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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Involvement in a local or off-campus public bureaucracy, non-profit organization or other political activity under the supervision of an Albright instructor and a mentor at the internship location.
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4.00 Credits
A reading seminar on institutions, processes, personalities, and outcomes of domestic politics and public policy. Readings are selected to provide students with an understanding of the scope of the approaches used by political scientists when studying institutions, behavior and culture. Designed for juniors and seniors in political science. Prerequisite: POS 101
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4.00 Credits
A seminar examining the processes and functioning of the United States political system in the area of foreign policy determination. The decisions the U.S. has made and their effects are analyzed and evaluated. Prerequisite: POS 101 or 202
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4.00 Credits
This course takes a look at the various theoretically asserted "dimensions" of political power asserted by traditional pluralists, radicals and post-modernists. Each shall be demonstrated by an extended look into an environmental case study. Cases range from air pollution, to protection of a wild river, to coal mining, to the exclusion of Native American notions of property and kinship with the environment. Students gain a detailed knowledge of important historic environmental struggles and a clarified working knowledge of power, one of the most important concepts in the study of politics. Prerequisite: POS 101
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4.00 Credits
A research seminar that examines the role of the Supreme Court in the formulation, administration, consequences and evaluation of public policy. In order to facilitate understanding of the complex interplay between private and public actors characteristic of this subject, the seminar involves intensive examination of one or more policy areas. Examples of such policy areas include the limitations of the judiciary as a public policy actor, the continuing controversy over the establishment and free exercise of religion clauses, and the controversy over the death penalty. Prerequisite: POS 216, 371 or 372, or permission of the instructor
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4.00 Credits
The goal of the course is to tie together the crime and justice student's study of political science by examining how criminalization policy is made and administered, and what types of limits the United States Constitution places on how the law is enforced.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the broad discipline of psychology, focusing on theories and research explaining behavior. Major areas include, but are not limited to biopsychology, motivation, sensation, perception, learning, cognition, development, stress and health, personality and psychopathology.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of PSY 200. Advanced statistical techniques, including factorial analysis of variance and nonparametric statistics (i.e., correlation, regression, chi-square) are covered. Nonexperimental designs such as surveys, observational research, case studies and program evaluation are covered. Each student is responsible for conducting the research proposed in PSY 200, including data collection, analysis, oral presentation and a written empirical report. Computers continue to be used, such that students enhance their APA writing skills, statistical analysis skills, as well as PowerPoint. Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory. Prerequisite: PSY 200
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3.00 Credits
A study of the evolutionary basis of human and animal behavior. The biological foundations of emotions, motivation, sleep and dreaming and memory are examined. The nature-nurture issue is discussed as well as the extent to which mind and emotions create stress, sickness and health. This course does not count as a required course for the psychobiology concentration. Three hours of lecture and one hour of laboratory.
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4.00 Credits
A normative, eclectic approach to the study of the individual from conception to senescence. A review of physical, sensorimotor, cognitive, emotional, personality, moral and social development through the life span.
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