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3.00 Credits
Methods and logic of research in political science. POS 6704, Political Science Research Methods provides students with the knowledge and skills required to analyze and critique, as well as design, applied research in public policy and public affairs. The course introduces the student to the enterprise of academic research in these areas, provides the student with knowledge and understanding of the various philosophical and methodological approaches to applied research and allows the student to develop and hone analytical skills. Accepted social science research designs will be introduced and an analysis of threats to the validity and reliability of these different designs will be considered. Sampling theory and statistical analysis will be introduced.
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1.00 Credits
Graded on satisfactory / unsatisfactory basis only. Permission is required.
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3.00 Credits
Discussion of law and politics within history's most prominent literary works. Examination of the rule of law within political life in relation to character and plot development. Exploration in the ways in which literature illustrates the challenges posed by human nature to the just administration of law.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of several of the seminal works by political theorists of the ancient and medieval period, including Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, and St. Augustine. Readings will introduce such themes as the classification of regimes, the debate between the poets and the philosophers, the role of the virtues in perpetuation of civic order, the problem of the many and the one, the tension between the philosopher and the city, the problems of justice, the ideas of Nature and human nature, and the status of the gods and/or religion in political life. Graduate course POT 5016 will have additional work. Course only offered Fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
Significant American political theorists, schools of thought and their influence on the political system. Offered concurrently with POT 5207; graduate students will be assigned additional work.
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3.00 Credits
Evaluates ideas about the origin, justification, organization, and performance of government by great thinkers from Machiavelli to the present. Offered concurrently with POT 5602; graduate students will be assigned additional work.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of several of the seminal works by political theorists of the ancient and medieval period, including Plato, Aristophanes, Xenophon, Aristotle, Cicero, and St. Augustine. Readings will introduce such themes as the classification of regimes, the debate between the poets and the philosophers, the role of the virtues in perpetuation of civic order, the problem of the many and the one, the tension between the philosopher and the city, the problems of justice, the ideas of Nature and human nature, and the status of the gods and / or religion in political life. Offered Fall semester only.
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3.00 Credits
Significant American political theorists and schools of thought; their influence on the political system. Offered concurrently with POT 4204; graduate students will be assigned additional work.
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3.00 Credits
Evaluates ideas about the origin, justification, organization, and performance of government by great thinkers from Machiavelli to the present. Offered concurrently with POT 4601; graduate students will be assigned additional work.
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3.00 Credits
Assumptions, structure, dynamics and determinants of personality. Consideration of various personality theories, pertinent research and its application to everyday life.
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