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Sep 07, 2024
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2023-2024 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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POS 100 - Introduction to Politics 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods
Issues, principles, and trends in political science. Includes politics and political science, political philosophy and ideology, comparative politics, American national government, and international relations.
Gen-Ed: Meets AGEC - SBS and G; Meets CTE - SBS and G.
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Course Learning Outcomes
- Distinguish between different types of government (constitutional democracy, authoritarian, totalitarian).
- Identify key features of American government.
Performance Objectives:
- Explain what the terms “politics” and “political science” mean as well as subfields of political science.
- Identify key political philosophers and political ideologies.
- Identify features of political development.
- Comprehend key elements of political socialization, interest aggregation, and political participation.
- Classify governments by forms of rule and political structure and give contemporary examples of each.
- Identify key features of American government.
- Identify and explain conceptual approaches, patterns, and trends in international relations.
Outline:
- Politics and Political Science
- Definitions and distinctions
- Political science and its subfields
- Political Philosophy and Ideology
- Overview of political philosophy through the ages
- Ancient political thought
- Early and late modern political thought
- Modern and contemporary political thought
- Political ideologies
- Ideologies and utopias
- Examples of ideologies
- Fascism
- Communism
- Anarchism
- Liberalism
- Conservatism
- Other ideologies
- Comparative Politics
- Classifying governments
- Forms of rule
- Totalitarianism
- Authoritarianism
- Liberal democracy
- Direct democracy
- Representative democracy
- Presidential systems
- Parliamentary systems
- Representatives: trustees or delegates
- Political structures
- Vertical structures: levels of government and their powers
- Unitary states
- Federal states
- Confederations
- Horizontal structures: policymaking institutions
- Executive
- Legislative
- Judiciary
- Bureaucracy
- Linkage institutions
- Parties
- Interest groups
- Elections, including different electoral systems
- Media
- Brief case studies of selected countries
- Global North
- Global South
- Overview of the American National Government
- Beliefs and principles of America’s founders
- Political system and structure
- Historical evolution
- Civil rights and liberties
- International Relations
- Approaches to international relations
- Historical overview
- Realism
- Liberalism/idealism
- Other approaches
- Levels of analysis
- Individual
- State
- Global/system historical and conceptual overview
- Unipolar
- Bipolar
- Multipolar
- Actors in the international system
- Sovereign states
- Nongovernmental actors
- International interest groups
- Multinational corporations
- Terrorist organizations
- Intergovernmental organizations
- Global
- Regional
- Single/multipurpose
- Patterns of interaction
- Cooperation
- Competition
- Conflict
- War
- Global trends
- Promise and limits of international law
- Democratization
- Short term
- Long term
- Globalization’s future
- End of history
- Clash of civilizations
Effective Term: Full Academic Year 2019/2020
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