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POLS 4650U (GCSU)
Contemporary American Foreign Policy (3 semester hours)

Web Course Format: ALISSA

This course can be taken
    -> as a web course
    -> as a print course

Lessons for this course can be submitted and/or be returned
    -> via U.S. mail
    -> via fax return from IDL

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May be considered UGA equivalent at the discretion of student's academic department.

Recommendation: POLS 1101 (UGA prerequisite).

A study of the development of American foreign policy during the 20th century, emphasizing America's emergence as a world power and her role of alliance leadership in the nuclear age.

Requirements: Ten lessons and one examination.

Instructor: W. Clifton Wilkinson, Jr., M.P.A., J.D., Georgia College and State University.

Texts: Hastedt, Glenn P. American Foreign Policy: Annual Editions 05/06, (11th ed.) McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005.
Snow, Donald. United States Foreign Policy: Politics Beyond the Water's Edge, (3rd ed.) Wadsworth Thomson, 2005.