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3.00 Credits
Examination of personnel management, including the legal issues associated with the day-to-day employment related decisions and actions of managers. The human resources function is divided into major areas of personnel, labor relations.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of trends in economic growth and related consequences for employment conditions and patterns of inequality in the dynamic industry sectors that comprise an urban economy. Topics include both emergent sectors based on immigrant entrepreneurship and declining sectors such as industrial manufacturing. Focusing on New York City, the course examines the economic restructurings of this current period of globalization and how these changes create opportunities for immigrants as well as hardships for native-born minorities. Strategies for urban economic development, along with local development organizations and advocates supporting them, will be reviewed.
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4.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
An examination of trends in economic growth and related consequences for employment conditions and patterns of inequality in the dynamic industry sectors that comprise an urban economy. Topics include both emergent sectors based on immigrant entrepreneurship and declining sectors such as industrial manufacturing. Focusing on New York City, the course examines the economic restructurings of this current period of globalization and how these changes create opportunities for immigrants as well as hardships for native-born minorities. Strategies for urban economic development, along with local development organizations and advocates supporting them, will be reviewed.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the principles of employment law, the principal theories, policies, and literature concerning federal and state regulations in the private and public sectors, in the context of problems that typically arise in the workplace.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of public policy issues involving race and ethnicity in the United States. Assessment of persistent racial disparities in the aftermath of the civil rights revolution and of such anti-racist policies as affirmative action, school desegregation, and racial districting. Analysis of ethnicity, rival conceptions of what it means to be an American, and policy debates regarding immigration, bilingualism, and multicultural education.
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3.00 Credits
How Americans designed and built towns and cities; an examination of the city-building process, emphasizing landmark urban plans.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the major issues and themes in urban environmentalism. This course introduces students to major issues and themes in urvan environmentalism. The course integrates urban theory how we imagine and understand the city.
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3.00 Credits
Major conflicts in the planning of cities and suburbs, and the social, economic, and political forces which create these conflicts. Issues of land use, group homes, transportation, business development, hazardous wastes, nuclear power, and community development. Preparation of a research project resulting in a professional-quality report. Basics of preparing such reports, including data collection and analysis, research, and presentation.
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3.00 Credits
An overview of urban transportation in the United States. Topics include the historic relationship between transportation innovations and urban development; the evolution of federal transportation policy; the impact of the Interstate highway system on U.S. metropolitan areas; the decline and revival of mass transit in U.S. cities; policies for combating traffic congestion; metropolitan sprawl and air pollution; the impact of current transportation policies on women; the elderly and the poor; and recent efforts to encourage the development of pedestrian-friendly cities.
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