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3.00 Credits
Designed to help the student understand the diverse phenomena of international relations, the complex patterns of political and economic conflict, interdependence between nation-states and non-governmental organizations. The student is encouraged to think critically and analytically about the world and develop a healthy skepticism toward simple solutions to complex world problems. This course also surveys American foreign policy.
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3.00 Credits
Examines political institutions and processes in the fifty states, including their cultures and constitutions, as well as the public policies of state governments in areas such as education, social welfare, and the environment. City governments are studied using Detroit as a basis for comparison.
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3.00 Credits
(3 Credit Hours) This course examines social, political, economic, ethnic, cultural, and religious conflict and the methods used to resolve, regulate, and prevent conflict. The mechanisms for developing cooperation to resolve and mitigate conflict among peoples and states will be central to this course. The course will focus on international and intra-state conflicts including civil wars, social strife, and rebellion. The investigation of specific conflicts and the strategies of conflict resolution will employ case studies and other social scientific methods. Students will learn about the causes and consequences of conflict and ways to objectively understand them.
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2.00 Credits
A non-mathematical introduction to the basic concepts of atomic energy. This course is designed to help the non-scientific student enjoy and appreciate current trends in science, nuclear reactions, and atomic energy in particular. The approach taken is historical and philosophical. Effort is made to place concepts in their relation to prevalent world thinking. Two hours of lecture per week. Note: Offered occasionally based on student demand.
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4.00 Credits
Offered as a general education science course for students interested in Fine-Arts, specifically, Music, Art or Theater. The physical nature of sound and light waves will be covered focusing on how they relate to music, art, theater and each other as well as how subjective perceptions of the ear and eye are related to objective properties of waves.
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1.00 Credits
A supplemental course designed to be taken concurrently with PSY 131. Emphasis is on note-taking, outlining, and textbook study as well as the vocabulary and content of the PSY 131 course. Co-requisites: Concurrent enrollment in PSY 131
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3.00 Credits
Designed to help students evaluate their own attitudes, feelings, and beliefs about sexuality and compare them to those held by others. Frank, open discussions and explicit visual materials cover historical and contemporary issues related to the physiological, emotional, cultural, and legal implications of sexuality with emphasis on the expanding research that is contributing to serious intellectual inquiry. Prerequisites: PSY 131
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore the nature and causes of various forms of abnormal behavior, including schizophrenia, depression, anxiety disorders, etc. Disorders will be viewed from psychological, cultural, developmental, and historical perspectives. This class will explore the symptoms, etiology, and treatment of each disorder. Prerequisites: PSY 131
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3.00 Credits
The study of change in the behavioral processes of individuals as a function of aging throughout the life span. The course begins with prenatal concerns and progresses through the years of infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging. Course content includes theory and research associated with biological, cognitive, affective, and social development. Prerequisites: PSY 131
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the social forces affecting people's lives and how people affect their group. This course examines three areas of behavior resulting from intentional influence, membership in a group, and social interaction. Self-perception, behavior and attitude, attraction, aggression, altruism, and group process are also explored. This course may be taken for credit in either psychology or sociology but not both. (See SOC 254.) Prerequisites: SOC 131 and PSY 131 or permission of the instructor
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