2013-2014 College Catalog | Mount Aloysius College PS 310 Comparative Politics..................................................................................................................................3 Credits This course is a comparative study of politics and governments which includes the analytical frameworks for studies of politics and governmental institutions. PS 315 History and Politics of the Far East...........................................................................................................3 Credits This course surveys Asian civilization from China’s classical period to the present. By emphasizing cultural, political, and historical developments in Japan and China, the course explores the dramatic impact this region has had on world history and politics. (This course may be taken as HS 315.) PS 318 Overview of Public Administration...........................................................................................................3 Credits An intensive study of administrative organization, personnel policy, finance, management and control, and lines of responsibility at all levels. PS 340 International Political Economy................................................................................................................3 Credits The politics of international economic relations, including trade, monetary relations, multinational corporations, economic development, and energy. PS 346 Public Corruption......................................................................................................................................3 Credits The analysis of mismanagement, bribery, conflicts of interest, fraud, dishonesty, embezzlement, kickbacks, nepotism, and other forms of public corruption in public administration. Attention will be given to developing legal and political remedies, and a framework for moral thinking in the public sector. PS 350 Gender and Politics....................................................................................................................................3 Credits This course examines the multiple and shifting relationships between gender and political institutions, processes, and culture. The basic question of the course is to consider how our conceptions of gender are imbedded in relationships of power. PS 360 Comparative Public Administration.........................................................................................................3 Credits The comparative study of politics and governments, including the analytical frameworks for studies of politics and governmental institutions. PS 375 Political Violence and Terrorism...............................................................................................................3 Credits This course explores the political theory and practice of terrorism and expansion of terrorist activity from the nineteenth century to present times. PS 380 The Western Political Tradition.................................................................................................................3 Credits This course provides students with a study of the leading ideas of the Western political tradition, focusing on such topics as justice, power, legitimacy, revolution, freedom, equality and forms of government - democracy especially. The course explores these issues and other concepts of political thought, drawing on major works in the Western tradition including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Paine, and Tocqueville. Lecture/discussion format in a reading and writing intensive course. (This course may also be taken as PL 380.) PS 381 Special Topics in Political Science..............................................................................................................3 Credits This course examines topics which are outside of the existing curriculum. Courses provide an opportunity for in-depth study of topics pertinent in the discipline of Political Science. This course may be repeated up to two (2) times without repeating a given topic. Prerequisites: PS 101 and PS 203 or PS 240 or instructor permission. PS 405 Political Psychology...................................................................................................................................3 Credits This course surveys the pure and applied scientific literature that examines how personality, groups, cognition, and other psychological variables influence political behavior and attitudes. Topics include authoritarianism, political attitudes and ideology, political leadership, group processes, voting, conflict, prejudice, and other topics relevant to political behavior. Prerequisites: PY 101 and either PS 101 or PS 203. (This course may also be taken as PY 405.) PS 410 U.S. Foreign Policy.....................................................................................................................................3 Credits The formulation and implementation of contemporary U.S. foreign policy, as well as a critical analysis of selected problems of U.S. foreign policy. PS 415 History and Politics of Russia....................................................................................................................3 Credits This course surveys Russian history since the 1905 Revolution. Examining both continuity and change from Tsarist Russia through the Soviet system to the present rebirth of Russia. The course focuses on political changes and to the transformation that have occurred in Russian culture. (This course may be taken as HS 415.)
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