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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 Polling in the U.S. Prerequisites: POLS 101 or departmental approval. The main goal of this course will be to familiarize students with various polling methods used in political science research with the aim of giving them the ability to evaluate and criticize such research. A variety of polling techniques will be covered including simple descriptive statistics, tracking polls, and quota polls. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 International Law. Prerequisites: POLS 202 or POLS 203 or departmental approval. The nature, place, evolution, subjects, sources, principles, role and substance of international law in the international system of nation-states. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 Globalization and Security. Prerequisites: POLS 202 or permission of instructor. After reviewing debates on globalization, this course covers its impact on global security through an examination of key issues such as crime, terrorism, migration, environment, and health, and a detailed case study of the Bosnian War. The course includes evaluation of the role of the international community and civil society in addressing these new security challenges. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 U.S. Immigration: Law & Politics. Prerequisites: POLS 101 or LAWS 200 or JURI 210 or departmental approval. This course explores the interrelationships among the legal, political and societal factors in major legislative enactments of U.S. immigration and nationality law as they relate to government institutions and affected populations. The course examines the law and politics of restrictive immigration since the founding of our nation, including exclusion laws of the nineteenth century, quota systems of the twentieth century, and key legislative acts of the latter 20th and early 21st centuries. 3 hours lecture.
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1.00 - 7.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 1.00 to 7.00 Political Science Washington, D.C., Internship. Prerequisites: Departmental approval. Corequisites: COED 401, COED 402, COED 403, or COED 404. Special fee. In this course students intern in Washington, D.C., at governmental offices, interest groups, party and electoral organizations, law and lobbying firms or other political organizations. Students' academic learning is assessed by faculty, and their work performance is evaluated by their placement supervisor. Students may receive up to 7.0 credits in Political Science and up to 8.0 credits in a corequisite Cooperative Education course. Cross listed with Women's and Gender Studies, WMGS 436.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 Honors Seminar-Political Science. Prerequisites: Open only to junior and senior majors with at least a 3.2 cumulative grade point average in Political Science. The course will involve intensive research in a seminar setting for junior and senior political science majors. Students will conduct original research and present reports to meetings of the seminar. 3 hours seminar.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 Public Administration and Public Policy. Prerequisites: An undergraduate course in administration. Literature and developments in the field of public administration from Woodrow Wilson to the new public administration movement. Techniques of administrative management, budgetary and personnel administration, and analysis of the federal bureaucracy in the policy making process. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 Modern Political Analysis. Prerequisites: A course in the scope and theories of political science, or equivalent. Required of all master's degree candidates concentrating in political science, this course deals with the methodologies and orientations that have guided the study of political phenomena. Utility of methods and the validity of theories are examined by reference to data related to specific political systems. Perspective is comparative and theoretical. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 Origin and Development of the U.S. Constitution. Prerequisites: A course in American government. The roots and influences that determine the nation's basic political document. The role of the Marshall court in shaping the constitution. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: POLITICAL SCIENCE AND LAW Credits: 3.00 History of Political Thought. Prerequisites: A course in political theory. Systematic analysis of the main traditions of Western political thought. Study of major political philosophers from Plato to Marx. Leading concepts of each major tradition are related to their historical contexts and their contemporary significance. 3 hours lecture.
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