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DIVISION OF SOCIAL SCIENCES/HUMANITIES INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE POLITICAL SCIENCE 101 (Fall 2003) Professor: Carl Livingston, Jr. Office: 4106h Telephone: 587-2922 Office Hours: By Appointment Instructor's Educational Philosophy: You have arrived at a place that has as its mission providing excellent, accessible educational opportunities to prepare you for a challenging future. We value students personally, the teaching and learning process, diversity and the magic it holds, and partnership with community institutions. The Political Science Department exists to provide excellent study on the ideas, individuals, and institutions that relate importantly to local, national, or international government. The aim is to prepare you for further study, and to promote your civic virtue, so that you may be a more enlightened and caring citizen. All of this is consistent with the broader mission of the concerned dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Dr. Audrey Wright, and of SCCC. Course Description: The course primarily relates to the world of interconnected and interdependent governments in which we live, especially in the context of the nation state. It begins with concepts and class discussion and ends with change and student presentations. We will treat each chapter in the book consecutively and, generally, two of these chapters per week. Course Purpose: This introductory course will provide you the basic nature of national and international governing structures in our world with the view to further your preparation. I have every confidence that it will so prepare you because I believe in students and the power of Seattle Central's learning process. Program Outcomes: After successfully completing this course you will develop the following competencies: *Understand such terms as human polity, democracy, communism, socialism, capitalism, nation state, socialization, media, electorate, political parties, oligarchy, autocracy, parliament, international law, unitary, federal, confederal, multi-national corporation, theocracy, mutual assured destruction, balance of power, regional governmental organizations, and international governmental organizations; *Appreciate the role of the nation state, its expressions of power, acculturation, and vulnerabilities; *Learn the growing regional and international forces connecting and interconnecting peoples and nations; *Become acquainted with the power of economics, religion, nationalism, and militarism in shaping the world; *Respect the process of forging a governmental structure in order to protect the order while promoting the relationships and business of society. Textbook: W. Phillips Shively, Power & Choice: An Introduction to Political Science 8th ed., McGraw Hill. The supplemental reading is Helen E. Purkitt, Ed., World Politics 03/04 Annual Edition, Dushkin Publishing. You are responsible for reading the assigned chapter(s) in preparation for the corresponding class session. Be prepared. Thank you. Supplementary Readings / Audio Video Media: It has been my practice to have at least one supplemental article and to use videos. Course Outline and Due Dates: Week Topic & WP Readings Chapter 1 P&Ch: Setting the Stage 1 WP: Grand Strategy of Transf . . Art 13 2 P&Ch: Modern State & Ideologies 2, 3 WP: Cost of Chaos in Palestine...Art 31 3 Policies and Economics 4, 5 WP: Prisoners of Geography . . Art 8 4 Legitimacy & Democracy 7, 8 WP: Clash of Globalizations ..Art 1 5 Autocratic Government 9 MIDTERM
6 Constitutions 10 WP: Two Ways to Go ...Art 19 7 Elections & Parties 11, 12 WP: Nuclear Nightmares . . . Art 9 8 Conflicts & Parliaments 13, 14 WP: Europe’s Enlargement ..Art 24 9 Presidents & Bureaucracies 15, 16 WP: Real Trans-Atlantic Gap . Art 22 10 Law & Emerging World Order 17, 18 WP: Reforging the Atlantic Alliance...Art 21 11 Catch-up and Review WP: Who Needs the UN...Art 34 NO CLASSES: November 27th and 28th. FINAL: December 12th and 15th, your choice. American Disability Act: If you need reasonable accommodations based on a documented disability, have emergency information to share or require special arrangements in case of emergency evacuation, please make a confidential appointment with me within the first two weeks of class. Methods of Instruction: The professor will employ a variety of teaching methods including lecture, both student and professor facilitated discussion, a paper, student presentations, guest speakers, and films. Group Activities and Attendance: Each week will usually include a seminar on Wednesday which students must participate in by preparing a paper on the assigned readings and by attending class. The specific issue(s) students must write on is (are) listed in this syllabus on the sheet entitled "GROUP ACTIVITY QUESTIONS". Item number one is for week one; number two, for week two; and accordingly. Having already read the assigned readings for the week, you are to consider the group activity question before coming to class. Then write out a 300 word paper in answer to the question so that you will be prepared for Wednesday's group activity. Half the time I will grade your response; the other half, students will comment on each other’s paper as set forth below. You will receive a four out of four if you (1) answered the question with (2) material from the text (with at least three page references), (3) defined two or more key terms, and (4) your answer is at least 300 words in length. Exams: There will be two (2) exams during the quarter. Both exams will cover the textbooks, activity sheet questions, the videos, and at least one of the lectures. The first exam consists of multiple choice questions mainly from the text, short answer summaries of the videos, at least one of the activity questions, and 1 - 2 question[s] on a/the lecture[s]. You will need a pencil and a mini blue book scantron, which you may purchase at the bookstore for about fifteen cents. Exam two, the final, is not comprehensive and is entirely multiple choice and matching questions. Make-up exams are frowned upon, largely due to the disadvantage they pose for those students who did take the exam timely. If you are seriously ill on the day of the exam, it is your responsibility to contact the professor or leave a message with the secretary regarding taking the exam later. Students caught cheating on an exam or leaving with an exam question sheet without the instructor's authorization will receive a failing mark on that exam, and may fail the course. Paper: Students are required to write a 6 - 9 page research paper. Late papers will be graded down ONE HALF TO ONE FULL LETTER GRADE depending on whether the paper is one day late or a week. Ordinarily, late papers will not be accepted after the last day of class. Use MLA style, as many books and scholarly articles as possible, and write in the third person. The paper is due Friday of week nine, November 22nd, when you come to class. Your mission is to explain the nature and dealings of a regional or international governmental organization. Explain the history of the group, how it functions, criticisms of it, and the group's response to the criticism. Examples: NAFTA, European Community, NATO, Commonwealth of Independent States, APEC, ASEAN, OAS, UN General Assembly, UN Security Council, UN Court of International Justice, UN Secretariat, WHO, UNESCO, Trilateral Commission, IMF, World Bank, Amnesty International. A-/A papers will evidence the following: 1. Accurate and current information, including references to recent articles from scholarly journals. 2. Research evidenced throughout the paper to the point of at least 3 MLA cites per page. 3. Clarity and organization, providing a title page, an introduction with a thesis, a developed body, a conclusion, MLA style citations, and a Bibliography. 4. Proper use of grammar and no spelling errors.
Providing a clean, nice looking, developed final paper. Quizzes: The professor reserves to write to have a pop quiz on any day. They will usually be at the top of the hour and cannot be taken late. Percentages: The final course grade is determined according to the following percentages. Midterm Exam 25% Research Paper 25% Response Sheets 25% Final Exam 15% Participation 10% GROUP ACTIVITY QUESTIONS Remember, there usually is no one right answer. Also, if you do not know where to begin, at least define the terms and make an attempt to answer the question. 1. Are cities run by a power elite? Is your view closer to Hunter's, Dahl's, or Digeser's? What do you suppose is the behavioralist view? 2. Which of the following ideologies do you most believe in? Why? Why not the others? Which one is most on the rise? 1. Conservatism 2. Liberalism 3. Socialism 4. Communism 5. Fascism 3. Of the things governments do, which one does it spend more resources on: economic or human development (define these pay paying attention to the sub-headings)? Why? Why not the other? 4. If democracy is on the move world-wide, why is the democratic legitimacy declining in the U.S.: because of something amiss in "authority", "political culture" or "political socialization"? Why? Why not the others? 5. Which systems are most undemocratic, military governments, one-party states, or court politics systems? Why? Why not the others? 6. Which country goes most by its Constitution, which is next, and which, least: Britain, Russia and the U.S. (note the case studies at the end as well as your experience in this country)? Explain. What are centralization and constitutionalism? 7. Why has the PRI been so successful in Mexico; because of mobilization, socialization of leaders, identity, control, organization or money? Why not the others? What does this exercise lead you to think about the Republicans and Democrats in the U.S.? 8. Are interest groups more important than parties in the U.S.? What about in Britain or France? Why? Do parliamentary systems control interest groups more than presidential systems? What is the main advantage that Parliamentary governments have over Presidential systems? What advantage does Presidential systems have over Parliamentary systems? Should we change the U.S. system then? Do you subscribe more to “balance of power theory” (Shively 392), to “regime theory” (393), or Samuel P. Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations” (you find info on Huntington)? We suffer from the lack of central authority in international relations. Can the U.N. be that authority? - - Directory: faculty faculty -> Dsci 3870: Management Science faculty -> Handling Indivisibilities faculty -> Course overview faculty -> Curriculum vitae wei chen professor faculty -> Digital image warping faculty -> Samples of Elements Exam Question III contains All Prior Exam Qs III except faculty -> 【Education&Working Experience】 faculty -> References Abe, M., A. Kitoh and T. Yasunari, 2003: An evolution of the Asian summer monsoon associated with mountain uplift —Simulation with the mri atmosphere-ocean coupled gcm. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 81 faculty -> Ralph R. Ferraro Chief, Satellite Climate Studies Branch, noaa/nesdis faculty -> Unit IV text: Types of Oil, Types of Prices Grammar: that/those of, with revision Download 43.69 Kb. Share with your friends:
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