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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Study of current environmental problems and efforts to develop policies to address them through American policy-making process and examination of roles that political actors play in that process.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of American public policies, contrasting philosophies shaping evolution and evaluations of policy implementation by government. Policies include: business and labor regulation, education, affirmative action, social welfare and security, health and environmental protection.
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3.00 Credits
Federal and state courts examined from a political perspective. Federal and state court structure, methods of selection of judicial personnel, aspects of the legal profession as practiced in America that affect judicial decisions, intricacies of court procedure, and personal background characteristics relevant to judicial decisions.
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3.00 Credits
The operation and interaction of cities and suburbs, counties, towns and villages. The workings of public benefit corporations, school districts and other special purpose local governments. Special emphasis on local government in New York.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the relationship between the various media, politicians, and government officials. Particular attention is paid to the way the press and legislators, political executives, lobbyists, and members of the legislature interact.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the origins, strategies, and outcomes of American protest movements, and major analytic concepts and research methods in the study of movements, through reading, discussion, replication and extension of earlier studies, and original research.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of major political thinkers from Machiavelli to Nietzsche with emphasis on key concepts like modernity, liberalism, justice, rights, freedom, and the idea of the self.
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3.00 Credits
A theoretical examination of the main ideas of several different competing schools of thought within the field of international relations.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the major principles of the ideologies of communism, fascism, and democracy with respect to such issues as: the nature of man, the nature of the "good" society, the role of government in society, the role and duties of the individual in society.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a general acquaintance with two topics in modern political thought: theories of political obligation and the state's power to punish. Additionally, the class will investigate what the potential consequences are for failing to find a justification for political obligation or punishment.
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