Academic Bulletin 2020-22

stability, unemployment, inflation, recessions, and the role of government. This course will additionally relate macroeconomic analysis to Catholic Social Traditions.

PSAE 336 Microeconomics Introduces microeconomics in the context of current problems.

Explores how market mechanisms allocate scarce resources among competing uses; uses supply, demand, production, and distribution theory to analyze problems. Studies free market concepts in contrast to other economic systems, as well as profit, production and distribution. The course will also explore specific problems concerning labor unions, agriculture, foreign trade, urban economic problems, and anti-trust regulations while also situating microeconomic analysis in the tradition of Catholic Social Thought.

PSAE 362 Rhetoric and Public Speaking The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the fundamental principles of rhetoric and rhetorical analysis and to apply those principles by means of oral presentations. The course will focus on the application of rhetorical principles and strategies in both written and spoken form. We will also examine the application of rhetorical principles in political speech and persuasion as well as in visual and auditory media. Students can expect to gain insight into the understanding, recognition, and application of the principles of rhetoric as well as learn how to apply these principles to their own writing and speaking.

Required of all majors.

PSAE 379 On Justice What is justice? This is one of the central questions of moral and political philosophy, if not the central question. In this course we will examine how various classical, medieval, and modern thinkers have defined and answered this question. Their answers pertain not just to matters of positive law but the way we conceive of natural, divine, and eternal law. Their understanding of justice is also bound up with their understanding of practical reason.

Contemporary political problems stem in some way from rival conceptions of justice, so the resolution of those problems at the philosophical and practical level requires the correct conception of justice, both human and divine.

PSAE 382 Politics Practica The purpose of this course is to provide students with the opportunity to learn from people involved in all aspects of politics, including people who work in government, private consultants, shapers of public opinion, and entrepreneurs. These practical exercises will give students an opportunity to gain a fuller understanding of the public policy process and the range of careers open to them, preparing them to obtain employment in their career of their choice.

Students who take Politics Practica are eligible for three (3) credit hours for an internship subsequent to the course. (See PSAE 521 below) Pre-requisite: Permission of the Director of the Politics Practica and permission of the department chairman. Politics Practica may not be repeated for credit.

PSAE 401 Natural Law Theory This course examines the principles of natural law and how they can be applied to contemporary public policy issues. The survey of principles of the natural law will be Thomistic in its approach but also review alternative accounts of natural law.

Students will consider the relationship between human nature and natural law, positive law and natural law, and whether the natural law can change. Students will then examine how the 102