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2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


*LCCN indicates Louisiana Common Course Number.

 

Physics

  
  • PHYS 291 - Seminar I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Departmental interdisciplinary seminars, guest speaker lectures, and student research presentations.

  
  • PHYS 292 - Seminar II

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Departmental interdisciplinary seminars, guest speaker lectures, and student research presentations.

  
  • PHYS 301 - General Physics III

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Modern Physics, Schroedinger theory, one-dimensional wells and barriers.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202  or PHYS 204  
  
  • PHYS 311 - General Physics Laboratory III

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 216 
    Corequisite(s): PHYS 301 
  
  • PHYS 312 - General Physics Laboratory IV

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 3
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 216 
    Corequisite(s): PHYS 301 
  
  • PHYS 320 - Physics for Elementary School Teachers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Designed for and limited to the practicing elementary or middle school teacher. Emphasis in this lecture/demonstration course is to offer hands-on experience with apparatus and techniques designed for teaching physics concepts to elementary (6-8 grades) students.

  
  • PHYS 323 - Classical Mechanics I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Theoretical foundations of classical mechanics, Newtonian and Lagrangian formulations.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202  or PHYS 204  AND MATH 302  or MATH 310  
    Pre/Corequisite(s): MATH 350 
  
  • PHYS 324 - Electricity and Magnetism I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Classical theory of electrostatic and magnetostatic fields.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 323  
  
  • PHYS 352 - Optics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Interference, diffraction, polarization, lasers.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202  and MATH 350 
  
  • PHYS 391 - Seminar I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Departmental interdisciplinary seminars, guest speaker lectures, and student research presentations.

  
  • PHYS 392 - Seminar II

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Departmental interdisciplinary seminars, guest speaker lectures, and student research presentations.

  
  • PHYS 405G - Thermodynamics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Development of the laws of classical thermodynamics from the statistical mechanics of atomic systems. Applications of classical thermodynamics and quantum statistical mechanics.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202 
  
  • PHYS 411G - Computational Physics Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2 Lab Contact Hours: 2
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Exploration of advanced problems in physics using multimedia software and utilization of Internet resources.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 301  and PHYS 323 
  
  • PHYS 420G - Physical Acoustics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Introduction to physical phenomena related to the propagation of acoustic waves through matter. Topics include vibrational motion, plane waves, reflection and refraction at interfaces, spherical waves, absorption of sound, and applications of acoustics.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202  or PHYS 208 , and MATH 302  or permission of instructor required
  
  • PHYS 423G - Classical Mechanics II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics of mechanical systems, continuum mechanics, special relativity.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 323  
  
  • PHYS 424G - Electricity and Magnetism II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Classical electrodynamic theory including Maxwell’s equations for variable fields, electromagnetic waves, and radiation fields.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 324  
  
  • PHYS 437G - Quantum Mechanics I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Modern approach to quantum mechanics via Dirac’s formalism. Stern-Gerlach experiments and spin statistics. Angular momentum. The harmonic oscillator. Central potentials. Schroedinger and Heisenberg pictures.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 301 ; MATH 350  
  
  • PHYS 438G - Quantum Mechanics II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Multiparticle systems. Elements of quantum computing and spin systems. Perturbation theories applied to the hydrogen atom and quantum transitions. Quantum scattering. Quantization of the electromagnetic field.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 437G  
    Restriction(s): If prerequisite not met permission of instructor required

  
  • PHYS 440G - Nuclear Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Nuclear properties, models, reactions and instrumentation. Nucleon-nucleon forces, radioactive decay, radiation safety, high energy physics.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202  and MATH 350 
  
  • PHYS 450G - Solid State Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Crystal structure, crystal diffraction, lattice vibrations, electrons in metals and semiconductors, other physical phenomena in solids.

    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 202  and MATH 350 
  
  • PHYS 460G - Topics in Advanced Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Content varies. Alternate subtitles will appear on transcripts.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • PHYS 461 - Directed Individual Study I

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Independent study and research under faculty direction.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.

  
  • PHYS 462 - Directed Individual Study II

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Independent study and research under faculty direction.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor.

  
  • PHYS 471G - Physics for Secondary Teachers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Limited to and designed for the practicing secondary science teacher. Emphasis on the further development of the teacher’s understanding of physical phenomena and the demonstration techniques of presenting such phenomena.

  
  • PHYS 472G - Physics for Secondary Teachers II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Limited to and designed for the practicing secondary science teacher. Emphasis on the further development of the teacher’s understanding of physical phenomena and the demonstration techniques of presenting such phenomena.

  
  • PHYS 473G - Physics for Elementary Teachers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

    Limited to and designed for the practicing elementary teacher. Emphasis in this lecture/demonstration course is on the enhancement of the teacher’s understanding of basic physical principles and their relationship to the experiences of typical elementary physics students.

  
  • PHYS 491 - Seminar I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

  
  • PHYS 492 - Seminar II

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

  
  • PHYS 497 - Senior Research I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 9
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

  
  • PHYS 498 - Senior Research II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 9
    General Education Core Curriculum: Natural Sciences, Physical Sciences

  
  • PHYS 502 - Quantum Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Schroedinger theory, angular momenta, identical particles and atoms, time-independent and time-dependent perturbation theory, interaction of radiation with atoms and collision theory.

  
  • PHYS 503 - Statistical Mechanics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Survey of ensembles with applications to physical problems with emphasis on the gaseous state.

  
  • PHYS 504 - Electromagnetic Theory

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Introduction to advanced electromagnetic theory with special emphasis on static and stationary charge systems, Maxwell’s equations.

  
  • PHYS 521 - Topics in Applied Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Subtitles with the specific topic taken will appear on students’ transcripts. Content varies.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated for credit.

  
  • PHYS 523 - Topics in Computational Physics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Subtitles with the specific topic taken will appear on students’ transcripts. Content varies.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated for credit.

  
  • PHYS 571 - Physics for Secondary Teachers III

    Credit Hours: 1-6
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-6 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Pre-service and in-service secondary school physics teachers. Includes the presentation of innovations for teaching physics in a high school setting. Cannot be taken for more than 6 credits.

  
  • PHYS 591 - Seminar I

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Research presentations by outside speakers and physics faculty members. Required for all graduate students.

  
  • PHYS 592 - Seminar II

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Research presentations by outside speakers and physics faculty members. Required for all graduate students.

  
  • PHYS 594 - Research

    Credit Hours: 3-6
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3-6 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Required for the non-thesis option master students only.

  
  • PHYS 595 - Capstone Seminar III

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Research presentations by outside speakers, physics faculty members, and physics graduate students. Required of all graduate students.

  
  • PHYS 596 - Capstone Seminar IV

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Research presentations by outside speakers, physics faculty members, and physics graduate students. Required of all graduate students.

  
  • PHYS 597 - Directed Individual Study I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Credit towards the degree requirements is 3 hours unless a written justification requesting 6 hours is accepted by the Graduate School.

  
  • PHYS 598 - Directed Individual Study II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Credit towards the degree requirements is 3 hours unless a written justification requesting 6 hours is accepted by the Graduate School.

  
  • PHYS 599 - Thesis Research and Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3-9
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3-9 Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • PHYS 899 - Examinations Only

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Course required for all graduate non-thesis students who are taking examinations, oral and/or written, and are not registered for any other course.


Political Science

  
  • POLS 101 - Intro to Political Science

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Political Science as a discipline. Overview of subfields, careers, and research and writing in the discipline.

    Restriction(s): Political Science majors only

  
  • POLS 110 - U.S. Government

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Intensive study of the beginnings, structure, and functions of the United States Government.

    LCCN: CPOL 2013
  
  • POLS 111 - Honors U.S. Government

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Intensive study of the beginnings, structure, and functions of the United States Government.

  
  • POLS 210 - American Politics and Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Study of institutions, political actors, and levels of government in the United States and its policy processes, decisions, and outcomes they produce.

  
  • POLS 220 - World Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Selected political systems from among the Democratic states, the Communist (and former Communist) bloc, and the Third World.

    LCCN: CPOL 2213
  
  • POLS 221 - Honors World Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Selected political systems from among the Democratic states, the Communist (and former Communist) bloc, and the Third World.

  
  • POLS 305 - Issues in Politics

    Credit Hours: 1
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Designed to acquaint students with a wide-range of short topics. Subtitles will appear on transcript. Content varies.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated. No limitations on repeating if content is different.

  
  • POLS 313 - Louisiana Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Louisiana politics with focus on elections, institutions, personalities, and political cultures that distinguish Louisiana from other southern states.

  
  • POLS 317 - State and Local Government

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Governmental forms and problems of states, counties, and municipalities. Special reference to state, parish, and municipal problems of Louisiana. Formerly POLS 217.

  
  • POLS 318 - Honors State and Local Government

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Governmental forms and problems of states, counties, and municipalities. Special reference to Louisiana.

  
  • POLS 330 - Political Parties

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Study of the nature, functions, development and operations of political parties in the United States.

  
  • POLS 333 - Politics and Media

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Role of mass media as an institution of United States democracy.

  
  • POLS 334 - Honors Politics and Media

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Role of mass media as an institution of United States democracy.

  
  • POLS 335 - Campaigns and Elections

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Examination of the nomination of candidates, election campaigns, and voting patterns in elections.

  
  • POLS 336 - Honors Campaigns and Elections

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Examination of the nomination of candidates, election campaigns, and voting patterns in elections.

  
  • POLS 340 - Public Administration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Structure, functions, and organization of administrative bodies, dynamics of administration, fiscal and personnel management, federal-state administrative relations, and the control of administration.

  
  • POLS 341 - Honors Public Administration

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Structure, functions, and organization of administrative bodies, dynamics of administration, fiscal and personnel management, federal-state administrative relations, and the control of administration.

  
  • POLS 360 - International Relations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Introduction to the study of power in the international arena, including relations of commerce and conflict as well as global norms and institutions. Formerly POLS 260.

  
  • POLS 361 - Honors International Relations

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Political system, power, alliances, use of force and war, and conflict resolution and arms control.

  
  • POLS 364 - Global Security and Conflict

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    International and civil wars, diplomacy, terrorism, weapons, control and proliferation, and security institutions.

  
  • POLS 365 - Honors Global Security

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    International and civil wars, diplomacy, terrorism, weapons, control and proliferation, and security institutions.

  
  • POLS 366 - United States Foreign Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Forces, processes, and contexts that shape United States foreign policy.

  
  • POLS 367 - Honors United States Foreign Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Forces, processes, and contexts that shape United States foreign policy.

  
  • POLS 370 - Political Philosophy: Thinkers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Examination of a selection of major thinkers in ancient and modern political philosophy.

  
  • POLS 371 - Honors Political Thinkers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Examination of a selection of major thinkers in ancient and modern political philosophy.

  
  • POLS 375 - Religion and Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Relationship between religion and politics. Political and religious theory, history, law, faiths and practices, individual and group behavior, religious elites and institutions, and public policy issues.

  
  • POLS 376 - Honors Religion and Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Relationship between religion and politics. Political and religious theory, history, law, faiths and practices, individual and group behavior, religious elites and institutions, and public policy issues.

  
  • POLS 381 - Judicial Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    The role of courts in politics, including their impact on participants, institutions, and processes of decision-making in the American judicial system.

  
  • POLS 382 - Intro to Law & Legal Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Introductory study of law, theories for how to interpret law, and how law can inform society and decision-making.

  
  • POLS 383 - Honors Law & Legal Reasoning

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Study of law, theories for how to interpret law, and how law can inform society and decision-making.

  
  • POLS 384 - Mock Trial

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Trial court procedures and practices through experimental learning and competitive techniques.

  
  • POLS 385 - Moot Court

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Written and oral legal arguments at the appellate court level. Emphasis on experimental learning and competitive techniques based on the U.S. Supreme Court rulings and practices.

  
  • POLS 386 - Honors Moot Court

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Written and oral legal arguments at the appellate court level. Emphasis on experimental learning and competitive techniques based on the U.S. Supreme Court rulings and practices.

  
  • POLS 387 - Constitutional Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Major Supreme Court decisions interpreting constitutional limits on the powers of, and relations between, branches and levels of government in the U. S.

  
  • POLS 388 - Honors Constitutional Law

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Major Supreme Court decisions interpreting constitutional limits on the powers of, and relations between, branches and levels of government in the U. S.

  
  • POLS 389 - Honors Judicial Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    The role of courts in politics, including their impact on participants, institutions, and processes of decision-making in the American judicial system.

  
  • POLS 390 - Special Topics in Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Subtitles will appear on transcript. Content varies.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated. No limitations on repeating if content is different.

  
  • POLS 391 - Honors Special Politics Topics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Subtitles will appear on transcript. Content varies.

    Repeatable Course: May be repeated. No limitations on repeating if content is different.

  
  • POLS 395 - Research Methods

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Use of scientific methods, research design and quantitative data analysis in political science.

  
  • POLS 398 - Internship

    Credit Hours: 1-9
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1-9 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Supervised experience in government and government-related agencies under the guidance of agency personnel. Emphasis on principles of administration, operation, and service in government and judicial environments at local, state, and federal levels.

    Restriction(s): Permission of instructor required

  
  • POLS 414G - Congress

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Development, organization and operations of the U.S. Congress in the American political system, election, role and duties of its members.

  
  • POLS 415G - Honors Congress

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Development, organization and operations of the U.S. Congress in the American political system, election, role and duties of its members.

  
  • POLS 417G - Southern Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Politics in the southern U. S. with emphasis on continuity and change.

  
  • POLS 419G - The Presidency

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Development, organization and operations of the U.S. Presidency in the American political system and the election, role and duties of its officeholders.

  
  • POLS 420G - Honors The Presidency

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Development, organization and operations of the U.S. Presidency in the American political system and the election, role and duties of its officeholders.

  
  • POLS 425G - Middle Eastern Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Selected general problems in developing areas. Focus on issues in the Middle East and North Africa. Survey of individual political systems.

  
  • POLS 442G - Bureaucratic Power

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Examination of how power is exercised through the social creation of an identity. Three primary roles include bureaucratic, gender and race.

  
  • POLS 443G - Honors Bureaucratic Power

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Examination of how power is exercised through the social creation of an identity. Three primary roles include bureaucratic, gender and race.

  
  • POLS 452G - Environmental Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    U.S. environmental policy focusing on formulation, legitimation, implementation, and evaluation.

  
  • POLS 453G - Honors Environmental Policy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    U.S. environmental policy focusing on formulation, legitimation, implementation, and evaluation.

  
  • POLS 457G - Public Policy Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Formal and informal processes of the development, administration, and evaluation of U.S. public policies.

  
  • POLS 459 - Race and Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Interplay of institutional racism on formal and informal processes of policy formation in the United States.

  
  • POLS 460 - Honors Race and Politics

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Interplay of institutional racism on formal and informal processes of policy formation in the United States.

  
  • POLS 462G - Global Political Economy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Politics of economic globalization, including international trade, investment, currency, and debt.

  
  • POLS 463G - Honors Global Political Economy

    Credit Hours: 3
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Lab Contact Hours: 0
    General Education Core Curriculum: Social/Behavioral Sciences

    Politics of economic globalization, including international trade, investment, currency, and debt.

 

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