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3.00 Credits
STUDY ABROAD CAPA IN LONDON ONLY. Service-Learning is an academic experience that utilizes community service, community-based research, or other civic engagement activities along with regular reflection to meet course goals and community needs. This is a service-learning experience with a strong educational philosophy which combines a community service placement with CAPA's curriculum. Students will be paired with non-governmental organizations and other community service organizations where they will fulfill their on-site service-learning requirement. Weekly interactive seminars will examine British society to establish links to the context of global social realities using an academic framework which includes readings, discussion of current events, visits to relevant local agencies and dialogue. The course aims to utilize London as the students' urban laboratory - the course, including the placement in group projects, will examine the structures that serve London, both in terms of successes but increasingly in terms of failures and issues relevant to current affairs. This is a comparative course, dealing with themes and issues in London, but using this city as a lens through which to examine urban issues in Britain and other cities as well.
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3.00 Credits
STUDY ABROAD CAPA IN LONDON ONLY. This course offers students the opportunity to become familiar with a range of aspects of contemporary Britain through which they can understand the diverse nature of this country's society. Students will explore areas of British life including entertainment, sport, politics, religion and social problems. by the conclusion of the course students will have gained a good knowledge and understanding of contemporary British life and culture.
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3.00 Credits
STUDY ABROAD CAPA IN LONDON ONLY. This course introduces students to the history, concepts and structures of politics and government in Western Europe. Students will gain knowledge on the debates, disagreements, problems and changes in west European government and politics, and will be able to think critically on these issues as well as defend their ideas on them.
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3.00 Credits
STUDY ABROAD CAPA IN LONDON ONLY. This course seeks to develop an in-depth understanding of democratic citizenship, identity, and religion among young Muslims in London's East End. It first examines the foundations of participatory democracy and their adaptation to an increasingly de-territorialized world. The course then illustrates the subsequent conflicts with an examination of Muslim migrant communities' confrontation with Western democratic policies. We consider a range of explanations for sociopolitical alienation, and introduce the concept of 'Apartism.' Finally, these concepts an applications are actually encountered on field trips to the East End to look at the history and reality of the discussed socio-political phenomena, face-to-face.
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3.00 Credits
STUDY ABROAD CAPA IN LONDON ONLY. This course will examine the structure and principal operations of the international financial economy. It will examine operations and their impact in terms of trade, the trading of financial assets and capital movements. It will also assess and risk management techniques used by governments, corporations and other entities operation internationally and the global regulatory challenges posed by these developments. The course covers topics such as the historical development of money and capital markets, the role of major central banks, the maintenance of price stability, the control interest rates, the management of monetary policy and the management of global systemic risk.
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3.00 Credits
STUDY ABROAD CAPA IN LONDON ONLY. This course reflects the increasing amount of international marketing carried out by a wide and diverse range of organizations. Starting with why organizations may wish to expand their activities across national boundaries, students develop knowledge to identify which markets to enter, the methods of market entry available, and the management and control implications.
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3.00 Credits
Energy has long been a major factor in the formulation of national security, foreign policy and domestic economic strategies as well as a driving force in the exercise of national power and general international discourse. Oil is frequently linked to war, civil and ethnic conflict, terrorism, poverty, corruption and social injustice. As national energy security concerns and pressures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions intensify, large energy consuming countries like the United States are struggling to improve their national energy policy in the broader context of international relations and domestic economic policy. This course will look in depth at how energy security challenges have evolved over the years an consider the elements to creating a successful national energy strategic that is comprehensive and takes into account the role of alternative energy, diplomatic initiatives, transparency policy, and social change.
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3.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to the underlying political, socio-economic and cultural trends in contemporary Broader Middle East (From the Maghreb to South Asia.) the course focuses on the struggle of ideas between the forces of extremism and moderation in the Arab and Muslim world, the Arab-Israeli conflict, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the geopolitics of energy. It also examines the region from the perspective of U.S. national security interests, foreign policy and public diplomacy.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of topics, problems, and approaches in contemporary psychology. Includes the biological basis of behavior, sensation, perception, attention, learning and memory, thinking, language, abnormal behavior and therapies, personality and individual differences. Required for psychology majors.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of topics in social psychology. Includes conformity and social influence, attitude formation and change, aggression, altruism, relationships, liking and loving, prejudice and stereotyping, as well as applications to other disciplines (e.g. law, marketing, the workplace, etc.). Required for psychology majors.
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