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4.00 Credits
Values/ethics course. (V) This course focuses on the importance of civic engagement. We will investigate the ways in which citzens can influence governments and work on developing skills that are useful for civic engagement. Faculty: L. Jassel 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department Course Attributes: Values/Ethics-V
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent Study in Political Science 1.000 TO 4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Independent Study Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department
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4.00 Credits
Not open to freshmen. (Same as CRIM 3123.) Judicial policy-making with an emphasis on recruitment, court behavior, and the impact of judicial decisions. Focuses on how the court has attempted to police the police, safeguard civil liberties, confront social change, and utilize mediation and pre-trial diversion. Faculty: A. ARCURI 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department
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4.00 Credits
Basic legal concepts of constitutional law, including but not limited to judicial review; the powers of Congress and the President; the doctrines of separation of powers and Federalism, will be covered. The case method approach will be used with an analysis of legal issues and procedures by which justices make decisions. This course has a W2 designation. Faculty: L. WHARTON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department
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4.00 Credits
Not open to those with credit for or enrolled in GSS 2310. The historic and current role of American law in the creation and elimination of social and economic conditions that disadvantage women. The case method approach will be used and topics will include contraception, abortion, sexuality, pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment, and equality in education and athletics. Faculty: L. WHARTON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the protections provided individual citizens by the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Special emphasis will be placed on protections afforded by the Equal Protection Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the First Amendment (including freedom of speech and religious freedom). Students will study the issues by reading major decisions of the United States Supreme Court. This course has a W2 designation. Faculty: L. WHARTON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department
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4.00 Credits
This course will provide an in-depth examination of the protections afforded public education by the federal constitution, state (primarily New Jersey) constitutions, and major federal and state antidiscrimination laws. Specific topics will include key historical and contemporary educational reform issues, including school desegregation, affirmative action, funding equity, freedom of speech (including the student press and internet speech), freedom from the establishment of religion at school, the privacy right of students to be free from searches, due process in discipline and punishment, and the right of students to be free of harassment based on race, gender, and sexual orientation. Students will study the issues primarily through judicial decisions. This course has a W2 designation. Faculty: L. WHARTON 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on American public opinion. We will consider normative expectations of the public in a democratic society, how to anyalyze public opinion polls, the nature, sources, and structure of political attitudes, trends in public opinion at the aggregate, how group membership and attitudes toward groups influence political attitudes, the sources and consequences fo political trust and why it matters, the impact of the media on public opinion, and the impact of public opinion on government outputs. In examining each of these topics we will pay special attention to whether public opinion can be considered "rational" (i.e., thoughtful, sophisticated, informed, etc.) and the implications for democratic governance. Faculty: J.AVERY 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department
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4.00 Credits
An examination of various aspects of politics and public policy in New Jersey, including political culture, regionalism, elections, institutions, and public policies and policy-making process. State-local relations will also be examined. 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department
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4.00 Credits
International/multicultural course (I). This course addresses issues and principles related to the development of international challenges of organizations, international political economy, and broad change in the twenty-first century. The overarching goal of the course is to allow students to recognize the complex character of transnational social, political, and economic issues and to develop a critical understanding of the threats and opportunities raised by these issues and the role of international organizations in shaping outcomes and defining a sustainable future. Faculty: P. HOSSAY 4.000 Credit hours 4.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Social & Behavioral Sciences Division Political Science Department Course Attributes: International/Multicultural -I
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