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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester The history, political structures, and politics of the major nations of Europe, the political ideologies and policies of Great Britain, Germany, France, and Italy. The European Union is central to the course and its expanding membership and deepening responsibilities are explored. Prerequisite: PS 134.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 The Supreme Court's efforts over time to define, enlarge, and interpret the rights and liberties enshrined in the Constitution, the limits placed on the legitimate range of political action in order to prevent infringement upon individual liberty. Including freedom of worship and speech, voting rights, criminal rights, discrimination, and legal reasoning. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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Three Credits Spring Semester The course focuses on the development of public attitudes, trends in public opinion on political issues, measurement of public opinion, and political participation and voting behavior in American elections. Students will investigate political issues using primary data and do a research paper on a voting or public opinion topic of their choice. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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Three Credits Spring Semester Key issues in international relations: Terrorism, civil and ethnic conflict, economic interdependence, weapons of mass destruction, international political economy, human rights, failed states, and global warming. Prerequisite: PS 134.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 Historical development of poverty policy in the United States; major theories that have defined the debate on poverty; causes and consequences of poverty; and contemporary issues relevant to poverty such as public housing, state and federal welfare, crime, unemployment and issues of race, gender and class. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 At the end of the Cold War global peace and security have proven short-lived due to the revival of ethnic conflicts. Competing theories on nationalism and ethnic conflict, modern conflict management tools and approaches and case studies: Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Ireland, Sudan, Sri Lanka, and Chechnya will be examined. Prerequisite: PS 134.
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Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 Conceptions of the self vary over time, shaping, and changing in response to, different political and social associations. Plato's "abstraction" from the body, anAristotle's revolt against such abstraction, are examined. The body and its relation to the civic body to the political structures, are explored. Prerequisites: PS 171 and junior or senior standing.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 An introduction to the public policy process in the United States. Examines the role that values play in the making of public policy, considers why some problems reach the public agenda, and why some policies succeed while others fail. Cases include: health care, environment, education, and social welfare policy. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2009, 2011 Explores the extent to which international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank are able to alter the contours of statehood and state sovereignty and whether such international organizations serve or dominate state actors. Case studies are Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Iraq. Prerequisite: PS 134.
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Three Credits Spring Semester The development of Irish nationalism, the creation of the Irish state in 1922, and the building of the Irish State. Economic development, Church state relations, education are explored as well as unsolved puzzle of the Irish nation and state, Northern Ireland.
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