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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Techniques commonly used in the systematic study of politics. Application of statistical techniques to recently released data using statistical software. Topics include the use of multivariate regression in political science and/or logistic regression, survey methodology, experimental design, and game theory.
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3.00 Credits
The internal organization of Congress, with emphasis on how rules and organizational changes affect the policy process. Topics include the evolution of the modern Congress, the committee system, the role of party leadership, and competing theories of congressional organization. In addition, comparisons/contrasts are drawn from other legislatures in democracies around the world.
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3.00 Credits
(HDiv; 4 cr; prereq 1201 or #; spring, even years) Examination of major Supreme Court opinions in the areas of freedom of religion, speech, assembly, and the press. Topics include the definitions of obscenity and libel, the Court's struggle with the right to privacy, and civil rights.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of major Supreme Court opinions in the areas of congressional, executive, and judicial authority; nation-state relations, and economic liberties. Topics include substantive vs. procedural due process, the Takings Clause, the contract clause, and the powers to tax and spend.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a broad overview of factors influencing the political behavior of groups and individuals both within and outside institutions. Particular emphasis is placed on examining issues such as voter turnout, economic influences on voting patterns, and social movement mobilization.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines theoretical discussions of American democracy in the context of the actual performance of American government and society on a variety of levels. Particular emphasis is placed on the ways American democracy functions on the subnational level in states, rural communities, and urban centers. Analysis of principles, organizations, procedures, and functions of state and local government, both urban and rural, in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of the ways race, ethnicity, and other factors shape political engagement; their implications for public policy and the policy process.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the utility of concepts from personality and social psychology for conducting political analysis and understanding political behavior. Explores the role of the individual, group processes, and the political context in political decision making by both leaders and nonleaders.
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3.00 Credits
(SS; 4 cr; prereq 1201 or #; offered when feasible; summer) Understanding courtroom procedure by observation of actual courtroom activity. Observation of a wide range of judicial proceedings, including arraignments, trials, sentencing, involuntary commitments to mental and alcohol treatment facilities, and the acceptance of negotiated settlements and/or plea-bargains. Observation of state courts at both the trial and appellate level. [Continuing Education course]
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3.00 Credits
Survey of classical Greek thought, Plato and Aristotle, primitive natural law, Cynics and Stoics, theory in Roman Republic and Empire, early Christianity and the church fathers, moral theory and political theory, empire and church in ideology, Roman and canon law, St. Thomas, political thought in the 14th and 15th centuries.
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