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selection, the effects of public opinion on courts and the effect of
courts on public opinion, impact and compliance, and interest-group
influence. The courts will be studied as political institutions and
policymakers peopled by political actors as opposed to the common
view that they are formal, legal, and nonpolitical entities.
POLI 6430 Seminar on Trial Courts
3 cr.
A seminar dealing with the literature on the scientific study of
lower courts and criminal justice.
POLI 6450 Sem Administrative Law
3 cr.
POLI 6510 Sem Political Theory
3 cr.
Seminar in Political Theory. May be repeated once for credit with
consent of the Department.
POLI 6570 Sem Contemporary Polit Theory
3 cr.
Seminar in Contemporary Political Theory. May be repeated once
for credit with consent of the Department.
POLI 6580 Sem Marxist Theory
3 cr.
This seminar deals with the development of Marxist political and
social thought, the place of Marxism in the history of western
ideas, and the contemporary importance and relevance of Marxism.
The following aspects will be especially emphasized: Marx’s
concept of alienation, the phenomenon of revisionism, the restructuring
of Marxism under Soviet Communism, the Maoist deviation,
attempts to integrate Marx and Darwin (Engels) and Marx and
Freud (Marcuse).
POLI 6600 Sem in American Politics
3 cr.
POLI 6610 Sem Poltical Parties
3 cr.
POLI 6620 Sem Voting Behavior
3 cr.
An analysis of contemporary research on vote determinants, partisanship,
issues and elections, economic influences, voter turnout,
and political participation.
POLI 6625 Seminar in Public Opinion
3 cr.
An analysis of contemporary research on individual and contextual
sources of public opinion.
POLI 6630 Sem Political Socalization
3 cr.
A study of the social process as related to political beliefs, norms,
and standards of behavior. Topics to be covered will include the
content of socialization, the circumstances under which learning
occurs, the agents of socialization and the impact of political learning
on the individual’s political behavior.
POLI 6640 Sem Black Politics
3 cr.
POLI 6641 Research on Minority Politics
3 cr.
Prerequisite: POLI 6640 or consent of department. A research-oriented
seminar in minority politics. Inferential techniques employed
in the analysis of minority politics will be examined, and students
will be required to engage in original research endeavors.
POLI 6650 Seminar Women & Politics
3 cr.
A study of feminist political thought and research on the importance
of gender in social movements, political attitudes and behavior,
political leadership, and public policy.
POLI 6670 Sem in Presidency Research
3 cr.
Investigation into problems, data, and prospects in researching the
American presidency. Examines the presidency in relation to other
governmental and nongovernmental actors, emphasizing public
policy linkages.
POLI 6675 President-Congress Relations
3 cr.
A study of the constitutional foundations of executive-legislative
relations, resources and constraints each possess, explaining presidential
success in Congress, and the causes and consequences of
divided government.
POLI 6680 Sem Legislative Behavior
3 cr.
This course will seek to provide an overview of contemporary
research on legislative behavior. Most of the existing literature
focuses on the national Congress but the course will also be concerned
with state legislatures as well. The seminar will include an
extensive review of the literature and statistical analysis of legislative
roll call voting.
POLI 6700 Sem Comparative Politics
3 cr.
POLI 6710 Sem Developing Political Syst
3 cr.
Political modernization, ideology and political development, economic
factors in political development, traditional versus modern
sectors, role of the military, development of bureaucracies, guided
democracy, charismatic leadership.
POLI 6720 Sem Developed Political Syst
3 cr.
Criteria of development, structural-functional approach to analysis
of developed political systems, communications models, interest
articulation and aggregation, institutional frameworks.
POLI 6730 Sem Pol Change & Development 3 cr.
Theories of development; relationship between political and economic
development, the revolution of rising expectations, political
infrastructure, levels of development.
POLI 6740 Sem Latin American Politics
3 cr.
The major alternatives for change: democratic reform or violent
revolution; political infrastructure, interest aggregation and the
acceleration of demands; the changing role of the military; the
rise of urban terrorism; political heritage; personalism; dictatorship;
role of the church.
POLI 6750 Sem in Comparative Pub Policy
3 cr.
Comparative analysis of actors, preferences and strategic environments,
including political institutions, to explain a wide range of
policy outputs in a broad comparative context.
POLI 6760 Seminar Comp Political Economy
3 cr.
Methods of political economy, including rational choice theory,
game theory, spatial modeling, and the new institutionalism. Theoretical
developments related to social movements and collective
action, problems of delegation. Applications to particular topics,
such as voting, property rights, economic reform, and corruption.
POLI 6810 IR Theory
3 cr.
This course will provide an overview of contemporary research
on international relations. It is organized around points of common
interest to scholars of international relations, including such
concepts as the underlying nature of the international system, the
causes of conflict between states, and possible sources of cooperation
between states.
POLI 6820 Sem International Pol & Orgs
3 cr.
This course will provide an overview of contemporary research on
international organizations and international law. It is organized
around points of common interest to scholars of international relations,
such as the emergence and evolution of international organizations,
the creation of international laws and norms, and the
impact of these institutions on nation-state behavior.
POLI 6850 Politics of Internatl Econ Rel
3 cr.
This seminar is an introduction to the field of international political
economy. Topics may include but are not limited to major
approaches to political economy and international political economy
in political science, cooperation and regime theory, trade and
finance, globalization, regional integration, and the use of economic
sanctions in international politics.
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