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Course Criteria
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2.00 - 4.00 Credits
2-4 hours. This course examines the relationship of the individual to the city-state in the ancient world, with a particular focus on the relationship between ethics and politics. Major thinkers include Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle, as well as selected readings from other ancient authors. (Cross-listed as PHIL 340)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. A survey of the major political theorists from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, with primary emphasis on western thinkers. Particular attention given to theory as an individual and cultural phenomenon. (Cross-listed as CRIT 341, PHIL 341)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. This course introduces students to political thought in the United States. It explores "liberal" ideals such as individualism, freedom, equality, citizenship, and democracy, as well as important alternatives to those ideas. It will also examine the ways in which race, ethnicity, and gender have shaped American political thought. Prerequisite: POLS 110.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. Through readings on political leadership, the media, Washington power politics, international relations, and Americans' historic attachments to individual rights and civic participation, this course examines the forces leading to contemporary political controversies. Students will explore the interrelationship between these controversies and Americans' changing views of citizenship and democracy. (Cross-listed as SOCI 347)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. The policy process is the heart of politics: "Who gets What, When, How?" This course emphasizes the stages of the process and the types of policies that government considers. A case study of some policy area (elderly) is provided.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. Determinants, mobilization and participation processes and outcomes of movements. Topics include competing theories; types of grievances, recruitment mechanisms; organizational dynamics; tactics; external support variables; and repressions and concessions by regimes. Prerequisites: SOCI 110 or ANTH 110. (Cross-listed as SOCI 356)
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. Analysis of the administrative policy processes at the national level. Internal interaction and budgetary processes as well as interchange with external governmental and political institutions. Prerequisite: POLS 110. (Alternate years)
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2.00 Credits
2 hours. Analysis of such current legal and political issues as free speech, religion, poverty, privacy, obscenity, and racial and sexual discrimination with attention to both established and latent areas of concern. Focuses on Supreme Court activity. Other governmental action considered, along with the theoretical and social contexts of the problems examined. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing.
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4.00 Credits
4 hours. The major research designs and techniques used in collecting social science data. The class selects, designs, and executes a research project and prepares a joint presentation and defense of its findings. Prerequisites: SOCI 110 or ANTH 110, and senior standing or permission of instructor.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
1-4 hours. Academic inquiry into an area not covered in any established course, and carried on outside the usual instructor/ classroom setting. Open to Political Science majors at the permission of instructor. Approved Plan of Study required.
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