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Course Criteria
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
May be undertaken by B.S. physics majors in their senior year. Permission from department required.
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3.00 Credits
The American Constitution; the evolution of democracy; the structure of the national government. Congress; the Presidency; the courts. Political parties and interest groups. Public policy in domestic and foreign affairs. How to think about politics.
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3.00 Credits
Treatment of six distinctive figures in political life--philosopher, saint, prince, revolutionary, statesman, and citizen-- in order to determine their characteristic contributions to an understanding of politics. Examples: Socrates, Thomas More, Machiavelli's Prince, American Founding Fathers, Marx and Engels, and the students of the 1960's. Uses a variety of materials, including pamphlets, philosophical dialogues, essays, and dramas.
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3.00 Credits
Comparison of key political institutions, political attitudes, patterns of interaction, and long-term quarrels in selected countries from Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. How legislatures, executives, and political parties work and the influence of culture, social structure, ideology, and nationalism.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to be an introduction to the political science subfield of international relations. The course will cover the major theoretical perspectives in international relations, security and economic relations between states, and global challenges that states face from non-state actors and the environment.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Topic to be decided by faculty.
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth analysis of the five major institutions and processes of the U.S. government: Congress, President, Courts, Parties and Elections, and Bureaucracy.
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3.00 Credits
Training in the methodology needed for understanding the law. Three main parts: analytical-deductive reasoning for developing a theory of the case; argument by analogy for applying precedent in the Anglo-American legal tradition; and legal research into complex legal arguments, their structure and techniques. All will be grounded in the liberal arts. The Law School Admissions Test measures these skills.
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3.00 Credits
Civil liberties are the legal face of democratic politics key issue: how combine majority rule and cultural pluralism and protection of individual rights? Begin with study of traditional civil liberties: tension between protecting individual rights and majority power in a democracy. Next how that traditional understanding overlooks justice for individuals not mainstream. Then in depth focus on two groups African Americans and women with books arguing why the traditional understanding of civil liberties fails to do justice.
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3.00 Credits
Study of the 4th, 5th, 6th and 8th amendments to the constitution and how they are applied in the criminal justice system. Focus on relevant case law, operation of the courts and law enforcement in the criminal justice system.
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