| PSC 0110 | Controversial Legal Issues |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 |
| PSC 0200 | Ideas in Politics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1998 |
| PSC 0245 | Politics of Disorder |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 |
| PSC 0255 | Women in Politics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 |
| PSC 0260 | Constitutional Law |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 , Spring 1998 |
| PSC 0261 | Civil Rights & Civil Liberties |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1999 |
| PSC 0267 | Public Policy Analysis |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 , Fall 1999 |
| PSC 0270 | The City |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1998 |
| PSC 0280 | Comparative Politics |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1998 |
| PSC 0290 | International Relations |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 |
| PSC 0297 | Pol Conflict in North Ireland |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1998 |
| PSC 0310 | Leadership |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 1999 |
| PSC 0350 | Social Science Methodology |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2000 , Fall 1998 |
| PSC 1100 | American Government |
| Description: | Constitutional development; national institutions, federalism, civil rights and liberties; instruments of popular control. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PSC 1875 | Spec Top in Political Science |
| Description: | Special topics in Political Science. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to PSC Majors |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 , Spring 2009 |
| PSC 1903 | Internship Elective |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PSC 1906 | Internship Elective |
| Description: | Description not available. 6.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PSC 1909 | Internship Elective |
| Description: | Description not available. 9.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2009 , Spring 2007 , Fall 2003 , Spring 2003 |
| PSC 2993 | Internship |
| Description: | Internship 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PSC 2996 | Internship |
| Description: | Internship Work experience in politics. 6.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| Last Offered: |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 4.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to PSC Majors |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | NONE |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. . 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Graduate students and qualified undergraduates |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2008 |
| PSC 8000 | Special Topics in PSC |
| Description: | Special topics of special interest in political science. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 , Spring 2009 |
| PSC 8010 | Geneva Internship |
| Description: | Work with an international organization in Geneva, Switzerland. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2008 |
| PSC 8350 | Political Communications |
| Description: | Role, behavior, and influence of communications in American politics. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2003 , Summer 2001 , Summer 1999 , Fall 1997 |
| PSC 9000 | International Relations |
| Description: | Development of major theoretical approaches to international relations. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 2006 , Fall 2004 |
| PSC 9061 | Thesis Direction |
| Description: | Description not available. 6.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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). 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Fall 2009 , Spring 2008 , Spring 2007 , Summer 2006 |
| PSC 9080 | Thesis Continuation |
| Description: | Description not available. 0.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| 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. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Summer 2010 , Spring 2010 , Fall 2009 , Summer 2009 |
| PSC 9801 | Read-Resrch Polit Scien |
| Description: | Description not available. 3.0 credit(s) |
| Restrictions: | Restricted to graduate students |
| Prerequisites: | None. |
| Last Offered: | Spring 1997 , Spring 1996 , Spring 1995 |