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3.00 Credits
Designed to help senior students integrate knowledge from across the paralegal curriculum in preparation for their transition to working paralegals. Particular emphasis is placed on analysis of legal issues, written and oral communication skills and professional conduct. Students prepare a portfolio of their work.
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3.00 Credits
An opportunity for students in their senior year to gain valuable practical experience in a field related to their major. The students will integrate and apply knowledge, theory and understanding derived from foundation courses and content areas included in their field of study.
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3.00 Credits
Examines selected major contemporary national problems of the United States and the federal policies designed to deal with them. Specific problems include: poverty, welfare, the economy, education, health, transportation, consumer protection, environmental protection, and energy. It considers the interaction between government and interest groups in designing and implementing public policy and evaluates the thinking of those who have advocated and opposed the expansion of government responsibility for a wide range of social action.
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3.00 Credits
Considers how race has been "constructed"through U.S. law over three historical moments. First, the course examines the essential legal ideas, laws, and court cases from the founding of the U.S. through 1950. The second part of the course examines the Civil Rights movement since Brown v. Board of Education and explores the assumptions behind the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Finally, the course examines contemporary controversies over affirmative action, adoption, the census, and political re-districting based upon race.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the political character of urban government. This course considers the alternative types of political systems adopted by different cities, the ways interest groups influence these different systems, and the relationship between urban government and the Federal System. In addition, it considers how local government deals with specific urban problems such as housing and welfare.
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3.00 Credits
Studies the role of women as actors in American politics, and the influence of cultural change on public policy issues concerning women. Topics, approached from an interdisciplinary perspective, include: Women in the Political Sphere; The role of the First Lady; Women, Politics, and the Media; Women and Equal Employment Opportunity; Women and Economic Equality; Women and Educational Policy; Women and the Criminal Justice System; Women and Family Law; Women and Health Care Policy; and Women and Child Care.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the public policies of different countries in the areas of social welfare, criminal justice, education, and immigration and provides an opportunity to learn about public policies in Germany, Sweden, the United States, United Kingdom and Japan and to consider why they differ in the ways that they do. The influence of culture, ideology, religion, governmental institutions, as well as the structure of the economy in considering the different policy choices is explored
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3.00 Credits
Examines public policy from both an economic and political science perspective. Topics include, but are not limited to: public policies towards monopolies, environmental policy, economics of crime, provision of public goods, income inequality and redistribution, the federal budget process, and cost-benefit analysis. Prerequisite: ECO 110 or ECO 200.
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3.00 Credits
Examines issues, principles and concepts connected to the management of government organizations located in urban or community settings. While focusing on the administration of general-purpose local government, the course also looks at other governmental units that interact and affect police and urban administrations.
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3.00 Credits
A custom-designed academic experience in public policy that provides curricular enrichment and flexibility. Directed studies are considered for the expansion of an existing course and/or to complete a major research project which cannot be undertaken in the context of an existing course. The proposal must be approved by the supervising professor, the academic advisor and the division chair.
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