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3.00 Credits
Global Environmental Politics analyzes transnational environmental issues, such as climate change, species and habitat loss, water and air pollution, and waste management, from a cross-cultural, multi-disciplined approach with an emphasis on policy development and implementation issues. Prerequisite: POLS 201.
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3.00 Credits
Political parties, Campaigns and Elections focuses on three closely related topics and phenomena: parties, campaigns and elections in the American context. We will be seeking to understand their parallel, and in some sense, symbiotic development and relationships. We will study the history of party politics in the United States, focusing on change and development in relationship to the dynamic American Republic. Prerequisite: POLS 201.
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3.00 Credits
A study of political theory beginning with Plato and the ancient Greeks and continuing through the Middle Ages, Reformation, and Enlightenment to Marx, Mills and the modern age. The central questions of political thought are explored e.g., what is the good?; what is justice?; how is political authority acquired?; where does sovereignty reside?; and how do we incur obligations? Prerequisite: POLS 201.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the U.S. Constitution through analysis of decisions of the Supreme Court. The cases demonstrate the nature of judicial function, the nature of the federal system, and the scope and character of the process of the national government. Prerequisite: POLS 201 or approval of department head and permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the U.S. Constitution through analysis of decisions of the Supreme Court. The cases demonstrate the scope and character of the limitations on governmental powers concerning civil rights such as speech, press, religions, and rights against discrimination. Prerequisite: POLS 201 or approval of department head and permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Structure and processes of public administration, practices and processes of public administration, practices in personnel, organization and development of administrative law. Prerequisite: POLS 201. (Formerly 309.)
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3.00 Credits
Study of constitutional law and its applicability in the criminal justice system. Prerequisite: 201. (Same as CJUS 418) (Formerly GOVM/CJUS 421.)
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3.00 Credits
Development and organization of political processes in Louisiana; contemporary problems of Louisiana state and local governments. (Formerly 302.)
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the origin and development of American political thought. Topics include Locke and liberalism, Puritanism and republicanism, Paine and the revolutionary impulse, Founders and Anti-Federalists, Jefferson's agricultural republic, Tocqueville's social America,Jacksonian democracy, Lincoln and Calhoun, populists, progressives and pragmatists, New Dealers and social engineers. Prerequisite: POLS 201.
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the structure and functions of contemporary city governments with considerable attention devoted to basic problems. Special emphasis on local government in Louisiana. (Formerly 307.)
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