Academic Catalog 2010-2011

POLS 250X Politics and Public Policy (Public Policy and Community Service 250) POLS 285-286-287-288 Research Experience in Political Science Hands-on research experience, assisting in faculty research projects. Prerequisites: sophomore status and permission of department. One semester hour credit per semester, for a maximum of four semesters.

POLS 300X Race, Class Gender, and Sexuality (Public Policy and Community Service 300) POLS 310 Parties and Elections in American Politics Exploration of the role that parties, elections, interest groups, public opinion polls, and the media play in the political system of the United States, including discussions of the evolution of the American party system, the character of contemporary political campaigns, and campaign finance issues.

POLS 311 The President and Congress The institutional structure and operation of each branch; their constitutional, electoral, and political interrelationships including discussions of styles of presidential leadership, the evolving relationship between the President and the bureaucracy, congressional committee structures, and various strategies for securing the interbranch agreement necessary to make laws.

POLS 317 Civil Rights and Liberties Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in using cases based on the Constitution to protect the rights of citizens from undue or prohibited interference with their protected liberties, including discussions of cases dealing with individual v. group rights, religious liberty, free expression, racial and gender discrimination, political participation, rights of the aged, immigrants, and the criminally accused.

POLS 323 International Political Economy Reciprocal interaction of international political and international economic relations, the formation of industrial policy and trade policy, and issues related to international investment flows. Cases from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America.

Prerequisites: Economics 151 and 152 and Political Science 205.

POLS 326 Contemporary Islamic Legal Thought: Law, State, and World Order Contemporary Islamic thought on the legitimacy of national and international legal orders, and contemporary Islamic legal theories on the topics of legislation, constitution, legal system, nation-state, international relations, war, and world order, with regard both to ideal objectives and actual conditions.

POLS 335 Regional and International Implications of the New Europe The collapse of Communist East Europe, the rise of the European Union, and the domestic and international implications of the New Europe. National rights and sovereignty in legal, political, and economic terms; integration of the former Communist states into the European Union; relations of the European Union and of member nations to the rest of the world, especially the Middle East, North America, and Asia.

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