, its primary actors and their political behavior, and its public policy-making process. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2470 Administrative Law
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This course surveys the law of the administrative state, considering rationales for delegation to administrative agencies, procedural and substantive constraints of agency decision-making, and the judicial review of agency actions. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2510 International Relations
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An examination of the various approaches to the study of international relations, the evolution of world politics, the forces that motivate nation-states behavior toward one another, and the sources and instruments of both conflict and cooperation in international politics. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2520 Foreign Policy of The United States
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A study of the substantive issues and specialized procedures in American foreign policy. The constitutional provisions, historical traditions, and political values affecting the foreign relations of the United States. Relations with major powers. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2600 Introduction to Comparative Politics
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Through the use of political system types and representative country studies, this course explores the historical and cultural sources of politics in contemporary nation-states. Topics include the institutional and behavioral dimensions of politics, the making of public policy, and the challenge of change in a variety of settings. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 2800 Legal Research
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Develops basic skills in researching and analyzing legal problems. Emphasis is giving to preparing and writing legal complaints, memoranda, and attorney briefs. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3100 Women and Politics
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An examination of the role of women in American political life; the suffrage movement; gender differences in attitudes and voting; and employment and economic status. The approach will be both historical and contemporary. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3200 Public Administration
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The interface of politics and administration, value and fact are examined in order to understand the unique characteristics of the environment of decision-making experienced by public and quasi-public administrators, including those serving in health care organizations and welfare agencies. Topics include legislative relations, budgeting, organization theory, personnel and labor relations, conflict resolution and collective bargaining decision-making, and administrative law. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3220 Public Policy Analysis
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An examination of the basic concepts of and methods for analyzing public policy making in the United States. Identification of the important factors at every step, including interested public and private groups, governmental decision-makers, bureaucrats, and program evaluators. Examination of selected policy issues facing our political system. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3230 Personnel Management and Labor Relations
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Basic labor relations, personnel management, and collective bargaining practices and developments are examined, emphasizing the political nature of the public and quasi-public organization. Subjects include motivation and morale, evaluation of employee performance, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, dispute resolution, employee organizations and collective bargaining. The instructor, a public sector labor arbitrator and fact-finder, places special emphasis on labor relations and dispute resolution. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3240 Government Budgeting
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The budget is examined as a major instrument of power, policy, outputs and outcomes at the national, state and local levels of government. The history, development, and changing forms and uses of the budget process have altered American politics in a significant fashion. Attention is given to the various modes of budgeting and their usefulness, including line-item, program, PPBS, and zero-base formats. The impact of political-budgetary considerations on quasi-public organizations such as health care organizations, foundations, and child care agencies is also reviewed. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3250 Comparative Administrative Systems
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A study of the structures, forms, control and/or level of citizen participation of public and quasi-public agencies primarily in western representative democracies, with some comparisons with developing systems. Bureaucracy and its forms of cultural adaptation. Comparisons of the relationship between political and economic systems. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3300 Government and the Economy
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An analysis of the government-economy relationship, including policy issues, public vs. private sector outlooks, economic schools and paradigms. The political economy pre-1932, Keynesianism, the supply-side school and its sequel are examined, with the policy life cycle and popular politics, the role of the courts and administrative agencies, and the supportive, regulatory and managerial functions of government. Monetary and fiscal policy, monopoly and anti-trust policy, organized labor are also reviewed. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3390 Issues in Public Policy
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Focuses on United States domestic policy. Topics may include civil rights, energy, housing, the environment and transportation, health and welfare. These topics are examined within the framework of policy analysis. See the course schedule for the topic focus in any one semester. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3420 American Constitution and Public Law
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A case law course on the American constitutional system. Topics include: presidential and congressional powers; impeachment; federal-state relations; major state powers; commerce and general welfare clauses. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3460 Civil Liberties and Equality
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A case law course examines the recent developments and court decisions on the frontiers of civil rights and liberties. Recent cases such as abortion, homosexuality, right-to-die, the limits of protected speech and artistic expression, and the conflict of religious values and state authority are discussed as is the evolving multi-tiered standards of equality under current interpretations of the 14th Amendment. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3510 International Law
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Examines the substantive rules of international law and the international procedures for the peaceful settlement of conflicts of claims. Explores the relevance and essence of international law, as well as possible ways and means to make it more equitable and binding in the resolution of conflicts involving nations of varying sizes and strengths. Topics include: sovereignty, territory, diplomatic relations, treaties, peaceful means for settlement of conflicts, protection of human rights, and law of the sea. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3800 Elements of Political Thought
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Traces the development of political ideologies most relevant to contemporary politics. Examines themes germane to the study of political theory: political obligation (the relationship between the individual and the state), justice, freedom, equality, democracy, and the tension between individual rights and social responsibilities. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3860 Politics and the Media
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The development of the media as an agency of political change, i.e., as a force in shaping our view of reality. Also examined are image creation, the development of public relations, the shaping of policy and candidates, capital intensive electronic high technology and its impact on elections, the weakening of political parties and reduced attention to issues as opposed to the election, and media relations practices of regulated industries and foreign firms. Differences in press-government relations in the U.S. and Canada are also examined. Research paper, field trip. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3900 Governmental Internship
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Open by permission to select undergraduates with 12 or more cr. in political science. Also open to graduate students with permission of the student's graduate advisor. Students are offered an opportunity to correlate classroom material with practical experience in public affairs. The undergraduate or graduate intern working 20 hours a week or less in a public agency or non-governmental agency related to a governmental function may earn three hours of academic credit a semester. The undergraduate intern who works full-time may earn up to nine hours per semester. See department advisor for further information. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3910 Washington Seminar
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Prerequisites:
Corequisites: POL 3940
A required course taken in conjunction with the Washington Center Internship. Classes are offered through the Center one evening a week in Congressional studies, policy evaluation, law, and justice studies. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 3940 Washington internship
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Prerequisites:
Corequisites: POL 3910
Full-time placement in government agencies, public interest law firms, congressional committees, foreign affairs lobbies, and the public communications media. Arranged through the Washington Center in the area of the student's interest. Open to Majors and non-majors with second semester sophomore status and 2.5 QPA. Only nine hours count toward the major although all count toward graduation. Admission at the discretion of the political science faculty. Shorter seminars available for reduced credit. Summer sessions available for 7 credits. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4520 Foreign Policy of The United States
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A study of the substantive issues and specialized procedures in American foreign policy. The constitutional provisions, historical traditions, and political values affecting the foreign relations of the United States. Relations with major powers. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4530 Japanese Politics
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Focuses on the historical and cultural context of contemporary Japanese politics, the fascist interregnum, Japan's postwar economic and political miracle, and the role of parties, elections, interest groups, and the bureaucracy in this unique, Eastern parliamentary democracy. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4540 International Law
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Examines the substantive rules of international law and the international procedures for the peaceful settlement of conflicts of claims. Explores the relevance and essence of international law, as well as possible ways and means to make it more equitable and binding in the resolution of conflicts involving nations of varying sizes and strengths. Topics include: sovereignty, territory, diplomatic relations, treaties, peaceful means for settlement of conflicts, protection of human rights, and law of the sea. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4550 International Business Law
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Designed to provide an analytical framework, based on microeconomic theory, for studying law and policy questions relating to international trade issues. Topics covered include comparative advantage and the gains from trade, patterns of trade, the effects of tariffs, subsidies and other trade laws, balance of payments issues, exchange rate determination, and industrial policy. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4570 International Political Economy
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Surveys the current international economic order and the distribution of economic power among major states and groups of states. The dynamics of the international political economy and contending perspectives on changes in the world economic order. Topics include: the politics of international trade, the international monetary system, multinational corporations, international production, international debt problems, and emergent global environmental concerns. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4600 European Politics
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The similarities and differences in the historical development, political culture, institutions, behaviors, and patterns of policy in select West European countries. It also explores the European Economic Community and the ongoing re-integration of East and Central European states into a united Europe. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4610 Russian Politics
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Examines the historic and cultural origins of the collapse of tsarism and the subsequent Bolshevik Revolution and the communist Soviet Union, the study of this country in the West, Leninism, Stalinism, de-Stalinization, the demise of the Soviet Union and Empire, and contemporary attempts to establish and consolidate post-communism. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4630 Third World Politics
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A comparative study of the processes and issues of political and economic modernization in select Asian, African, and Latin American countries. It provides an inquiry into the economic, social and psychological dimensions of politics, and studies the issues of stability, order, revolution, and political development. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4660 Chinese Politics
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Examines the historic and cultural origins of the communist experience in the People's Republic of China. It surveys the similarities and differences between China and other communist states, the institutionalization of communist politics under Mao, the market Leninism characteristic of the Deng era, and the future prospects for political and economic transition. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4670 Politics in Africa
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A comparative study of politics in selected countries and regions of Africa, touching on such problems as apartheid, education, standard of living, and modernization. The course examines the social and political changes as well as stagnation in Africa, including some of the evolution of governmental, educational, commercial, and religious institutions which shape African society, and the different patterns of political and social change which have emerged since independence. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4950 Directed Studies
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Directed readings and research in a field of the student's special interest. Assignments vary according to the number of credits. | 1 | 0 | 0 | | |
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POL 4990 Senior Seminar
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Designed to provide the student with an opportunity to integrate a specific problem with the total field of Political Science. Intensive research and/or reading of a particular theme or topic. Course content varies from term to term. | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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