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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. In this course, participants will examine the role of government in the regulation of labor-management relations in the United States. While the focus of the course will be on federal laws regulating private sector labor relations, parallel issues addressed in the Railway Labor Act and state public sector labor relations law will also be covered. Specific topics include the legal framework for the organization of workers, definition of prohibited or unfair labor practices of employers and unions, legal regulation of the collective bargaining process, regulation of the use of economic weapons in labor disputes, enforcement of collective bargaining agreements and the regulation of internal trade union activities.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100, or POL SCI 1200, or consent of instructor. An examination of the role, function and assertion of power by the U.S. Supreme Court in our constitutional democracy.? Topics include historical overview of the Supreme Court, the process of selecting Supreme Court Justices, life in the Court, Supreme Court decision making, Supreme Court policymaking, implementation and impact of Court decisions and the role of the Supreme Court as a national policymaker.? This course fulfills the state requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100, or 1200, or consent of instructor. Selected topics in public law. May be repeated.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100 or consent of instructor. Study of the constitutional, political, legislative, and administrative roles played by the American chief executive in the development of public policy.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100 or consent of instructor. An introduction to political behavior employing perspectives from both political psychology and political sociology. Subjects include political socialization, the character of public opinion, citizen participation, group dynamics, the social determination of reality, and the underlying bases of leadership and authority.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100 or consent of instructor. An examination of the Congress of the United States, its history and evolution, its contemporary politics, and its role in the national policy-making process. Topics include candidate recruitment, campaigns and elections, representation, committees, legislative leadership, roles and norms, voting alignments, lobbyists and interest groups, oversight of administration, and House-Senate comparisons. The role of Congress in foreign policy, economic policy, and social-welfare policy will be examined.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100 or consent of instructor. An analysis of the role the media play in shaping American political life. The first part of the course examines the organizational structures, the economic and psychic incentives, and the social and professional norms that define how television and newspapers report news about public affairs. The second part then considers the nature of a mass-communications society by looking at how reality is defined, the susceptibility of mass publics to persuasion and propaganda, the peculiar form of media election campaigns, and the manner in which the media link changes the basic character of a citizenry.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100 or consent of instructor. An examination of the part played by parties and elections in American politics. Topics include the historical development of the party system, the organization and management of political parties and campaigns, contemporary changes in the nature of electoral politics, and the effects of elections on public policy.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100 or consent of instructor. Selected topics in American politics. May be repeated.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POL SCI 1100 or consent of instructor. Examination of the policy-making process within public organizations and the forces influencing the making of bureaucratic policy. Study of the role of the bureaucracy as one of several "actors" in the larger policy process.
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