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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course will address the political dimensions of energy policy with emphasis on the U.S. experience. It will explore the impact of energy policy upon the environment, natural resources, economic growth, and the relationship between the public and private sectors. U.S. energy policy will be examined from a public policy perspective with attention to the development of alternative energy scenarios.
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3 credits This course assesses the development of the office and powers of the presidency, focusing on the New Deal through the present. Presidents are evaluated as individual personalities and powerful political actors within the outside environment. The use and abuse of presidential power, as well as its constraints are underlying themes.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course explores the role played by sub-national units in formulating public policy and addresses issues hitherto seen as within the purview of the federal government. New York State is a focus, analyzing issues, political parties, interest groups, personalities, governmental structures, and geographical conflict.
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3 credits This course examines the works of selected Western political philosophers from the Ancient and Medieval periods of political theory, roughly 400 B.C.E. C1400 C.E. It includes theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Cicero, and St. Thomas Aquinas. The course explores questions like: What is the best life a human being can live What is the best form of government How should political communities mediate conflicts between individual goods and social goods What roles do education, reason, and faith play in politics
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Invariable requirement for political science. This course explores the works of selected Western political philosophers from the Modern period in political theory, roughly 1400 C1900 C.E. It includes political theorists such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, and Marx. It explores questions like: How does an effective leader govern What is the nature and extent of equality How can stable political societies be constructed and maintained when there is widespread disagreement over the good
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Effective spring 2007. Prerequisite: POL 102. This course provides an introduction to political science research. Several approaches to research design are explored, including historical analysis, case studies, comparative analysis, and hypothesis testing. Strategies for data collection and analysis, including document analysis, sampling, interviewing, qualitative methods, and statistical analysis, are presented and evaluated.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an introduction to the comparative politics of industrialized democracies, developing nations, and communist states covering nations from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa with a focus on varieties of parliamentary systems, communist and post-communist states, and other forms of authoritarian regimes. Major use of quantitative research methods and comparative databases are included.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Study world politics emplacing sources of foreign policy behavior and linkages between national and international systems including: end of the Cold War; impact of nationalism; North-South dialogue; balance of power model; causes of war; international trade and exchange; diplomacy; international terrorism; and relevance of foreign affairs to individual citizens. 142 College of Arts an d Sc ienc es Cou rses
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Historically, political regimes have organized societies using race as a basis for public policy (i.e., slavery, apartheid, genocide). This course concentrates primarily on policy influenced by race and ethnicity in the United States and emphasizes certain themes in comparative perspective: identity politics, immigration and citizenship, eugenics, and reparations.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This is a study of Congress and its place in the American political system, with special attention to patterns of internal organization and leadership, the roles of political parties and pressure groups, and relations with the President, the federal bureaucracy, the courts, and the public.
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