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3.00 Credits
The history of foreign policy is the study of fundamental ideas and principles, decision making, implementation, and consequences of policies affecting international relations. This course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of how the United States arrived at its present position as the major world power. In seeking this understanding, we will look at the intellectual foundations of our foreign policy, we will explore the various diplomatic policies and practices pursued by the United States and examine and evaluate the consequences of those policies. The course also examines the often conflicting assessments of American policy offered both by contemporaries and historians.
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3.00 Credits
This is a team-taught, interdisciplinary course that offers intensified study of the philosophical roots, historical content and cultural manifestations of major political movements which dominated modern European history. The course seeks to highlight major political/philosophical trends to better the students’ understanding of how a civilization evolves, to provide them with a conceptual framework within which to comprehend Western Civilization in particular, and to help them better understand their contemporary world and the cultural heritage of Europe.
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3.00 Credits
We take our rights for granted, e.g., free speech, assembly, and religion. It is important to know how these rights are defined, how they are acquired, and how they can be lost. In this course, students will be introduced to civil liberties as they exist in the United States and around the globe. In order to understand civil liberties in the United States, attention will be paid to Supreme Court rulings on civil liberties, which includes a discussion of the facts, legal issues, and constitutional questions. Using a comparative approach, rights in other countries will also be explored, including abuses of civil liberties.
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The study of how governments function over time includes how the structure of government has been transformed. A study of the formation of police states means an examination of how governments are changed from democratic to authoritarian in response to events. Police states exist in many parts of the globe in which governments use political repression to dominate society. They are police states because of either the suspension of the rule of law or the use of law to monitor and eliminate diverse viewpoints and organizations. This course will use case studies to explore how and why governments are made into police states, how police states limit freedom as well as the ultimate goals of police states.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine state and local governments. These governments are very important and are the main building blocks and chief organizing governments for the whole-government system. To this end, students will be introduced to the relationships between federal, state, and local units of government. The course also will focus on state and local politics in New York State. Students will learn about the relevance of government of their own state. In particular, topics that pertain specifically to Western New York will be discussed, such as the urban-suburban problem, Love Canal, mass transit and poverty.
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3.00 Credits
Urbanization has been one of the most important and fastest changing forces shaping modern society. This course will examine the process of urbanization and attempts by citizens to control its consequences. We will focus particularly on one of the greatest challenges of today how cities and their surrounding suburbs can work together to produce flourishing, livable communities. Students will not be expected to have any background in this area, so there will also be an introduction to the broad field of planning.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to international relations and politics. This involves three inter-related tasks: learning how to think about and understand international relations systematically, rather than simply as a series of events; gaining a basic knowledge of the historical background of the international system; and investigating the current issues facing nations and other actors in the international environment. We will deal with the traditional issues of the international politics such as war, peace, and economic relations, as well as more recent problems such as the environment, population, and multi-national corporations.
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3.00 Credits
The media has often been referred to as the ?fourth branch of government. It has been and continues to make policy, by how events are covered. This course addresses the issue of how the media shapes how we view politics and society. To discuss the medias perception of events, students will study the structure of the media which includes in-depth examination of the corporate structure of the media.
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