IRLS501  - Comparative Political Systems

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This course examines a broad range of governments utilizing the comparative method of analysis. Students will study democracies, monarchies, dictatorships and authoritarian forms of government. Students will participate in various class projects emphasizing contemporary problems of the various forms of governments of nation states today. This will take into consideration cultural differences and similarities, human nature, and the approaches of individual governments different from that of the American norm in carrying out their basic responsibility to maintain and strengthen society by equal justice for all of its citizens.

 

Prerequisites

N/A

Corequisites

N/A

Schedule of Classes

Registration Dates Course Dates Session
11/05/09 - 03/28/10 04/05/10 - 05/30/10 Spring 2010 Session B - 8 Week session
11/30/09 - 04/25/10 05/03/10 - 06/27/10 Spring 2010 Session I - 8 Week session
12/28/09 - 05/30/10 06/07/10 - 08/01/10 Spring 2010 Session D - 8 Week session
01/25/10 - 06/27/10 07/05/10 - 08/29/10 Summer 2010 Session B - 8 Week session
02/22/10 - 07/25/10 08/02/10 - 09/26/10 Summer 2010 Session I - 8 Week session
03/29/10 - 08/29/10 09/06/10 - 10/31/10 Summer 2010 Session D - 8 Week session
04/26/10 - 09/26/10 10/04/10 - 11/28/10 Fall 2010 Session B - 8 Week session
05/31/10 - 10/24/10 11/01/10 - 12/26/10 Fall 2010 Session I - 8 Week session
06/28/10 - 11/28/10 12/06/10 - 01/30/11 Fall 2010 Session D - 8 Week session

Course Materials

Book Title: Comparative Politics Today: World View - 9th Ed Revised
ISBN: 0205585965
Publication Info: Longman, Inc

 
 
 

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