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3.00 Credits
This course seeks to describe and explain basic principles, institutions and functions of American government at the state and local levels with emphasis on Pennsylvania. Course Objectives (1) Describe and explain constitutional foundation of state and local government: the U.S. and Pennsylvania Constitutions; Municipal Charters (2) Describe and explain the political environment of state and municipal politics (3) Describe and explain the structure and functioning of state and municipal executive and legislative offices (4) Describe and explain legal and political interaction between governments at different levels (5) Describe and explain major public policy issues (6) Describe and explain Interest Groups and the Pennsylvania Political Process (7) Describe and explain issues for consideration in Structural and Constitutional Change
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3.00 Credits
World Geography is the study of the geographic nature of the world's major social, political, and economic processes and problems. A central component of this class will be an analysis of the ways in which power has unevenly spread across the regions of the globe. This course starts and ends with an analysis of commodity chains as a means to understand the connections between colonialism, post-colonial imperialism, and the geographies of capitalism; environmental geographies of exploitation and destruction; the ways in which the global economy is governed; the relationships between race and geography; the production of gendered geographies; the production of specifically sexualized spaces; and conflicts that arise over and in various spaces, places, territories, and borders. By the end of the semester, students should have a firm grasp of geography's principal concepts and a solid orientation to the geographic nature of the world's major power inequalities and processes. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to: (1) Articulate in speech and writing a firm understanding of basic geographic concepts. (2) Articulate in speech and writing a firm understanding of capitalism's inherent geographic tendencies. (3) Articulate in speech and writing a solid grasp of how to investigate the geography of commodity chains. (4) Demonstrate in speech and writing an understanding of how various social, political, and economic power inequalities are geographically produced. (5) Articulate in speech and writing a deep understanding of the relationship between geography and various social, political, and economic processes. (6) Demonstrate, through very basic cartography, the ability to locate every modern nation-state on a map. (7) Exhibit strong written and oral communication skills. (8) Reveal strong analytical and critical thinking skills. (9) Demonstrate, in a research paper, competent information literacy skills.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines some of the most critical problems confronting America in the realms of domestic and international politics. Format of the class is primarily discussion with students using the daily and Sunday New York Times and other pertinent publications. Course Objectives (1) Explain the structure of American government and its challenges to policymaking (2) Explain political and constitutional dimensions of policymaking (3) Explain the ideological framework of the public policy debate in the United States (4) Explain public welfare and poverty programs (5) Explain employment and inflation; managing the economy (6) Explain differing approaches to healthcare (7) Explain continuing civil rights issues (8) Explain the entitlement monsters - Social Security and Medicare (9) Explain education (10) Explain criminal justice and punishment (11) Explain domestic dimensions of the War on Terror (12) Explain a few selected foreign policy issues
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the origins and functions of the law, as it relates to society. Students gain an understanding on law, legal institutions and their relationship to social values and morality from critical perspectives, with a focus on how law achieves the balance between the interests of society and individual rights. Course Objectives (1) Explain the relationship between the law and morality in connection with both society and the legal system. 2) Use the legal approach to problem-solving with respect to but not limited to topics such as gun control, abortion, drugs, the right to die and death penalty. 3) Comprehend both sides of the major social and legal issues addressed in this course, along with balancing the interests of society and the rights of the individual; 4) Defend, in collaboration with other students, either side of an arugement on an issue related to law and society;develop oral and written communication skills in the process.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a comprehensive overview of research strategies, foundations in legal systems, judicial processes, axioms of government and the implementation and enforcement of law, as well as the various elements necessary for the prosecution of the law, and the defense of human rights. Course Objectives (1) Examine significant structural and procedural characteristics of law and the legal system; (2) Define concepts important to the study of law and the legal system; (3) Provide a survey of the law in a number of different areas; and, (4) Examine some interesting and challenging contemporary issues as related to American constitutional law.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a comparative course designed to serve as an introduction to significant issues of politics that have been identified by noted political scientists of the past and present. Given the comparative nature of the course, students are provided with basic background in order to be able to compare and contrast major institutions such as legislative, executive and judicial branches of power as well political parties and interest groups in a number of countries of the world. Students also learn about considerable differences that exist between developed and lesser developed countries of the world. Course Objectives (1) Relate the evolution of a country's political system to general historical events in that country. (2) Relate a region's past and present political culture to the historical and geopolitical characteristics of that region. (3) Analyze the American system of government to learn about significant features used in the forms and functions of the legislative, executive, judicial and other institutions. (4) Analyze the system of government in other countries and examine how this could be compared with the American system of government. (5) Read current literature in the discipline, assimilate and integrate the ideas found in this literature, and communicate these ideas effectively in written and oral form with the aid of modern technology.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
Selected Topics in POLS
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the rules governing trial procedures in civil and criminal lawsuits. Course Objectives (1) Provide students with familiarity with the trial process (2) Examine different approaches to understanding the persuasive process (3) Describe and explain the requirements of trial preparation (4) Examine the role of judge and jury at the trial (5) Examine the differing considerations in determining the admissibility of evidence (6) Explain the role and structure of opening and closing statements (7) Examine and explain different techniques of cross-examination (8) Explain how expert and scientific may be used and challenged at trial (9) Describe motions and pleadings at different points in the proceeding - from pre-trial to post-trial motions and the appeal process
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