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3.00 Credits
This course aids students in examining the American political party system, its dynamics, and its attachments to private and public sector interest groups, PACs and other interest aggregators. Included in this course is at least one project in which students conduct research into one or several interest groups or PACs, examining their behaviors associated with agenda building and fund disbursements. Prerequisite: PS 115 or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to analytical concepts and theories with which to examine the politics of Western Europe. Students also investigate the structures and processes of several West European governments and discuss current challenges facing the states of Western Europe. Special attention is given to the attempt by the European Union to unite Europe economically and politically. Prerequisite: SS 111 or permission of the instructor. (Cross-listed as HI 323.)
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3.00 Credits
Economic, political, and social changes in the USSR and its successor states are studied in this course. Other countries in Eastern Europe are examined in comparison. (Cross-listed as HI 326.)
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on experiences of women and minority groups as they interact within their distinctive group as well as with one another, men, and various formal and informal social institutions in American History. (Cross-listed as HI 335.)
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to familiarize students with the culture and politics of the American South (as defined as those states that seceded from the Union via convention in 1859-60), its major figures, and its unique political culture, with an emphasis on the tension and conflict arising from a history of oppression and political disfranchisement. The course is meant to be a dual-disciplinary examination of the eleven formerly Confederate states from the 1920s through the elite/populist and modern periods to the present, with an eye to examining the foundations of the current trends in Southern politics. (Cross-listed as HI 345.)
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to examine selected problems concerning the nature of law and its relation to morality. Topics to be addressed may include one or more of the following: (i) the moral limits of the law, (ii) moral issues in constitutional law, (iii) the nature of law, and (iv) legal ethics. Issues to be discussed under these topics may include "What is law " "How is it related to morality " "What are the moral limits of governmental coercion " "Is the practice of law inherently immoral " Additionally, issues in constitutional law relating to topics such as abortion, capital punishment, affirmative action, and gay rights may be covered, as well as the moral, historical and political basis of the United States Constitution. Prerequisite: One course in Philosophy or Political Science or permission of instructor. (Cross-listed as PH
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3.00 Credits
This class will be an undergraduate research seminar. Students will spend the first weeks examining what researchers know about the subject under investigation before beginning work on an original research project. The goal of this course is to produce scholarly research worthy of publication. Prerequisites: PS 115, 117, or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Political sociology is the study of the relationships between society and politics. Students will become familiar with the conceptual ways in which sociologists study the relationship between social structures and social interactions and politics. Topics studied include power, elite formations, political movements, and political culture. The course will consider a number of accounts (qualitative, quantitative, historical, and comparative) of social life in order to uncover the political nature of society and human interaction. Emphasis is placed on student applications of these frameworks and the development of diverse approaches to understanding political processes. Prerequisite: nine hours in sociology or political science or permission of the instructor. (Cross listed as SO 410.)
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3.00 Credits
This seminar is an applied course in research methods. All students must apply for entry to the course. This application must include the target conference towards which the student is developing a paper for presentation, a précis of the plan for completion of the project, and a general idea of the data or other materials that will be required by the project. Prerequisites: PS 203, 274, and permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the foreign policies of several countries from various regions of the world. Emphasis is placed on the different conditions, cultural contexts, economic circumstances, and security concerns facing diverse states. Theories of the process of foreign policy making are examined in an effort to observe similarities and differences across political systems. The foreign policies of a wide variety of Western and non-Western countries are examined, such as France, Mexico, Iran, India, Japan, and China. Prerequisite: PS 117 or permission of the instructor.
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