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This course examines the politics, rational and societal issues relating to the Vietnam War and the impact of the war and related politics on current politics and current ideological disputes. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Social Sciences Requirement
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This course examines politics and policies relating to global warming using a multi disciplinary approach. Students look at its anthropogenic causes, potential impacts on human society, potential mitigation strategies and policy responses. Participants also examine the different issues relating to global warming including environmental, national security, economic, public safety issues and national prestige. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Social Sciences Requirement
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Explores the changes to the international system associated with the end of the Cold War, including the increase of violence, and the rejection of existing definitions of the nation state by many ethnic and sub-national groups. The course examines the changing concept of the nation state as many ethnic groups reject the multi-ethnic nation states created as the Colonial powers withdrew from parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle-East. Changing approaches to warfare, and controversies about intervention in internal ethnic conflicts will also be studied. Students completing the course will acquire an understanding of the origin of numerous international problems and an awareness of the policy and military challenges such conflicts pose to the United States. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Explores the complex interrelationships among science, technology, and politics, with emphasis on the political issues created by contemporary scientific advances. Gives roughly equal attention to the politics of scientific discovery; the development of government organization for science and scientific advice to government; the impact of industrialized science and advanced technology on the economy and society, and the growing debate over the social implications of science and technology and how they can be predicted, measured, and controlled. Same as SOC 304. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Examines the formulation and implementation of national security and military policy in the United States. Surveys the emergence and growth of military strategy and the defense establishment, with primary emphasis on contemporary issues, institutions and policies, and prospects for the future. Emphasizes the impact of nuclear weapons on military strategy and security and the post Cold war struggle over forces and missions. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Post Colonial Politics examines political developments in those parts of the world that had been under colonial domination during the period of European Colonialism. Areas covered include movements of liberation and how they produced different forms of post-colonial states, the role of ethnicity and religion in providing both unifying as well as divisive factors in the stability and instability of the post colonial state. The course also introduces students to recent political developments in a variety of post colonial states and the impact of recent developments on the United States. This is a comparative course. From year to year, the post colonial nations examined in detail will vary, but often include Algeria, Sudan, Rwanda, Iran, and Vietnam. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
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Aims to provide a tool-kit for thinking about social life. This course is designed to complement existing methods courses and to give students a background in social-scientific thinking that may be used in a variety of other contexts. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department
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Traces the economic and political implications of dependence on fossil fuels and the attempt to develop alternate energy sources and promote conservation. Assessed are the environmental effects of resource consumption and the effort to control these effects through increased efficiency and regulation of pollution. Explores such problems as nuclear waste, acid rain, global warming, and deforestation, and examines national and international attempts at economic, political, and technological solutions. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Explores the relationship between nuclear energy--science, technology, and products, and society--national, local and global. Gives detailed attention to the discovery of nuclear fission and its exploitation during World War II and after, culminating in the global nuclear arms race. Examined are the emergence and growth of nuclear power and the rise of the controversy over its safety, security, and costs. The class considers the risks of continued proliferation, and the prospects for arms control and the "peaceful atom." 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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