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8.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Covers recent approaches to understanding politics in Latin America, with an emphasis on questions of transitions to democracy and regime stability, the nature of democratic rule, and the role of political institutions, the economy, and the military. (F)
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9.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Explores issues associated with the role of intelligence in a democratic society by focusing on the U.S. intelligence community. Areas of inquiry include: the role of intelligence in national security, the major elements of intelligence, the major organizations within the intelligence community, future threats, oversight, and policy issues. (Irreg.)
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0.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Content varies; may be repeated for credit with change of content; maximum credit 12 hours. Focuses on special topics in political theory. These might include concepts such as power, liberty, justice, equality, democracy, etc.,; or particular theorists or schools of thought. (Irreg.)
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 3703 or other undergraduate work introducing classical political thought. Open to qualified undergraduate students with permission of instructor. Devoted to study of the political thought developed in classical antiquity, at which time the quest for a systematic and rational understanding of political life emerged and permanently altered the way we think about politics. Emphasis will be given to the works of Plato and Aristotle. (Irreg.)
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 3713 or other undergraduate work introducing modern political thought. Open to qualified undergraduate students with permission of instructor. Devoted to major works in modern political theory, from Machiavelli through Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche in the nineteenth century. Emphasis will be given to those thinkers whose ideas contribute to shaping the major forms of society and government found in the modern state. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: open to qualified undergraduates with permission of instructor. Will study selected issues in contemporary political theory. Specific topics will include the modern theory of a "social science," problems of modern democratic theory, contemporary Marxism, the crisis of the idea of progress, economics and politics, historicism, contemporary analysis of natural law and natural right and others. (Irreg.)
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: graduate standing or permission of instructor. Survey course on the foundational thinkers in international law and international political thought. Examines different philosophical approaches to just war theory and the laws of war, theories of sovereignty and laws governing the interaction of states, theories of human rights, and debates over humanitarian intervention. (Irreg.)
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1.00 Credits
2 to 8 hours. Prerequisite: 15 hours of political science or 24 hours of social science. May be repeated; maximum credit eight hours. (F, Sp, Su)
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1.00 Credits
Presents an introduction to the foundations and use of quantitative methods in political science/public administration. Topics covered include: conducting systematic research in political science/public administration, measurement theory, bivariate analysis, hypothesis testing and statistical inference. (F)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: 5913; 5000-level prerequisite. Continues the study of the foundations and use of quantitative methods in political science. Topics covered include: probability theory, distribution theory, control table analysis, analysis of variance and correlation and regression analysis. (Sp)
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