The main governments studied will include Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia. This course is a broad and comprehensive view of the law governing the state school systems of America. This course will be taught by the case method. A survey of the principal modes of diplomacy among the major powers, an analysis of the causes of international conflict, and a study of various proposals for the attainment of more adequate political organization on an international basis.
Some emphasis is given to the historical development of United States foreign policy.
The Legal Foundations of Public Administration 3 hours The authority, procedures and methods used by executive agencies in the administration of public policy and the general problem of adjusting the administrative process to traditional constitutional and legal principles. The evolution of the American Constitutional system from English and colonial origins through the Civil War. The limits on governmental powers are studied with special emphasis on constitutional guarantees of the individual freedoms of due process, equal protection, expression and religion. A study of the development of political thought as displayed in the writings of Plato and Aristotle to the present.