Using SAGE Video in Common Politics & International Studies Courses

• Students will demonstrate knowledge of international relations and politics.
• Students will value the rights and responsibilities of global citizenship, a just society, and be able to recognize social justice issues globally.
• Students will use evidence to analyze policies and ideas critically and communicate ideas in thorough, written arguments.
• Students will explore major analytics and theoretical frameworks for international relations within the political science discipline.
• Students will evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to accomplishing political objectives.

• In-Practice: Democracy, Democratization and Election Process Around the World
• Definition: Balance of Power Theory
• Definition: Regionalism
• Case: Comparative Political Economy: The Resource Curse
• Case: Four Challenges that the Chinese Communist Party Leadership Faces
• In-Practice: Defending Human Rights in Colombia and Latin America

Course: Introduction to Political Science

This course identifies and compares ideologies which traditionally have dominated politics, evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of a broad spectrum of approaches to accomplishing political objectives, and examines historical case studies which illustrate dimensions of choice in politics.

• Documentary: Why is the NRA So Powerful?
• Case: Creating Enduring Strategic Relationships in the Absence of Formal Diplomatic Ties: United States and Taiwan
• Lecture: Discussing Human Nature and Violence
• In-Practice: How Organizations Campaign to Change the Law
• In-Practice: Activism in Education
• Interview: Political Philosophy
• Lecture: Political Theory Capstone Projects
• Documentary: Schools of Thought in Classical Liberalism, Part 1 Introduction
• Case: Sen’s Liberal Paradox