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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits The course looks at law as a political instrument, politics in legislation, structure of politics, including government and political parties; surveys the basic documents of the U.S. judicial system. Current political events, national and local, are examined in the light of legal principles. Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A study of New York City’s mayoralty, New York State’s governorship, the Cityand State legislatures, the interest groups and political parties to which these institutions are sometimes beholden, and the use and decline of patronage. Attention will be paid to City-State relations and to the financial problems and the racial-ethnic tensions that City and State must confront. Comparisons with other cities and states will be made. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A program common to all the senior colleges of The City University that involves working eight hours a week for a public official, city agency, or public service organization. In addition, all students attend four seminars a month, one at the University’s graduate center and three at their own college. (social science) Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor, ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits A continuation of POL 233. (social science) Prerequisite: POL 233
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4.00 Credits
(Also SLS 235) 4 hours; 4 credits Study of major American political institutions: the Presidency, Congress, Supreme Court, bureaucracy, and the Democratic and Republican parties. The course will emphasize the extent to which the actual workings of our political systems differ from, and are affected by, constitutional theory and legal rules and thus will discuss the impact of pressure groups and public opinion. It will also cover selected state and local political issues. (social science) Not open to students who have taken POL 100. Prerequisites: A minimum GPA of 2.75; ENG 111 and ENG 151, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits This course deals with the purposes and aims of the criminal justice and the criminal court system. It examines law enforcement arraignments and bail, the legal profession, plea bargaining, and sentencing. The structure, concepts, and theories of criminal law are studied and a comparison is made between the adversary and inquisitorial systems. Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
(Also AMS 239) 4 hours; 4 credits The course focuses on the civil and military aspects of the Civil War, including the events and issues leading up to the war, the struggle over the expansion of slavery, the Union’s and the Confederacy’s military strategies,and analysis of key battles. The course will examine the presidency of Lincoln and will explore major constitutional issues, such as the right of secession and the problems of maintaining civil liberties during a civil war. Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits An examination of contemporary political systems in the global context. Studies the nature of globalization; its effects on the nation-state; its impact on the political institutions, economic systems, and societies of the advanced liberal democracies, post-Communist, and developing nations; and the interaction between politics, economy, and society in today’s interdependent world. (cont. wld.) (p&d) Prerequisites: ENG 151, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits An introduction to four Western European democracies, with the principal focus on the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Italy. Student understanding of the democratic experience is broadened by comparing four different forms of democratic government, their relationship to market economics, their way of dealing with social diversity, their divergent solutions to social and economic problems. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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4.00 Credits
4 hours; 4 credits The development of the Soviet Union from the 1917 Revolution to the collapse of communism. Major topics: the historical and ideological foundations of the Soviet Union; the communist system in practice; the collapse of communism and the breakup of the Soviet Union into the Commonwealth of Independent States; the chances for democracy and a market economy in Russia and the newly independent republics. (social science) Prerequisites: ENG 111, COR 100
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