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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the contemporary U.S. Congress. Topics include explanations of how Congress organizes itself and the implications of those perspectives, and how Congress relates to the executive branch and the courts. Individual research projects allow examination of a topic of particular interest to a student. Prerequisite: political science 101. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Through reading, writing, and simulation exercises, students will: (1) examine the historical emergence and evolution of political parties and legislatures and the original problems they were meant to address; (2) explore literature on the changing role of these national institutions in the face of globalization; and (3) examine the links between legislatures, parties, and the problemofmaking democracy work. Offered occasionally.
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3.00 Credits
The sub-discipline of political-psychology draws on the insights of political scientists, social and cognitive psychologists, and behavioral economists. Topics addressed include the roles of affect and cognition in opinion formation, persuasion, framing effects in survey questions and political rhetoric, altruism, rationality, judgments under uncertainty and risk, and the use (and misuse) of heuristics. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the ways in which the interplay between political and economic factors shape the global system. Prerequisite: political science 102 or economics 100 or consent of instructor. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers theories and practices of American policymaking. Competing theories of policymaking are examined to illustrate the difficulty of determining how public and institutional preferences are transmitted into policies. Topics include social welfare, immigration, gun control, and religion in public life, among others. Recommended: political science 101 or consent of instructor. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of how different political-economic systems shape the environmental policy process and impact the environ-ment. This course considers how party-structure, mode of interest articulation, economic system and level of development affect environmental policy. Countries studied include the United States, Germany, former Soviet Union/Russia, China, India, Brazil and Nigeria. Prerequisite: a course in either political science or environmental studies strongly recommended. Offered in alternate years, spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the international politics behind efforts to deal with tropical deforestation, ozone depletion, global warming, loss of biodiversity and transnational transfer of hazardous wastes. Actors, conferences, and accords involved in the international environmental policy process are discussed, with particular attention to different positions of industrialized versus developing countries. Offered in alternate years, spring semester.
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3.00 Credits
The course begins on campus surveying some of the theoretical and empirical issues of US environmental policy, followed by travel to a site where environmental policy is an active issue. Recent examples include the Appalachianmountain region,Georgia's Chattooga River, and California's Tuolumne River and theNavarro RiverWatershed. Cross-listed as Political Science/Environmental Studies 362. Offered inMay Term.
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3.00 Credits
Does humanism provide a coherent lens for evaluating environmental issues If not, when should non-human needs trump human interests How should humanist institutions like zoos, farms, and forest preserves bemanaged Utilitarian, rightsbased, social contract, and holist theories will be used to debate these questions. Case studies focus on wilderness management, habitat restoration, and common property regimes. Offered in alternate years.
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3.00 Credits
An upper level course examining a specialized sub-field in the discipline. Examples include "Ethnic Nationalism," "ThAmerican South and the Politics of Race," and "Public Finance and Budgeting." Studentwill be able to repeat the course if the subject is not duplicated. Prerequisite: any 100 level political science course. See current Program of Classes to determine if this course fulfills general education requirements. Offered occasionally.
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