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Students will study how nations interact with each other. They will study the development of nationalism as the primary model for explaining how nations relate to one another. The course will also trace the recent development of globalism as an alternative model for explaining international politics. It will also examine the concepts of realism and idealism in the conduct of international relations. Offered Fall even numbered years
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Topics will vary.
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An investigation of various types of political institutions, their philosophies and development, and application to social and economic order as expressed in differing systems of national government. Offered Fall even numbered years
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3.00 Credits
This course examines inherent conflicts between individual liberties and social order under our constitutional system. It uses the case study approach to analyze issues including freedom of speech, assembly, press, and religion; due process; equal protection; voting rights; and privacy rights. Offered Spring even numbered years
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Students trace the development of national security in the United States from its conceptual birth during World War II to the present day, including the role that intelligence plays in national security policy. The course examines how national security policy has developed through succeeding presidential administrations. Offered Spring odd numbered years
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Students will examine some of the unconventional security threats posed by transnational actors and organizations. Topics to be covered include: globalization, WMD proliferation, drug cartels, energy security, information security, pandemics, and border security. Students will also critically assess how best to organize American’s national security apparatus to respond to these wide-ranging unconventional threats. Offered Fall even numbered years
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The intelligence world is one of ambiguity, nuance, and complexity. Knowing one’s enemies and knowing one’s self has been sage advice for centuries. But how does one know what your enemies are thinking? This course focuses on the conversion of processed information into intelligence through the integration, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of all source data and the preparation of intelligence products in support of known or anticipated user requirements. Analysis is but one phase of the intelligence process, but it is perhaps the most important. Students who take this course will expand their research, computer, communication, and analytical skills in order to identify significant facts and derive sound conclusions form imperfect and often contradictory information and flawed evidence. Offered Spring even numbered years
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3.00 Credits
Students complete a case study/project designed to test the totality of knowledge gained in the GNS major. Seminar projects must demonstrate explicitly, through scholarship, teamwork, and /or creative thinking, a meaningful integration of the student’s course of study. Offered Spring
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to psychology as a behavioral science, including historical background, human development (genetic and physical) from birth through death, the senses and perception, intelligence and creativity, and the principles of conditioning, learning, memory, and forgetting. Offered Fall, Spring
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3.00 Credits
Topics will vary.
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