Emphasis is on the social context, constitutional foundations, processes, and functions of American politics. This course, formerly numbered 201, has been re-numbered 101. Content of this course varies. Check catalogue for details. A study of the politics and governments of the African states and India.
Emphasis is on the issues and problems of political and economic development.
Emphasis is on state policy-making, urban politics, and metropolitics. A study of representative political theorists from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Attention is given to historical development, current political structures, and movements toward economic and political union. An analytical view of American foreign policy, its domestic sources, the process of formulating policy, the instruments of American diplomacy, the nature of U.S. relations with hostile powers, allies, emerging nations, and the United Nations, and the limitations and potential of American foreign policy. A study of modern Latin American politics with special emphasis on how different types of political regimes address the challenge of economic development.