91 courses with the subject LA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
The music of each period of history is interpreted and analyzed with a view of understanding and appreciating our musical heritage. Illustrations for the works of the great composers are presented to assist in the establishment of criteria for evaluating music. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 credits
The goal of this course is to improve students’ learning abilities and to sharpen the ability to think clearly, logically, critically, and effectively. This course is also an introduction to the ideals and values of the academic community. Students will also learn about the key abilities and dispositions of a liberally educated person. Required for freshmen who entered the college in the fall of 2008 and after. 1 hour Discussion 1 Credit
This course surveys the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the present. It covers a wide range of topics, including the rise of big business, the Progressive Era, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the War on Terror. The course also examines the development of American government and politics during this period. 3 hours Lecture 3 Credits
This course provides students the opportunity to develop their musical skills through the study and performance of selected works for concert band. Performances are held on campus throughout the school year. 2 rehearsals per week. 2 rehearsals per week 1 credit per semester
This course provides students the opportunity to develop their musical skills through the study and singing of selected choral literature from various periods of music history. Performances are held on campus throughout the school year. 2 Rehearsals per week 2 rehearsals per week 1 credit per semester
Introduction to Fine Arts is a survey course that introduces students to the major art forms of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, and theater. The course will explore the history and development of these art forms, as well as their role in society. Students will also have the opportunity to create their own works of art in a variety of media. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 Credits
A continuation of the study of basic grammar and vocabulary with emphasis on spoken and written Spanish, including the reading of carefully graded Spanish texts.
Students will refine skills of vocabulary-building, speaking, reading, and translating.
This course is designed to provide a framework for developing leadership skills. The training emphasizes: active communication, team building, intervention strategies, decision making, and problem resolution. Students wishing to apply for campus leadership positions including Peer Advisors, Resident Assistants, Diplomats and Student Government leaders are encouraged to take this course. The course is open to second semester freshmen, as well as sophomores and juniors. 1 hour per week 1 credit Graded Pass/Fail
The goal of this course is to sharpen ability to think clearly, logically, critically, and effectively. Thinking effectively is also necessary to communicate effectively, solve problems and to make the best choices. This course is designed to increase and focus your thinking abilities by using a variety of methods - lectures, class discussions, readings, written assignments, problem-solving activities, and examinations. Your success in the course depends on your willingness to commit to developing the thinking potentials that you possess. 1 hour Lecture 1 hour Lecture 1 credit
Instruction and practice in understanding and speaking the German language with increasing emphasis on reading and writing the language.
Experience is stressed in preparation, delivery, and criticism of speeches on a variety of topics. Assignments include speeches on personal experiences, manuscript readings, demonstrations, recordings, persuasive extemporaneous and impromptu speeches on student-selected subjects. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 Credits
This course is an introduction to the field of sociology. It provides students with a basic understanding of the sociological perspective and the major theories and concepts in sociology. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 Credits
This course provides a comparative history of modern America and Europe, beginning with the era of political and industrial revolutions, circa 1760. In particular, the American and French Revolutions in politics and the English Revolution in economics and technology mark the rise of modern nationalism, warfare, diplomacy, industry, agriculture, constitutions, ideology, imperialism, and society. Through the discussion and analysis of parallel and interactive developments on both sides of the North Atlantic, the student should gain a deeper understanding of their modern western world and how it came to evolve. Coverage of events should include those listed above, in addition to the Enlightenment, Napoleon146s Europe, Growth of Capital and Empire, World War I, Rise of Communism and Fascism, World War II, the Cold War, and the post-Cold War present. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion
This course is a historical approach to Western philosophy. Major figures from the Greeks to contemporary philosophers are treated. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 Credits
This course will cover the history of world civilization up to 1500. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be expected to be able to identify major issues in the historical development of major regions of the globe, including but not limited to Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Additionally, students will develop their abilities in critical reasoning, research, and presentation of material. - 3 Hours Lecture.
This course will cover the modern history of world civilization from 1500 to the present. It will address the general political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations that have shaped the globe. The course will be divided chronologically and regionally with emphasis upon the interactions between the western and non-western societies in the context of the global history. In addition to analyzing the textual and material evidence available in these regions from the past, key themes and concepts that determine the current development of world affairs also will be introduced. - 3 Hours Lecture.
This course provides an introduction to the life and thought of man from the ancient period to the 18th century. The course includes discussion of Greece and Rome, the decline of the ancient world and the development of medieval society, the rebirth of Western urban culture realized through the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of the modern state as manifested in the intellectual, social, and political developments in Western Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion
Students analyze the structure and function of Pennsylvania state and local governing institutions and related political processes. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 Credits
This course will introduce students to the discipline of ethnomusicology. The course will focus on issues related to how and why people make music and what these musical traditions can teach us about a society. Students will be introduced to tools used in ethnographic research and will conduct fieldwork assignments where they are given the opportunity to apply these principles - 3 Hours Lecture.
Working critically, collaboratively and with a feminist lens, we will study how gender impacts our lives, and how it relates to social inequalities. This course emphasizes the ways in which gender has been produced in historically and culturally specific ways that lead to specific outcomes at the structural level of society, as well as through every day social interactions. We will learn to recognize and critique the binary and ahistorical conception of gender, and we will also study resistances to gendering. We begin with a micro perspective on the social construction of gender in our own lives, and we will then broaden our investigation of gender constructions both historically and in the contemporary period. We will cover gender constructions in the context of histories of science, the invention of the modern nation-state; nationalism, colonialism and imperialism to war, displacement and poverty up through contemporary processes of globalization, and, most importantly, media representations. - 3 Hours Lecture. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
A review of the major theories of personality development and personality functioning. In addition to covering the details of each theory, the implications and applications of each theory are considered. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
This course focuses on physical, cognitive, social, personality and moral development over the lifespan. Students will be introduced to human development concepts, issues and theory with emphasis on inter-
This course serves as a general introduction to the primary theoretical perspectives that guide the works of counseling psychologists. It introduces students to the process of counseling and psychotherapy. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
This course will impart a basic understanding of psychological concepts about identity and culture and how they affect interactions with others. The course focuses on a multicultural perspective for understanding and working with diverse populations, and will examine theoretical and research literature concerning gender, race/ethnicity, relation, etc. in the provision of psychological services. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Students receive 1/2 credit on a pass/fail basis for devoting active participation in the activities of student government. They include, but are not limited to, maintaining an office for a class year or on Student Government itself, serving on committees like SAC, being an officer in a club and representing that club at Student Government. A short paper is required each semester for students on the Student Government Board who desire credit. To receive credit, students must sign up for it at the Registrar146s Office. Pass/Fail 1/2 credit Graded Pass/Fail
This course provides students with a safe and respectful atmosphere in which to explore the actor’s craft. The student not only learns how to act but how to use acting in common situations. 3 hours Lecture and Laboratory 3 credits
This course prepares the student for specific roles. The actors will be matched to parts for which they seem most suitable and will learn how to break down a role emotionally and physically. By the end of the course they will prepared to begin rehearsals for a production.
This course leads the actor through the production process. There is a step by step plan in which the actor is moved from rehearsal through performance in some of America’s great plays. The plays will be chosen to suit the student’s abilities.
A survey of political, social, and cultural developments from colonial times through the period of Reconstruction. 3 hours Lecture 3 Credits
This course studies the development and behavior of adolescents with a focus on understanding the adolescent in terms of family, peers, school, culture and the community at large. Identity development, delinquency and sexuality will all be examined with an emphasis on how to provide services to the adolescent in need.
This course provides an overview of the study of public policy by exploring different approaches to policy analysis. Students will gain an understanding of how policy research is conducted as well as how policy recommendations are formulated. Emphasis is on qualitative analytical methods. Students will conduct their own primary source-based research and present their findings to the class. -3 Hours Lecture. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
This class will introduce students to the field of public history, and many of its core components, including examining how public historians: administer and/or construct educational exhibits for historic houses, museums, or sites; write up proposals to nominate sites to receive either state markers or national registry of historic places designations (or are involved in the process of creating other monuments or memorials dedicated to historic figures, significant locales or buildings, and important events); create walking tours of historic sites (that may or may not include adding historic signage) and/or creating digital links for the public’s ability to access history; become involved in the process of policy decisions that affect a community, such as issues surrounding historic preservation or rural and urban development. -3 Hours Lecture. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
An introduction to the elementary dynamics of sub- stance use, abuse, dependency and treatment. The course is designed to facilitate the acquisition and retention of information needed by the prospective professional in the field of alcohol and drug abuse treatment. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits
This course examines the origins of human culture, with emphasis upon cultural and social organization, the impact and influence of cultural change upon such organization, and the traditions, rituals and relationships that define human civilization. 3 hours Lecture 3 Credits
This course provides an overview of the subject of policy study and policy analysis. 3 Credits
The course is designed to introduce students to the tradition and research design of research methods in the social sciences, and to provide a foundation for understanding them. It presents opportunities to learn, hands-on, the primary techniques of the major qualitative and quantitative data collection methods. The advantages and limitations of both approaches will also be discussed. 3 Hours 3 Credits
This course offers a comparative analysis of European, African, Asian, Middle Eastern, and Latin American political systems. 3 hours Lecture 3 Credits
This course is designed to introduce students to the requirements, philosophy, and methods of scientific research. Topics will include: experimental design, scientific methods, grants and funding, communications, searching methodology, ethics, selecting a graduate program, dissection and analysis of research papers, research style, and the administration of research projects. 3 hrs per week 3 credits
Studio Art I is an elementary course in which the student is given the opportunity to find themself and the medium through which they wants to work. Studio Art II requires the student to express the self through the medium suggested by the instructor. Each course is a prerequisite for the following one. 2 hours Lecture and Practicum 2 credits
The significance of contemporary world patterns of nations is considered through the interaction of their physical, economic, political, and cultural aspects, with an emphasis upon the interplay between population, migration patterns, language, religion, and political developments. 3 hours Lecture 3 Credits
Examines the influence of agricultural, mechanical, technological, and scientific change upon the United States from colonial times to the present. Students will be required to participate in fieldwork at Delaware Valley College’s Roth Farm and Living Museum. 3 hours Lecture 3 Credits
Studio Art I is an elementary course in which the student is given the opportunity to find her/himself and the medium through which she/he wants to work. Studio Art II requires the student to express the self through the medium suggested by the instructor. Each course is a prerequisite for the following one.
This course includes information relating to stages in the counseling process, interviewing skills, counsel- ing objectives, and appropriate strategies. Students actively learn various counseling techniques using the mediums of role playing, peer critiques, videotaping, and discussions. Ethical considerations are empha- sized. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits
This course involves discussion of the theory and application of psychological tests of intellectual functioning, achievement, aptitude, interests, attitudes and personality. Multiple testing contexts are discussed, including educational and psychological research, counseling and guidance, and private industry 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits
This course examines research methods used to study human behavior. Research design, including experi- mental, correction and survey methods are examined. Course topics include: the design of psychological experiments, data collection, data analysis and inter- pretation and preparing a research report. Students use SPSS statistic software to conduct literature reviews, analyze data, and write research reports in the labo- ratory. 3 hours Lecture and 3 hours Lab - 4 credits
A study of the history of psychology, including early and modern schools of thought, important trends, famous psychologists, as well as recent developments in the field. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits.
This course involves theory and research on psychological development from conception to adolescence. Physical, cognitive, social and emotional changes will be studied. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits
This study of abnormal psychology in American society, including its occurrence, condition, and treatment, emphasizes the maintenance of good mental health. Topics include mood disorders, substance abuse, brain disorders and dream analysis. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion
Non-Western Societies surveys the non-Western cultures and histories of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and their nineteenth and twentieth century interactions with the outside world. This course will explore pre-modern origins and enduring traditions of each region, address various independence movements of the twentieth century ,and discuss examples of contact with the West and conflicts arising over US-Soviet Cold War competition. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion
Students are required to attend or participate in 14 cultural events, including concerts and recitals, lectures presented by distinguished authors, visits to museums, art galleries and shows, and theater presentations from among which the student must select a variety. Required for students who entered the College prior to the fall of 2008. 1 credit
This course provides an overview of developmental disabilities, delays, and disorders from a life-span per- spective. Topics include individual progress, services, and policies with attention to both family support and school-based principles of inclusion for youth. The course includes observation of youth with developmental disabilities. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits
Through readings, written assignments, discussions involving museum professionals (directors, curators, designers, conservators, and educators from museums in the greater Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia area), and trips to such places, students will gain an understanding of the museum as critically important institutions that both preserve and interpret the past. Finally, the class that will also provide students with insight into how to evaluate programming, exhibits and collections, as well as to construct a sample exhibit of their own. - 3 Hours Lecture. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
This course serves as a requirement for students in the Public History specialization. Through discourse analysis of memoirs, films, museums and public monuments and memorials, this course aims to better understand the complex relationship among the formations of identities, remembering/forgetting and historical writing. - 3 Hours Lecture.
Under faculty direction, students explore topics in psychology. This tutorial approach culminates in the preparation of a paper of considerable length with an oral defense/presentation. 3 hours Lecture 3 credits
Examines global problems in historical perspective across time - war, terrorism, and the threat of war; cultural, racial, ideological, religious, gender, and economic struggles; and the search for peace and order.
This course analyzes the development, processes, and institutions of the global political economy, with an emphasis upon the politics and diplomacy of international trade and finance. 3 hours Lecture 3 Credits
Senior Seminar is the capstone of students’ major where students complete a significant semester-long research and writing project based on primary and secondary materials. Seminar hones students’ skills in defining a suitable historical topic for investigation, developing a workable research design, placing research in historiographical and in historical contexts, selecting a variety of suitable primary and secondary sources for analysis, and conveying your findings in clear prose and in effective oral presentations. 3 hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4114 The purpose of this course is to explore the notion of community development in general, and the notion of sustainable community development more specifically. The course is not designed to give you the answer on how to achieve sustainable community development, but rather to expose you to a variety of elements and viewpoints about it. As future policy makers, part of the skill set you are learning is the capacity to integrate and synthesize a multitude of perspectives into a coherent idea - this class is ideally suited to push you in that direction. This class will hopefully enlarge your conception about what community development is and how it is pursued, as well as push you to look inward, challenge your assumptions and stereotypes about the world, and leave you with a richer (if not more confused) notion of how the world works and what can be done to make things better. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
The course examines key events and developments that have shaped the history of Europe. The course will cover a range of topics including political, economic, social, and cultural issues. The course will also explore how different historical interpretations have emerged, and how those interpretations have been used to shape our understanding of the past. 3 Hours Lecture.
The course examines the key events and developments that have shaped the history of the United States. The course will cover a wide range of topics including political, economic, social, and cultural issues. The course will also explore how different historical interpretations have emerged, and how those interpretations have been used to shape our understanding of the past. 3 Hours Lecture.
This course is intended to provide students with a basic introduction to environmental law and policy-making. Students will explore how environmental policies are developed and implemented, and the consequences of that result. Environmental issues touch almost all aspects of life, and our action (or inaction) in response also has broad-reaching implications. Rarely is there a clear answer on how to proceed, and students will learn to recognize and analyze all sides of the issues in order to better understand the complexity of policy-making. Topics covered include: the regulation of water, air, solid waste, toxis substances, energy (both traditional and renewable), climate change, endangered species and open space. The course will utilize real-life case studies to understand these issues more generally. 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4118 This course introduces the principles of a geographic information system, such as ArcView, in the analysis of land use, population studies, and demographic distributions. Students will apply this software to Environmental Science applications. Lecture and hands-on format. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4120 This research seminar will explore the politics of food from a systemic framework through the policies of food security and contemporary responses by social movements advocating food sovereignty. We will begin the course by examining hunger nationally and internationally. Our readings will explore such issues as the complicity in how food stamp and welfare policies are created to intra-household food distribution to the purposeful creation of famine for political and even genocidal ends. An underlying assumption of this seminar is that politics, very simply, affect hunger. Students will explore and research particular food policies that bring light to the distinct political frameworks of food security and food sovereignty. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4121 This course on globalization and international development examines the social, economic, political and cultural causes and consequences of the long-term historical changes in the world since the end of World War II from a sociological perspective. We will discuss the issues, methods, paradigms and leading figures in the Sociology of Development and Globalization, as well as several substantive topics of empirical research. We will address macro issues of social structure and changes as well as how these impact individuals and groups in developing societies. This course demonstrates that globalization is not uni-directional: the developed world is also greatly influenced by events and trends in the developing world, although this is still not widely recognized or acknowledged. It presents alternate and competing viewpoints, as well as the reflections of many scholars and practitioners involved in formulating and implementing policies. We will address such questions as: What explains the differences in the rates of economic growth, the structures of economies, types of political systems, popular and official reactions to globalization, the ability to build viable political institutions, changes in social structure and social relations? How should we think about these issues? What standards, measures and terminology should be used to evaluate changes? What is the appropriate role (and who decides?) of the developed world - states, militaries, non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations, mass movements, multilateral institutions - in addressing many of these topics? How should the Western world adjust to its diminished status and clout? Is there a “best” form of development to strive for, and who decides this as well as how to achieve it for each society? Are the experiences of some societies transferable to others? 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4122 This course will focus on the history and evolution of ecofeminist thought. The course will explore the movement from its theoretical foundation in the 1970s until today. At stake will be an evaluation of the primary arguments in the discourse. Specifically, students will examine the essentialist (spiritual) and material (political) camps within ecofeminism criticism. The course will ground students in the basic principles of feminism, colonialism and Marxism in order to better facilitate an understanding of ecofeminism. Students should leave the class with a clearer idea of how Western Philosophy understands space and place through the same patriarchal lens focused on woman since Plato’s time. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4123 How are social problems created? How are they addressed? The purpose of this course is to explore the social construction of social problems and their policy responses. Social problems have been created by human beings and continue to be held in place by our consent and our failure to act to change them. This course analyzes key social problems and the social policies designed to address them in the United States. We will analyze the limitations of the social policies we have developed to solve social problems, as well as develop new ideas for more socially just and equitable policies. Contemporary policies will be linked to the historical values, the economic structure, and the legacy of discrimination in the United States, with the goal of promoting policy change that enhances are commitment to social justice. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4124 This course is designed to give students a broad overview of the laws and policies that govern both domestic and international wildlife. Students will explore historical and cultural contexts that have shaped wildlife laws and policies, as well as develop an understanding for policy design and how competing interests influence wildlife policy implementation. Through investigation of case studies and court decisions, students will critically evaluate consequences of law and policy in regard to species protection, economy, and society. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4125 The course focuses upon the implications of genome technologies on our individual lives and social contracts. This course will be especially focused on immediate technologies and techniques that differentiate the bioethics of the moment from historical discussions on the implications of genetic knowledge. Topics include but are not limited to the advent and status quo of genomic technologies and information, consumer diagnostic devices, large scale human SNP data implications, personalized genomes and medicine, a history of eugenics, genetic testing, embryo screening, ownership and protection of genetic identity, the insurance implications of genomics, transgenic agriculture, genetically modified organisms, recombinant DNA technology, the implications of DNA patent law, gene replacement therapies, stem cell therapy, sports and gene doping, synthetic biology, genetic social inequality, and pharmacogenomics. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4126 The course focuses on the ethical and social issues that surround the process of therapeutic development, manufacturing, marketing and distribution. Particular focus will be placed upon understanding the numerous ethical dichotomies present in this simultaneously high-risk and high-profit driven industry at a time of profound domestic and international need for disease treatments. Topics include but are not limited to the pharmaceutical development and testing life cycle, the ethics and results of clinical trials, clinical equipoise, non-clinical toxicology, pharmaceutical regulation and the capture effect, the drug discovery process, domestic patent law, international patent law, patent enforcement, the implications of DNA patent law, medical practitioner & pharmaceutical firm relationships, the ethics of pharmaceutical marketing, pharmaceutical product liability, first-world vs. third-world disease pharmaceutical development, epidemiology as it relates to drug development and distribution, and homeopathic therapeutic regulation and distribution.
The history of American foreign relations concerns power, profit, security, politics, and ideology. This offering of US diplomatic history, covering selected topics from 1775 to the present, will explore competing interpretations of America146s hot and cold wars, periods of peace, isolation, and intervention. The course may focus, for example, on the rise and sometimes decline of US empire-building, from the American Revolution to the War of 1812, from the conquest of continent to the self-destruction of the Civil War, from the overseas expansion during the Spanish-American War to the status of global superpower after World War II. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4128 This course looks at past and current practices and policies and their effects on our environment. It includes presentations by a number of guest speakers from the public and private sector. Corrective measures are studied and discussed. There is no textbook for the course but readings and material presented by the speakers will be used. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4129 This course examines the role of the state in society. Special attention is paid to the concept of power and legitimacy. Students will examine the state as a construct as well as case studies of the theories under discussion. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4130 An extractive economy is a resource-based economy dependent upon harvesting or extracting natural resources for sale or trade. They are most often associated with colonial economies, whether in formal or informal empires. This course examines extractive economies from a policy perspective, emphasizing the impacts and problems associated with such economies. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4131 This course examines the energy policy of the United States from the Industrial Revolution to the present. Special attention is paid to the transition between fuels, government intervention and regulation, and the role of technological innovation. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4132 This course examines the environmental history of the United States since the colonial era. Special attention is paid to shifts in American attitudes toward the environment and the resulting policies stemming from these shifts. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4133 This course examines the government’s role in the funding and development of science and technology. While government has long had a role in the furtherance of scientific research and the development of technology, World War II greatly enlarged and accelerated that role, especially in the United States. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
The scientific studies of how people interact, communicate, influence, interpret and relate to one another. The courses focuses on the way an individual relates to groups as well as on how various groups affect the individual. Topics include prejudice, groupthink, attitude inoculation, polarization, eyewitness testimony, altruism, aggression, bargaining, mediation, arbitration, and conciliation. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4112 Agricultural and applied economics (microeconomics) is the study of the behavior of individual economic units, such as consumers and firms, how they make their decisions and how they interact. Since the “real world” is extremely complex, we need to simplify our views of the economic players if we are to make any headway in understanding them. These simplifications are called “microeconomic models.” In this course we will study how economists form and develop these models. We will look at the simplifications economists make and ask how much “realism” is being set aside by our simplifications, and try to determine what, if any, important insights our models may prevent us from making. It is important to remember that this is a course on economic methodology, not on policy. A lot of what you learn here will be applied later in other courses you will take. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4115 This research seminar will examine the contemporary context of uncertainty that has arisen from environmental, economic and political crises largely fueled by a hypermodern vision of development. Dwindling social gains have caused many to question the promise of development and the certitude of modernity. Through the lens of various social struggles in distinct but related spaces of the global political economy, we will explore both the limiting assumptions of development discourse and practice and the possibilities of alternative visions of progress. Students will choose a particular national, international, or transnational social struggle engaged in both the contestation and rethinking of traditional visions of development to further explore and investigate. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4116 The course builds on the planning basics introduced to the student in the DVU undergraduate course Regional Land Use Planning. The historical underpinnings of planning and the analytical tools of planning are reviewed. Governmental context and regulatory aspects affecting planning at the regional and local levels are addressed. The planning process and the tools and techniques of traditional and innovative land use planning and growth management are presented. The interconnection between environmental protection, infrastructure problems, transportation topics, and economic development is discussed from a planning-for-sustainability perspective. Development theory and practice and how they affect spatial patterns of development of cities and regions as well as urban design are investigated. Preparing a mock local development plan gives the student team planning experience. Independent research on a planning topic or current planning issue helps the student enhance the learning experience in this course. Student prospects on continuing their planning education and possibly entering the planning profession are examined. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4117 This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to gain an understanding of the causes and cures of our environmental issues as well as, an inquiry into how we address those issues through political and social means. Our planet is impacted by an expanding human population, poverty, the lack of necessary public and natural resources, and the dangers of toxic emissions and other pollutants imposed onto the environment and into ourselves. Dealing effectively with these issues requires an understanding of interactions between the human systems and the natural world, social mechanisms, and applying critical thinking skills with, interdisciplinary scientific analysis if we are to have long-term and sustainable solutions for the benefit of current and future generations. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
The social institutions of selected racial, ethnic and religious minorities, as well as the institutional, demographic and social/psychological aspects of inter-group relations, are reviewed.
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4127 The course is an intellectual history on the development of environmental thoughts and ecological consciousness in the Western societies. It will examine the ideas of man-nature relationship from the Scientific Revolution to the establishment of ecology as an academic discipline of 1970s. The course aims to provide intellectual background that links to the central features and debates of contemporary environmental issues and policies. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
This course traces a history and background of American family patterns that includes the structure, functions, and values of the contemporary family. It also deals with the factors that may result in the disorganization of the family. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 Credits
An introduction to classical and modern logic; major concerns and approaches to ethics are considered, with emphasis on modern ethical problems. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion 3 credits
Couples and Family Counseling This course is designed to introduce systems theories that are utilized in couples and family counseling. Topics include family development, and the issues, concepts and interventions associated with major family therapy models. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits
An introduction to the concepts, theories and appli- cations of learning theory and behaviorism as they are applied to a variety of treatment condi- tions and applications in a variety of settings, with special emphasis on school settings. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits
This course explores the biological, psychological and social/cultural factors in the etiology, course and treatment of childhood disorders. 3 hours Lecture and Discussion - 3 credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4990 Special Topics in Policy Studies allows the Policy Studies Program to offer courses that investigate areas of inquiry and specialization not otherwise covered by the electives. These courses are offered as demand requires. The course may involve faculty with certain specific expertise or experience, course topics of special interest to students, or methods of inquiry that reflect the latest in current scholarship and practice. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
Cross-Listed As: MPP 4113 This course builds upon the student’s understanding of agricultural and applied economics (microeconomics) as covered in previous course work. More specifically, the course will explore the factors affecting prices of agricultural products longtime, cyclical, seasonal, and other price movements sources of information relating to production and demand factors, government activities as they relate to prices of agricultural products, and methods and problems in price analysis and forecasting. Further, the course will integrate the training the student has had in computer methods with economics, making economics a value-added tool that the student can bring to bear on his/her daily and professional life. 3 Hours Lecture 3 Credits
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