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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. Fosters critical thinking about human rights by developing skills in weighing powerful but opposing arguments in complex moral situations. Familiarizes students with the role of both national and international organizations in global politics.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or permission of instructor. A comprehensive analysis of the presidency; includes origins of the presidency, political power, the nature of the institutionalized presidency, campaigns and elections, and a careful look at selected presidents.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 2010. An analysis of the United States Congress; its origins, political power, the nature of the institutionalized Congress, campaigns, and elections.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010 or permission of instructor. Analysis of political ideas as expressed in motion pictures. Topics include leadership, political biographies, campaigns and elections, ideology, and war.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010. Examines the public policy-making process in the United States, the stages of policy development and the problems inherent in policymaking. At least one substantive policy area examined in depth; examples: health care, environmental, welfare, agricultural, poverty, or budgetary policies.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Assesses the institutional impact-past and present-of the civil rights movementon American political institutions (the presidency, Congress, the courts, the executive cabinets, the administrative regulatory agencies, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights). Events and topics include the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1991 Civil Rights Act, voter dilution, felony disenfranchisement and sentencing disparities, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, disability rights, gender discrimination, and majority-minority congressional districts.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. (Same as AAS 3180.) Prerequisite: PS 1010. Comparative study of the political systems, modernization efforts, and development problems of countries with different traditions or colonial pasts, selected from the continent of Africa.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. Emphasis on the Palestinian question, the Arab-Israeli wars, the role of the United Nations; conflicts between and among the Arab nations; the various peace initiatives that have been proposed.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010 or permission of instructor. The evolution of parliamentary government in the United Kingdom and its current distinctive characteristics, processes, and functions in contrast to other parliamentary regimes.
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3.00 Credits
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. The state system and national power, balance of power, balance of terror, game theory, psychological aspects of international conflict, decision making, diplomacy and negotiation, war, disarmament, and collective security.
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