Courses

Organization framework, evolving experiences and continuing problems of United Nations system for maintenance of international peace and security and for international economic and social cooperation. (IR/CP).

Organization framework, evolving experiences and continuing problems of United Nations system for maintenance of international peace and security and for international economic and social cooperation. (IR/CP).

Organizational framework, evolving experiences and continuing problems of United Nations system for maintenance of international peace and security and for international economic and social cooperation. (IR/CP).

Jacksonian democracy; impact of nationalism and sectionalism; manifest destiny and Mexican War; slavery controversy; expansion.

The effects of World War I, the political and social developments of the 1920s, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II.

The effects of World War I, the political and social developments of the 1920s, the Great Depression, the New Deal, and World War II.

The United States since World War II; political, economic, cultural and social changes and role as a world leader; also taught at Galveston campus.

Students explore the structure, powers, organization, procedures, and operations legislative leadership; the influence of lobbyists, political parties, legislative elections; representation; and policymaking.

The United States Congress is an examination of the institution's constitutional origins, functions of Congress, its policy-making role, and its structures and procedures. Additionally, this course will examine Congress' relationship with the other two branches of government, the electorate, media and interest groups.

This course is an upper-level course concerning the ideas behind and structure of the U.S. Constitution. Also covered are important Supreme Court decisions that established constitutional precedents: Marbury v. Madison, Dartmouth College v. Woodard, Texas v. White, Plessy v. Ferguson, etc.