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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of research methodology and statistics. Students will learn how to design a research project based on the critical issues and problems within the field of Public Administration and beyond. This course provides students with the critical research skills needed to become effective public administrators. Students will also learn to use the Statistical Processing Software (SPSS) to analyze data in order to make managerial and policy decisions. This course will use the common ideologies and perceptions that we approach in our everyday lives. Hence, this course will teach students how to address problems that affect the world.
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3.00 Credits
This Course aims at providing a broad understanding of the strategic role and functions of the public administrative system in the context of disasters. It will examine the bureaucratic arrangements of disaster-related agencies and institutions, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA), to understand their capacities to reasonably predict and aggressively respond to both natural and human-associated disasters. The Course will engage in a comparative study of the more well-known national disaster response agencies in the disaster-prone regions of the world, at the same time, will inquire into public administration best practices that have emerged.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an exploration of the federal courts, state judicial systems, the role of law and lawyers in society, the impact of court and judicial systems on public policy, the decision-making patterns of actors in judicial process, the politics and economics of judicial process, the ideological orientations of the judiciary, the procedures of pretrial, trial, hearings, and appeals. This course also offers a well-grounded understanding of formal court structures and practices. Students will learn how judicial decisions have a great impact on society, not just in criminal and constitutional matters, but in civil law and related areas of dispute resolution. The course is not limited to the study of criminal or constitutional law. Civil law is also studied because civil cases far outnumber criminal cases and the impact on judicial process. Also, emerging trends in alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration, and neutral fact-finding are studied.
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3.00 Credits
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0.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
This course is a comprehensive introduction to the major topics in political theory. Political theory is concerned with the fundamental questions of public life. It explores the philosophical traditions that have formed questions such as: What is the nature of political authority? What should be the relationship between individuals and states? What are the obligations and responsibility that citizens owe to one another? What are the limits of freedom? When may government act against the will of a citizen? What characterizes a good government? What is the purpose of government? And so on. In answering these questions, political philosophers have tried to establish basic principles that will, for instance, justify a particular form of state, show that individuals have basic inalienable rights, or tell us how a society's basic material resources should be shared by its members. This constitutes analyzing and interpreting a few basic concepts ? ?authority?, ?liberty?, ?freedom? and ?justice.? Theories on these basic concepts are with a remarkable diversity, and there are two reasons for this. First, methods and approached used by political philosophers ref
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3.00 Credits
The ?Modern? period in philosophy extends from approximately the 16th ? 17th centuries. This period in the history of philosophy is distinguished from the Ancient and Medieval periods in number of important ways. The emergence of the new science, championed by Copernicus and Galileo, inspired and changed the world views of philosophers in this period. This period is also marked by the advancement of new technology, the reformation and religious pluralism, and the search for the foundation of knowledge. Particularly, Descartes, who is justly regarded as the father of modern philosophy, created the theory of knowledge, epistemology, as a separate discipline within philosophy for the first time. Previously, a theory of knowledge had been treated as falling under Aristotle's logical work, but with Descartes, epistemological questions came to the fore. Thus the modern philosophy has been driven by the questions about knowledge, and that has been the starting point of those two dividing traditions?rationalism and empiricism. In this course, we will examine and criticize the writings of some primary figures falling under the traditions of rationalism and empi
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3.00 Credits
History of Modern Western Philosophy I: Rationalism, Empiricism, and Kant surveys the key writings of seminal western philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries, including works by Rene Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, and G. W. Leibniz (the so-called Continental Rationalists); Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume (the so-called British Empiricists); and Immanuel Kant, whose epic synthesis of the two competing traditions closes the era. Starting from the great questions that moved the age (What can we know? What is mind? What is matter? Is there free will? Does God exist?), the course situates the philosophical responses within the new conceptions of science, religion, politics and morals which emerge in the early modern period and focuses on epistemology (the theory of knowledge) and metaphysics (the theory of the ultimate nature of being).
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3.00 Credits
History of Modern Western Philosophy II: The 19th Century surveys the key western philosophers of the 19th century, including Jeremy Bentham, Mary Wollstonecraft, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, G.W.F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ludwig Feuerbach, S?ren Kierkegaard, Auguste Comte, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The course situates the thought of these philosophers within an historical context, focusing on the evolution from idealism to Marxism, from empiricism to pragmatism, and from post-Kantian thought to post-modern thinking.
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3.00 Credits
The primary purpose of this course is to explore classical issues in the philosophy of religion, such as the reality of God, the problem of evil, religious language, life after death, and the pluralism of religious traditions. Discussion focuses on proofs for and against the existence of God and various critiques and defenses of religious belief in general. The course will also explore how the claims of European thinkers translate into the African-American experience of religion.
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