Sustainability Course Repository

Our bodies are arguably what we know the best-the intimacies of what it means to be you and me are experiences that seem to require first-hand knowledge and inhabitation of our physical selves. And yet, how much autonomy do we actually have over our bodily selves? How much of your body is really yours? Within the context of issues such as global sex trafficking, population control, immigration and transnational identities, assimilation and genocide, The Naked Self will examine the limits and pri...

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This course explores the construct of hate from historical, psychological, sociological, organizational, and criminal justice perspectives. It inquires into the human capacity to define, and then dehumanize another and the processes that involve curtailing, controlling, or combating that capacity. In being exposed to the nature of hate in the US and abroad, students will: examine hate as a cultural practice; explore its communicative and social cognitive foundations; examine hate from a legal an...

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Students integrate competing and complementary theories on a perennially compelling topic within the arts and sciences. The chosen topic varies from term to term. This course features a significant scholarly paper project in which students research, develop and defend their own interdisciplinary position on this critical issue. Students will be encouraged to apply their insights to other contemporary issues such as leadership, social justice, and diversity. Though the topic varies, students may ...

Read more about IDLS-3200 : Special Topics: Interdisciplinary Project

This course is geared toward students who want to learn about the reality of China as a business opportunity as well as a threat, together with China's state of market development. The study topics include: China's competitive environment, China's rapid development, affects in the physical environment, the role of the state, the challenge for the government, development of infrastructure, state owned enterprises, privatized and corporatized companies, the competitive advantage of Chinese compani...

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Global Strategy involves the interpreting of externalities in the global political and economic environments. It requires the identification and tracking of emergent trends and the matching with internal resources to identify what scope exists to bring about competitive advantage.

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Geared to students who want to learn about China both as a business opportunity and a threat in view of its state of market development. This course is taught as a competitive strategy course and covers China's competitive environment, China's rapid development, role of the state, state owned enterprises, competencies for foreign companies to succeed, branding in China, inward and outward direct investment, and the intellectual property challenge.

Read more about INBU-5300 : Competing with & Within China

Investigates the role of management in developing and executing international and global business strategy. Emphasis is on theories of organizational roles in society; how culture shapes both organizational and individual behaviors; how firm-specific and country-specific elements relate to competitive advantages.

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Federal Indian Law examines the law that governs the relationship among American Indian tribes, the federal and state governments and those persons who may be subject to tribal jurisdiction. The course provides an overview of the history of federal Indian policy and legal development. It Introductionduces the student to (a) civil and criminal jurisdiction within Indian country; (b) tribal sovereignty and sovereign immunity; (c) environmental law concerns in Indian country; (d) tribal taxation; (...

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Examines the causes and consequences of current and past processes of globalization. Provides a grounded study of world economic integration, global governance, transnational social networks, and inter-cultural transformations. Reframes our individuality and communities in a globally situated worldview.

Read more about INST-2000 : Introduction to International Studies

This course focuses on comprehension of geographical concepts and critical analysis of regional patterns and issues. We address important social, economic and environmental questions by exploring how geography can help us understand human-environment relations, political and economic processes, population dynamics, social discrimination, and other development concerns throughout the world.

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