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4.00 Credits
A continuation of PHYS 221. Topics include electric fields, circuit analysis, magnetism, geometrical and wave optics, relativity and atomic structure. Prerequisite: PHYS 221. Corequisite: MATH 172. Lecture three hours, laboratory three hours. Offered spring of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
DR. LAWRENCE D. HULTGREN, Director PORTfolio is a selective four-year program that allows students to integrate their college education with offcampus experiential opportunities. The purpose of PORTfolio is to provide a curriculum through which students can build the foundation for the knowledge, attitudes, and skills that are necessary for life-long personal satisfaction, professional success and civic responsibility. By dissolving the wall separating academics from the world outside, it connects liberal learning with the surrounding community. Each student in the program maintains and continually updates an electronic portfolio that documents her/his four years at VWC. Students apply and are accepted as new in-coming freshmen. The program includes at least one specially designed seminar a year, an internship and Winter Session courses for externships and service learning. Completion of the program satisfies VWC's computer literacy and oral communications requirement as well as other General Studies requirements. The program is taken in addition to one's major.
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3.00 Credits
Offers a non-technical, literary path to the exploration of the human experience and the role that politics plays in that experience. Through readings and discussions, of classical utopian and dystopian novels, students explore arguments addressing such topics as the substance and plasticity of human nature; the role of political and economic environments in shaping human behavior; the characteristics of the good society and the best state; the perils of fanaticism, and the dangers inherent in the quest for power, security, civilized life and the perfect society. Assigned books include Utopia, The Isle of Pines, Looking Backwards, News from Nowhere, We, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Island and Walden Two. Offered each fall.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to open a window on a wider world for students who want to begin learning about international relations. It begins with a broad overview of political, economic, and cultural patterns in today's global environment, which is followed by an inventory, evaluation, and comparison of information sources about international affairs, including print, broadcast, and cable media, the Internet, and CD-ROM and simulation software. The course concludes with one or more case studies of current global issues, such as international terrorism, the control of rogue states, denuclearizing warfare, international women's issues, international environmental problems, and the impact of global consumerism. Through these case studies, we learn how to identify key international problems, track them in the media, gather information about them, and develop and evaluate possible solutions. Offered each spring.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the fundamental concepts and issues in the study of politics. Primary emphasis is placed on ideologies, such as liberal democracy, conservatism, socialism, communism, fascism, nationalism, political institutions and behavior, including legislatures, executives, interest groups, political parties, political socialization, participation, the expression of political opinion, revolution, and types of political systems. These concepts and issues are considered from both behavioral and traditional perspectives. Offered each fall.
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3.00 Credits
Offers a citizen's guide to the American political system, providing a brief overview of the Founders' constitutional design, the federal system, and politics and policy-making in the Presidency, Bureaucracy, Congress, and the Supreme Court. Covers key judicial rulings on civil rights and liberties and national powers. Gives special attention to the electoral process, the media, and the ways that ordinary citizens can influence governmental policies. Offered each semester.
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3.00 Credits
Based on both theoretical and practical experiences in state and local government and politics. The relationship between local, state, and federal systems is explored. Office holders and local officials are guest speakers on practical aspects. Offered each fall.
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3.00 Credits
Ethnic groups must adapt to U.S. political ways in order to press their political agenda. Spanish-Americans have adapted, mixing agendas from their countries of origin, experiences in the U.S. and with other minority ethnic groups. How Latinos have adapted to and participated in U.S. politics is studied. Offered spring of odd-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Feminist theory has always had a political agenda: to improve the situation of women in society. It also has theoretical import, asking basic questions about personal identity and equality, about ethical obligations to others, about justice and fairness, and about the history of political theory. This course brings together both of these strands, focusing on feminist theory, feminist politics, and the contributions that feminist theory can make in thinking about politics in general. Offered each spring.
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3.00 Credits
Examines Russia and the former Soviet Union. These transitional regimes offer excellent opportunities to study the problems and prospects for radical economic and political reform and the hazards of reactionism in societies previously dedicated to Communist economic systems and non-democratic, non-parliamentary political systems. We focus particular attention on the challenges posed by rebellious national groups and chronic economic crisis. Also, we examine the relationship of ideology to government policy and the ways in which those regimes have reinterpreted such traditional Western political values and institutions as constitutionalism, the rule of law, natural and civil rights, participatory democracy, and the representation of interests.
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