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Political ScienceCredits

This course explores topics important to the field of comparative politics. Specific topics may change depending on the term and instructor. May be retaken with a change of topic.

This course is designed as a theoretical and empiral overview and analysis of the politics, policy processes, and institutions of the developed and emerging welfare states around the world (incl. soc. security, health care, unemployment, family assistance and anti-poverty programs).

A capstone course designed to test the student's ability to synthesize and apply information and concepts from the various areas in public administration such as budgeting, personnel administration, finance, organization theory, and policy evaluation.-Ideally, this course should be taken at the end of a student's program in public administration.

This course explores topics important to the field of political theory. Specific topics may change depending on the term and instructor. May be retaken with a change of topic.

This course explores topics important to the study of public administration. Specific topics may change depending on the term and instructor. May be retaken with a change of topic.

Change is the constant in today's human resource management in public organizations. The technical framework for productivity improvement and employee development is placed in the context of the legal environment. Emphasis is on managing diversity.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
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An in depth study of public budgeting and fiscal management, with emphasis on the approaches to budgeting and background on public revenues and revenue management.

This course will focus on communication and leadership during crisis situations in a public safety agency. The crisis situations will include internal, as well as external, crises, and will address internal and external communications and leadership. This course will also focus on interagency cooperation, planning, communication, and leadership.

This course will focus on establishing an ethical work environment for employees as well as creating an ethical decision making environment in public safety. Along with ethics, this course will focus on addressing constitutional and legal issues that impact the leadership and management of an organization, as well as diversity issues.

This course explores topics important to the study of state and urban government and governance. Specific topics may change depending on the term and instructor. May be retaken with a change of topic.

Field placement with a governmental agency or related organization. Provides a learning experience in which the student can integrate and apply knowledge and theory derived from curriculum.

Advanced study and research on topics not currently available in existing courses. May be repeated with a change of topic. Requires advisor and instructor approval of topic.

For those choosing to do the capstone research project in a classroom setting.

For those choosing to write an alternate plan paper.

This course explores topics important to the study of public administration. Specific topics may change depending on the term and instructor. May be retaken with a change of topic.

This course allows students to meet the thesis/APP/capstone requirement by proposing, writing and presenting a paper at an academic conference. This option is designed for students planning to continue graduate coursework in a doctoral program after completing their MPA degree.

For those choosing to write a thesis.

PsychologyCredits

Introduces students to major issues in society that impact their lives, behaviors, and the way they think. Course requires student to critically address controversial and non-controversial issues through clear argumentations, intensive writings, research and presentations.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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You have spent years taking tests to measure learning, but do you know how to make the most of your learning in college? In this course we will look at what current learning science research in psychology tells us about how to best learn and remember. A strong emphasis will be made in applying science learning topics to college success.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 2 - Critical Thinking
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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This course emphasizes understanding the conceptual basis of common statistical procedures and applying those procedures to the problems of organizing information and making inferences from data. Topics include: summarizing data, the logic of inference, estimation, analysis of variance, and correlation.

Prerequisites:
Complete one course: MATH 112, MATH 113, MATH 115, MATH 121, MATH 130, or STAT 154
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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Exploration of various degrees and types of careers available in psychology, and what psychologists do.

An introduction to the psychological aspects of sexual health including sexual stigma and taboos, debunking myths and identifying misinformation, understanding capacities to consent, and overcoming barriers to sexual wellness.

This course introduces a multidisciplinary approach to the scientific study of cognition. Contributions from the fields of biology, computer science, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology are emphasized. Topics include the mind-body problem, perception, memory, linguistics, problem solving, artificial intelligence, and robotics. This course is a prerequisite for the cognitive science major. For the psychology major, it serves as unrestricted elective credit; it does not satisfy the cognitive restricted elective requirement.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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An introduction to the major components of research methodology in psychology. This is a writing intensive course and involves the processing, interpretation, and exposition of behavioral data.

Prerequisites:
Must have a minimum total cumulative GPA of 2.70 or instructor permission to enroll; PSYC 201
Graduation Requirements:
Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Interdisciplinary Studies | People and Cultures
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