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A continuation of Japanese for Social Scientists I (PS 299). 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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Acquaints students with the new kinds of organized violence, the theories and technology of terrorism, and possible policy responses. The impact of the responses to terrorist threats on individual freedom, civil liberties, and security will be closely examined, along with normative issues associated with increases in governmental monitoring and control over individuals. 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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Serves as the required capstone seminar for the American and Comparative Politics specialization. 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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Introduces students to the field of Policy Analysis and acquaints students with basic methods policy analysis and urban planning. Emphasis is on methods of analysis and problem solving rather than on politics or political process. Topics include decision theory, benefit/cost analysis, problem simulation, population projection and problem formulation, and definition. 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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Compares major urban systems in a variety of settings in both developed and developing countries. The course gives special attention to political and economic factors shaping urbanization processes and distinctive policy issues in these different settings. 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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Analyzes how large public and nonprofit administrative agencies are organized, led and managed. Examines relationships between the chief executive, line management operations and support staff. Considers relations between organization and its environment, the importance of inter-organizational networks, and the role of power in organizational life. 3. 000 Credit Hours 3. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Humanities Department
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Provides students with theoretical material drawn from literary theory and cognitive science on categorizations, narrative, and rhertoric. They read case studies demonstrating how this material provides understanding of legal thinking and can be used to analyze Supreme Court opinions. During the second half of the course, students apply the techniques learned in undertaking their own analysis of judicial opinions, briefs, and testimony of experts. 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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Places energy and environmental policy in domestic and global contexts. The course traces the economic and political implications of dependence on fossil fuels, the attempt to develop alternate energy sources and promote conservation, the environmental effects of resource consumption, and the effort to control these effects by increased efficiency and regulation of pollution. Explored are such problems such as nuclear waste, acid rain, global warming, and deforestation. 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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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. 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 conceptual construction of race and ethnicity in different societies around the world at various eras. The course pays special attention to the causes and consequences of racial and ethnic conflict and cooperation for cultural groups, and also from the perspective of national and state institutions. Same as SOC 442. 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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