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3.00 Credits
Description: The study of politics, government operations and public policy in metropolitan areas. Notes: Cross-listed with AAMS 515. Offered variable times. Prerequisites: PLSC 201 with a grade of C or better, or graduate status, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Focuses on the unique politics of the South. It places southern politics in its theoretical and historical context and examines the central role of race in southern politics as well as regional importance to national politics. Notes: Cross-listed with AAMS 518. Offered periodically. Prerequisites: PLSC 201, Graduate status, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Focuses on the unique politics of the South. It places southern politics in its theoretical and historical context and examines the central role of race in southern politics as well as regional importance to national politics. Notes: Cross-listed with AAMS 518. Offered periodically. Prerequisites: PLSC 201, Graduate status, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course will explore the concepts of identity, ethnicity, and nationalism from a comparative perspective. We will examine how identity is defined and formed and how societies use these constructions for nation-building, welfare distribution, voting, elections, and economic development, among other things, by drawing upon theories from political science, anthropology, sociology, and economics. Prerequisite: PLSC 205 or 207, Graduate status, or permission of instructor. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course introduces students to the theory and application of linear and non-linear modeling to social science problems. The focus of this class will be to provide students with the theoretical and practical skills necessary to conduct their own empirical research. Students will learn a variety of advanced statistical techniques to conduct data analyses using R and RStudio. Prerequisite: PLSC 350 OR MATH 141 OR SOCL 316 OR ECON 306 OR PSYC 301 OR QMTH 205 OR permission of Instructor OR graduate status. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course explores the historical struggle of African Americans to assess their identity in relationship to their legal and social oppression. In reflecting on the work of Audre Lorde, W.E.B. DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Sojourner Truth, Toni Morrison, Edward Said, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Cornell West, Henry Louis Gates, Alice Walker, Bell Hooks, Mark Twain and others, we will angle in on the question of black identity from a variety of perspectives. Particular attention will be paid to the relationship between these articulations of "blackness" and the historical and political settings in which they arise. Informed class discussion will be emphasized. Students are expected to write a term paper and to present it to the class. Notes: Cross-listed with AAMS 551. Offered variable times. Prerequisites: HMXP 102, or AAMS 300, or permission of the instructor, or graduate status.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is designed to acquaint students with the variety of ideas, methods and issues raised within contemporary feminist literature. Notes: Cross-listed with WMST 553. Offered alternate fall semesters. Prerequisites: HMXP 102, or graduate status, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is designed to acquaint students with the variety of ideas, methods and issues raised within contemporary feminist literature. Notes: Cross-listed with WMST 553. Offered alternate fall semesters. Prerequisites: HMXP 102, or graduate status, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Focusing on the lives and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, this course provides critical analysis of the treatment of LGBTQ people in history, politics, philosophy, literature, media, and art. Prerequisite: WRIT 101, or Graduate status, or permission of instructor. Notes: Offered in spring. Cross-listed with WMST 555.
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3.00 Credits
Description: A survey of the major areas of psychological science. Core topics include human social behavior, personality, psychological disorders and treatment, learning, memory, emotion, motivation, human development, biological influences, and research methods. Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
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