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Course ID: | INTL 3300. 3 hours. | Course Title: | Introduction to Comparative Politics | Course Description: | Comparative political themes in political science. The transition
from feudalism to capitalism, state building, democracy, and
interaction between political institutions and cultures in
various politics. Examples will be drawn from developed,
communist/post-communist and developing political systems. | Oasis Title: | Intro to Comparative Politics | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in INTL 3300E, INTL 3300H | Prerequisite: | POLS 1101 or POLS 1101E or POLS 1101H or POLS 1101S or INTL 1100 or INTL 1100E or INTL 1100H | Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| Course Objectives: | At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to do
the following: Describe and critique the major approaches to
the study of comparative politics; explain how these approaches
help us understand important aspects in comparative politics
including democracy and democratization, political institutions
and parties, the relationship of states to markets; political
culture, ethnicity and migration. Finally, students will work
with comparative methodologies and approaches and examine two
or more countries in the light of various political theories;
and compare two or more themes and/or functions across
countries. In doing so they will learn more than by studying
these countries or themes separately. | Topical Outline: | Foundations of Comparative Politics
Formation of States and Nations
Industrialization and Democratization
Revolutions and Political Transformation
Comparative Legal Systems
Domestic Institutions and Political Parties
Comparative Elections and Electoral Politics
Environmental Politics | |
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