1982-1983 SENATE DOCUMENT #17 APC DOCUMENT #15 CATALOG REVISIONS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Program A - Political Behavior The purpose of this program is to prepare students for graduate school and teaching at the college level. I. Required courses in the major: 36 hours, including 100 and 105 (6 s.h.) and 490. II. Required courses outside of major: Statistics 125; Computer Science 141. III. Foreign language requirement: Students may enroll in one of the foreign language options for non-science majors (see All-University Requirements). Statistics 125 and Computer Science 141 will count toward the foreign language option. IV. Special departmental requirements: Senior Demonstration of Competency to be met by a satisfactory completion of 490. Program B - International Relations This program is multidisciplinary in its approach. It serves the needs of men and women contemplating professional careers in the Foreign Service, the United States Information Service, multinational business corporations, the intelligence community, or teaching international relations. I. Required courses in the major: 24 hours, including 100, 105, 490, fifteen additional hours chosen from 266, 280, 347, 364, 365, 380, 382, and 384. II. Required courses outside the major: 12 hours chosen from a departmental list of approved courses. Further study in foreign language is strongly recommended. III. Foreign Language requirement: competency at the intermediate level in a modern foreign language. Page 2 IV. Special department requirements: Senior Demonstration of Competency, met by satisfactory completion of 490. At least 18 of the 36 hours required in I and II above must be at the 300 level or above. Program C - Politics and Law The purpose of this program is to prepare students for law school and law enforcement positions. I. Required courses in the major: 30 hours, including 100, 327, 328, 384,and 490. II. Required courses outside the major: 18 hours, consisting of Management 215, Philosophy 305, History 101 and 102, and Classics 112, and Economics 201. III. Foreign Language Requirement: foreign language options for non-science major are allowed (see All-University requirements). The Latin course required in II above will count toward this requirement. Classics 222 is also suggested, as well as Philosophy 101 and 102. IV. Special departmental requirements: Senior Demonstration of competency, met by satisfactory completion of 490. Program D - Political Journalism The purpose of this program is to prepare students for careers in print and electronic journalism. Since much of journalistic reporting concerns political events, this program will furnish the student with the background to understand these events. I. Required courses in the major: 27 hours including 100, 105, 323, 325, 328, and 490. II. Required courses outside the major: 16 hours in Communications including 221; 305 or 401; 395, 396 or 397; and 405. III. Foreign Language requirement: foreign language options for non-science majors are allowed (see All-University requirements). IV. Special departmental requirements: Senior Demonstration of Competency, met by satisfactory completion of 490. Page 3 Program E - Public Policy and Administration This program prepares students for employment with local, state and national governments, such as city and county managers. Students interested in business careers may expand the nine-hour requirement to a minor in management (see p. ). I. Required courses in the major: 27 hours, including 100, 105, and 490 (9 s.h.); 18 hours chosen from 226, 321, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 350, and 351. II. Required courses outside the major: 18 hours: Management 304 and 305; Economics 200 and 310; Statistics 125; Computer Science 141. III. Foreign Language requirement: foreign language options for non-science majors are allowed (see All-University requirements). Statistics 125 and Computer Science 141 will count toward this requirement. IV. Special departmental requirement: Senior Demonstration of Competency met by satisfactory completion of 490. Program F - Political Science with Teacher Certification Teacher certification in Social Studies is available by majoring in Political Science Program plan B and completing certification requirements for Social Studies as listed in the Education Department. Rationale for Political Science Courses The department traditionally has offered two programs, Political Behavior and International Relations. For the most part, both programs envisioned a graduate degree for the participant. As the characteristics of our economy and interests of our students have changed, these two programs alone no longer meet the needs of the department. Political Science continues to be the most popular pre-law major for law school applicants. Program C will permit a student to enroll in the four law-oriented courses offered in the department in addition to other courses that will help him or her prepare for the LSAT. Program D is intended for the student planning a career in journalism that focuses on coverage of political events. By keeping the requirements at a minimum, students are free to select other courses that supplement their individual interests. Public Policy and Administration represents the subject of most intense interest in the discipline at the present time. Program E will take advantage of this current fad. Page 4 Courses Delete: Political Science 345, 420, 422, 445, 460, 466, 480 and 482. Add: 490 Senior Research Seminar (3) A research seminar in which a student conducts a supervised investigation of his own choosing. The result is a major research project which is read by all members of the department. Prerequisite: Political Science 100 or 105 and nine additional hours; Senior standing. Add: 384 International Law (3) A study of the history of international law. The contributions of theorists since Greece and Rome to the present day wll be analyzed. Prerequisite: Political Science 105. Add: 380 Politics of National Defense (3) A detailed examination of America's strategic and conventional military policy, the political forces which shape it, and its effects on American society. Prerequisite: Political Science 100 and 280 or instructor's permission. Add: 420 Mass Political Behavior in the United States (3) An advanced seminar covering various topics including public opinion, voting behavior, electoral strategies, and political organizations such as parties and interest groups. Prerequisites: Political Science 100 and 226. Add: 425 Elite Political Behavior in the United States (3) An advanced seminar in the decision-making institutions in America's political system. Focuses on Presidential, Congressional, and Bureaucratic decision-making with special emhasis on the interplay between institutional forces and personal preferences. Prerequisites: Political Science 100. Political Science 321 and 326 recommended. Add: 250 Bureaucracy (3) A study of the formulation and administration of policy: how the bureaucracy formulates proposals for legislative bodies and how it interprets and implements laws. Prerequisite: Political Science 100. Page 5 Add: 310 Public Policy (3) A study of specific policies at the national level. Current issues will be selected which serve as case studies of interest groups parties, bureaucracy, executive, legislative and judicial influences. Prerequisite: Political Science 100. RATIONALE: These courses will replace, in part, the deleted offerings. Since some of the department's faculty are teaching in the Humanities and Management Departments, not as many courses are needed. The omnibus research seminar (490) replaces four separate, more focused, research seminars whose enrollments have been small. This seminar will be rotated among the department's members, but each member will read the papers written. The simulation program will now be shifted to the individual high schools to administer. Dr. Farzanegan will continue to conduct the competition, but the training of the participants will no longer be the responsibility of the department. Thus, 345 and 445 are no longer needed. CHANGE: Political Science 226 - from American Political Culture: Parties, Voters, and Elections to Elections in America (title change only). RATIONALE: Economy of words. Add: "Prerequisite: Political Science 100" to 226, 242, 321, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 350, 351. Add: "Prerequisite: Political Science 105" to 266, 280, 364, 365, and 382. Add: "Prerequisite: Political Science 100 or 105" to 347. Add: "Or Communications 105" to 323, 325, and 328. RATIONALE: We are ascribing a minimum of prerequisites. Political Science has traditionally been an "open" discipline, inviting lateral entry of students from related disciplines (such as history and sociology). At the same time, we see a need for basic knowledge of the discipline's terminology and concepts.