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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Development, organization, methods and roles of political parties in American political life as viewed in a framework of democratic theory. Prerequisite: Political Science 200. 3 semester hours
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Development of the United States Constitution. Analysis of factors influencing its formulation and subsequent interpretation: legislative, executive, and judicial powers, civil liberties, due process of law and federalism. Prerequisite: Political Science 200. 3 semester hours
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Comparison of the governments of selected countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Germany, and China with respect to political heritage and ideology, governmental structure, parties and public opinion, foreign relations and contemporary issues. Also includes the modern development of comparative politics as a process of comparing and analyzing variables. Prerequisite: Political Science 190 or 200. 3 semester hours
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A survey of background and current development in such topics as international law, international organization, and economic development, problems of war, regional arrangements, and unofficial influences in world policy. Prerequisite: Political Science 190 or 200. 3 semester hours
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A survey of America's legal history. Primarily, considers those legal cases and decisions that had the greatest influence on American life - those cases that best reveal the interconnection between law and society. Each case and decision will be placed within its social context and the social impact of the decision will also be discussed. (Same as History 370.) Prerequisite: History 200, 210, Political Science 190, 200 or 210. 3 semester hours
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Selected subjects, varying from offering to offering, presenting the opportunity for a more detailed examination of a topic than is possible in a general course. 3 semester hours
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International relations of the United States. Its rise to world power in the 20th century. (Same as History 410.) Prerequisites: History 160, 200 or 210. 3 semester hours
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Study of the formation, implementation and evaluation of American public policies, including analysis of specific policy areas, such as welfare, education, healthcare and crime, among others. Prerequisite: Political Science 200. 3 semester hours
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Introduces students to the political ideologies (the political creeds and doctrines) that dominated and shaped world politics over the past 200 years. This class is concerned with the origins, central themes and impacts of these basic political ideas. The course will survey how political ideologies brought about change through a survey of the nineteenth-century ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, nationalism and socialism, the twentieth-century juggernauts of communism and fascism, and more contemporary ideologies like ecologism and religious fundamentalism. 3 semester hours
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Directed studies in connection with a practicum experience in state or federal government. Forty hours of work weekly, plus readings and/or research to be outlined in advance by the designated faculty coordinator. Off-campus only, in a government-related job in a state or federal capital, arranged by the political science faculty. Prerequisite: WPI. Recommended: Completion of Political Science 210. (Grading Honor, Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory.) 4 or 6 semester hours
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