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3.00 Credits
R. Kraynak, B. Shain This study of the principles of American government as articulated by leading statesmen and political thinkers gives particular attention to the founding period and the Constitution and to their relationship to later periods of reform.
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0.50 Credits
F. Chernoff This 0.50-credit extended study course is intended for students who have completed POSC 353. The extended study in New York City explores four topics covered in POSC 353: conflict in the Middle East, conflict in the Balkans, NATO and European security, and the UN peacekeeping system. The class meets with academics and representatives of roughly a dozen countries who deal with these issues. The study includes panels of military scholars from the US Army War College and the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prerequisite: POSC 353 and permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
R. Kraynak, B. Shain What is wrong with the modern world, especially with the political culture of liberal and progressive intellectual elites Such questions are explored by studying the radical critique of modernity offered by philosophical, classical, and Christian conservatives.
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3.00 Credits
B. Shain Important Enlightenment-era political treatises are explored in this course. The bourgeois sensibilities of Montesquieu, Hume, and Voltaire are compared - culminating in the tenets of classical liberalism - to the more radical and perfectionist aspirations of Rousseau, Beccaria, Diderot, and Condorcet. For both schools of thought, the focus is the aspects and ideas that cast light on matters of continuing concern to modern democratic politics and capitalist economies.
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3.00 Credits
J. Wagner How can one understand human beings when they seem to have such a complicated variety of interests and motives Not only does behavior vary dramatically across cultures and over time, but so do conceptions of truth, God, religion, morality, justice, and the good. Differences abound. The intent of this course is to look at the controversies that divide social and political theorists in their effort to understand human beings and the human condition. In the process students discover that beneath conflicting theories are recurring themes concerning subjectivity and objectivity, the nature of human beings, theories of self and other, as well as a debate over rationality, irrationality, truth, and knowledge. By better understanding these controversies students gain new insights into human nature, human knowledge, and the human condition.
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3.00 Credits
S. Brubaker In this course, students examine the nature of civil rights and liberties under the Constitution; such will include freedom of speech and the press, religious freedom, equal protection (with major attention to race and gender), due process, property, and privacy/autonomy (abortion, right to die, sexual orientation). Students also explore the role of the Supreme Court in the definition and protection of these rights and engage the several controversies surrounding the larger enterprise of constitutional interpretation, such as originalism v. nonoriginalism, natural law v. positivism, judicial activism v. judicial restraint, and so forth. (Formerly POSC 460, Seminar: Constitutional Law: Rights and Liberties.)
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3.00 Credits
S. Brubaker The focus of this course is what Aristotle identified as the central question of political science, the character of regime - the organization of offices and the distribution of power that is designed to achieve an understanding of justice and the human good. More specifically, students focus on the structural characteristics of the American regime, or Constitution - separation of powers, federalism, emergency powers, property rights; but students are equally concerned with the politics of interpretation itself - the complex process by which people determine what is the Constitution, how it is to be understood, and who has authority to interpret it. The responsibility for constitutional interpretation is broadly distributed, but it is also obvious that the pre-eminent voice for interpreting the Constitution has become the Supreme Court. Accordingly, students spend the greater portion of the course with the analysis of cases, that is, the Court's opinion of what the Constitution means. (Forme rly POSC 461, Seminar: Constitutional Law: Structu res and Powers
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3.00 Credits
N. Moore This course focuses on the issues and problems confronting certain socially and politically marginalized groups in contemporary American society. Such groups include racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, women, and gays and lesbians. Of particular concern is how well these groups have fared in the American political arena, the sources of and constraints upon their political clout, and the political system's response to their concerns and demands. The course examines both the political process as it pertains to marginalized groups and also the major public policy developments affecting these groups. More specifically, it utilizes traditional political science tools and methodologies in an attempt to disentangle the dynamic interplay between American political process, public policy, and the politics of social justice.
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3.00 Credits
S. Brubaker, T. Byrnes This Washington, DC, study group course is an inquiry into the enduring principles and changing features of our constitutional order. Topics include the design of the founders (their underlying propositions about human nature and the common good, expectations for institutional performance, and hopes for the way of life fostered by this constitutional order), significant changes within this order (as marked by shifts in the underlying premises of the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution and parallel realignments of the political party system), and contemporary features of institutions and political mores. The class meets as a daily seminar for the first two weeks of the program, then in weekly seminars for the following six weeks.
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3.00 Credits
Staff This Washington, DC, study group course combines common readings pertaining to the internship (focusing on organization theory) and individualized readings on an independent research project. For the latter, students are encouraged to select topics that further enhance and complement the experiential learning of their internships.
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