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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
is a title given to a course which covers broad themes, practices, and subject content not currently taught in the curriculum. This course is directed primarily at non majors and may be used for general education where approved. Generally does not have prerequisites.
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3.00 Credits
studies the political development of Eastern Europe and Russia from the formation of the Soviet Union to contemporary times with an emphasis placed on the Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras; Marxist ideology; study of Soviet politics and breakdown of the Soviet Union; current social and economic problems and policies.
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3.00 Credits
examines the processes and tools for analysis, implementation and evaluation of public policy. Emphasis will be given to framework, modes of policy argument, the policy process, and evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
involves the study of basic concepts of political philosophy from a historical point of view. Through a comparison with ancient political philosophy, the development of modern political philosophy will be assessed. Topics to be studied include: the nature and purpose of political association: the origin of obligation in natural law, natural rights, and historical process; the role of authority, law, and liberty, property, equality, and justice. Philosophers to be studied may include Aristotle, Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Burke, and Marx.
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3.00 Credits
examines American society, culture, and politics from the end of World War II to the present. Topics covered include life in the 1950s, the war in Vietnam at home and abroad, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, the counterculture of the 1960s, the new conservatism of the 1970s and 1980s, and current issues in the 2000s.
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3.00 Credits
studies the content of United States' foreign policy since World War II; containment and communism, the Cold War, détente, impact of Vietnam; contemporary relations with Russia and Eastern Europe, China, the Western alliance and the developing countries; how American foreign policy is made; analysis of arms control, warfare, military technology and deterrence; economic policies, and contemporary issues confronting U.S. foreign policy.
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3.00 Credits
explores the various subfields of the field of the discipline, including: American politics, public policy, comparative, and international politics, and political theory. Student will also learn about political science research methods and will learn how to select topics, review literature, collect and analyze data, and write reports. Student attendance at the Midwest Political Science Association meeting is mandatory. Prerequisite for senior internship and senior thesis.
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3.00 Credits
analyzes the American constitutional development; the Supreme Court as a political institution; major judicial decisions regarding taxation, commerce, civil rights and civil liberties, federalism, the powers of Congress and the President.
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3.00 Credits
examines the Supreme Court decisions concerned with the definition of American rights in the areas of freedom of speech, press, assembly, association and religion, church state relations, race and sex discrimination, privacy; criminal rights.
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3.00 Credits
explores the judicial and trial process in the American legal system. Includes structure and function of courts, rules of evidence, presentation of case materials, and roles of civil and criminal procedures. May be repeated once.
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