This course covers the essentials of research design, methods of data collection, and data analysis tools for policy evaluation and management decision-making. The course trains students in data visualization, descriptive statistics, cross-tabulation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and correlation and regression analysis. The course encourages hands-on work with real data, use of statistical software, and the effective presentation of graphical and numerical results.

Only for Executive MPA Students

This course provides an overview of the governmental budgetary process while focusing on the tools and techniques for managing budgets and making financial decisions in government. Looking at all three levels of government – local, state, and federal – this course examines the role of the budget in the economy, the politics of the budgetary process, budget methods and reforms, sources and uses of revenue, and deficits and debt.

Online MPA Students Only

Prerequisites: Outstanding juniors and seniors may enroll in this course under the supervision of a qualified faculty member with written permission of the faculty member and the undergraduate coordinator. Students with a cumulative grade-point average of 3.2 or higher will receive special consideration. No more than 6 problems credits may be used toward any major or minor offered by the Department of Biological Sciences.

This course will examine the history of Newark and the surrounding area as we explore Newark’s relationship to neighboring cities, suburbs, and the metropolis of New York.  We will look at a variety of themes, including immigration, gender, labor, and environment, as well as a variety of locales, including West Orange, Montclair, Paterson, Jersey City, and Newark itself.  Classwork will consist of a series of guided readings and discussions of academic articles and books, a book review, and limited primary source research.  Students will emerge from the course with a better understanding of the methods and tools urban historians use, as well as of the issues that have shaped the development of the metropolitan area. 

Covers areas of study in which one or more students may be interested, but which are not sufficiently broad to warrant a regular course offering.Prerequisites: Written permission from associate chair for environmental science plus courses prescribed by supervising faculty member (not the student's thesis adviser).   Students may not register for this course more than once with the same supervising faculty member.

Research in Chemistry (By Arrangement)

Interdisciplinary examination and analysis of major literary themes in the history of the black experience in Spanish America, as seen in antislavery literature of the 19th century, and in many texts dealing with miscegenation, race relations, blackness, sexuality, discrimination, and the search for identity.Conducted in Spanish.

Not open to Spanish majors or minors.
A chronological survey of Latin American literature from the period of the Conquest to the 20th century, with emphasis on literary traditions and cultures.  Fulfills the Core Curriculum Other Liberal Arts (OLA) requirement.

Exploration of contemporary and classical problems in psychology through planned readings and discussions with a faculty member; emphasis on going beyond textbooks and learning to think about psychological issues in depth. Students prepare a written report summarizing their project.Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing and permission of instructor.