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• POLS 520: ASI : Area Studies I

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course investigates selected problems of historical and political development in major world areas. Emphasis is placed on political institutions- their background, development and significance.
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• POLS 522: Foreign Travel Study

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course involves travel and possibly study at foreign colleges and universities. The focus will be the history and government of the countries visited, and their economic growth and integration. Emphasis is placed on formal and informal discussion and analysis of contemporary indigenous problems.
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• POLS 523: Seminar in American Public Policy

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course students will analyze the competing proposals and contemporary research addressing the major public policy issues affecting the United States today. Students will be required to ciritcally analyze and debate the course readings with an eye towards identifying the best policies to adopt. Policy topics to be convered in the course include: education, the environment, immigration, entitlement programs and health care reform. The topics covered will change based on the significant policy issues being addressed by policymakers at the time the course is offered.
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• POLS 525: Seminar: Middle East

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course will offer an advanced study and analysis of selected Middle East states. Emphasis will focus on political culture, modernization efforts and nationalism both in terms of regional identity and in terms of its broader international consequences.
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• POLS 526: Environmental Policy & Management

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course addresses both the analytical and empirical components of domestic and international environmental policies and politics. Topics will be examined from both a domestic and international lens including: climate change, biodiversity and environmental management.
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• POLS 528: Compartve Policy Analy

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This seminar concentrates on the theory, techniques, and content of a body of research broadly concerned with factors that determine the variation in patterns of public policy across jurisdictions and over time. Students read materials that focus on how cultures, economic systems, and political institutions differ and how these differences affect public policies.
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• POLS 529: Internatl Polit Econom

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  International political economy (IPE) is concerned with the mutual interactions of political decisions and economic transactions, the so-called market place, in the modern world. This course provides an overview of how political, social, and economic actors and events, domestic and international, public as well as private, shape policies and economic development.
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• POLS 531: Contemp Political Thought

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is a study of Twentieth Century thought concerning the role of the state in society. It includes discussion of ethical as well as pragmatic considerations, analysis and appraisal of liberalism, conservatism, fascism, socialism, communitarianism, multi-culturalism, feminism, and other ideologies. Political structures and functions are considered in connection with social values and objectives.
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• POLS 532: Sem Parties & Politcs

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course analyzes political parties as a part of the political process, political parties as an integral force in society, the transformation of societal values into public policy through the operation of the party system, electoral systems and their relationship to the political system, voting behavior, changing styles in party strategy, campaigning, and suggestions for electoral reform.
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• POLS 533: The Presidency

  3.00 Credits

  East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course is an analysis of the presidency; its nature in both its personal and institutional dimensions; the growth of the office; the politics and problems of seeking the office of the presidency; the President's roles as chief executive, party leader, legislative leader, and leader in the international political system.
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