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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Study of foreign policy components, such as the President, State and Defense Departments, Congress and the CIA and how they combine in foreign policy formulation. Analyzes current American foreign policy toward various global areas. Offered in 2006 and alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of the development and major characteristics of the state system; the elements of national power; the instruments of international relations; and their general application within the international community. Focuses on specific international problems. Offered in 2005 and alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the concepts and techniques of Conflict Resolution beginning with interpersonal relationships, but focusing primarily on the international community. Provides an introduction to international organizations and international law. The class uses case studies of actual conflicts and simulates the United Nations.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of political theory through the classic writings of Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, Marx, Rawls and others. Includes rights, the public interest, social contract, liberty, equality and justice. Offered in 2005 and alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the ideas, concepts and theories of security. What does it mean to be secure as a state? As a person? From war and terrorism, to crime and envrionmental threats this course will study and analyze the various issues that dominate security agendas in the 21st century.
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2.00 Credits
Unique course with a travel component and an opportunity for the students to research and represent another nation's perspective on controversial issues in a United Nations simulation, sponsored by a major university. In recent years, this course has traveled during spring semester for about a week to Vienna, Austria, Athens, Greece and Brussels, Belgium. Pass/Fail. Travel expenses vary. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above.
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of selected topics, such as Politics and Film, and United Nations Politics. Topics vary according to the mutual interests of students and faculty. Two-credit courses meet for one-half semester. May be elected for more than one topic. No more than 4 credits total can be earned for model U.N. programs.
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4.00 Credits
This course will provide a comprehensive overview of the role and function of international law in the world system; emphasizing its history, structure and ability to mitigate conflict. Participants will examine the major components of international law with particular emphasis on human rights and the law of armed conflict. Subjects covered include the use of force, arms control, detention and torture, terrorism, war crimes, and self determination. This course will utilzie readings, research, discussion and simulations, to assist participants in applying legal concepts to current international situations.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of ways in which American political thinkers, leaders and contemporary commentators have dealt with the issues of power, equality, sovereignty and representation. Focuses on the relationship between abstract political concepts and practical politics in American political thinking. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of the instructor. Offered in 2004 and alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the disintegration and collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and East Europe from Stalin to Gorbachev and Yeltsin. Explores the fears, frustrations and the hopes of the people of these emerging democracies as they face political, economic and social reconstructive tasks of enormous magnitude. Offered in Spring 2005 and alternate years.
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