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3.00 Credits
The case method approach to the study of the Constitutional powers of and limitations on government in the United States. Topics addressed include federalism, separation of powers, delegation of power, the commerce clause, and executive power.
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3.00 Credits
The case method approach to the study of the rights of individuals under the Constitution, including First Amendment rights, equal protection, the rights of the accused, and the nationalization of the Bill of Rights. This course was formerly taught under the title, "Civil Liberties." Not open to students who have received credit for POSC 352, Civil Liberties.
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3.00 Credits
This course will address a number of the most important and vexing questions of political philosophy: what is justice, what is the relationship between knowledge and politics, how is political power created and maintained, and what is the best regime? We will consider the relationship between philosophy and politics, asking what it means to think theoretically about politics. And finally, we will analyze crucial issues concerning class, gender, and subordination that remain inextricably connected to these primary questions. The class will survey the thought of a range of ancient political thinkers, such as Sophocles, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Lucretius, Epictetus, and Sextus Empiricus. And we will study Christian political thought and the demise of classical idealism through writers such as Augustine, Aquinas, More, and Machiavelli.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey key issues, themes and concepts associated with modernity, including some of the following: origins, limits, and legitimacy of political authority; rights and equality; freedom and power; individualism, individuality and citizenship; and radicalism and revolution. We will also study the relationship between politics and economics, history, and morality, respectively. The course will explore the fundamental principles of modern political thought as well as key components in the critique of modernity. Readings will be drawn from the work of authors such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Descartes, Mill, Tocqueville, Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.
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4.00 Credits
The formulation and implementation of foreign policy. America's emergence as a superpower.
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3.00 Credits
The American legal system, its dynamics and limits.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the principles, problems, and theories of public administration, with major emphasis upon American federal practice. Special attention is given to the development of basic concepts of the field.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the events, ideas, and conflicts surrounding the American Revolution. It begins with an overview of British foreign policy during the period of "salutary neglect" and ends with ratification of the Constitution in 1 789. Among the themes treated are the political, economic, and religious causes; popular and elite views of the conflict; popular mobilization; changes in social structure; dissent from/alternatives to the Revolution; how the Revolution was both a conservative and a radical movement.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A variety of off-campus experiential learning opportunities can be arranged through the director of internships. The off-campus internship is an individually designed experience that allows the student to explore the relationship between learning in the classroom and the practical application of knowledge in everyday work situations. Prerequisites: Admission to the Internship Program and approval of department chair. (See "Internships" under "Academic Policiessection.) Credit/No credit grading.
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3.00 Credits
The late 20th century has been a time when democratic government has spread dramatically around the world. From Latin America to Africa, in Europe and Asia, authoritarian regimes have yielded to democratic forces, making their governments more responsive to ordinary citizens and their societies more open. Many states have embarked upon a process of democratization for the first time. Others have moved to restore their democratic roots. However, many new democracies are not yet stable, and there is nothing about these transitions that is pre-destined or irreversible. This course introduces students to different types of transitions to democracy throughout the world and the consequences of these processes. This course will provide an overview of the major theoretical problems associated with the process of democratization as well as an understanding of specific policy issues associated with promoting democratic rule in transitioning countries. Students will gain empirical and theoretical understandings of the major factors associated with democratic transitions. Prerequisites: POSC 252 or POSC 262 or permission of the instructor.
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