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Courses POLS 108 Global Citizenship and its Discontents 4 Credits POLS 001 American Political System 4 Credits The purpose of the course is to consider the nature-and desirability- Constitutional principles; organization and operation of the national of citizenship, both as an ideal and as applied (if possible) in the government; and dynamics of power within the U.S. political system. global context. What exactly does it mean to be a “citizen?” Does Attribute/Distribution: SS citizenship require particular actions, thoughts, or values? What are the legal, political, and moral obligations of this designation? What POLS 003 (GS 003) Comparative Politics 4 Credits exactly do you owe to your neighbor, or to someone on the other side The political systems of foreign countries; approaches to the study of of the world? Readings range from Socrates to the Manefesto of the comparative politics. Unabomber. Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 100 (GS 100, PHIL 100) Introduction to Political Thought 4 POLS 109 Introduction to Public Policy 4 Credits Credits Introduces students to the basic theories, principles, institutions, and A critical examination of political ideologies: Liberalism, Marxism, processes of public policy in the U.S. The objectives are to provide Fascism, and Islamism. students with an understanding of how social problems are defined, POLS 101 Ancient Political Heritage 4 Credits how potential solutions to those problems move through the policy Important political thinkers from the pre-Socratics to early, modern process, and gain an empirical perspective on the consequences, as political theorists like Machiavelli. well as insight regarding the normative dimensions of policy making. Attribute/Distribution: SS Students will develop knowledge of the framework for understanding POLS 102 Modern Political Heritage 4 Credits policy and engage in critical thinking regarding the nature of policy. Begins where POLS 101 ends: from early, modern theorists (e.g., Attribute/Distribution: SS Hobbes) up to contemporary thinkers (e.g., Marcuse). POLS 110 (ES 110, HMS 110) Environmental Planning for Healthy Attribute/Distribution: SS Cities 4 Credits POLS 103 Introduction to Public Administration 4 Credits An introduction to the topic of environmental planning, the course This course presents the intellectual history of the study of public will review the roles of citizens, other stakeholders, political interests, administration in a manner that is intended to inform career choices and local governments in determining the use of land; unpack for those who might consider public service and provide a broad the meaning of "sustainability;" and grapple with the challenge of introduction to the field of public administration. Students will gain a balancing communities' demand for development with the need to comprehensive perspective on the public administration discipline protect valuable natural resources. Students will be introduced to by exploring the pervasive puzzles, ethical dilemmas, and the critical examples of successful and unsuccessful instances of environmental issues in governance to date. planning both at home and abroad. Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 104 (SOC 104) Political Sociology 4 Credits POLS 115 Technology As Politics 4 Credits An introduction to political sociology through an examination of the Relationship of technology and technological change with politics and major sociological questions concerning power, politics, and the state. public policy. Review of theories of political significance of technology, Covers questions concerning state formation, nationalism, social including technological determinism, technology assessment, movements, globalization, political culture and participation, and civil technological progress and appropriate technology. Specific issues in society. technology with emphasis on U.S. Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 105 (ES 105) US Environmental Policy and Law 4 Credits POLS 126 (REL 126) Religion, Law and Constitution 4 Credits Analysis of the framework that has been established to protect the An examination of the relationship of religion to American law and environment and promote sustainable growth. Focus on the roles the United States Constitution. Course will focus on Supreme Court of the different branches of the U.S. government and the relative decisions involving the "establishment" and "free exercise" clauses of responsibilities of state and local governments within this framework. the First Amendment. Attention will also be given to the intellectual, Consideration of the political nature of environmental issues and the historical, religious and theological background behind the American social forces influencing environmental protection in different areas of experiment in "church-state" separation, including the thought of domestic environmental policy, such as climate change, toxic waste Roger Williams, the Founders (Washington, Jefferson, Madison), and disposal, and natural resources conservation. contemporary analysts (e.g., M. Nussbaum). Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: HU POLS 106 (ES 106) Environmental Values and Ethics 4 Credits POLS 133 (AAS 133, FREN 133, HIST 133, LAS 133, MLL 133) An introduction to the ethical perspectives and values that shape Lehigh in Martinique: Globalization and Local Identity 3-4 Credits human relationships to the natural environment in contemporary History, culture, and politics of the French Caribbean island of society. What are the moral implications of these relationships for Martinique, from its position as a key site of the 18th century Atlantic justice and human collective action? Given these implications, what World economy to becoming an official French department and policy responses to environmental problems are morally or politically outpost of the European Union. Interdisciplinary perspectives on the justifiable? In answering these questions, the course explores ethical complex nature of social identity, historical memory and impact of ideas developed in different schools of environmental thought, globalization. No French is required. Offered during winter inter-term such as deep ecology and ecofeminism, in addition to ideas that through Lehigh Study Abroad. emerge from social movements, such as environmental justice and POLS 179 (WGSS 179) Politics of Women 4 Credits bioregionalism. Selected social and political issues relating to the role of women in Attribute/Distribution: SS American society. Focuses on such questions as economic equality, POLS 107 The Politics of the Environment 4 Credits poverty, and work roles, the older woman, gender gap, political A survey of the major environmental, resource, energy and population leadership, reproduction technology, and sexual violence. problems of modern society, focusing on the United States. The Attribute/Distribution: SS politics of man’s relationship with nature, the political problems of ecological scarcity and public goods, and the response of the American political system to environmental issues. Attribute/Distribution: SS 2 Political Science (POLS)

POLS 201 (ASIA 201, GS 201) South Asian Politics 4 Credits POLS 274 Political Parties and Elections 4 Credits Examines the politics of countries in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Study of the organization, functions and behavior of political parties in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives). Some of the United States. Includes voting behavior, campaigns and elections, the key themes are 1) the lasting legacy of colonialism, 2) ways in polling, interest groups, public opinion and the role of the media. which ethnic and religious diversity is managed, 3) distinctiveness of Attribute/Distribution: SS political institutions like parliament and constitutions in South Asia, POLS 300 Apprentice Teaching 1-4 Credits and 4) how politics, economics, and culture relate to one another. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. The focus of the course changes each year in order to reflect current developments and student interest. POLS 301 Current Political Controversies 4 Credits Attribute/Distribution: SS Selected topical policy issues and alternative approaches to understanding them. Includes the major domestic questions facing the POLS 202 Mock Trial 1 Credit U.S. Emphasis is on debating the current issues of the day. This class interacts closely with Lehigh Mock Trial. Students will Attribute/Distribution: SS begin the year by learning the structure of a typical trial, rules of evidence and methods of persuasive argumentation. As the course POLS 302 Comparative State Politics 4 Credits develops, students will work to craft a case based on evidence, Analysis of major questions relating to the role of the states in the depositions, and case materials provided by AMTA (The American American federal system and their relationship with the national Mock Trial Association). At the conclusion of the semester, students government. will, optionally, compete with Lehigh Mock Trial at local tournaments Attribute/Distribution: SS and, eventually, the AMTA regional tournaments. POLS 305 (AAS 305, ES 305) Residential Segregation: Policies POLS 205 (AAS 205) The Political Development of American Race and Practices 4 Credits Relations 4 Credits This course is an introductory planning course, with an emphasis This course examines the distinctive role race has played in shaping on housing and community development policy. It will examine the political history of the United States. historical and contemporary aspects of urban politics; the economic, Attribute/Distribution: SS demographic, and spatial evolution of American cities; and various urban problems, such as the spatial mismatch between people and POLS 210 (AAS 210, WGSS 210) Revolution on Campus 4 Credits jobs, housing quality and affordability, and residential segregation. Universities are often sites of political protest. Some of these protests Finally, the course will review how planners have addressed are expressive but ineffective, others can spark revolutions and conditions in cities and regions over time. regime change. Why? What distinguishes universities as sites for Attribute/Distribution: SS resistance? What makes students prone to mobilization? The study of politics can seem like an abstract pursuit, one that is not relevant POLS 306 Public Policy Process 3-4 Credits to our lives. This course takes the scholarly literature on social Power relations and their impacts on selected public policy issues, movements and applies it to the university. Students will engage in specifically taxation, housing, environment, poverty, energy, the social activism as part of this course. military, and health. Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 225 (IR 225) International Political Economy 4 Credits POLS 307 (HMS 307) The Politics of Mental Health Policy 4 Principles governing the interaction between the economic and Credits political components of international phenomena. Political aspects of What is normal behavior, and how do we come to understand mental trade, investment, and global economic order. Political underpinnings illness? How do the resulting policies, to address mental health, of international economic relations. Domestic and international impact society? This course is designed to facilitate thoughtful political consequences of economic policy and international economic discourse on the various ways in which society regulates access to relations. opportunities, facilitates integration or alienation, and constructs the Prerequisites: IR 010 and ECO 001 social world. Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 309 (ENTP 309) Nonprofit Administration 4 Credits POLS 230 (AAS 230) Social Movements From the 1960s to This course will address key questions in nonprofit sector research, Present 4 Credits policy, and management and familiarize students with factors that The lessons of U.S. social and political movements from the 1960s tend to make the nonprofit sector distinct. Students will gain an and the post-2000 era. Students examine social movements through understanding of the scope and character of nonprofit activity in the lens of intersectionality, with a focus on civil rights, anti-war the U.S. and abroad. We will explore current debates in nonprofit activism, women’s rights, global justice, and ecology movements, to policy and evaluate critical challenges facing the organization and assess their connection to democracy and citizens’ lives. management of nonprofits. Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 232 War on Terror in Politics, Media, and Memory 4 Credits POLS 310 (ENTP 310) Social Entrepreneurship: How to Change Examines the meaning of the US war on terrorism as interpreted the World 4 Credits and disputed in American politics, the mass media, and private The marketplace does not always have to be harsh. Social and public memory. Reviews the political history and context of the entrepreneurship uses market-based approaches to address needs war, personal experiences and critical perspectives on the war, and and solve problems in our society. Students in this seminar-style characterizations of the war in mainstream news media and popular course will learn how to identify community problems, convince the film. community that it is a problem worth solving, design the response, Attribute/Distribution: SS and implement it. Hands-on projects. Must have at least junior standing or consent of the minor director. POLS 240 Law and Order. The Politics of Crime and Punishment Attribute/Distribution: SS 4 Credits This course explores the legal and political consequences of various theories of crime, punishment and social control in the United States. Topics include policing, racial profiling, trial court proceedings and the administration of justice, growing incarceration rates and the prison industry, capital punishment, the jury system, and the nature of legal obligation. Attribute/Distribution: SS Lehigh University 2021-22 3

POLS 311 (ES 311) Environmental Valuation for Policy Design 4 POLS 321 Research In Political Science 4 Credits Credits Models in the explanation of political phenomena, appropriateness of Seminar on how to value the environment for the purpose of designing measurement techniques; construction of research designs; rationale and analyzing environmental policies. Review of the "contingent and application of statistical analyses; individual projects involving the valuation method" currently used to price environmental resources, construction and testing of models employing a major social science and assessment of this method's empirical and normative strengths data set. Consent of instructor required. and weaknesses. Evaluation of "deliberative monetary valuation" as Attribute/Distribution: SS an improved method for environmental assessment. Consideration of POLS 322 The Politics of Data 4 Credits non-monetary approaches to environmental valuation as alternatives Rapid advances in methods of data collection and analysis raise new to understanding the environment's relationship to human well-being political questions about how public institutions, the private sector, and in policy contexts. individuals produce, use, and share data. This course examines how Attribute/Distribution: SS the emergence of data-driven decision-making is reshaping politics, POLS 312 (ES 312) Urban Environmental Policy Workshop 4 exploring issues of inclusiveness, equality, privacy, and democratic Credits accountability. We pay particular attention to how new methods An urban environmental planning and policy course in which students of data analysis contribute to the exercise of power. If algorithms explore an issue affecting the local community, evaluate current policy are not "neutral," then who is privileged in their use, diffusion and responses and possible alternatives, and present recommendations to management? public officials, local organizations, and community members. Student Prerequisites: POLS 003 research and analysis will draw on primary and secondary data, as Attribute/Distribution: SS well as feedback from conducting individual interviews, focus groups, POLS 323 Politics Of The European Union 4 Credits and community meetings. Prior projects include determining how The institutions and policy-making processes of the European Bethlehem's new City Revitalization improvement Zone (CRIZ) might Union. Topics include the creation of the single market and the euro, best benefit the South Side of Bethlehem, PA. environmental and agricultural policy, regional development and the Attribute/Distribution: SS policy challenges of eastward enlargement. POLS 314 (ES 314) Urban Agriculture Policy, Planning and Prerequisites: POLS 003 or IR 010 Practice 4 Credits Attribute/Distribution: SS Review of urban agriculture and greening programs in growing social POLS 324 Politics Of Western Europe 3,4 Credits movement to strengthen neighborhoods, promote healthier living, and Comparative discussion of systems of government in Western Europe create localized and sustainable food economies. Students consider and of major policy questions facing these states in the post-war era. these programs in relation to national farm policy and develop urban Topics include the evolution of social welfare systems, the impact agriculture projects with community partners. Case studies illustrate of economic crises and globalization on Western European political how improving food access, beautifying vacant land, and reducing economy, and immigration and identity politics. farm-to-table distances, are creatively and successfully combined. Prerequisites: POLS 003 Students will receive hands-on gardening and farming experience at a Attribute/Distribution: SS community garden. Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 325 (GS 325) Nationalism, Regionalism, and Populism 3,4 Credits POLS 317 The American Presidency 3-4 Credits Examination of major theoretical and policy debates in the study of Role of the executive in the American political process. Includes an nationalism. Focus on the emergence and endurance of nationalist analysis of the historical development, selection process, and scope movements in the modern era, the spread of autonomy movements, of executive power. Emphasizes domestic and foreign policy initiatives and the recent rise of populist politics. Discussion of responses to of selected presidents from FDR to today. nationalist claims and efforts to resolve nationalist conflict. Prerequisites: (POLS 001) Prerequisites: POLS 003 Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 326 Organizing For Democracy 3-4 Credits POLS 319 (ES 319) Mapping Data for Policymaking 4 Credits Seminar on the theory and practice of community and political This research methods course teaches students to highlight important organizing and their relationship with democracy and power in the conditions and trends – ones that warrant policymakers’ attention – United States, complementing semester-long student field placements using publicly available data sources (like the Census). Conveying with community groups and local organizations. Student teams help information in a clear and persuasive way, one that motivates enhance the political voice of under-resourced community groups decision-makers to act, is a key step in any policymaking process. through organization-building, outreach, and policy input at the local Students will become familiar with these databases and proficient at level. Consent of instructor required. generating charts, graphs and maps using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Attribute/Distribution: SS Access, and ArcMAP (three programs central to most jobs in policy- related fields). POLS 328 (ES 328) U.S. Politics and the Environment 4 Credits Attribute/Distribution: SS An examination of contemporary American politics and policy dealing with environmental issues. Current controversies in the legislative and POLS 320 (ES 320, HMS 320) Food Justice in Urban regulatory areas will be covered to examine environmental issues and Environments 4 Credits the political process. Significant portions of the course readings will be This course will review how urban agriculture and city greening taken from government publications. programs and policies are part of a growing movement working to Attribute/Distribution: SS strengthen neighborhoods, promote healthier living, and create more localized and sustainable food economies. This class will explore POLS 329 Propaganda, Media, and American Politics 4 Credits research and readings from multiple disciplines on these programs The role of propaganda and mass media in sustaining hegemony and policies, and will also delve into individual case studies that in the United States. Emphasis on television, advertising and mass illustrate how efforts to improve food access, beautify vacant land, culture, public relations, news media, and political propaganda and reduce farm-to-table distances get creatively and successfully pertaining to U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Students compare combined. critical counter-hegemonic theories to political speeches, documents, Attribute/Distribution: SS news reports, and media encounters that shape much of American political life. Attribute/Distribution: SS 4 Political Science (POLS)

POLS 331 Community Politics Internship 4 Credits POLS 342 (GS 342, WGSS 342) Gender and Third World Integrated fieldwork and academic study. Seminar, research paper, Development 3-4 Credits and journal; internship with government and social service agencies, Focus on gender implications of contemporary strategies for Third political groups, elected officials, and law offices. Consent of instructor World economic growth, neo-liberalism. How do economic theories required. affect ‘real people?’ How do economic theories affect men vs. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. women? What is the role of people who want to ‘help?’ Some Attribute/Distribution: ND background in economic theories and/or Third World politics desired, POLS 332 (SOC 332) The Politics of Inequality 4 Credits but not required. Examines the politics of gender, racial, and economic inequality Prerequisites: POLS 001 or WGSS 001 in the U.S. Explores the effects of growing inequality on political Attribute/Distribution: SS representation, and the impact of government policy on perpetuating POLS 343 (AAS 343, ASIA 343, GS 343) Global Politics of Race: inequality. Class consciousness, and its effects on political beliefs and Asia and Africa 4 Credits behavior, are examined. An examination of the concept of “race” and its impact on domestic Attribute/Distribution: SS and international politics. POLS 333 Social Psychology of Politics 4 Credits Attribute/Distribution: SS Political behavior viewed from a psychological and social POLS 348 Land Use, Growth Management, and the Politics of psychological perspective. Sprawl 3-4 Credits Prerequisites: (ANTH 001 or SOC 001 or PSYC 001) An intro to the issues of Land Use Planning, Community, Growth Attribute/Distribution: SS Mgmt, & Sprawl. Will examine the history of urban development in POLS 335 Latin American Political Systems 4 Credits America, from the earliest settlements to the auto suburbs. Also Democratic, authoritarian and revolutionary paths to contemporary explore such planning & development factors as comprehensive political issues. Political, economic and social implications of plans, zoning, & the influence of infrastructure on development. contemporary “democratic” regimes and neo-liberal economic policies. Concludes with an assessment of the revival of city centers, Discussion groups and student presentations on prospects for alternatives to sprawl, & comparisons to development patterns in democratic peace and prosperity in the future. other countries. Prerequisites: (POLS 003) Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 349 (WGSS 349) American Social Policy: Race, Class, POLS 336 U.S. Foreign Policy and Latin America 3-4 Credits Gender and Sexuality 4 Credits U.S. historical relationship with Central America, Caribbean and This course examines criminal justice, housing, health, education, South America with emphasis on economic and military dominance. and welfare policies across US states through the lenses of class, Contemporary issues such as U.S. invasions of Panama and race, gender, and sexuality. Students will learn how social regulations Grenada, U.S. Cuban relations, the militarization of the “drug war,” structure opportunities and assess the implications of those counter-insurgency. Written analysis of competing U.S. interests opportunity strucures. across time and regions. POLS 350 Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective 4 Prerequisites: (POLS 003) Credits Attribute/Distribution: SS This research seminar attempts to identify the conditions under which POLS 337 Religion and Politics in Latin America 4 Credits religious parties arise and become influential, how religion influences Indigenous and “imported” religious structures, the prominent role popular understandings of secular politics and the extent to which of the Catholic Church in Latin America, and the recent explosion religion is a necessary feature of modern public discourse. These of Protestant/ Pentecostal churches. Emphasis on the intersection topics are explored through country specific cases from around the of religious belief and power (i.e., gender, local politics, national world. development, etc.). Short papers integrate material with students’ Attribute/Distribution: SS knowledge of religious/political phenomena. Discussion groups POLS 351 Constitutional Law and Politics 4 Credits analyze philosophical foundations of belief. Exploration of the process of legal reasoning, the place of the United Prerequisites: (POLS 003 and POLS 336) States Supreme Court in the American political system, the multiple Attribute/Distribution: SS influences on judicial decision-making, and various interpretive POLS 338 Markets, Justice, And Law 3,4 Credits debates over the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Following this The exploration of the various ways in which markets shape cultural, introduction to the interplay of law and politics, the focus turns to social, ethical, and political practices in contemporary society. particular domains within the canon of constitutional law, including Normative justification for market as an institutional arrangement that cases pertaining to the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction and capacity; is neutral between different views of “the good”. Ethical critique of the separation of powers between the three branches of government; this normative justification and implications of the critique for law and federalism. policy. Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 352 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 4 Credits POLS 339 (ASIA 339) The Rise of the State in Modern East Asia 4 A continuation of themes, issues, and debates of the previous Credits semester (POLS 351). This course addresses the major cases and An examination of the role of Asian nationalism in the construction of controversies within several legal domains, including the freedoms of the modern state form in Asia. and from religion; freedom of speech; freedom of association; freedom Attribute/Distribution: SS of the press; the right to bear arms; the rights of criminal defendants and suspects; the right to privacy; capital punishment; and, the equal POLS 340 Domination 4 Credits protection of the law. Is hierarchy in human societies inevitable? How do we make sense Attribute/Distribution: SS of justice and equality if domination is an inescapable aspect of the social world? Our consideration of these questions will draw on a POLS 354 (HMS 354) U.S. Health Care Politics 4 Credits wide range of literatures including primatology, political philosophy, Health care programs, policies, and their impact on American anthropology, and gender studies. We will also use non-academic society. Topics include approaches to health care; public sector sources such as films and novels to explore the world of domination plans (Medicare and Medicaid); managed care; the employer- and resistance. sponsored system; medically uninsured; vested interests and Attribute/Distribution: SS lobbyists; movements for national health care; and options for change. Attribute/Distribution: SS Lehigh University 2021-22 5

POLS 355 (ES 355) Environmental Justice: From Theory to POLS 366 (ES 366) Advanced Environmental Policy 4 Credits Practice 4 Credits An introduction to the history of domestic environmental policy and This course explores the various ways in which environmental law contemporary policy trends, such as the rise of legal adversarialism and policy can have discriminatory effects. It examines the rise and and public participation in regulatory decisions. The role of market evolution of environmental justice movement, and the impact of instruments in policy implementation, the emergence of rights- environmental justice claims on administration policies, especially based approaches to environmental protection, and the role and at the federal level. Considering the role of politics in the ongoing value of distributional analysis will also be covered. Students will struggle for environmental justice, it reviews theories of substantive develop knowledge of a particular area of environmental policy at the and procedural justice, and uses them to consider strategies for federal, state, and/or level depending on their interests and current advancing equity in environmental law and policy. opportunities. Prerequisites: POLS 105 or ES 105 Prerequisites: POLS 105 or ES 105 Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 356 Seminar: Political Philosophy 3-4 Credits POLS 367 (PHIL 367) American Political Thought 3-4 Credits Critical examination of several of the “great books” and/or “great A critical examination of American political thought from the founding ideas” in political thought. Students will help select the material for of the Republic to the present. Writings from Madison, Hamilton, and critical discussion. Jefferson to Emma Goldman, Mary Daly, Malcolm X, Henry Kariel, Attribute/Distribution: SS and others will be discussed. POLS 357 Politics Of Authenticity 4 Credits Attribute/Distribution: SS Works in political philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, literature, POLS 368 Political Economy 3-4 Credits and film that discuss knowing and being one’s self will be critically Relationship of democratic politics to government and market, and discussed. If you feel a life of “quiet desperation” is inevitable, this significance of economic power in the American polity. Economic course is for you. rationale for the place of the market and economic institutions Attribute/Distribution: SS in polity. Emphasis on information in comparison of economic POLS 358 Interest Groups, Power, and Democracy in American approaches to public policy and organization (public goods, market Politics 4 Credits failure, and collective action) with traditional political science Examines the competition for power in American politics between approaches (group mobilization and conflict, non-decisions and business groups, professional organizations, citizens groups, and symbolic action). social movements. Evaluates claims about the rise of upper-class Attribute/Distribution: SS dominance in politics, and what implications this trend may have for POLS 369 (ASIA 369, GS 369, WGSS 369) Women's Movement in American democracy in an era of rising economic inequality. China 4 Credits Attribute/Distribution: SS We will examine the state-sponsored, state-directed mass movement POLS 359 U.S.Congress 3-4 Credits for the liberation of Chinese women. Beginning with Confucian notions Elections for the House and Senate and their significance for the way of mother/daughterhood, to imperial system, to the role of women in in which Congress functions. The formal structure of party leadership the founding and establishment of the Communist Party of China, to and committees, House and Senate organizational and functional the participation of women and girls in the Great Proletarian Cultural differences, and informal and formal power of legislation and Revolution. Gender equality issues have been a central focus of the oversight. Congressional relations with the president, bureaucracy, Party. The class will look at post-reform era women's status and ask, and Supreme Court. “did the Party liberate women?” Prerequisites: POLS 001 Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 370 Seminar: The Citizen versus the Administrative State 4 POLS 360 Public Administration 3-4 Credits Credits The nature of administration; problems of organization and Administrative power and policy. Constitutional and judicial control of management; public personnel policies; budgeting and budgetary administration. Remedies against improper administrative acts. Major system; forms of administrative responsibility. emphasis will be on the United States, with some attention given to Attribute/Distribution: SS analogous issues in other countries. Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 363 Public Opinion Research 4 Credits This course examines fundamental processes and tools employed in POLS 373 Globalization and Social Well-Being 4 Credits public opinion research. This class is designed to provide students This course examines how the various dimensions of globalization with the ability to develop, implement and evaluate various forms impact people by exploring factors that reflect and affect quality of of public opinion research including surveys, focus groups and life. Students will gain an understanding of the complexities resulting individual interviews.Students will be introduced to numerous aspects from the growing interconnectedness and interdependencies of global of public opinion research including questionnaire design, sampling, relations. The course is intended to get people thinking creatively interviewing, data analysis, focus group moderation, and varied forms about opportunities for connections that preserve human dignity. of data collection. Attribute/Distribution: SS Attribute/Distribution: SS POLS 375 (ES 375) Seminar: Green Polity 4 Credits POLS 364 (PHIL 364) Issues In Contemporary Political Development of guidelines and applications for public policy and Philosophy 3-4 Credits political action directed toward environmental sustainability and Selected topics in contemporary political philosophy, such as the political feasibility. Focus on problem-solving and policy design, Frankfurt school, existentialism, legitimation, authenticity, participatory connecting sustainable environmental goals with workable and democracy, and the alleged decline of political philosophy. May be responsive institutional designs. repeated for credit with the consent of instructor. Attribute/Distribution: SS Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. POLS 376 Seminar: National Social Policy 3-4 Credits Attribute/Distribution: SS A readings/research seminar on current social policy questions. analyzes, from alternatives political perspectives, such issues as Social Security, Medicare, health care, welfare reform, income inequality, and taxation. Students research a specific social issue of their choice. Class discussion on individual research and common readings. Attribute/Distribution: SS 6 Political Science (POLS)

POLS 378 Honors Thesis In Political Science 1-4 Credits POLS 408 American Politics Core 3 Credits Opportunity for undergraduate majors in Political Science to pursue an A survey of American politics utilizing readings reflecting a variety of extended project for senior honors. Department permission required. methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives. Readings Attribute/Distribution: SS include but are not limited to works widely regarded as “classics” in POLS 379 Honors Thesis In Political Science 1-4 Credits American political science. Continuation of POLS 378. Consent of department required. POLS 409 Nonprofit Administration 3 Credits Prerequisites: POLS 378 This course will address key questions in nonprofit sector research, Attribute/Distribution: SS policy, and management and familiarize students with factors that POLS 381 Special Topics 1-4 Credits tend to make the nonprofit sector distinct. Students will gain an A seminar on a topic of special interest in a particular political understanding of the scope and character of nonprofit activity in institution, process, or policy. Consent of department chair required. the U.S. and abroad. We will explore current debates in nonprofit Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. policy and evaluate critical challenges facing the organization and Attribute/Distribution: SS management of nonprofits. POLS 382 Special Topics 1-4 Credits POLS 411 (ES 411) Environmental Valuation for Policy Design 3 A seminar on a topic of special interest in a particular political Credits institution, process, or policy. Consent of department chair required. Seminar on how to value the environment for the purpose of designing Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. and analyzing environmental policies. Review of the "contingent Attribute/Distribution: SS valuation method" currently used to price environmental resources, and assessment of this method's empirical and normative strengths POLS 400 Research in Politics and Public Policy 3 Credits and weaknesses. Evaluation of "deliberative monetary valuation" as Provides students from a diverse array of academic backgrounds an improved method for environmental assessment. Consideration of with an introduction to politics and public policy. Research topics will non-monetary approaches to environmental valuation as alternatives vary by instructor, with a primary emphasis on research in American to understanding the environment's relationship to human well-being politics, comparative politics, and public policy. in policy contexts. POLS 402 Methods Of Policy Analysis 3 Credits POLS 412 (ES 412) Urban Environmental Policy Workshop 3 Approaches or models used to analyze public policy. Assumptions Credits underlying each model and critiques of each; may include a number An urban environmental planning and policy course in which students of the following approaches: institutional, process, rational, group, explore an issue affecting the local community, evaluate current policy incremental, and/or elite. responses and possible alternatives, and present recommendations to POLS 403 Creativity, Ideas, and Methods in Political Science 3 public officials, local organizations, and community members. Student Credits research and analysis will draw on primary and secondary data, as Explores the challenges and creative possibilities of turning ‘research well as feedback from conducting individual interviews, focus groups, interests’ into doable research projects – such as research papers, and community meetings. Prior projects include determining how MA theses, or doctoral dissertations. Discusses the domains of Bethlehem's new City Revitalization improvement Zone (CRIZ) might qualitative methodology and how social scientists seek to understand, best benefit the South Side of Bethlehem, PA. represent, and analyze the social world. Topics: the politics of POLS 413 Modern Political Philosophy 3 Credits interpretation, observation, and quantification in social research, and A study of selected modern political philosophers and their continuing critiques of assumptions about power and causality. effect on politics and political philosophy. POLS 404 Environmental Valuation: Policy Design/Legal Analysis POLS 414 (ES 414) Urban Agriculture Policy, Planning and 3 Credits Practice 3 Credits Review of the “contingent valuation method” for pricing environmental Review of urban agriculture and greening programs in growing social resources. Assessment of the empirical and normative strengths movement to strengthen neighborhoods, promote healthier living, and and weakness of this method. Evaluation of the recent turn to create localized and sustainable food economies. Students consider “deliberative” methods of resource valuation. Consideration of these programs in relation to national farm policy and develop urban empirical and normative problems and common problems that agriculture projects with community partners. Case studies illustrate challenge resource valuation. how improving food access, beautifying vacant land, and reducing POLS 405 (ES 405) Residential Segregation: Policies and farm-to-table distances, are creatively and successfully combined. Practices 3 Credits Students will receive hands-on gardening and farming experience at a This course is an introductory planning course, with an emphasis community garden. on housing and community development policy. It will examine POLS 415 State and Local Government 3 Credits historical and contemporary aspects of urban politics; the economic, Comparative state government, urban politics, intergovernmental demographic, and spatial evolution of American cities; and various relations, regional and local government. urban problems, such as the spatial mismatch between people and jobs, housing quality and affordability, and residential segregation. POLS 416 American Environmental Policy 3 Credits Finally, the course will review how planners have addressed Formation, implementation and impact of environmental policies in conditions in cities and regions over time. the U.S. An examination of the scope of environmental problems, the development of environment as an issue, the role of interest POLS 406 Public Policy Process 3 Credits groups and public opinion, the policy-making process, and the various Power relations and their impacts on selected public policy issues, approaches to implementing environmental policy. Special attention specifically taxation, housing, environment, poverty, energy, the to current issues and administrative approaches and to the distinctive military, and health. character of environmental protection as a political issue. POLS 407 The Politics of Mental Health Policy 3 Credits POLS 419 (ES 419) Mapping Data for Policymaking 3 Credits What is normal behavior, and how do we come to understand mental This research methods course teaches students to highlight important illness? How do the resulting policies, to address mental health, conditions and trends – ones that warrant policymakers’ attention – impact society? This course is designed to facilitate thoughtful using publicly available data sources (like the Census). Conveying discourse on the various ways in which society regulates access to information in a clear and persuasive way, one that motivates opportunities, facilitates integration or alienation, and constructs the decision-makers to act, is a key step in any policymaking process. social world. Students will become familiar with these databases and proficient at generating charts, graphs and maps using Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, and ArcMAP (three programs central to most jobs in policy- related fields). Lehigh University 2021-22 7

POLS 420 (ES 420) Food Justice in Urban Environments 3 POLS 430 Social Movements From the 1960s to Present 3 Credits Credits The lessons of U.S. social and political movements from the 1960s This course will review how urban agriculture and city greening and the post 2000 era. Students examine social movements through programs and policies are part of a growing movement working to the lens of intersectionality with a focus on civil rights, anti-war strengthen neighborhoods, promote healthier living, and create more activism, women’s rights, global justice, and ecology movements, to localized and sustainable food economies. This class will explore assess their connection to democracy, citizens' lives. research and readings from multiple disciplines on these programs POLS 431 Public Administration 3 Credits and policies, and will also delve into individual case studies that The nature of administration; problems of organization and illustrate how efforts to improve food access, beautify vacant land, management; public personnel policies; budgeting and budgetary and reduce farm-to-table distances get creatively and successfully system; forms of administrative responsibility. combined. POLS 432 The Politics of Inequality 3 Credits POLS 421 Research Methods 3 Credits Examines the politics of gender, racial, and economic inequality Models in the explanation of political phenomena, appropriateness of in the U.S. Explores the effects of growing inequality on political measurement techniques; construction of research designs; rationale representation, and the impact of government policy on perpetuating and application of statistical analyses; individual projects involving the inequality. Class consciousness, and its effects on political beliefs and construction and testing of models employing a major social science behavior, are examined. data set. POLS 433 The Politics Of Health Care 3 Credits POLS 422 The Politics of Data 3 Credits Examines the politics of American health care and its impact Rapid advances in methods of data collection and analysis raise new on society. Issues ranging from the role of the private sector to political questions about how public institutions, the private sector, and government-supported programs; focus on ways to restructure the individuals produce, use, and share data. This course examines how system, based on alternatives in selected nations. the emergence of data-driven decision-making is reshaping politics, exploring issues of inclusiveness, equality, privacy, and democratic POLS 435 Power, Persuasion and the American Presidency 3 accountability. We pay particular attention to how new methods Credits of data analysis contribute to the exercise of power. If algorithms Examination of selected modern presidents, from FDR to the are not "neutral," then who is privileged in their use, diffusion and current occupant of the White House, and their effectiveness as management? communicators and policy makers. POLS 423 Politics Of The European Union 3 Credits POLS 438 Markets, Justice, And Law 3 Credits The institutions and policy-making processes of the EU. Topics The exploration of the various ways in which markets shape cultural, include the creation of the single market and the euro, environmental social, ethical, and political practices in contemporary society. and agricultural policy, regional development and the policy Normative justification for market as an institutional arrangement that challenges of eastward enlargement. is neutral between different views of “the good”. Ethical critique of this normative justification and implications of the critique for law and POLS 425 Nationalism,Regionalism, and Populism 3 Credits policy. Examination of major theoretical and policy debates in the study of nationalism. Focus on the emergence and endurance of nationalist POLS 439 The Rise of the State in Modern East Asia 3 Credits movements in the modern era, the spread of autonomy movements, An examination of the role of Asian nationalism in the construction of and the recent rise of populist politics. Discussion of responses to the modern state form in Asia. nationalist claims and efforts to resolve nationalist conflict. POLS 440 Domination 3 Credits POLS 426 Organizing For Democracy 3 Credits Is hierarchy in human societies inevitable? How do we make sense Seminar on the theory and practice of community and political of justice and equality if domination is an inescapable aspect of the organizing and their relationship with democracy and power in the social world? Our consideration of these questions will draw on a United States, complementing semester-long student field placements wide range of literatures including primatology, political philosophy, with community groups and local organizations. Student teams help anthropology, and gender studies. We will also use non-academic enhance the political voice of under-resourced community groups sources such as films and novels to explore the world of domination through organization-building, outreach, and policy input at the local and resistance. level. Consent of instructor required. POLS 443 Global Politics of Race: Asia and Africa 3 Credits POLS 427 American Democracy: Decline or Revival? 3 Credits An examination of the concept of “race” and its impact on domestic Theories of democracy, analysis of its decline, and possible scenarios and international politics. for a revived democratic culture. Research projects on topics of POLS 447 Constitutional Law and Politics 3 Credits personal interest; class participation in hands-on project in local Exploration of the process of legal reasoning, the place of the United democracy-building. States Supreme Court in the American political System, the multiple POLS 428 Media & Democracy 3 Credits influences on judicial decision-making, and various interpretive General & theoretical considerations about democracy, the political debates over the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. Following this economy of the mass media, and analysis of ways in which the media introduction to the interplay of law and politics, the focus turns to influence political discourse in the United States and globalized media particular domains within the canon of constitutional law, including culture. Hands-on analysis of media samples: news coverage, political cases pertaining to the Supreme Court's jurisdiction and capacity; advertising, public relations advertising, and interactive learning on the separation of powers between the three branches of government; how group might utilize the media to express its voice effectively. federalism. POLS 429 Propaganda, Media & American Politics 3 Credits POLS 448 (HIST 448) Land Use, Growth Management, and the The role of propaganda and mass media in sustaining hegemony Politics of Sprawl 3 Credits in the United States. Emphasis on television, advertising and mass An intro to the issues of Land Use Planning, Community, Growth culture, public relations, news media, and political propaganda Mgmt, & Sprawl. Will examine the history of urban development in pertaining to U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Students compare America, from the earliest settlements to the auto suburbs. Also critical, counter-hegemonic theories to political speeches, documents, explore such planning & development factors as comprehensive news reports, and media encounters that shape much of American plans, zoning, & the influence of infrastructure on development. political life. Concludes with an assessment of the revival of city centers, alternatives to sprawl, & comparisons to development patterns in other countries. 8 Political Science (POLS)

POLS 449 (WGSS 449) American Social Policy: Race, Class, POLS 463 Public Opinion Research 3 Credits Gender and Sexuality 3 Credits This course examines fundamental processes and tools employed in This course examines criminal justice, housing, health, education, public opinion research. This class is designed to provide students and welfare policies across US states through the lenses of class, with the ability to develop, implement and evaluate various forms of race, gender, and sexuality. Students will learn how social regulations public opinion research including surveys, focus groups and individual structure opportunities and assess the implications of those interviews. Students will be introduced to numerous aspects of opportunity strucures. public opinion research including questionnaire design, sampling, POLS 450 Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective 3 interviewing, data analysis, focus group moderation, and varied forms Credits of data collection. This research seminar attempts to identify the conditions under which POLS 464 Community Fellowship I 3 Credits religious parties arise and become influential, how religion influences 15 hours/week in regional agency on specific project relating to popular understandings of secular politics and the extent to which regional redevelopment with regularly scheduled contact hours with religion is a necessary feature of modern public discourse. These the faculty advisor. topics are explored through country specific cases from around the POLS 465 Community Fellowship II 3 Credits world. 15 hours/week in regional agency on specific project relating to POLS 451 Comparative Politics Core 3 Credits regional redevelopment with regularly scheduled contact hours with Discussion of major recent works in comparative politics that the faculty advisor. exemplify on-going substantive debates and methodological problems POLS 466 (ES 466) Advanced Environmental Policy 3 Credits in the field. Topics: state-building and the construction of social order, An introduction to the history of domestic environmental policy and institutions, political economy, democracy, development, and political contemporary policy trends, such as the rise of legal adversarialism mobilization. and public participation in regulatory decisions. The role of market POLS 452 Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 3 Credits instruments in policy implementation, the emergence of rights- A continuation of themes, issues, and debates of the previous based approaches to environmental protection, and the role and semester (Constitutional Law and Politics). This course addresses the value of distributional analysis will also be covered. Students will major cases and controversies within several legal domains, including develop knowledge of a particular area of environmental policy at the the freedoms of and from religion; freedom of speech; freedom of federal, state, and/or level depending on their interests and current association; freedom of the press; the right to bear arms; the rights opportunities. of criminal defendants and suspects; the right to privacy; capital POLS 467 Legal Problems 3 Credits punishment; and, the equal protection of the law. This course involves an examination of the role of legal rules, agents, POLS 453 Seminar: Media, Propaganda and Democracy 3 Credits institutions, and values in our society. Primary emphasis will be given Research seminar on theoretical and applied issues related to to the American legal system, though we will evaluate U.S. principles democracy vs. political hegemony, as affected by propaganda, the and politics through a comparative lens as well. mass media, popular culture, and the capitalist economy. Students will POLS 468 Political Economy 3 Credits pursue individual research topics linked to common class readings. Relationship of democratic politics to government and market, and Weekly paper presentations and critical responses. significance of economic power in the American polity. Economic POLS 454 The State in Asia 3 Credits rationale for the place of the market and economic institutions Examination of state-directed political, economic and social in polity. Emphasis on information in comparison of economic development in and among Asian states, with an addition focus on the approaches to public policy and organization (public goods, market relationships between the domestic policies of various Asian states failure and collective action) with traditional political science and relations with non-Asian states. approaches (group mobilization and conflict, non-decisions and POLS 455 (ES 455) Environmental Justice: From Theory to symbolic actions. Practice 3 Credits POLS 469 (WGSS 469) The Women's Movement in China 3 This course explores the various ways in which environmental law Credits and policy can have discriminatory effects. It examines the rise and We will examine the state-sponsored, state-directed mass movement evolution of environmental justice movement, and the impact of for the liberation of Chinese women. Beginning with Confucian notions environmental justice claims on administrative rule making at state of mother/daughterhood, to imperial system, to the role of women in and federal level. Reviewing the history of case law concerning the founding and establishment of the Communist Party of China, to environmental justice suits filed under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it also the participation of women and girls in the Great Proletarian Cultural examines the future of environmental justice in environmental law and Revolution. Gender equality issues have been a central focus of the policy. Party. The class will look at post-reform era women's status and ask, POLS 456 Seminar: Political Philosophy 3 Credits “did the Party liberate women?” Critical examination of several of the “great books” and/or “great POLS 473 Globalization and Social Well-Being 3 Credits ideas” in political thought. This course examines how the various dimensions of globalization POLS 457 Politics Of Authenticity 3 Credits impact people by exploring factors that reflect and affect quality of Works in political philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, literature, life. Students will gain an understanding of the complexities resulting and film that discuss knowing and being one’s self will be critically from the growing interconnectedness and interdependencies of global discussed. If you feel a life of “quiet desperation” is inevitable, this relations. The course is intended to get people thinking creatively course is for you. about opportunities for connections that preserve human dignity. POLS 458 Interest Groups, Power, and Democracy in American POLS 475 (ES 475) Seminar: Green Polity 3-4 Credits Politics 3 Credits Development of guidelines and applications for public policy and Examines the competition for power in American politics between political action directed toward environmental sustainability and business groups, professional organizations, citizens groups, and political feasibility. Focus on problem-solving and policy design, social movements. Evaluates claims about the rise of upper-class connecting sustainable environmental goals with workable and dominance in politics, and what implications this trend may have for responsive institutional designs. American democracy in an era of rising economic inequality. POLS 477 Advanced Computer Applications 3 Credits POLS 462 Seminar: American Political Thought 3 Credits Uses of computers in social sciences, including data collection, Focus on a narrow topic or theorist in the field, e.g., the work of management, analysis, presentation, and decision-making; includes Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, or Tocqueville. Students will be weekly lab. required to write a major paper and present it to the class. Lehigh University 2021-22 9

POLS 481 Special Topics 1-3 Credits Individual inquiry into some problem of government. Reading, field work, and other appropriate techniques of investigation. Conferences and reports. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. POLS 482 Special Topics 1-3 Credits Continuation of POLS 481. Repeat Status: Course may be repeated. POLS 490 Thesis 1-6 Credits