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PSC 0110 -
Controversial Legal Issues
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999
PSC 0200 -
Ideas in Politics
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1998
PSC 0245 -
Politics of Disorder
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000
PSC 0255 -
Women in Politics
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999
PSC 0260 -
Constitutional Law
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Spring 1998
PSC 0261 -
Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1999
PSC 0267 -
Public Policy Analysis
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Fall 1999
PSC 0270 -
The City
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1998
PSC 0280 -
Comparative Politics
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1998
PSC 0290 -
International Relations
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999
PSC 0297 -
Pol Conflict in North Ireland
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1998
PSC 0310 -
Leadership
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 1999
PSC 0350 -
Social Science Methodology
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2000, Fall 1998
PSC 1100 -
American Government
Description: Constitutional development; national institutions, federalism, civil rights and liberties; instruments of popular control.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 1200 -
International Relations
Description: Factors in relations between states; the nature, elements, and role of power; problems faced by the modern state system.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 1875 -
Spec Top in Political Science
Description: Special topics in Political Science.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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PSC 1900 -
Research Seminar
Description: Covers elements required for writing research paper on a problem in political science, including using the library, evaluating and properly citing sources, understanding appropriate research methods, and writing and redrafting a research paper.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009
PSC 1903 -
Internship Elective
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 1906 -
Internship Elective
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 1909 -
Internship Elective
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Credit Hours: 9.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 2000 -
State & Local Government
Description: Constitutions, institutions, instruments of popular control, and intergovernmental relations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005
PSC 2100 -
City and Suburb
Description: Politics and problems in metropolitan areas of the United States.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004
PSC 2200 -
American Party Politics
Description: The place of parties in national politics; the nature, organization, and functions of political parties; suffrage requirements and election methods; the activities of organized interests.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Fall 2005
PSC 2250 -
Congress
Description: How national politics unfolds in the U.S. Congress, focusing on decision making and voting, leadership roles, committee politics, relations with the other branches, elections, and congressional reform.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2002
PSC 2275 -
U S Presidency
Description: The nature, functions, and development of the American presidency, including relations between the president and other Washington actors, the public and the press.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
PSC 2300 -
American Foreign Policy
Description: The institutions, processes, and ideas which shape contemporary American foreign policy; the major problem areas.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2006
PSC 2400 -
National Security Policy
Description: Development of strategic thought in the United States, arms control and disarmament, intelligence, technology, alliance policy, role of civilian and military branches of government, and related topics.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2004
PSC 2500 -
Washington Minimester
Description: A three week series of seminars in Washington, D.C. with public officials, staff members, party leaders, and interest group representatives. See and study the workings of our government at first hand.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007
PSC 2600 -
Public Policy
Description: Theories of public policy making, national public policies, and contemporary issues.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PSC 2625 -
Environmental Policy
Description: Environmental policy issues regarding publicly-owned resources, energy generation and consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, trade agreements, international lending, economic growth and sustainable development, agrochemical use, and nuclear and hazardous waste transport and disposal are issues of significant concern to the United States and the international community.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
PSC 2700 -
Women and Politics
Description: Why women traditionally have been marginal to political life; the efforts of women in the past and today to change that fact; the problems that must be solved before women can translate their numerical strength into political power.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
PSC 2750 -
Black Politics
Description: Analysis of black American politics, including ideology, electoral participation, movement politics, and public policy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Summer 2009, Fall 2008
PSC 2775 -
Pol Econ of Black America
Description: The interplay between race and economics over time; features the principles, terminology and methods of standard economics and Black political economy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Summer 2008
PSC 2800 -
Public Administration
Description: Administrative politics, law, and ethics, organizational theory and technical fields, such as budgeting, planning, and personnel.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2004
PSC 2875 -
Topics in American Government
Description: Selected topics of special interest in American Government and Public Law.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008
PSC 2900 -
Political Communication
Description: The role, behavior and influence of communications in American politics.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2007, Fall 2003, Spring 2003
PSC 2993 -
Internship
Description: Internship
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 2996 -
Internship
Description: Internship Work experience in politics.
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 3100 -
Supreme Court and Business
Description: An examination of Supreme Court decisions affecting business, and including the fields of commerce, contracts, and taxation.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PSC 3200 -
Supreme Crt, Criminal Justice
Description: An examination of the important Supreme Court decisions in the area of criminal justice.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
PSC 3300 -
Constitutional Law and Develop
Description: Major Supreme Court cases concerning the powers of Congress and the president, federalism, commerce taxing, and voting.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005
PSC 3400 -
Supreme Court & First Amend
Description: Major Supreme Court decisions involving freedoms of speech, press, religion, church-state, and assembly.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
PSC 3500 -
The Supreme Court & Equality
Description: Examination of the important Supreme Court decisions in the area of racial and gender equality.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
PSC 3600 -
Criminal Justice System
Description: The political phenomena of crime, nature of law, police, courts, correction, community crime prevention, and the procedures of local, state, and national agencies as political issues.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008
PSC 3800 -
Environmental Law
Description: The manner in which our society protects or fails to protect the environment through law and environmental regulation. The relative efficacy, costs, and benefits of various types of this regulation.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003
PSC 4000 -
European Politics
Description: European political institutions, changes in party systems, and impact of European integration/globalization on domestic economies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005
PSC 4100 -
Political Movements
Description: Comparison of civil rights, labor, fascist, environmental and women's movements in their political and historical context.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
PSC 4200 -
South Asia
Description: The historical development of India and Pakistan; their contemporary problems and conduct of foreign relations with the great powers.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2006, Spring 2002
PSC 4401 -
Russia
Description: An introduction to the contemporary Russian political system emphasizing its transformation from the Communist system which preceded it.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2006
PSC 4500 -
Contemp East Asian Politics
Description: The politics, history, economic development and security of the Asia/Pacific region; focus on Japan and China.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2006
PSC 4700 -
Africa
Description: Cultural pluralism, African socialism, terrorism, politico-legal and socioeconomic development, and other problems of contemporary African states. The impact of colonial rule and socioeconomic changes on political life.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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PSC 4750 -
Latin America
Description: Comparison of the political systems of Latin American countries. The role of the military, the church, elites, political parties, constitutions and social and economic factors which have shaped the development of the region.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Fall 2005, Spring 2003, Fall 1999
PSC 4875 -
Topics in Inter. Rel.
Description: Selected topics of special interest in Comparative Government and International Relations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008
PSC 4900 -
The Arab States
Description: Political change in the principal Arab States with emphasis on the diverse forms of rule and political movements. The impact of colonial rule and socioeconomic changes on political life, leadership, social structure, political culture, and modernization.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
PSC 4950 -
Ireland
Description: Irish government and politics and their socioeconomic context. The impact of lreland's increasing association with other European countries and the special problems associated with Northern Ireland.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009
PSC 5000 -
International Law
Description: The rules and principles of international law based on a study of treaties, diplomatic practice, and cases dealt with by international and national courts.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
PSC 5100 -
International Organization
Description: The development of international organization, the U.N., its principles, structure, and accomplishments; regional organizations; prospects for the future.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
PSC 5225 -
US Foreign Policy Issues
Description: Contemporary foreign policy issues facing the United States; elements of continuity and change; implementation and consequences.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
PSC 5351 -
Russian Foreign Policy
Description: The development of Russian foreign policy in the post-Soviet period, historical roots; relations with the United States, Europe, the Far East and the developing countries; diplomatic; economic and military instruments of Russian policy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 2003
PSC 5500 -
Africa in World Politics
Description: Political and economic problems in Africa south of the Sahara; problems of South Africa - past, present, and future; the interaction of states in regional organizations; Pan-Africanism; response of the outside world to African nationalism.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Fall 1998, Fall 1996, Fall 1995
PSC 5600 -
Human Rights
Description: Transnational case studies of human rights; the nature and significance of human values in relation to the political process, law, and ideology.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2000, Summer 1995
PSC 5650 -
Peacebuilding in N. Ireland
Description: The process of diplomacy and peacebuilding examined from the perspective of two weeks of study and work with community leaders in Northern Ireland. Theories and techniques of political decision-making in international negotiations; community reconciliation during crisis and non-crisis events.
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Credit Hours: 4.0
Last Offered: Summer 2004, Summer 2003, Summer 2001
PSC 5700 -
Third World Politics
Description: Political systems of the developing world, including ideologies, the role of the military, nation building, gender issues, religion, ethnic conflict and additional topics.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Spring 2009
PSC 5800 -
Politics of International Econ
Description: The politics international trade, economic interdependence, foreign aid, monetary relations, North-South relations, and national development.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Summer 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2002
PSC 5825 -
Development & Aid
Description: Development & the role of official development assistance. Includes aid effectiveness, modalities, impact of globalization, conflation of aid with strategic purpose, & rising influence of non-traditional donors, such as China & oil-exporting countries.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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PSC 5850 -
East Asia's Political Economy
Description: Themes include interactions between markets and capitalist systems, political regimes, financial sector liberalization, trade, entrepreneurship, and regionalism. Special focus on the conditions leading to the region's recent financial crises.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
PSC 5875 -
India
Description: India's emerging power will play a major role in influencing Asian and global politics in the coming decades. The interrelated themes of India's economy, democracy, role of the state, civil society, and development policy in contemporary times will be covered.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Fall 2008
PSC 5900 -
Middle East International Rels
Description: Intra-regional and international problems facing the Middle East: the struggle for independence; the impact of the Cold War; the protracted conflict between Israelis and Arabs; and the tensions in the oil-rich Persian Gulf.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
PSC 6000 -
Early Political Theories
Description: The relevance of the classics of political thought for understanding modern politics from the Greeks to the modern era.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PSC 6100 -
Mod Political Theories
Description: The structure of modern political thought and developments of twentieth century political thought as an aid to understanding our age.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2002, Spring 2001, Spring 2000, Spring 1999
PSC 6120 -
Principles of Politics
Description: An analytical, rather than historical, approach to the principles of politics. Justice, liberty, equality, purpose of the state, constitutionalism, political prudence, separation of powers, etc.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Fall 2006, Summer 2003, Summer 2002
PSC 6130 -
Theories of War and Peace
Description: The major political theories about war and peace, and the importance of ideas of justice for them in ancient, non-Western, modern and contemporary theories.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2007, Summer 2006, Summer 2005, Spring 2004
PSC 6140 -
Religion and Politics
Description: The relation of religion and politics found in either classical, modern, or contemporary literature from the Western or non-Western, American or Latin American experience.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2005, Fall 2004, Fall 2003
PSC 6150 -
Politics and Literature
Description: Politics in classical and modern literature. Sophocles, Thucydides, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Twain, Melville, Austen, Huxley, Orwell.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Spring 1999
PSC 6175 -
American Statesmanship
Description: Examine the lives, characters, and political thought of American Statesmen using biographical material and primary sources.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009
PSC 6225 -
The American Founding
Description: Issues about the nature of the federal union, sovereignty, majority faction, the extended republic, representation, the branches of government, separation of powers, checks and balances, slavery, popular government and civic responsibility during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and the Ratification Debates over the Constitution.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2007, Spring 2005, Fall 2001
PSC 6250 -
Jurisprudence
Description: The nature and origin of law from historical and/or analytical perspectives.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Spring 2003
PSC 6275 -
Lincoln/Douglas Debates
Description: Examination of the theoretical and practical political concerns of political leadership in a free society, with emphasis on the political understanding and statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Attention to the issues of equality, sovereignty, liberty, and justics.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2002, Spring 2002
PSC 6650 -
Using Political Science
Description: Research methods, no prior knowledge expected. Design and conduct study of political and social attitudes in the Villanova community, probability and random sampling, research design, hypothesis testing and intelligent use of statistics, tests of significance, and basic data analysis.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
PSC 6800 -
Political Violence
Description: The nature of political violence and conflict emphasizing the human perspective. Origins and causes of political violence; socio-psychological explanations. Manifestations include terrorism, rebellion, revolution, and war.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
PSC 6875 -
Topics in Political Theory
Description: Selected topics of special interest in Political Theory and Behavior.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Fall 2008
PSC 6900 -
Political Sci Seminar
Description: Individual research and report on contemporary problems in political science.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Fall 2008
PSC 6950 -
Ind Study & Research
Description: Individual students with specific interests work on a tutorial basis with an appropriate professor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 7000 -
Research Concepts & Approaches
Description: Tools needed to think critically about questions of political science; various research methods employed by political scientists; skills necessary to write cogent essays and conduct original research. .
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
PSC 7400 -
Amer Political Behavior
Description: Theories of Political Behavior with special emphasis on voting behavior are tested by employing elementary quantitative techniques. Changing demographic, atttudinal and personality roots of voting and other forms of participatory behavior.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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PSC 7600 -
Resch Probs Polit Behav
Description: The logical and technical features of research design; the philosophy of science, research techniques, survey research, interviewing and collection of data.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2005, Spring 1997, Spring 1996
PSC 7800 -
History of Political Thought
Description: Classical, medieval, and modern political philosophy; the influence of various political philosophers on the development of western civilization and American democracy; emphasis on regime analysis and evaluation of ideas.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
PSC 8000 -
Special Topics in PSC
Description: Special topics of special interest in political science.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009
PSC 8010 -
Geneva Internship
Description: Work with an international organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2009, Summer 2008, Summer 2007, Summer 2006
PSC 8100 -
Legislative Branch
Description: Strong points and shortcomings of the Congress of the United States, and prospects of Congressional reform.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Summer 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2004
PSC 8150 -
The Presidency
Description: Nature, functions, and evolution of the American Presidency; competing defintions and interpretations of the power of the office; special attention to recent presidents.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
PSC 8200 -
Judicial Branch
Description: The Federal Court System of the United States, focusing on the Supreme Court and its role in U.S. Constitutional development.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Fall 2007, Summer 2005, Fall 2003
PSC 8209 -
Public Policy
Description: Models of the policy making process; also special topics such as privatization, public enterprises, deregulation, and benefit-cost analysis.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2006
PSC 8240 -
National Security Policy
Description: How and why the United States defended itself with chosen conventional, covert, and nuclear strategies during the Cold War and post-Cold War eras.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2003
PSC 8250 -
Urban Politics and Government
Description: The study of city and suburban governments in metropolitan areas; special emphasis devoted to such topics as governmental form, city-suburb relations, race and ethnic relations, and economic change.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Summer 2007, Spring 2006, Spring 2004
PSC 8275 -
Managing Public Networks
Description: Theories of federalism, intergovernmental relations, and intergovernmental and intersectoral networks; collaborative decision-making approaches and negotiating skills.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Summer 2006, Summer 2004, Spring 2003
PSC 8300 -
American Party Politics
Description: Organization and function of the American political party as contestant for political power, as broker for interest groups, and as architect of public policy; the national convention and the role of the party in the professional campaign.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008
PSC 8350 -
Political Communications
Description: Role, behavior, and influence of communications in American politics.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
PSC 8375 -
Cyberpolitics
Description: The Internet as a political tool. How the Internet functions as a political medium by enabling individuals to build virtual and real-world communities, shape media narratives, and bring about political outcomes.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010
PSC 8400 -
Public Administration
Description: Tension between bureaucracy-democracy; theories about the nature and development of public administration in the United States.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2000, Spring 1999, Fall 1997, Fall 1996
PSC 8600 -
Constitution Problems
Description: Selected groups of problems in the area of constitutional development; selection determined by the contemporary importance of the problem to be analyzed.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Summer 2009, Spring 2009, Spring 2007
PSC 8700 -
Globalization
Description: Explores link between globalization and anti-Americanism, new security threats, income inequality, rise in NGOs, immigration, retrenchment in welfare policies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Summer 2004
PSC 8775 -
Global Inequality
Description: Theories and trends, regional variation, importance of economic growth, democracy, culture, state role, political mobilization, and structural constraints in explaining inequality across countries; multi-disciplinary; comparative and aggregate quantitative analysis; in-depth selected country studies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009
PSC 8825 -
Middle East Politics
Description: Ways in which political patterns and crosscutting influences affect the fundamental concepts of political identity in the Arab world, Israel and Iran. The interaction of secular nationalism and political Islam, ideas of political thinkers and political movements.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Spring 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2002
PSC 8850 -
S Asian Political Instit
Description: Political institutions and theories governing the relations of the state and citizens in ancient, medieval, and modern India-Pakistan.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1995
PSC 8875 -
Lat Amer Compar Politics
Description: Politically important groups, movements, institutions, and ideologies in Latin American nations. Competing theories about the political roles of the military, church, bureaucracy, parties, union, economic elites, and branches of government.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2004, Summer 2002, Spring 2000, Fall 1996
PSC 8901 -
Dynamics Russian Politic
Description: Russian political system in transition from authoritarian rule; the historical and ideological roots of the Soviet system; initial efforts to reform it; the collapse of the communist system in Russia and the emergence of a new one.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2002
PSC 8950 -
Subsahara African Polit
Description: Patterns of political change in Africa south of the Sahara with reference to problems of political and economic development, national integration, interregional cooperation, linkages between internal and external affairs.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2003, Summer 2001, Summer 1999, Fall 1997
PSC 9000 -
International Relations
Description: Development of major theoretical approaches to international relations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 2003, Fall 2001
PSC 9025 -
International Polit Econ
Description: Mercantilism, classical liberalism, imperialism, world systems theory, international trade and finance, multinational corporations, foreign aid, development, and integration.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Summer 2003
PSC 9050 -
Sem: Internatl Organiza
Description: Institutions, processes, and politics of the United Nations and regional international organizations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Fall 2004
PSC 9061 -
Thesis Direction
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009
PSC 9075 -
European Politics
Description: The impact of European integration and globalization on domestic political economies (e.g. labor relations, welfare spending and Keynesianism); the rise of Green parties and right-wing populists; and long-term political development (e.g. causes of interwar fascism, social democracy and liberalism).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2009, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Summer 2006
PSC 9080 -
Thesis Continuation
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Credit Hours: 0.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009, Spring 2009
PSC 9100 -
Diplomacy & Negotiations
Description: Theories and techniques of diplomatic decision-making, international negotiations during crisis and non-crisis events; computer diagnoses of conflict resolution.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2004, Fall 2001, Summer 1998, Summer 1997
PSC 9150 -
Recent Amer Foreign Pol
Description: Cultural and governmental forces influencing Presidential decisions, congressional activity and contemporary issues in the Post-Cold War period; theory and methodology of bureaucratic policy formation.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2009, Fall 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2003
PSC 9200 -
Mid East Internatl Relat
Description: Importance of the Middle East; Big Powers historical, strategic, political and economic interest and rivalries, as well as their policies and actions, in the area; major interarea problems and conflicts, with special stress on the arab-Israeli conflict.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2007
PSC 9231 -
Russia and the World
Description: Evolution of Russian foreign policy in the post-Soviet period in its relations with the United States, Europe, and Asia and with its neighbors among the former Soviet republics; the historical roots of Russian policies; Russian foreign policy as a case study in theories of international relations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 2003, Spring 2002
PSC 9250 -
Nationalism & Internatnl
Description: Classical theory of nationalism; Marxist interpretation of nationalism; current national upsurge in Asia and Africa; possibilities of regionalism in Western Europe as the aftermath of World War II.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2004, Spring 2001, Fall 1999, Spring 1996
PSC 9300 -
Amer Frgn Pol Mid East
Description: American Foreign Policy in the Middle East toward: (1) confrontation states, including Israel, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon; (2) smaller Gulf states in the Arabian Peninsula; (3) Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Fall 2004
PSC 9301 -
Nature of Polit Science
Description: The ways in which politics are studied, considering historical, topical, and policy viewpoints as well as such approaches as positivism, functionalism, and behavioralism, examining their underlying assumptions, methods, and value orientations.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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PSC 9375 -
The American Founding
Description: Issues about the nature of the federal union, sovereignty, majority faction, the extended republic, representation, the branches of government, separation of powers, checks and balances, slavery, popular government and civic responsibility during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787 and the Ratification Debates over the Constitution.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2010, Fall 2007, Spring 2001
PSC 9425 -
Relig., Politics & Public Mgt.
Description: Explores the influence of religious identity in American elections, public administration, and public policy debates through a study of scholarly works, survey research, current events, and in-depth case analyses of social service delivery by urban religious institutions.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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PSC 9450 -
Lincoln/Douglas Debates
Description: Examination of the theoretical and practical political concerns of political leadership in a free society, with emphasis on the political understanding and statemanship of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Attention to the issues of equality, sovereignty, liberty, and justice.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Fall 2005, Fall 2002
PSC 9800 -
Read-Resrch Polit Scien
Description: An individual student with a specific interest which cannot be satisfied by a regular course is allowed to work on a tutorial basis with a particular professor.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Summer 2009
PSC 9801 -
Read-Resrch Polit Scien
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 1997, Spring 1996, Spring 1995
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