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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POS 1041 or instructor permission. Reviews recent interpretations of the Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment case law with special attention to freedom of expression, equal protection, and criminal due process rights.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: CPO 2002 or INR 2002 or POS 1041 and completion of the mathematics liberal studies requirements. Course discusses elementary theories of individual and group decision–making that are used to analyze various political phenomena such as the arms race, legislative politics, majority rule in democracies, voting and elections, and coalition governments.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: At least twelve semester hours of political science or instructor permission. Involves some combination of research, reading, writing, field study, other scholarly activities, and evaluation. May be repeated to a maximum of twelve semester hours.
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1.00 Credits
When offered as a seminar, selected topics are used to develop outstanding scholarship; also offered for individual students engaged in senior honors thesis. Contact the department for details on prerequisites and requirements. May be repeated to a maximum of nine semester hours.
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1.00 Credits
with a grade of "C–" or better, a 3.0 GPA average or a 3.0 GPA in political science courses, and departmental permission. For complete details interested students should contact the department.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the writings of several major political theorists of the past that explore the major issues that define the field of political theory.
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3.00 Credits
An inquiry into politics and political thought as they appear in fiction, including literature, cinema, theatre, and television.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines governing as the process of collective decision-making and as a society's search for public ethics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CPO 2002 or POS 1041 or PUP 3713 or instructor permission. Explores the historical evolution of three competing world views—theism, modernism, and postmodernism—beginning in the Middle Ages. Course links this evolution in Western thought to shifting perspectives in how Americans view their world, especially after 1960. The resulting conflict in world views has given rise to a new agenda of value-based issues that are presently eclipsing the traditional economic issues in public debate. Through class discussions and debates the following issues will be covered: abortion, euthanasia, religion in the schools, pornography, homosexuality, teenage pregnancy, minority rights, feminism, substance abuse, criminal justice, the environment, and personal privacy.
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3.00 Credits
Course explores and analyzes the major thinkers of American political thought from its beginnings up to the Civil War period. Included topics are Puritanism, the American Revolution, the making and ratifying of the Constitution, Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, the nature of the union, and the issue of slavery.
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