3.00 Credits
(Global Studies Intensive Course). This is an introductory course about world politics. The central purposes of the course are two-fold. First, the course is designed to acquaint students with the major trends, relationships, events, ad dilemmas of contemporary world politics, which will have a significant impact on their lives and future. Secondly, the course will introduce the theories of international politics that have been developed by political scientists and other analysts of world politics. (Global Studies and Social Science General Education Course). Distance Learning version of RPO102 to be offered as an "On-line" course in which more than 80% of the instruction will be completed outside of the classroom.