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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 100; or consent of instructorAn examination of public opinion theory and practice. The coursewill provide students with a review of the public opinion literature, its uses and abuses. Students will design a public opinion surveyquestionnaire, conduct an opinion poll, and carry out preliminaryanalyses.
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Prerequisite: POLSC 100; or consent of instructorStudy of the role of judges and lawyers in the implementation of lawand the adjustment of formal rules to the operational needs of courtsystems. Includes lower court compliance with higher court rulingsand the techniques of avoidance, delay, and counter-pressure in thefederal judiciary.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 100; or consent of instructorAn examination of the formation of political attitudes and howpolitical attitudes inform political behavior. Specific attention willbe on the role of socialization, economics, social groups, gender andrace in the formation of attitudes and the multiple expressions ofpolitical behavior (voting, group mobilization, and protest.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 100; or consent of instructorRace and gender are two important cleavages in American politics.This course will examine the impact of race and gender on votingbehavior, access to leadership opportunities, the exercise of leadership,and the making of public policies. The course includes a survey of thehistory of the changing status of women and racial minorities in theUnited States, an analysis of their gradual integration in the Americanpolitical mainstream, and an assessment of public policies targeted atthese groups, in particular affirmative action.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 100; or consent of instructorRace is an important cleavage in American politics. This course willexamine the impact of race on voting behavior, access to leadershipopportunities, the exercise of leadership, and the making of publicpolicies. The course includes a survey of the history of the changingstatus of racial minorities in the United States, an analysis of thegradual integration in the American political mainstream, and anassessment of the public policies targeted at these groups
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 100; or consent of instructorAn examination of the way politics is portrayed in film. The coursefocuses on how politics is conveyed through the symbolism, iconography,and cultural references in film. The content of each film will be discussedin terms of its political and historical context.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 120; or consent of instructorUsing case studies from both developed and less developed politicalsystems, this course examines the different ways that political systemsattempt to manage conflict in societies divided among ethnic,racial, religious, and linguistic subcultures. The course addressesthe global persistence and reemergence of ethnic and nationalidentities, movements for "self-determination," separatism, regionalautonomy, and the rise of religious fundamentalism. The origins anddevelopment of communal conflicts in Northern Ireland, Lebanon,India, Malaysia, Nigeria, and South Africa will be studied in historicaland comparative perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Either POLSC 120 or POLSC 210; or consent of instructorExplores government institutions and political culture in Europesince the end of the Second World War. Topics include the postwar rebuilding and strengthening of the rule of law in western Europe;the formation and evolution of the European Union, the end of theCold War; transitions to democracy in central and eastern Europe; theresilience of nationalism; the resurgence of extremist political parties;and the foreign policy behavior of key states and the European Union.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 110 or consent of instructorExamines the collapse of the Soviet Union and the prospects forreform in Russia, the Peoples' Republic of China, Poland, Serbia, NorthKorea, Cuba and other selected states. Emphasis is given to domesticpolitics and political thinking in each, as well as major economic andsocial developments. Students will be asked to role-play as citizens ofone or more of these countries, analyzing developments
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 120 or POLSC 210Analyzes the governmental institutions and political culture of theMiddle East beginning in the 20th Century including studies ofpolitical elites, traditional cultures, modern political ideology andinstitutions, conflict management, and social reform in selected statesof the region.
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