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POLS 3103 Introduction to Political Inquiry Prerequisites: 60 credit hours or 45 hours with GPA of 3.25, including POLS 2113. Description: The scope and methods of political science. Scientific methodology applied to political phenomena, hypothesis, measurement, literature review, research designs, introductory data analysis and writing in political science. Previously offered as POLS 4003. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science POLS 3123 Russian & Eurasian Politics (I) Description: An overview of the major political, social, and economic challenges facing Russia and its neighbors. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science General Education and other Course Attributes: International Dimension POLS 3143 European Politics (I) Description: An overview of the major political, social, and economic challenges facing European countries. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science General Education and other Course Attributes: International Dimension POLS 3163 African Politics (I) Description: An overview of the major political, social, and economic challenges facing African countries. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science General Education and other Course Attributes: International Dimension POLS 3193 Latin American Politics (IS) Description: An overview of the major political, social, and economic challenges facing Latin American countries. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science General Education and other Course Attributes: International Dimension, Social & Behavioral Sciences POLS 3223 Asian Politics Description: An overview of the major political, social, and economic challenges facing Asian countries. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

POLS 3313 Middle Eastern Politics Description: An overview of the major political, social, and economic challenges facing Middle Eastern countries. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science POLS 3353 Political Parties

Description: An examination of political parties, including the role of parties in elections and government, how parties have changed through time, why there are only two major parties in the United States, and what factors influence how parties behave. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science POLS 3423 Voting and Elections Description: Electoral systems and their relationship to political development, political socialization, issue emergence, voting patterns and electoral cycles. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science POLS 3443 Pol Campaigns And Candidacy

Description: Planning, fundraising, targeting, public opinion, support operations, voter contact, the mass media and candidate activities. Previously offered as POLS 3414. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Political Science POLS 3453 The Legislative Process

Description: The power and organization of legislatures, as well as the selection and behavior of legislators. Special attention given to the U.S. Congress. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Political Science POLS 3483 The American Presidency Description: The politics of presidential selection, removal and succession; formal and informal powers of the president; relations with Congress, the national judiciary and national executive branch; proposed reforms and the vice-presidency. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3

Levels: Undergraduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Political Science