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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 100; or consent of instructorSystematic analysis of critical domestic issues and areas: poverty,race relations, crime, education, health care, etc. Consideration ofthe entire public policy cycle: recognition and definition of potential"problems"; formulation and implementation of governmental policy"solutions"; and assessment and evaluation of the impact of policies
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 100 or SUST 101 or consent of instructorThe course will provide students with an in-depth analysis of theactors, processes and outcomes in the area of environmental policy.The institutional arrangements, systemic parameters, technologicalconstraints and conflicting interests that shape environmental policywill be examined. Students will study contemporary policy challengessuch as global warming, deforestation, water shortages, chemicalcontamination and agricultural practices.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLSC 110; or consent of instructorStudy of the international rules and principles binding on states andnon-state actors such as multinational corporations, businessmenand investors, diplomats, broadcasters, polluters, internationaltravelers and terrorists. Examines the development and significance ofinternational law, including its evolving role in facilitating diplomacy,the protection of human rights and orderly international relations.Particular attention of human rights and orderly international relations.Particular attention given to the rules, principles and procedures whichapply to international trade and finance, the proliferation of weaponsof mass destruction, international communications, world health, theenvironment and other international regimes designed to manage orgovern globalization.
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; POLSC 100; completion of theinterdisciplinary core and writing requirements; approval by the RWUWashington semester advisor.Participants in the Roger Williams University Semester in Washington,D.C. program work four days a week for the entire semester as internsat placements arranged-after extensive consultations with studentsbythe Institute for Experiential Learning (IEL) in Washington, D.C.Interns perform such work as research, attending meetings, writingreports, preparing briefings, and so on. The seminar, which meetsweekly, provides an academic context in which students discuss,reflect upon and analyze their internship experiences, and relate thoseexperiences to their major and other college courses. Interns design alearning plan, do an organizational analysis, write a reflective journal,and compile a "portfolio of learning" that is presented at the end ofthe term. The journal is reviewed regularly by the IEL instructor. Allmaterials are evaluated at the end of the term by an RWU facultymember.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; POLSC 100; completion of theinterdisciplinary core and writing requirements; approval by the RWUWashington semester advisor.Offered by faculty at the Institute for Experiential Learning (IEL)as part of the Roger Williams University Semester in Washington,D.C. program. Seminar topics vary from semester to semester, andare chosen in consultation with the IEL Academic Advisory Board.Among the topics offered in recent semesters are: Inside Washington:Players, Politics and Policy; International Relations: Toward theNew Millennium; Reel DC-Film as Art; and Washington DC: TheUngovernable City?
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing; POLSC 100; completion of theinterdisciplinary core and writing requirements; approval by the RWUWashington semester advisor.This project is undertaken while students are participating in theRoger Williams University Washington semester program. Theproject is developed before the student leaves the Bristol campus, inconsultation with faculty in the department of political science. Itis supervised during the student's time in Washington by a member of the IEL faculty. The project, based on the student's internshipwork, requires academic research of the agency, policy area, ororganization for which the student is working while in Washington,D.C.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: POLSC 120 and consent of instructorThis course combines daily seminars with meetings with political,civic, professional, and community leaders in Cuernavaca, Mexico.Students will examine the unique political system which emerged afterthe Mexican Revolution of 1910, as well as the political and economictransitions which Mexico is currently experiencing.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: POLSC 120 and consent of instructorThis course combines daily seminars with visits to various historicaland cultural sites in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Students will study theblend of cultures which comprise contemporary Mexican society,with special focus on the relationship between culture and politics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: To be determined by instructorIn-depth study of some aspect of American, international, orcomparative politics. Specific focus varies from semester to semesterand may include: politics and film; Rhode Island politics; polling;foreign aid and development; defense expenditures; arms control;crisis management; emerging democracies; etc. May be repeated forcredit, but students may study a single topic only once.
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3.00 Credits
Students may choose to work independently with a member of thePolitical Science faculty on a topic chosen by the student and facultymember. This work may involve directed reading and weekly meetingsand/or an intensive, directed research project.
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