Courses Offered

This course will introduce students to a variety of theories about democracy and justice and offer examples of those who have attempted to put decmocracy and justice into practice.

• Gen Ed: Social Sciences 1

Explores definitions, concepts and theories used to explain and understand central features of social power. Themes include the struggle for social justice, the history of punishment in Western society, and the legal and extralegal management and disciplining of individuals and groups.

• Gen Ed: Social Sciences 2

Courts as institutions of government and law as an instrument of government: the judiciary in the American system of government, the nature of the judicial process, judicial decisionmaking and policy-making, compliance with judicial policies, and theories of law and jurisprudence.

• Gen Ed: Social Sciences 2

Interdisciplinary introduction to the study of gender, the influence of gender on social institutions and structures, and an examination of women's lives across the globe historically and today.

• Gen Ed: Social Sciences 1

Explores contradictions and possibilities resulting from incompatibilities of social and economic goals and systems with global and regional ecosystem, human and physical constraints. Case studies will include global, industrial, regional and third world issues.

• Gen Ed: World Culture,Social Sciences 2

Travel courses are conducted to various parts of the world and are led by one or more faculty members. May be repeated to different locations.

• Gen Ed: World Culture
• Travel Course
• Course is repeatable for credit.

A study of the components, relations, and processes of U.S. criminal justice. The criminal justice system is theoretically linked to larger social arrangements, including class and race-ethnic stratification. Ethical problems, such as group disparities in arrest and sentencing, are given special attention.

How traditional foodways and subsistence methods from hunting-gathering to family farming are changing in response to globalization; the political economy of food and food justice movements.

• Gen Ed: World Culture

The course emphasizes the history of constitutional law in the United States through an analysis of leading Supreme Court cases that deal with government authority as well as citizen rights and civil liberties. Special attention is given to the political and historical context of major cases and the implications for public policy.

Explores how the courts can either promote or inhibit progressive social, political, and economic changes in contemporary American society. There is a great deal of emphasis placed on how to use theory to better understand the relationship between law and society.

Development and social justice in a selected nation or region. Course may be repeated for credit with different area.

• Gen Ed: World Culture
• Course is repeatable for credit.

Explores the relationship between women's and men's social roles and their efforts to maintain secure livelihoods around the world. In particular, the course will consider the role of globalization, regulation and social change in gendered access to labor markets, food security, household responsibilities, working conditions and more.

• Gen Ed: World Culture,Social Sciences 2

The changing legal status of women in relationship to other social forces; major historical landmarks in the development of women's legal rights and current status of such areas as property rights, family law and employment opportunity; legal tools in the struggle for equality.

The history and development of American political thought, with attention to the thinkers and themes influential to controversies, ideologies, and institutions in American politics.

The course examines the interaction between global governing bodies and diverse communities of citizens in response to globalization. The course raises awareness about how globalization affects the responsibilities of democratic citizenship and the material and ethical aspects of human rights and social justice.

Examination of historical thinking in scholarly work and public life and study of the making of modern American freedom, equality and democracy, past and present.

Study of the dynamic relations between political economy and social structure and the formation and impact of social movements, politics and ideologies in modern America.

Debates surrounding global justice challenge us to question our obligations toward people around the world. This includes: the moral status of individuals, states and peoples; theories of human rights; the ethics of the use of force; and global inequality, poverty and distributive justice. This course will use concepts in global justice to explore the way gender norms influence women's and men's ability to access legal rights and political freedoms, to challenge legal norms and to improve social welfare.

This course is an introduction to feminist theories from a variety of disciplinary perspectives; we will examine the development of feminist theories, their practice and contrasting viewpoints.

Explores a single theme pertaining to democracy and justice from an interdisciplinary perspective. Variable content.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Operating as a seminar, we examine the role of the American social critic and the practice of social criticism on the political left, right and center. Then, operating as a writing workshop, we compose pieces of political, social and cultural criticism for possible publication.

Rigorous analysis of an important social change issue or of the work of an important social change theorist.

• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

Supervised practical experience in an organization or activity appropriate to a student's career and educational interests. Internships are supervised by faculty members and require periodic student/faculty meetings.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Independent study is offered on an individual basis at the student's request and consists of a program of learning activities planned in consultation with a faculty member. A student wishing to study or conduct research in an area not represented in available scheduled courses should develop a preliminary proposal and seek the sponsorship of a faculty member. The student's advisor can direct him or her to instructors with appropriate interests. A written report or equivalent is required for evaluation, and a short title describing the program must be sent early inthe semester to the registrar for entry on the student's transcript.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Travel courses are conducted to various parts of the world and are led by one or more faculty members. May be repeated to different locations.

• Gen Ed: World Culture
• Travel Course
• Course is repeatable for credit.