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3.00 Credits
This course will teach the basics of trial advocacy with an overview of the trial process including opening statements, direct examination, exhibits, cross examination, expert witnesses, closing arguments and objections. The American Mock Trial Association's hypothetical legal problem will be the foundation for this course. Students will apply legal analysis and critical thinking. They will learn the practical application of knowledge and skills and experience the pressures of the legal field. Students are expected to participate in at least one sponsored mock trial competition during the semester.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the notion of reproductive autonomy through examination of the politics of reproduction in the United States. We will be particularly focused on the regulation of abortion and sterilization. The central questions of the course will be: What does the terrain of reproductive politics reveal about the contemporary understanding of women, maternal desire, and reproduction? What understandings of gender do reproductive policies, laws, and discourse reflect and re-entrench? How do policy and law incentivise certain women's reproduction while discouraging other women from reproducing? How might reproductive autonomy be achieved? What exactly does "reproductive autonomy" mean? In exploring this last question we will read an array of political and feminist theory.
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3.00 Credits
This course will begin by exploring various schools of contemporary feminist theory. We will then ask how proponents of these schools analyze and criticize specific institutions and practices. Throughout the semester, attention will be paid to the ways gender relations shape formation and interpretation of specifically political experience.
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3.00 Credits
The senior seminar, in conjunction with the integrative essay, is the capstone of a major's course work in the study of Political Science. The seminar's purpose is to engage the Department's students and faculty in sustained consideration of significant political questions. It does not seek to secure agreement on a body of substantive conclusions. Rather it aims to examine various strategies that may be employed in making sense of the issues discussed. For example, the seminar will explore the following question: What are the implications of the terrorism for the conduct of contemporary politics? The requirements for all participants in the senior Seminar are as follows: 1.)Attendance at all seminar meetings;2.) Completion of all reading prior to the meeting for which those materials have been assigned; 3.)Informed participation in discussion;4.)Submission, at the beginning of every other week's seminar meeting, of a paper which shall be not less than three and not more than four pages; 5.)Submission, during weeks when a paper is not submitted, of at least two carefully-crafted questions or a brief provocative paragraph regarding the assigned reading; 6.) Presentation of a brief oral argument explaining your integrative essay topic and submission of a written statement of that argument; and 7.) Completion of preliminary draft of your integrative essay (not less than 10 pp.).
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3.00 Credits
Integrative essay topics need not to relate directly to the theme of the seminar. However, like the seminar, they must be "integrative" in character. That is, they must demonstrate serious and sustained effort to draw together the subject matters and investigative strategies of various departmental courses, as these are brought to bear on a question you find of interest. To insure that work on this project proceeds in a timely manner, each student must adhere to the following schedule: Students looking to graduate with "honors" must produce a thesis which, although similar in form and content to the integrative essay, is substantially longer and of significantly better quality. In order to graduate with honors, the members of your examining committee must collectively agree that your essay as well as your oral examination merit a grade of a B+ or better. Failure to meet this standard on either the written or the oral portion of the examination will remove a student from honors candidacy.
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3.00 Credits
The course is an overview of the major areas of psychology, what psychologists do, and the methods employed in the investigation of basic psychological processes underlying human behavior. Areas reviewed may include: history, learning theories, motivation, psychobiology, emotion, perception, abnormal psychology, therapy, and psychological issues of current debate in the popular culture. The concepts examined will be linked to everyday reasoning and life, including popular and folk psychology beliefs. Global and cross-cultural aspects of psychology will be explored. No prerequisite.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the life circumstances of the elderly (primarily in the U.S.) at the close of the Twentieth Century. Students will obtain a clear and current understanding of elderly person income levels, health status, living arrangements, social roles, and activity levels, as well as an understanding of how these circumstances are reshaped by social policy and public policy. Added emphasis will be given to the final years of life and approaching death. Images of the elderly will be explored through the use of film, literature, writing, guest lectures, and field trips. No prerequisite.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
The course is designed for a qualified student to work individually with a faculty member on a project, reading program, or a selected topic that is not covered in a regular course. Consent of instructor required.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with information regarding the symptoms, causes, and treatment of what is generally recognized as abnormal behavior. Students will be expected to think critically about the research evidence with regard to various explanations and treatments of mental illness, and to develop clinical rationale for diagnostic choices they might make as a hypothetical treatment provider. Additionally, students will become familiar with the major assessment index for psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers (DSM-IVTR) and learn how to apply its categories to several client cases discussed in class.
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