Three hours lecture/discussion per week
This course introduces the student to the contemporary study of comparative politics. The theme for the course will be democratization and democracy. Topics will include political institutions (constitutions, executives, legislatures, courts, and political parties), political behavior (voting, group activism, and other modes of political participation), and political ideas (political culture, socialization, status of women, and political economy).
GenEd: D
Three hours lecture/discussion per week
This course offers an overview of current theory, topics, and research in the Political Science subfield of International Relations. Emphasis will be placed on the role of power in international affairs, the structure of the international system, the meaning of security, and the importance of economic relations between nations and regions.
GenEd: D
Three hours lecture per week
Introduction to issues and theories in the interdisciplinary field of peace and conflict studies. Topics include conceptualizing peace and war, causes of conflict and war, achieving negative peace, building positive peace, case studies in nonviolence.
One hour of lecture per week
Introduction to the structure and function of California state government. Satisfies California state and local government requirement for students who have taken American Government without a California component or who receive Advanced Placement credit for American Government
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the major American national and state political institutions and processes, including the presidency, congress, the federal court system, political parties, the electoral system, and major institutions of state government. This course emphasizes how these institutions and processes function within changing American Constitutional principles of the role of law, federalism, shared power, and individual and civil rights. Meets Title 5 US Constitution and State and Local Government requirement.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: SOC/POLS/PSY 303
Introduction to research methods commonly used in political science. Topics include: research design, literature reviews, measurement and observation. Covers quantitative as well as qualitative methods of inquiry.
Three hours lecture/discussion per week
Political Theory is devoted to assessing the authority, legitimacy, and justification of various kinds of political arrangements. How should people live together in society? Is democracy really the best form of government? Can a society legislate morality? What do individuals owe their government? What does their government owe them? This course will consider these and related questions through an introductory survey of works by major political philosophers such as Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Mill, and Marx. Ramifications for issues such as freedom of speech, religious liberty, affirmative action, women's rights, economic inequality, criminal punishment, civil disobedience, and revolution will also be explored.
Two hours lecture and two hours activity per week
Prerequisites: MATH 105 or equivalent
Introduces quantitative methods as used in social science research and prepares students for statistical literacy. Students will be expected to demonstrate a clear understanding of statistical techniques and data analysis unique to the social sciences. Students will learn to use descriptive and inferential statistics to test hypotheses. Students will use SPSS to analyze data.
Same as SOC 303, PSY 303
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the role of women as political actors in the United States. Also explores the impact of public policies on women in America.
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the politics and policy consequences of racial and ethnic identity in the United States. Special attention will be paid to issues of race and politics in contemporary southern California.
GenEd: C3B
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: POLS 150
The course surveys political interest groups by examining the contrast between political parties and elections versus interest groups and lobbying, the logic behind collective action; the institutional arrangements governments use to channel group demands, and interest group resources, strategies and tactics in asserting influence. The course will examine groups in different issue domains, and make distinctions between interest groups and social movements.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: POLS 150
This course addresses the historical development of the Congress, the dynamics of congressional elections, analytical perspectives on the study of Congress, and the major internal mechanisms of the institution including parties, leaders, committees, rules, etc.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: POLS 150
An introduction to major approaches to the study of the presidency, presidential selection, presidential power, interbranch relations, the role of the public, interest groups, and the media, and presidential behavior in the policy-making process. The course also focuses on the historical development of the office.
Three hours lecture/discussion per week
This course will examine the ongoing struggle between the President and Congress to enact public policy. Students will study the two institutions singly and in their interaction. Particular attention will be placed on the electoral incentives of members of each institution and the inherent difficulties of cooperation in a system of separation of powers.
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the structures, functions, policies, politics and administration of subnational governments in the United States. Satisfies the California State and local government requirement for students who have taken American Government without a California component or who have received Advanced Placement credit for American Government.
Three hours lecture per week
Study of the American court system, including study of the history, organization, politics and policymaking of the judicial branch.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: POLS 150
Explores political parties, campaigns, elections and voting behavior in the American context.
Two hours lecture per week and three hours laboratory per week
Prerequisite: POLS 150
An introduction to the study of individual political behavior. Among the topics covered are the development of political attitudes, political socialization, measuring behavior and opinion, and the uses and abuses of public opinion data.
Three hours lecture/discussion per week
This course is an introduction to public administration in the United States at the national, state and local levels of government. It will explore the various trends in American public administration, examine the unique circumstances involved in administering public organizations and look at different techniques of public management. Topics of study include: the structure and function of the American system of federalism, organizational theory and behavior, public budgeting and finance, public human resources management and the role of women in public administration.
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the major concepts of public budgeting and finance in the United States. Key topics of study include: expenditure estimation, revenue forecasting, capital budgeting, budget reform and financial management. The politics that characterizes the budgetary process will be emphasized throughout.
Same as FIN 321
Three hours lecture per week
A study of how public policy is formulated and implemented, using several policy areas such as health, transportation, housing, energy, and welfare policy as areas for specific examination. The course will review several contemporary perspectives on policy making.
Three hours lecture per week
An intensive study of the politics and government of a nation or group of nations. Topics will include study of the government structure, political processes, political behavior and public policies. Areas of focus vary by semester. Repeatable based on topic.
Three hours lecture per week
Examination of the international political and economic relations among nations of a particular area of the world. Area of focus varies by semester. Repeatable by topic.
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the process of foreign policy making by the United States from several theoretical perspectives.
GenEd: D
Three hours lecture per week
Studies processes of global governance, which includes a focus on selected international institutions and the basics of international law.
Three hours lecture per week
Examines power and power structures at all levels of society. The roles of social classes, movements, and institutions in shaping the political process and social influences on political behavior are explored.
Same as SOC 330 GenEd: C3B, D, Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the lives of working people using various thematic approaches and disiplinary methodoligies. Materials included literature, film, and case studies.
Same as ECON 331, ENGL 331, SOC 331, HIST 331
GenEd: C2, D, Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Issues unique to nonprofit organizations including financial, legal, and political.
Same as COMM 333,ECON 333, BUS 333 GenEd: D, Interdisciplinary
Two hours lecture and two hours activity per week.
Explores the themes, issues and processes of politics through an in depth study of selected films. Area of focus varies by semester.
Same as COMM 335
GenEd: D, Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Exploration of environmental politics in both the international and domestic contexts.
GenEd: Interdisciplinary
Same as ESRM 340 GenEd: D,Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing
An interdisciplinary, in-depth study of one or more units of the National Park Service from a variety of perspectives including Political Science, Public Administration, and Environmental Science and Resource Management. The course analyzes how conservation issues and practices, administrative and policy processes and interpretive (educational) programs work within the context of a national public resources agency. Each term this course will focus on one or more park unit in the region.
Same as ESRM 341 GenEd: D, Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the relationship between science, politics, and public policy and prepares students to make informed decisions concerning the societal implications of many rapidly advancing avenues of scientific research.
Same as BIOL 345
GenEd: D, Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Explores how the U.S. Constitution creates and allocates power within the American structure of government. Examines the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the political struggles over the distribution and uses of power in the American Constitutional system.
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the scope of rights and liberties under the United States Constitution. Includes a study of the leading decisions of the United States Supreme Court in this area.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: POLS 103
Examination of how and why states develop distinct foreign policies through review of prominent theoretical perspectives in the comparative foreign policy literature. Application of theories to a number of real world cases of foreign policy decision making by the governments of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, in different issue areas, including national security policy, foreign economic policy, human rights, environmental policy, and the fight against terrorism.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: POLS 150
Explores policy leadership across all levels of society and across educational and political domains. Exposes students to ideas about policy leadership, requiring students to learn about current leaders in the region, the U.S. and abroad as theories and concepts are applied to the real world of politics and policy.
Same as EDUC 404
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: POLS 103
Examines political, economic and social development in developing countries .
Three hours lecture per week
An analysis of the relationship between mass media and political decision-making. Topics covered include: political communication theories and trends, the relationship between political institutions and the press in the US and in other countries, elections, debates, political campaigning and advertising, new media and politics, political socialization, education, politics and popular culture.
Same as COMM 430 GenEd: D, Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisites: POLS 150 for POLS students or Consent of Instructor
Examines the roles of political institutions in education policy making, the political factors that shape policy formulation and implementation, the values and assumptions of different types of policies, and the links between policy and local-level implementation. Analyzes current and pending policies' effect on schools and classrooms to illustrate how education policy reflects American politics.
Same as EDUC 431 GenEd: D, Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Provides practical experience in negotiation and mediation techniques within the context of complex environmental and public policy disputes.
Same as COMM 450, ESRM 450
Three hours lecture per week
In depth analysis of current topics in Political Science. Topics vary each semester. Repeatable by topic
One hour lecture per week and two hours activity per week
Community based service combined with course work and reflection on a topic with political or policy significance.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisites: Consent of Instructor
Community based internship in political science.
Prerequisite: Senior standing or consent of the instructor
Independent research in Political Science conducted under the supervision of a faculty member.
Three hours lecture per week
Integrating and culminating experience in which students work in teams to analyze political or policy issues in a community-based setting.
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