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| 60000 Level Courses (60300-60399) *60303 SEMINAR IN WOMEN'S HEALTH Explores holistic women's health in the contexts of history, culture, and science. Examines the influence of race, gender, age, and class on women's embodied experiences and women's health. Reviews effect of oppression and influence of power and privilege on systems and processes. Analyzes the impact of social construction of gender on women as consumers and providers of health care. Reframes contemporary systems to challenge prevailing social values and actions; suggests alternative practices and research agendas. Promotes women's ownership and self-agency in naming misogyny, understanding health behaviors and selected problems; identifying choices in prevention and care. Introduces global considerations in women's health.
60313 A NEW AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY? What foreign policy issues are on the horizon for U.S. policy makers? What should our foreign policy be as we enter the post 9/11 era? How should that foreign policy be made, and by whom? The domestic political environment facing U.S. foreign policy makers changed first after the Vietnam War and then again after the September 11th attacks. With the demise of the Cold War, the external political environment changed as well. This course will look forward to contemporary U.S. foreign policy on both the domestic and external levels. Domestically, the course addresses the various governmental and non-governmental actors who combine to produce foreign policy. Externally, it examines problems that revolve around specific issues (like terrorism and homeland security, the promotion of democracy, foreign trade, etc.) or around particular countries (Afghanistan, Russia, China, Mexico, Cuba, etc.).
*60323 THE NEW SOUTH, 1877 - PRESENT In this course, the political, social and economic factors in the New South are examined with attention given to comparative regional history. Particular emphasis will be placed on historical interpretations, showing both the professional and lay image of the South in today's society. The economic modernization of the South will also be a major theme of the course.
*60373 THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME This course introduces students to the central ideas in the field of social psychology and the significance of these ideas in providing explanations for criminal behavior and related phenomena. Additionally, classic social psychological theory and research are examined and utilized to understand offenders, victims and criminogenic environments. The course emphasizes the integration and application of course content to understand contemporary criminological issues such as the use of the death penalty for juveniles, treatment and control of sex offenders, criminalizing drug offenders, and the validity of repressed memory. *60393 INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY: THE EMERGING MULTI POLAR WORLD An introduction to the theoretical evolution of the international economy as a subdiscipline within the field of international relations. The course discusses the classical economists, Marxist theory and neo-Keynesian theories of growth and capital accumulation and distribution, then focuses on first, second and third world perspectives on the international political economy. Also studied are the roles of multinational corporations, the International Monetary Fund, the politics of international trade, the role of foreign aid, the third world debt crisis, the impact of the technological revolution, the emergence of a multi-polar world, and the ramifications of Japanese and German economic resurgence for "the new world order." |