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PS
100X
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Political
Economy
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
ECON
100X)
Survey
of
the
evolution
and
operation
of
the
American
domestic
political
economy
with
consideration
of
market
failures
and
government
responses.
Review
of
major
issues
in
political
economy
such
as
inflation,
poverty
and
budget
deficits.
Exploration
of
linkages
between
American
and
global
systems.
Also
available
via
Independent
Learning.
PS
101
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Introduction
to
American
Government
and
Politics
(3+0) s
Principles,
institutions,
and
practices
of
American
national
government;
the
Constitution,
federalism,
interest
groups,
parties,
public
opinion
and
elections.
Also
available
via
Independent
Learning.
PS
201
(3
Credits)
Fall
Comparative
Politics
(3+0) s
Introduction
to
the
systematic
study
of
government
and
politics
in
countries
other
than
the
United
States.
Through
lecture
and
discussion,
students
will
explore
such
questions
as
why
some
countries
are
democracies
and
other
countries
dictatorships;
why
some
remain
stable
and
peaceful,
while
others
seem
in
constant
turmoil.
This
is
a
prerequisite
for
other
courses
in
comparative
politics.
PS
202
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Democracy
and
Global
Society
(3+0) s
Examination
of
the
various
definitions
and
types
of
democracy,
and
the
global
contexts
within
which
they
develop.
Cases
used
draw
from
a
wide
range
of
states,
societies
and
world-historical
contexts,
and
allow
comparisons
among
developed
and
developing
countries.
PS
212
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Introduction
to
Public
Administration
(3+0) s
Theories
and
practice
of
public
administration,
especially
as
applied
to
federal
agencies.
Study
of
organization,
planning,
and
decision
making
in
implementing
public
policy.
PS
222
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Political
Science
Research
Methods
(3+0) s
Familiarizes
students
with
the
research
methods
that
have
been
used
to
produce
political
knowledge
about
significant
political
phenomena.
Includes
both
qualitative
and
quantitative
research
methods.
(Prerequisite:
PS
101;
must
be
completed
before
a
student
advances
to
senior
standing
in
the
discipline.
Next
offered
2004-05.)
PS
263
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Alaska
Native
Politics
(3+0) s
Political
development,
organization,
interests
and
activities
of
Alaska
Natives;
treatment
of
ethnic
leadership
issues,
history
of
federal
Indian
policy,
evolution
of
Native
leadership,
village
and
regional
government,
land
claims,
and
community
politics
from
the
Alaska
Native
brotherhood
to
ANCSA
to
the
Alaska
Native
Coalition.
Compares
Alaska
Native
political
developments
to
those
of
other
circumpolar
Northern
Native
communities.
PS
300X
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Values
and
Choice
(3+0) h
What
is
the
right
thing
to
do?
A
presentation
of
important
theories
of
values,
morality,
and
ethics
to
answer
this
question.
Application
of
theories
to
dilemmas
of
choice
in
the
public
world
--
such
as
euthanasia,
abortion,
animal
rights,
sexual
morality,
and
environmental
ethics.
Also
available
via
Independent
Learning.
(Prerequisites:
Junior
standing.
Recommended
but
not
required:
Two
courses
in
the
Perspectives
on
the
Human
Condition.)
PS
301
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
American
Presidency
(3+0) s
The
institution
of
the
presidency
in
the
American
political
system.
(Prerequisite:
PS
101
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
302
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Congress
and
Public
Policy
(3+0) s
The
American
Congress
in
the
political
system.
(Prerequisite:
PS
101.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
303
(3
Credits)
Fall
Politics
and
the
Judicial
Process
(3+0)
The
role
of
federal
courts
as
political
institutions.
The
politics
of
judicial
selection,
the
nature
of
judicial
decision-making
and
intracourt
politics,
litigations
as
a
policy
making
device,
changes
in
the
nature
and
scope
of
judicial
power,
governmental
attorneys,
the
legal
bureaucracy,
and
judicial
agenda
setting.
(Prerequisite:
PS
101.)
PS
312W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
East
Asian
Governments
and
Politics
(3+0) s
Modern
East
Asia
(including
China,
Taiwan,
Japan,
North
and
South
Korea)
politics
and
society,
including
governmental
institutions,
political
processes
and
regional
and
global
foreign
relations.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
PS
201,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
314W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Political
Ideologies
(3+0) s
An
examination
of
the
purpose
of
ideology
as
an
orienting
set
of
political
ideas
with
mass
appeal.
Analysis
of
twentieth
century
ideologies,
including
anarchism,
communism,
liberalism,
socialism,
environmentalism
and
feminism.
(Prerequisite:
ENGL
111X,
PS
101,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
315
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
American
Political
Thought
(3+0) s
Political
ideas
in
the
United
States
from
colonial
times
to
the
present:
Puritanism,
revolutionary
ideas,
Constitutionalism,
nature
of
the
Union,
Progressive
movement,
pragmatism.
(Prerequisite:
PS
101
or
permission
of
instructor.
HIST
131
and
132
strongly
recommended.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
321
(3
Credits)
Fall
International
Politics
(3+0) s
Introduction
to
the
problems,
literature
and
terminology
of
international
relations.
Provides
a
basis
for
understanding
current
international
affairs.
Examines
relations
between
nations,
regions
and
groups,
as
well
as
ideas
of
conflict,
security,
trade,
technology,
negotiation,
cooperation,
revolution,
modernization
and
community.
PS
322
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
International
Law
and
Organization
(3+0) s
Case
studies
in
international
law
(rights
and
duties
of
states,
jurisdiction
and
sovereignty,
treaties,
use
of
force
and
adjudication
processes);
development
of
regional
organizations
and
integration;
the
United
Nations.
(Prerequisite:
PS
321
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
323
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Issues
of
International
Political
Economy
(3+0) s
Exploration
of
the
manner
in
which
political
and
economic
forces
interact
to
affect
international
flows
of
goods,
money,
investments,
and
technology.
International
political
economic
relations
are
examined
in
several
contexts.
(Prerequisite:
PS
100X.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PS
325
(3
Credits)
Spring
Native
Self-Government
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
325)
Indigenous
political
systems,
customary
law
and
justice
in
Alaska
emphasizing
the
organization
of
Native
governance,
federal
Indian
Law
and
Alaska
state
chartered
local
government.
Comparisons
between
Alaska
Native
political
development
and
those
of
tribes
in
the
contiguous
48
states
and
northern
hemisphere
tribal
people.
(Prerequisites:
HIST
100,
PS
263.)
PS
330O
(3
Credits)
Spring
Law,
Justice
and
Society
(3+0) s
Examines
legal
reasoning
and
major
legal
theories
through
lecture,
debate
and
discussion.
Recommended
as
preparation
for
PS
435
and
436
(Constitutional
Law
I
and
II)
and
for
pre-law
students.
(Prerequisites:
COMM
131X
or
141X;
and
PS
101.)
PS
340
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Women
and
Politics
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
WMS
340)
In-depth
examination
of
the
relevance
of
gender
in
political
thought
and
action.
Topics
will
vary
and
may
include:
an
historical
perspective
of
political
ideas
on
the
nature
and
status
of
women;
women's
involvement
in
national
and/or
international
political
movements
and
organizations;
feminist
approaches
to
the
social
sciences;
feminism
as
a
political
ideology.
(Prerequisite:
One
political
science
course
or
permission
of
instructor;
HIST
101,
HIST
103,
WMS
201
recommended.)
PS
401W
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Political
Behavior
(3+0) s
Attitudes,
opinions,
beliefs
of
the
American
electorate
and
the
impact
of
these
factors
on
political
behavior;
role
of
political
organizations
(parties
and
interest
groups)
in
modern
American
politics.
(Prerequisite:
ENGL
111X.)
PS
403W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Public
Policy
(3+0) s
Discussion
of
how
policy
process
works
and
how
policy
analysis
is
conducted.
Examples
of
policy
issues
from
recent
cases,
especially
in
Alaska.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
PS
101,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PS
404
(3
Credits)
Spring
Introduction
to
Legal
Research
and
Writing
(3+0)
(Cross-listed
with
JUST
404)
Methods
of
legal
research
and
preparation
of
legal
materials.
Introduction
to
the
resources
of
law
libraries
and
the
techniques
of
presenting
issues
in
legal
form.
(Prerequisites:
PS
101
or
JUST
110.)
PS
411W,O
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Classical
Political
Theory
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
PHIL
411W,O)
Political
ideas
from
ancient
Greece,
Rome,
and
the
Judaeo-Christian
tradition.
Theories
of
Plato,
Aristotle,
Cicero,
Augustine,
and
Aquinas.
(Prerequisites:
COMM
131X
or
141X;
ENGL
111X;
PS
101;
PHIL
102;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
PS
412W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Modern
Political
Theory
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
PHIL
412W)
Political
ideas
from
the
Renaissance
to
the
modern
world.
Theories
of
Machiavelli,
Hobbes,
Locke,
Rousseau,
Burke,
Marx,
and
Lenin.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
PS
101,
PHIL
102,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PS
415
(3
Credits)
As
Demand
Warrants
Contemporary
Political
Theory
(3+0) s
An
examination
of
contemporary
theories
about
"What
is
democracy?"
including
theoretical
investigation
of
the
nature
of
existing
"democracies."
Theory
is
used
to
provide
an
account
of
the
process
of
determination
of
policy
in
democratic
capitalist
systems.
Evaluation
of
existing
"democratic"
systems
by
comparing
their
nature
with
the
realizable
democratic
ideals.
(Prerequisite:
PS
101
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PS
425
(3
Credits)
Fall
Federal
Indian
Law
and
Alaska
Natives
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
425)
The
"special
relationship"
between
the
federal
government
and
Native
Americans
based
on
land
transactions
and
recognition
of
tribal
sovereignty.
Federal
Indian
law
and
policy
evolving
from
this
relationship.
Legal
rights
and
status
of
Alaska
Natives.
(Prerequisites:
PS
101
and
HIST
100;
or
permission
of
instructor;
PS
263
is
recommended.)
PS
435W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Constitutional
Law
I:
Institutions
and
Governmental
Powers
(3+0)
s
Constitutional
doctrines
and
historical
evolution
of
federalism
and
the
separation
of
powers
in
the
United
States.
Emphasis
on
the
court's
role
in
arbitering
intergovernmental
and
interbranch
disputes,
the
constitutional
status
of
the
administrative
bureaucracy,
and
the
control
of
the
war
power
and
foreign
policy.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
PS
101,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
PS
436W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Constitutional
Law
II:
Civil
Rights
and
Civil
Liberties
(3+0) s
Origin
and
development
of
civil
rights
and
civil
liberties
in
the
United
States.
Emphasis
on
the
social,
political
and
philosophical
justifications
of
rights
as
expressed
in
judicial
decision
and
constitutional
doctrine.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
PS
101,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Recommended:
PS
303.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PS
437
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
American
Foreign
Policy
(3+0) s
U.S.
foreign
policy
in
the
postwar
and
post
cold
war
period
,
including
development
of
policy
(domestic
and
foreign
influences),
administration
of
political,
economic
and
military
policies,
and
evaluation
of
policy
effectiveness.
Analyzes
the
historical
background
of
the
U.S.
role
in
the
world
today
and
leading
personalities
and
events
that
are
a
part
of
it.
(Prerequisites:
PS
321,
322
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PS
438O
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Peace
and
National
Security
(3+0) s
Analysis
of
requirements
for
the
reduction
of
global
tensions
in
relation
to
national
security
needs,
with
a
focus
on
the
politics
of
war
and
conflict,
ideas
of
peace
and
order,
obstacles
to
national
protection,
new
strategic
beliefs,
and
methods
of
assessing
national
security
policies.
(Prerequisite:
COMM
131X
or
141X;
PS
321
and
322;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
447
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
U.S.
Environmental
Politics
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
NORS
647)
Examination
of
U.S.
political
institutions
as
they
relate
to
making
policies
for
protecting
the
quality
the
natural
environment.
Issues
include
the
politics
of
nuclear
waste,
endangered
species,
air
and
water
pollution,
and
wilderness
preservation.
Includes
analysis
of
the
National
Environmental
Policy
Act,
sustainable
development,
the
limits
to
growth,
and
other
topics.
(Prerequisites:
Upper
division
standing.
Recommended:
PS
101.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
448
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Environmental
Politics
of
the
Circumpolar
North
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
NORS
648)
Overview
of
how
environmental
politics
and
policy
as
a
field
of
study
relates
to
the
Arctic
region.
Analysis
of
various
threats
to
the
northern
environment,
focusing
on
the
policy
making
institutions
of
selected
Arctic
rim
nations,
as
well
as
strategies
to
deal
with
environmental
problems
in
an
international
context.
PS
450
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Comparative
Aboriginal
Rights
and
Policies
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
ANS
450)
A
case-study
approach
in
assessing
Aboriginal
Rights
and
Policies
in
different
Nation-State
Systems.
Seven
Aboriginal
situations
examined
for
factors
promoting
or
limiting
self-determination.
(Prerequisites:
Upper
division
standing
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PS
451
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Law,
Justice
and
Society
in
the
Circumpolar
North
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
NORS
651)
This
course
analyzes
the
legal
systems
and
constitutional
frameworks
of
circumpolar
countries,
with
special
attention
to
the
status
of
Native
peoples.
Questions
of
individual
and
collective
rights,
as
well
as
cultural,
environmental,
and
resource
conflicts,
will
be
considered
in
the
context
of
institutions,
policy
making,
and
legal
theory.
PS
452
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
International
Relations
of
the
North
(3+0)
(Stacked
with
NORS
652)
Examination
of
the
international
strategies
of
circumpolar
states.
Consideration
of
theoretical
and
practical
elements
of
strategy
formation
in
major
issue
areas
such
as
national
security,
the
political
economy,
human
rights,
and
scientific
exchange.
(Next
offered
2004-05.)
PS
454
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
International
Law
and
the
Environment
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
NORS
654)
International
environmental
law.
International
case
law
regulating
the
sea,
airspace,
outer
space,
and
the
polar
regions.
Includes
comprehensive
international
regulatory
legal
instruments
to
protect
the
environment
(e.g.
the
United
Nations
Framework
Convention
on
Climate
Change),
and
the
doctrines,
principles,
and
rules
of
international
law
that
are
basic
to
an
understanding
of
international
legal
regimes
and
the
environment.
(Prerequisite:
Upper-division
standing
and
permission
of
instructor.
Recommended:
Undergraduate
course
in
international
law,
organization
or
politics.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
455
(3
Credits)
Fall
Political
Economy
of
the
Global
Environment
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
NORS
655)
Exploration
of
the
interactions
between
basic
aspects
of
the
global
economy
(international
trade,
investment
and
development)
and
the
natural
environment.
Topics
include
the
economic
impact
of
global
environmental
agreements
and
the
environmental
impact
of
global
markets,
transnational
corporations,
and
development
assistance
by
organizations
such
as
the
World
Bank.
(Prerequisite:
Upper
division
standing.)
PS
456
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Science,
Technology
and
Politics
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
NORS
656)
Relationship
of
science,
technology
and
politics:
connections
among
scientific
knowledge,
technology,
technological
innovations,
politics
and
power.
Includes
historical
and
comparative
aspects.
(Prerequisite:
Senior
standing.
Recommended:
PS
101.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
PS
458
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Comparative
Environmental
Politics
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
NORS
658)
Seminar
with
emphasis
on
enduring
issues
of
the
field
of
comparative
politics
and
their
relation
to
global
environmental
problems
such
as
biodiversity,
transboundary
pollution,
and
climate
warming.
Explores
how
state-society
relations,
political
institutions,
national
political
capacity,
political
processes
and
organizations,
and
international
commitments
potentially
shape
the
nature
and
dynamics
of
global
environmental
politics
and
vise
versa.
(Prerequisite:
Upper
division
standing.
Recommended:
PS
201
or
equivalent
comparative
politics
course.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
PS
460W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Fall
Government
and
Politics
of
Canada
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
NORS
660)
A
detailed
examination
of
the
Canadian
political
system,
covering
the
Canadian
constitution,
the
federal
structure,
parliamentary
government
and
public
policy,
as
well
as
contemporary
issues
concerning
Native
rights
and
the
Canadian
North.
Students
will
complete
a
major
research
paper
on
specific
policy
areas
(language,
education,
health
care,
environment,
natural
resources,
foreign
relations).
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
PS
201,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003-04.)
PS
462
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Alaska
Government
and
Politics
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
NORS
662)
A
comprehensive
introduction
to
Alaska's
government
and
politics,
in
the
context
of
American
state
and
local
government
and
politics
and
governments
of
circumpolar
northern
nations.
Topics
include
political
history,
constitution,
political
parties,
interest
groups,
elections,
public
opinion,
governor,
legislature,
judiciary,
administration
and
local
governments.
Compares
Alaska
to
the
contiguous
48
states
and
subnational
governments
of
the
circumpolar
North;
examines
how
government
institutions
and
processes
respond
to
social,
environmental,
and
political
changes
of
Northern
communities.
(Prerequisite:
junior
standing.
Next
offered:
2004
-
05.)
PS
467W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Political
Development
in
Latin
America
and
the
Caribbean
(3+0) s
(Cross-listed
with
HIST
467W)
Exploration
of
major
issues
and
concepts
in
the
development
and
governances
of
modern
Latin
America
and
the
Caribbean
region,
including
the
legacies
of
colonialism,
revolution,
military
rule,
economic
challenges
and
the
quest
for
democratic
stability.
Includes
an
historical
overview
of
the
region
and
cases
drawn
from
the
Caribbean,
Mexico,
Central
and
South
America.
(Prerequisite:
ENGL
111X;
PS
201
or
HIST
102;
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2004-05.)
PS
468W
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
Government
and
Politics
of
Russia
(3+0) s
(Stacked
with
NORS
668)
An
examination
of
current
developments
in
Russia
from
a
number
of
perspectives:
the
effect
of
history
and
geography
on
political
change;
the
nature
of
Russian
government
and
society;
the
legacies
of
Lenin,
Stalin,
Gorbachev,
and
the
ideological
nature
of
regimes
and
leadership;
economic
forces
and
the
political
struggle
in
governance;
revolution,
democracy
and
reform;
and
the
international
role
of
Russia,
particularly
in
relation
to
the
former
Soviet
republics,
Eastern
Europe
and
other
border
areas.
(Prerequisites:
ENGL
111X,
PS
201,
or
permission
of
instructor.
Next
offered:
2003
-
04.)
PS
472
(3
Credits)
Alternate
Spring
International
Ethics
(3+0) h
(Cross-listed
with
PHIL
472)
Examination
of
the
questions
including:
What
is
in
the
interest
of
the
nation-state
according
to
the
logic
of
statecraft?
How
does
the
national
interest
relate
to
the
broader
human
interest?
How
does
morality
relate
to
the
international
legal
order?
Examination
is
through
theory
and
case
studies.
(Prerequisite:
PHIL
322X
or
equivalent;
or
PHIL
436;
or
PS
321;
or
permission
of
instructor.)
PS
475
(3
Credits)
Fall,
Spring
Internship
in
Public
Affairs
(3+0)
Individual
study
of
public
agencies
or
organizations
through
actual
experience.
(Admission
by
permission
of
instructor.)
PS
492W
(3
Credits)
Spring
Senior
Seminar
in
Political
Science
(3+0) s
Provides
scope
and
depth
to
the
study
of
political
science.
Exploration
of
new
literature
in
the
field
and
interdisciplinary
perspectives.
Requirements
include
a
major
research
paper.
(Prerequisite:
Junior
standing.)
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