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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Major Western political ideas from the Greeks through the 15th century. Emphasis upon major political theorists in the development of classical Greek and Roman, Medieval Christian, and Renaissance political theory.
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4.00 Credits
Major Western political ideas in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis upon central figures in the development of Democratic, Marxist, Socialist, and various other contemporary bodies of political theory.
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4.00 Credits
The relationship between the public and private spheres. The relationship between the state and family as perceived by political theorists. The home as a metaphor for public life; the patriarchal and other modes of government and the family; the interdependence of the family, the economy, and the state; the family as haven of resistance in a hostile political environment. Classical political theory texts and contemporary writings.
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4.00 Credits
The duties and rights of citizenship, personal and ethnic identities, and evolving democratic theory. Specific issues raised by contemporary politics: national service, immigration policy models of citizenship participation, dismantling the welfare state, utopian and contemporary notions of community, and affirmative action. Classical and contemporary texts.
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4.00 Credits
Major theories and debates about imperialism, its history, its modern manifestations, and its status and future in the post-Cold War era.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys the formulation, implementation, and impact of public policy dealing with social and economic problems. Examines and evaluates the causes and content of government policy in various areas such as civil rights, social welfare, urban affairs, crime, education, health, environment, energy, taxation.
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4.00 Credits
Politics, history, values and contemporary issues related to employment in the public sector. Topics include discriminatory practices, affirmative action efforts, training and development programs, comparable worth pay systems, collective bargaining, and constitutional rights of employees.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Supervised work experience in which student completes academic assignments integrated with off-campus paid or volunteer activities. Prerequisites: at least a 2.0 GPA; departmental approval of activity. May be repeated for credit, for a maximum of 8 units. A maximum of 4 units will be accepted toward the Political Science major; a maximum of 4 units will be accepted toward the Political Science minor.
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4.00 Credits
Readings, discussion, and research on contemporary and/or significant issues in political science. May be repeated once for credit when content varies, for a maximum of 8 units.
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4.00 Credits
Politics of human-environment relationships. Sustainability, biodiversity, population, consumption, technology, energy, water, resources, recycling, pollution, and urban systems. Cultural values, paradigm change, science, risk analysis, market pricing, competition of networks, and citizen action. Significant written assignment integrates theory and practice.
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