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3.00 Credits
This course provides a study of rights guaranteed to American citizens under the Constitution of the United States. This course focuses on court decisions which interpret and protect individual rights and freedoms. Prerequisite: C or better in POLS 101. Three semester hours.
Prerequisite:
POLS 101
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the operation and workings of the courts and the people involved in or behind them, thereby analyzing the courts not just as formal institutions that are affected by an outside world of politics, but as major and integral parts of state and national politics. It will also include recent changes in judicial policy and its impact. Prerequisite: C or better in POLS 101. Three semester hours.
Prerequisite:
POLS 101
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3.00 Credits
As a basic course in public budgeting, this course focuses on the key steps in the development of state and local government budgets. This course will examine the budget process, identify the primary actors, their roles in the budget process, and their ability to influence the budget outcome. Budget concepts will be examined to include line item budgets, zero based budgets, performance budgets and capital budgets. The student will be exposed to the local budget process by attending budget hearings at either the county, city or local school boards. The goals of this course are: (1) to understand the concepts of public budgeting; (2) to understand the process of establishing a public budget; and (3) to understand the role of government agencies and citizens in the process. Three semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on conflict in world politics, specifically the study of war, the use of force, and terrorism. Topics include both interstate wars and civil wars as well as military transformations related to technology, weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), political violence, ethnic conflicts, and humanitarian disasters. The course also examines the modern science and technology of nuclear weapons since 1945. Junior/senior status recommended. (Global Issues/Nonwestern Studies). Three semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
As the basic course in Political Philosophy, this course focuses upon the origin and development of the key concepts which have molded our modern world. We will use original works of political philosophy, covering theorists as diverse as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Mill, Foucault, Arendt and Marcuse. Each semester will have some variation with respect to these and other authors. The goals of this course are: (1) to improve the student's own analytic-philosophical reasoning; (2) to gain a solid foundation of these key thinkers; and (3) to apply their concepts to the modern world in which we ar learning to live. Prerequisites: POLS 101 or 103. Three semester hours.
Prerequisite:
POLS 101 or POLS 103
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3.00 Credits
Political Psychology examines the interaction between politics and psychology in the attempt to understand various phenomena in the political world. The course focuses on how psychological processes influence the political behaviors and attitudes of individuals, groups, leaders, and the masses. Some of the commonly examined topics of the course include the roles of personality in politics, the processing of political information, individual and group decision making processes, intergroup conflict (based on factors such as ethnicity, race, nationalism, and religion), and collective violence. Prerequisite: POLS 101 or POLS 103 or POLS 200 or permission of instructor. Three semester hours.
Prerequisite:
POLS 101 or POLS 103 or POLS 200
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1.00 Credits
An introduction to the practice of state legislative procedures. This class will examine theory in legislating, legislative procedure, and will actually participate in a mock legislative process with other colleges and universities throughout the state. Students are required to participate in the South Carolina Student Legislature. Students may take the course up to three times for elective credit only. Prerequisite: A GPA of at least a 3.0 or permission of the instructor. One credit hour.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government. The constitutional and political powers of Congress and the president are addressed as well as their interaction in the policymaking process. Prerequisite: "C" or better in POLS 101 or permission of instructor. Three semester hours.
Prerequisite:
POLS 101
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3.00 Credits
Diversity of human experience in politics with focus on politically oriented issues of interest either globally or in the non0western world. Prerequisite: Junior/Senior status. Three semester hours.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the ordering principles of world politics including international institutions, regimes, norms, and law. The course will look primarily at the historical evolution, functions, and development of international law. Junior/Senior status recommended. Cross-listed with LEG 366. (General Education - Global Issues and Cultures and General Education Electives). Three credit hours.
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