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3.00 Credits
Analyzes bureaucracy in its social context. The evolution of the theory and practice of bureaucracy as a form of control, coordination, and social order are considered. Emphasizes government bureaucracies, with selected examples from other organizations. 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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3.00 Credits
Examines the changing role of government regulation of private and public activities from a political and administrative perspective, from the Progressive era to the present. The course investigates the regulatory process, including administrative law, standards for rule-making, and the involvement of organized groups and the courts. 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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3.00 Credits
Surveys major issues and problems in the field of political sociology. Topics include the forms of political power structures, elitist approaches to politics, community and national power structures, and political socialization. 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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3.00 Credits
Intended to develop knowledge an analytical skills to assess how well our government works and how it might work better. The course focuses on the operation of the federal executive, legislative, and judicial institutions, the policy-making process (including the role of administrators), and the power exercised by organized groups, experts, and the media. 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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3.00 Credits
Introduces students tp political economy, exploring the relationship between the economy and the political system. The impact of economic ideologies will be examined, as will the structure of political and economic interests and the mediating effects of institutions on outcomes. 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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3.00 Credits
Provides students a reading and seminar course on a selected topic of politics. Subject matter change in successive offerings of the course. 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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3.00 Credits
Acquaints students with agent-based modeling and other techniques for understanding the behavior of complex systems. Students learn to construct and test models linking individual behavior and the interaction of individuals to social structures and group behaviors. Same as SOC 480. 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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6.00 Credits
Resistance This course will treat a specific topic, varying from semester to semester, in which there is particular student or staff interest. (Credit: Variable) Fall 2007: This seminar examines the ways in which people and groups exert and resist power and domination. Students examine a series of case studies from different nations looking at social and political movements, charismatic religious secs, guerilla armies, local militias and other forms of actual and symbolic resistance and domination. 1. 000 TO 6.000 Credit Hours 1. 000 TO 6.000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture College of Science & Letters College Social Sciences Department Course Attributes: Social Sciences Requirement
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2.00 Credits
Topics include problem formulation and career opportunities, spreadsheets and relevant computer applications, as well as data search tools. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Institute of Psychology College Institute of Psychology Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement
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2.00 Credits
Topics include problem formulation and career opportunities, spreadsheets and relevant computer applications, as well as data search tools. 2. 000 Credit Hours 2. 000 Lecture hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Institute of Psychology College Institute of Psychology Department Course Attributes: Communications Requirement
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