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3.00 Credits
This course examines the political socialization and behavior of women in the U.S. political culture; their role in elections; their impact as an interest group; and the public policies particularly affecting women or affected by women.
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3.00 Credits
We will illustrate Spinoza's anticartesian response to subjectivity and his attempts to found a postcartesian theory of presense in the Ethics. We will also highlight Spinoza's interpretations of nature, knowledge, power, and human freedom from the perspectives of contemporary philosophical discourse.
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3.00 Credits
Discusses professional problems and advancements in the field of Communication. Recent offerings include: PR and Advertising in Not-for-Profit Organizations, Kenneth Burke, and Environmental Public Relations.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar will focus on Kant's endeavor to ground a distinctly aesthetic judgment. We will read this classic text on modern aesthetics with regard to Kant's aesthetic and teleologic way of presenting the question of nature.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the major philosophies of science (logical empiricist, realist, phenomenological, feminist, and constructivist) and their implications for the relation of science and technology. We will focus particularly on the question of whether science possesses a univocal, universal, and neutral rationality or must always be governed by the values that are more directly related to a particular society or historical period than to the way things are. Some of the thinkers we will consider are Hempel, Kitcher, Boyd, Kuhn, Bloor, Laudan, Biology and Gender Study Group, Keller, Merleau-Ponty, Rouse, Feyerabend, and Foucault.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores China's encounters with the West from early times through the modern age, with an emphasis on cultural exchanges. It opens with a survey of Chinese history and Sino-Western interactions over time and then focuses on topics such as the Silk Road, the Chinese Empire and the Philosophes, Christianity in China, American influence and Chinese liberalism, Marxism and Chinese communist revolution, Chinese culture in the West and Western presence in China today.
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5.00 Credits
Examines decision-making processes in small groups. Students will be introduced to major theories in the field, including Hirokawa and Scheerhorn's Model of Decision Making. Topics covered include leadership, errors in decision making, and effective communication in small groups.
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3.00 Credits
This course discusses the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir by a careful analysis of selected essays, novels, and autobiographical accounts, e.g., The Ethics of Ambiguity, The Second Sex, L'Invitee, and The Mandarins, as well as current important scholarship related to Beauvoir.
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1.00 Credits
A discussion and critique of a selected point of view in contemporary psychology, typically presented by a visiting professor.
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3.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the administrative and managerial skills they will need to be effective leaders in public and charitable organizations. The course teaches principles of strategic planning, effective organizing, budgeting, project and program management, consensus building and shared decision-making. In addition, the course explores ethical issues in the management of public and charitable organizations. The course also rein- forces writing and oral presentation skills. The course uses case studies and the students' own experience and research in public or charitable organizations as tools for learning.
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