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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the policy making process in the United States, particularly as it relates to specific policy areas such as homeland security, energy, employment, race and ethnicity, and economic policy. Prerequisite: POLS 0101 or POLS 0103.
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3.00 Credits
A study of political and intellectual forces shaping contemporary politics. Information concerning events, issues, movements, and personalities are subjected to reinterpretation in the light of recent scholarship. Prerequisite: POLS 0101.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the legal environment in which public administrators operate, with a focus on court rulings which define the powers of administrative agencies and regulatory commissions. Topics include Supreme Court rulings on the capacity of the president and Congress to control administrative actions, delegation of legislative power to agencies, agency rule-making, agency collection and use of information, the law of public employment, due process, governmental immunity and the liability of public administrators. (formerly POLS 0207)
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3.00 Credits
Examines women AND politics, which includes, but is broader than, women IN politics. It is generally offered in election years, and identifies, examines, and tracks selected candidates for election to all levels of government. The course assesses government treatment of issues and interest and importance to women; the voting patterns of women in the electorate; voting patterns of the general electorate, as well as in legislative bodies; and how societal culture shapes government action.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the history and substance of contemporary feminist political thought and familiarizes students with some of the major debates in feminist theory. The course considers feminist political thought in a variety of theoretical frameworks that emerge from various academic and political traditions, and students will read works that show how these frameworks are applied to contemporary debates such as those over the body, sexual difference, identity, freedom , and motherhood. Students will also consider the future of feminist strategies for social change. Prerequisite: WSTP 0101 and POLS 0101 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Considers contemporary battles over definition and control of the family as a political issue, and questions assumptions about the family and its relationship to the state with attention to effects of sex, class, race, ethnicity, and sexual preference on public and private aspects of family lives. Examines the place of the family in classical, modern, and contemporary political thought, traces how and why the family has been situated in the context of public problems, and considers what this means to family identity and to the relationship between families and democracy. POLS 0397 POLITICAL SCIENCE INTERNSHIP (3 or 6) Provides experience in a local, regional or state governmental office. Daily journal and semester paper required. Prerequisite: 2.75 cumulative GPA.
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15.00 Credits
A semester in the nation's capitol serving in a public service office at a junior entrance level. One evening course included. Daily journal and semester paper required. Students may earn up to 15 credits, 6-9 of which may be applied toward the major in Political Science. Prerequisite: 2.75 cumulative GPA.
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3.00 Credits
Permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Considers some of the principal texts and themes in the political thought of the ancient Greeks, beginning with the emergence of political discourse in Greek tragedy and continuing with Plato and Aristotle, the two foundational theorists of the western tradition. The course focuses on the theoretical ideas and questions suggested by the texts, and how they have influenced contemporary notions of justice, knowledge, political community, public and private, masculine and feminize, and power.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of the basic theories and facts of human behavior and mental life. Topics include the scientific method, the physiological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, learning and memory, development, personality, social psychology, and abnormal behavior. Psychological knowledge is related to daily problems and everyday life. This course is a prerequisite to all other psychology courses.
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