31 courses with the subject POLS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
POLS 110Introduction to Political Opinion
3-WSP Research, analysis, and debate on selected topics in political opinion, including electoral processes; government, industry, and the environment; gun control; health care; immigration and border security; domestic and international terrorism and civil liberties; and education oversight, testing, and funding. Offered at participating high schools to selected, qualified students. Liberal Arts.
2 courses from the core of the Politics & Philosophy major 6 Additional POLS/PHIL courses to reach at least 15 credits 6 Total in minor 15 Minor must include at least two POLS and two PHIL courses Spanish Minor: 12 credits A 12 credits self-designed minor with courses beyond the 102 level as determined by arrangement with the Dean of Religion, Humanities, and Global Studies. A special course of study is developed to meet the student’s specific goals and is signed prior to taking the courses. The signed course of study is placed on file in the Registrar’s Office.
3-WSP Basic scientific method and application to social phenomena, procedures and methodological problems in various types of social research, and methods of data analysis. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Introduction to feminist contributions to contemporary ethical thought, including critiques of existing ethical theories, development of alternative ethical systems, and increased philosophical attention to neglected issues of particular interested to feminists, such as oppression or rape. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Exploration of the dominant tradition in the ethics of warfare, the Just War tradition. Topics include both the traditional criteria of jus ad bellum (just causes for going to war) and jus in bello (just behavior within a war) and critics – both pacifist and “realist” – of these criteria. Consideration given to how new technologies and new kinds of conflict challenge the application of the traditional criteria. Liberal Arts.
European Politics and Culture 3-WSP General introduction to Switzerland, covering history, politics, literature, and culture. Topics include Switzerland as a multinational, multilingual, and multi-confessional country; Swiss neutrality, federalism, and direct democracy; the country’s relation to the European Union; and its experience with immigration. Special attention to similarities and differences between Switzerland and the United States. Fulfills part of General Education Global Competence requirement. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Introduces students to the tradition of Western political thought from the ancient to the modern world through a close reading of important thinkers. By considering problems of community, obligation, order, justice, liberty, and freedom, equips students for careful normative reflection on public life. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Introduction to fundamental issues surrounding the concept of law, such as the debate between natural law theorists (who maintain that there is a law above human law) and legal positivists (who deny this) as well as issues such as punishment and the basis of the legitimacy of legislative authority. Liberal Arts.
1-WSP Introduces skills necessary for research and writing within the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Students learn to identify scholarly arguments in the literature, recognize historiographic arguments, analyze primary sources, construct their own arguments, distinguish between primary and secondary sources, and assess appropriate methodologies. At the end, students present their own well-researched argument and criticize those of fellow students. Ideally taken in the sophomore year; students must either have previously taken or be simultaneously enrolled in a 200-level or higher major course. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP History of the United States policy toward Native American tribes from the founding of the country to the present. Special attention to how the legal system has dealt with the claims of Native Americans. Focus on changing conceptions of Indian nationhood and sovereignty in relation to the United States. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Careful study of the nature of executive power and its embodiment in the American presidency. Focuses on the executive's role in our constitutional order and changes in that role over the course of America's political development. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Formulation and execution of U.S. foreign policy, especially since WWII. Special attention to foreign policy strategies in light of different conceptions of vital interests, threats to these interests, and appropriate responses. Liberal Arts.
and Creativity 3-WSP Studies the late 19th-century crisis of faith and reason in turn-of-the-century Vienna, where the Habsburg Empire was crumbling under the pressure of ethnic and national rivalries and competing political ideologies. Across cultural realms – political, literary, philosophical, artistic, musical, architectural, scientific – a remarkable outburst of creativity by a group of 315
3-WSP Careful consideration of the meaning, origin, objects, and limits of loyalty with special attention to its political manifestations. Draws on a wide range of philosophical, political, legal, theological, and literary sources. Liberal Arts.
Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis 3-WSP In-depth study of the social, ethical, and political thought of C. S. Lewis, one of the 20th century’s most influential Christian thinkers. Extensive reading in the works of Lewis, drawn evenly from his fiction and nonfiction writings. Topics include theories of history and the nature of modernity, war and peace, equality, gender and the family, education, political rule, democracy, and technology and scientific progress. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Studies the social and political thought of Martin Luther in the context of the history and theology of the German Reformation. Topics include the doctrine of the Two Kingdoms, the relationship between church and state, the duties of a citizen, social reform (marriage, education, poor relief), and political revolution (the Peasants' War), all situated within Luther's life and times. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Explores the questions “What does it mean to be a member of a political community?” and “How does one become a member?” Typically considers historical development of American immigration and citizenship policy, philosophical analyses of citizenship and the right of movement, problems of integration and diversity, comparative policy analysis, and the role of citizenship in a Global Competence. Liberal Arts.
1, 2, 3, or 4-WSP Supervised participation in executive, legislative, judicial, or legal offices in local, state, or federal government when deemed suitable for academic credit and approved by the Political Science advisor and the Dean of Religion, Humanities, and Global Studies. Usually, 4 credits may be counted toward the major or minor. May be combined with an additional 4 credits for POLS 391. Liberal Arts.
Any core courses listed above not used to satisfy core requirements 3 Total 7–9 Total in minor 15 Philosophy Minor: 12 credits Required Courses Credits Choose at least one course from the following:
3-WSP Survey of United States constitutional history from its origins to the present. Emphasis on the constitutional system as a whole rather than constitutional law as developed by the Supreme Court. Examines the origins and general principles of constitutional thought, their elaboration in the Founding, and their development through crises over state rights and union in the 19th century, the Civil War amendments, liberty of contract, New Deal intervention, the developing doctrine of civil rights and civil liberties, and the growth of the administrative state. Liberal Arts.
3-WSP Exposes students to cutting-edge discussions of both the American polity and its role in world affairs by reading extremely current literature. Emphasis on the relation between normative theory and political practice. Topics considered include citizenship, American national identity, democracy, sovereignty, and globalization, but specific focus varies depending upon readings. Heavy reading load; emphasis on class discussion and student book reviews of materials. Liberal Arts.
