The Political Science Department’s summer menu includes seven online courses for Ohio University students.
POLS 1010 Politics in the United States
Tier II Social Sciences(2SS)
Class #5843 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course examines the role of citizenship, participation, and government in the context of American domestic politics.
POLS 1600 Engaging Politics ONLINE
Class #4546 | Second Summer Session | 3 Credits | Grant and Tadlock
Description: This is an innovative online class in which students will be challenged to rethink common ideas about power and politics. The course begins with the assumption that politics happens in unexpected places and that power is exercised in ways that are not easily visible. The class is co-taught by Dr. Judith Grant and Dr. Barry Tadlock and feature lessons provided by 10 faculty members of Ohio University’s Political Science Department. This novel approach for a class enables students to acquire a much fuller understanding of the discipline of political science, not to mention the far-reaching teaching and research interests of POLS faculty at OHIO.
POLS 2000 American Politics, Policy, and Administration
Class #4551 | First Summer Session | 3 Credits | Ryu
Description: This introduction to American politics, policy, and administration investigates how public policies are formulated and implemented. Under conventional view of the politics/administration dichotomy, political factors such as political party and public opinion significantly dominate the entire phase of policy formulation. Governmental bureaucracies are supposed to faithfully implement public policies that political decision makers enact. During recent decades, governmental bureaucracies have been more heavily involved in policy formulation as well as policy implementation. This course surveys the historical development from a perspective of democracy and bureaucracy. Students are asked to think about the ideal relationship among politics, policy, and administration.
POLS 2700 Introduction to Political Theory ONLINE
Class #4547 | First Summer Session
Description: This course introduces a range of the canonical works in the western tradition of political thought. It uses the contemporary context of political struggles for equality, community, and justice as a lens through which to assess the problems and possibilities of this work.
POLS 3040 State Politics ONLINE
Class #4550 | Second Summer Session
Description: This comparative analysis of state political systems emphasizes the structure and process of policy making of states within federal context.
POLS 4060/5060 Elections and Campaigns ONLINE
Class #4553/4554 | First Summer Session | 3 Credits | Burton
Description: This course examines the operation of political campaigns in the context of American elections.
POLS 4070 Strategic Decision-Making ONLINE
Class #4552 | Second Summer Session | 3 Credits | Burton
Description: Using a wide range of cases—the Cold War, resource depletion, political campaigns, and legislative politics—this course engages students in the construction and analysis of strategic interaction. Students assess the public value of private and official actions and learn to discover Nash Equilibrium and Subgame-Perfect Equilibrium.
POLS 4570 National Security in the Contemporary Era ONLINE
Class #5513 | Second Summer Session
Description: This course introduces the concepts and problems of attaining international “security” in an ever-changing world. Profound changes at the international level have taken place in the past decade that have had a major impact on how we conceive of security. The course provides an overview of the traditional and new sources for insecurity and explores the consequences of states’ quests for security in the contemporary era.
POLS 4700 Democratic Theories and Practices ONLINE
Class #4548 | First Summer Session
Description: Placing contemporary democracies in both historical and comparative context, this course examines the relationship between legitimacy, authority, participation and voice. The central focus is the “edges” or boundaries of democracies: Is there a private realm at the edge of democracy? How is it established? What is democracy’s jurisdiction? There are margins within and outside of a democratic community, where lines between insiders and outsiders are drawn and redrawn. How do location and membership shape our practices of democratic responsibility? What is the relationship between injustice and democracy?
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