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Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Qtr |
| 2215 |
AMST-801-01 |
Appr to Amer Studies |
1.00 |
LEC |
McCombie,Mary E. |
T: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 20 |
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NOTE: Undergraduates who wish to enroll in this course must obtain permission of their adviser and the instructor. |
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This seminar, which is required of all American studies graduate students, examines a variety of approaches to the field. Readings may include several “classic” texts of 18th- and 19th-century American culture and several key works of American studies scholarship from the formative period of the field after World War II, as well as more recent contributions to the study of the United States. Topics will include changing ideas about the content, production, and consumption of American culture; patterns of ethnic identification and definition; the construction of categories like “race” and “gender”; and the bearing of class, race, gender, and sexuality on individuals’ participation in American society and culture. Undergraduates who wish to enroll in this course must obtain permission of their adviser and the instructor. |
| 3341 |
AMST-823-01 |
The History of American Sports |
1.00 |
SEM |
Goldstein,Warren |
T: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 8 |
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This course will examine American sports from their beginnings in Puritan-era games to the multi-billion-dollar industries of today. We will begin by looking at the relationship between work, play, and religion in the colonies. We will trace the beginnings of horseracing, baseball, and boxing, and their connections to saloons, gambling, and the bachelor subculture of the Victorian underworld. We will study the rise of respectable sports in the mid- and late 19th century; follow baseball as it became the national pastime; see how college football took over higher education; and account for the rise of basketball. We will look at sports and war, sports and moral uplift, and sports and the culture of consumption. Finally, we will examine the rise of mass leisure, the impact of radio and television, racial segregation and integration, the rise of women’s sports, battles between players and owners in the last 25 years, and the entrance of truly big money into professional sports. Readings in primary and secondary sources will emphasize the historical experience of sports in the United States so that students can develop a framework for understanding current events, including the NHL lockout, the Kobe Bryant affair, and the controversies over steroids. |
| 2420 |
AMST-824-01 |
American Comics |
1.00 |
SEM |
Couch,N. C. Christopher |
W: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 5 |
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This course provides an introduction to Comic Art in North America, from the beginnings of the newspaper comic strip through the development of comic books, the growth of graphic novels, and current developments in electronic media. It focuses on the history and aesthetics of the medium, comparison between developments in the United States, Mexico, and French Canada, and the social and cultural contexts in which comic art is created and consumed. The first half of the semester concentrates on early and 20th-century comic strips and the development of the comic book form through the 1940s; the second on the social changes affecting comic art in the 1950s and 1960s, the development of a comic book subculture from the 1970s to the 21st century, the growth of independently published graphic novels and the independent comics, and contemporary electronic media developments. |
| 3339 |
AMST-826-01 |
Nuclear America |
1.00 |
SEM |
Southern,Jacquelyn |
M: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 6 |
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In this course we will explore large- and small-scale cultural landscapes as they have been shaped by nuclear power, weapons, transportation, and waste. Among these landscapes are towns created for making nuclear weapons; open-air testing sites; military complexes, such as ports, bases, airfields, and silos; the West’s uranium mines, and the land, water, and Native American territory polluted by radioactive tailings; nuclear reactor sites, from New England’s regional power plants to those in metropolitan areas; and land and offshore storage sites for nuclear waste. Besides the physical changes to the American landscape, nuclear sites involve extensive secrecy, exclusion, and policing, and they are invested with fraught meanings. We will explore nuclear America through history, geography, art, literature, and film. |
| 2884 |
AMST-835-01 |
Museum Exhibition |
1.00 |
SEM |
Ring,Richard J. |
W: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 8 |
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One of the most engaging ways to promote collections and explore a subject or theme is to create an exhibition, which is a genre in and of itself—telling a story with artifacts. Through critical readings students will explore the cultural and educational goals of exhibits, visitor needs and accessibility, design elements (including technology), and audience evaluation methods utilized at libraries, historic houses and historical sites, and history and cultural museums. Drawing from the extensive and wide-ranging collections in the Watkinson Library, students will conceive, write, and install an exhibition, design and publish a catalogue, and plan and implement an opening event to take place at the end of the semester in the Watkinson. |
| 3344 |
AMST-849-01 |
Cult of Americanism in 20thCen |
1.00 |
SEM |
Cohn,William H. |
R: 6:00PM-9:00PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 8 |
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In 1894, Teddy Roosevelt published "True Americanism" in Forum Magazine, declaring the absolute necessity of applying a "fervid Americanism" to the solution of every problem and evil facing the country, including "Americanizing" newcomers to our shore. Nearly 50 years later, the rhetoric of Americanism proposed by Time publisher Henry Luce in his February 1941 editorial in Life Magazine, "The American Century," aimed to persuade Americans that the country's involvement in World War II and in the post-war world were not only necessary but inevitable. The Luce publications after the war publicized the culture of Americanism that was an essential part of the anti-communism that supported the Cold War for over half a century.
Leaving aside the idea of American exceptionalism—"the notion that the United States has had a special mission and virtue that makes it unique among nations"—our focus will be on the culture of Americanism as it was promulgated in the Luce publications and other media outlets during and after World War II, and the extent to which it encouraged postwar homogeneity while discouraging the expression of dissent and non-conformist ideas. |
| 2503 |
AMST-894-01 |
Museums and Communities Intern |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Matriculated American studies students have the opportunity to engage in an academic internship at an area museum or archive for credit toward the American studies degree. Interested students should contact the Office of Graduate Studies for more information. |
| 2220 |
AMST-940-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Selected topics in special areas are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the graduate adviser and program director. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 2216 |
AMST-953-01 |
Research Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Under the guidance of a faculty member, graduate students may do an independent research project on a topic in American studies. Written approval of the graduate adviser and the program director are required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 2217 |
AMST-954-01 |
Thesis Part I |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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(The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) |
| 2219 |
AMST-955-01 |
Thesis Part II |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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(Continuation of American Studies 954.) |
| 2218 |
AMST-956-01 |
Thesis |
2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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(Completion of two course credits in one semester). |
| 2221 |
ECON-940-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Independent studies on selected topics are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the graduate director and department chair. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 2222 |
ECON-953-01 |
Research Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chair must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 2223 |
ENGL-801-01 |
Theories& Methods of Litry Std |
1.00 |
SEM |
Mrozowski,Daniel J. |
M: 6:30PM-9:10PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 8 |
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Prerequisite: Course is open only to English majors |
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NOTE: Same as English 401. |
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NOTE: For the English Graduate Program, this course is required of all students and we recommend that entering students enroll in this course during their first year of graduate study. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course or as an elective. |
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This seminar is designed to introduce students to the field of literary studies at the graduate level, to provide a perspective on varied critical vocabularies, and to explore the development of literary theories and methods from classical to contemporary times. Emphasis will be placed on a broad examination of the history and traditions of literary theory, the ongoing questions and conflicts among theorists, and practical applications to the study of works in literature. Students will write weekly, have opportunities to lead class discussion, and work in stages to compose a substantial critical essay based on research and the development of their own perspective on understanding and evaluating a literary text. (Note: English 401 and English 801 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a literary theory course or an elective. For the English graduate program, this course is required of all students and we recommend that entering students enroll in this course during their first year of graduate study. |
| 3335 |
ENGL-805-01 |
Theories&Narratvs of Disabilty |
1.00 |
SEM |
Paulin,Diana R. |
R: 5:30PM-8:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
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NOTE: For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requiremnt of a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track. |
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NOTE: For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requiremnt of a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track. |
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This course examines how disability has been used to represent both “normalcy” and extraordinariness in literature. We look at the historical and theoretical foundations of Disability Studies as a disciplinary arena. And, we will consider how “tales told by idiots,” as framed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, often supply the unique and insightful perspective that mainstream characters cannot see, hear, or experience because of their own limitations. We will look at how the notion of disability has been aligned with other aspects of identity, such as William and Ellen Craft’s narrative, in which they document their performances of race, class, disability and gender in order to escape slavery in 1848. We will read a variety of genres, including theory, history, fiction, memoir, literary criticism, etcetera to develop a shared understanding of the ways in which the meaning of disability and its representation in a variety of texts echoes a broader set of beliefs and practices in the U.S. (and globally, for that matter). Students will engage in a class presentation, and will write several papers, including a longer piece at the end of the semester that will require them to identify and evaluate a text that is not included on the syllabus. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. |
| 3292 |
ENGL-812-01 |
Modern Poetry |
1.00 |
SEM |
Rosen,David |
W: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 8 |
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NOTE: For the English graduate program, this course counts as a course in American literature or British literature for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric or media arts track. |
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“It appears that poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult.” When T. S. Eliot wrote these lines in 1921, “difficulty” was self-evidently a term of praise: it signaled a willingness to grapple with the intellectual, esthetic, moral, and erotic complexities of modernity. Today, however, that same difficulty gives poetry of the early 20th century its somewhat scary reputation. Why read tough texts when so much else goes down easily? A premise of this course is that the excitement, the beauty, and the sheer greatness of modern poetry are inseparable from the challenges it poses to the reader. Between 1885 and World War II, Eliot, Yeats, Pound, Crane, Moore, Bishop, Williams, Stevens, Frost, and Auden made poetry possible for modern life. We read their work. (Note: English 412 and English 812 are the same course.) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of an advanced class in literature written after 1800. It also satisfies the requirement of a poetry course. For the English graduate program, this course counts as a course in American literature or British literature for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, or media arts track. |
| 3295 |
ENGL-877-01 |
Sixties Film, Fiction, Poetry |
1.00 |
SEM |
Lauter,Paul |
T: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 7 |
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“The Sixties” have taken on iconic status as a representation of progressive social change. In fact, quite varied images of The Sixties have been constructed in poetry, fiction, film, and other creative forms, a good deal of it composed during the years 1958-1974 or so. In this course we will read such works, examining the roles of creative texts in defining and carrying out the social and political conflicts of the era–and in shaping our own time. Authors to be read will likely include Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Robert Bly, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg. (Note: English 477 and English 877 are the same course.) For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. For Literature and Film concentrators, this course fulfills the requirement of an advanced course toward the major, and counts as a course in literature and film. For the English graduate program, this course satisfies the requirement of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural context for the literary studies track; it counts as an elective for the writing, rhetoric, and media arts track. |
| 2224 |
ENGL-940-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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A limited number of tutorials are available for students wishing to pursue special topics not offered in the regular graduate program. Applications should be submitted to the department chairperson prior to registration. Written approval of the graduate adviser and department chairperson is required. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 2227 |
ENGL-953-01 |
Research Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chairperson must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit. |
| 2578 |
ENGL-954-01 |
Thesis Part I |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
| 2226 |
ENGL-956-01 |
Thesis |
2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
| 2419 |
HIST-940-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Independent studies on selected topics are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the graduate adviser, and department chair. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 2418 |
HIST-953-01 |
Research Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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The graduate director, the supervisor of the project, and the department chair must approve special research project topics. Conference hours are available by appointment. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit. |
| 2228 |
HIST-954-01 |
Thesis Part I |
2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Thesis Part I is an investigation and report on an original research topic. Conference hours are available by appointment. Registration for the thesis will not be considered final without the thesis approval form and the signatures of the thesis adviser, graduate adviser, and department chair. Please refer to the Graduate Studies Catalog for thesis requirements. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form and the thesis writer's packet. Two course credits. (The two course credits are considered pending in Part I of the thesis; they will be awarded with the completion of Part II.) |
| 2229 |
HIST-955-01 |
Thesis Part II |
2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Continuation of History 954. Two course credits. |
| 2230 |
HIST-956-01 |
Thesis |
2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
| 3345 |
PBPL-800-01 |
Introduction to Public Policy |
1.00 |
SEM |
Chambers JD,Joseph |
M: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
| 3346 |
PBPL-810-01 |
Public Finance |
1.00 |
SEM |
Jacobs,Cindy |
W: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Prerequisite: Grade of B- or better in Public Policy 801 |
| 2232 |
PBPL-828-01 |
Theory of Democratic Institut |
1.00 |
SEM |
Fotos III,Michael |
T: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
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The course applies social choice theory to the study of four components of democratic policy making; voting, political strategy, theories of governance, and bureaucracy. The course emphasizes weekly readings and in-class discussion of central themes in the literature. Examination of the formal properties of voting rules leads to a deeper understanding of representation and political outcomes. The analysis of institutions offers lessons on the problems of delegation, policy design, implementation, and democratic administration. |
| 3347 |
PBPL-836-01 |
Moral Theory and Pub Pol |
1.00 |
SEM |
Wade,Maurice L. |
M: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 30 |
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The purpose of this course is to assist students in acquiring the skill in ethical reasoning and analysis needed for mature participation in society’s continuing debates over moral issues of public concern. The course will begin by examining some types of ethical theories and will proceed to consider a number of controversial social issues. Abortion, euthanasia, racial and sexual discrimination, world hunger, treatment of animals, and capital punishment are among the topics to be considered |
| 3348 |
PBPL-858-01 |
Alt Paradigms for Health Care |
1.00 |
SEM |
Reigeluth,George |
R: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
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In light of widespread recognition that providing high quality, affordable healthcare to everyone is not possible within the current, fragmented system, this course will focus on national, state, and local policy implications of alternative paradigms for addressing this dysfunctional situation. After studying the nature, causes, and implications of the current health and healthcare debacle in the U.S., students will develop their own paradigms for creating more sustainable, equitable, efficient, and effective approaches for addressing current problems, and then develop policy approaches and prescriptions for fostering the paradigm that they wish to propose. |
| 2915 |
PBPL-891-01 |
Health Policy |
1.00 |
SEM |
Hughes,James J. |
M: 6:30PM-9:30PM |
TBA |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
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This course addresses current major U.S. health policy issues and the critical processes and forces that shape them. Major health policy issues addressed include: Medicare, Medicaid, the uninsured, public health, the impact of welfare policy on health care, managed care development and regulation, state and federal health care reform and others. The course discusses the politics of health policy in terms of legislative and executive processes at the state and federal level; key forces involved including economic, social, ethical and political factors; and central players of importance, including special interest groups, lobbyists, the press, elected officials, legislative staff and public agencies. |
| 2233 |
PBPL-940-01 |
Independent Study |
1.00 - 2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Selected topics in special areas are available by arrangement with the instructor and written approval of the director of public policy studies. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. |
| 2234 |
PBPL-953-01 |
Research Project |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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A research project on a special topic approved by the instructor and with the written approval of the director of public policy studies. Contact the Office of Graduate Studies for the special approval form. One course credit. |
| 2235 |
PBPL-954-01 |
Thesis Part I |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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Two credit thesis: start time-approval of idea, initial bibliography, and sketch of the project by pre-registration time for graduate students in the term prior to registration for the credit; first draft by reading week of the second semester, "final" first draft by end of spring vacation week; final copy due one week before the last day of classes. |
| 2255 |
PBPL-955-01 |
Thesis Part II |
1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
| 2236 |
PBPL-956-01 |
Thesis |
2.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 100 |
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