2024-2025 College Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 College Catalog

POS 101 - Introduction to Politics


Credits: 3
Lab/Lecture: Three lecture.

Issues in contemporary political analysis, human values, and political goals; how governments differ and change; relationship between individuals and government; how nation-states influence one another.
Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
  1. describe and explain the nature of politics and political power;
  2. describe, explain, and contrast the major political ideologies;
  3. describe, explain and compare different political structures and institutional arrangements and how they relate to the functions assigned them;
  4. explain the relationship between politics and economics;
  5. describe and explain how political systems change.


General Education: Social/Behavioral Sciences.
Special Requirement(s): Ethnic/Race/Gender Awareness.