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HIST 660 1A / POLSC 660 1A: The United States and the Holocaust This course will focus on the American and allied response to the Holocaust. We will also look […]

HIST 643 1A / POLSC 643 1A: Federalism, the Separation of Powers, and the Constitution This course will focus on how the American judiciary as understood the Constitution’s two great […]

HIST 641 1A / POLSC 641 1A: The Supreme Court This course is an intensive study of the highest court in the federal judiciary, focusing on the place of the […]

HIST 507 1A / POLSC 507 1A: Lincoln This course provides an in-depth study of Abraham Lincoln’s political thought and action. Students will study Lincoln’s most important speeches, as well as study various aspects of his political leadership, including his role as the leader of the Republican party and as commander in chief. The course […]

  HIST 642 O4B / POLSC 642 O4B: Political Parties (2) This course examines the development of American political parties, focusing on the meaning of parties and historic moments in the rise and fall of political parties from the Founding era to the present. Topics may include re-aligning elections, changing coalitions within American parties, and […]

HIST 613 O4A / POLSC 613 O4A: Postwar America, 1945-1973 (2) An examination of the United States during the three decades following the Second World War. The social, economic, political, […]

HIST 643 2B / POLSC 643 2B: Administrative Power and Law This class will examine the constitutional and legal questions surrounding the emergence of the administrative state, which is the primary way that public policy is made in contemporary America.  We will examine how Congress grants authority to agencies, who oversees those agencies, how those […]

HIST 642 2A / POLSC 642 2A: Political Parties This course examines the development of American political parties, focusing on the meaning of parties and historic moments in the rise and fall of political parties from the Founding era to the present. Topics may include re-aligning elections, changing coalitions within American parties, and the contemporary […]

HIST 632 2A / POLSC 632 2A: The American Presidency I – Washington to Lincoln This course is an examination of the political and development of the office of president […]

HIST 506 2A / POLSC 506 2A: The Rise of Modern America, 1914-1945 With the exception of the Civil War era, it is difficult to find another thirty-year period in […]