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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Studies civil liberties in contemporary United States culture, theory and history underlying them. It also studies Supreme Court cases dealing with free speech and press in an era of communications. Freedom of association, religious liberties and rights of ethnic minorities will be included for discussion.
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3.00 Credits
Provides analysis and understanding of the organizations, functions, development and behavior of the nation's legislative, executive, and judicial branches as well as bureaucracies. It will study the principles of the Constitution of the United States of America and survey the political and social institutions which have developed under the Constitution and its amendments.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the nature and foundation of international law. It will focus on recognition of states and governments, territorial jurisdiction .and jurisdiction on the high seas and sovereign immunities in foreign courts. Aliens and international agreements, legal regulation of the use of force will also be studied.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an analysis of American foreign policy administration and conduct of foreign affairs. It will also focus on the major foreign policy problems and case studies in decision-making. Objectives, instruments and consequences of national security policy will also be studied.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the political and social ideas of African American thinkers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as contemporary political expressions of the "Black experience." It examines the relationship between "black political identity," concepts of "the black community" and political behavior. It also examines the varied ways in which Black political thinkers have defined freedom, justice, and equality in an effort to effect social and political change. Prerequisites: Six hours of PS courses at 100 or 200 level.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the history, formation, and development of Western political thought by examining the principal ideas of major political theorists like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Lenin, etc. An emphasis is placed on understanding concrete political and social problems through concepts like power, freedom, equality, justice, citizenship, and political participation.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ideas of leading contemporary political thinkers and the ideologies associated with recent political movements. It examines classical and modern liberalism, conservatism, socialism, feminism, Black nationalism, environmentalism, postcolonialism, and postmodernism. The Civil Rights Movement, Women's Liberation Movement, and the Black Power Movement, among others, will be analyzed in relation to these contemporary political ideologies. Prerequisite: Six hours of PS courses or with permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a directed study and supervised independent research on selected governmental and political topics. Open to juniors and seniors with the consent of department head. Students may not repeat the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth and specialized study of critical or contemporary issues in American politics in the broadest sense. Special Topics of this course may cover any subfield of political science. No more than six hours of total credit in PS 430 can be used toward the major requirement. Prerequisite: Six hours of PS courses at 200 level or above.
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3.00 Credits
Studies political party activity and/or political beha- vior, legislative decision-making and relations with other government institutions and with the electorate.
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