2010. American Government and Politics.
Three credits. Constitutional principles, functions, and administration of American federal government; Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court. Meets the General Education Requirement in Social/Behavioral Sciences.

2020. State and Local Government.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 2010. Politics and administration at the state and local level. Legislative, judicial, and administrative structures and processes; major issues and problems. Familiarizes pre-law students with general law office procedures and an active law environment.

2100. Legal Courtroom Procedure.
One credit. For students interested in developing trial advocacy skills; practical course offering preparation for mock trial competition. May be repeated for up to three hours credit. Pass/Fail.

2105. Introduction to Latin American Politics
Three credits. (Same as SPAN 2105, SOC 2105, ART 2105, ANTH 2105, GEOG 2105.) A multidisciplinary, team-taught introduction to Latin America. Covers the cultures and societies of the region: pre-history, history, geography, politics, art, languages, and literatures. Required course for all Latin American Studies minors.

2120. Mediation Procedure
One credit. Prerequisite: P S 2440 or permission of department chair. For students interested in developing skills as a mediator and an advocate in mediation settings. Practical application of theories, methods, and ethical components of mediation. Participation in intercollegiate mediation competition. May be repeated for up to four hours of credit. Pass/Fail.

2130. Model United Nations/Crisis simulation
One credit. For students interested in developing skills in negotiation and conflict resolution involving international issues. A practical application of negotiating skills, policy process, and understanding of international conflicts and problems through participation in intercollegiate MUN/crisis simulation competition. Course may be repeated for up to 4 hours of credit.

2440. Law and the Legal System.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 2010. A general introduction to American law and the American legal system; focus on the case system.

3010. Women and the Law
Three credits. Prerequisite: P S 1010 or 2010 or permission of the department chair. Analysis of the legal treatment of women in the home, school, and workplace. Examines development of law, relationship of law to political movements, and current state of law and legal theory on women's rights and gender equality.

3050. The U.S. Presidency.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or permission of instructor. A comprehensive analysis of the presidency; includes origins of the presidency, political power, the nature of the institutionalized presidency, campaigns and elections and a careful look at selected presidents.

3060. The U.S. Congress
Three credits. Prerequisite: P S 2010. An analysis of the United States Congress; its origins, political power, the nature of the institutionalized Congress, campaigns, and elections.

3100. Politics and Film
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or PS 2020 or premission of instructor. Analysis of political ideas as expressed in motion pictures. Topics include leadership, political biographies, campaigns and elections, ideology, and war.

3160. American Public Policy.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010. Examines the public policy-making process in the United States, the stages of policy development and the problems inherent in policy making. At least one substantive policy area examined in depth; examples: health care, environmental, welfare, agricultural, poverty, or budgetary policies.

3170. Civil Rights and Politics
Three credits. Assesses the institutional impact—past and present—of the civial rights movment on American political institutions (the presidency, Congress, the courts, the executive cabinets, the administrative regulatory agencies, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights). Events and topics include the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1991 Civil Rights Act, voter dilution, felony disenfranchisement and sentencing disparities, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, disability rights, gender discrimination, and majority-minority congressional districts.

3200. British Government and Films
Three credits. Prerequisite: P S 1010 or 2010 or permission of instructor. The evolution of parliamentary government in the United Kingdom and its current distinctive characteristics, processes, and functions in contrast to other parliamentary regimes.

3210. International Relations.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. The state system and national power, balance of power, balance of terror, game theory, psychological aspects of international conflict, decision making, diplomacy and negotiation, war, disarmament, and collective security.

3220. International and Comparative Politics in Theory and Practice
Three credits. Prerequisites: P S 1010 and 3210. A reading and discussion seminar; theoretical approaches to studying international relations and comparative politics. Offers preparation for upper-division international relations and comparative politics courses; helps in choice of career goals.

3250. Public Administration.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010. Fundamentals of public management--organization, leadership, policy making, planning, budgeting, personnel, administrative law, bureaucratic behavior.

3260. Applied Public Administration.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 3250 or permission of instructor. Emphasizes selected issues, agencies, and problems. Normally entails the application of administrative concepts to administrative problems and learning by doing.

3320. Public Opinion.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010. The nature of public opinion and its role in the political and social process. How opinion is shaped, created, and measured.

3330. Political Parties.
Three credits. The nature of democracy, politics, and political parties, party organization and role in government; campaigning; primaries, conventions, general elections, the Electoral College; voting behavior and pressure groups.

3340. Political Campaign Management
Three credits. Prerequisite: P S 1010 or 2010 or permission of instructor. An analysis of applied politics; how to plan and manage a modern political campaign. Readings, discussions, and hands-on projects; students will learn the strategies, tactics, and varied techniques of political campaigning.

3350. Interest Groups and Social Change
Three credits. Prerequisite: Upper-level standing required. Examines role of interest groups in American politics and the policy-making process, including the role of lobbyists, money, and politics, and case studies of severalspecific interest groups.

3370, 3380. American Constitutional Law.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 2010; PS 2440 is recommended. The Supreme Court as a policy-making body in the governmental system. Emphasis on case studies in major areas of conflict including federalism, civil liberties, criminal procedure, and economic regulation. 3370 is a prerequisite to 3380 unless permission of instructor is obtained.

3400. Municipal Government.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010. Powers, functions, and politics of municipal governments from the standpoint of city management. Attention is given to problems related to the execution of municipal policy. *

3420. African American Politics
Prerequisite: P S 2010 or permission of instructor. The unique history, content, and form of African American political participation; examines the nature of consequences of African American influence within, or exclusion from, the workings of various American political institutions; the nature and types of issues that influence contemporary discussions in American and African American politics related to the socioeconomic conditions of African Americans. Students who have taken P S 4390 Special Topics (Black Politics in America) may not take P S 3420 for credit.

3440. Governmental Budgeting and Finance Administration.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010. Analysis of the legal and social nature of government budgets emphasizing the procedures and administrative methods of fiscal control. Budget documents at state and local levels.*

3490. Alternative Dispute Resolution
Three credits.Prerequisite: P S 2440 or permission of the department chair. Theory, methods, and ethical components of alternative dispute resolution (ADR); emphasis on various forms of mediation, but including other ADR formats such as arbitration, negotiation, and summary jury trial.

3500. International Law.
Prerequisite P S 1010 or 2010. General principles of modern international law taught by the case study method in a seminar format encouraging debate and discussion. Issues concerning the development of international law and human rights will be studied.

3510 . International Political Economy.
Three credits. Prerequisites: PS 1010 and 3210 or permission of instructor. The relationship between politics and economics in international affairs and its implications for global peace, security, ecology, and social welfare.

3530 Legal Writing and Research.
Three credits. Prerequisite: junior standing . A specialized composition course for the student planning to attend law school or paralegal school to become a legal secretary. Practice in legal research, documentation, and a variety of legal problems.

3780. Study Abroad.
Three or six credits. Prerequisite: P S 1010 or permission of instructor. Supervised study in a foreign country; familiarize students with foreign cultures and political systems. Three to six hour classes may be repeated once if of destination varies. No more than 6 hours may count toward a political science major. Pass/Fail.

3790. Eastern European Politics
Three credits. Prerequisite: P S 1010. Emphasis on the comparative analysis of structures, functions, and aspects of Latin American political cultures and systems.

3910. International Organization.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010; PS 3210 recommended. Development and prospects of the United Nations Organization and its major approaches to peace--pacific settlement, collective security, international law, arms control, trusteeship, preventive diplomacy, international conferences, functionalism. *

4000. Quantitative Methods of Research.
Three credits. Prerequisite: 9 hours of political science. Fundamentals of quantitative methods in empirical research problems in the social sciences.

4020. Political Science Laboratory.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 4000 or permission of instructor. Studies of a research, statistical, data processing, or simulation nature as related to political and social questions.

4030. Human Rights. 
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. Fosters critical thinking about human rights by developing skills in weighting powerful but opposing arguments in complex moral situations. Familiarizes students with the role of both national and international organizations in global politics..

4040. Pre-Law Internship.
One credit. Prerequisites: Senior standing, competitive selection, P S 2440, or by permission of instructor. Familiarizes pre-law students with general law office procedures and an active law environment.

4050. Introduction to City and Regional Planning.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010; PS 2020 recommended. Analysis of the basis of particular forms in urban settlements and regions; introduction to planning history, theory, methods, processes, and current trends.

4070. Political Violence and Terrorism.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or permission of instructor. Examines political violence, including assassination, terror, repression, and genocide, in comparative and international perspectives. Theoretical and case study approaches used to examine forms, goals of, tactics, and responses to political violence.

4110. Quantitative Methods of Research.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 4000. Intermediate quantitative methods.

4120. Tennessee Government.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 2010; PS 2020 recommended. Structure, functions, and processes of Tennessee's governmental and political institutions. Policy issues studied.

4126. Contemporary Issues in World Affairs.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010; PS 3210 recommended or permission of instructor. Issue oriented; explores and analyzes the leading issues facing the international community and actions that various actors in world politics have employed to deal with the issues and with what results.

4180. African Politics.
Three credits. (Same as AAS 3180.) Prerequisite: PS 1010. Introduction to the comparative study of the political systems, modernization efforts, and development problems of countries with different traditions or colonial pasts, selected from the continent of Africa.

4190. Middle East Politics.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. Emphasis on the Palestinian question; the Arab-Israeli wars; the role of the United Nations; conflict between and among the Arab nations; the various peace initiatives that have been proposed

4200. Problems in Government.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010 and at least 12 hours of political science. Work done under the close direction of a professor on a tutorial basis. Student expected to present a sound proposal for departmental consideration and acceptance before enrolling in this class.

4210. International Conflict: Causes, Consequences, and Responses. 
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010; PS 3210 recommended. Theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding the causes of interstate war, intrastate war, and transnational terrorism as well as the social consequences of and policy responses to international conflict.

4220. World Politics.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010; PS 3210 recommended. Experiencing contemporary international politics through the medium of simulation. Particular focus areas include the U.S., F.S.U., People's Republic of China, the Middle East, South Asia, and Southern Africa.

4230. Classical Political Theory.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010. Western political theory from the ancient Greeks through the medieval Christians.. Includes Sophocles, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, stoicism, skepticism, Lucretius, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas More.

4240. American Foreign Policy.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010; PS 3210 recommended. Foreign policies in the nuclear age from Kennan and Containment to the present with particular emphasis on contemporary problems and policies.

4250. U.S. National Security Policy.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010; PS 3210 recommended. The concept of national security, nature of the U.S. security experience, decision making process, policy-making process, threats to security, and analysis of specific policy areas such as military and strategic doctrines, force postures, arms control, and budgetary decisions.

4260. The Political Status of Women in the World.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2020 or WMST 2100. Considers both developed and developing countries. Emphasizes ferment and change in the twentieth century in terms of emergent concepts of equality; highlights effects of religion, economy, culture, and psychological behavior on the politics of male-female relationships.

4270. Political Campaign Internship
One to six credits. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing, P S 2010, and a 2.50 minimum GPA. Students work for a political campaign as an employee under the joint administration of the campaign and the department. Only six hours may count toward a political science major and three hours toward a political science minor. Arrangement for this course must be made in advance. Pass/Fail.

4280. The Washington Experience
Twelve credits. A cooperative program with the Washington Center that provides for student service with a governmental office in Washington, D.C., on a full-time basis during the fall or spring semester. On-the-job training will be supplemented with lectures and other activities. Students selected on a competitive basis. Only six hours count toward a political science major.

4290. Public Service Internship.
Three to twelve credits. Prerequisite: Junior standing and a minimum 2.50 GPA. Student assigned to a public service agency as an employee under the joint administration of the agency and the department. Only six hours may count toward a political science major. Arrangement for this course must be made in advance. Pass-Fail course.

4300. Comparative European Governments.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. Comparative analysis of the governmental forms and practices of England. France, Germany, the European community, and others

4310. Comparative Asian Governments.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. Comparative analysis of the governmental forms and practices of China, Japan, and India

.4360. Legislative Internship.
Twelve credits. A cooperative program with the State of Tennessee that provides for student service with the legislature on a full-time basis during the Spring Semester. Students selected on a competitive basis. Only six hours may count toward a political science major.

4390. Special Topics in Political Science
Three credits. Prerequisite: P S 1010 or 2010 or permission of the instructor. An in-depth study of a special topic significant in contemporary political developments or political science literature. May be taken more than once, as topics change, with up to six credit hours applied to a Political Science major.

4410. American Political Economy.
Three credits. Interaction of politics and economics in the United States. Three primary topics: (1) the connection between the American political system and the U.S. economic goals and performance; (2) the relationship between the American state and private economic interests in determining American economic and business policies; (3) the politics surrounding the major current economic issues facing America.

4590. Administrative Law.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 2010; PS 3250 recommended. Procedural aspects, substantive issues, judicial review of the type of law concerned with the powers and procedures of government agencies and the rights of citizens affected by them.

4630. Personnel Management.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 3250 or permission of instructor. Human resources administration in government agencies. Patterns of position classification, compensation, recruitment, selection, training, performance appraisal, promotion, discipline, separation, collective bargaining. *

4690. Comparative Foreign Policies and International Relations of the Middle East. 
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010, 3210, 4190, or MES 2100. Examines framework within which to understand Middle East international relations. Includes Arab/Israeli conflict; oil and Middle East international relations; political Islam; the war on terror; and United States, European, Chinese, and Russian policies in the Middle East.

4700. American Political Thought.
Three credits. Prerequisite P S 2010. Major thinkers and movements in American political thought from colonial times to the twentieth century with special emphasis on the thoughts of the framers of the American Constitution and their contemporaries.

4770. Russian Politics. 
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. The formation and evolution of the Russian state from the pre-Communist to the Soviet (Communist) and post-Soviet stages of its development.

4800. Senior Seminar.
Three credits. Prerequisites: PS 1010, 2010, and senior standing. A reading and discussion seminar in which each of the seven sub-disciplinary areas of political is looked at to broaden the major's knowledge of the scope and literature of the discipline.

4900. Latin American Politics.
Three credits. Emphasis on the comparative analysis of structures, functions, and aspects of Latin American political cultures and systems.

4920. Modern Political Theory.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010 or 2010. Western political theory from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Includes Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, J.S. Mill, Marx and Engels, Kierkagaard, Nietzsche, facism, existentialism, Strauss, Arendt, and contemporary thought.

4930. Introduction to Contemporary Political Philosophy.
Three credits. Prerequisite: PS 1010. Aims to foster critical thinking about contemporary political philosophy by introducing students to four main approaches: Aristotelianism, Utilitarianism, Contractarian Liberalism, and Marxism. Familiarizes students with certain philosophical arguments about important issues in both national and global politics such as multiculturism, justice, democracy, and freedom.

Courses marked with an * are Offered infrequently.

Courses in Paralegal Studies [PLEG]

3010. Litigation.
Three credits. Prerequisites: PS 2020 and 2440. Legal procedures required for introducing and pursuing cases in the judicial.

3410. Family Law.
Three credits. Prerequisites: PS 2020 and 2440. The law of marriage, divorce, child custody and support, adoption, paternity, and related issues.

3420. Torts.
Three credits. Prerequisites: PS 2020 and 2440. The law of injury to legally protected interests in personal safety, liberty, and property.

4010. Internship.
Three credits. Supervised work in a law office or agency as a paralegal assistant.