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BACHELOR OF ARTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
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An undergraduate program for students wishing to explore a career in government service, other than public administration. Also suited to non-law school students who might want to run for elective office.
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REQUIREMENTS:
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- 120 semester/180 quarter credits
- Critical Analysis, Annotated Bibliography, Proposal and Major Paper
- 25% of studies in general education
- 25%-50% from core curriculum
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PREREQUISITES:
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An associate degree or the equivalent in the same, or in a related area, plus some work experience in the field.
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INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS:
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DISTANCE EDUCATION
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CURRICULUM:
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(CORE REQUIREMENTS)
African Politics
Politics of Developing Areas
World Food Politics
The American Presidency
Jurisprudence
Judicial Process
Political Parties and Interest Groups
Civil Rights in America
Civil Liberties
American Constitutional Law
International Politics
InterAmerican Relations
Revolutions and Collective Violence
American Political Thought
Modern Political Thought
Political Analysis
Politics of Global Survival
Minority Group Politics
Model United Nations |
COURSE OUTLINES / SYLLABI
1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 250
Title: African Politics
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed a good working knowledge of African politics including the apparent changing of the political system of South Africa.
- Course Description: Analysis of indigenous institutions, western influences and nationalism in Africa, south of the Sahara. Emphasis on post-independence with selective case studies including South Africa. Impact of outside powers on Africa.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 251
Title: Politics of Developing Areas
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have acquired a good knowledge of the politics of a developing nation, especially of a particular third world country.
- Course Description: Process of political development in the third world with appropriate examples taken from particular areas and countries.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 252
Title: World Food Politics
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have grasped a good knowledge and understanding of world food politics.
- Course Description: Self-reliant, food first politics of the hungry poor in the less developed countries; political support of food policies in the United States and other developed nations. Moral ecological and commodity politics of food in a variety of cultural settings which direct food production, consumption and distribution and reduce food demand through population stabilization.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 253
Title: The American Presidency
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Leadership in the Modern Presidency, 1st ed., 1988, Greenstein
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed a good sense of the many different aspects which the position of presidency.
- Course Description: Nature and problems of contemporary presidential leadership, emphasizing the impact of bureaucracy, Congress, public opinion, the courts, interest groups and the party system upon the presidency and national policy making.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 254
Title: Jurisprudence
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have a good overview of the law of the United States both local, state and federal systems.
- Course Description: Normative and analytic questions about law. Moral obligation to obey the law. Nature and justification of punishment, guilt and legal responsibility, liberty and justice.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 255
Title: Judicial Process
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student can articulate skills and knowledge of the judicial process.
- Course Description: Examines legal process, emphasizes political influence on law. Topics may include: types of law, legal culture, state and federal courts, criminal trials, the role of the police, judges, attorneys in the legal system.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 256
Title: Political Parties and Interest Groups
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed a good understanding of political parties of the United States. Student will also have developed knowledge of how interest groups affect public policy.
- Course Description: Make-up and major functions of political parties. Role of political parties and interest groups in a democracy. Degree of consensus and conflict between present day political parties and interest groups in their attempts to influence public policy.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 257
Title: Civil Rights in America
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have gained knowledge in the areas of civil rights in America, especially in dealing with affirmative action and equal employment opportunity.
- Course Description: Case based examination of race, ethnic and gender discrimination in the United States. The course emphasizes the response of the supreme court to issues of equality including affirmative action and abortion.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 258
Title: Civil Liberties
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have a basic knowledge of the important roles of the supreme court.
- Course Description: Role of the supreme courts as interpreter of constitutional rights and liberties, freedom of expression, search and seizure, due process of law.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 259
Title: American Constitutional Law
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed skills and knowledge as it relates the principles of American constitutional law.
- Course Description: Basic principles of American constitutional law. Role of the supreme court as arbiter of separation of powers and federalism.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 260
Title: International Politics
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed skills and knowledge in international politics especially in the area of foreign politics.
- Course Description: International political process and problems. Foreign policies and politics in relations between states. Conflicts and adjustments analyses of selected problems.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 261
Title: InterAmerican Relations
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed sufficient skill and knowledge to work effectively with Latin American affairs.
- Course Description: Inter-American affairs, political, economic and social problems; forces motivating cultural behavior, industrial development, trade techniques, agriculture methods. Finding and evaluating authoritative source materials on Latin American affairs.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 262
Title: Revolutions and Collective Violence
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Son of the Revolution, 1st ed., 1984, Heng
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed specific skills and knowledge on all facets of revolutions and violence, especially as it pertains to developing nations.
- Course Description: Causes, methods, outcomes of and authority responses to collective violence and revolutionary movements. Contemporary events including terrorist and other forms of collective violence in industrialized and developing nations.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 263
Title: American Political Thought
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- From Protest to Politics, 1st ed., 1993, Tate
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed the ability to use ideas from some of America's leading thinkers.
- Course Description: Central political ideas of America's leading thinkers from Thomas Paine to the present.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 264
Title: Modern Political Thought
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- American Government - People, Instutions & Policies, 3rd ed., Paul E. Johnson, Garry J. Miller, John H. Aldrich, David W. Rohde, Charles W. Ostrom, Jr. (paperback)
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed the abilities and skills to emulate great thinkers of the past.
- Course Description: Theories of political participation and the relationship between man and the state as developed in the works of influential thinkers such as Locke, Rosseau, Mill and Marx.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 265
Title: Political Analysis
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will be able to articulate competence in political analysis, especially in research methods.
- Course Description: Introduction to methodology research design and quantitative methods used in survey research and political analysis. Bivariate Inferential statistics and spss statistical computer programs will be used to analyze political phenomena.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 266
Title: Politics of Global Survival
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed the knowledge and skills for global survival for all entities concerned.
- Course Description: Consideration of global survival from east-west, north-south and global perspectives. Arms race, development, and the poloitical dimensions of energy, environment, food and population.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 267
Title: Minority Group Politics
1.4 Recommended Text List:
- Racial Politics in American Cities, 1st ed., 1990
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed skills and knowledge to plan strategies in working with certain minority groups during a political process.
- Course Description: Analysis of political factors affecting minority groups in America. Involvement, organization and role of minority groups in the political process. Emphasis on the political behavior of Black and Chicano minorities.
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1. Course Designation:
1.1 School: Arts and Sciences
1.2 Department: Political Science
1.3 Course Number: POL 268
Title: Model United Nations
1.4 Recommended Text List:
FACULTY AND/OR STUDENT WILL SELECT A CURRENT EDITION
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- Course Objectives: Student will have developed skills to prepare "Mock United Nations" procedures and preparation for Mock United Nations debates on sustantiative issues.
- Course Description: Preparation for participation in model United Nations procedure, model United Nations rules of debate, preparation of country positions, area papers and policy statements suitable for use in mock United Nations sessions.
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