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3.00 Credits
Silverman. This ccourse will be an introduction to the art, architecture and minor arts that were produced during the three thousand years of ancient Egyptian history. This material will be presented in its cultural and historical contexts through illustrated lectures and will include visits to the collection of the University Museum.
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3.00 Credits
Spooner. This course relates anthropological models and methods to current problems in the Modern World. The overall objective is to show how the research findings and analytical concepts of anthropology may be used to illuminate and explain events as they have unfolded in the recent news and in the course of the semester. Each edition of the course will focus on a particular country or region that has been in the news.
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3.00 Credits
Ben-Amos. Through readings and collaborative projects this working seminar will explore the place of metaphor in the genres of proverb and riddle and examine their position in oral communication in traditional and modern societies. Critical readings of former definitions and models of riddles and metaphors will enable students to obtain a comprehensive perspective of these genres that will synthesize functional, structural, metaphoric, and rhetoric theories.
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3.00 Credits
Ben-Amos. Theories of myth are the center of modern and post-modern, structural and post-structural thought. Myth has served as a vehicle and a metaphor for the formulation of a broad range of modern theories. In this course we will examine the theoretical foundations of these approaches to myth focusing on early thinkers such as Vico, and concluding with modern twentieth century scholars in several disciplines that make myth the central idea of their studies.
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3.00 Credits
Ben-Amos. The topics of discussion in the course are the following: the nature of narrative, narrative taxonomy and terminology, performance in storytelling events, the transformation of historical experience into narrative, the construction of symbolic reality, the psycho-social interpretation of folktales, the search for minimal units, the historic-geographic method in folktale studies, the folktale in history and the history of folktale research.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Enrolled in NPLD program or permission of instructor. Corequisite(s): MSW program free elective. Governance, Legal Structures, Organizational Behavior and Ethics. Given the growing concern regarding leadership of for profit,nonprofit/NGO governmental organizations that has led to increased public scrutiny and legal regulation, this course focuses on governance in the social service sector.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Enrolled in NPLD program or permission of instructor. Corequisite(s): MSW program macro practice elective. Strategic Planning, Resource Development, Communication and Social Marketing. Critical to the success of any nonprofit organization is the development and execution of a strategic plan leading to a business plan, which is effectively marketed to potential investors/donors. This course will examine the dynamic relationship between planning, resource development and social marketing.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Enrolled in NPLD program or permission of instructor. Program Design, Implementation, Evaluation and Social Statistics. This course examines how an organization designs, carries out and evaluates its programs to best implement its mission statement within the context of organizational and financial constraints.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Enrolled in NPLD program or permission of instructor. Financial Management, Budgeting and Accounting. This course focuses on managing the financial and human resources of an organization and conceptualizes value creation and organizational stewardship in broad, enervating and creative ways.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Must be enrolled in Master's Program in Nonprofit/NGO Leadership or permission of instructor. Critical Thinking, Social Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Social Movements. and Social Change. This course, which runs across two semesters, provides the architecture for the program as a whole, infuses critical and innovative thinking into all aspects of learning and functions as an integrative device for the complete curriculum. (Year-long seminar)
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