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University of Washington - Introduction to Politics (5) I&S

Political problems that affect our lives and shape the world around us. Offered: AWSpS.
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University of Washington - Introduction to Political Theory (5) I&S

Philosophical bases of politics and political activity. Provides an introduction to the study of politics by the reading of a few books in political philosophy. Organized around several key political concepts, such as liberty, equality, justice, authority, rights, and citizenship. Offered: AWSpS.
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University of Washington - Introduction to American Politics (5) I&S

Institutions and politics in the American political system. Ways of thinking about how significant problems, crises, and conflicts of American society are resolved politically. Offered: AWSpS.
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University of Washington - Introduction to International Relations (5) I&S

The world community, its politics, and government. Offered: AWSpS.
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University of Washington - Introduction to Comparative Politics (5) I&S

Political systems in a comparative framework. Traditional and contemporary approaches to the study of governments and societies in different countries. Offered: WSp.
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University of Washington - Political Science as a Social Science (5) I&S,QSR

Methodological perspectives of the various social science disciplines: commonalties and differences in assumptions, values, and paradigms. Current issues from the multiple perspective of social sciences; limits of the social sciences in resolving key social issues. Offered: W.
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University of Washington - Philosophy of Feminism (5) I&S

Philosophical analysis of the concepts and assumptions central to feminism. Theoretical positions within the feminist movement; view of the ideal society, goals and strategies of the movement, intersections of the sex-gender system with other systems of oppression. Offered: jointly with PHIL 206/WOMEN 206.
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University of Washington - Introduction to Labor Studies (5) I&S

Conceptual and theoretical issues in the study of labor and work. Role of labor in national and international politics. Formation of labor movements. Historical and contemporary role of labor in the modern world. Offered: jointly with HIST 249/SOC 266
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University of Washington - Introduction to Political Economy (5) I&S

Political economy as a tool for understanding and evaluating the political world. Combines theory, methods, and insights derived from economics and political science and applies them to a range of substantive issues.
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University of Washington - The Concept of Political Power (5) I&S

How to understand and explain relationships of power. Readings from Marxism, Weberian sociology, anarchism, classical political philosophy, and contemporary political science. May also include works of fiction.
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University of Washington - Introduction to American Political Culture (5) I&S/VLPA

Introduction to the methods and theories used in the analysis of American culture. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to American literature, including history, politics, anthropology, and mass media. Offered: jointly with ENGL 251.
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University of Washington - Special Topics in Political Science (2-5, max. 10) I&S

Examines a different subject or problem of current interest with the discipline.
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University of Washington - Topics in Political Theory (5, max. 10) I&S

Study of topics in political theory. Recommended: POL S 101, POL S 201, POL S 202, POL S 203, POL S 204, or POL S 205.
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University of Washington - Public Policy Formation in the United States (5) I&S

Policy decision making with emphasis on: how issues arise, the way they become part of the policy agenda of the executive and the legislature, how these institutions organize to handle policy issues, and the roles of the legislature, the executive, and the bureaucracy. Public policy literature and familiarization with key aspects of policy decision making at the national, state, and local levels.
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University of Washington - The Press and Politics in the United States (5) I&S

Journalists' role in elections and public policy. Relationship between news coverage and political campaigns. Study and analysis of local political newswriting, reporting, and response by local and state political figures. Extensive off-campus experience included. Offered: jointly with COM 304.
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University of Washington - The Politics of Mass Communication in America (5) I&S

Role of mass audiences in politics from the standpoint of the communication strategies used to shape their political involvement. Topics include: social structure and political participation, political propaganda and persuasion, the political uses of public opinion, and the mass media and politics. Offered: jointly with COM 305.
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University of Washington - Media, Society and Political Identity I&S (5)

Explores how society and culture are both represented in and shaped by communication technologies and media content. Media include film, advertising, news, entertainment television, talk shows, and the Internet. Explores how media represent and affect individual identity, values, and political engagement. Offered: jointly with COM 306.
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University of Washington - The Western Tradition of Political Thought, Ancient and Medieval (5) I&S

Origin and evolution of major political concepts from ancient Greece to the medieval period, from Thales through Aquinas.
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University of Washington - The Western Tradition of Political Thought, Pre-Modern (5) I&S

Continuation of 308, treating materials from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, Machiavelli through Rousseau.
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University of Washington - The Western Tradition of Political Thought, Modern (5) I&S

Continuation of 308 and 309, focusing on material from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, from Rousseau through Lenin.
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University of Washington - Individual and the State (5) I&S

Individualism and communitarian critics. Political and ethical implications of both. Nature of the state, liberty, responsibility, cooperation. Important individualist and collectivist literature, dealing with market institutions and citizen politics, critically assessed.
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University of Washington - Women in Politics (5) I&S

Theoretical, historical, and empirical studies of women's participation in political and social movements. Women's diverse efforts to improve their political, social, and economic status. Policy issues of particular concern to women. Women's political experiences in household, local, regional, national, and international arenas Offered: jointly with WOMEN 313.
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University of Washington - African-American Political and Social Thought (5) I&S

Race relations in U.S. politics as defined by the struggle of African Americans for economic, political, and social equality. Studies of African-American political and social thought; expands and clarifies our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of American democratic ideals.
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University of Washington - The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States (5) I&S

Introduction to the history and development of racial hierarchy, focusing on how race and ethnicity shape political institutions (e.g., the Constitution, political parties, voting systems). Examination of political relationships between Whites, African Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans. Case studies of minority representation and the politics of welfare, crime, immigration, and terrorism. Offered: jointly with LSJ 331.
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University of Washington - American Political Thought I (5) I&S

Major thinkers and themes in American political and cultural development from Puritan origins to the Civil War.
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