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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite/Corequisite: Any GE Foundation course. Introductory survey of American Political Institutions, politics, and policy, including government and politics in California. Constitutional foundations and current controversies. Satisfies the general education requirement and the California teaching credential requirement. (CAN GOVT 2)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites/Corequisite: Completion/concurrent enrollment in ENGL 100 or equivalent. Introduction to critical thinking through study of philosophical writing, political rhetoric, and political propaganda. Emphasis on distinguishing facts from values, inductive from deductive reasoning, emotional responses from reasoned judgments; relationship between language and logic; the role of inference; intellectual honesty.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements and POSC 100. Intensive study of issues associated with the concepts of democracy, limited government, federalism, separation of powers, judicial review, and preservation of individual rights.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of all GE Foundation courses and POSC 100. Examination of persistent challenges to citizen control of government in the U.S., including growth of executive power; economic inequality; racial inequality; rise of infotainment; decline of political participation and civic engagement.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements and POSC 100. Intensive study of issues associated with selected foreign governments, modernization, revolution, political change and world ideological conflict.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Completion of all GE Foundation courses and POSC 100. Study issues central to politics in a global context, such as democracy, communism, fascism, democratization, revolution, liberalism, and anti-liberalism. Examine questions of national sovereignty, as well as the relation between nation states and the rise of non-state and trans-state actors.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements and POSC 100. Divergences between nations as they affect political differences between states. The political significance of the encounter of individuals with those of different nationalities.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Completion of GE Foundation requirements and POSC 100. Study and discussion of issues including revolution, power, justice, alienation, the nature of democracy, and other important political concepts. Views of theorists such as Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx will be examined. General Education Category A must be completed prior to taking any course.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POSC 100. Examines what political scientists do. Focus on quantitative and qualitative techniques employed by political scientists to understand political phenomena. Examples draw on all subfields from political science: American politics, comparative politics, international relations, political theory, public law and public policy. Letter grade only (A-F).
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3.00 Credits
Problems of data collection and analysis. Impact of research methods on findings. No prior knowledge of statistics is assumed. Only basic mathematical skills are needed for success in this course. (Lecture 3 hours)
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