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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Advanced analysis focusing on government and politics in foreign nations or regions. Areas of interest may include constitutional structures, political parties and interest groups, legislatures, bureaucracy and public policy. Topics address such concerns as religion and politics, patterns of economic development, ethnic strife, political leadership. Prereq: senior standing. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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7.40 Credits
Classics of sociological and political economic theory, as well as contemporary thinking in conservative, classical liberal, modern liberal, and radical political economy. Emphasis on the historical context in which these ideas emerge, and the links among them. Readings and discussions include such thinkers as Comte, Spencer, Weber, Durkheim, Locke, Marx, Smith, Riccardo, J.S. Mill, Shumpeter, Keynes, Hayek. Group 7. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Political opinion, identity, and belief-formation and reinforcement. Th e roles of cognition and emotion in how political identities, opinions and beliefs form, change and resist change. Th e implications of ideaframing in the acceptance and rejection of political concepts and ideologies. Th e role of social contexts and the media in creating conceptual boundaries in contemporary politics. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Course analyzes and evaluates the roles of political philosophy and historical circumstances in politics through the readings of selected works by political philosophers and political leaders whose writings combine political philosophy with historical analysis. Special attention given to the nature of argument, choice, and leadership in political behavior. Authors studied include Machiavelli, Madison, Marx, and Lincoln. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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8.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary treatment of selected topics in politics and society. Topics may include democracy, empire and war, gender roles in electoral process, the sociology and psychology of terrorism, the political economy of hunger and poverty, the social origins of dictatorship and democracy, and others. May repeated for a maximum of 8 credits. Topic: Empire, Democracy, and War is Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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4.00 Credits
Students undertake internships or other approved fi eld projects with organizations such as political campaigns, media organizations, government offfi ces, business or community groups. Th e seminar component enables students to share and analyse these experiences, employing readings, discussions, collective behavior games, and speakers. Permission required. 4 cr.
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2.40 Credits
Design, statistical analysis, and decision making in psychological research. Probability, hypothesistesting, and confi dence intervals. Conceptualization, computation, interpretation, and typical applications for exploratory data analysis (including measures of central tendency, variability), t-tests, correlations, bivariate regression, one-way analysis of variance, and chi square. Introduction to computer methods of computation. No credit for students who have completed ADM 430; BIOL 528; ADMN 420; EREC 525; HHS 540; MATH 439; MATH 539; MATH 644; SOC 502. Special fee. Group 2. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Research design, including experimental and correlation design; internal versus external validity; measurement; writing a research report; graphic and statistical methods for summarizing data; sampling; and special problems such as experimenter eff ects, reactivity of measurement, and others. Th e use of hypothesis testing and data analysis in research. Prereq: PSYC 401 and 402. Special fee. Writing intensive. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Th e study of how humans (and some other animals) sense and perceive their environment. Topics include seeing (vision), hearing (audition), tasting (gustation), smelling (olfaction), feeling (somatosensation), and the variety of state-of-the-art methods used by psychologists to study these senses. Illusions and other sensory and perceptual phenomena are treated. Prereq: PSYC 401. 4 cr.
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3.00 Credits
Th e study of human cognition, its basic concepts, methods, and major fi ndings. Human knowledge acquisition and use. Attention, perception, memory, imagery, language, reading, problem solving, and decision making. Prereq: PSYC 401. 4 cr.
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