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American Foreign Policy Leadership Track

An Introductory Course:

Political Science 120: America and the World After September 11
or Political Science 125: Power, Leadership and Legitimacy: An Introduction to Leadership Studies

One Required Course on Issues Related to American Domestic Leadership:

Leadership Studies 275: The Art of Presidential Leadership
Leadership Studies 285: The Revolutionary Generation: Galaxy of Leaders
Political Science 205: Leaders in Contemporary Conservative Political Thought
Political Science 218: The American Presidency
Political Science 230: American Political Thought

Three Required Courses Dealing with Specific Facets of American Foreign Policy Leadership:

Leadership Studies/Political Science 261: American Foreign Policy
Leadership Studies/History 355: Rise of America to World Power, 1776-1920
Leadership Studies/History 468: Grand Strategy in the Second World War
Political Science 222: The United States and Latin America
Political Science 262: America and the Cold War
Political Science 364: George Kennan and the Dilemmas of American Foreign Policy
Political Science 420: American Hegemony and the Future of the International System
Political Science 420: Senior Seminar in International Relations: The War in Iraq
Sociology 202: Terrorism and National Security

Capstone Course (s):

Leadership Studies 402: Domains of Leadership: The Roosevelt Style of Leadership
Political Science 420: American Hegemony and the Future of the International System

(There is no winter study component to the American Foreign Policy Leadership track.)


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