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The course focuses specifically on the changing structure and organization of U.S. business. Not reducible to the economic factors the U.S. firm is shown to be the outgrowth of technological, legal, and social factors, as well as the changes in the economy and competitive environment of the market. Offered every other year.. Prerequisite: EC II placement.
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Analyzes the historical development of international and regional organizations and the changing role they have played in the global economy. The genesis and evolving role of transnational corporations, the U.N., IMF, World Bank, and the WTO all receive significant attention during the semester. Offered periodically Prerequisite: Upper-Division standing.
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An analytic study of the sources of growth and decline of the modern U.S. labor movement. Topics include labor in the pre-Civil War era; the Knights of Labor; the IWW, the AFL; the rise and decline of the CIO. Questions of race and gender are interwoven throughout. Offered every other year. Prerequisites: Upper-division standing; PE2210 or per- mission of instructor.
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This class seeks to understand what terrorism is (and is not), and how new networks of political and religious activists differ strategically from those who used older forms of violence. We study how governments are reacting to the new challenges. Building on concepts of international law and organizations, the course begins by defining forms of states' terror(ism) and discussing whether and how it differs from challengers' terror(ism). We study both military and non-military approaches to ending terrorism. Students learn about relations between political power and how the suppression of democratic critique is related to the new non-state terrorist violence. Finally, we ask: Does the curtailing of our freedoms of expressions, assembly and association, writ of habeas corpus and denial of legal representation help or hurt us to end terrorist actions? Offered periodically. Prerequisite: PE3100 is helpful but class is open to any students with upper-division standing.
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This course explores the geopolitics and political economy of the Middle East, as a distinct geographic region in world politics and the global political economy, as well as a region populated by countries which have distinctive histories, cultures, economies and political institutions. The course is divided into two sections. The first section, which adopts an historical approach, explores the making of the modern Middle East. It begins with an examination of the basic tenets and institutions of Islam and proceeds to cover the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire (1453-1923), European colonization of the region the founding of the state of Israel, decolonization and the impact of the early Cold War on the making of modern Middle East nation-states. The second section examines issues in contemporary Middle East politics. This includes, but is not limited to: the politics of oil; the Kurdish separatist movement; Turkey as a "model" of democracy for Islamic societies; the Iraq wars; nuclear weapons, economic sanctions and Iran; terrorism; and the current Israeli-Arab conflict. The course culminates with a simulated peace conference on the future of Iraq. Offered Periodically Prerequisite: Upper-Division Standing
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4.00 Credits
Builds on the knowledge and skills in statistics by the study of simple and multiple regression analysis to test empirical propositions in economics and to forecast economic time series. Students are also required to become fluent in the use of a statistics computer program. Offered based on demand. Prerequisite: MA2300 or MA2310; PE3200/BU3201
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The course will begin by examining the crucial biophysical, economic, and social issues facing local communities and political leaders today. In the second part of the course, students are brought the history, organizations, interests groups, and processes that shape U.S. and international environmental policy. The latter will conclude with the current debates that are informing policies and negotiations within such institutions as the WTO, UN and agreements, such as NAFTA Students will be assigned examples of communities who have confronted environmental problems and research the processes by which those communities addressed them. Prerequisite: Up-div stdg
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Taught by an attorney. Detailed introduction to legislation affecting labor organizations and workers in the United States. Includes the National Labor-Relations Act; the Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Amendments; Fair Employment Practices; Occupational Health and Safety; Pension Reform enactments; Affirmative Action and the history and procedure of the main regulatory bodies. Offered every year. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a survey of major theoretical approaches to the nature, purposes, interpretation, and practice of law. Through primary classical and contemporary documents, we will explore "classical" legal philosophies such as natural law and legal positivism, as wellas the more "modern" theories of American legal thought: legal realism, law and society, feminist legal theory, critical race theory, andqueer legal theory. Prerequisite: Upper-Division standing.
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4.00 Credits
Women, minority workers and part-time employees make up one-half of the labor force today. This course focuses on their historical relationships to the labor movement and their positions today. It studies the roles of sexism and racism in preventing unity and progress for workers. Traces history of struggle for equality. Examines affirmative action, comparable worth and other current strategies. Offered every other year. Prerequisite: Upper-division standing.
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