Course Descriptions
Political Science Course Descriptions
- PSCI-100 - AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS 3 credits
- An analysis of the way in which politics and political institutions work in American society. The major problems of American democracy are explored, with their political, social, and economic implications. Also explored are constitutional rights and freedoms, the federal power structure, and changing governmental institutions. PREREQUISITE: None.
- PSCI-250 - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS 3 credits
- This course is designed to aid the student in reaching a better understanding of world politics, which determines whether we as individuals and our civilization will prosper, and the search for international order. The nation-state system, nation's interests, conflict or cooperation, and the search for international order will be discussed. An emphasis is placed on highly volatile current events.
- PSCI-300 - POLITICAL THEORY 1: FROM PLATO TO HOBBES 3 credits
- This course is a survey and comparative analysis of the political writings of various thinkers from classical antiquity to the 1600s. The course will also examine key concepts of normative political theory, such as power, ideology, and the state, and their relationship to the perennial problems of the social order.
- PSCI-330 - POLITICAL THEORY 2: 1600 TO THE PRESENT 3 credits
- This course is a survey and comparative analysis of the political writings of various thinkers from 1600 to the present. The course will examine such political constructs as nationalism, anarchism, democratic socialism and Marxism, conservatism, and fascism.
- PSCI-900 - DIRECTED STUDY IN POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Semester hour credit will vary from one to three, depending upon the written, agreed-upon approved, student-professor contracts.