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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits), Spring (4 credits), May Term (3 credits). Examination of the impact of gender upon power relations and politics in the United States. Addresses the central dilemma of modern feminist thinking: the need to make gender both matter and not matter at the same time. Inherent to the course is discussion of the interrelationships among gender, class, race, power, and politics. Prerequisite: GOVT 111. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Examination of governmental powers focusing primarily upon the Supreme Court's interpretation of constitutional language contained in Articles I, II, III, VI, and Amendment X; the relationships among legislative, executive, and judicial powers, as well as the nexus between national and state powers, are extensively explored. Prerequisite: GOVT 111.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). Analysis of the Supreme Court's interpretation of both substantive and procedural rights as they are outlined in the Bill of Rights and are applied to state governments. The ever-present tension between individual rights and social responsibility serves as the thematic framework. Prerequisite: GOVT 111.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). The operations of the modern presidency given the constraints and opportunities provided by the U.S Constitution and other political, economic, and cultural factors. Prerequisite: GOVT 111.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits). Intensive reading of the political texts forming the foundation of the Western tradition of political philosophy. Emphasis on ancient Greek thought, particularly Plato, Aristotle, and Sophocles, with some survey of Roman, medieval, and/or Confucian political thought.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits), Summer (4 credits). Origin, defense, and criticism of capitalistic democracy and political liberalism. Original works of such theorists as Hobbes, Locke, Madison, Rousseau, Mill, Marx, and Lenin.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Survey of the philosophical/theoretical approaches taking gender as central to the analysis, investigation, and explication of politics and political phenomena. Topics may include the social construction of gender, power, and identity; oppression and liberation; feminist legal theory; women and democracy; gender and race; etc. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) or Spring (4 credits). Examination of both the distinctly American forms of political philosophy and theoretical approaches analyzing the practice of American politics. Readings include primary texts (particularly the founding), normative theory, and interpretive approaches. Topics may include the Constitution, equality, individualism, pluralism, pragmatism, race and gender in American politics, and citizenship.
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4.00 Credits
Fall (4 credits) and Spring (4 credits). Survey of the major ideas and approaches to political theory developed since 1900. Texts and themes vary, but may include modern liberalism, political identity (theories of race, gender, ethnicity), morality, nihilism, justice and distribution, power, postmodernism, cultural studies, mass society, and/or ethics. May be repeated for degree credit. Offered as needed. NU and EV only.
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4.00 Credits
Spring (4 credits). The organization, functioning, political behavior, and contemporary problems of major European governments and European intergovernmental regimes and organizations. Prerequisite: GOVT 123.
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