Political and Civic Engagement Program
Certificate in Political and Civic Engagement
Students on Summer 2023, Fall 2023, or Spring 2024 requirements PACEACRT
Requirements
The certificate requires at least 22 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
- Introductory Course. One (1) course:
- PACE-C 250 Leadership and Public Policy
- PACE-S 250 Honors Leadership and Public Policy
PACE-C 250 Leadership and Public Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interdisciplinary introduction to American public leadership and policy making. Explores theoretical and empirical work on American politics and civil society from the local community to the nation\'s capital. Introduces skills of effective political and civic engagement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of PACE-C 211, PACE-C 250, or PACE-S 250.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
PACE-S 250 Honors Leadership and Public Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- For students in the Hutton Honors College. Interdisciplinary introduction to American public leadership and policy making. Explores theoretical and empirical work on American politics and civil society from the local community to the nation's capital. Introduces skills of effective political and civic engagement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of PACE-C 211, PACE-C 250, or PACE-S 250.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Career Course. One (1) course:
- ASCS-Q 295 Design Your Life and Career
- ASCS-Q 296 College to Career II: Navigate Your Arts and Sciences Experience
- POLS-X 299 Careers for Political Science Students
- SPEA-V 252 Career Development and Planning
ASCS-Q 295 Design Your Life and Career
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses design-thinking principles and framework as a way to approach important life decisions with mindfulness and creativity. Includes exploration of majors and careers of interest as well as development of a plan to continue this exploration throughout the college years.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
ASCS-Q 296 College to Career II: Navigate Your Arts and Sciences Experience
- Credits
- 2
- Prerequisites
- At least sophomore standing
- Description
- Explores the relationship between academic and extracurricular choices and life after graduation. Students assess their skills, develop a portfolio to highlight them, and create a plan to address gaps. Focuses on a paradigm of job searching that emphasizes research and highly customized, focused application materials.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of the following: ASCS-Q 296, BUS-T 275, or SPEA-V 252.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
POLS-X 299 Careers for Political Science Students
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Through presentations and discussions with IU alumni with professional careers in law, government, business, non-profits and research institutes, international service, polling, and other fields, introduces various career options available to political scientists as well as how to write a resume and excel in interviews for such opportunities.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of two credit hours.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
SPEA-V 252 Career Development and Planning
- Description
- Course highlights include: identification of work values and personality preference, a career research assignment, networking assignments designed to prepare students for contact with employers, in-depth tutorial and feedback concerning how to craft a marketable resume and cover letter, and development of an overall career development plan.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Issue Forum. One (1) course:
- PACE-C 200 Issue Forum
- PACE-C 440 Forum Discussion Leader
PACE-C 200 Issue Forum
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Dialogue and deliberation activities structured as a half-day forum during which participants interact with an expert panel and discuss a current controversial issue previously selected by PACE student leaders. Includes a pre-forum assignment, active participation in the forum, and a post-forum response paper.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 3 credit hours in PACE-C 200 and PACE-C 400.
PACE-C 440 Forum Discussion Leader
- Credits
- 1
- Prerequisites
- Consent of program
- Description
- Training in facilitation of democratic deliberation as preparation for leading small group discussions for the PACE Issue Forum. Includes training, practice, service at the Issue Forum, and debriefing meeting. Final reflection paper required.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.
- Electives. It is recommended that no more than 6 credit hours be taken from one department (for instance, POLS or MSCH or SPEA).
- College Electives. Six (6) credit hours:
- PACE-C 100 Leaders and Leadership
- PACE-C 300 Issues in Political and Civic Engagement
- PACE-C 350 Leadership, Social Movements, and Modern American Politics
- AAAD-A 205 Black Electoral Politics
- AAAD-A 332 Art of the Civil Rights Movement
- AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
- AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies
- AAAD-A 427 Cross-Cultural Communication
- AAAD-A 481 Racism and the Law
- AMST-A 201 U.S. Movements and Institutions (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- AMST-A 205 American Radicalism and Dissent
- AMST-A 208 Seeing Black Resistance through a Relational Lens
- ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- CJUS-P 245 Social Justice and the Justice System
- CJUS-P 307 Policing Democracies
- CJUS-P 314 Law and Social Science
- CJUS-P 370 Criminal Law
- CJUS-P 375 American Juvenile Justice System
- CLLC-L 120 Politics, Identity, and Resistance (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- COLL-C 105 Critical Approaches to the Natural and Mathematical Sciences (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- COLL-P 155 Public Oral Communication
- COLL-S 104 Freshman Seminar in Social and Historical Studies (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- EALC-E 307 Cultures of Protest in South Korea
- EAS-E 430 Environmental and Energy Diplomacy
- ECON-B 251 Fundamentals of Economics for Business I
- ECON-B 252 Fundamentals of Economics for Business II
- ECON-E 113 Capitalism and Democracy
- ECON-E 115 Everyday Economics
- ECON-E 251
- ECON-E 252 Fundamentals of Economics II
- ECON-L 260 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Gateway
- ECON-S 251 Fundamentals of Economics for Business I: Honors
- ENG-L 208 Topics in English and American Literature and Culture (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- ENG-L 240 Literature and Public Life
- ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
- ENG-R 222 Democratic Deliberation
- ENG-R 223 Group Communication
- ENG-R 224 Persuasion
- ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
- ENG-R 321 Rhetoric, Law, and Culture
- ENG-R 330 Science, Advocacy, and the Public
- ENG-R 339 Freedom of Speech
- ENG-R 340 The Rhetoric of Social Movements
- ENG-R 342 Rhetoric and Race
- ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- ENG-R 396 The Study of Public Advocacy
- ENG-W 240 Community Service Writing
- GEOG-G 185 Environmental Change: The End of the World as We Know It?
- GEOG-G 208 Environment and Society
- GEOG-G 313 Place and Politics
- GEOG-G 314 Urban Geography
- GEOG-G 389 Humanitarianism and Displacement
- GEOG-G 415 Advanced Urban Geography
- GEOG-G 426
- GEOG-G 474 Solidarity Economy in Latin America
- HIST-A 112 American Diversity: A History
- HIST-A 352 History of Latinos in the United States
- HIST-A 355 African American History I
- HIST-A 379 Issues in Modern United States History (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- HIST-A 383 Rock, Hip Hop, and Revolution: Popular Music in the Making of Modern America, 1940 to the Present
- HIST-A 398 Disability in the United States
- HIST-D 201 Democratic Revolutions since 1980
- HIST-H 105 American History I
- HON-H 237 Law and Society
- HON-H 238 Politics and Communication
- HON-H 304 Interdepartmental Colloquia
- INTL-I 103 Global Business: Politics, Policy, and Practice
- INTL-I 203 Global Development
- INTL-I 204 Human Rights and International Law
- INTL-I 205 Culture and Politics
- INTL-I 206 Peace and Conflict
- INTL-L 354 Immigration Law, International Policy, and Migration
- INTL-L 355 Gender and International Human Rights
- MSCH-C 101 Media
- MSCH-C 206 Media Reporting in a Global World
- MSCH-C 212 Screening Race and Ethnicity
- MSCH-C 214 Race, Prejudice, and the Media
- MSCH-C 216 Social Scientific Perspectives of Gender and Media
- MSCH-C 219 Media in the Global Context
- MSCH-C 232 Media, Fashion and Politics
- MSCH-C 249 Media Technologies and Culture
- MSCH-F 204 Topics in Media, Culture, and Society (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-F 445 Media, Culture, and Politics (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- MSCH-J 300 Communications Law
- MSCH-J 423 Public Opinion
- MSCH-J 448 Global Journalism: Issues and Research
- MSCH-L 322 Media Policymaking
- MSCH-L 424 Media and the Constitution
- MSCH-S 312 Politics and the Media
- MSCH-S 414 Public Communication Campaigns
- MSCH-S 452 Communicating Climate Change
- PHIL-P 141 Introduction to Ethical Theories and Problems
- PHIL-P 145 Liberty and Justice: A Philosophical Introduction
- PHIL-P 375 Philosophy of Law
- PHIL-P 376 Leadership and Philosophy
- PHIL-P 393 Biomedical Ethics
- POLS-P 302 The Politics of Economic Crisis and Reform
- POLS-P 303
- POLS-Y 100 American Political Controversies
- POLS-Y 103 Introduction to American Politics
- POLS-Y 104 The Politics of Saving the World
- POLS-Y 105 Introduction to Political Theory
- POLS-Y 109 Introduction to International Relations
- POLS-Y 110
- POLS-Y 121 Capitalism and Democracy
- POLS-Y 202 Politics and Citizenship in the Information Age
- POLS-Y 207 The Politics of Business
- POLS-Y 208 Leadership, Civil Society, and Public Policy
- POLS-Y 211 Introduction to Law
- POLS-Y 212 Making Democracy Work
- POLS-Y 249 Religion, Politics, and Public Policy
- POLS-Y 281 Modern Political Ideologies
- POLS-Y 301 Political Parties and Interest Groups
- POLS-Y 304 Constitutional Law
- POLS-Y 305 Constitutional Rights and Liberties
- POLS-Y 313 Environmental Policy
- POLS-Y 315 Political Psychology and Socialization
- POLS-Y 316 Public Opinion and Political Participation
- POLS-Y 317 Voting, Elections, and Public Opinion
- POLS-Y 318 The American Presidency
- POLS-Y 319 The United States Congress
- POLS-Y 320 Judicial Politics
- POLS-Y 321 The Media and Politics
- POLS-Y 324 Gender and Politics
- POLS-Y 329 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States
- POLS-Y 353 The Politics of Gender and Sexuality
- POLS-Y 360 United States Foreign Policy
- POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
- POLS-Y 379 Ethics and Public Policy
- POLS-Y 381 Classical Political Thought
- POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought
- POLS-Y 383 Foundations of American Political Thought
- POLS-Y 384 Developments in American Political Thought
- POLS-Y 386
- POLS-Y 399
- PSY-P 484 The Science of Moral Judgment
- REL-D 250 Religion, Ecology, and the Self
- REL-D 340 Religion and Bioethics
- REL-D 350 Religion, Ethics, and the Environment
- REL-R 170 Religion, Ethics, and Public Life
- SGIS-S 202 Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Rule the World
- SOC-S 101 Social Problems and Policies
- SOC-S 205 Gender and Leadership
- SOC-S 215 Social Change
- SOC-S 217 Social Inequality
- SOC-S 311 Politics and Society
- SOC-S 312
- SOC-S 326 Law and Society
- SOC-S 335 Race and Ethnic Relations
- SOC-S 360 Topics in Social Policy
PACE-C 100 Leaders and Leadership
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An interdisciplinary introduction to concepts of leaders and leadership. Includes research, comparison and analysis of different leaders and leadership styles; examines how the history and theories of leadership evolved; and covers how leaders thrive in different cultural settings, typically in strong relationship with followers.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
PACE-C 300 Issues in Political and Civic Engagement
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Intensive study and analysis of selected political or civic engagement issues. Topics will vary and will be listed in the online
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of six credit hours in PACE-C 200 and PACE-C 300.
PACE-C 350 Leadership, Social Movements, and Modern American Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Case studies of leaders and social movements across the political spectrum and their impact on politics in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. Introduces social movement and leadership theories and how they illuminate these studies. Provides opportunities for students to develop their own leadership skills.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 205 Black Electoral Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The course will explore black participation in the formal structures of American government and in the processes by which these structures are accessed. Black participation in local, state, and federal government arenas will be focused upon, and the political benefits to the black community of these involvements will be assessed.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 332 Art of the Civil Rights Movement
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers visual artistic production (painting, sculpture, photography, and film) during the American Civil Rights and Black Power Movements.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
AAAD-A 356 African American History II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: AAAD-A 355
- Description
- 1900 to the present. Migration north, NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 356 or HIST-A 356.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the historical roles, structures, the impact of black protest strategies, and the origins of black movements to assess their impact on communities in Africa and in the diaspora.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 408 Race, Gender, and Class in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the influence of race, gender, and class from a perspective of power and culture. Use of interdisciplinary sources, including essays, fiction, art, and social science research to examine how different social groups vie for representation, self-definition, and power in different social and cultural settings.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Histories, theories, policies, and citizen, state, corporate, nonprofit sector models of transforming past and present societies divided by race, ethnicity, gender, class, caste, tribe, and religion through restorative and distributive justice movements and policies such as civil rights, affirmative action, reparations, and reconciliation tribunals.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AAAD-A 427 Cross-Cultural Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey study of national, cultural, and cross-cultural persuasion in theory and practice.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 427 or CMCL-C 427.
AAAD-A 481 Racism and the Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Contemporary racial problems in American society with regard to law and constitutional principles of basic freedoms and associated conflicts. Effects of societal norms and impact of racism.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AMST-A 201 U.S. Movements and Institutions
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of a social movement, an institutional structure, or an otherwise clearly delimited arena of social regulation and public activity. Constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing an object of social study. Topics vary.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AMST-A 205 American Radicalism and Dissent
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the political, cultural and intellectual history of radical social movements in the U.S., including abolitionism, feminism, anarchism, socialism, communism, civil rights, black liberation, gay rights, antiwar protest, and the 1960s New Left, and examines the contributions these movements made to the diversity of American life and thought.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
AMST-A 208 Seeing Black Resistance through a Relational Lens
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analyzes how the Black Power movement shaped African Americans' self-identification as "Black" alongside the racial formations of Latinos, Asian Americans, and Indigenous people. Helps students model practices of reading and listening that create new possibilities of thinking, caring, and talking to each other through an abolitionist and decolonial lens.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ANTH-E 388 Ethnicity, Class, and the Model U.S. Citizen
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Considers how people's identities influence the ideals and practice of citizenship. Focuses in particular on identities based on ethnicity and class. Examines how ethnicity and class shape discourses of citizenship found in the media and in political and legal spheres.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 388 or CMCL-C 346.
ANTH-E 432 Cultures of Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of culture in how democracies are practiced. Ethnographic focus varies and includes cross-cultural comparisons of political speech, voting, and democratic representation in different cultures. Particular attention is paid to the dilemmas surrounding the exportation of democracy, especially to the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, the Pacific, and the Balkans.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ANTH-E 432 or CMCL-C 446.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
CJUS-P 245 Social Justice and the Justice System
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Overview of issues related to diversity and how it impacts and relates to the criminal justice system. Provides a criminological perspective on multiculturalism, social inequality, and discrimination in the criminal justice system. Covers class, race, ethnicity, sex, gender, with an emphasis on the analysis of social justice.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 307 Policing Democracies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Policing an open society is a challenge that demands protecting as well as safeguarding individual liberty. Examines the issues of democratic policing by focusing on the U.S., India, and other democracies where plural, diverse and multi-religious populations present an extraordinary challenge of governance by democratic means.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 314 Law and Social Science
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Structure and operation of law, legal systems, and legal processes across both civil and criminal justice; the potential role of social science in aiding in understanding that law's creation and implementation, and the potential need for change.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CJUS-P 202 or CJUS-P 314.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 370 Criminal Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Definition of common crimes in the United States and factors involving the application of criminal law as a formal social control mechanism. Behavior-modifying factors that influence criminal liability and problems created when new offenses are defined.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CJUS-P 375 American Juvenile Justice System
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Structure and operation of the juvenile justice system in the United States, past and present. Analysis of the duties and responsibilities of the juvenile police officer, the juvenile court judge, and the juvenile probation officer.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CLLC-L 120 Politics, Identity, and Resistance
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Topical or "hands-on" introduction to social and historical issues not normally covered by individual departments. Subjects vary each semester.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
CLLC-L 320 Collins Symposium
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The arts, sciences, and professions in their larger contexts. Subjects vary each semester.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 103 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the arts and humanities Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of COLL-C 103 or COLL-S 103.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE CAPPcourseFall 2024CASE CAPPcourse
COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 104 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the social and historical studies Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of COLL-C 104 or COLL-S 104.
- Spring 2025CASE CAPPcourseFall 2024CASE CAPPcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
COLL-C 105 Critical Approaches to the Natural and Mathematical Sciences
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 105 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the natural and mathematical sciences Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of COLL-C 105 or COLL-S 105.
- Spring 2025CASE CAPPcourseFall 2024CASE CAPPcourse
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
COLL-P 155 Public Oral Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Prepares students in the liberal arts to communicate effectively with public audiences. Emphasizes oral communication as practiced in public contexts: how to advance reasoned claims in public; how to adapt public oral presentations to particular audiences; how to listen to, interpret, and evaluate public discourse; and how to formulate a clear response.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of COLL-P 155, ENG-R 130, CMCL-C 121, or CMCL-C 130.
- Spring 2025CASE POCcourseFall 2024CASE POCcourse
COLL-S 104 Freshman Seminar in Social and Historical Studies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Freshman standing
- Description
- Introduction to college-level projects chosen from social and historical studies fields. Students will learn how scholars frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches in a small-class experience with a faculty member. Writing and related skills are stressed. Topics will vary.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of COLL-C 104 or COLL-S 104.
- Spring 2025CASE CAPPcourseFall 2024CASE CAPPcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
EALC-E 307 Cultures of Protest in South Korea
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A historical and cultural survey of social movements and political protest in South Korea through various cultural artifacts including but not limited to literature, films, music, graphic art, new and digital media.
EAS-E 430 Environmental and Energy Diplomacy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the practical applications of scientific and technical expertise to U.S. foreign policy. Part of the State Department's "Diplomacy Lab," which engages university classes as consultants to State Department offices/embassies to address current issues in environmental and energy policy.
ECON-B 251 Fundamentals of Economics for Business I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- First course in a two-course sequence that introduces business students to essential economic concepts. Examines the economic notions of cost and gains from trade, determinants of economic growth, consumer and firm behavior in competitive and non-competitive environments, the effects of taxation, externalities, moral hazard and adverse selection, and basic game theory.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ECON-B 251 or ECON-E 251.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ECON-B 252 Fundamentals of Economics for Business II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ECON-B 251
- Description
- Continuation of Fundamental of Economics for Business I. After a review of the major types of markets, explores macroeconomic concepts, beginning with measurement and the National Income Accounts, and then moving to cycle fluctuations and performance of stock markets. Concludes with microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives in two areas: labor markets and globalization will applications in business contexts.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ECON-B 252 or ECON-E 252.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ECON-E 113 Capitalism and Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines economics and politics through the lenses of capitalism and democracy. Compares virtues of different economic systems (socialism, communism, capitalism) and political systems (autocracy, democracy) based on efficiency and equality. Discusses relationships between systems with focus on whether the erosion of liberal democratic norms affects how economy functions, and vice-versa.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ECON-E 113 or POLS-Y 121.
ECON-E 115 Everyday Economics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- Cannot be counted toward a major, interdepartmental major, or minor in economics
- Description
- Establishes the foundation necessary to achieve economic literacy by providing an introduction to economic concepts and institutions encountered in daily life: credit markets, inflation, interest rates, taxes, retirement savings, insurance, and the fundamental economic principles underlying these markets.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ECON-E 252 Fundamentals of Economics II
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ECON-E 251 or ECON-B 251
- Description
- Continuation of Fundamental of Economics I. After a review of the major types of markets, explores macroeconomic concepts, beginning with measurement and the National Income Accounts, and then moving to cycle fluctuations and performance of stock markets. Concludes with microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives in two areas: labor markets and globalization.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ECON-E 252 or ECON-B 252.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ECON-L 260 Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Gateway
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- ECON-E 251 or ECON-B 251; and admission to the PPE minor
- Description
- Examines historical and contemporary attempts to understand the normative foundations and real features of our key economic, social, and political institutions. Explores central concepts such as justice, freedom, property, equality, efficiency, wealth, and inequality from the perspectives of philosophy, political science, and economics.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ECON-L 260, PHIL-L 260, or POLS-L 260.
ECON-S 251 Fundamentals of Economics for Business I: Honors
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Must be a Hutton Honors student
- Description
- First in a two-course sequence that introduces honors business students to essential economic concepts. Examines economic notions of cost and gains from trade, determinants of economic growth, consumer and firm behavior in competitive and non-competitive environments, effects of taxation, externalities, moral hazard and adverse selection, and basic game theory.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of ECON-S 251, ECON-B 251, or ECON-E 251.
ENG-L 208 Topics in English and American Literature and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected works of English or American literature in relation to a single cultural problem or theme. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once for credit.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-L 240 Literature and Public Life
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of literary works that feature situations, issues, and problems of values or ethics in public life as seen from a variety of viewpoints. Discussion and writing will be directed to the works themselves and to the questions they raise for contemporary life.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 212 Communicating Sustainability
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- 'Sustainability' is the capacity to negotiate environmental, social, and economic needs and desires for current and future generations. Traces historical and global discourses of sustainability; defines key terms and frames sustainability; engages related concepts of democracy, citizenship, and community; and develops critical thinking, research, and communication skills.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 212 or ENG-R 212.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 222 Democratic Deliberation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Principles and practices of deliberation that enrich democratic culture in civic affairs.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 222 or ENG-R 222.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 223 Group Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores how to be good and effective members of a group or team, how to occupy different group communication roles skillfully, how to build toward an ideal of democratic participation and decision-making, and how to become reflective about communication processes.
ENG-R 224 Persuasion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Motivational appeals in influencing behavior; psychological factors in speaker-audience relationship; contemporary examples of persuasion. Practice in persuasive speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 324 or ENG-R 224.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 228 Argumentation and Public Advocacy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Reasoning, evidence, and argument in public discourse. Study of forms of argument. Practice in argumentative speaking.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 228 or ENG-R 228.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 321 Rhetoric, Law, and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the range of ways in which rhetoric, law, and culture intersect in the production and maintenance of social and political community.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 321 or ENG-R 321.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 330 Science, Advocacy, and the Public
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the ways that scientists can better communicate their research and concerns to the public. Covers topics related to public perceptions of science, examines how best to present and explain research to non-expert audiences through both speaking and writing, and explores recent public and scientific controversies.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 339 Freedom of Speech
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An examination of the concept of freedom of speech as a historical, philosophical, legal, and rhetorical concept.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 339 or ENG-R 339.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 340 The Rhetoric of Social Movements
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces rhetorical theories and practices which inform and are informed by the study of social movements. Topics vary and focus on a specific social movement or a range of social movements.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum total of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 340 and ENG-R 340.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
ENG-R 342 Rhetoric and Race
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the relationship between rhetoric and race, including the possibilities and implications entailed by an understanding of race as a rhetorical artifact, and rhetoric as a necessarily raced phenomenon.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 342 or ENG-R 342.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
ENG-R 348 Environmental Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This class is grounded in the perspective that symbolic and natural systems are mutually constituted and therefore, the ways we communicate about and with the environment are vital to examine for a sustainable and just future. The focus of the class may vary to engage topics such as environmental tourism or environmental disasters.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 348 or ENG-R 348.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-R 396 The Study of Public Advocacy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of great rhetorical works in English. Focus on understanding the nature and role of public discourse in addressing significant human concerns.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 406 or ENG-R 396.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
ENG-W 240 Community Service Writing
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Completion of the English composition requirement
- Description
- Integrates service with learning to develop research and writing skills requisite for most academic and professional activities. Students volunteer at a community service agency, write an assignment for public use by the agency, and perform coursework culminating in a research paper on a related social issue.
GEOG-G 185 Environmental Change: The End of the World as We Know It?
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How has the global environment changed? How are we influencing Earth's natural processes, now and in the future? Learn about climate change, resource consumption, and land use change.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
GEOG-G 208 Environment and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Just as we shape the environment, the environment shapes us. From globalization to food production to climate change, learn how humans and environments interact.
- Spring 2025CASE NMcourseFall 2024CASE NMcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SLcourseFall 2024CASE SLcourse
GEOG-G 313 Place and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Geography and spatial relationships shape and are shaped by political processes. What drives the geography of elections and political parties, nationalism, environmental and urban movements, war, imperialism, and borders?
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 314 Urban Geography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and interpretation of urban spatial structures, policies, and problems with an emphasis on geographic perspectives. Topics include urban housing markets, racial segregation, homelessness, and urban crime.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 389 Humanitarianism and Displacement
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the growth of the humanitarian aid system, particularly its unintended and unexpected effects. Explores how situations that call for humanitarian response arise, how nation-states and international agencies respond, what the role of NGOs is, and the position that beneficiaries are assigned in the system.
GEOG-G 415 Advanced Urban Geography
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An in-depth examination of modern cities, growth dynamics, and sustainability. Explores a range of contemporary socioeconomic topics in an urban setting, including housing markets, segregation, crime, telecommunication, transportation, and regional development. Basic geographic models and spatial statistics are used to explore differences in urban areas.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
GEOG-G 474 Solidarity Economy in Latin America
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Traces the histories, practices, and realities of solidarity economies throughout Latin America. Considers solidarity economy as a broad eco-system of values, relationships, and activities that allow for the advancement of an alternative framework of development centered on equity, cooperation, solidarity, self-management, and democracy.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
HIST-A 112 American Diversity: A History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How has Americans\' \"diversity\" -racial, ethnic, religious, gender, sexual, generational, regional, and class differences- shaped U.S. history? Why and how have Americans used different identity categories? Studying individuals and episodes, this course emphasizes the roles of culture, conflict, and government in making one of the world\'s most diverse nations.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 352 History of Latinos in the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Latino experience in the United States from 1848. Economic and social factors of the Latino role in a non-Latin nation.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of HIST-A 352 or LATS-L 210.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 355 African American History I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- History of blacks in the United States. Slavery, abolitionism, Reconstruction, post-Reconstruction to 1900.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of AAAD-A 355 or HIST-A 355.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 379 Issues in Modern United States History
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study and analysis of selected historical issues in United States history from 1870 to the present. Topics will vary but usually cut across fields, regions, and periods.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 9 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 383 Rock, Hip Hop, and Revolution: Popular Music in the Making of Modern America, 1940 to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Role of popular music in the social, cultural, political, economic, and technological history of the modern United States. Examines a broad range of musical cultures including rhythm and blues, country, rock and roll, modern jazz, pop, folk, soul, funk, and hip hop. Focus on role of popular music in shaping democracy and power, including class, gender, race, and generation relations.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-A 398 Disability in the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Disability is a nearly universal condition. Everyone becomes disabled if they live long enough. This course explores disability as it has pertained to a variety of institutions, eras, and events in U.S. history, including slavery and emancipation, immigration, the Progressive Era, World Wars I and II, and the Great Depression.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-D 201 Democratic Revolutions since 1980
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- In recent decades democratically-oriented revolutions have occurred in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. What accounts for this phenomenon? What common ideas and practices link them? Why were some more successful than others?
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HIST-H 105 American History I
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Evolution of American society: political, economic, social structure; racial and ethnic groups; sex roles; Indian, inter-American, and world diplomacy of the United States; evolution of ideology, war, territorial expansion, industrialization, urbanization, international events and their impact on American history. English colonization through Civil War.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HON-H 237 Law and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Law is not merely the normative framework creating order or fairness in public and private institutions. Among other things, it defines relationships among friends, creates predictability in city bus routes, and influences children's moral character. This course considers law beyond the ordinary bounds of the courtroom and lawmaker's chamber.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HON-H 238 Politics and Communication
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines communication as a vehicle for conveying political opinion, for forging political identities, for testing political and public ideas, and for understanding how political actors differentiate themselves in the public arena.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
HON-H 304 Interdepartmental Colloquia
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Consent of Hutton Honors College
- Description
- Honors seminar focusing on topics in social and historical studies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 103 Global Business: Politics, Policy, and Practice
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Uses political, economic, historical, and cultural approaches to analyze case studies of opportunities and challenges generated by multinational enterprises.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 203 Global Development
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on the interaction between social, political, and economic forces and human development at global, national, and subnational scales; introduces theoretical perspectives on economic development and the function of markets.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 204 Human Rights and International Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on human rights discourse and the role international law, treaties and conventions play in addressing these rights globally. Course is interdisciplinary in theory and method.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 205 Culture and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines culture and governance on an international scale, considering how governments, markets, and international organizations deploy or use culture, and how people turn to cultural resources to resist attempts to govern them and/or to assert their own political aims.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-I 206 Peace and Conflict
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines concepts of nationalism and state ideology that shape the world's collective identities and contribute to conflicts nationally and internationally.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
INTL-L 354 Immigration Law, International Policy, and Migration
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of immigration law from multiple perspectives: legal, political, international, public policy, social, moral, and ethical. Addresses issues such as citizenship, migration, marriage, and asylum.
INTL-L 355 Gender and International Human Rights
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the historical, political and philosophical foundations of the international human rights legal system and examines how and why the current system addresses, or fails to address, gender-based rights violations and claims.
MSCH-C 101 Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role media play in our lives-at work, at school, among family members, friends, and lovers-and analyzes pressing issues in media and society today, such as privacy, globalization, and convergence.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-C 206 Media Reporting in a Global World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The goal of the course is for students to understand and articulate the issues in global journalism and the role of the media as a participant in shaping societies.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of JOUR-J 206 or MSCH-C 206.
MSCH-C 212 Screening Race and Ethnicity
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Critically examines how race and/or ethnicity are mediated through screen and audio-visual media (including film, video, television, radio, internet) and their cultural contexts. Using humanities approaches, topics might focus on representations and debates within mainstream, art, or alternative media. May address histories of race, racism, and racial justice. Screenings may be required.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of CMCL-C 201 or MSCH-C 212.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-C 214 Race, Prejudice, and the Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course addresses the psychology of racial prejudice and stereotyping and uses this social-scientific framework to examine the impact of media portrayals. We will focus on how race influences our media consumption decisions and how exposure to certain media messages (in entertainment, news, music, video games) could change racial stereotypes.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-C 214 or TEL-T 191.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-C 216 Social Scientific Perspectives of Gender and Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the representation of women in the media and analyzes women's creative work as media producers from a social scientific perspective. The course will include lecture and discussion of areas of critical debate: visual representation across media platforms, women's employment in media industries; women as an audience/consumer group.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-C 216 or TEL-T 192.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-C 219 Media in the Global Context
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Surveys media industries, products, and publics outside the United States context (e.g., Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America). Analyzes regional media in relation to local/global historical, economic, and social processes. Screenings may be required.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-C 219 or CMCL-C 202.
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-C 232 Media, Fashion and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- It is through media that fashion reflects culture, social movements, and trends. This course explores the relationship between media, fashion, and politics and applies media effects and visual communication theory to the examination of key moments where fashion and politics have merged.
MSCH-C 249 Media Technologies and Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores how our understandings and experiences of culture and everyday life are transformed as media technology re-design, re-shape, re-administer, and re-organize our daily routines, habitats, habits, identities, and modes of communication.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-F 204 Topics in Media, Culture, and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Relationship between communication media and a range of social institutions, practices, and beliefs. Course may focus on a particular medium and/or period (e.g., television and family, film and the Cold War, censorship and the media). Topic varies.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 204 and MSCH-F 204.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-F 445 Media, Culture, and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the role of media in the political process. Topic varies and may include censorship and free speech, social movements, politics of representation.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours in CMCL-C 445 or MSCH-F 445.
MSCH-J 300 Communications Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- or higher in MSCH-C 101 or consent of instructor
- Description
- Explores history and philosophy of laws pertaining to free press and free speech. Covers censorship, libel, contempt, obscenity, right of privacy, copyright, government regulations, and laws affecting the Internet and social media. Stresses responsibilities and freedoms in a democratic communications systems.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-H 300 or MSCH-J 300.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-J 423 Public Opinion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Behavioral study of nature, operation, molding, and influence of public opinion, with practice in its measurement and evaluation. Discussion of major political, social, economic, and cultural problems.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of JOUR-J 423 or MSCH-J 423.
MSCH-J 448 Global Journalism: Issues and Research
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least junior standing; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Structure and function of international communication systems and barrier to flow of information among nations. Emphasis on gathering and disseminating information around the world. Study of the major newspapers of the world, international news agencies, and international broadcasting and satellite networks.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of JOUR-J 448 or MSCH-J 448.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-L 322 Media Policymaking
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- or higher in MSCH-C 207; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Overview of basic U.S. law and government. Specific analysis of who makes U.S. media policy, how it is done, and its effects. Course includes a case study of recent policymaking that varies each semester.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-L 424 Media and the Constitution
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- or higher in MSCH-C 207 or MSCH-C 213; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Surveys the constitutional foundations of telecommunications law and policy in the United States. Primary focus on the philosophies informing the freedom of speech and press traditions, the First Amendment and how it applies to electronic media, and government regulations purporting to promote First Amendment values.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-S 312 Politics and the Media
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the relationship between media and modern politics. Topics will vary.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-S 312 or TEL-T 312.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-S 414 Public Communication Campaigns
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- A grade of C- or higher in MSCH-C 213; or consent of instructor
- Description
- Theoretical backgrounds of media campaigns; analyses of persuasion strategies, campaign goals, communication media, audiences, and campaign effectiveness. Case studies of campaigns for social action; original analysis of specific campaigns.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of MSCH-S 414 or TEL-T 414.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
MSCH-S 452 Communicating Climate Change
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Provides an overview of public opinion on climate change, introduces different theoretical perspectives on the barriers to public engagement with the topic, and examines the effectiveness of different methods of climate change communication designed to foster public engagement.
- Spring 2025CASE SLcourseFall 2024CASE SLcourse
PHIL-P 141 Introduction to Ethical Theories and Problems
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores ethical theories and fundamental issues in philosophical ethics (e.g., relation of morality to self-interest, objectivity of ethics, happiness and the good life). Applies theory to contemporary problems. Concentrates on reading and interpretation of original philosophical texts, evaluation of argumentation, and development of skills in ethical reasoning, argumentation, and analysis.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
PHIL-P 145 Liberty and Justice: A Philosophical Introduction
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Fundamental problems of social and political philosophy: the nature of the state, political obligation, freedom and liberty, equality, justice, rights, social change, revolution, and community. Readings from classical and contemporary sources.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
PHIL-P 375 Philosophy of Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: 3 credit hours of philosophy
- Description
- Selective survey of philosophical problems concerning law and the legal system. Topics include nature and validity of law, morality and law, legal obligation, judicial decision, rights, justice, responsibility, and punishment.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
PHIL-P 376 Leadership and Philosophy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Allegiance to a philosophical vision of "the right" and "the good" seems to be an important foundation for successful leadership. This course aims to study the connections between leadership and philosophy, by focusing on diverse and illuminating case studies of philosophically-informed leaders such as George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
PHIL-P 393 Biomedical Ethics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A philosophical consideration of ethical problems that arise in current biomedical practice, e.g., with regard to abortion, euthanasia, determination of death, consent to treatment, and professional responsibilities in connection with research, experimentation, and health care delivery.
POLS-P 302 The Politics of Economic Crisis and Reform
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the politics of crisis and reform from a comparative and international political economy perspective. In addition to learning general theories of crisis and reform, students will study in-depth case studies of important crisis episodes in the era of industrial capitalism, and seek to understand both the causes and consequences of crisis events.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 100 American Political Controversies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores various controversies in American politics, from the motivations of the American Founders to debates about civil rights and liberties and other public disagreements. Examines what types of arguments have been used in public debate about these controversies and how such arguments can be made effectively.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 103 Introduction to American Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the nature of government and the dynamics of American politics. Origin and nature of the American federal system and its political party base.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 104 The Politics of Saving the World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Focuses on how science policies are shaped by public opinion, partisan divisions, and political institutions, with specific emphasis on the debate over the cause, consequences, and political responses to climate change. Introduces the evidence and theories that underlie the debate, as well as political science theories that explain the current lack of policy response in the US.
POLS-Y 105 Introduction to Political Theory
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Perennial problems of political philosophy, including relationships between rulers and ruled, nature of authority, social conflict, character of political knowledge, and objectives of political action.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of POLS-Y 105 or POLS-Y 215.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 109 Introduction to International Relations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Causes of war, nature and attributes of the state, imperialism, international law, national sovereignty, arbitration, adjudication, international organization, major international issues.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of POLS-Y 109 or POLS-Y 219.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 121 Capitalism and Democracy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines economics and politics through the lenses of capitalism and democracy. Compares virtues of different economic systems (socialism, communism, capitalism) and political systems (autocracy, democracy) based on efficiency and equality. Discusses relationships between systems with focus on whether the erosion of liberal democratic norms affects how economy functions, and vice-versa.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of POLS-Y 121 or ECON-E 113.
POLS-Y 202 Politics and Citizenship in the Information Age
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the influence of the news media on citizen preferences and behavior in the information age. Analysis of the forces shaping the media, the relation between the media and politics, and the effect on citizens. Topics include decision making and development of critical skills in response to the information age.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 207 The Politics of Business
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- How does the government affect business and vice-versa? This class provides an overview of government-business relations from a historical and international perspective with focus on political analysis of private organizations. Topics include US business-government relations, regulatory capture, lobbying and the revolving door, advanced/developing economy comparisons, globalization, offshoring, and multinational corporations.
POLS-Y 208 Leadership, Civil Society, and Public Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the relationship between leadership, civil society, and public policy with special focus on the American political scene. Examines challenges posed by hyper-polarization from a variety of viewpoints, including disagreement, free speech, civility, incivility, moderation, and radicalism. Considers how to promote a healthy civil society in a complex, polarized environment
POLS-Y 211 Introduction to Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An introduction to law an aspect of government and politics, and as a means of dealing with major social problems. Students will study legal reasoning, procedures, and materials, and may compare other nation's legal systems. The course usually includes a moot court or other forms of simulation.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 212 Making Democracy Work
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Nature and justifications for democratic politics and the problems confronting democracy today. Demise of liberalism in America; rise of identity politics and its significance; racial inequality and the problems of deliberative democracy; problems of political alienation and participation.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 249 Religion, Politics, and Public Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to the effects of religious belief, behavior, and institutions on political processes and public policy. Implications of religion as an alternative source of public legitimacy in contemporary societies. Topics may include controversies or developments in American, comparative, or international politics.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 281 Modern Political Ideologies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Assesses leading political ideologies of the past two centuries, e.g., conservatism, liberalism, socialism, communism, fascism, feminism, environmentalism, anarchism, populism, and various forms of religious fundamentalism. Analyzes those ideologies as forms of thought and as motivators of political agency and organization that have shaped the contours of the modern political world.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 301 Political Parties and Interest Groups
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Theories of American party activity; behavior of political parties, interest groups, and social movements; membership in groups; organization and structure; evaluation and relationship to the process of representation.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 304 Constitutional Law
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- American political powers and structures; selected Supreme Court decisions interpreting American constitutional system.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 305 Constitutional Rights and Liberties
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Extent and limits of constitutional rights; selected Supreme Court decisions interpreting American constitutional system.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 313 Environmental Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the processes of social decision reconciling human demands on the natural world with the ability of nature to sustain life and living standards. Analyzes the implications for public policies in complex sequential interactions among technical, economic, social, and political systems and considers the consequences of alternative courses of action.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 315 Political Psychology and Socialization
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of the relationship between personality and politics. Use of major psychological theories and concepts to understand the attitudes and behavior of mass publics and political elites.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 316 Public Opinion and Political Participation
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The nature of public opinion on major domestic and foreign policy issues; mass political ideology; voting behavior and other forms of political participation; political culture; and the impact of public opinion on political systems.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 317 Voting, Elections, and Public Opinion
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Determinants of voting behavior in elections. The nature of public opinion regarding major domestic and foreign policy issues; development of political ideology; other influences on the voting choices of individuals and the outcomes of elections; relationships among public opinion, elections, and the development of public policy.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 318 The American Presidency
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examination of the American presidency both in historical setting and in contemporary context. Topics such as presidential elections, roles and resources of the president, structures and processes of the presidency, presidential leadership and behavior, relationships of the presidency and other participants in policy making.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 319 The United States Congress
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course offers students the opportunity to study the legislative branch of American national government. It includes the structure and process of the Senate and House of Representatives, the roles of parties, interest groups, and lobbyists, the legislative process, and the relations of Congress with the other branches of government.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 320 Judicial Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the American judicial system in the contemporary context. Analysis of the trial and appellate courts with a focus on the United States Supreme Court. Topics include analyses of the structure of the judicial system, the participants in the system, and the policy making processes and capabilities of the legal system. The course concludes with an assessment of the role of courts in a majoritarian democracy.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 321 The Media and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines the contemporary relationship between the media and politics, including use of the media by politicians and public officials, media coverage of governmental activities, and media coverage of campaigns and elections. Course focuses primarily on the United States, but includes comparative perspectives.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 324 Gender and Politics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of women in contemporary political systems, domestic or foreign, with emphasis on political roles, participation, and public policy. Normative or empirical examination of how political systems affect women and the impact women have on them. Topics vary semester to semester.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 329 Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- A survey of minority group politics in the United States. The course examines the socioeconomic position and political history of various demographic groups and highlights key public policy debates central to the future of ethnic politics and race relations in the United States. Compares theories of racial formation in the context of a political system predicated on majority rule.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 353 The Politics of Gender and Sexuality
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of how different social, economic, and political practices have influenced the construction of gender and sexuality outside of the United States. Examines the interplay between gender relations and characteristics of public and private institutions.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 360 United States Foreign Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Analysis of institutions and processes involved in the formation and implementation of American foreign policy. Emphasis is on post-World War II policies.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 376 International Political Economy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Theories about the interaction between the international economic and political systems are the subject of this course. Works from each of the main traditions -- liberal, Marxist, and statist -- will be assigned. Specific topics covered will include (among others): the politics of trade, aid, foreign investment, and international monetary affairs; theories of dependency and imperialism; the politics of international competition in specific industries; the stability/ instability of international economic regimes.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
POLS-Y 379 Ethics and Public Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course examines the ethical responsibilities of public officials in democratic societies. It explores such topics as the meaning of moral leadership, the appeal to personal conscious in public decision making, and the problem of "dirty hands" among others. A special concern is how institutional arrangements affect moral choices.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 381 Classical Political Thought
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An exposition and critical analysis of the major political philosophers and philosophical schools from Plato to Machiavelli.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Spring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
POLS-Y 382 Modern Political Thought
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- An exposition and critical analysis of the major political philosophers and philosophical schools from Machiavelli to the present.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 383 Foundations of American Political Thought
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the evolution of American political ideas from colonization through ratification of the Constitution and its implementation.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
POLS-Y 384 Developments in American Political Thought
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the evolution of American political ideas under the Constitution of the United States, and its promises and problems.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
PSY-P 484 The Science of Moral Judgment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- At least one course at the 300-level or higher in Psychological and Brain Sciences or Cognitive Science
- Description
- Surveys scientific research into the psychology of moral judgment. Contributing disciplines include social, cognitive, developmental, and evolutionary psychology, anthropology, ethology, brain science, and artificial intelligence. Investigates the psychological mechanisms of moral judgment. Not a course about normative religious or philosophical ethics.
REL-D 250 Religion, Ecology, and the Self
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Deep ecology seeks fundamental transformations in views of world and self. It claims that there is no ontological divide in the forms of life and aims for an environmentally sustainable and spiritually rich way of life. This course is an introductory examination of Deep Ecology from a religious studies perspective.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-D 250 or REL-R 236.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-D 340 Religion and Bioethics
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Examines questions about human nature, finitude, the meaning of suffering, and appropriate uses of medical technology in the face of natural limitations, such as disease and death, that humans encounter. Issues include prenatal/genetic testing, transhumanism, enhancement technologies, cloning, euthanasia, and organ transplantation. Judeo-Christian and cross-cultural perspectives on illness are considered.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-D 350 Religion, Ethics, and the Environment
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Exploration of relationships between religious worldviews and environmental ethics. Considers environmental critiques and defenses of monotheistic traditions, selected non-Western traditions, the impact of secular \"mythologies,\" philosophical questions, and lifestyle issues.
- Repeatability
- Credit given for only one of REL-D 350 or REL-R 371.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
REL-R 170 Religion, Ethics, and Public Life
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores religious convictions and their consequences for judgments about personal and social morality, including such issues as sexual morality, medical ethics, questions of socio-economic organization, and moral judgments about warfare.
- Spring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
SGIS-S 202 Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Rule the World
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores the rapid improvement of Artificial Intelligence, the widespread use of AI in every sector of the economy and society, and the impact its adoption is having on global and international politics and economies. No prior knowledge of AI needed.
SOC-S 101 Social Problems and Policies
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduces sociology through in-depth study of a major social problem; examines research on the problem; and explores alternative policies. Problems treated vary by section. Examples include the environment; women, men, and work; medicine in America; the sociology of sport; alcohol and drug use.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 15 credit hours. May be counted only once in the major toward departmental requirements.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 205 Gender and Leadership
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Why are fewer women than men in leadership positions? This course examines the disparity using an evidence-based approach, including information from scholarly and popular works of the press. Explores how students of both genders can become better leaders. Provides an overview of how social scientists understand gender and other categories of identity as social.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 215 Social Change
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Introduction to theoretical and empirical studies of social change. Explores issues such as modernization; rationalization; demographic, economic, and religious causes of change; and reform and revolution.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 217 Social Inequality
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Why are income, wealth, and status distributed unequally? Is social inequality good for society? Explores the economic basis of social class, education, and culture; social mobility; social inequality in comparative and historical perspective.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 311 Politics and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interrelations of politics and society, with emphasis on formation of political power, its structure, and its change in different types of social systems and cultural-historical settings.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 326 Law and Society
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Social origins of social bases of legal decision-making, and social consequences of the application of law.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 335 Race and Ethnic Relations
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Relations between racial and ethnic minority and majority groups; psychological, cultural, and structural theories of prejudice and discrimination; comparative analysis of diverse systems of intergroup relations.
- Spring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
SOC-S 360 Topics in Social Policy
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Specific topics announced each semester; examples include environmental affairs, urban problems, poverty, and population problems.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated four times for credit with a different topic.
- Spring 2025CASE SHcourseFall 2024CASE SHcourse
- Free Electives. Six (6) credit hours:
- Additional courses from the College Electives list.
- BUS-G 316 Sustainable Enterprise
- BUS-G 406 Bus Enterprise & Public Policy
- BUS-L 250 Law and the Arts
- BUS-L 302
- BUS-L 319 Climate Change Law & Policy
- BUS-L 409 Law and the Environment
- BUS-T 175 Kelley Compass 1
- BUS-T 275 Kelley Compass 2
- BUS-Z 404 Effective Negotiations
- BUS-Z 447 Leadership, Teamwork and Diversity
- EDUC-A 200 Leadership in Educational Organizations
- EDUC-H 340 Education in American Culture
- LSTU-L 110 Introduction to Labor Studies: Labor and Society
- LSTU-L 203 Labor and the Political System
- LSTU-L 230 Labor and the Economy
- LSTU-L 271 Framed: Labor and the Media
- LSTU-L 272 White Privilege in the Workforce: Origins, Culture, and Ideology
- LSTU-L 295 Crisis in Public Education
- LSTU-L 297 Strike! Labor Revolt in America
- LSTU-L 298 American Dream in the Age of Decline
- LSTU-L 381 Latinos, Labor, and Migration in the Us: Challenging Invisibility & Distorted Images
- LSTU-L 384 Diversity and Inequality in America
- LSTU-L 385 Class, Race, Gender and Work
- SPEA-A 459 Public Policy and the Arts
- SPEA-E 476 Environmental Law and Regulation
- SPEA-H 124 Overview of the U.s. Healthcare System
- SPEA-H 324 Health Policy
- SPEA-V 161 Urban Problems and Solutions
- SPEA-V 181 US Policy and Administration
- SPEA-V 182 Policy-Making Around the World: Comparative and International Approaches
- SPEA-V 184 Law and Public Affairs
- SPEA-V 185 Management of Public Problems and Solutions
- SPEA-V 186 Introduction to Public Budgeting and Finance
- SPEA-V 203 The Call of Public Service: History, Philosophy, Values and Outcomes
- SPEA-V 221 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
- SPEA-V 326 Communication for Government and Nonprofit Organizations
- SPEA-V 362
- SPEA-V 378 Federal Government Processes
- SPEA-V 404 Advanced Public Management
- SPEA-V 405 Public Law and the Legislative Process
- SPEA-V 406 Public Law and the Electoral Process
- SPEA-V 407 Advocacy, Policy Change, and Government Relations
- SPEA-V 409 Federal Policymaking and the Hearing Process
- SPEA-V 412 Leadership and Ethics
- SPEA-V 414 National Security Bureaucracy & Policy
- SPEA-V 424 Environmental Law, Justice, and Politics
- SPEA-V 425 Homeland Security: Policy and Practice
- SPEA-V 435
- SPEA-V 450 Contemporary Issues in Public Affairs (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- SPEA-V 462 Community Development
- SPEA-V 481 Grant Writing for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
- SPEA-V 482 Overseas Topics in Public Affairs
- SWK-S 102 Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society
- SWK-S 251 History and Analysis of Social Welfare Policy
- SWK-S 300 Selected Topics in Social Work (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
- SWK-S 352 Social Welfare Policy and Practice
BUS-G 316 Sustainable Enterprise
- Description
- To investigate the challenges of implementing sustainability in a variety of contexts and under often divergent perspectives, giving the tools to identify and explain how sustainability creates new opportunities for, and constraints on, enterprise value creation.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
BUS-G 406 Bus Enterprise & Public Policy
- Description
- This course is about areas of government regulation that affect business, including Antitrust Laws, Consumer Protection, Natural Monopoly, the Politics of Regulation, and Pollution. A business's ability to deal with such regulations is often the single most important determination of its profitability.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
BUS-L 250 Law and the Arts
- Description
- Examines the legal issues of importance to visual or performing artists and persons involved in arts-related businesses. Subject areas may include copyright and trademark law, First Amendment concerns, the right of publicity, advertising law, and selected issues in tort, contract, personal property, and agency law. Legal aspects of organizing a business may also be addressed.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
BUS-L 319 Climate Change Law & Policy
- Description
- The course will focus on the legal framework governing energy production and consumption in the United States, business impacts (and opportunities) flowing from the environmental issues associated with various energy sectors, and policy approaches for balancing energy needs with environment protection.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
BUS-L 409 Law and the Environment
- Description
- The focus will be on the conflict between the necessity of material production and the preservation and wise use of material resources. The legal tools and other means available for successfully managing the environment.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
BUS-T 175 Kelley Compass 1
- Description
- Students learn to identify and present themselves to others through: reviewing interest and skills inventories; analyzing their cultural and ethical influences; reframing their life experiences to date; reflecting on their values and priorities; and preparing Skills/Activities resumes. Students discover what is possible and what they want by: attending major-focused presentations outside of class; identifying concepts of success; interviewing professionals; evaluating their values and priorities in college organizations; setting personal and professional goals; and considering the academic paths available at Kelley and IUB.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
BUS-T 275 Kelley Compass 2
- Description
- Working with people from diverse backgrounds in local and virtual teams, students learn to: manage first impressions; create effective teams; manage conflicting ethics in teams; organize and lead meetings; prepare for (and debrief) mock interviews; research and produce a product in a team; and practice appropriate business etiquette at a luncheon.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
BUS-Z 404 Effective Negotiations
- Description
- Negotiation, art and science of securing agreements between two or more parties who are interdependent and need each other to meet professional or personal goals. You can think about negotiation as a decision-making process by which two or more people try to come to agreement on how to allocate resources.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
BUS-Z 447 Leadership, Teamwork and Diversity
- Description
- This course uses a "matrix approach" to provide an integrated experience for the student. Ultimately, this course aims to strengthen students' leadership potential, their ability to be an effective team member of a high performing team, and to understand, respect, and value diversity.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
EDUC-A 200 Leadership in Educational Organizations
- Description
- This course provides students with an introduction to the forms, types, and purposes of leadership in educational organizations. The course considers individual, group, and distributed forms of leadership. Within this course, students will identify the qualities of different leadership approaches and their application in specific settings.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
EDUC-H 340 Education in American Culture
- Description
- The present educational system, its social and future implications viewed in historical, sociological, and philosophical perspectives. Special attention is given to ethnic, minority, cultural, pluralistic, and legal dimensions of the educational system.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 110 Introduction to Labor Studies: Labor and Society
- Description
- This course will introduce students to the interdisciplinary and advocacy approach of labor studies. Exploring labor's role in society, the class will look at how unions have changed the lives of working people and contributed to better social policies. Discussions will highlight the relationship of our work lives to our nonwork lives and will look at U.S. labor relations in comparative framework.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 203 Labor and the Political System
- Description
- Federal, state and local governmental effects on workers, unions, and labor-management relations; political goals; influences on union choices of strategies and modes of political participation, past and present; relationships with community and other groups.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 230 Labor and the Economy
- Description
- Analysis of the political economy of labor and the role of organized labor within it. Emphasis on the effect on workers, unions, and collective bargaining of unemployment, investment policy, and changes in technology and corporate structure. Patterns of union political and bargaining response.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 271 Framed: Labor and the Media
- Description
- This course examines media and public understanding of the U.S. labor movement and analyzes reaction to some specific, highly publicized strikes. News media, generally aligned with antilabor interests of corporate America, often portray "ordinary" workers as passive and controlled/directed by unions/labor leaders. This course questions why that might be.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 272 White Privilege in the Workforce: Origins, Culture, and Ideology
- Description
- This course explores white privilege's origins from the industrialization era and the US factory-system rise, the manifestations of white privilege in today's workplace and the mechanisms by which white privilege creates workplace advantages/inequalities. The interrogation of white privilege is viewed through the lens of organizational analysis and political economy theory.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 295 Crisis in Public Education
- Description
- This course considers ways educational researchers and policymakers have identified, examined, and sought to address the goals and challenges of preK-12 public education in the United States. Key characteristics include accountability and testing; desegregation and diversity; school choice and the impact of charter schools; and teachers alternative certification programs.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 297 Strike! Labor Revolt in America
- Description
- This course explores strike as a mechanism of worker power and worker threat in American culture. Through readings and discussion, the unequal balance of power between labor/management is the backdrop for worker action necessitated by the inadequacy of protective worker legislative/deregulation/continued corporate assaults on workers and their well-being.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 298 American Dream in the Age of Decline
- Description
- American Dream in the Age of Decline is the interdisciplinary exploration of frameworks within which the notion of the American Dream has been constructed and changed over time in relation to the working class.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 381 Latinos, Labor, and Migration in the Us: Challenging Invisibility & Distorted Images
- Description
- This course introduces students to the complex realities of Latinos in the United States focusing on the topics of work and migration. This includes the U.S. recruitment of Latino immigrants and Latino's search for work whose homelands/economies are controlled/distorted/devastated to serves the interests of U.S. corporations/military actions.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 384 Diversity and Inequality in America
- Description
- This course examines issues of diversity and income inequality in contemporary society by exploring the underlying political debate on how to address different forms of inequality and the way this debate impacts employment and workers in the United States.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
LSTU-L 385 Class, Race, Gender and Work
- Description
- Historical overview of the impact and interplay of class, race, and gender on shaping U.S. labor markets, organizations, and policies. Examines union responses and strategies for addressing class, race, and gender issues.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-A 459 Public Policy and the Arts
- Description
- This course considers the principal aspects of cultural policy in the U.S. and elsewhere. Topics include art education, the ends and means of government funding for the arts, multiculturalism, freedom of expression, copyright, other legal rights of artists, international trade in cultural goods, and international treaties on cultural diversity.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-E 476 Environmental Law and Regulation
- Description
- Introductory course in environmental law and regulation. Subjects covered include command and control regulation, air quality, water quality, toxics, waste management, energy, natural resources, international environmental law, and alternative dispute resolution.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-H 124 Overview of the U.s. Healthcare System
- Description
- An overview of the U.S. healthcare delivery system. It examines the organization, function, and role of the system; current system problems; and alternative systems or solutions.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-H 324 Health Policy
- Description
- This course will focus on current health policy issues within the context of the United States health care system. The course will familiarize students with the political environment of public policy, introduce major health care policy perspectives, and apply those analytical models to a series of health policy issues.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 161 Urban Problems and Solutions
- Description
- None
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 181 US Policy and Administration
- Description
- The policy making and implementation process in the United States is complex and affects the daily lives of citizens in a profound way. This course will introduce that process and highlight the forces have shaped some of the most salient policy battles of last decade.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 182 Policy-Making Around the World: Comparative and International Approaches
- Description
- This course introduces students to the fields of comparative and international policy. The first part explores how and why governments around the world make policy choices and how these choices affect their citizens. The second part introduces students to how governments work together with other actors to solve global problems.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 184 Law and Public Affairs
- Description
- This course provides a basic understanding of origins, process, and impact of law in making and implementing public policy. Students learn who has power to make and implement laws, the different forms law takes, how to find and interpret law, and key principles of law that shape public affairs.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 185 Management of Public Problems and Solutions
- Description
- This course introduces students to the theory, skills, and processes of management across sectors. Topics of accountability, decision making, collaborative partnerships, and social equity are highlighted in considering how managers develop solutions for increasingly difficult governance problems.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 186 Introduction to Public Budgeting and Finance
- Description
- The course explores the budgetary process that governs spending in the public sector. It also describes the various revenue sources available to public and non-profit sectors and the accounting documents that are used to record financial activities in the public and non-profit sectors.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 203 The Call of Public Service: History, Philosophy, Values and Outcomes
- Description
- Many people want to contribute in some positive way to their community, country, or cause. This contribution can be called "public service," which is an important institution pursued widely and valued globally. The course examines its historical evolution, relationships to world religions and philosophies, motivations, values, and outcomes.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 221 Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector
- Description
- This course provides a broad overview of the U.S. nonprofit sector. Topics include the sector's size and scope and its religious, historical, and theoretical underpinnings. It also examines perspectives on why people organize, donate to, and volunteer for nonprofit organizations and looks at current challenges that the sector faces.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 326 Communication for Government and Nonprofit Organizations
- Description
- This course will develop an appreciation regarding the critical nature of communication by managers in the public and nonprofit sector. It will introduce students to the skills critical to effective communication as professionals.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 378 Federal Government Processes
- Description
- In this course, through detailed examination of the legislative process, the budget process and the regulatory process, students will explore Federal Government processes and how they aid and hinder programmatic implementation. The skills and knowledge discussed in this class help students understand the inner workings of the Federal Government.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 404 Advanced Public Management
- Description
- This course advances the effective management of public organizations by presenting a range of theories and ideas relevant to management and leadership of organizations and the people within them. Topics and skills include organizational structure, decision making, implementing new government programs, innovation, and assessing government performance.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 405 Public Law and the Legislative Process
- Description
- The course focuses on Congress as a policy making body in the U.S. public law system. It covers the Constitutional framework for Congressional operations as well as technical aspects of the legislative process such as bill drafting and analysis, the role of leadership, and the prerogatives of individual members.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 406 Public Law and the Electoral Process
- Description
- The purpose of this course is to facilitate framework of the evolution of the "right" to vote, the impact of the judiciary on the structure of elections, limitations on campaign practices, and the importance of legislative districting and its control.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 407 Advocacy, Policy Change, and Government Relations
- Description
- This class explores advocacy: the processes by which citizens join together to shape issues of public importance. Includes: historical evolution of organized interests, philosophical underpinnings of right to petition the government, means by which individuals and interest groups affect policy, and challenges of advocating for change through governmental processes.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 409 Federal Policymaking and the Hearing Process
- Description
- Using a structured speaker series as a base, this class exposes students to policy decision makers in the legislative and executive branches. The class requires students attend Congressional hearings, write hearing memos, and finishes the semester with a student run mock hearing.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 412 Leadership and Ethics
- Description
- This course is designed to examine the complex leadership issues and challenges facing communities and explore how citizens and government can work together to address these challenges. This includes exploration of how the problems, conflicts, and dilemmas encountered by leaders when making decisions must be considered within an ethical framework.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 414 National Security Bureaucracy & Policy
- Description
- Course is designed for students interested in US national security and bureaucracy policy and process, who want to work in the field, or who want to understand the nature of international security threats to the US. Course traces foundations, evolution, and future of national security bureaucracy and the policy process.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 424 Environmental Law, Justice, and Politics
- Description
- An introduction to U.S. environmental politics and policy, focusing on the institutions and political actors involved in environmental protection. It emphasizes the difficult political, economic, and social justice questions that arise in the context of managing current and future public health and ecological risks.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 425 Homeland Security: Policy and Practice
- Description
- This course examines homeland security policy through its practice in security agencies. Students will analyze primary sources and policy objectives, and survey U.S. homeland security through historical and recent incidents. Students will evaluate current events, and their implications for federalism, fiscal policy, civil liberties and future policymaking.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 450 Contemporary Issues in Public Affairs
- Description
- Extensive analysis of selected contemporary issues in public affairs. Topics vary from semester to semester.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 462 Community Development
- Description
- None
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 481 Grant Writing for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
- Description
- The purpose of this course is to prepare students for grant proposal development. Students will explore various skills including how to identify appropriate grant sources; conceptualize, write and submit a grant proposal for funding; prepare a grant budget; and evaluate grant proposals.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 482 Overseas Topics in Public Affairs
- Description
- SPEA Abroad Program: study of selected topics in public affairs. Topics vary from semester to semester.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SWK-S 102 Understanding Diversity in a Pluralistic Society
- Description
- This course covers theories and models, which enhance understanding of our diverse society. It provides content about differences and similarities in the experiences, needs, and beliefs of selected minority groups and their relation to the majority group. These groups include, but are not limited to, people of color, women, and gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons. This course addresses self-socialization and analyses the working relationship and interrelationship of race, class, age, ethnicity, and gender and how these factors influence social values regarding economic and social justice. Course content will be integrated through student writing and experiential exercises.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SWK-S 251 History and Analysis of Social Welfare Policy
- Description
- This course is designed to provide a historical perspective on the evolution of social welfare policies and programs and allow students to develop beginning policy analysis skills so that students will be able to identify gaps in the service delivery system and inequitable or oppressive aspects of current policy delivery. Students acquire knowledge of the prevailing social, political, ideological, and economic contexts that gave rise to the various social welfare policies and programs and have influenced how programs and policies have changed over time. In addition, the students acquire knowledge of manifest and latent functions of social welfare organizations' activities, their relationship to each other. In addition, the interrelationship and sources of conflict between the evolving profession of social work and social welfare services are explored. In this class students will build critical thinking skills as they consider forces and influences that have lead to the social service delivery system that exist today which will allow them to explore practical methods to influence policy in S 352. A particular emphasis in this course is to increase students understanding of how social welfare policies impact vulnerable people and build a passion for advocating for social and economic justice. The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the accrediting body for School's of Social Work, requires Social Work Programs to demonstrate how each course in the curriculum helps students develop competencies expected of all who seek entry into the profession. Programs must document a match between course content and CSWE competencies defined in Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS). This course, required in the BSW curriculum, draws upon basic knowledge and understanding of our diverse society. Course content contributes to building knowledge and skills for students to demonstrate the following CSWE competencies: EP 2.1.1 Identify with the social work profession; EP 2.1.2 Apply social work ethical principles to guide professional practice; EP 2.1.3 Apply critical thinking; EP 2.1.4 Engage diversity and difference in practice; EP 2.1.5 Promote human rights and social justice; EP 2.1.7 Apply knowledge of human behavior; EP 2.1.8 Engage in policy practice to deliver effective social work services.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SWK-S 300 Selected Topics in Social Work
- Description
- Study of selected topics in social work.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SWK-S 352 Social Welfare Policy and Practice
- Description
- This course explores social welfare delivery systems and the impact on people through an emphasis on critical thinking, policy analysis, policy-practice skills, and social work values. Students learn how to influence social welfare policies at all levels, while centering a commitment to social, economic, and environmental justice.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- College Electives. Six (6) credit hours:
- Internship. At least 1 credit hour:
- PACE-X 473 Internship in Political and Civic Engagement
- SPEA-V 380 Internship in Public and Environmental Affairs
- SPEA-V 381 Professional Experience
PACE-X 473 Internship in Political and Civic Engagement
- Credits
- 1–6 credit hours
- Prerequisites
- Consent of program
- Description
- Students will complete a mentored internship providing field experience in political and civic engagement. Includes an orientation session before and a structured evaluation afterward.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours in PACE-C 410 and PACE-X 473.
- Grading
- S/F grading.
SPEA-V 380 Internship in Public and Environmental Affairs
- Description
- Students and faculty must complete appropriate paperwork prior to or during experience. Retroactive experiential credit will not be awarded. Students work with public agencies or governmental units for assignment to a defined task relevant to their educational interests in public affairs. Tasks may involve staff work or research.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
SPEA-V 381 Professional Experience
- Description
- Students will be required to fulfill a minimum of 120 hours of professional relevant work.
- Additional information
- Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.
- Capstone Seminar. One (1) course:
- PACE-C 450 Capstone Seminar (Requires departmental consent after all other requirements for the certificate are completed)
PACE-C 450 Capstone Seminar
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- Consent of program
- Description
- Required capstone seminar for students who have completed all other certificate requirements. Provides students with the opportunity to integrate academic study, experiential learning, and co-curricular activities, to demonstrate understanding of American political and civic life, and to document individual learning and development.
- College Residency. At least 15 credit hours must be earned within the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Certificate GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Certificate Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the certificate.
- Certificate Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Certificate Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Certificate Area Courses
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Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
Exceptions to and substitutions for certificate requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Learn more about adding the PACE certificate to your degree by completing the interest survey. Students should discuss the course sequencing with program staff early in their studies at IU.
Students are encouraged to contact PACE as soon as possible. To be considered for the program, a student must submit a brief online form through the PACE program website, including background information (no more than 500 words) explaining the student's interest in the program, including reflections on past political and civic engagement experiences and aspirations for future ones.
It is strongly recommended that students meet with one of the PACE academic advisors prior to applying to discuss the curriculum.