Sustainability Courses

Introduction to concepts of collective resistance, domination, and the politics of institutional and societal change. Theoretical work on the contours of power, resistance and domination, paying special attention to problems of structure and agency. Exploration of a series of historical and contemporary case studies of individual movements in the United States.

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An examination and critical reflection on the inextricable links between law, society, and politics. Influence of race, class, sex, and corporate governance. Basic legal concepts, techniques and terminology. A, TL.

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State and federal laws and court decisions that shape ethnic minority rights, gender rights, and community environmental rights. The class features presentations by judicial officials and rights attorneys, as well as student reports on contemporary controversies. TL

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Four struggles: democratization, sovereignty, development, equity. Consideration of political economy, history, institutions, key actors and case studies. Democratic and authoritarian regimes, state-led and market-led economic policies, revolutionary and non-violent social movements, and identity politics. Cross-listed with INST 3200.

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Exploration of the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the close but often uneasy relationship between law and justice. Legal concepts, institutions, and processes are examined in relation to political obligation and problems with efforts to translate ideals of justice into law. Senior Synthesis. TL.

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. (Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting ) Explores the possibility of justice, civic repair and reconciliation in societies transitioning from a period of political violence and massive human rights violations. In the last three decades, many societies have made the hard decision to come to terms with past wrongs. Domestic and international human rights trials, amnesty laws, truth commissions, lustration...

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This course aims to create a critical dialogue about the role of law in addressing issues affecting the most impoverished members of our community with a special emphasis on housing, homelessness and racial disparities in access to opportunity and criminal justice. The interdisciplinary course materials that we will be using throughout the semester have been selected to help students engage in critical analysis about the roles government, politics, non-profit policies and the legal community pla...

Read more about POVL-300 : Poverty Law

A study of the public land use planning process and such regulatory techniques as zoning, subdivision regulation, growth management, planned unit development, shoreline management, and environmental impact analysis. Attention will be given to both the procedure and substance of legal controls, the problem of administrative discretion and legal accountability, coordination of land use policies and controls within and among different units of government, the interrelated roles of planner and lawye...

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Phenomenological psychology provides an alternative to the mainstream traditions that draw upon the approach and methods of natural sciences. It is founded on a philosophy that places experience at the center of the human struggle with freedom and responsibility, and studies human existence in a disciplined and open-ended way through reflection on descriptive data. The course addresses the theory (including philosophical foundation) of phenomenology and its contribution to research in areas such...

Read more about PSYC-3070 : Phenomenological Psychology

Study of life-span development from earliest development forward, including infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle age, old age, and death and dying. The biological, cognitive, personality, social, emotional, and health aspects of development will be covered. Emphasis is on reflection of how developmental issues influence life experience, as well as critical evaluation of research and theory within psychology. Students will learn to evaluate developmental themes in contexts suc...

Read more about PSYC-3220 : Growth and Development