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Focuses on major technological innovations and charts the social transformations that have historically accompanied their introduction. Examples include writing, the plow, the clock, the automobile, adn the computer. Attention will be directed to issues of institutional interdependence, the question of technological determinism, and Luddism/resistance. 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 relationship between humans and nature, including reasons for some well-known ecological catastrophes in human history. The course traces changing attitudes to the environment and explores various measures that have been offered to solve problems, for instance, the Green Revolution, sustainale development, renewable energy, "clean" technologies, and the potential social and ecological consequences of these solutions. 3. 000 Credit 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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Examines excerpts from the sociological and political literature of capitalism. Themes include labor value, bureaucratic theory, freedom and capitalism, problems of exploitation, class conflicts, status anxiety, and the internationalization of captial. Same as PS 361. 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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Examines the social implications of selected emerging and cutting-edge technologies, with an emphasis on recent developments adn events. The course investigates the consequences of those technologies on society, using both short-term and long-term perspective. The issues examined include moral, ethical, socioeconomic and educational considerations. 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 will examine the fundamental question: Why has the development over the globe been so uneven This course examines the conditions that originally gave different human populations different odds when it came to social development. Various encounters between existing populations and the role that technology, culture, and infectious disease played in these. This course further discusses the rise of written language and the factors contributing to the evolution of complex societies. Case studies include a number of encounters between the Old and the New World, Polynesia, China, and Africa. 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 all factors affecting work, including the transition from school to work, the determinants of earnings and other job benefits, job satisfaction, labor unions and professional associations, class position in American society, the effects of foreign competition, government labor force policies, and the work environment in a comparative perspective. 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 a topic of current interest in Social Science, announced by the instructor when the course is scheduled. 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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Covers selected issues in contemporary urban politics and policy. The seminar relies on student reading and research. 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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Examines the structural constraints and cultural expectations associated with the role of "manager." Some of the dynamics are distinctions between managers, their employers and their subordinates, the infiltration of managerial ideology throughout the broader society; constraints on managers' decision-making processes; currently popular policies and attitudes among managers in business; and experimental employer/management/employee configurations. 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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