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3.00 Credits
This course explores three basic topics: 1) the debates between the Anti-Federalists and the Federalists concerning ratification of the US Constitution 2) competing theories of constitutional interpretation and 3) controversies related to the meaning and application of the Bill of Rights. Specific issues to be debated include the separation of church and state, freedom of speech, abortion rights, and capital punishment.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the development and current state of America's preeminent political institution: the U.S. Congress. We will talk about ways that congresspersons are elected and the institutional rules, habits and procedures by which they govern. We will talk about the institution of Congress as a product of the goals and motivations of the members - including the motivation of good policy, the goal of re-election and the pull of partisan struggle.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the concept of political culture. Political culture in political science refers to culture main social and cultural attitudes toward politics in a given country. However our approach to this concept is interdisciplinary. We shall read and analyze four books and articles from different disciplines such as Anthropology, Social History, Political Science and two novels. Four themes will be investigated: Why we have different traditions, the manipulation and invention of political traditions, alienation and cultural resistance in the Middle East, American Ethnocentrism, and making sense of American culture now.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to major concepts, theories, and issues central to the field of political science, and especially international relations. This course traces the evolution of the international systems in the last five hundred years, with specific interest on complex problems such as: war and international conflict, imperialism and its impact on the colonial world, terrorism, north-south relations, and the end of the cold war. Students are encouraged to read international news sections either in daily papers such as the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, or weeklies e.g., Time of the Nation.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines a selection of the most profound and influential works of Western political theory from Plato (4th Century BCE) to the present day. We will study what different thinkers have had to say about the meaning of justice, order, the good life, the common good, freedom, and democracy. A continuous theme of the course will be political legitimacy; under what conditions and on what grounds may governments claim the obedience of their citizens? The objective of this course is to understand and critically evaluate the arguments of different theorists, and to reach your own reasoned positions on the issues raised by them.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended as introduction to the principles and foundations of international relations. As such, it will focus on basic concepts such as nations and nationalism, the nature of the interstate system, anarchy, and power. The primary modes through which nation-states interact--diplomacy, trade economic sanctions, war, alliances, cooperation--will also be examined. The course will try to help the student understand how the elements of international society are emerging, as illustrated in the accretion of international law, norms, and such common understandings.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces methodological perspectives of the various social science disciplines; commonalities and differences in assumptions, values, and paradigms. Current issues from the multiple perspective of social sciences; limits of the social sciences in resolving key social issues. The focus of political sciences is examined and listed to common ties with other disciplines of the social sciences.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the interaction between law and politics in the contemporary society. We will pay close attention to three sets of relationships: between law and community, between law and justice and between law and violence. While exploring these interactions we will develop two faces of law; law as official institutions (courts) and actors (judges, lawyers, police) and laws as norms, symbols, and discourses. We will then consider the norms, symbols, and discourses. We will then consider the macro-politics of law in the death penalty and war on drugs and micro-politics of legal mobilization in neighborhoods and local settings.
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3.00 Credits
Students who take this course should expect to gain three types of knowledge by the conclusion. First, they should understand the historical emergence of the nation- state and the trend toward democracy during the 20th century. Second, they should expect to understand important differences between states and specifically the challenges posed by globalization to existing states in the late twentieth century. The same pressures and institutions that have made some of the countries more democratic have also led to civil war and ethnic massacre in others. Third, students should come to understand that comparative politics as the discipline employs a stylized account of the history and institutions called "cases" to discuss political values and possibilities. The name "Britain," "Russia," and "Japan" are not the only places; they are also shorthand for understanding twentieth century politics. Students in this course may choose to participate in service learning. Service learning students will have the opportunity to engage in active learning through service work at one of several local organizations concerned with refugee, immigrant, or labor issues.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to key concepts in the study of politics using environment issues as illustrations. Designed for first and second year students, this course encourages critical thinking and writing about such political concepts as equality, justice, freedom, liberalism, power, dissent, individualism, and community. The environmental approaches examined include biocentrism, social ecology, ecofeminism, community activism, as well as national and international regulation. Strong emphasis is placed on developing critical writing skills and persuasive oral arguments.
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