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8.40 Credits
What is "power"? How does it originate and infl uenceevents? Are there, or should there be, limits to power? How does power (or powerlessness) manifest itself within your life and community? Th is semester we will explore the concept of "power", including its sources,deployment and eff ects, using a variety of sources, methods, and disciplinary perspectives. To raise and address questions about power, we will carefully read, view, discuss and listen to primary source material related to our topic including texts, fi lm, art and music. Course content includes the perspective of philosophers (Friedrich Nietzsche, Th omas Hobbes), dramatists (Samuel Beckett, Christopher Marlowe) scientists (Rene Descartes, Albert Einstein), essayists (Ralph Waldo Emerson), autoenographers (Carolina Maria DeJesus), as well as the work of historians, economists, psychologists, and scholars working in the fi elds of communication and gender studies. In addition students will design a service learning project(s) to research aspects of power and/or powerlessness within their life and community. Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the impact of governmental regulatory agencies and regulatory legislation on the operation of business in the United States. Topics include: the theory of regulation; the regulation of natural monopoly; antitrust economics; deregulation; social regulation, and interaction with regulatory agencies. Prereq: ADM 400, ECN 412. Not open to fi rst year students except with instructor's permission. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the fi nancial sector of the economy including commercial banks, thrifts, and other depository institutions. Examines the meaning and determinants of the money supply, credit and interest rates. Close attention paid to the role of the Federal Reserve and the economic eff ects of its monetary policy. Prereq: ECN 411, ECN 412. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the legal environment of business. Emphasis is on using economic analysis to examine laws of property, contract, and tort aff ecting business. Includes the ethical foundations of law and ethical issues involving business. Specifi c topics may include commercial free speech, white collar crime and managerial responsibility, product liability, cyberlaw, copyright, trademark and patent law. Prereq: ADM 400, ECN 412, and sophomore standing or permission of the instructor. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Examines how economic principles can be applied to resource allocation problems confronted by managers in a variety of industry settings. Emphasis on both theory and application. Topics include cost analysis, production decisions, and pricing policies of business managers within perfectly competitive, monopolistic, oligopolistic, and monopolistically competitive environments. Prereq: ADM 400, ECN 412 and sophomore standing or permission of instructor. 4 cr.
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7.00 Credits
For students considering a teaching career. In-school experiences to develop introductory skills in teaching. On-site seminars for analysis and evaluation. Assessment and advising related to teaching as a career. Prerequisite for further work toward teacher licensure. Minimum of seven hours a week, plus travel time, required. Prereq: permission. Cr/F. 4 cr.
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2.00 Credits
Th is seminar is intended for undergraduate men and women who are mentoring local middle-school students on a weekly basis. Th e mentoring involves minimally tutoring the mentees once a week at their schools. Th e seminar meets twice a month for two hours. Additionally, one tutoring session a month is reserved for a focus group discussion involving the mentors and their mentees at the school site. May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits. 2 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Organization, structure, and function of American schools; historical, political, social and cross-cultural perspectives; nature and processes of change in education. A) Educational Structure and Change; B) Education in America: Backgrounds, Structure, and Function; C) Governance of American Schools; D) School and Cultural Change; E) Teacher and Cultural Change; F) Social Perspectives of Confl ict in the Schools; G) Nature and Processes of Change in Education; H) What is an Elementary School?; I) Schooling for the Early Adolescent; J) Curriculum Structure and Change; K) Stress and Educational Organizations. Candidates teacher licensure must take either 4-credit course 700A, or 2 credits each of 700F and and 700C. Prereq: for teacher licensure: EDUC 500 and junior status. Prereq: for students not seeking teacher licensure: instructor permission. Writing intensive. 2/4 cr.
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2.00 Credits
Child development through adolescence, learning theory, cognitive psychology, research in teaching and teacher eff ectiveness, cross-cultural variability, and evaluation-- all applied to problems of classroom and individual teaching and learning. A) Human Development and Learning: Educational Psychology; B) Human Development: Educational Psychology; C) Human Learning: Educational Psychology; D) Developmental Basis of Learning and Emotional Problems; E) Learning Th eory, Modifi cation of Behavior, and Classroom Management; F) Cognitive and Moral Development; G) Evaluating Classroom Learning; H) Deliberate Psychological Education; I) Sex Role Learning and School Achievement; J) Th e Development of Th inking. Each semester 2-credit and 4-credit courses are off ered. 2-credit courses emphasize either development or learning. Candidates for teacher licensure are required to have the 4-credit course (701A) or 2 credits each of 701B and 701C. Prerequisite for teacher licensure: EDUC 500 and junior status. Prerequisite for students not seeking teacher licensure: instructor permission and junior status. 701A has a special fee when taught in Manchester. Writing intensive. 2/4 cr.
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2.00 Credits
Basic teaching models, techniques of implementation, and relationships to curricula. A) Alternative Teaching Models; B) Curriculum Planning for Teachers; C) Alternative Strategies for Maintaining Classroom Control; D) Social Studies Methods for Middle and High School Teachers; F) Teaching Elementary School Science; G) Language Arts for Elementary Teachers; H) Experiential Curriculum; I) Children with Special Needs; Teaching Strategies for the Classroom Teacher; K) Writing across the Curriculum; L) Learning and LOGO; M) Teaching Elementary School Social Studies. 2-credit and 4-credit courses are off ered. Teacher education students should be aware of the specifi c course(s) required for their licensure area. EDUC 703F and M are required for elementary education candidates. EDUC 703D is required for social studies candidates. EDUC 791 is required for science candidates. For all other secondary education candidates, the appropriate methods course in the department of major is required. See the Schoolhouse Book for specifi c course listings. Prerequisite for teacher licensure: EDUC 500 and junior status. Prerequisite for students not seeking teacher licensure: instructor permission and junior status. 703F has a special fee when taught in Manchester. 2/4 cr.
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