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Special arrangements must be made with an appropriate faculty member or the department office. May be repeated for credit on each new topic.

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

Provides student the opportunity to gain expertise and experience in a special field under the supervision of a qualified person.

Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

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Areas of Interest:

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

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Physics (MS)

Study of the nature of politics and government and their influence on society and human behavior.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Corrections (BS)

Combine study with action to remake yourself into a democratic citizen. Consider your beliefs, debate issues and learn political skills. Integrate these in practical public work on a real issue or project in a student group or community organization.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Goal Area 11 - Performance and Participation

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Criminal Justice (BS) | Ethnic Studies (BS) Public/Government | Ethnic Studies (BS) Racial/Ethnic Communities in the United States | Policing Studies (BS)

This course is designed to help you to read, think and write critically about important concepts and issues in the study and practice of politics. It is intended to acquaint you with some of the great debates in political thought, increase your understanding of how political systems work and help you to develop your research and writing skills.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Writing Intensive

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Rejoin the political debates of 1787 to understand the US Constitution. Compare the founding document with amendments, later usage and Supreme Court interpretations. Examine controversies over the meaning of the Constitution using the methods of political philosophers, historians, and legal scholars.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Corrections (BS) | Criminal Justice (BS) | Policing Studies (BS)

This introductory course examines key concepts and issues in contemporary world politics. It is a survey course covering topics including political culture, the political impact of economic globalization, the changing role of the state, nationality and ethnic identity, and issues of oppression and empowerment.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Ethnic Studies (BS) International Community and Human Services

Become informed enough to play your part in governing the United States. Start by learning about the Constitution, our rights and freedoms, how the national government works and the opportunities and challenges of citizen influence. Political Science methods, and the challenges of citizenship are emphasized.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Ethnic Studies (BS) Public/Government | Military Science Minor | Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) Political Science | Political Science (BA) | Political Science (BS)

Various topics of current interest. Topics covered in the past include political corruption, contemporary ideologies, revolution, understanding the United States Constitution, political films. Course may be taken more than once for credit.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Students will develop knowledge and understand the application of statistical concepts and quantitative methodologies to real-world social and political issues. Using social science data, students will analyze and interpret data to answer research questions relevant to the public and non-profit sectors.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 4 - Mathematical/Logical Reasoning

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) Economics | Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) Philosophy | Philosophy, Politics and Economics (BA) Political Science | Political Science (BA) | Political Science (BS) | Public Policy Minor

An introduction to the dynamics of interactions among sovereign states and other global actors.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

International Business (BS)

The course is intended to prepare students to participate in the model UN. Students learn about issues before the UN and acquire a variety of communication and negotiating skills as they model the role of ambassadors.

Graduation Requirements:

Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective | Goal Area 1B - Speech and Oral Reasoning

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

This course is designed to acquaint undergraduates with the data and methods of comparative politics. Approaches to the study of comparative politics may include country studies, regional studies, global surveys focusing on specific policy areas or other issues, and general comparative theory.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

International Business (BS) | Political Science (BA) | Political Science (BS)

This course provides an introduction to public policy and public administration in the United States. Specifically, this course will examine theories, concepts, and relevant public policy issues and administrative issues using appropriate theoretical frameworks and methodologies.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Ethnic Studies (BS) Public/Government | Public Policy Minor

Institutions, processes, intergovernmental relations, and politics of U.S. state and local governments.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

A survey of Western political philosophy from Plato through the Conciliar Movement. An examination of the origin and development of basic concepts defining the relationship between the person and the state: human nature, community, authority, power, legitimacy, obligation, accountability, government, liberty and personal responsibility.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

International Relations Minor | Political Science (BS)

A survey of Western political philosophy from Machiavelli through Edmund Burke. An examination of the development of ideas about government from the 15th Century through the 18th Century. Emphasis is placed on origins of political authority, purposes for which government exists, relationships between government authority and individual rights, civic virtue, republicanism and democracy.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

International Relations Minor | Political Science (BS)

A survey of Western political philosophy from Hegel through the post-modernist writers. An examination of 19th and 20th Century political philosophers emphasizing German transcendentalism, utilitarianism, economic determinism, state socialism, neoliberism, communitarianism and post-modernism.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

International Relations Minor | Political Science (BS)

Students learn about active citizenship from readings and discussions on the theory and practice of democracy. Students should become more motivated to participate, feel a greater sense of empowerment, improve political skills, and to better understand and appreciate democracy.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Advocating for Social Justice Minor | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Anthropology | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Economics | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Geography | Social Studies Teaching (BS) History | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Political Science | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Psychology | Social Studies Teaching (BS) Sociology

An overview of the budgetary and fiscal processes of public budgeting, including the politics surrounding public budgeting and fiscal policy decisions.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Public Policy Minor

This course explores topics in political philosophy beyond what is covered in the existing curriculum. Students study specialized topics of current importance in the field. Specific topics will change depending on the term and instructor. May be retaken with change of topic.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Political Science (BS)

Political thought in the United States from the colonial period to the Civil War. Puritans, American revolution, republicanism, debate over United States Constitution, Jacksonian Democracy, Thoreau, reformers and religious and secular utopias, womens' rights, states' rights, abolitionism, proslavery.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Political Science (BS)

Political thought in United States from reconstruction to present. Controversies over industrial capitalism: Social Darwinism, Utopian Socialism, Populism, Socialism, Progressivism. Women's Rights, suffrage movement and contemporary feminism; African American political thought: liberalism; conservatism.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration

Programs:

Political Science (BS)

This course explores topics in political participation and behavior beyond what is covered in the existing curriculum. Students study specialized topics of current importance in the field. Specific topics will change depending on the term and instructor. May be retaken with a change of topic.

Areas of Interest:

Government and Public Administration