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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 211 and Reading 211 (or Language Arts 211), or English as a Second Language 272 and 273. Four hours lecture. Critical examination of the contemporary and historical struggle for the development of democratic political institutions in the United States at the state, local, and national levels. Particular emphasis given to the conflict between disparate socioeconomic groups (e.g. traditional elites versus the historically (and currently) disenfranchised; women, people of color, workers, immigrants, etc.) in the conduct of U.S. political life. (CAN GOVT 2)
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4.00 Credits
Advisory: English Writing 211 and Reading 211 (or Language Arts 211), or English as a Second Language 272 and 273. (Also listed as Administration of Justice 1. Student may enroll in either department, but not both, for credit.) Four hours lecture. The history and philosophy of the administration of justice in America. A study of the overall system from its European antecedents and development within the United States; identification of various subsystems and components; their role expectations and interrelationships; basic premise of crime, punishment and rehabilitation; the role of education in the administration of justice within a democracy.
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4.00 Credits
Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Paralegal 11 and Administration of Justice 11. Student may enroll in only one department, for credit.) Four hours lecture. Federal court procedure and the impact of U.S. Constitutional law on federal and state law. Read and analyze the Constitution. Effect of U.S. Supreme Court cases on current constitutional interpretation.
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5.00 Credits
Advisory: English Writing 211 and Reading 211 (or Language Arts 211), or English as a Second Language 272 and 273. (Also listed as Paralegal 3 and Administration of Justice 3. Student may enroll in only one department, for credit.) Four hours lecture, three hours directed research. Historical development, philosophy of law, and constitutional provisions; definitions, classification of crime, and their application to the system of administration of justice; legal research, study of case law, methodology and concepts of law as a social force.
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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Political Science 53.) (See modules under Political Science 53G-J.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) (Students who have received credit for the four-unit parent course, Social Science 15, Political Science 15, or Women's Studies 15, may not also receive credit for any of the modules). Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Social Science 15 and Women's Studies 15. Student may enroll in only one department, for credit.) Four hours lecture. (The courses are not repeatable, and students may receive a maximum of four units of credit for any combination of Social Science 15, 53G-J, Political Science 15, 53G-J, and Women's Studies 15, 53G-J.) Applied and theoretical study for students of social justice, this course will examine race, culture and contradictions in the ideal of the American Dream through a comparative analysis of American experiences of migration. Particular emphasis will be on the historical experiences of European immigrants, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans. The course will also discuss the contemporary social and cultural implications of the migration process. Using a multidisciplinary social science approach, attention will be given to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and class, as well as the role of the state (policy) to the process of immigration.
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4.00 Credits
(Formerly Political Science 54.) (See modules under Political Science 54G-J.) (See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) (Students who have received credit for the four-unit parent course, Social Science 16, Political Science 16, or Women's Studies 16, may not also receive credit for any of the modules). Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Social Science 16 and Women's Studies 16. Student may enroll in only one department for credit.) Four hours lecture. (The courses are not repeatable, and students may receive a maximum of four units of credit for any combination of Social Science 16, 54G-J, Political Science 16, 54G-J, and Women's Studies 16, 54G-J.) Applied and theoretical learning for students of social justice, this course is a comparative survey of protest movements since the 1960's. An introductory, comparative, and interdisciplinary study of Mexican American, African American, Asian American, and white working class social and political struggles from 1960 to the present. The course traces the development of protest movements in response to racial, class, gender, and political inequality in the context of U.S. politics and history. The course critically examines the internal and external factors contributing to the rise and fall of social and political movements with special attention to the conjuncture of gender, race, ethnicity, culture, class, and sexual preference in contemporary U.S. politics.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. Critical examination of the historical and contemporary development of various current major world political systems and the comparison of political phenomena at the nation-state, inter-state and global level of analysis.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. Critical examination of the basic elements of contemporary international relations: scope, terminology, methodology, sovereignty, nationalism, national policies, globalization, power, international and regional political systems. The course will also discuss non-governmental organizations and issues such as human rights and the environment.
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4.00 Credits
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. Four hours lecture. This course will survey the field of political theory including how to interpret, discuss, and write about classical and contemporary political thought and theory, especially theory developing among constituent groups which have traditionally been excluded from full participation in U.S. political life. Through this course of study, students will learn to think critically about classic problems in politics (e.g., individual versus group rights, freedom, equality and distributional justice, order, etc.).
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2.00 Credits
(Students who have received credit for the four-unit parent course, Social Science 15, Political Science 15, or Women's Studies 15, may not also receive credit for any of the modules.) Advisory: English Writing 1A or English as a Second Language 5. (Also listed as Women's Studies 53G, and Social Science 53G. Student may enroll in only one department, for credit.) Two hours lecture. (The courses are not repeatable, and students may receive a maximum of four units of credit for any combination of Social Science 15, 53G-J, Political Science 15, 53G-J, and Women's Studies 15, 53G-J.) This course will examine race, culture and political change through a comparative analysis of American experiences of migration. Particular emphasis will be placed on the historical experiences of European immigrants, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans.
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