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3.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to the General Theory of Relativity (Gravitation), Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. Topics include Principle of Equivalence, tensor calculus and Riemannian geometry, curvature, metric tensor, energy-momentum tensor, the Einstein's field equations, tests of relativity, Schwarzschild metric, black holes and singularities, Kerr metric and rotating black holes, universe on the large scale, Robertson-Walker metric, Friedmann cosmological models, thermal history of the universe and gravitational radiation.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide students with the opportunity to understand the concept of human rights and the role the legal system plays and can play in protecting this revered ideal. "Rule of Law" indicates legal rule making as a set of principles that we are all obliged to obey either nationally or internationally. The idea of rights is indispensable to modern moral discussion, but it is also fraught with danger. Human beings possess "rights" that protects them from the aggression of others, and especially from the power of governments under which they live. The interaction of politics, law, the state and international organizations with regard to the general notion of human rights will be the subject of this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the changes and continuities of United States foreign policy in the World. Objectives of national strategy, effects of technology and social change on political, military and economic components of foreign policy will be rigorously analyzed. The course will review U.S. foreign policy during the cold war, nuclear weapons, relations with the former Soviet Union and China and the enduring concern with national security. A major theme will be new post-cold war issues of globalization, free markets and international terrorism. Another theme will be the restructuring and reorientation of U.S. foreign policy to meet the new challenges of the 21st century. The course will focus on economic, strategic, diplomatic, regional, and military alliances, sources of global conflicts and their resolution. An important theme of the course will be United States relations with the Third World.
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0.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
The course is an introduction to the science of psychology. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, research methods, biological bases of behavior, sensation and perception, cognition, development, social interaction, personality, abnormal behavior, and therapies. Computer-assisted laboratory and other hands-on activities will supplement the lecture material. Students will become familiar with writing using the conventions of the discipline.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to descriptive and inferential statistics and their applications to the analyses and interpretation of psychological data. Topics include: frequency distributions, central tendency, variability, z-scores and standardized distributions, probability, correlation, hypothesis testing (with one, two and three samples), t-tests, analysis of variance, and power analysis. Computer-based statistical software (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences: SPSS) will be introduced and utilized throughout the course.
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3.00 Credits
The course provides students with a necessary skill set for qualitative empirical investigations. Topics include developing a qualitative research question, ethnographic and phenomenological research methodologies, sampling for qualitative study, validity, and reliability of findings. In this course, students will design and execute a qualitative research project.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of Religious Experience (SRE) is an introductory course required of all religion majors in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. The aims of this course are two fold. First, the course will introduce students to the debates in religious studies regarding the nature of religious experience and the limits of academic efforts to document such phenomena. Second, students will learn the primary sources (from a range of literary genres) that document accounts of religious experiences from a range of cultural and historical contexts.
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3.00 Credits
This course engages students in a critical examination of the role of religion and spirituality in any effort to address holistically the needs of individuals, families and communities drawing upon the services of a social worker. In recognizing that persons are shaped not only by biological, psychological, and sociological experiences but also spiritual experiences, this course will examine critical issues related to religion and spirituality and social work practice in regards to clients of diverse religious and philosophical perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the major religions of the world. Although the title of the course is comparative religion, the conceptual framework, and philosophical approach will not be comparative but will lend itself to engaging in an analysis which is centered in the epistemological and ontological framework of the respective traditions. Each religion and or spiritual tradition will be studied based on its own social, historical, and theological developments and trajectories. An integral aspect of the course will be visits to holy sites, including mosques, temples, and sacred shrines. Students will be required to conduct a field research project in which include oral histories, and ethnographies of self identified practitioners of these major traditions.
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