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Course Criteria
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8.40 Credits
Classical and contemporary works of literature to illustrate perennial issues in political philosophy; among authors studied are Aristophanes, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Melville, Tolstoy and Sartre. Group 8. 4 cr.
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7.40 Credits
Examines the structures, processes and issues that shape contemporary international relations. Topics include: the rise and fall of the nation-state system and its current prospects, national and international security in the post Cold War era, problems of the international political economy, international confl ict resolution, human rights and global environmental politics. Group 7. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
International politics from the perspective of the exhaustibility of global resources and the expansion of global demand. Concentrates on issues including population, food, energy, the environment, security, and human rights. Global interdependence and the appearance of new institutional frameworks of global public policy making. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Examines specialized issues in international politics. Topics may include ethnic confl ict, non-proliferation and global security, economic and political globalization, etc. See department listings for semester off erings. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Policy and program evaluation of federal, state and local governmental enterprise; focuses on the politics, practices and methods of evaluative investigation. Evaluation as a technique for providing rational information for budgetary and policy-making decisions. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the origins, development, and functions of the modern state in the West, its links with markets and capitalism, and its role in contemporary political economy. Examples from various advanced industrial societies. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Th e evolution of international economic regimes (monetary, trade, development). Particular emphasis on theoretical approaches to explain current economic problems: systematic theories (interdependence, hegemonic stability); domestic determinants (bureaucratic, interest group); and decision-making theories (rational choice). Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Classics of sociological and political economic theory, as well as contemporary thinking in conservative, classical liberal, modern liberal and radical political economy. Emphasis on the historical context in which these ideas emerge and the links among them. Readings and discussions include such thinkers as Comte, Spencer, Weber, Durkheim, Locke, Marx, Smith, Riccardo, J.S. Mill, Shumpeter, Keynes, Hayek. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Political opinion, identity and belief-formation and reinforcement. Th e roles of cognition and emotion in how political identities, opinions and beliefs form, change and resist change. Th e implications of ideaframing in the acceptance and rejection of political concepts and ideologies. Th e role of social contexts and the media in creating conceptual boundaries in contemporary politics. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Course analyzes and evaluates the roles of political philosophy and historical circumstances in politics through the readings of selected works by political philosophers and political leaders whose writings combine political philosophy with historical analysis. Special attention given to the nature of argument, choice and leadership in political behavior. Authors studied include Machiavelli, Madison, Marx and Lincoln. 4 cr.
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