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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the presidential elections of unusual significance in U.S. history; pre-election politics, partisan maneuvers, the platform and selection of candidates; examination of the campaign and election process; discernment of distinguishing characteristics as well as common patterns; evaluation and comparison of results and future applicability.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the distribution of powers between the federal government and the states. It includes a review of the historic development of American federalism, as well as its current trends, major areas of conflict and cooperation and case studies of significant problems. Emphasis in the course is placed on evaluating the administrative processes that bind federal, state, and local governments together.
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3.00 Credits
Attention is given to changed conditions and new influences affecting American liberty in the twentieth century. It includes an analysis of issues in economic, social, and political liberties. Emphasis is on constitutional logic and change and on evaluation of the role of the state and the responsibility of the citizen in defining civil liberties. Selections of issues are adapted to student interest and timeliness of problems.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey and analysis of the major contributions in traditional and contemporary organization theory; examination of decision making, leadership, and human behavior in complex organization; the study of Public Administration as an integral part of the public policy process; problems in budgetary politics; and personnel administration, administrative law, and democracy in the administrative state.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the Constitutional basis of U.S. foreign affairs, foreign policy, separation of powers, the mechanics of foreign relations, significant principles, tenets and trends as revealed in United States diplomatic history, treaties and executive agreements, traditional and new diplomatic practices, foreign policy and international organization, and the extent of democratic control of foreign affairs.
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3.00 Credits
This course consists of a comparative analysis of Western European political systems with special emphasis upon the environmental factors that have shaped these systems and the identification of relevant categories, such as ideology and the organization of political authority, from which generalizations may be derived.
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3.00 Credits
Placed in the context of globalization, this course investigates new security threats to states and people globally. The course looks at contemporary international debates on social and political sources of violent acts, international and domestic laws on terrorism and counter-terrorism, the balance of security versus individual rights, and organizations involved in security issues.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the theories, public and private organizations, and inidvidual positions used to explain international interactions between nations. National interests, foreign policy and the changing international order are examined using dominant theories to gain an understanding of international decision making and events.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of rules that govern sovereign states in their legal relations with each other; historic development and current status of the law of nations. Key cases are studied to illustrate rules. It includes a survey of the development of international institutions from the 19th century public unions to the more recent specialized agencies; procedures for settlement of disputes; development of law in and outside the community of nations; and the study of international organizations as a political phenomenon of the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth exposure to major segments of American political thought, with a special emphasis on the emergence of Liberalism. This evolution would be considered in successive courses, as determined by the professor. A possible breakdown might be as follows; relevant English, revolutionary, Constitutional and Whig thought; transcendentalism, the Civil War and individualism, pragmatism; New Deal Liberals and other recent writings.
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