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2025-2026 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
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2025-2026 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

POSC 500 - Foundations and Scope of Political Science

(3 units)

Prerequisite: Graduate standing in Political Science or consent of instructor.
Competing approaches to the analysis of political phenomena. Substantive models of social and political order and change as well as methodological arguments about the nature of explanation in political science.

Letter grade only (A-F).