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3.00 Credits
Lochner Content: The role of law and legal institutions in the American political system. Examination of institutional actors, such as lawyers, judges, and juries, as well as an examination of discrete case studies, such as "mass torts," environmental litigation, and criminal justice policy. What features define the American legal system; how does this system compare to the legal systems of other countries; what are its respective advantages and disadvantages? Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Use of comparative and historical perspective to understand women as political actors. Notions of power, change, participation, politics. The suffrage struggle and the political situation in eastern and western Europe. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Every third year, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Eisinger, Packwood Content: An examination of what makes the U.S. Senate a unique legislative body. Topics include the legislative process, seniority, the party caucus, the evolving constitutional functions of the Senate, institutional and structural differences between the Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, and specific public policies that emanated from the Senate. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits, credit-no credit.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Opportunities for well-prepared students to design and pursue a substantive course of independent learning. Details determined by the student and the supervising instructor. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Taught: Each semester, 2-4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Lochner Content: A study of the U.S. Supreme Court and judicial review from 1787 to the present. An examination of the court's landmark constitutional decisions, as well as the theory and techniques of constitutional interpretation. The court's authority within the wider political and social context of American government, with emphasis on the court's jurisprudence in the areas of equal protection (including segregation and desegregation, affirmative action, gender discrimination, and sexual orientation discrimination) and due process (including privacy and abortion rights). Discussions of actual Supreme Court rulings, majority opinions and dissenting arguments, as well as the political and historical context of those decisions in an effort to understand how and why the Supreme Court has played such an influential role in American politics and political thought. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Political Science 103. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Eisinger Content: The structure and functioning of political parties from the local to the national level; organization, staffing, and policy development of parties. Pluralist analysis, group theory, impact of interest group activity on the American political system. Prerequisite: Political Science 103. Taught: Every third year, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Lochner Content: Focus on the First Amendment, particularly free speech (including areas of national security, incitement to lawless action, individual and group defamation, indecency, and obscenity) as well as criminal defendants' rights (including Fourth Amendment search and seizure law, Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, and Eighth Amendment prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment in the context of the death penalty). Discussions of actual Supreme Court rulings, majority opinions, and dissenting arguments, as well as the political and historical context of those decisions in an effort to understand how and why the Supreme Court has played such an influential role in American politics and political thought. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Political Science 103. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: A framework for analysis of the policy-making process. History, dynamics, and trends of major U.S. economic policies. The scope of American domestic policy; subsidies and aids to business, labor, agriculture, consumers; antitrust policy and the Federal Trade Commission; public utility regulation; natural resources policies; full employment; antipoverty and defense spending. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or consent of instructor. Taught: On Washington, D.C., program, alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Johnson Content: The evolution of political ideas and ideologies from the pre-Revolutionary era through the founding period, Civil War, early 20th century, and New Deal, up to present divisions between "liberals," "conservatives," and other contemporary political orientations. Locke, Madison, Jefferson, Lincoln, Keynes, Hayek, Harrington, others. Prerequisite: Political Science 103 or consent of instructor. Taught: Every third year, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Holzwarth, Johnson Content: Political theorists and their theories--classical, early Christian, and early modern--and the potential relevance of their enterprise to ours. How we might go about our own enterprise more effectively, linking discipline and imagination. Consideration of six to eight works, in recent years including Plato's Apology, Crito, and Republic; Aristotle's Politics; works by Cicero and Polybius; Augustine's City of God; Machiavelli's Prince and Discourses; Hobbes' Leviathan; Locke's Second Treatise. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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