Courses

An examination of trends in economic growth and related consequences for employment conditions and patterns of inequality in the dynamic industry sectors that comprise an urban economy. Topics include both emergent sectors based on immigrant entrepreneurship and declining sectors such as industrial manufacturing.

This course examines the changing relationship of the United States with the emerging nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Emphasis will be placed on the role of third world nations in the world economy and politics and on American policy as it has related to developing countries since the Second World War.

A history of the multi-faceted, often troubled, relations between the U.S. and its nearest southern neighbors since the early nineteenth century. While touching on various aspects of those relations, it stresses the geopolitical aspect, focusing on conflicts that have arisen as a result of different interests and perceptions as well as basic power assymetries.

An overview of one of America’s greatest crises, from the sectional discord over slavery through the tumultuous years of the Civil War itself to the end of the Reconstruction period.

This course in an in-depth analysis of the U.S. Congress. Students will explore the internal organization of Congress and the rules and norms that govern the legislative process. Students will also examine the roles of the president, the court, interest groups, and political parties in the legislative process. (AG/PT).

Introduces the student to the principles of effective reasoning used in critical and constructive thought and argument. Examples are chosen from a wide variety of professional and scientific fields, ranging from journalism and literary criticism to anthropology and physics.

This course is a thematic examination of the region including Texas, California and the states that include the Great Basin, the Southern Rockies, and the Sonoran Desert from Mexican Independence in 1821 to the present. (MULT) (WI).

Students examine the settlement and development of the Trans-Mississippi Equivalents: HSTY 3326, HIST 4370 .

A general discussion of the animals of southern Africa, with particular focus on vertebrates. of various animal species. Other topics will include the use of dichotomous keys and and count animal species, and the interspecific interactions. This is a field-based course will be required to handle small mammals and other live animals. Certification by a participation in the course. Enrollment in the Southern Africa Study Abroad Program enrollment in WSES 4342; permission of the instructor.

The study of the content and techniques of representative novels of the period with some consideration of these novels in relation to significant social, philosophical, and literary needs.