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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Not Offered 2008-2009 From time to time, faculty members may offer a special course in their field of expertise. The course engages in analysis of selected topics in one of the four area fields of the discipline: Political Theory; American National Government; Comparative Politics; and International Relations. Prerequisite: Either PS 123; PS 134; or PS 171.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall Semester The powers and prerogatives of the modern presidency, presidential decision making, presidential nominations and elections, congressional policy making and representation, and the interaction of Congress with interest groups, political parties, and the Executive are examined. Prerequisite: PS 123.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Spring Semester The development of the modern international economy and strategies for the pursuit of wealth, order, and development, emerging trends shaping the post-Cold War international economic order, the global monetary order, multinational corporations, economic aid relationships, food and energy politics, market reforms in non-Western and former communist societies. Prerequisite: PS 134.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 Greek and Roman texts about soldiering and democratic citizenship, and modern responses to those texts, explore how character is shaped by the extreme circumstances of war and by the organizational structure of the military, and the implications for democracy. Prerequisites: PS 171 and PS 380.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Fall 2008, 2010 The difficult "problem of dirty hands" that ismaking morally unpalatable choices when confronting mutually exclusive and competing ethical claims. Works of modern political philosophy and classic literature explore some possible responses to such problems. Prerequisite: PS 171.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Alternate Years: Spring 2010, 2012 A series of seminars during the semester will focus on an in-depth study of power and politics in American government. During a two-week stay in Washington, students will combine traditional academic work with seminars with prominent individuals in government, journalism and the nonprofit sector.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters The course examines central themes, problems, and issues in the four fields of the discipline (Political Philosophy, American Politics, International Relations, and Comparative Government) resulting in a major research paper. Prerequisite: PS 123, PS 134, PS 171.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Participation and research in local, state, and national government. Requires approval of the intern director and Department Chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
Three Credits Fall and Spring Semesters Supervised reading and research on selected topics.
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4.00 Credits
Four Credits Fall Semester Brief introduction to vectors and basic concepts of calculus; kinematics; Newton's laws, force, work and power; conservative forces, potential energy; momentum, collisions; rotational motion, angular momentum, torque; oscillations, simple harmonic motion; gravitation and planetary motion; fluid dynamics; kinetic theory of gases, thermodynamics; heat capacity and transport. Three periods of lecture and two hours of laboratory a week. Corequisites: MA 123 or MA 125.
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