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Political Science For purposes of distribution and concentration, courses are grouped in their broad fields in the listings below, as indicated by the last two digits of their course numbers:
| American Government and Politics (20–39) |
PLSC 1320, PLSC 3124, PLSC 3224, PLSC 3320, PLSC 3321, PLSC 3322, PLSC 3323, PLSC 3324, PLSC 3325, PLSC 3327, PLSC 3330, PLSC 3331, PLSC 3333, PLSC 3334, PLSC 3335, PLSC 3336, PLSC 3424, PLSC 4320, PLSC 4321, PLSC 4322, PLSC 4323, PLSC 4324, PLSC 4325, PLSC 4326, PLSC 4328, PLSC 4330, PLSC 4331, PLSC 4332, PLSC 4333, PLSC 4334, PLSC 4335, PLSC 4336, PLSC 4337, PLSC 4338, PLSC 4339 |
| Comparative Politics (40–59) |
PLSC 1340, PLSC 3144, PLSC 3244, PLSC 3340, PLSC 3341, PLSC 3342, PLSC 3344, PLSC 3345, PLSC 3346, PLSC 3347, PLSC 3348, PLSC 3349, PLSC 3352, PLSC 3358, PLSC 3359, PLSC 3444, PLSC 4340, PLSC 4341, PLSC 4342, PLSC 4344, PLSC 4345, PLSC 4346, PLSC 4348, PLSC 4349, PLSC 4350, PLSC 4353, PLSC 4354, PLSC 4355, PLSC 4356, PLSC 5341
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| Political Theory (60–79) |
PLSC 1360, PLSC 3164, PLSC 3264, PLSC 3360, PLSC 3361, PLSC 3362, PLSC 3363, PLSC 3364, PLSC 3365, PLSC 3370, PLSC 3464, PLSC 4360, PLSC 4363, PLSC 4368, PLSC 4369, PLSC 4371, PLSC 4375 |
| International Relations (80–99) |
PLSC 1380, PLSC 3184, PLSC 3284, PLSC 3382, PLSC 3383, PLSC 3384, PLSC 3387, PLSC 3389, PLSC 3484, INTL 3381, INTL 4388 |
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PLSC 4304 - Political Science Research Methods
Credits: 3
Surveys fundamentals of political science inquiry: causal inference, basic statistical analysis, and core methodologies. Learn how to evaluate scholarly work and design one’s own research programs.
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PLSC 4306 - Internship in Political Science
Credits: 3
Undergraduate students who arrange for part-time or full-time jobs in government, political parties, interest groups, or other organizations relate these experiences to their academic curriculum through research and writing, under the guidance of a departmental faculty member. Prerequisites: Written approval of the instructor and the department chair or a designate, at least sophomore standing, and appropriate introductory and advanced preparation.
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PLSC 4307 - Departmental Distinction Thesis
Credits: 3
Candidates for departmental distinction write a thesis under the direction of a departmental faculty member, culminating in an oral examination over the field of the thesis. Prerequisite: Admission to departmental honors candidacy.
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PLSC 4320 - Special Studies in American Government and Politics
Credits: 3
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PLSC 4321 - Basic Issues in American Democracy
Credits: 3
An analysis of current American public policy issues within a theoretical framework. Examines the foundations of concepts and value orientations within which policy considerations are made.
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PLSC 4322 - Latino Politics
Credits: 3
An analysis of contexts, causes, and consequences of Latino political participation. The focus is on Latinos in the Southwest with some attention to other racial and ethnic groups elsewhere in the U.S.
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PLSC 4323 - The Politics of Change in America, 1930-2000
Credits: 3
Focuses upon American politics and society from 1930 to the present. Examines the ways America has changed, explains why changes occur, and assesses the consequences of these changes.
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PLSC 4324 - Political Dynamics
Credits: 3
Covers the use of political parties in formulating political opinions. Also, pressure groups, propaganda, measurement of mass opinions, and political leadership.
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PLSC 4325 - Practical Electoral Politics
Credits: 3
An exploration of techniques of political organization drawing on studies of recent campaigns and examining the political pressures that affect policymaking in government.
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PLSC 4326 - Presidential Elections
Credits: 3
Examines presidential nominations and elections. Topics include voter decision-making, media coverage, campaign finance, delegate selection rules, and the Electoral College.
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PLSC 4328 - Seminar: American Government and Politics
Credits: 3
An overview of the central questions in the study of American government and politics.
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PLSC 4330 - Politics and Film
Credits: 3
Uses films as a vehicle for understanding politics, leadership, and the political process in the U.S. Involves substantial reading and writing. Prerequisite: Political science or film studies major or minor, or permission of instructor.
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PLSC 4331 - Law and Film
Credits: 3
American popular culture has demonstrated an enduring fascination with lawyers, the law, and the legal system. This course focuses on how the portrayal of attorneys and the legal system in films shapes public perception of lawyers, creates viewer expectations regarding law and justice, and perhaps influences the conduct of practicing attorneys and judges.
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PLSC 4332 - Supreme Court Seminar
Credits: 3
Examines the development of constitutional law and the dynamics of decision making on the Supreme Court, from the perspectives of political science and history, built around a week of research in the Library of Congress.
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PLSC 4333 - Policy, Politics, and the Budget
Credits: 3
Examines the federal budget’s historical evolution and contemporary significance. Also, the constitutional division of the power of the purse between the legislative and executive branches, presidential-congressional conflicts over control of budget policy, major policy issues relating to the size of the federal budget, spending and tax policy priorities, and deficit and debt problems.
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PLSC 4334 - The Politics and Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement
Credits: 3
Examines the politics and legacies of the movement that destroyed the system known as Jim Crow and removed barriers to political participation by African Americans.
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PLSC 4335 - Constitutional Law
Credits: 3
Examines the scope of constitutional power in the American governmental system, questions of separation of powers between the branches of the national government, and the federal relationship between the national government and state governments.
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PLSC 4336 - Civil Liberties: First Amendment and Privacy
Credits: 3
Examines the place and treatment of expression, religion, and personal autonomy in the American Constitution and in the cases in which the Supreme Court has defined and applied the Constitution.
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PLSC 4337 - Civil Rights
Credits: 3
Examines changes wrought in the American system of governance by addition of the 14th Amendment, particularly its Equal Protection Clause, and the ways the Supreme Court has interpreted and applied it over time. Topics of attention include racial discrimination, sex discrimination, and equality in the political process.
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PLSC 4338 - Criminal Procedure: 4th Amendment Rights
Credits: 3
Examines the application of the rules regulating police as they investigate crimes and pursue suspects, specifically, the constitutional rules governing search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment.
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PLSC 4339 - Criminal Procedure: 5th and 6th Amendment Rights
Credits: 3
Examines the application of the rules regulating police as they investigate crimes and pursue suspects, specifically the Fifth and Sixth Amendments.
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PLSC 4340 - Special Studies in Comparative Governments and Politics
Credits: 3
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PLSC 4341 - Comparative Rights and Representation
Credits: 3
Examines the tension that exists between rights and democratic representation. Explores judicial activism in making social policy, individual versus collective rights, aboriginal rights, and affirmative action.
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PLSC 4342 - Why Nations Revolt
Credits: 3
Survey of the major theories that have been developed to explain the occurrence of revolutions. Examines various revolutions as case studies, including the French, Russian, Nazi, and Chinese revolutions, and at least one peasant revolution in the Third World.
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PLSC 4344 - Gender in World Politics
Credits: 3
A survey of classic and contemporary scholarship on women and gender in world politics, focusing on theoretical and empirical explorations of political participation, representation, activism, democracy, war, and human rights.
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PLSC 4345 - Islam and Politics
Credits: 3
Examines how Islamic political philosophy, institutions, and actors have evolved in diverse ways as Muslims have responded to challenges from inside and outside their societies both historically and in contemporary times.
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PLSC 4346 - Movements and Protests
Credits: 3
Examines why social movements, protests, and revolutions occur, and explores their impact on culture and political processes. Focuses on non-democracies and transitional regimes in Eastern Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East.
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PLSC 4348 - Seminar: Comparative Government and Politics
Credits: 3
An overview of the central questions in the study of comparative government and politics.
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PLSC 4349 - Public Ethics, Democracy, and Corruption Control in Emerging Markets
Credits: 3
Studies the worldwide endemic of corruption by examining the relationship between supposed ethics standards in government and business, as well as the reality of corruption in different countries and socioeconomic contexts, and ways to curtail such practices.
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PLSC 4350 - Game Theory for Political Science
Credits: 3
Politics is about conflict. When there is conflict, there will be strategy. This course examines the complicated strategic interactions within the framework of game theory.
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PLSC 4353 - Political Economy of East Asia
Credits: 3
Analysis of the interplay between politics and economics in East Asia, examining in what ways and to what degree the growth experiences of the high-performing economies in East Asia shed light on the prospects for long-term success of reforms currently underway in China.
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PLSC 4354 - The Third World and North-South Relations
Credits: 3
An inquiry into problems and theories of political economy of development and dependency in Third World countries.
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PLSC 4355 - Comparative Political Economy of Industrialized Democracies
Credits: 3
Examines the nature and workings of the political economies of industrialized democracies of North America, Europe, and the Pacific in comparative perspective. Recommended: Prior completion of one introductory political science and/or economics course.
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PLSC 4356 - Latin American Political Economy
Credits: 3
Focuses on the challenges facing public policy in the Latin American region and ways to interpret that region’s politics and economic frustrations. Attentive to the basic rules of the Latin American political game and the lack of agreement on them.
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PLSC 4360 - Special Studies in Political Theory
Credits: 3
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PLSC 4363 - Religion and Politics in the Western Tradition
Credits: 3
Analysis of the relationship between religious faith and civil government in the Western tradition, with a focus on thinkers and controversies from the late Roman Empire to the contemporary United States.
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PLSC 4368 - Seminar: Political Theory and Philosophy
Credits: 3
An overview of the central questions in the study of political theory and philosophy.
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PLSC 4369 - Republicanism and the Good Society
Credits: 3
Examines the intellectual history of republicanism, its uneasy alliance with liberalism, and its various contemporary manifestations, particularly in the U.S. and Canada.
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PLSC 4371 - Ethics and the Law
Credits: 3
An introduction to alternative ways of viewing the sources, functions, and uses of law. Attention is given to various understandings of concepts of justice and rights.
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PLSC 4375 - The Ethics of Revolution and Civil Disobedience
Credits: 3
A survey of the ethical and philosophical issues surrounding resistance to state power and disobedience of civil law. Examines ancient, medieval, and modern perspectives on when such defiance is justifiable.
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PLSC 4380 - Special Studies in International Relations
Credits: 3
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PLSC 4381 - National Security Policy
Credits: 3
Examines the changing nature of foreign policy and national security policy issues in a world characterized by growing interdependence and globalization, with particular attention to how technology offers both new opportunities and new dangers. Includes analysis of counterterrorism and homeland security, cyberterrorism, global public health, energy security, nuclear proliferation, and global financial stability. Students learn how to analyze national security policy objectives by using real-world situations and how to determine optimal policy implementation by examining potential actors, potential hurdles to implementation, and sources of funding.
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PLSC 4382 - The Politics of Military Force
Credits: 3
Examines use of U.S. military force as a political instrument and its effectiveness as a tool of American foreign policy since the end of the World War II.
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PLSC 4384 - American-Russian Relationship
Credits: 3
Surveys American-Russian relations since 1945, with emphasis on how and why the Cold War began. Also, the reasons for the end of the Cold War, the nature of American-Russian relations in the post-Cold War era, and common interests and issues that divide the two nations. Incorporates a negotiation simulation exercise between American and Russian negotiating teams.
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PLSC 4386 - International Relations of East Asia
Credits: 3
A survey of the history of diplomacy, war, and economic relations of the East Asian region while introducing the leading theories and debates about regional cooperation in the field of international relations.
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PLSC 4392 - Strategy
Credits: 3
An introduction to major debates about strategy, or the relationship between military violence and political objectives. Includes close examination of historical cases and current conflicts.
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PLSC 4393 - Intelligence and National Security
Credits: 3
Describes the theory and practice of intelligence. Includes a history of U.S. intelligence agencies and efforts to reform them. Discusses the tension between secret intelligence and democratic norms.
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PLSC 4398 - Nuclear Weapons and World Politics
Credits: 3
Focuses on the nuclear rivalry between the U.S. and the USSR, and on how this rivalry has transformed the nature and conduct of world politics. Emphasis is placed on theoretical and analytical perspectives, including deterrence theory, bargaining, and game theory. Attention is also given to the implications stemming from both the vertical and horizontal proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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PLSC 4401 - Washington Term
Credits: 4
Intensive study of national political institutions. Includes a 4–hour research project (PLSC 4401), a 4 hour internship (PLSC 4402 ), and an 8–hour seminar (PLSC 4403 , 4404 ). Prerequisites: Two courses in political science, at least one at the upper level, that are relevant to the selected program. Available for political science, public policy, or international studies majors or minors.
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PLSC 4402 - Washington Term
Credits: 4
Intensive study of national political institutions. Includes a 4–hour research project (PLSC 4401 ), a 4 hour internship (PLSC 4402), and an 8–hour seminar (PLSC 4403 , 4404 ). Prerequisites: Two courses in political science, at least one at the upper level, that are relevant to the selected program. Available for political science, public policy, or international studies majors or minors.
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PLSC 4403 - Washington Term
Credits: 4
Intensive study of national political institutions. Includes a 4–hour research project (PLSC 4401 ), a 4 hour internship (PLSC 4402 ), and an 8–hour seminar (PLSC 4403, 4404 ). Prerequisites: Two courses in political science, at least one at the upper level, that are relevant to the selected program. Available for political science, public policy, or international studies majors or minors.
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PLSC 4404 - Washington Term
Credits: 4
Intensive study of national political institutions. Includes a 4–hour research project (PLSC 4401 ), a 4 hour internship (PLSC 4402 ), and an 8–hour seminar (PLSC 4403 , PLSC 4404). Prerequisites: Two courses in political science, at least one at the upper level, that are relevant to the selected program. Available for political science, public policy, or international studies majors or minors.
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PLSC 5341 - European Politics: The European Union
Credits: 3
Europe is in a period of transformation, emerging as a major player on the world scene while internally developing a novel balance between unification of countries and the rise of local identities. What are the forces that shape the new Europe? How does European policy materialize, and who makes the decisions? (SMU-in-Copenhagen)
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PP 3310 - Environmental Policy
Credits: 3
Overview of governmental environmental policies designed to provide a foundation for future application and study in the growing environmental field.
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Public Policy and International Affairs |
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PPIA 2380 - Gateway to Global Policymaking
Credits: 3
Examines foreign, economic, and domestic policy issues and analyzes the ways policy is made in the United States. Students look at the interaction of substantive policy problems, policy tools, and organizational structures at the local, national, and international levels, while considering the ethics of political choices. Reserved for Highland Capital Management Tower Scholars.
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PPIA 3301 - Junior-Year Policy Seminar: Theoretical Public Policy
Credits: 3
First of a two-part sequence. Students review policy case studies and learn how to analyze and interpret data related to public policy issues. They apply what they learn during the following term, in PPIA 3302 . Reserved for Highland Capital Management Tower Scholars.
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PPIA 3302 - Junior-Year Policy Seminar: Public Policy in Professional Practice
Credits: 3
Second of a two-part sequence. Students work on a specific policy-related project from a real-world setting. Culminates in written policy recommendations presented to a nonacademic client. Prerequisite: PPIA 3301 . Reserved for Highland Capital Management Tower Scholars.
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PPIA 4306 - Tower Scholars Directed Research Project
Credits: 3
Offers Tower Scholars experience in varied organizations and agencies. Students conduct in-depth research, analysis, and structured reflection on an assigned policy issue. Includes interviews and discussions off-campus, research online and in the SMU libraries, and completion of a significant and useful research paper. During weekly class meetings, students relate their fieldwork experiences to readings, discussions, and the shared experiences of fellow Tower Scholars. Reserved for Highland Capital Management Tower Scholars.
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Personal Responsibility and Wellness
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PRW 1101 - PRW1: Concepts of Wellness
Credits: 1
PRW1 is required for graduation, and it should be taken in the first term upon entering SMU. The course introduces students to the University and explores three sets of issues: 1) the role of personal responsibility in coping with college and life’s other transitional periods; 2) challenges and opportunities such as managing time and stress, benefiting from diversity and autonomy, dealing with pitfalls related to alcohol and drugs, and exploring resources and activities on campus; and 3) personal finance decisions while at SMU and later in life, including managing money, using credit cards, and making major purchases. Also, introduces the e portfolio that students use to record and reflect upon their activities. Grading is on a pass/fail basis. (Fall term restricted to first-year standing only.)
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PRW 2101 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Bench Aerobics
Credits: 1
Offers an intense aerobic workout using benches. Also, body contouring using dumb bells, body bars, and mats. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2102 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Jogging
Credits: 1
This class provides an excellent means for improving cardiovascular endurance by running. Introduces selected activities designed to target health-related fitness. Students are expected to increase their jogging ability and set personal running goals.
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PRW 2103 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Body Mechanics and Physical Preparation for Actors
Credits: 1
Students learn body mechanics in tandem with rigorous exercises designed to align and condition the body, build core strength, focus on flexibility through the body, and target health–related fitness. Restricted to theatre or pre–theatre majors.
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PRW 2105 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Weight Training
Credits: 1
Accommodates all levels of weight training experience. Proper mechanics, safety, and principles of strength building with machines and free weights are presented and practiced. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2106 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Weight Training for Women
Credits: 1
Accommodates all levels of weight training experience. Proper mechanics, safety, principles of strength building, and endurance training with machines and free weights are presented and practiced in a friendly setting. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2110 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Individual Fitness
Credits: 1
Students develop a personal exercise program, and they test and evaluate their own strengths and weaknesses in terms of health and fitness. Accommodates all levels of fitness. Activities aim to improve cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility.
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PRW 2112 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Walking
Credits: 1
Walks of 2-2.5 miles during class, and diet and nutrition information. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2114 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Beginning Triathlon
Credits: 1
Students train for a sprint distance triathlon (swim, bike, run) during the term. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness. The $60 activity fee covers triathlon entry.
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PRW 2115 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Intermediate Triathlon
Credits: 1
Prepares the student to complete an Olympic triathlon (1.5 km swim, 40 km bike ride, and 10 km run). Covers bicycle care, training progressions, and race strategies. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness. The $60 activity fee covers triathlon entry. Prerequisite: Completion of a sprint distance triathlon.
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PRW 2117 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Beginning Marathon Training
Credits: 1
Students gain the skills and endurance needed to complete the local White Rock Marathon at the end of the term. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness. The $125 activity fee covers marathon entry.
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PRW 2120 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Spinning
Credits: 1
Spinning utilizes specialized, stationary cycles in a controlled, group setting. This indoor class is uniquely tailored to suit a wide range of abilities. Training principles are inspired by road cycling, and the pace is self-directed. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness. Special activity fee: $10.
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PRW 2122 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Rock Climbing
Credits: 1
Introduces the sport and fitness of rock climbing. Students learn safety skills and techniques necessary for successful rock climbing and have opportunities to climb outdoors and indoors. Introduces selected activities designed to target health-related fitness. Special activity fee: $50.
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PRW 2125 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Group Fitness
Credits: 1
This boot camp style class introduces a variety of group fitness activities such as kickboxing, jogging, Pilates, calisthenics, indoor rowing, and strength training.
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PRW 2127 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Pilates
Credits: 1
Pilates is a total body conditioning exercise method designed to develop the mind and body uniformly. Combines flexibility and strength activities to improve balance, flexibility, and posture and to strengthen core muscles. Aerobic components are included for a full, health-related fitness workout.
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PRW 2130 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Power Yoga
Credits: 1
Focuses on three main areas of yoga practice: deep breathing, exercise (postures), and meditation. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2132 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Judo
Credits: 1
Judo (“gentle way”) is a safe combat sport that applies maximum efficiency with minimum effort. Students learn the basic skills of judo and techniques for self-defense, particularly against stronger opponents. Also, presents judo’s spiritual aspect of relating to others in more harmonious and effective ways.
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PRW 2133 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Racquetball I
Credits: 1
Classes are held on Dedman Center’s racquetball courts and are designed to accommodate all levels of physical skill. Rules, safety, skill techniques, strategy, and competitive play are progressively introduced throughout the term. Activities include workouts designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2135 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Mountain Sports
Credits: 1
Includes several hikes, a river raft trip, a mountain bike trip, a volleyball tournament, and selected activities designed to target health-related fitness. Special activity fee: $750 to cover rafting, rock climbing, fly-fishing, horseback riding, and other mountain sports activities. (SMU-in-Taos)
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PRW 2140 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Intermediate Swimming
Credits: 1
For the intermediate to advanced swimmer. Provides an opportunity to refine swimming stroke techniques and to gain more advanced swimming skills and aerobic fitness. Includes selected activities designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2144 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Scuba
Credits: 1
Students need only basic swimming skills to participate. Presents basic physics and physiology (in class) and practical scuba methods and techniques. Includes an introduction to animal behavior so divers can better understand their own behavior underwater. On balance, class time is divided equally among academics, pool work, fitness activities, and open water diving at area lakes. Students earn certification as open-water scuba divers upon completion of the course. Special activity fee: $225.
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PRW 2145 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Advanced Scuba
Credits: 1
Introduces several diving specialties: night diving, wreck diving, search and recovery, and overhead environments. The course is 1/3 academics, 1/3 pool work, and 1/3 open water diving at one of the in-state, area lakes. Also introduces the use of advanced equipment such as lift bags, diver propulsion vehicles, and full-face masks. Students meet experienced and accomplished divers and earn advanced scuba certification upon completion of the class. Fitness activities designed to target health-related fitness are included. Special activity fee: $225.
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PRW 2151 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Self-Defense
Credits: 1
Teaches students how to prepare physically and mentally for an attack using the ancient Japanese martial art jujitsu and a mix of other martial arts techniques (aikido, judo, kickboxing, and various schools of karate). Includes lessons in blocking, striking, joint locks, release and escape, the proper method of falling, and defense while lying on the ground. Includes fitness activities designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2161 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Basketball
Credits: 1
Teaches the fundamentals of playing basketball using team drills and offensive and defensive formations and strategy. Augments skill development with game-like conditions. Includes fitness activities designed to target health-related fitness.
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PRW 2190 - PRW2: Physical Fitness: Optional
Credits: 1
Acknowledges the fitness commitments of special groups such as athletes, cheerleaders, pompom squad members, and military service personnel. Students must demonstrate knowledge of health-related fitness concepts and produce an offseason personal fitness plan. Instructor approval required.
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Psychology
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PSYC 1300 - Introduction to Psychology
Credits: 3
Broad introduction to psychology as a behavioral science with special emphasis on cognition, development, learning, social, personality, physiological, and clinical psychology (psychopathology and psychotherapy).
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PSYC 2332 - Developmental Psychology
Credits: 3
A survey of the processes and variables that influence the development of the fetus, infant, child, and adolescent. Emphasis is on theories and research in such areas as perceptual, cognitive, language, social/emotional, and moral development.
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PSYC 2351 - Abnormal Psychology
Credits: 3
A study of the theories, causes, assessment, and treatment of abnormal behavior, including depression, anxiety, psychosis, personality disorders, and other forms of psychopathology in adults. There is an examination of the continuum of normal and abnormal behavior, with consideration of historical and cultural perspectives, ethical concerns, and research methodologies in understanding psychological disorders. Prerequisite: PSYC 1300 or instructor approval.
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PSYC 3099 - Research Training
Credits: 0
Supervised experience in faculty research projects in labs, clinics, or field settings. May involve library research, participant recruitment, data collection, and data input and analysis. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and instructor approval.
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PSYC 3199 - Research Training
Credits: 1
Supervised experience in faculty research projects in labs, clinics, or field settings. May involve library research, participant recruitment, data collection, and data input and analysis. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and instructor approval.
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PSYC 3299 - Research Training
Credits: 2
Supervised experience in faculty research projects in labs, clinics, or field settings. May involve library research, participant recruitment, data collection, and data input and analysis. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and instructor approval.
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PSYC 3301 - Research Methods in Psychology
Credits: 3
Design and evaluation of psychological research, with emphasis on scientific method, data collection, experimentation, control procedures, validity, reliability, and report–writing skills. This is a challenging and rigorous class in research; required for psychology majors. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and one additional psychology course or instructor approval.
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PSYC 3310 - Memory and Cognition
Credits: 3
A survey of how information is encoded, stored, and retrieved in adults. Topics may include attentional processes, perception, verbal learning, and memory. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and one additional psychology course, or instructor approval.
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PSYC 3335 - Psychology of the Family
Credits: 3
A basic introduction to understanding the family. Topics include coupling and dating, parenting of young and older children, and progression to older age. Also, understanding competent family functioning, dealing with health and illness, and family counseling. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and one additional psychology course or instructor approval.
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PSYC 3341 - Social Psychology
Credits: 3
Addresses the question of how an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by his/her social environment; includes topics such as attitude change, conformity, attraction, aggression, and small-group behavior.
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PSYC 3360 - Health Psychology
Credits: 3
A basic introduction to the subject. Topics include causes and correlates of health, illness, and dysfunction, as well as the interplay of emotions, cognitions, and behavioral and/or physical factors. (*updated* 1/4/2019; effective Spring 2019)
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PSYC 3364 - Forensic Psychology
Credits: 3
Examination of the interface between psychology and the legal system, focusing in particular on the role of mental health experts in criminal trials and civil disputes. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and one additional psychology course, or instructor approval.
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PSYC 3365 - Organizational Psychology
Credits: 3
Psychological principles applied to organizations, both business and volunteer, emphasizing a systems approach and including personnel selection, leadership, motivation, communication, group dynamics, and an overview of organizational development. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and one additional psychology course or instructor approval.
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PSYC 3366 - Positive Psychology
Credits: 3
Advanced psychology course that introduces research and theory in positive psychology. The focus of positive psychology is on strength rather than weakness, flourishing rather than languishing.
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PSYC 3370 - Personality
Credits: 3
An examination of theories and research that address the underlying bases of personality and the causes of individual differences. Emphasis is on the normal personality, but the causes of abnormal personality development are also considered. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and one additional psychology course or instructor approval.
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PSYC 3371 - Psychology of Women
Credits: 3
This course focuses on understanding women as individuals. Also, personality theories as they relate particularly to women. Modern women’s options and conflicts, motives and values, and their perceptions of their individuality in the face of rapid social change are examined. Prerequisites: PSYC 1300 and one additional psychology course or instructor approval.
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PSYC 3375 - Human Rights From a Psychological Perspective
Credits: 3
Examines human rights as informed by psychological concepts and research. Insights from social, clinical, and developmental psychology are used to better understand human rights violations and issues. Prerequisite: Instructor approval.
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