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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. An examination of the ways nation-states interact in the world community. International cooperation, conflict, and conflict resolution are studied. Diplomacy; economic-political interrelationships; the development and role of power in interstate and transnational relations; changing patterns of interdependence and dependence; and war are among topics studied. Lectures and discussions include the examination of theories of international politics and of contemporary challenges to world peace.
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3.00 Credits
Cross listed with GEOG 211, PSYC 211 and SOC 211. Three hours per week. An introductory course for social science majors providing brief coverage of the research methods commonly used in the social sciences along with the most common quantitative analyses used by social scientists. This includes coverage of data organization, descriptive statistics, correlational and regression analyses, and an introduction to hypothesis testing and inferential statistics. Credit will be awarded for only one (1) course selected from GEOG 211, POL 211, PSYC 211, or SOC 211.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. The emphasis of this course will be conflict resolution and international political processes focusing upon interactions within the United Nations, its specialized agencies and principal regional organizations, such as the European Union.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Study of several national political systems including the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia. Latin American and African systems are also examined. Political and social processes, parties, executive, legislative, and administrative practices are compared.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Examination of both the theory and practice of party politics. Particular attention is paid to the changing role of political parties in their accommodations to innovations in the areas of computers, mass media, market research and new techniques of party finance.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. This course examines the major theoretical perspectives that are used to explain the evolution of the state and nation from their formative years to the present. The course is focused on, but not limited to, the nations of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Examination of the contemporary role of the Supreme Court and of significant trends in Supreme Court decisions. Use of the case method of analysis is employed.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. An analysis of public policy issues. Emphasizes examination, discussion and alternate solutions to contemporary public policy problems.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. Emerging trends in public administration and policy implementation. Emphasis on organization theory, executive leadership, personnel management, budgeting, planning, communications, and decision-making. Consideration is given to such problems as the responsiveness and accountability of the bureaucracy.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours per week. This course deals with the formulation and implementation of American security policy. The goals, patterns, and structures of national security policy are studied, as is the role of each governmental component concerned with security affairs. The elements of national power are reviewed.
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