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4.00 Credits
This course studies a broad range of public policies and analyzes the process of making policy. The class examines the various views of the policy-making process in the United States and considers the different stages of policy making, including the issues that surround problem definitions, the emergence of new proposals, why some solutions succeed when others fail, the difficulty of implementation and the subsequent evaluation and oversight of public policies. There is a simulation included in this course, where you, working with other students, have an opportunity to create and implement your own policy.
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4.00 Credits
Examination of the basic concepts used in analysis of foreign policy and of the main issues and problems of U.S. foreign policy as it has unfolded since World War II. Issues include origins of the Cold War, containment in Europe and Asia, nuclear weapons and the arms race, Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. policy in the developing world, Vietnam, detente and its death, U.S. interests in the Middle East, the post-Cold War world order.
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4.00 Credits
Studies the causes of international inequality in the distribution of wealth to examine why some countries are rich and others are poor. Critically examines contending theories of development and underdevelopment (modernization theory, dependency and world systems theories, cultural explanations and state-centric theories). Special attention is paid to the Latin American and Pacific Rim countries.
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4.00 Credits
Examines theories of nationalism and the aspirations of nationalist actors in both domestic and international contexts. Particular attention is given to problems of citizenship and state formation; ethnicity and nationalism; democratic institutional design and political representation; and ethnic conflict. Case studies are drawn from the industrial democracies and the developing world.
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4.00 Credits
Examines the structure and uses of power and the inter-relationship between economics and politics. You examine international economic relations in terms of their impacts on international political conflict, world order and the connection to domestic political concerns. The course focuses on trade, monetary and investment relations among industrialized states, and between industrialized and developing countries. Liberal, Neo-Marxian and Mercantilist frameworks for analyzing these questions are employed throughout the course. Recommended: ECON 2600 or 2610 and 2620.
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4.00 Credits
Study of selected Latin American political systems in the 20th century, analyzing impact of socio-political and cultural forces on modernization and political development. Through the study of four or five cases, you develop an understanding of the historical roots of issues facing Latin America today. Also offered as HIST.
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4.00 Credits
This course traces the development of feminist thought and activism in Western society from the Ancient Greeks to the late 20th century United States. The course explores the social, political, legal and cultural status of women in Western society across time. Special emphasis is placed on the roots of modern feminism as it developed in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries in Western Europe and the United States. National, cultural, racial, ethnic, philosophical, methodological and class differences among feminists are examined as central themes of the course.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines and evaluates the revolutionary challenge to classical and medieval political philosophy posed by such writers as Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince and Discourses, Thomas Hobbes in The Leviathan, John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract and Discourses. In order to understand and evaluate the philosophical views that have shaped our own governmental structure, and our ideas about modern democracies, this class stresses the careful reading of these texts. Recommended: POSC 1710.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides an in-depth introduction to Western political philosophy. This class takes up the important works of Plato, specifically The Apology and The Republic, and significant portions of the important work of Aristotle in The Ethics and The Politics, as well as some of the work of St. Thomas Aquinas. You may want to follow this course with POSC 3730 Western Political Philosophy: Modern, so as to understand the entire evolution of political theory in the West and in many other parts of the contemporary world. Recommended: POSC 1710.
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4.00 Credits
Overview of American political thought from the 1600s to the present. Recurrent problems and themes and their relationship to contemporary issues in American politics. Readings include political documents, novels, plays, etc.
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