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3.00 Credits
Gale. This course is designed to stimulate an interest in the philosophy and methods of terrorism; to illustrate the varieties of conditions under which methods of terrorism are used; to outline the institutional conditions which permit and support the use of terrorism; and to understand the problems involved in "solving" the terrorism dilemma.
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Smith. This course explores the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in political struggles over the distribution and uses of power in the American constitutionasystem. Issues include the division of powers between the state and national governments, and the branches of the federal government; economic powers of private actors and governmental regulators; the authority of government to enforce or transform racial and gender hierarchies; and the powers of individua to make basic choices, such as a woman's power to have an abortion. We will pay special attention to how the tasks of justifying the Supreme Court's own power, and constitutionalism more broadly, contribute to logically debatable but politically powerful constitutional arguments. Readings include Supreme Court decisions and background materials on their historical and political cont
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Kennedy, Norton, Norris. Through reading texts of Plato (Socrates), Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, the student encounters a range of political ideas deeply challenging to--and possibly corrosive of--today's dominant democratic liberalism. Can classical and medieval thinking offer insight into modern impasses in political morality Is such ancient thinking plausible, useful, or dangerous
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Kennedy, Norris. An introduction to modern political theory based on the major texts of selected authors.
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3.00 Credits
Contemporary Political Thought
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3.00 Credits
Humanities & Social Science Sector. Class of 2010 & beyond. Norton. A survey of the leading themes in the history of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the present. Readings include selections from original works as well as from commentaries and interpretations.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Harris. The study of theoretical issues in achieving a constitutional frame of mind by creating or restructuring a political form through writing and adopting its design in a set of words contained within a text. With an analytical focus on the founding of the American polity, sources of constitutional ideas, the concept of a constitution, and arguments of constitutional meaning and change.
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1.00 Credits
Staff. Consult department for detailed descriptions. More than one course may be taken in a given semester. Recent titles have included: International Organization and the United States, Presidential Elections, and Critical Issues in American Foreign Policy
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3.00 Credits
DiIulio. Everyday human behavior poses puzzles that political scientists, economists, sociologists, and other social scientists have attempted to answer. Often their respective answers or "theories" differ widely; and sometimes even their most widely agreed-upon answers seem to defy common sense or ask us to believe in highly improbable findings. This new lecture course familiarizes students with different approaches to understanding politics, society, and social science in relation to everyday questions, intriguing puzzles, and improbable findings about human behavior. It focuses on contemporary American politics and society, and draws mainly on literatures featuring work by leading U.S. social scientists. In addition, the course explores the conceptual boundaries between the political, social, and economic domains in which people interact with one another; the differences among and between different much-acclaimed models for understanding human behavior; and the philosophical underpinnings and moral implications associated with schools of thought about how best to describe, analyze, and evaluate what people do--and why they do it!
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3.00 Credits
Callaghy. A survey of politics in Africa focusing on the complex relationships between state, society, the economy, and external actors. It will cover colonial rule, the independence struggle, authoritarian and democratic statecraft, military rule, ethnicity, and class, with special attention to the politics of Africa's interrelated debt, economy, and development crises.
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