Courses

Critiques of power and social structures of the 19th and 20th century thought found a natural home among 20th century legal theorists, who turned these critical lenses on law as an institution for enshrining and enforcing structures of power.

The course will examine primary (case) and secondary (commentary) materials on the legislative, administrative, and contextual aspects of labor law, particularly as they pertain to collective bargaining and union organization. The course will be divided into three parts: (1) U.S.

The course will examine primary (case) and secondary (commentary) materials on the legislative, administrative, and contextual aspects of labor law, particularly as they pertain to collective bargaining and union organization. The course will be divided into three parts: (1) U.S.

Critical Philosophy of Race includes but also goes beyond intellectually theorizing about racialized experience and critically examines the concept of race itself. This philosophical movement is critical in that it not only analyzes race as a concept and considers its legitimacy as a means of sorting human populations, but it examines race as an ideology and in its function in legitimating domination and colonization, and how it has shaped the world we live in.

Issues in education, critical social theory, and qualitative research methods, exploring a variety of literacies and modes of expression and communication, from traditional academic research and presentation conventions to powerful critical traditions in spoken word (e.g. slam poetry, performance writing), hip hop (beats and rhymes) and digital/social literacies (blogging, tweeting, websites), for communicating perspectives and research findings.

Introduces students to effective reasoning as used in business. Students will learn how to define issues, ask key questions, clarify assumptions, evaluate evidence, avoid stereotypes, assess risk and opportunity, and resolve conflicts. Examples are selected from domestic and international business contexts.

The developmental, social and cognitive psychological processes covered through the lens of various international and domestic cultural orientations. Process learning will focus on self-exploration of students’ individual cultural identity and developing an understanding and self-awareness of how oppression, prejudice, and bias (explicit and implicit) impact the practice of psychology from personal, professional, and socio- political perspectives.

An introduction to cryptographic practices, concepts and protocols. Topics include the mathematical foundations for cryptography, public key methods (e.g., RSA and El Gamal), block ciphers (e.g., DES and Rijndael), key agreement architectures (Diffie-Hellman), linear feedback shift registers and stream ciphers (e.g., A5 for GSM encryption), signatures and hash functions, (pseudo) random number generators and how to break the ENIGMA machine.

The anthropological and historical analysis of the development of cities throughout the world and over the past five millennia. The course will present various theories of the emergence of different types of cities.

In this service learning course undergraduate students will learn to provide evidence-based culturally responsive interventions with families of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) communities. Students will learn how to build culturally responsive partnerships with families, provide evidence-based interventions for children with IDD and their families, and professional and ethical behavior.