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POLS 300 - The World Since 1945
Unit(s): 4
An interpretive political history of the world since 1945, focusing on major actors, events, and international affairs, Western and non-Western. Cross-listed with HIST 300. Offered every other year.
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POLS 301 - Early Amer Pol & Legal Thought
Unit(s): 4
A critical examination of the origin, nature, and development ofAmerican political thought from the founding(s) to 1865. Central themesinclude the relationship between the individual and the politicalcommunity, the tensions between equality and liberty, and the meaning ofdemocracy. Offered every other fall.
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POLS 302 - Mod Amer Pol & Legal Thought
Unit(s): 4
A critical examination of the nature and development of American political thought from the Civil War to the present. Central themes include the tensions between democracy and capitalism, the role of race, ethnicity and gender in political life, and the development of the American empire. Offered every other spring.
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POLS 307 - The Socialist Tradition
Unit(s): 4
Cross-listed with Humanities Honors 336. Must be in Honors Humanities Program or have permission of the instructor. Seminar examines the key writings of the Socialist tradition in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere around the world. Readings will include classic works of Socialist non-fiction and fiction, Socialist biography and autobiography, and Socialist perspectives on areas such as art, music, literature, film, photography, community, work, gender, race, class, and political consciousness. Socialism’s historic development and impact and its present condition will also be examined. Offered every other Spring.
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POLS 308 - Literature & Political Thought
Unit(s): 4
Examines the relationship between politics and literature. Readings include works of literature by writers chiefly known for their political writings (Machiavelli and Montesquieu) and literary works that speak to central political issues (works by Shakespeare, Melville, Morrison, Kundera, DeLillo). Central questions include: What can literature teach us about political life and power? How can writing serve as a means of resisting or eroding power? Offered every other year.
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POLS 310 - Politics, Film and Hollywood
Unit(s): 4
Course explores the relationship between politics, movies and the Hollywood film industry. Students will examine the political history of Hollywood movies, explore the politics in those films, and how Hollywood has influenced American and foreign politics. Issues considered include censorship, war and Cold war, terrorism, race, class, gender, political ideology, genre politics, law, religion, science, sports, and the American dream. Film series will accompany the course.
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POLS 311 - China Today
Unit(s): 4
This cultural diversity immersion class explores Beijing - the heart and soul of China - to understand its current influence in the world. We experience China’s complex culture, economy, politics, business, and society. Please contact professor to find out about the program cost.
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POLS 312 - Philippines Today
Unit(s): 4
This is an intensive service learning and cultural diversity justice immersion class on the Philippines. During Philippines Today, you will experience the Philippines’ rich and complex environment, culture, economy, politics, and society firsthand. An overriding theme for the service learning immersion is the Philippines rural and urban environment, particularly in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan, and the social justice work that still needs to be done.
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POLS 314 - Citizenship & Globalization
Unit(s): 4
Study of theory and practice of modern democracies, with an emphasis on recent democratization. Topics include causes of democratization, threats to newly formed democracies, and consolidation of democratic regimes through building state institutions and constitutional structures, designing electoral systems and political parties, establishing civilian control over the military, and creating democratic culture. Other topics include the relation between economic development and democratic consolidation, and between globalization and democratization. Course assesses the state of democracy throughout the world, and explores what democracy should mean today. Offered every other year.
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POLS 315 - Race & Ethnicity/Global Pols
Unit(s): 4
Examines a variety of social science methods and their application to the study of the politics of race and ethnicity in American society. Four general cases are examined: African-Americans, American Indians, Asian-Americans, and Hispanic/Latino-Americans. Offered intermittently.
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POLS 316 - Law, Politics, and Baseball
Unit(s): 4
An examination of the relationship between sports and politics, and of the evolution of the American political economy through the lens of baseball. Using the fictional and non-fictional literature of the national pastime, the course will examine the origins, history and contemporary state of the American dream. The U.S. national pastime will be used to reflect on issues of class, gender, race and ethnicity, law and society, foreign policy, labor-management conflicts, and the evolving political economy. Legal cases and debates will be used, in particular, to examine these themes.
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POLS 317 - Religion & Politics
Unit(s): 4
The study of the linkages between religion and politics. Religion as a political construct and as an instrument of power in society. Is religion simply a matter of faith? Is it only personal or is it the opiate of the masses? Given the political capital of religion in modern society, is it even possible to maintain the great wall of separation between church and state? Course will focus on the writings of Montesquieu, Marx, Jefferson, David Walker, Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hannah Arendt. Individual and group projects will be employed. Offered every year.
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POLS 318 - Great Trials in America
Unit(s): 4
This course is an examination of a number of the most famous trials in America, focusing on the legal significance, historical and political context, social implications, and media coverage surrounding each case. These trials show how courtrooms cope with unresolved community anxieties and how they make legal decisions that change the way Americans think about themselves. How do such trials mushroom into major public dramas with fundamental ideas at stake? At what point does overexposure undermine a trial’s role as a legal proceeding? Course materials will include selected readings from texts and from actual trial transcripts, together with a series of videos providing extensive archival footage of the specific trials studied. Class sessions will include discussions of the facts of each case, the manner and impact of the media coverage, and the social, political, and legal consequences of the trial.
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POLS 319 - From Baroque to Enlightenment
Unit(s): 4
Cross-listed with Honors Humanities 326. Must be in Honors Humanities program or have Permission of Instructor. Works of principal eighteenth century French, English and American studies on the nature of human society are read and discussed. Eighteenth century art, literature and music, especially the opera, are examined as well. Offered every other year.
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POLS 320 - Urban Politics
Unit(s): 4
Examines urban politics in 20th century America. Topics and issues include: machine and reform politics, federal intervention, the dependent city, and urban economic development; the impact of race, ethnicity, and class; pro-growth politics; housing policy and homelessness, city finances and service delivery, crime, transportation policy, urban violence, community control movements, and black political ascendancy. Offered every other year.
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POLS 321 - American Presidency
Unit(s): 4
An analysis of presidential politics, constitutional functions and personalities. Assessments of the elective process, policy-making, leadership, power relations, and past and future directions. Offered every other Fall.
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POLS 322 - Politics of American Justice
Unit(s): 4
Evaluation of justice and injustice in the U.S. system, stressing political, economic and social issues, the legal process, crime and victimization, and the relationship between political economy and human rights. Offered every Fall.
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POLS 323 - Lawmaking
Unit(s): 4
How a bill becomes a law is examined from the perspective of the institutions and individuals that participate in that process. Focusing on the U.S. Congress, the course covers such topics as elections, institutional change, issues of representation, and the implications for policy. Offered every other Fall.
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POLS 324 - African-American Politics
Unit(s): 4
This course surveys African-American political activity and the politics of race in the United States, primarily in the 20th century. Topics to be covered include: black city politics; blacks and American political institutions: law and the courts, Congress, the Presidency; political mobilization in the post-World War II era; popular movements for civil rights, black power, and community control; as well as electoral politics, its promises and consequences. Offered every other year.
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POLS 325 - Latino Politics in the U.S.
Unit(s): 4
Examination of contemporary Latino political communities in the U.S. Field-based research project required. Offered intermittently.
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POLS 326 - Politics & the Media
Unit(s): 4
A critical overview and evaluation of U.S. media, emphasizing their political, social and economic foundations and influences; their impact on American politics, life, culture and consciousness; and media alternatives. Offered every other year.
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POLS 328 - Politics of 60’s in America
Unit(s): 4
Examines both the political thinking and the political activity which strongly challenged the stability of the American system during the 1960s. Includes detailed analyzes of the various civil rights struggles of the ‘60s as well as the anti-Vietnam War and counter-culture movements. Offered intermittently.
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POLS 329 - Women & American Politics
Unit(s): 4
Historical and contemporary focus on the way women have influenced and participated in American politics. Includes women as voters and as office holders, as well as women’s influence on public policy areas such as social welfare, war and peace, suffrage, ERA, and affirmative action. Offered intermittently.
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POLS 330 - Crime, Law & Constitution
Unit(s): 4
Examines the procedural and substantive meanings of the concept of due process of law found in the 5th and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution and the other Bill of Rights provisions that protect people accused of crime. Course will analyze a series of landmark Supreme Court cases on this subject, the response to those decisions, and their impact on criminal justice and law enforcement. Offered every other year.
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POLS 331 - Latin American Politics
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the major economic, cultural, and institutional factors that shape contemporary Latin American politics, including the role of the United States, the changing international economy and its impact on public policy and political behavior. Offered every other year.
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POLS 333 - American Political Thought
Unit(s): 4
A critical examination of the origin, nature, and development of American political thought from the founding to the present. Central themes include the relationship between the individual and the political community, the tensions between equality and liberty, and the meaning of democracy. Offered every other year.
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POLS 335 - Pol Power & Constitutional Law
Unit(s): 4
The politics of constitutional history and development, including the constitutional framing, Supreme Court policy-making, and the clash of constitutional rights versus political and economic power. Course will examine 19th and 20th century legal conflicts over federalism and the separation of powers, and over property, privacy, criminal justice, and the war powers. Course will also feature case studies of American political trials and the treatment of constitutional liberties during both hot and cold wars. Offered every other year.
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POLS 336 - Race, Equality & the Law
Unit(s): 4
Explores the historical relationship of race and ethnicity to the law, the courts, and the judicial system of the U.S. Course will examine the competing definitions of equality, and how certain concepts have predominated from the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and in Supreme Court decisions, including landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education, the impact of the law on African-American, Asian-American, Latino-American and Native-American communities, from the grassroots and lower courts to national legal policy making. The legal writings of W.E.B. DuBois, Mary Francis Berry, Derrick Bell, Angela Davis, Thurgood Marshall and others will be emphasized. Offered every other year.
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POLS 337 - Women & the Law
Unit(s): 4
This course surveys the relationship of women to American law. Topics examined include legal issues related to employment and education; constitutional issues such as the equal protection clause, sex as a semi-suspect classification, the politics of ERA, and Roe v. Wade and the issue of abortion; family law: marriage, divorce, and other arrangements; sexual harassment; criminal law and juvenile delinquency; the crime of rape and its treatment in American law and courts; women as lawyers and judges; and the impact of race, sex, identity, ideology, and the women’s movement on issues of women and the law. Offered every other year.
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POLS 338 - Gender/Pol Comp Persp
Unit(s): 4
This course explores how political phenomena, from the state to public policy, are informed by gender inequality. It also surveys how people have fought discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual preference. Throughout, case studies from the developed and developing world are integrated with service learning experiences.
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POLS 339 - Free Expression/Constitution
Unit(s): 4
This course examines the politics of constitutional law, focusing on the scope, meaning, and practice of individual rights and liberties in the American political system. The course primarily concerns the First Amendment’s protection of free speech, free press, assembly, and religious freedom. The course examines issues such as flag burning, pornography, hate speech, censorship, school prayer and regulating the internet. Offered every other year.
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POLS 340 - Pol/Change in Russia/Neighbors
Unit(s): 4
Investigates the reasons behind the collapse of the Soviet Union. Describes and analyzes the challenges facing post-communist Russia and nearby states, including Ukraine, Belarus, and the states of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Evaluates progress towards creating economic prosperity and political democracy, focusing on both domestic and foreign policies. Offered every other year.
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POLS 341 - Nonviolence in Theory/Practice
Unit(s): 4
An examination of the theory and practice of nonviolence and nonviolent action and related movements for social change, including the secular and religious foundations of pacifism as well as the ethical and utilitarian bases of nonviolent political movements. Offered every other year.
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POLS 342 - Politics & Society in Europe
Unit(s): 4
A comparative analysis of the political cultures, institutions, and societies of contemporary European states. Emphasis on post-Cold War developments leading to the erosion of regional differences in Europe, but also on forces that reflect residual nationalisms. Course will include case studies of selected individual European states. Offered every other year.
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POLS 343 - Pol/Change in East-Cent Europe
Unit(s): 4
Studies the political traditions of the region, including the post-war communist experience. Explains the upheavals of 1989, including the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Discusses post-1989 efforts to reform economies and political systems, and create Western style democracies. Focuses on the re-emergence of nationalisms in the region, particularly in the Balkan states. Offered every other year.
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POLS 345 - Global Economic Justice
Unit(s): 4
This course offers a critical inquiry into the politics, economics and ethical questions regarding inequality, poverty, population growth, the environment, globalization, energy consumption and related issues, with special attention given to relations between countries of the North (industrialized countries) and the South (the Third World). Offered every other year.
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POLS 347 - Politics of China and Japan
Unit(s): 4
A study of the emergence of modern East Asia; political changes in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan after 1945; survey of international developments. Offered every other year.
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POLS 348 - Pols/Develop in Africa
Unit(s): 4
This course surveys the organization and diversity of African states, especially in the post-colonial period. Topics include: the impact of European colonialism and neocolonialism, nationalism and revolution, problems of nationhood and governance, ethnic conflict, obstacles to sustainable economic development, political change in South Africa, emerging democracy movements throughout the continent, and U.S. policy towards the region. Offered every other year.
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POLS 349 - Govt/Pols of the Middle East
Unit(s): 4
An overview of the politics and the governmental systems of Middle Eastern nations, including the historic, religious, ideological, economic and cultural forces that shape government policies, social movements and ongoing conflicts. Topics include the role of Arab nationalism, Zionism, human rights, the Islamic resurgence, terrorism, imperialism and globalization. Offered every other year.
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POLS 350 - Int’l Law & Organizations
Unit(s): 4
A study of the influence of law on the relations of nation-states; a survey and assessment of the activities of international and transnational organizations. Offered every other year.
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POLS 351 - Global Conflict Resolution
Unit(s): 4
An overview of differing approaches to international conflict resolution and various institutional actors in the process. Includes an examination of some of the major current and recent conflicts in the world and efforts to resolve them. Offered every year.
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POLS 352 - Human Rights/Global Change
Unit(s): 4
Domestic and global human rights, and their role in a changing world order. Impact of governments, multinationals, churches, universities, and human rights advocates on political and economic development, and the level of repression in the world. Strategies for global justice and change, with a focus on human rights activists and movements. Offered every year.
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POLS 353 - Politics of War & Peace
Unit(s): 4
An examination of the causes of war in relations among and within nation-states; a study and evaluation of efforts to create lasting peace through diplomacy and political action. Offered every other year.
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POLS 354 - Int’l Relations/Middle East
Unit(s): 4
An examination of the foreign relations of Middle Eastern governments, including the impact of pan-Arab and pan-Islamic movements, international terrorism, the United Nations, Western intervention, and the politics of oil. Case studies include the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and the role of Iran. Offered every year.
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POLS 355 - United States Foreign Policy
Unit(s): 4
Studies the American foreign policy tradition as well as the evolution of the leading institutions of foreign policy-making, including the office of the President, and executive agencies such as the State Department, the Pentagon, and the CIA. Examines the roles of Congress, interest groups, and public opinion on foreign policy. Discusses select issues of contemporary significance in U.S. foreign policy. Offered every other year.
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POLS 357 - Integration of Europe
Unit(s): 4
Analysis of efforts reducing national barriers and creating common institutions and supra-national authorities in Europe since the 1950s. Attention paid to the impact of the fall of communist states, the reunification of Germany, and contemporary crises in the European community. Offered every other year.
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POLS 359 - Int’l Politics/Asia Pac Rim
Unit(s): 4
A study of the foreign relations of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam from the 19th century encounters with Western powers and each other through the late 20th century. An analysis of post-war U.S.-China, Sino-Soviet, U.S.-Japan, divided Korea, revolutionary Vietnam, and other selected international relationships. Offered every other year.
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POLS 360 - Global Environmental Politics
Unit(s): 4
In Global Environmental Politics we consider the international law and institutions which make up the international environmental regime. We will examine global action on such issues as climate change, species extinction, and pollution, while also considering the relationship between policy made at the global level and environmental action at the local level. These classroom topics are enhanced by a service learning project with a local environmental organization.
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POLS 362 - Public Policy
Unit(s): 4
Unravel the world of public policy–how it is formulated, implemented, changed, evaluated. Emphasis on understanding the role played by the political institutions and on learning about subtle interplay between institutions and the public. Homelessness, punishment, welfare, and illegal drugs are among the issue areas used as case studies. Offered every other year.
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POLS 363 - Housing & Homelessness Policy
Unit(s): 4
Course focuses on problem of homelessness and evaluates homeless public policy, examining how the homeless are defined and counted, exploring the various paths to homelessness and appreciating the impact of race, gender and the globalization of the economy.
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POLS 364 - California Politics
Unit(s): 4
An examination of the role of state governments in the setting and implementing of public policy. The course will discuss the structural context of state politics, state institutions, and focus on specific policy areas such as education financing, health care, and welfare. Offered every other year.
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POLS 365 - Applied Policy Analysis
Unit(s): 4
Applied Policy Analysis is an opportunity for students to work as part of a research team using the tools of policy analysis to analyze real life problems. Students will participate in all stages of a research project from defining its objectives to reporting on the findings. Offered every other year.
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POLS 366 - Intro to Environmental Policy
Unit(s): 4
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the processes, participants, and institutions that surround the making and implementing of environmental policy. It combines lectures, case studies, and some ‘hands on’ field exercises to illustrate how these elements interact. Cross Listed With: ENVA - 366.
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POLS 367 - Public Policy: Drug Policy
Unit(s): 4
This course focuses on how the government has responded to the problem of illicit drugs to illustrate how policy is made in the U.S. It will also examine methods used to evaluate public programs. Topics include how drug policy intersects with issues of crime, sport, race and class, foreign policy and civil liberties. Offered every other year.
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POLS 368 - Public Policy: Punishment
Unit(s): 4
This course emphasizes the process of social science research while focusing on issues of demographic incarceration patterns, constitutional ‘rights of the accused,’ and the history of punishment in the U.S. from the 17th century to the present. Particular attention given to the ‘prison-industrial complex’ which has emerged with the ‘crack epidemic’ and the ‘war on drugs’ initiated at the national policy level. Offered every other year.
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POLS 369 - Asia Advocacy/Activism
Unit(s): 4
Asia Advocacy and Activism is a unique USF service learning and cultural diversity fieldwork course that immerses the student in advocacy, action, and activism among San Francisco¿s Asia and Asian American social justice organizations. The first part of the course discusses critical issues concerning international and transnational relations of Asia and Asian Americans. The second part exposes students to the influence and consequences of the Asian diasporas through Asiatown ethnotours and fieldwork activities. The third part of the course requires the student to perform faculty supervised political action, community advocacy, or public service that relates directly to the social justice worlds of Asians in North America and elsewhere.
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POLS 370 - USF in DC: Seminar
Unit(s): 4
USF in Washington DC program seminar course
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POLS 371 - USF in DC: Internship
Unit(s): 8
USF in Washington DC program internship course
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POLS 372 - USF in DC: Research
Unit(s): 4
USF in Washington DC program research course
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POLS 373 - USF in DC: Elective
Unit(s): 4
USF in Washington DC program elective course
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POLS 375 - USF in Sacramento
Unit(s): 1 to 4
USF in Sacramento program service learning course
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POLS 378 - U.S. Middle East Policy
Unit(s): 4
Examines the recent history and current manifestations of U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, including the ¿war on terrorism,¿ the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Iraq, the confrontation with Iran, oil interests, non-proliferation issues, Islamic movements and related topics. Offered every other year.
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POLS 380 - Soc Just & Israel-Palestine
Unit(s): 4
In examining this conflict through the lenses of social justice and activism, this course de-exceptionalizes this ostensibly exceptional struggle, empowering students to understand ways to end conflicts that plague those living in Israel, Palestine, and beyond. We will explore ideas such as communal narratives, human rights, power, and sovereignty.
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POLS 381 - Feminist Intl Relations
Unit(s): 4
This course introduces students to the subfield of feministinternational relations. Its goal is to question prevailing conceptionsof world politics, to examine feminist challenges to the discipline ofInternational Relations and to develop gender-sensitive ways of thinkingabout issues of identity, security, the political economy and globalviolence.
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POLS 382 - Pols of Intl Aid & Development
Unit(s): 4
This course is a critical exploration of the premise and implementation of international development activities. It will examine the theoretical concept of development and then delve into topics including; sustainability, environmental impacts, governance and corruption, bilateral and unilateral foreign aid, and international aid bureaucracies.
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POLS 383 - Theories of Intl Relations
Unit(s): 4
This class prepares students to think in a theoretically-informed manner about International Politics. While it also introduces students to some major theoretical orientations in the field (including Realism, Liberalism, Marxism, Post-colonialism, Feminism, Post-structuralism, and Constructivism), it is concerned with raising larger questions about the nature of inquiry in International Relations: What counts as knowledge? Whose knowledge counts as International Relations? It also encourages students to realize, and critically examine, how their own approaches to politics are already shaped by different theoretical orientations.
Prerequisite: POLS 113 with a minimum grade of C or POLS 203 with a minimum grade of C or BAIS 102 with a minimum grade of C
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POLS 390 - Filipino Pols/Justice
Unit(s): 4
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POLS 392 - Special Topics in Politics
Unit(s): 2 to 4
This courses focuses on special subjects and issues of politics. It may be repeated for credit when a different subject is the focus. Offered intermittently.
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POLS 393 - Boxing & Social Justice
Unit(s): 4
Boxing and Social Justice is a unique combined recreational sports, cultural diversity, and service learning course. After the fundamentals of Filipino studies are reviewed and reinforced, students will be trained to teach boxing as a recreational and self-defense activity to at-risk new migrant populations in the San Francisco Bay Area. They will act as mentors, tutors, and service providers. Immersed at their service learning sites, students will reflect on the health, recreational, social, economic, and political issues new migrants to the United States face. Prerequisite: YPSP 222: Philippine Boxing and Culture or instructor’s permission.
Prerequisite: YPSP 222 or ANST 222
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POLS 395 - Politics Lab
Unit(s): 4
In this laboratory course, students will examine the politics of income inequality in the United States and across the world. Students will learn about the process of conducting social science research, and design their own projects.
Prerequisite: POLS 100 and POLS 110
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POLS 396 - Public Admin Internship
Unit(s): 4
Students do interesting work six to ten hours per week in a federal, state, or municipal agency, giving them a chance to strengthen their skills, and network. They will prepare journal themes, read relevant assigned material, and meet every two weeks in a seminar. Permission of the instructor required. Offered every semester.
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POLS 397 - Fieldwork in Pub Int Org
Unit(s): 4
Field placement with Bay Area public interest groups, including peace, human rights, legal, media, and community organizations. Students work 6 to 8 hours per week, complete common readings, and write final reports. Offered every semester.
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POLS 398 - Directed Study
Unit(s): 1 to 4
The written permission of the instructor and dean is required. Offered every semester.
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POLS 399 - McCarthySFUrban Policy Fellows
Unit(s): 6
This Community Engaged Learning course provides a select group of undergraduate student “fellows” the unique opportunity to study San Francisco’s political economy and culture through a practicum in a local government office and a parallel academic seminar on the history and workings of the City and County. In addition to a fellowship placement, guest speakers, and field trips, academic work for the course emphasizes background and context to appreciate municipal policy and operations including relationships between government, business, philanthropy, non-profit organizations, and community organizing.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior
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POLS 450 - Pol Economy/Developing Nations
Unit(s): 4
A study of theory and methodology of competing political-economy approaches to development. Topics include: role of the state and market in development, roots of the poverty problem, multinationals, foreign aid, debt-crisis, gender, the role of the World Bank, the IMF, and sustainable development. Offered every other year.
Restriction: Class restricted to Junior and Senior
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POLS 494 - Senior Public Serv-Honors Sem
Unit(s): 4
This seminar examines the role of public service in our society. It explores themes such as what motivates individuals to serve, do individuals have an obligation to serve, and what is the role of the government in encouraging/coercing service. Students will have the opportunity to complete an original piece of research in the form of a senior thesis. Enrollment is limited to students enrolled in the McCarthy Center Honors Minor program or with instructor permission. Offered every other fall.
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POLS 495 - Senior Pol - Honors Seminar
Unit(s): 4
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PORT 101 - First Semester Portuguese
Unit(s): 4
The first of a two-semester sequence for students with no previous Portuguese instruction in which students complete three semesters in two, this course emphasizes the development of communication skills and acquisition of basic vocabulary. Classroom activities, daily homework, compositions, and weekly quizzes reinforce grammatical structures. The conversation component promotes student comprehension of native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and develops student fluency.This course includes a mandatory one-hour weekly group conversation class with a tutor for nine weeks of the semester outside of the class meeting time.
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PORT 102 - Second Semester Portuguese
Unit(s): 4
The second semester of a two-semester sequence in Intensive Portuguese, this course places increased emphasis on reading skills and writing competence. Using news sources, Brazilian music and film, short stories, and cultural readings, the course presents increasingly specialized vocabulary in context. Exams, compositions, and daily homework enhance student engagement with the readings. The conversation and audio components promote student comprehension of native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and help students build fluency and confidence.This course includes a mandatory one-hour weekly group conversation class with a tutor for nine weeks of the semester outside of the class meeting time.
Prerequisite: PORT 101
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PORT 201 - Third Semester Portuguese
Unit(s): 4
Students continue to develop reading, speaking and writing skills, and expand their active vocabulary. The class is conducted in Portuguese, with activities designed to practice and consolidate all language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Cultural readings are assigned to expand vocabulary, stimulate discussion, and broaden students’ understanding of the Hispanic world.
Prerequisite: PORT 101 or PORT 102
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PORT 315 - Brazilian Lit in Translation
Unit(s): 4
This course surveys works of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries. The texts, representing different genres, are viewed in their historical, cultural, social, and aesthetic contexts. Themes include colonialism and empire, race, negritude, and slavery.
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PORT 398 - Dir Reading & Research
Unit(s): 1 to 6
Majors initiate and complete a significant reading and research project under the direct supervision of faculty.
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PC 600 - Foundations of Communication
Unit(s): 3
In this foundational course, students will survey the history and utilization of communication theories that inform the diverse ways in which we communicate across contexts–public and professional. This class provides the essential theories and concepts needed for further study in the program.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 602 - Ethics in Prof. Communication
Unit(s): 3
The course is designed to give students the opportunity to grapple with ethical issues embedded in case studies and personal experiences in the professional, strategic, and technical communication realms, as well as developing an understanding of and applying critical perspectives and professional codes of ethics.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 604 - Research Methods
Unit(s): 3
This course will engage these questions by drawing upon interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies at the intersections of Communication Studies and Professional Communication research. We will discuss and explore the major theories and debates in the field broadly as we write and present graduate-level academic papers using visual texts and other rhetorical sources. This course offers a practical, “hands on” approach to reading, writing about, and responding to writing in the Communication Studies and Professional Communication. It also helps students learn to ask questions that scholars in the field ask, and to craft graduate-level responses to these questions. We will focus on designing studies, conducting research, analyzing qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods data, and presenting results. We will cover various industry-related research methods and work on survey design, focus groups, usability experiments, and data analysis. Guest lectures from faculty representing various departments and disciplines at USF and the community will provide firsthand observations about industry experiences as well as the research and writing process.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 606 - Rhetoric Seminar
Unit(s): 3
The Seminar in Rhetoric offers specialized research in communication topics. Course may be repeated for credit. This course serves as an elective for the Professional Communication Certificate Program (PCCP) and the Masters of Arts in Professional Communication (MAPC).
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 608 - Capstone/Culminating
Unit(s): 3
The capstone project/culminating experience is a required course for the Masters of Arts in Professional Communication (MAPC). Projects range from theoretical to practical in application. Course is three (3) units.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 620 - Strategic Communication
Unit(s): 3
The course identifies, reviews and studies the processes and decision-making behind successful strategic communication strategies in industry-related fields.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 622 - Leadership and Communication
Unit(s): 3
Study of leadership and communication strategies within organizations, focusing on strategic communication planning. Examines leadership theories, communication models, and explores relationship between organizational leadership and communication.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 624 - Crisis Communication
Unit(s): 3
This graduate course is intended to provide students with an understanding of the framework and tools necessary to successfully address communications in a variety of crisis situations. Through discussion of theory, analysis of case studies, and role-playing activities, students will be asked to think strategically, make recommendations to address crisis-related challenges, and develop robust, proactive plans to assist organizations in this arena. In short, students will gain the expertise and confidence needed to maneuver through myriad potential crisis situations today’s organizations and individuals will encounter.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 626 - Communication and the Law
Unit(s): 3
This graduate course introduces students to the legal, ethical and policy matters related to professional communication.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 628 - Cross-Cultural Business Comm.
Unit(s): 3
This course emphasizes the skills and values crucial to communicating with diverse audiences across languages and cultures. This course helps students critically understand how the global shift in economic and political power dynamics impacts professional communication across languages and cultures.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 629 - Reputation Management
Unit(s): 3
This course examines the fundamental role communication plays in creating and maintaining organizational reputation.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 630 - Technical Communication
Unit(s): 3
This graduate course focuses on applying the historical, theoretical and professional practices of technical communication. Students may choose between academic, intern, work and field work-related projects.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 632 - Digital Communication
Unit(s): 3
Students will learn the practices of digital design and communication by producing several major documents (at least one of them collaboratively) typically used in professional and technical environments. Students will also develop skills in editing for correctness, clarity, and appropriateness of style and tone based on audience and context.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 634 - Usability Testing/UX Research
Unit(s): 3
This graduate course focuses on applying the theoretical, practical and professional metrics of usability testing and user experience research. Students may choose between academic, intern, work and field work-related projects
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate; Field of Study restricted to Professional Communication Major
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PC 636 - Emergent Media and Technology
Unit(s): 3
This graduate course focuses on the theoretical, academic, and practical training applications of emergent media and the communication regarding digital and speculative technology from a UX, usability and/or communicationperspective.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 638 - Digital Storytelling
Unit(s): 3
In Digital Storytelling, we will study theories and examples of what constitutes effective narratives and will learn photographic, video and podcasting techniques that put our learning into practice. Projects will use multimedia storytelling sharable with a general audience.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 640 - Health Communication
Unit(s): 3
This course provides the knowledge and skills required for effective health communication that covers a wide range of professional contexts. We will learn how to design, communicate, and evaluate effective public health messages.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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PC 642 - Risk Communication
Unit(s): 3
This course examines the foundational knowledge and ethical skills for effective risk communication and explores the nature of risk, risk perceptions, harm reduction, decisionmaking, theoretical perspectives on risk communication, and application of these theories to risk communication efforts.
Restriction: Level Restricted to Graduate
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