POL 100: Introduction to Political Science (3 Credits)
Political science is an academic discipline that deals with the study of government and political processes, institutions, interest groups, and behaviors. This course analyzes foundational concepts of politics, ideologies, public consciousness, and citizenship. Students will study how people respond to political activity which can be affected by social pressures, effects of individual psychology, and rational self-interests. Examined in this course are freedom of expression in a digital world and the way mass media affect the dynamics of politics. This includes the impact of television toward political discourse; how news influences our political attitudes and behaviors, policy making, and designing advertisements.
Goal Area: 9.2, 9.4 & 9.5 Prerequisite: None
Institutional Outcomes: 1a & 1b
POL 210: Tribal Public Administration and Community Development
This course is geared to students who are interested in learning more about the foundations of
public administration and the managing of people and administering of public services. The
second portion of the class is to learn about planning communities and the role economic and
community development planners in reducing the barriers of social inequity. Students taking
this course may be interested in fielding a career in tribal public administration, community
and/or economic development and/or planning.
Goal Area: 9.2, 9.4 & 9.5 Prerequisite: College Writing I
Institutional Outcomes: 1a & 1b