Builds upon the skills and knowledge successful college graduates learn through their many years as students, including: collaboration, leadership, active citizenship, multicultural understanding, reflective thinking, critical analysis, and the ability to be a change agent in their community. This course provides students with an understanding of public service leadership skills and traits that will be necessary to master in order to be effective public and nonprofit service administrators.
Writing intensive. Requires application approval. By permission only.
Individual research and reading program under the guidance of a member of the department.
Writing intensive. Prerequisites: Requires application to the RBS undergraduate dean's office.
Roles of black women in family life, the workplace, politics, literary and artistic achievement, education, and the struggle for women's rights; incorporates both fictional and nonfictional works to chronologically illuminate the major themes in black women's history and contemporary issues.
Cross-listed with 21:014:305:H5:12004.
Study of one national literature, such as Argentinian, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, or Mexican, treated in the context of the history, geography, and culture of the particular country.
Conducted in Spanish.
Course description coming soon.
Course description coming soon.
The interaction between schools and society; basic social concepts such as stratification, social role, and bureaucratic organization as they relate to the educational system; the system in relation to the larger institutions in the society, with emphasis on both stated objectives and actual social functions.
Course description coming soon.
How does society influence us? What about our families, the schools we attend, the economy at large, and the government? How too do religious traditions, the neighborhoods we live in, and our self-identities shape our thoughts and behavior? What does it mean to have a "culture," to witness the impact of social institutions on our lives, to consider oneself as part of a social group, and to identify with organizations? Introduction to Sociology explores these and other issues relating to society and the self.
