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3.00 Credits
In this seminar, students read and discuss four of the most important texts in contemporary liberal debates about justice. The aim is to understand the alternative views of political society and justice presented in these texts and to consider the choice worthiness of each alternative. The books read are: Anarchy, State, and Utopia; A Theory of Justice; Justice Gender and the Family; and The Limits of Justice. Offered on demand.
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3.00 Credits
Examines American foreign policy formation. The first section focuses on the foreign policy process, while the second section is devoted to case studies of specific foreign policy decisions in American history. Provides a framework for informed evaluation of American foreign policy. Prerequisite: junior/senior status or consent. Offered intermittently.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Chinese political thought from classical times to the 20th century. Included are works from the Confucian, Legalist, and Daoist schools, as well as such 20th century figures as Sun Yat-sen, Mao Tse-tung and Deng Shao-peng. Prerequisite: Honors and Scholars students or consent. Offered spring of even-numbered years.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to prepare the student for a successful internship experience. Students explore the meaning of work and careers and examine how their knowledge and values are part of the work and career in which they are interested. Application for admission to the program must be made to the political science faculty during the student's junior year. Prerequisites: 12 semester hours of political science and an overall grade point average of at least 2.5. Offered each fall.
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3.00 Credits
Students learn to use theories, knowledge, and values studied in political science and other courses to interpret their internship field experiences and make generalizations about their learning. Corequisite: POLS 498. Offered on demand.
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12.00 Credits
Political science majors apply the knowledge and skills learned in their political science classes in a full-time, semester-long internship. The field experience can be in, but is not limited to, government agencies at the local, state, and federal levels; law, law enforcement, non-profits, political parties, social service. Prerequisites: 15 semester hours of political science, including POLS 495. Offered on demand in the spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Required of all students wishing to graduate from Virginia Wesleyan with a major in political science. The course is team taught by members of the department and focuses upon a different topic each spring. Examples of seminars offered in the past are: Democratization and Development; Politics and the Media; War and Peace in the Nuclear Age; Political Development and Changes in Latin America and Asia; and Images of Justice. Open to all students. Offered each spring.
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3.00 Credits
A time of self-exploration and discovery involving close work with faculty mentors and other PORTfolio students. Readings, off-campus explorations, and the development of an electronic portfolio assist students in clarifying their own reasons for coming to VWC, their purposes while they are here, and the unique resources that they bring to the learning process. In addition, students expand on their connections to the Chesapeake Bay environment and the international port of Hampton Roads and begin to use these unique resources to enrich their education. Prerequisite: admission to PORTfolio Program. Taken in the fall of the freshman year.
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3.00 Credits
What are the liberal arts, and why spend four good years studying them? In the U.S., the liberal arts are housed institutionally in colleges and the undergraduate programs of universities. In this context, the two questions from the first sentence in this paragraph may be rephrased as: What are colleges? What are they for? How do they try to accomplish their goals? These questions are approached in several ways. One is historical. How did colleges in general, and VWC in particular, get to be the way they (it) are (is)? Where do the various ideas of what it means to be liberally educated come from? A second is more philosophical. What does it mean to know something? How would you teach, given different answers to that question? Another is normatively. What should colleges in general be doing? What kind of curriculum should we, at Virginia Wesleyan, have? Offered each spring.
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1.00 Credits
Introduces and raises the civic consciousness of students about issues that impact the Hampton Roads community. Fostering an attitude of engaged citizenship is its goal. Students gain an understanding of issues from social, environmental, economic, national security and legislative perspectives. Students are introduced to two issue-based projects through on-site presentations. They choose one and learn about that issue through a week of research and lecture followed by a week of direct service experience. The final week includes guided exercises in reflection and assessment in which students learn how their experience may fit into a larger picture and how they can be part of solutions to community issues. Prerequisite: PORTfolio students, PORT 121 or consent; non-PORTfolio students, no prerequisites. Identical to INST 123. Offered in selected Winter Sessions.
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