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Fall 2008 Seminars

• You Be Perry Mason
• Profiles in Power (Full)
• Politics by the Numbers: The 2008 Election

You Be Perry Mason

Brad Bloch, Lecturer

A crime is charged. Investigation progresses. Jury trial is imminent. Will your case persuade?

Meet the nuts and bolts, the nails and screws of the criminal jury trial. Create testimony that will be remembered. Show why cross-examination is the greatest engine in the search for truth. Develop your theory, your state-of-the-art visuals, your professional tenacity. Object and respond and adapt. Close your case demanding your verdict.

Step in my courtroom in September and await your jury's decision come December.

Brad Bloch has defended gray-, brown- and no-collars, mostly "street crimes," for 28 years. "A typical client is uneducated, unemployable and forgotten; addicted, deprived or deranged. He's also my fellow American. He deserves all of my fight!"

When Brad is not championing the real Bill of Rights, he meanders the UWM campus sharing law with the Panther cubs or goading his undergrad teams in trial, mediation and moot court. In his 21st season as UWM Mock Trial Coach, Brad's teams have four Top Ten finishes including a National Championship Final Trial appearance, five Top Ten finishes at National Mediation and more than 40 All-America designations. When intercollegiate moot court was added in 2006, UWM became one of only four institutions nationwide, and the only public institution, to field teams in all three "law-sports." Bloch's theme: "The UWM education is second to none!"

Number: POL SCI 193, SEM 002
Credits: 3SS
Time: MR 6:30pm-7:45pm
Place: BOL B80
Class Number: 60221

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Profiles in Power (Full)

Don Pienkos, Professor

In this seminar we take up one of the most important and, surprisingly, less studied aspects of politics and government, the subject of political leaders and leadership in the 20th and 21st centuries. We start by asking just what "leadership" means to us and what we can learn about leadership from reading the literature of political science.

We then look at a selected set of recent and current leaders of all stripes - elected leaders, autocratic leaders, revolutionary leaders, religious leaders - and discuss what makes them tick. We then discuss how we can best account for their successes and their failures as key decision-makers in critical situations and how they measure up - for good and for bad.

The seminar will also feature a selected set of films that offer case study illustrations about leaders. We also plan to invite several guest speakers who will present their thoughts on this gripping and important subject.

Don Pienkos is Professor of Political Science where his focus is on Russia, Soviet and post Soviet, the countries of Eastern Europe, their experiences with dictatorship and democracy, and their often dramatic relations with the United States.

Number: POL SCI 193, SEM 003
Credits: 3SS
Time: 2:00pm-3:15pm
Place: BOL B68
Class Number: 60255

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Politics by the Numbers: The 2008 Election

Tom Holbrook, Professor

This course will serve as an introduction to political analysis for incoming freshman. Using the 2008 presidential election as a case study, students will design a semester-long research project that allows them to analyze some aspect of the election. Students will work together and with the professor to develop research topics, learn some of the basic tools for empirical research, and gather data to test their ideas. Students in this course will gain important insights into the process of social science research, as well as the dynamics of presidential campaigns.

Number: POL SCI 193, SEM 004
Credits: 3SS
Time: 2:00pm- 3:15pm
Place: BOL 281
Class Number: 60302

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