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3.00 Credits
This course enables students who have completed courses for the project on The State of the State for Washington Latinos to develop their skills in public communication about their research. It also challenges them to think critically about the dilemmas regarding power and democracy that are posed when policy investigators seek to make specialized research accessible to general audiences (including non-English speakers), professional policymakers, organizational leaders, and media representatives. Students will read and discuss texts on democratic theory along with texts on communication and the media. They will also carry out public communications projects such as these: making oral and visual presentations at local public meetings; writing journalistic pieces for the State of the State Web site; meeting with state policymakers about their research; contributing to a Web site that compiles policy research from multiple community-based research projects; presenting research at other colleges; and doing press, radio, and TV interviews. In the process, students will also revise and supplement their prior research as necessary. Prerequisites: Either Politics 458 or Politics 404A (Spring 2008). Distribution area: social science; alternative voices.
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3.00 Credits
In contemporary political discourse, 'democracy' is often presented as the sole legitimate form of government. However, what democracy actually means, how it is reflected in laws, institutions and values, and the ways its challenges, limits, and tensions can be resolved are the subjects of much debate. This course will engage the following questions: What is democracy How do different conceptions of democracy view freedom, equality, and citizenship What kinds of institutional arrangements best reflect and foster 'democracy' We will consider these questions in terms of the historical roots of democracy in ancient Greece, the reinvigoration of democratic thinking during the Enlightenment, and current debates about democracy and democratic participation in the contemporary world. Distribution area: social science.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course combines critical reading on theories of race and racism and the history of Latino experiences in the United States with independent research that is meant to inform practical efforts to address these problems. Each student designs and carries out a research project that expands a body of research done by previous students in this course on social conditions for Latinos in Washington State. Previous areas of research have included education, health care, immigration, voting rights, labor, and other fields. The course involves a Community-Based Learning component that links students with professionals whose work impacts Latinos and who provide consultation to help students orient their research. Students learn how to conduct systematic empirical research on social and political problems: formulating questions; determining appropriate methods; gathering and analyzing data; conducting personal interviews; and making policy recommendations based on results. Students are also expected to make their research politically relevant by engaging in organized public educational activities. The core intellectual challenge, in turn, is to hold academic reflections in creative tension with both practical research and political action. Prerequisites: consent of instructor. Distribution area: social sciences, alternative voices.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Staff Directed individual study and research. Prerequisites: appropriate prior coursework in politics and consent of the supervising instructor.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This team-taught seminar will meet one evening a week throughout the semester. Its purpose is to engage senior majors in sustained discussion of contemporary political issues. Requirements include attendance at all seminar meetings; extensive participation in discussion; and the completion of several papers, one being a proposal for a senior thesis or honor thesis. Required of, and open only to, senior politics majors. (Fall degree candidates should plan to take this seminar at the latest possible opportunity.)
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2.00 Credits
Staff During the first two-thirds of each major's final semester at Whitman, he or she will satisfactorily complete the senior thesis launched the prior semester, and then defend that thesis orally before two faculty members. Detailed information on this process is provided to students well in advance. No thesis will be deemed acceptable unless it receives a grade of C- or better. Required of, and open only to, senior majors not taking Politics 498.
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2.00 Credits
Staff Designed to further independent research leading to the preparation of an undergraduate honors thesis on a subject of analytical or theoretical interest in politics. Required of and limited to senior honors candidates in politics. Conducted under close faculty supervision. Prerequisites: admission to honors candidacy and consent of department chair.
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4.00 Credits
Staff The science of psychology as intended for general and beginning students. Designed to introduce students to the technical vocabulary, methodology, and principal fields of research. Analysis of such topics as learning, development, personality, behavior pathology, emotions, and social behavior. All sections designed to introduce the student to the basic material of the introductory psychology course. Not all sections are organized and conducted the same way. Sections by Clearfield emphasize group work and projects.
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4.00 Credits
Descriptive, correlational, and inferential statistical methods as well as some of their applications in psychology. The final grade is based on completion of homework assignments and examinations. The material is at an intermediate level of complexity, and students are advised to take the course early in preparation for more advanced work. Not available to senior psychology majors without department consent. Distribution area: quantitative analysis.
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4.00 Credits
Description and application of experimental methods to human and animal subjects. Classical and contemporary methods, content, and problems are covered with a special emphasis on the human subject in research. Designed for beginning and intermediate students. A research paper written according to APA format is required. The course involves an arranged laboratory. Prerequisites: Psychology 110 and Psychology 210. Not available to senior psychology majors without department consent.
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