2025-2026_College Catalog 
    
    Apr 06, 2025  
2025-2026_College Catalog

POS 101 - Introduction to Politics


Credits: 3
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 and Behavioral Sciences
Special Requirement(s): Ethnic, Race, and Gender Awareness