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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the processes through which public policy is formulated and executed in the United States and selected foreign political systems. Concern is focused on the comparative study of political relationships of administrative agencies with clienteles; interest groups; and the legislative, executive, and administrative branches. Special attention is also given to questions of administrative responsibility and ethics in the public services.
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3.00 Credits
This course tries to make sense of the multiple crises afflicting industrial society, e.g.: endemic warfare; terrorism; permanent damage to the biosphere; starvation; over-consumption; and the disintegration of family and community life. The following questions are considered: What is the connection between crisis and transformation? How was the world view that sustains our life created? How do world views come and go? The course surveys the creative cutting edge of several disciplines from cultural history to psychology and the natural sciences, clarifying signs of radical transformation. What is the role of the individual in envisioning a future society?
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3.00 Credits
This course examines how mass communications increasingly shapes modern values and behavior. The birth of mass communication with the industrial production line at the beginning of the 19th century is traced to the electronic revolution of satellite communication and the Internet. The analysis includes: the differences between propaganda, socialization and education; the central role of advertising and entertainment in modern culture; whose messages get communicated, why, and to what effect; and the ways in which the medium itself determines the content of the message. Possibilities for preferred change are considered.
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3.00 Credits
'i Politics (3) What are Hawaii's most urgent problems? What are their roots? What are the solutions? Pre-contact Native Hawaiian "island politics" is used as a baseline for evaluatingthe last 200 years of Americanization. This course offers an in-depth understanding of the basic values, institutions, and practices of government in Hawai'i, setting up a conversation between indigenous (Native) Hawaiian, European, Asian and other Polynesian voices. The course focuses on economic policy, environmental issues, and democratic participation in decision-making. (Cross-list HPST 381).
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3.00 Credits
This course will serve as an examination of women and politics from three different perspectives: local, national, and global. The class examines a broad range of women's issues. The course will enable students to analyze the formation of gender identity in relation to identities based on race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, culture, etc. The class will also consider women as they have been defined throughout time by a society based on men's ideas of women. This class will focus heavily on women's activism and resistance as understood through a feminist lens. (DS)
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3.00 Credits
This course offers a holistic understanding of the unique capacity of film to shape culture, consciousness, society, and politics. In addition to dealing with the explicitly political content and impact of specific films, the course also covers the politics of film: the political economy of film production and distribution. This course is interdisciplinary, integrating material from psychology, anthropology, political economy, and history. (DH)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the political and social factors which determine domestic and foreign policy in China, Japan, India and other Asian nations as well as these countries' political and socioeconomic links with and throughout the Pacific/Oceania. Topics covered include: political development, immigration and economic issues, government institutions, the forced shaping political decisions and processes of revolution. Previously Asian Politics.
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3.00 Credits
Topics selected will vary, with emphasis on relevancy and student interest. Topics may include: Politics in Films; Foreign Policy; and other topics. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
To be arranged with the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an overview of the history and major areas of psychology, including memory and learning, cognition, personality, social psychology, physiological psychology, abnormal psychology, and therapy. Pre: Placement into ENG 100 or concurrent enrollment in ENG 22. (DS)
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