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3.00 Credits
Topics include the nature and function of law, theories of justice, constitutionalism, the Supreme Court and legal reasoning, and varieties of law, such as statutory and regulatory law, common and civil law, and public and private law. American Government.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the theory and practice of peace making and conflict resolution. Introduces major theories of conflict at local, national, and international levels; introduces theory and techniques of negotiation and conflict resolution; and examines successful and unsuccessful efforts at nonviolent conflict resolution at local, national, and international levels. Required for Peace Studies subconcentrators.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to major issues in recent Latin American politics. Looks at a variety of countries and touches on the causes of the military coups of the 1970s, the democratic restorations of the 1980s, the revolutionary movements in Central America, and recent political and economic reform. World Politics.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine important ways in which 19th and 20th century American fiction, poetry, and drama have both shaped and reflected American thinking about politics and human nature. Authors to be covered may include, Emerson, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, Fitzgerald, McCarthy, Shanley, and Palahniuk. Topics to be covered may include democracy, conservatism, religion, progress, utopian political visions, and the grounds for moral action in politics.
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Characteristics of politics in East Asian nations, namely China, Japan, and Korea. Highlights of geopolitical foundations. Religious-cultural traditions and their influences on political patterns. The impact of the Western penetrations into East Asia, and divergent developments in the three nations. Special role of the United States in East Asia since World War II. Issues of nationalism, Communism, democracy, economic development in contemporary East Asian politics. Major features of interactions among these states and with the world. Problems and prospects. World Politics.
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3.00 Credits
Students will get an understanding of what careers in government entail and how public administration as a profession is growing. This course explores the origin and development of public administration as a discipline and profession. Lectures examine public service and public policy implementation, namely in city governments. This is a focus on local and national governmental structures and how they implement social policy.
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3.00 Credits
Permits students to apply the analytical tools acquired in previous courses to the analysis and evaluation of selected current issues of political significance in either domestic or foreign affairs. American Government.
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3.00 Credits
Political theory courses usually begin with a given thinker's political or governmental ideas, referring to assumptions about the human person only subsequently, if at all. This course reverses the process and begins by reviewing different conceptions of the human persons; from these understandings, various politics emerge. Texts vary but will include novels, some philosophical anthropology, and works of contemporary political theory concerned with questions of persons and community. Prerequisite: 211. Political Theory.
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3.00 Credits
Major issues in the global community (environmental, human rights, arms control, drug trafficking problems, etc.), and the different perspectives by which they are viewed. World Politics.
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3.00 Credits
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