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Analyzes the media's role in contemporary American politics and government. Emphasis is placed on how the media, both newspapers and television, manufacture the news and how the news influences political and government agenda, decision making, and public policies. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Analyzes how social problems become public problems and how the government develops public policies and with what effect. Emphasizes the characteristics of the American policy-making process. Case studies are used to clarify the process. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Social Sciences Requirement
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Examines city and metropolitan politics and government. Emphasizes how economic and demographic changes influence local politics, how local politics work, and how state and national policies influence local politics. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Examines election and campaigns from different perspectives, including the historical development of American elections, the rules by which campaigns are governed, the strategies that candidates follow in pursuit of office, and the role of political parties. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
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Studies Chicago's politics and government from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Emphasis is placed on changes that have significantly shaped the direction of Chicago's politics. Special attention is devoted to social class, ethnicity, race and ideology as factors that have influenced the Democratic political machine and its opposition. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Examines how decisions about some of our basic rights are made. Emphasizes U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the areas of criminal law, desegregation, education, welfare, housing and consumer law. Related topics of special interest to students in the class can be added to the syllabus. Supreme Court decisions are read and supplemented by textual material. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Surveys and compares health care systems in a range of developed and developing countries. The course examines why countries facing similar health problems have sometimes developed different policy responses, what has been the nature of those policies, and how (in)effective they have been. Health insurance, payment methods, the role of providers, the relationship between medicine and culture, and recent reforms and innovations in health care policy are among the issues to be discussed. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Social Sciences Requirement
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Examines the shift from social class and ethnic politics to racial politics in American cities. Racial politics is examined in the economic, political and social sectors. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Social Sciences Requirement
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Evaluates the patterns and dimensions of social, economic, and political inequality in American society and how these compare with other societies, who gets ahead and why, the relationship of social class to other features of society, some consequences of social stratification, and outlooks for the future of inequality in the United States. Same as SOC 321. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on issues and problems arising in multiethnic, multi-language or multi-religious states in which there has been substantial conflict or balkanization along religions or ethic lines. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Social Sciences Requirement
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