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3.00 Credits
Environmental Geography examines human interactions with the environment and environmental change. Whereas environmental politics focuses on the role of politics in environmental management, environmental geography investigates the role that knowledge, culture, economic systems, gender and identity, and the everyday politics of communities and households play in shaping human-environment interactions. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
Political geography is about control over space. The key vehicle for controlling space over recent centuries has been the state. This course focuses on the modern state. It focuses on state strategies to control space as varied as defining borders, putting railroads in place, and, particularly, creating national identities. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
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3.00 Credits
These courses examine selected topics in the politics of ideas not currently covered in other politics of ideas courses. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
Tutorials offer individual faculty instruction in regularly scheduled meetings (usually once a week). NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This is a course designed primarily for the student interested in a particular topic. The amount of reading and/or the nature of the project will determine the credit to be assigned. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
Field internships are designed to provide the advanced student with the opportunity to pursue a research topic in the context of an experiential learning situation. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
The Capstone Seminar provides political science majors with a culminating and integrative experience at the end of the major coursework. The seminar, required of all majors, provides students with the opportunity to do research and develop a critical analysis utilizing the key concepts and methodologies across the subfields of the discipline. A variety of topics will be offered each year. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
Housing provides the foundation for many aspects of a healthy and fulfilling life and links citizens and families to education, jobs, transportation, community networks, and myriad public and private opportunities and services. Housing policy, like welfare, health, education, and other social policy arenas, is undergoing a period of fundamental reexamination and debate. Not only is the implementation of housing policy at issue, the very objectives and need for housing policy is itself in question. This course is designed to provide the background necessary to become informed participants in this debate over the future of U.S. housing policy and to develop conceptual tools necessary to formulate and implement housing policy. The course will involve a combination of lectures, class debates, assignments, and projects. It is absolutely essential to have read the required readings before each class session, and students are expected to be full and consistent participants in class discussions.
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3.00 Credits
Social-ecological systems are ecological systems that are linked to and affected by one or more social systems. Management and governance of such systems include a wide range of stakeholders and institutions. In this course we will examine various approaches to governing and managing these systems to make them more resilient. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions.
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3.00 Credits
This course orients students to the history, values, and issues of the third sector in American society; and to the leadership, governance, and management challenges specific to the administration of non-profit organizations. In particular, the course focuses on developing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for effective nonprofit leadership that explicitly recognizes the importance of collaboration and shared leadership to sustained success and appreciable change. Today's leaders must leverage the wisdom, resources, and capital of multiple constituencies and communities. Students in this course will expand their abilities to address and negotiate leadership challenges that arise when stakeholders come together to plan, make decisions, and take action in organizational and community settings.
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