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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students of public administrative operations an opportunity to evaluate management systems, strategies, and policies. Students will conduct administrative operations, prepare reports, and respond to situations that might occur in those preparing to enter the outdoor studies fields of study. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: EH 1113, IC 2213, and Junior status
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the roles and functions of philosophy as an academic discipline, including the ways people see, interpret, and react to the world. Students reflect critically on such topics as the nature of truth, reality, justice, beauty, and morality; they also study the lives, work, and contributions of several of the most influential philosophers. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: None
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3.00 Credits
What do you say about genetic engineering, sexual morality, cheating, propaganda, eco-terrorism, gossip, and recreational drug use? In this oral intensive class, you will consider the hard moral questions of our day while practicing listening, debate, presentation, and conversation skills. Develop your capacity for information evaluation, organization, facilitation, argument, and consensus-building while engaging in the philosophical practice of critical thinking, values clarification, and moral reasoning. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: None
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3.00 Credits
Why should I bother? Are humans inherently good (or evil)? Am I free to choose my life's course? Does god exist? Is suicide always wrong? Some questions are easier to answer than others. This course offers students a chance to take on some of the really tough and most interesting ones. The course topic will change in response to student and instructor interest. The topic for a given semester might be religious philosophies, existentialism, eastern philosophy, bio-medical ethics, personal identity, philosophy and literature, or postmodernism. This course may be retaken for credit under a different topic. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisites: EH 1113 and Sophomore status or consent Alternate years odd
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3.00 Credits
When great ideas meet fantastic imagination life-changing works emerge. This topics class examines philosophical themes in and through literary works like short-stories, songs, comics, graffiti, and film. Themes change with sections and the course can be taken multiple times for credits. Topics might include questioning reality, existentialism, feminism, and/or the American dream of personal identity. This course may be repeated for credit under a different topic. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: EH 1113 and Sophomore status or consent Alternate years odd
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the evolution of American democracy with special focus on citizen associations, competing interest groups, constitutional law, and the expansion of executive government. Using historical and contemporary case studies, including the American Revolution, continental and global expansion, progressivism and environmentalism, students study how the basic legal and political structures of American democracy limit and direct the pace and direction of change. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisite: None Alternate years even
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3.00 Credits
The role and relationship of the state, county, city, and town government in the American political system are discussed. This course will emphasize urban and important New England issues (such as land use) and include visits to the Maine State capitol for interviews. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: None Alternate years even
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3.00 Credits
This is the study of the basic concepts in relations among the world's nations and forces that exist beyond the nation-state. Topics include nationalism, revolution, global corporations, security, the United Nations, arms limitations, and natural resource management in developing countries. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: None Alternate years odd
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the regulatory processes employed by the major federal environmental management agencies (BLM, EPA, NPS, USFS, USFWS), and their counterparts in various states, but particularly in Maine. Students learn how interest groups, citizens, and the courts influence the management of environmental and land resource problems. Wildlife, land management, and pollution regulations are first surveyed and then more deeply examined using case studies of important statutes such as the Endangered Species Act, the various land management acts, or the National Environmental Protection Act and its subsidiary laws. Credits: 3 Offered Semester I Prerequisites: Sophomore status or consent
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3.00 Credits
Students will read federal and state laws establishing priorities for the use, conservation, and preservation of environmental resources. Included are critical study of the National Environmental Policy Act, Wilderness Act, Antiquities Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Natural Resources Protection Act, and related cases and materials on land preservation and use, multiple use forest regulation, water rights, and wildlife restoration. Students practice legal argumentation and reasoning by assuming advocacy and policy making roles for contending recreational, extraction, development, and environmental interests. Credits: 3 Offered Semester II Prerequisite: PL 1013 or PL 2013 or Junior status or consent
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