Recent SemestersSpring 2026, Fall 2025Class Size45 studentsCredits3PrerequisiteENGL C1000 a passing grade in the above prerequisite course. or Transfers ToCSUCSU GE Area A3DescriptionThis course examines the definitional and contextual nature of political analysis. It develops a critical thinking approach, which integrates interdisciplinary principles and incorporates a comparative framework utilizing literary criticism, logic, argumentation, and persuasion to analyze and compare the content and validity of political problems. This course specifically explores how different political perspectives and experiences affect everyone’s daily lives. Combining critical thinking tools with political analysis will help students to question the assumptions that surround them through social media and influence human behavior. Formerly PLSC 103. 