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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 The development of ethnic politics in urban areas of the United States. Political development and conflict among major ethnic, racial, and religious groups, including African Americans, Irish, Italian, Jews, Latinos, Native Americans, and Polish. Contemporary patterns of organization, leadership, strategy, political mobilization; key issues examined, such as affirmative action, school desegregation, and welfare reform.
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3, 3/0 Legal principles influencing the origin and development of our criminal laws and the way these principles have evolved by court interpretation to accommodate social change and attitudes; the Bill of Rights and due process clause of the United States Constitution.
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3, 3/0 America's mixed system of capitalism and socialism. Major welfare programs including social security, veterans' benefits, tax expenditures, food stamps, subsidized education, and military retirement; the costs and benefits of America's welfare system.
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3, 3/0 The relationship between the mass media and contemporary American politics, its impact on voting behavior, and the role of the media in the presidential and congressional elections.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Classroom and extra-classroom experience and interaction with political practitioners;
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3, 3/0 Basic ideas that shape American foreign policy; isolationism, domestic and international pressures, cold war, peaceful coexistence and détente, major problems.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 African international politics vis-Ã -vis international relations theory, models, and concepts; power; multipolarity; bipolarity; pan-Africanism; North-South debate; approaches to international politics; and state and international organizations as international actors.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Patterns of interaction within the Middle East and with other states; problems of security and peace in the region; ideology, nationalism, and economic interests as factors influencing the behavior of the states.
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3, 3/0 Major problems of developing countries, political process and its relation to societal transformation; the role of the army and bureaucracy in political development; problems of nation-building and democracy in developing countries; globalization.
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3.00 Credits
3, 3/0 Geographic, cultural, and political settings; historical development since the nineteenth century; the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and Western colonialism; nationalism, independence, and turmoil; Arab-Israeli question; oil and its impact and problems; great power and inter-area politics.
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