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3.00 Credits
Cross Ref: LS 225 Study of political processes and institutions in Latin American nations. Topics may include the impact of colonialism and international dependency, state-society relations and the sources of authoritarianism and democracy.
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3.00 Credits
Offered alternate years Explores various strategies developing countries use to achieve economic growth, political stability and improve basic human needs. Cases will be drawn from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include ethnicity in state-society relations, social movements and political unrest, state formation and strategies of economic development.
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3.00 Credits
Offered alternate years Treats politics within a world region. May be repeated for credit as topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
Cross Ref: HIST 250 Prerequisite: 3 hours in history or political science Offered alternate years What are the responsibilities of global leadership and how did the United States attain such power From Cold War to post-Cold War, the essence of America in the world will be analyzed. Historical trends, current economic and political events, differing theories of America's world role and the ethics of American diplomacy and war will be assessed.
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3.00 Credits
Cross Ref: HIST 253 Prerequisite: 3 hours in history or political science Offered alternate years The rise of atomic weapons from the Manhattan Project to Hiroshima and the emergence of the thermonuclear age. Issues of nonproliferation, deterrence, radiation, strategic doctrine, specific weapons systems and the nuclearization of culture will be addressed.
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3.00 Credits
Offered alternate years Exposition and analysis of selected political philosophers. These may include Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, among others.
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3.00 Credits
Cross Ref: HIST 250 Prerequisite: 3 hours in U.S. history or POLSC 101 Offered alternate years Explores the central ideas of American politics from the Puritans to the present through an analysis of treatises, novels and speeches. Included will be Paine, Franklin, the Federalist Papers, Jefferson, Calhoun, Lincoln, Bellamy, Douglas and DuBois. Satisfies a Political Theory requirement in the Political Science major.
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3.00 Credits
Cross Ref: AAS 345 Offered alternate years Explores the central ideas of African-American political thought through an analysis of treatises, novels and speeches. Some of the thinkers treated in this course may be Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the methodological and conceptual questions in the discipline of political science. Topics may include definitions of political science, philosophy of the social sciences, and qualitative, quantitative and formal methodologies. This course is required of all political science majors and is a prerequisite for the Senior Seminar, POLSC 350.
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3.00 Credits
Course may be repeated when a new topic is offered.
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