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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One of the following courses: INTL 101, POLI 111, or 112, or consent of instructor. This course explores the formal and informal powers of the American presidency in the American constitutional system. Students examine presidential elections; White House relationships with Congress, the public, the media, the courts, and the bureaucracy; and the practice of presidential leadership at home and abroad.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLI 111, 112, or 220, or consent of instructor. This course will examine the constitutional foundation and historical development of Congress, with emphasis on institutional aspects of Congress, and the role of Congress in the legislative process, and electoral politics. The history of interest group politics, the effect these groups have on the legislative process, and the impact of these groups on democracy will also be treated.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLI 220. This junior-level course prepares students to write their senior theses. Required of all political science majors, the course examines how disciplined political knowledge (political science) is developed and reported. Students learn to develop and test hypotheses, prepare research designs, collect data, and use statistical analysis.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One of the following courses: INTL 101, POLI 111, or 112, or consent of instructor. This course sequence is a survey of constitutional interpretation by the U.S. Supreme Court using the case method. The structure and powers of the American governmental system will be treated during the first semester. The second semester is devoted to the study of individual rights.
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1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Prerequisites: POLI 111, 112, or instructor's permission. This course sequence prepare students to participate in the College's National Model United Nations activities in New York. Special attention is paid to researching the assigned country's foreign policy and to learning parliamentary procedure, debate, and caucusing skills.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: POLI 220 or consent of instructor. For independent study credit, a student may undertake specialized reading, research, and writing, but only with approval in advance from the supervising instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One of the following courses: INTL 101, POLI 111, or 112, or consent of instructor. This course examines some of the leading political thinkers of the twentieth century in order to understand the difficulties that may stand in the way of achieving justice in the political sphere. We will examine how justice may be achieved within a liberal political order; how the demands of justice impact the family; whether justice can be confined to the political sphere, or whether it must apply also within the private; and possible limitations of liberal democratic conceptions of justice.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One of the following courses: INTL 101, POLI 111, or 112, or consent of instructor. This course examines the distinctive heritage of the United States in foreign affairs, the strengths and weaknesses of American foreign policy-making processes, and the means at the disposal of policymakers to carry out foreign policy in contemporary world affairs.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One of the following courses: INTL 101, POLI 111, or 112, or consent of instructor. An examination of relations between the countries of Latin America and the United States, this course considers the historical influence of the United States on Latin American countries' political, social, and economic development and how these relations have changed from Latin American independence to present-day. It includes analysis of current topics such as immigration, NAFTA, and the growing Hispanic influence within the United States society and politics.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: one of the following courses: INTL 101, POLI 110, 111, or 112 or consent of instructor. The course provides students the opportunity to study political science concepts, principles, and theories in foreign settings.
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