The American political system: constitutional principles, political processes, and governmental policy making.

Political processes through which rapidly growing problems of the state and local governments are identified, fought over, and resolved.

Comparative analysis of selected political systems. Prerequisite: PLS 105 or consent of instructor.

Recurrent concepts or issues in political thought and ways they have been treated by classic and contemporary writers. Obligation and the social contract, liberty, justice and equality, property, representation.

Introduction to political inquiry; research methods necessary for in-depth research. Prerequisite: PLS 105.

Research and performance laboratory for students who participate in the American Mock Trial Association competition. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 hours credit. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

Topics of special interest which may vary each time course is offered. Topic stated in current Schedule of Classes. May be repeated under a different topic for a maximum 6 hours credit. Prerequisite: PLS 207.

A comparative introduction to the social and economic policies of such advanced industrial democracies as Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United States. Prerequisite: PLS 205.

Overview of theories and issues in international political economy affecting relations among advanced industrialized countries. Development of the international political economy; institutions for its management; emerging issues and future prospects. Prerequisites: ECO 222; PLS 208; or consent of instructor.

Research and performance laboratory for junior and senior students who participate in the American Mock Trial Association competition. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 hours credit. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor; junior/senior standing.

A study of the basic issues and techniques of public personnel administration: focus on the distinctive setting in which public managers function, theories of motivation in the work place, and the tasks commonly faced by human resource managers in the public sector. Prerequisite: junior standing.

An examination of the modern administrative state through an in-depth study of the federal regulatory process; administrative law and procedure; the politics involved in the development and reform of the federal regulatory bureaucracy. Prerequisites: PLS 105; junior standing.

Supreme Court as one of the policy making agencies of the federal government. Relationship between citizen and government in civil, property, and political rights. Prerequisite: PLS 105; junior standing.

Students work with selected political agencies, to study practical political problems from the perspective of the discipline. Course may be repeated for a maximum of six credit hours. Pass/Fail. Prerequisite: consent of the instructor.

Individual research for qualified students. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 hours credit. Prerequisites: 3.2 average in student's major; junior/senior standing; consent of instructor.

Prerequisites: senior standing; major or minor in political science. No political science major may take more than two courses in the 490 sequence.

Prerequisites: senior standing; major or minor in political science. No political science major may take more than two courses in the 490 sequence.

Individual in-depth work on a subject approved and supervised by a PLS faculty member. For highly qualified students. Prerequisites: senior standing; political science major; consent of instructor.