The President as chief administrative leader, political leader, foreign policy initiator, commander-in-chief, and head of state.
Courses
PS 401 Politics of Islam & World Politics
This course can be repeated by students, but not with the same content.
PS 401 Political Information
This course can be repeated by students, but not with the same content.
PS 400 Washington DC Internship Prep
An umbrella course for variable credit topic courses, such as summer forum, intensive summer courses, half-semester courses, etc.
PS 400 Careers in Political Science
An umbrella course for variable credit topic courses, such as summer forum, intensive summer courses, half-semester courses, etc.
PS 377 Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
Covers the origins of nuclear weapons, the reasons states seek them, the strategies developed for their use, the consequences of their development, and efforts to control and reverse their spread.
PS 376 Analysis of International Relations
Analysis of international political systems such as balance of power, collective security, deterrence; and the major political processes sustaining those systems, such as threats and violence, bargaining, coalition-formation. The advanced introductory course in the international …
PS 337 International Institutions and World Order
The study of international cooperation and the analysis of regional, functional, and universal regimes and istitutions.
PS 316 Principles of International Law
None provided.
PS 277 Africa: An Introductory Survey
African society and culture, polity and economy in multidisciplinary perspectives from prehistory and ancient kingdoms through the colonial period to contemporary developments, including modern nationalism, economic development and changing social structure.