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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the evolution of sex-based classifications in American law. Considers the role of law as an agent of social change. Cross-listed with WMS 347. Offered infrequently.
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4.00 Credits
Survey and analysis of major components of the system of criminal justice with emphasis on law enforcement, judicial process, and corrections.
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3.00 Credits
Nature, functions, organizations, and activities of political parties and the processes of nomination, campaigns and elections in the American political system, with a comparative analysis of parties and the election process in other political systems.
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3.00 Credits
Legitimate and non-legitimate political behavior of citizens, including electoral behavior, political recruitment, violence, and apathy; origins, appearance, and impacts of mass and elite opinions and ideologies.
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3.00 Credits
Nature, functions, organizations, and activities of interest groups in the American political system with a comparative analysis of interest groups in other political systems.
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3.00 Credits
Decision making and policy formation in the public administrative and bureaucratic setting, comparative analysis of competing models of bureaucratic decision making, bureaucracy as a policy making institution, politics of regulatory agencies and governmental budgetary process.
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3.00 Credits
Administrative law and procedures; legislative delegation of power; administrative rule making, promulgation and enforcement; scope and constraints; appeals; controlling administrative discretion; public participation and access to information.
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3.00 Credits
Critical evaluation of the interplay of political and economic factors in international relations. Special attention given to the impact of trade, multinational corporations, and commercial, technological, and industrial policy on international political relations and development of the U.S.A., Japan, Western Europe, and newly industrializing countries. Offered infrequently.
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2.00 Credits
Practice in organizing a policy research team, preparing and presenting an applied policy research project. Practice in the application of program evaluation design, document analysis, interviewing, primary and secondary data collection, data analysis, legislative research, implementation analysis, organizational analysis, benefit-cost analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, and other applied policy research techniques and issues covered in POL 466. Must be taken concurrently with POL 466. Required for public administration majors, POL 466 Capstone.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how traditions of liberalism, republicanism, and religion have shaped American political ideas and culture. Attention to the thought of the Founding, Lincoln's refounding, feminism, and African-American political thought. Prerequisites: (411) POL 201; (511) graduate standing.
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