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4.00 Credits
This course explores the practical aspects of dealing with globalization, emphasising how governments, businesses and international organizations cooperate to deal with issues that cross borders and challenge conventional notions of business and politics. Prerequisite(s): Junior or senior standing. (Pass/Fail option) Once a year (usually spring). Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
This course examines the development of international law and organization as a political process, designed to create a stable world order with rules and methods to mediate dispute. Emphasis is placed on the changing nature of international law and organization in a world defined by interdependence and globalization. In so doing, emphasis is placed on studying the international political economy. Prerequisite(s): POS 136S or ECO 110S or permission of instructor. (Pass/Fail option) Every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore topics of current interest in international relations. Theories and evidence from the scholarship on international relations will be brought to bear on current events to help students analyze and understand salient and emerging issues. Prerequisite(s): POS 136S or permission of instructor. (Pass/Fail option) Once every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
In this course, students explore feminist political thought through the works of both Western and non-Western political philosophers and social activists. Students will discuss various approaches to feminist/womenist theory that treat issues of empowerment, equality, and social justice as well as the implications of overlapping and fluid identities for feminist theory and political activism. (Pass/Fail option) Every two years. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the role of civil society in democratic and democratizing countries. The course will cover the political theory and practice of civic engagement and social accountability by civil society actors who seek to hold public institutions and officials accountable for their policies and actions. In addition to reading primary and secondary materials on social accountability initiatives world-wide, each student will identify with the instructor a local organization involved in civic engagement that will serve as the basis for a service-learning project. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (Pass/Fail option) Once every two years. Credit: 4
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3.00 Credits
This course is offered every Spring semester, linked to the annual Camden conference on World Affairs. The Camden Conference has been holding its foreign affairs conferences for over 20 years. Keynote speakers and participants regularly include prestigious and highly thought of foreign affairs specialists drawn from the policy community, the academic world, journalists, and others with expertise in the field. Conference topics have ranged the gamut of key foreign affairs issues facing the United States. Students attend the entire conference, which is always held over a February weekend. The conference format includes a keynote speech and dinner on a Friday evening, sequential speakers all day Saturday, and a "wrap-up" session Sunday morning. In addition to required attendance at the entire conference, the UMF course would include preparatory classes before the conference and course work after the conference. Students will be responsible for paying their transportation and lodging costs to attend the conference. Because the topic of the course will change each year, students can repeat the course only once for credit, at instructor discretion. Prerequisite(s): Instructor Permission. (Pass/Fail option) Every year. Credit: 4
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3.00 Credits
The Political Science Internship is arranged by the student with any political entity, whether inside or outside of government. It is designed to gain practical experience in the political world. The internship course should be developed in consultation with a faculty member and submitted in writing to the Chairperson of the Division of Social Science, Business, and Global Studies for approval prior to registration. Upon the conclusion of the internship, the student must submit a comprehensive report on the experience to the supervising faculty member. No student is permitted to enroll for more than sixteen credits in POS 396, and no more than four credits in POS 396 may be applied toward the requirements for the political science major. Credits will be allowed on the basis of 32 work hours per credit. Pass/Fail only. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing (or consent of instructor) and divisional permission required. POS 396 can be designed for four to sixteen credits. Can be repeated once for credit with prior approval up to maximum sixteen credits. Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing (or higher), or approval of instructor. (Pass/Fail only) As requested. Credit: 4-16
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Independent research into selected problems in government. Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor. (Pass/Fail option) Every semester. Credit: 1-4
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a broad overview of the field of psychology. Topics include the history of psychology, the nature of psychological research, physiological processes, sensation, perception, human development, learning, cognition, language, motivation, emotion, personality, social psychology, stress, psychopathology, and therapy. Relevant cultural differences are discussed. Every semester. Credit: 4
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of the changing role of the parent in the development of the young child from pregnancy to the age of 5. Emphasis is placed on supporting cognitive, social, and emotional development. Every third fall semester. Credit: 4
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