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5.00 Credits
An analysis and evaluation of political party systems with a focus on the party system as a channel for political participation and choice as a means of institutionalizing social conflict and as an agent providing leadership and direction for political change.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
FALL/WINTER/SPRING A project-oriented seminar emphasizing the gathering, processing and analysis of primary research data. Techniques used, e.g., survey research, content analysis, voting analysis, explanatory modeling, etc., vary with the selection of a particular seminar project.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
A topical course designed to accommodate the interest of the general student and the department faculty. Topics vary from quarter to quarter and are listed in the quarterly course announcement. Recent offerings include Citizen and the Law and Pacific Rim. Analysis of contemporary problems may be under the guidance of one or more department members.
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4.00 Credits
FALL Policies are said to be means to ends, but where the policy is public, the question is whether policy can mirror the ends of the whole society or just some part of it. Selected political debates illustrate ideological, interest and "scientifically neutral" ways in whichpolicies are justified in the name of the public.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
FALL Specialized offerings in a workshop-type situation of materials emphasizing current topics and problems in the political arena.
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5.00 Credits
An intensive examination of selected questions in the arena of American political institutions, processes and public policy. Topics vary from quarter to quarter and include executive reorganization, congressional reform, politics and the press, post-partisan politics and various policy impact studies that cover the values of individual choice and problems of political economy.
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5.00 Credits
Each of the topics chosen for this course explores in some depth the fundamental relationship between such common political phenomena as obligation, consent, freedom, law, authority, etc. The course is structured so that even when the particular topic is quite narrow, its development touches on the major nodes in the web of relationships these phenomena have with one another.
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5.00 Credits
Selected topics, depending on student and faculty research interests, including international law, international organization, problems of the international political system, comparative political analysis, causes of political change and political stability, modernization and political development, causes and results of revolutions and the impact of social forces on the political system.
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5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Invitation of the instructor only. Preferably upper-division standing and major in government. Topics to vary according to instructor's and students'interest.
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5.00 Credits
WINTER/SPRING [satisfies senior capstone university graduation requirement.] This seminar examines issues of Global Governance in the 21st century, inviting students to explore trends and transformations in: international politics, the global economy, technology, the world's environment. The importance of context - from the global and holistic to the local and personal - is emphasized throughout the course, requiring corresponding research, analysis and reflection. Students will better understand and gain deeper insight into the dynamics of change, the forces which shape our present and future. Furthermore, the course encourages personal engagement, in the interest of relevance and pragmatism, through individual study and group interaction. The seminar combines conventional pedagogy with computer-mediated instruction and research on the Internet. Students will become proficient in applying principal Internet tools - e-mail, web browsers, telnet and search engines - working extensively with resources available on the Internet. (Cross-listed INST 490)
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