| Course ID: | INTL 3300E. 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 3300, INTL 3300H |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| 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) |
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| 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 |
| Honor Code Reference: | The academic honesty policy of the university is supplemented (not replaced) by an Honor Code which was adopted by the Student Government Association and approved by the University Council May 1, 1997, and provides: "I will be academically honest in all of my academic work and will not tolerate academic dishonesty of others." All students agree to abide by this code by signing the UGA Admissions Application. |