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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Description: The effects of the mass media on American politics including its role in campaigns, institutions and public policy. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: The effects of the mass media on American politics including its role in campaigns, institutions and public policy. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This class will cover South Carolina's systems of government and politics from historical, contemporary, and public policy perspectives. We will examine how and why South Carolina's government and politics have evolved as they have; the structure, organization and functions of state and local government; historical civil rights issues including the desegregation of schools and other public facilities, and voting rights; and a number of current public policy issues which are pertinent to the quality of life in the state. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, and Queer (LGBTQ) Politics & Policy offers a critical examination of social construction of sexual and gender identities in the U.S. The politico-cultural policing and sanctioning of sexual and gender variant folk will be situated in historical and contemporary contexts. Current issues--e.g., HIV rights, trans* equality, LGBTQ inclusion in religious spaces, adoption and foster care policy, theories of LGBTQ political activism and organizing--will provide both a historical understanding of the LGBTQ equity movement as well as the pressing policymaking towards and politics of this community in the present day. Notes: Offered periodically. Cross-listed with WMST 316.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, and Queer (LGBTQ) Politics & Policy offers a critical examination of social construction of sexual and gender identities in the U.S. The politico-cultural policing and sanctioning of sexual and gender variant folk will be situated in historical and contemporary contexts. Current issues--e.g., HIV rights, trans* equality, LGBTQ inclusion in religious spaces, adoption and foster care policy, theories of LGBTQ political activism and organizing--will provide both a historical understanding of the LGBTQ equity movement as well as the pressing policymaking towards and politics of this community in the present day. Notes: Offered periodically. Cross-listed with WMST 316.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the Black political experience in the United States. It considers relevant historical background and context, the constitutional framework of American government, and the nature of interactions with the main institutions of government. What is more, the course focuses on the role and participation of Blacks in US government and politics as well as the role of political parties, independent government politics, and social movements. In the process, the course highlights the Black struggle for freedom, justice, equality, and full inclusion in the American political community. The role of race, class, and gender in African American politics is a concomitant focus of the course. Notes: Cross-listed with AAMS 317. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Study of the substantive law of civil rights with a focus on the legal rights that protect individuals from discrimination. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Study of the substantive law of civil rights with a focus on the legal rights that protect individuals from discrimination. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is designed to provide students with a thorough understanding of the significance of race and ethnicity in American politics and policymaking. Rooted in theories of race, racism, and political economy, the course considers relevant historical background, the constitutional framework of American government, and the nature of interactions between whites, blacks, Latinos, Asian and Pacific Islanders, and Indians peoples and the main institutions of government. Notes: Cross-listed with AAMS 319. Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course offers an in-depth exploration of the historical development of immigration policy in the United States as well as contemporary political debates. Notes: Offered periodically.
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