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3.00 Credits
The Congress, its rules and procedures, committee and party leadership, and the influence of Congress on national policy. The Presidential office, its constitutional powers and its evolution over the years. The "modern presidency" since Franklin Roosevelt. Conflict and co-operation between the Congress and the President.
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3.00 Credits
How our nations political parties are organized inside and outside government. Whether they are weak or strong. Occasional efforts to reform parties. Their role in elections. Other influences on presidential and congressional elections. The conduct of election campaigns. How voters make up their minds. Explaining election outcomes.
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3.00 Credits
Surveys state and local government: intergovernmental relations, finance, state sovereignty, shifts in federalism and social policy, politics of urban and rural regions. State election systems may be studied for their significant influence over national elections.
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3.00 Credits
Explores city life and all the elements that define it, the problems and prospects of the urban policy that surround, influence, constrain and color city life. When cross listed with WGST 341, special attention is paid to the role of women as citizens and activists in the urban context.
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with energy resource and energy policy issues from global, regional, and national perspectives. The course examines a wide range of energy resources used by humans and seeks to understand how energy policies affect humans relationship with the environment. The course investigates international and American energy policies in particular, and how these relate to the crucial issues of climate change patterns of energy consumption, and current vs. possible alternative sources of energy.
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3.00 Credits
History of church-state separation in American government and constitutional law. Focus on religion and politics from the Puritans to the Bush administration, touching on everything in between. The latter portion of the course focuses on relevant Supreme Court cases.
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3.00 Credits
This Service Learning course focuses on the writings of seminal figures in American ecological thought, such as John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Aldo Leopold. Examines the history and politics of land use and wilderness planning. Class will go on field trips in partnership with the United States Forest Service (USFS) and local environmental groups to learn first-hand about the politics of local land use.
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3.00 Credits
Shows how the laws and regulations governing federal, state, and local bureaucracies make up and fit into the politics of the country.
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3.00 Credits
Evolution of American foreign policy, with emphasis on contemporary issues, national interests, interrelationship with domestic politics, and the decision-making process. Evaluation of Nationalist, Revisionist, and Realist views of foreign policy. How foreign policy may do justice.
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3.00 Credits
From a citizen's viewpoint, the need for public bureaucracy, its politics, improvement, and relations with citizens.
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