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May 31, 2023

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ART BLASER
PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN POLITICS, LAW AND SOCIETY
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Disabilities
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 200
Abstract:
This course will describe how people with disabilities are perceived in politics, law, and society. We will consider differences 1) over time; 2) between types of disability; and 3) between countries and culture. We will also examine similarities to and differences...
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Maren Klawiter
Gender and Technology - Writing Assignment
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Science and Technology
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Gender and Technology - a series of writing Assignments to be used with Maren Klawiter Gender and Technology course.
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Kiran Asher
Feminist Perspectives on Third World Women and Gender in Economic Development
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Development
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
How did "third world women" and "gender" concerns enter economic development discourses? How have "third women" and "gender" been conceptualized within development practices? In turn, how have feminist theories about women and gender shaped economic development...
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Markus S. Schulz
Movements and Media in Latin America
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Collective Behavior/Social Movements
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
This research-oriented seminar introduces students to the major theories of social movements and contentious politics, including perspectives on resource mobilization, political process, collective identity and expression. Particular attention will be paid to the...
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Nadejda Chapkina, Charles Jaret, Guangya Liu, Angela Pollock
Who Said It?
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Migration/Immigration
Abstract:
Included is a list of prominent American leaders, and immediately underneath it you will see a variety of statements about immigration and immigrants. These statements range across the gamut of American attitudes on this subject – positive, celebratory, cautionary,...
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ROSALYN BENJAMIN DARLING
HELPING STUDENTS HEAR THE DIVERGENT VOICES OF DISABILITY: A PEDAGOGICAL PROBLEM AND A PARTIAL SOLUTION
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Disabilities
Resource Type(s):
Assignment
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
As a major course requirement, students must write a 12 – 15 page paper based on a content analysis contrasting consumer (written by/for people with disabilities) and professional (written by/for professionals who work with people with disabilities) literature in the...
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Daniel Kleinman
Knowledge and Society
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Science and Technology
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300
Abstract:
Although concern with agriculture and technology is woven through this course, we will not be interested in these issues in teh narrowest sense. Instead the course is about the emergency knowledge economy, and we will be attentive to agriculture and technology...
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Aaron Z. Pitluck
Sociology of Economic Change & Development
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Development
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 400
Abstract:
If sociology arose as a response to the socio economic changes of the European industrial revolution, then the topic of this course is a response to the present global industrial structure and the resulting distribution of wealth and life chances. The course is...
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GEORGE BARNETT
COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL NETWORKS
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Social Networks
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
Graduate
Abstract:
Network analysis is a set of research methods for the examination of social structure based on the patterns of the relations among the components (individuals or higher-level social or information systems). In Communication research, this relation is usually the...
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Nadejda Chapkina, Charles Jaret, Guangya Liu, Angela Pollock
U.S. Immigration Laws and Policies: A Chronology
April 26, 2010
Subject Area(s):
Migration/Immigration
Abstract:
To prepare for a class session on U.S. immigration policy or on attitudes towards immigration, instructors should know of the laws that mark turning points in the history of U.S. immigration. This section summarizes important immigration acts, laws and policies of...
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