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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Advanced political analysis of the primary issues facing the contemporary international system, including the challenges of economic interdependence and institutionalization, economic development, human rights and democracy, and other transnational concerns. Includes a simulation of an international treaty negotiation. Prerequisite: third-year standing or POGO 2200.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
What does it mean to be modern? This course explores the political and social dynamics of creating a modern state in China and Japan in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Focusing on historic initiatives that led to each society's transformation, we examine the push for industrialization, nationhood, and the ideal citizen. Readings draw on the perspectives of ordinary people responding to state-sponsored social change. Cross listed with SOC 3300.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An analysis of the modern Middle East from the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the present in terms of the concepts of political development, modernization, and civil society. A broad overview of the region is combined with a country-by-country examination of selected states. Particular attention is paid to ideology, political party structure, and ongoing conflicts in the region.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to modern Israel, its history, politics and social state. Topics include: Zionism and the founding of the state, the social make-up, its governing institutions and political life, in particular its parties and electoral system, its place in the international community, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An examination of United States foreign policy in the twentieth century with emphasis on the major features of U.S. engagement, the expansion of American power, and an analysis of the foreign policy decision making process.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to the judicial process, an examination of the role of law in the American political system, and an historical and theoretical analysis of the United States Constitution as developed in landmark Supreme Court decisions relating to federalism, commerce, and separation of powers, executive and legislative powers. Topics include issues of individual rights: freedom of speech, press, and religion, abortion, censorship and obscenity, racial and gender discrimination, and affirmative action and reverse discrimination. Prerequisite: third-year standing or POGO 1600.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An overview of the criminal justice system in the United States emphasizing key issues in the process of arrest through trial and sentencing and imprisonment, an analysis of the roles of the police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and courts, and the various theories of punishment and crime causation. Representative Supreme Court decisions in the law of arrest, right to counsel, capital punishment, search and seizure, and self-incrimination will be analyzed. Prerequisite: third-year standing or POGO 1600.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Analysis of the organization and evolution of political parties in the American political process. Topics include the role of nominations, campaigns, elections, campaign finance, public opinion, and interest groups in a representative democracy. Discussion of current local, state and national election campaigns is an important focus. Prerequisite: third-year standing or POGO 1600.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An analysis of the creation, the historical development, and the operations of Congress and the presidency with specific emphasis on the political relationships between the two policy-making branches of American government. Case studies in congressional and presidential leadership will be examined through biographies of selected twentieth century presidents. Prerequisite: third-year standing or POGO 1600.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Chicago as a case study of the urban political process as it relates to ward pol-itics, patronage, ethnicity and race, education, housing, poverty, and crime. The rise and the decline of the Chicago Machine from Richard J. Daley to Richard M. Daley and its implications for the future of the "city that works" will be the central focus of the course.
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