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IP 501 Introduction to Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution
This required course provides a graduate-level introduction to the interdisciplinary field of peace and conflict studies, its relationship with other academic disciplines, and careers in the field of conflict resolution. It draws upon a variety of disciplines, especially in the social sciences, to examine the interrelationship between personal, collective, national and global levels of violence and war and efforts to reduce it. Course objectives include familiarity with the causes, symptoms and dynamics of conflict, violence, and war (from interpersonal to global) and conflict resolution.
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IP 502 Research Methods in Conflict Analysis & Peace Science
This course provides an essential introduction to the systematic analysis of conflict and to the relationships that exist across the social sciences that inform our understanding of social conflict and the emerging field of conflict analysis and peace studies. As such, the seminar introduces the basic approaches of conflict analysis and peace studies research. It familiarizes students with the diverse tools that are used to understand and analyze the emergence and evolution of conflict in a variety of settings. Initial sessions provide the intellectual foundation and theoretical framework for conducting conflict analysis and its relationship to principles in mediation and conflict resolution. Subsequent sessions apply the framework to selected domestic and international disputes and explore appropriate strategies for their resolution.
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IP 503 Culture and Conflict
Cultural differences among members of any group are frequently the source of misunderstanding and can lead to conflict. This course analyzes variables, trends, communication and conflict. Its focus is to gain cultural self-awareness, a new frame-work for understanding others, and strategies to makes progress through differences. Specific cultures and conflicts will be analyzed, compared and contrasted.
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IP 504 Foundations of Conflict Analysis
This course focuses on developing a student’s ability to think critically, research effectively and build strong arguments. Through a combination of lecture and workshop style classes, student practice these skills while working on a research project relevant to their interest and course of study
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IP 505 Topics in Contemporary Conflict Resolution
The primary goal of this course is to assist the student in understanding the constructs of contemporary conflict and match them to conflict resolution practices today. It looks at the way that conflict has changed in the second half of the Twentieth Century, away from interstate to more intrastate conflict, and examines how this has affected conflict resolution practices. First by examining the reason for this change and the change in response needed to prevent, manage and resolve these conflicts. The course will draw on current examples of conflict and identify topics often related to conflict. Topics included in this course are: Gender, identity, health, refugees and human rights.
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IP 507 Foundations of Peace Education
The target audience for this course includes teachers who are already teaching or hope to teach in the U.S. public school or private school system. This course is fully online and asynchronous in order to support the needs of the working professional. Five units including audio lectures, course readings and writing assignments are easily accessed via Blackboard. Course covers the historical, cultural and political influences of U.S. based public education and examines the role of the federal, state, and local governments in educational policy, funding, assessment standards, and curriculum and instruction. Additionally, it assists students in developing a rationale for building and implementing multicultural curricula and develop strategies for deconstructing institutional and instructional barriers of multicultural and peace education.
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IP 508 A Case in Conflict
This course examines a particular case of conflict through the lens and application of conflict assessment and analysis tools in order to understand and explain the conflict, its causes, and opportunities for transformation. It also includes a field study component where the class travels to the site of the conflict for 7-9 days to learn about the case. The course and corresponding field study trip delve into the particular history, context and events of a conflict and require students to grapple with complexity and nuance. Students learn and apply specific conflict assessment tools like stakeholder analysis, conflict trees, timeline development and conflict mapping to break down the conflict into smaller components and identify intervention opportunities as well as transformation strategies. The final project of the course is a stakeholder analysis.
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IP 508 A Case in Conflict
This course examines a particular case of conflict through the lens and application of conflict assessment and analysis tools in order to understand and explain the conflict, its causes, and opportunities for transformation. It also includes a field study component where the class travels to the site of the conflict for 7-9 days to learn about the case. The course and corresponding field study trip delve into the particular history, context and events of a conflict and require students to grapple with complexity and nuance. Students learn and apply specific conflict assessment tools like stakeholder analysis, conflict trees, timeline development and conflict mapping to break down the conflict into smaller components and identify intervention opportunities as well as transformation strategies. The final project of the course is a stakeholder analysis.
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IP 510 Social Movements
Social movements are instrumental in creating social change and thus fundamental to understanding how social systems operate. This course is an upper-level seminar in the social scientific study of social movements, with a focus on social movements of the twentieth century. Topics include mobilization strategies, processes of movement formation, outcomes of social movements and reasons for decline. Case studies of particular social movements are examined using sociological theory. Students create a portfolio of work about a social movement of interest to them.
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IP 511 Introduction to International Law
This seminar introduces MA candidates to the fundamental rules and principles of public international law, including the concept of state sovereignty, implementation methods, the sources of international law and their significance, etc. Particular emphasis is placed on the peaceful settlement of disputes, including arbitration and international adjudication, and the rules governing the use of force and the responsibility for unlawful acts on the international plane. MA candidates, moreover, learn about legal reasoning and methodology, research methods in international law, and the use of international law in the course of conflict resolution.
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IP 512 International Protection of Human Rights
This seminar introduces MA candidates to the existing international norms and systems for the protection of human rights, including the United Nations, Inter-American, European, and African treaty systems and various specialized treaties and supervisory bodies. In addition, selected substantive rights will be discussed in detail, with an emphasis on a comparative analysis of the systems. A substantial part of the seminar is devoted to two simulations. Students will play the roles of individual petitioners, government agents, and international judges when handling human rights complaints from their initial stages to the handing down of final judgments. MA candidates will thus be enabled to apply their knowledge of legal reasoning and methodology in practice.
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IP 515 Mediation and Conflict Coaching
Conflict Transformation in general can be divided into three main areas based on the role of the conflict specialist. Conflict specialists work toward transformation as third party neutrals, as advocates, and as justice facilitators. In each area the conflict worker aims at empowering the disputants to make their own decisions, actively have a say in the processes, in short, author their own histories. This course focuses on two of those three areas: Mediation and Conflict Coaching. In this class students will learn the process and major skills in mediation (neutrality) and conflict coaching (advocacy). As an online course students will interact with other students, multimedia and various websites, and with the teacher. This course will give students a good sense of what happens in mediation and conflict coaching as well as practical exposure to the skills and strategies needed to be effective in both.
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IP 519 Global Poverty & Inequality
Debates that surround poverty and inequality are some of the most urgent in our time. This advanced seminar critically analyzes the causes of poverty and inequality and applies this analysis to new approaches to development around the world. Students explore historical efforts to address poverty as well as contemporary texts that offer, cutting edge solutions to development challenges.
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IP 520 International Security
The purpose of this course is to provide a thorough and in-depth analysis of international security issues, themes, theories and cases. We will examine security from three levels of analysis: the international system, state and domestic level politics and individual decision-makers. Within each level of analysis we will study various theories used to explain the sources of instability and stability in order to understand what drives state and actor behavior in terms of: foreign policy, war, cooperation, and expansion. We will also look at central themes in international security and a few cases where theories can be applied to help us understand crises, conflicts and instability. We will address questions like: what are the main threats to international security? How are these threats addressed or not by states and international actors? Why do states have, or not, nuclear weapons, and what role do international organizations and none-state actors play in security?
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IP 521 International Organizations in Dispute Resolution
International governmental (IGOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are among the most important actors in international relations. After learning about their legal status and political role in the contemporary international system, candidates study universal, regional, and sub-regional IGOs working in a broad range of fields (e.g. the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Council of Europe, and the European Union, OSCE, NATO, the World Bank, etc.) and analyze NGOs and their role in peace and conflict resolution and their interaction with states and IGOs.
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IP 522 Conflict Resolution in Deeply Divided Societies
This course focuses on understanding the phenomenon of conflict and war in deeply divided societies and to differing paradigms for building peace. The course first lays a foundation for interpreting the diverse landscape that has increasingly given rise to violent conflict during the transition to globalization and liberalization in the aftermath of the Cold War. The course then applies these perspectives to different concepts of peace building using current perspectives from the field of conflict resolution and from selected case studies of international and regional efforts to resolve conflict in divided societies.
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IP 523 Post Conflict Relief and Development
Fourteen of the twenty poorest countries are currently in or emerging from conflict. As a result, NGOs and their donors are increasingly grappling with the fine line between “development” and “relief.” The first half of this course will examine traditional development approaches. Students will learn about the different roles of donors (NGOs, bi-lateral, multi-lateral, and foundations), the relationship between donors and recipients, strategies, impact and effectiveness. The second half of the course will examine international efforts to consolidate and to jump-start a nation’s social, economic, and political recovery from conflict. Students will then examine the continuum between development and relief, and the challenges it poses for the international community.
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IP 524 Conflict Management
Conflict is a normal and an inevitable part of our daily lives. It is present in most personal relationships, in homes, in schools, in the workplace, and among groups in our society. Conflict is often associated with destructive outcomes such as aggression, anger, damaged relationships, violence, and wars. However, conflict has a positive and productive side. Conflict presents an opportunity for personal change and transformation, strengthened relationships, improved communications, problem solving, collaboration, and social change. How conflict is managed influences whether conflict outcomes are constructive or destructive.
The objectives of this course are to increase awareness, develop skills, and gain knowledge of constructive conflict management processes and approaches. We will begin with deconstructing conflict and exploring how our personal histories affect our perceptions regarding conflict and our conflict styles. Interpersonal communication skills such as active listening and assertiveness will be developed. Students will be introduced to mediation, negotiation, and nonviolent action from both a practical and theoretical standpoint.
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IP 525 Post-Conflict Reconstruction
This course introduces students to the main issues in post conflict reconstruction and the multiple challenges facing societies emerging from conflict. The objective of the course is to highlight the various dilemmas and needs of reconstruction and how these are generated by the specific dynamics of conflict. To do so, we adopt a comparative political economy approach that addresses many of the key issues affecting post conflict reconstruction in different conflict spaces: the role of international actors; the relationship between socio-political peace and economic stability; the financing of reconstruction; the challenges of reconstituting domestic political relations after conflict; governance and institutional development; and the importance of social policy in facilitating reconstruction. This course also places emphasis on the applied side of post conflict reconstruction by introducing some of the techniques, policies and needs assessment strategies employed by international organizations in advancing reconstruction policies and strategies.
This course combines lecture, seminar, and discussion methods. Students will be required to complete all the necessary readings and be prepared to discuss the material during the class. The lectures themselves will not be based entirely on the readings, but will complement them. Throughout the semester, students will be strongly encouraged to participate during the lectures, ask questions, offer criticisms and elaborate on material from previous classes. The seminar component of the class relies heavily on student ability to converse and think with their peers about the course material. The majority of time will be spent in seminar format. Occasionally, students will be placed in groups and asked to answer or address key questions/themes that emerge from the readings. The aim of group activity is to encourage student engagement with the literature. Finally, every few weeks we will have jigsaw exercises in which students will present material on a specific topic to a small group.
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IP 527 Peace Education I: Theory & Principles
This course will provide a brief overview of the history of education as it has been employed for social change. It will explore Education for Transformation, Popular Education and Experiential Learning theories. The course will focus on the principles of peace culture as it applies to the classroom as well as overall school climate. Students that take this course can expect to develop basic knowledge of interpersonal conflict resolution and communication processes as well as understand how class, gender and race-bias are embedded in public education.
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IP 528 Peace Education II: Methodologies and Practical Application
This course will explore the methods teachers, counselors and conflict interventionists use to build a culture of peace in educational settings. Students will be required to investigate how these methods are applied in real world situations and learn how to evaluate their efficacy. Students will be assigned weekly readings containing peace education methods, case studies of practical application and theoretical framework of monitoring and evaluation of methods. Depending upon enrollment size, students will be assigned work groups where they will be required to respond to cohorts’ postings. Topics covered in this course include: identification of one’s own triggers and biases when dealing with students and school communities in conflict; the evaluate efficacy of various peace methods such as support groups, youth leadership programs, social justice curriculum, peace circles, peer mediation, victim offender conferencing and other restorative justice practices as they apply to specific school-community needs.
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IP 529 Advanced Mediation
This course is a practicum in advanced mediation/facilitation process. Students will examine the range of strategies available for managing conflict, including techniques that have proven most constructive in the field of peace and conflict resolution: consensus-based and transformative mediation.
The first part of the course introduces students to the basic framework of mediation and examines three faces of leadership, how cultural differences affect communication, a study of the eight tools needed to mediate, and conduct simulations for several of the strategies for interpersonal, community and international mediation. The second part of the course is focused on a practicum, examining conflict in a variety of contexts.
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IP 530 Social Life of War: Political, Cultural and Identity Processes in Global Conflict
This course explores war and violent conflict from a socio-cultural perspective. Not only do war and violent conflict result in humanitarian crises at the social level and atrocities and tragedy at the personal level, but they also fundamentally alter people’s social worlds, life trajectories, imagined communities and understanding of their position in time and space. As economic and political structures become destabilized or changed, war and violent conflict radically rupture social realities in ways that outlive the original conflict. The course explores the ways in which war and violent conflict reshape social structures, create new cultural processes in reaction to altered reality, and reconstitute identities. Students read and discuss ethnographic accounts that show how war and violent conflict are experienced at the personal, cultural and social level. This course enhances and complicates understandings of what conflict is and what it means for people and social groups who are forced to endure it.
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IP 531 Law and Politics of International Migration
International governmental (IGO’s) and nongovernmental organizations (NGO’s) are among the most important actors in international relations. After learning about their legal status and political role in the contemporary international system, candidates study universal, regional, and sub-regional IGO’s working in a broad range of fields (e.g. the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the Council of Europe, and the European Union, OSCE, NATO, the World Bank, etc.) and analyze NGO’s and their role in peace and conflict resolution and their interaction with states and IGO’s.
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IP 532 Advanced Seminar in International Law
This course focuses on areas of international law that are of special policy relevance to the field of peace and conflict resolution. Following a module format, students explore this evolving field through case studies, court decisions, and emerging international norms and agreements. Previously titled as: International Law II
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IP 533 Conflict Transformation
This practicum in the mediation process examines the range of strategic choices available for managing conflict, including techniques that have proved most constructive in the field of peace and conflict resolution: consensus-based mediation. The first part of the course introduces students to differing approaches to managing and resolving conflict, how the mediation process works and variety of contexts in which it is likely to be used with success. The second part of the course is devoted to designing and conducting a mediation on a selected case in contemporary international relations.
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IP 534 Treaties in International Law
Introduces current issues on globalization, regional integration and economic development from an international law perspective. Topics covered include globalization, dispute settlement within regional integration agreements and GATT, human rights, the environment, and arms control. The approach will emphasize the role of treaty law in promoting international cooperation and conflict resolution through the study of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law Treaties. Students will become familiar with treaty-making, negotiation and interpretation techniques.
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IP 535 Economics, the Environment and Development
This course examines a new class of conflict that has risen to prominence in the international arena: conflict that is rooted in environmental degradation and resource scarcity. The course covers emerging concepts of environmental security, which, together with other sources of tension, such as poverty, social inequity and ethnic intolerance, are increasingly leading to violent conflict. Principles of international economics, regional development and the role of international organization are addressed as well as new paradigms for environmental conflict management and sustainable development.
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IP 536 Conflict Analysis
This course will explore the theory, methods and ethical perspectives of conflict analysis. The focus will be on root causes of contemporary conflict as it is acted out in inter-communal society. The goal of this course will be to expose students to the various qualitative methodologies peace builders use in mapping both inter-communal and international conflicts in order to develop critical thinking regarding a particular method’s efficacy. Students will be assigned weekly readings by leaders in the field as well as case studies, and will be required to post responses. Depending upon enrollment size, students will be assigned work groups where they will be required to respond to cohorts’ postings.
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IP 537 Restorative Justice
Restorative Justice (RJ) has grown exponentially over the last 30 years, from a handful of programs offering victim/offender conferences to hundreds of programs worldwide and has become a social movement. Very few people disagree with the need for to reform the present criminal justice system and suggestions for change abound: from privatizing prisons, to making laws more just and fair, to getting tough on crime, to creative experimental new programs in education, Restorative Justice is a growing social movement that begins with a fundamental rethinking of the very nature of what justice is. RJ offers a model that facilitates a vision of justice that is participatory for those involved in and affected by harmful behavior, potentially empowering to victims, offenders, and, in some cases, the affected community, and holds the goal of making right (as much as possible) the harm caused by the offending behavior. At present RJ is a fairly broad umbrella of practices, including victim-offender mediation, family group conferencing, peacemaking circles, victim-offender dialogue in crimes of severe violence, truth and reconciliation commissions, and others.
The present course compares the ethos and implications these programs as they impact and/or challenge current judicial practices, explores strengths and weaknesses of Restorative Justice in current discussion, investigates emerging areas of practice such as in prison populations and schools, and traces the role of facilitators in Restorative Justice practices. As a social movement, Restorative Justice is inherently political, aiming to change the status quo. Therefore questions such as, “How can Restorative Justice change the body politic in terms of its understanding about justice?” “Who are the stakeholders in the present system and how can they be addressed?” and “What role can Restorative Justice play outside of the legal code or judicial system?” are raised.
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IP 540 Organizing, Advocacy and Activism
From movements around climate change, gay rights, and immigration, to #BlackLivesMatter, Occupy Wall Street, the Serbian revolution, and the Arab Spring, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. This course will ask why these movements seek political change by organizing disenfranchised groups of people, or by engaging in the non-violent activism of mass protest, rather than more traditional avenues of political advocacy. The seminar will use readings and class discussion to survey essential elements amongst many social movements; enable students to produce a video interview to tell the story of a movement; and teach students to draft their own comprehensive campaign plan. No prior knowledge or experience is expected of students who take this course.
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IP 541 Media in Conflict Resolution
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IP 542 International Health and Human Rights
This course explores the relationship between contemporary political, socioeconomic, cultural, environmental and demographic conditions and their impact on health and human rights from an international perspective. A major focus of the course is the evolution of health care delivery systems and governmental and non-governmental responses to health and human rights challenges. Other topics addressed include structural adjustment, population dynamics, child survival policies, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS, appropriate technologies, international organizations, traditional healing, pharmaceutical policy, and human resources development.
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IP 543 Peace Perspectives of World Religions
Although religious differences often create barriers to peace making, and at times, people create conflict in the name of their religion, all the major religious traditions also have roots that go deep into the soil of peace making and peaceful living. This class explores the roots of peace making in Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous American Religions, and others, and from these roots build bridges of common ground, understanding and acceptance of the other. In addition to the five major religious perspectives studied, students will have an opportunity to explore a religious tradition of their own choosing and present a paper on it for class. The class will include lectures, large and small group discussions, role plays, visiting speakers, videos and student presentations.
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IP 552 Kosovo and Serbia: Conflict, Governance and State Building
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IP 565 Transitional Justice and Reconciliation
Transitional Justice is a concept extensively developed over the past two decades and defined by the United Nations Secretary-General as a set of judicial and non-judicial measures taken to overcome a situation of large-scale human rights abuse to ensure reconciliation with accountability and justice for the victims. This course analyzes the conditions for a transitional justice process and the variety of measures relevant to such a process, through specific examples such as South Africa, (former) Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Guatemala. Students develop an understanding of the concept and its implementation worldwide with an ability to form a critical opinion.
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IP 570 International Human Rights
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IP 574 NGOs in International Politics: Concepts and Challenges
Since the end of World War II, there has been a steady increase in the numbers of transnational non-governmental organizations (TNGOs) working across borders on issues as diverse as emergency relief, women’s rights, environmental sustainability and fair trade. In the 1990s, the TNGO sector expanded at an unprecedented rate and the amount of money channeled through these organizations sky-rocketed. Consequently, political scientists started paying more attention to the purpose, activities, power, and authority of TNGOs. This course examines key conceptual issues surrounding the legitimacy, authority, power and accountability of TNGOs with the objective of fostering a clear understanding of the unique role TNGOs play in international politics. We will also consider the challenges NGOs face in the international system. We will discuss: the tactics TNGOs employ to effectuate change; the relationship between TNGOs and the military; the funding landscape; the dark side of TNGO policies and the relationship between TNGOs from the Global South and the Global North. The course is grounded in case studies that explore TNGOs activities in the realms of women’s rights, human rights, development, peace-building, environmental protection and emergency relief.
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IP 578 NGO Management
This course provides an introduction to the concepts and skills needed to effectively manage non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their international projects. Through discussion, experiential learning and case studies, students learn how to design a mission statement and objectives; a strategic plan; marketing and fundraising strategies. Further, students learn how to manage human resources, external relationships and finances. In addition, students conduct outcomes assessments and evaluations. Students apply theory to practice by exploring the organizational and managerial challenges NGOs face through case study learning. Students also gain hands-on experience while working on projects proposed by the Philadelphia-based American Friends Services Committee (AFSC).
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IP 583 Internship
(3 credits)
The professional internship experience is practical training at the graduate level with a practitioner organization in the field. 240 hours of internship are required, over the course of three to four months. The internship offers candidates substantive experience in their chosen areas of specialization. Candidates prepare a learning contract with their supervisors and the IPCR Director in order to determine their learning goals, resources and means of evaluation.
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IP 585 Special Topics IPCR
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IP 589 Independent Study
This seminar serves to enable M.A. candidates to do significant supervised research in their chosen field of concentration, to interact with fellow can-didates and faculty in a formal setting, and to get feedback on the progress of their research, and to present their final paper.
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IP 598 Capstone Seminar
(3 credits)
Candidates return to campus in the spring of their second year to complete a culminating activity that bridges coursework, study away and internship experiences. The seminar meets weekly and follows a workshop format. Capstone culminates in a public presentation of the project during the university-wide Capstone week
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IS 520 Global Poverty & Inequality
Debates that surround poverty and inequality are some of the most urgent in our time. This advanced seminar critically analyzes the causes of poverty and inequality and applies this analysis to new approaches to development around the world. Students explore historical efforts to address poverty as well as contemporary texts that offer, cutting edge solutions to development challenges.
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IS 530 Social Life of War: Political, Cultural and Identity Processes in Global Conflict
This course explores war and violent conflict from a socio-cultural perspective. Not only do war and violent conflict result in humanitarian crises at the social level and atrocities and tragedy at the personal level, but they also fundamentally alter people’s social worlds, life trajectories, imagined communities and understanding of their position in time and space. As economic and political structures become destabilized or changed, war and violent conflict radically rupture social realities in ways that outlive the original conflict. The course explores the ways in which war and violent conflict reshape social structures, create new cultural processes in reaction to altered reality, and reconstitute identities. Students read and discuss ethnographic accounts that show how war and violent conflict are experienced at the personal, cultural and social level. This course enhances and complicates understandings of what conflict is and what it means for people and social groups who are forced to endure it.
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IS 540 Law, Disorder and Globalization
In the late 20th century, there was a global turn towards criminalization and incarceration as responses to social problems—to “disorder.” While justified by claims about increases in crime, this “penal turn” often precedes such increases, and so cannot be explained by crime rates alone. The politics of crime are a useful way to examine many social and political changes, such as the criminalization of poor and African-American youth and “urban decline” in U.S. inner cities. This course will examine how these politics help construct inequality in the U.S.; we will also consider how they shape international relationships between the U.S., Europe, and nation-states in Latin America and Africa. As part of this, we will examine how criminalization creates social hierarchies, in which some types of people and some nation-states are seen as inherently criminal and disorderly. We will discuss a range of specific cases that allow us to understand the factors that motivate the penal turn, exploring the ways the penal turn has material consequences that encourage future criminalization, such as for-profit prisons.
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ES 503 Meteorology
Exploration of meteorology as a science, utilizing discussions, laboratories, field trips, guest speakers and films. Focuses on taxonomic classification, field identification, and scientific collecting.
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ES 505 Earth Science
Introduction to physical geology. Emphasizes processes involved in rock formation and alteration of the lithosphere. Includes actions of wind, water, chemical substances and living organisms during weathering and erosion. Also stresses the role of plate tectonics on continental and ocean basin evolution and human impact on mineral resources. Requires laboratory activities and some Saturday field trips. (old #405)
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MA 95 Pre-Algebra (Math Skills)
This course helps students to prepare for MA 100 This course is geared both to the individual needing a review of basic skills and those attempting to overcome math anxiety. Topics include operations on whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, rat
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MA 100 Elementary/Intermediate Algebra
This course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts and processes of Elementary and Intermediate Algebra, with an emphasis on problem-solving. This course is geared both to the individual needing a review of algebra and those attempting to overc
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MA 110 Pre-Calculus Mathematics
This course is an introduction to basic mathematical ideas and techniques centered on the function concepts. Includes relations and functions in general, algebraic functions, trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic functions.
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MA 117 Mathematical Concepts I
This course is an introduction to mathematical reasoning and problem solving. The course emphasizes writing, individual and group investigations, and the use of relevant technology. Content focuses on number theory, college geometry, and the concept of
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MA 118 Mathematical Concepts II
This course is a continuation of . Further development of mathematical reasoning and problem solving. The course emphasizes writing, individual and group investigations, and the use of r
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MA 141 Elementary Statistics
This course is an introduction to basic statistical techniques and their applications to the sciences, social sciences and business administration. It includes the collection and presentation of data, measures of central tendency and variability, proba
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MA 143 Business Math
This course will provide an introduction to the mathematics necessary for a business student to pursue quantitatively oriented business courses including accounting, economics, marketing, finance and operations research. In addition this course will pr
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MA 201 Calculus I
This introduction to basic calculus presents limits, continuity, the derivative, the definite and indefinite integral, applications.
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MA 202 Calculus II
This continuation of investigates further techniques of one-variable calculus, including techniques of integration, and infinite series.
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MA 203 Calculus III
This continuation of includes multi-variable calculus and applications.
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MA 207 Applied Calculus I
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MA 208 Applied Calculus II
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MA 221 Linear Algebra
This intensive study of linear algebra includes essentials of finite-dimensional vector-spaces, linear transformation, matrix algebra, systems of linear equations, and determinants.
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MA 225 Writing Mathematics: A Transition to Higher Mathematics
This is the Computer Science and Mathematics Department’s research writing (RW) course. Intended for second-semester sophomores, it focuses on helping students gain facility with the two major types of mathematical writing: clear, concise proofs writte
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MA 226 Writing Mathematics: An Abbreviated Transition to Higher Mathematics
MA226 is an abbreviated version of . It is intended for second-semester sophomores and it focuses on helping students gain facility with the two major types of mathematical writing: clea
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MA 230 Discrete Structures
This introduction to discrete mathematical structures with applications in computer science includes basic set algebra, functions, Boolean algebra, propositional logic, graph theory and trees.
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MA 242 Intermediate Statistics
This in-depth examination of statistical concepts includes multiple correlation and regression, analysis of variance, non-parametric statistics, and sampling designs. It provides experience in working with computer packages in statistics.
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MA 302 Introduction to Analysis
This course is an introduction to the language, fundamental concepts and standard theorems of real analysis.
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MA 315 Theory of Computation
In this introduction to the theoretical basis of computing, topics include: a review of graph theory; network models; grammars, languages and automata; Turing machines; computability.
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MA 322 Abstract Algebra I
This course focuses primarily on group theory but also includes an introduction to rings and fields.
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MA 330 Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Graph theory topics include planar graphs, Euler and Hamiltonian circuits, graph coloring, trees, depth-first and breadth-first search, network algorithms. Combinatorial topics include arrangements and selections, generating functions, recurrence relat
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MA 331 Modern College Geometry
This is an examination of selected topics from Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry and projective geometry. It will introduce current software.
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MA 332 Topics in Geometry
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MA 341 Probability
This is a study of combinatorics, discrete and continuous random variables of one and two dimensions, expectations, commonly used probability models, and normal approximation.
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MA 342 Mathematical Statistics I
This is a study of sampling theory, sampling distribution, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, linear regression and related topics.
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MA 343 Mathematical Statistics II
This continuation of includes regression models, time series, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). It employs the SAS programming language.
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MA 352 Differential Equations
This in-depth examination of theory and methods of solution of differential equations includes computer utilization and applications.
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MA 356 Numerical Analysis
This course is a mathematical analysis of interpolation procedures, polynomial approximations, numerical differentiation and integration. It includes their applications to computers. Not regularly scheduled.
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MA 361 The Mathematical Theory of Interest
This course uses a problem-solving approach to introduce students to the mathematical theory and practice of interest. Much of the class time is spent solving problems similar in scope and level of difficulty to those in the actuarial exam on Mathemati
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MA 362 Derivatives Markets
This is an introduction to the mathematics and finance necessary to understand financial derivatives.
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MA 385 Special Topics
A course in special topics will be offered periodically. Topics will vary.
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MA 388 Actuarial Seminar
The purpose of this course is to develop knowledge of the fundamental tools for assessing risk. The application of these tools to problems encountered in actuarial science is emphasized. A thorough command of calculus and probability topics is assumed.
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MA 389 Independent Study
In this individualized study in a selected area, suggested topics include real variable (construction of the real numbers, metric spaces, properties of Reimann and Lebesque integrals), topology (introduction to the theory of topological spaces), advanc
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MA 402 Advanced Calculus
This course is an introduction to the language, fundamental concepts and standard theorems of analysis.
Prerequisite: MA 203 and MA 221.
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MA 403 Topics in Analysis
This in-depth study of selected topics in real or complex analysis proceeds on the assumption that a more advanced and deeper understanding of mathematics can be both useful and interesting to teachers and students who are not research mathematicians. It features self-contained presentations, using concrete models for abstract concepts. For example, Fourier analysis is presented based upon the vibrations of musical strings. It focuses on the needs of secondary school mathematics teachers.
Prerequisite: MA 402 .
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MA 422 Abstract Algebra
This introduction to groups with emphasis on developments leading to factor groups and group homeomorphisms includes introductory study of rings and fields.
Prerequisite: MA 221; or permission of instructor.
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MA 423 Number Theory
Individualized study in a selected area. Suggested topics include real variable (construction of the real numbers, metric spaces, properties of Reimann and Lebesque integrals), topology (introduction to the theory of topological spaces).
Prerequisite: senior standing and permission of the department chair.
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MA 425 Introduction to Number Theory
This survey of topics in the theory of numbers includes divisibility, Euclidean algorithm, linear Diophantine equations, congruencies, number theoretic functions, primitive roots, quadratic residues and special topics such ad Fibonacci numbers, cycle graphs and continued fractions.
Prerequisite: Two courses in Calculus; or permission of the instructor.
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MA 430 Graph Theory and Combinatorics
Graph theory topics include planar graphs, Euler and Hamiltonian circuits, graph coloring, trees, depth-first and breadth-first search, and network algorithms. Combinatorial topics include arrangements and selections, generating functions, recurrence relations, pigeon-hole principle, and inclusion-exclusion. This course includes applications to computer science and business.
Prerequisite: MA 221 and MA 203.
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MA 431 Modern College Geometry
This examination of selected topics from Euclidean geometry and projective geometry introduces current software.
Prerequisite: Calculus II; or permission of the instructor.
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MA 441 Probability
This course is a study of discrete combinatorics, discrete and continuous random variables of one and two dimensions, expectations, commonly used probability models and normal approximation.
Corequisite: MA 203.
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MA 442 Mathematical Statistics I
This is a study of probability theory, sampling theory, sampling distribution, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing and related topics.
Prerequisite: Courses equivalent to Arcadia courses MA 441 and MA 203.
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MA 443 Mathematical Statistics II
This course includes analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, multiple regression, multivariate methods. It employs the use of computers to analyze large sets of data. SAS programming language to analyze large sets of data.
Prerequisite: MA 442 .
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MA 452 Differential Equations
This course is an in-depth examination of theory and methods of solution of differential equations. It includes computer utilization and applications.
Prerequisite: MA 203.
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MA 456 Numerical Analysis
Mathematical analysis of interpolation procedures, polynomial approximations, numerical differentiation and integration. Includes their applications to computers.
Prerequisite: Calculus III and proficiency in a high-level programming language.
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MA 460 Topics in Group Theory
Investigation of groups and their properties. Emphasizes applications of group theory as illustrated by work with crystal structures, group designs, symmetrics both in art and nature and the work of M.C. Escher. Features classroom application of an abstract topic through student and instructor examples.
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MA 461 History of Mathematics
This historical development of the major ideas in mathematics begins with the Greek mathematicians and continues until the beginnings of the Calculus and group theory. It emphasizes the lives, times and contributions of the leading mathematicians in this 2000-year period. It stresses the contribution of problems unsolved and solved to further development of mathematical thought.
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MA 501 Survey of Math I
In-depth examination of theory and methods of solution of differential equations. Includes computer utilization and applications.
Prerequisite: MA203.
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