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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the troubles in Northern Ireland from 1969 to the present.The course provides historical background, with an emphasis on Great Britain's role from the 16th century through the current period.It examines the 20th-century conflict primarily as a national liberation struggle against a sectarian regime established in the North and supported by Great Britain, and discusses cultural, economic, and religious theories of the conflict.It follows a chronological format starting with the civil rights marches in the late 1960s before moving to the state repression that followed and the subsequent community responses to the state, including hunger strikes and electoral politics campaigns.In the process, the course assesses the roles played by political parties, paramilitaries, the churches, and community organizations as well as government bodies.The course examines the peace process as a struggle reflecting the conflict and as a possible resolution of it.Three credits.
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This course introduces a comparative approach to studying the forces affecting development in the Third World.Examples are selectively drawn from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East.It examines the roots of wealth and poverty, obstacles to development, responses to globalization, and current debates over the development prospects of the Third World. This course meets the world diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines structures and processes of urban politics and considers the major participants and policy areas of urban political processes.It sets the evolution of urban areas in historical perspective, discusses major contemporary problems, and analyzes alternative solutions.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how two immigrant groups - the Irish and the Jews - adapted politically in the United States.The Irish mobilized locally and were, until late in the 20th century, a major force in big city politics; the Jews largely eschewed local politics and concentrated their efforts on national politics.By examining the two groups, students learn about ethnicity and political mobilization in the United States.Three credits.
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This course explores what it means to be politically dis-advantaged in the United States, who is politically disadvantaged, why they are disadvantaged, what forms of political participation they practice, and the effectiveness of their somewhat unique forms of political participation.Groups that are studied include different racial minorities, women, the poor, gays, immigrants, and people with disabilities.Forms of political participation include protest, foot-dragging, consumer activism, grassroots mobilizing, picketing, sit-ins, and alternative institution building. This course meets the U.S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates how race, class, and gender function in American political culture.Students explore how the theoretical ideas of central thinkers such as Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr., and Susan B.Anthony shape the political practices of the people who express themselves in songs, speeches, art, and music.The focus on race, class, and gender enables students to engage with historically challenging questions about equality, freedom, individualism, republicanism, liberalism, and American exceptionalism from alternative perspectives.The course concludes by assessing whether or not the contemporary Hip Hop movement can overcome the barriers of race, class, and gender. This course meets the U. S. diversity requirement. Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the role of the bureaucracy within the political process, examining the problems of efficiency and accountability, and studying the classic models of bureaucratic organization and function in juxtaposition to the reality of bureaucratic operation.It analyzes proposed reforms to determine the viability of change.Three credits.
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Participants study the role of the President in the political system, considering the origins, qualifications, and limitations of the office as the President functions as chief executive, legislative leader, and link with the Courts.The course examines obtaining presidential powers and the President's roles as party leader and politician as a means of evaluating presidential achievement of domestic and foreign policy goals.The course also reviews questions of reform.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This study of Congress within the context of the political system analyzes its constitutional powers, historical development, processes of recruitment, formal organiza-tion, committee system, social make-up, folkways, political leaders, and constituency and interest group influences, and considers its domestic and foreign policy outputs.The course also considers chances for reform and evolution.Three credits.
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3.00 Credits
This examination of the politics of the Supreme Court analyzes the relationship between the Court and the remainder of the political system; examines the Court's treatment of government power including commerce clause, taxing power, and relations between the branches; and emphasizes the political consequences of Court decisions.Three credits.
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