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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the students to a variety of political actors and current issues in Mexican politics in an intensive way. The course includes lectures from Mexican politicians, activists, and scholars, as well as visits to the state legislature, courts, political party offices, and other points of interest. Topics covered include national politics, political parties, federal-state and state-local relations, social movements, the administration of justice, and economic and political relations with the United States. The course also instructs students in the ethics and responsibilities, as well as the rewards, of field research in political science. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Mr. Turner.
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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to introduce the student to politics and society in the Middle East. A determined effort will be made to take a balanced view of the area, neither looking at it through Western eyes nor through the eyes of any particular adversary in the numerous regional conflicts. Emphasis will be placed on the political cultures of the area, as well as on the variety of socio-political structures and processes present. This will be followed by a number of comparative case studies on contemporary aspects of Islamic traditionalism, the culture of transition, political modernization, and evolution and revolution in the political processes of the Middle Eastern states. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Mr. Badey.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with one of the most powerful forces to mobilize people in the modern era nationalism. Students explore the sources and history of nationalism, individual and collective motivations for national identity and action in the name of the nation, and the political patterns associated with nationalist cultures. The course illustrates issues in the study of nationalism through intensive case studies. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Mr. Turner.
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3.00 Credits
These courses focus on areas of political science not specifically covered in the general curriculum and are designed to meet the needs of advanced students. Three hours each. Staff.
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Three hours each. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
The seminar provides students with the opportunity to apply the tools, concepts, and skills they have gained from the major in political science to investigate specific topics. Seminar students will meet to discuss common themes, but each student will write a major research paper on a particular question of importance to the discipline. Student research findings will be reported in both written and spoken form. Extensive consultation between the student and the department's faculty members will be expected. Three hours. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the development of the Constitution through judicial interpretation. Cases will be analyzed in several areas, including: presidential powers, congressional powers, civil rights (including defendants' rights, minorities' rights, andwomen's rights), civil liberties and the First Amendment (speech, religion and assembly guarantees). Prerequisite: PSCI 202. Offered alternate years. Four hours. Ms. Bell.
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3.00 Credits
This course studies the domestic, international, and ecological sources of economic policy choices made by state and non-state actors. The course is designed to survey the theories of economic policy behavior, and the actions and results of various actors' efforts to influence the international economic environment. Specific attention is given to patterns of trade, finance and property rights, the development of trading blocs and the World Trade Organization, and to the issues of interdependence and world market constraints on national political choices. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Mr. Turner.
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4.00 Credits
This course will survey the development of the concepts of order, constitutionalism, and freedom in Western thought from their Greek origins through the 20th century. The three orienting concepts will be traced through the contributions made by the great political thinkers of Greece, Rome, early Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Reformation and the rise of the nation-state, the age of the social contract, and the development of ideologies; conservatism, liberalism, socialism, communism and fascism. Four hours. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the general principles and theories of the law of nations, including the use of case studies to illustrate the growth and development of international law. Offered alternate years. Three hours. Mr. Badey.
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