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This course surveys theories explaining the organization and structure of complex societies. The problem of social control, or the capacity of society to regulate itself formally or informally according to its desired principles, is viewed as a central problem of social organization. Same as SOC 340. 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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This course examines how urban public schools have been governed over time, who have been the principal beneficiaries of these governance arrangements, and how the governance arrangements have come into being. The course includes material on recent efforts as well as historical governance. 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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Considers the idea of citizenship and the role of the state in American politics during the time period of 1975 to 2005. The course also examines the rise of feminism, affirmative action, the failure of the Vietnam strategy, the rise of religious fundamentalism, and the eventual challenges to American hegemony and the American response. 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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Surveys the evolution of the office and powers of the presidency as a result of historical forces, institutional factors, and the actions of those who have served as president. The course looks at the relationships of presidents with political parties, Congress, the bureaucracy, media, and the public, emphasizing both domestic and foreign policy. Major attention is given to changes in the presidential selection process and their implications for those who run for and win the office. 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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Investigates the unfolding of politics in the United States since the Second World War. The course focuses on political changes and ideas from the tumultuous 1960s, as well as the reactions to the ideas and events of the sixties which remain with us to this day. The antecedents of the politics of the '60s are explored in depth. The class explores the evolution of political participation, political processes, and the American state since 1945. 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 nature of administrative organization, decision making in organization, and organization structure and processes: division of work, authority, communications, and planning. The course considers the role of the government executive and analyze the relationship of fiscal procedures and personnel management to organization. 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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This course analyzes the policy making process including both policy formulation and implementation. Subjects covered include the necessity for policy, environmental factors and their effect on policymaking, the process of policymaking and a brief introduction to methods of analysis. Material included covers both theory and an examination of the factors that must be considered and the problems that arise in applying the theoretical material to the practice of solving actual problems. Same as SOC 353. 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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Course explores major dilemmas facing cities today including changing economic and tax bases, fiscal stresses, immigration, marginalized populations, new forms of consumption and adaptation to structural change. Responses of politicians to pressures to develop new policies and leverage the productive capacity of the city and the impact of citizen preferences will be analyzed. Same as SOC 354. 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 Course Attributes: Communications Requirement, Social Sciences Requirement
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Globalization has become a powerful buzzword in social science and in popular discourse. This course utilizes a sociological perspective to examine the economic, socio-political, and cultural aspects of globalization within the context of contemporary debates about the phenomenon. Same as SOC 360. 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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