The course will provide an understanding of the structure of the political process in the state and local health policy making. The political roles of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government in state and local health policy will be examined, as well as political roles that public health professionals assume in the community.

The capital "L" Law is the most conspicuous tool that government uses to exert control over the behavior of people and institutions. In spite of the authority of the government, the Law is never fully settled and, there is an ongoing struggle to configure the legal system. This is true especially along the conspicuous fault lines that we recognize as culture war issues. This course will examine those "hot button" topics and will drill down into what exactly is going on in real time as various factions attempt to shape the Law to their purposes.

Popular conceptions of new media often involve stereotypes about communication, whether in terms of
anxieties surrounding new generations? orientation to ?traditional? communicative conventions, or
the notion that humans are more connected than ever. Such perspectives presume upon communicative
similarities and differences associated with imagined pasts, presents, and futures. This course
examines what is new about ?new media? by analyzing the relationship between communicative

Resilience is the ability to adapt and recover quickly after difficulties or dramatic change. Psychologists study resilience as an important aspect of mental health, but it is also an idea that is applied to the economy and to the environment. Scholars and social activists are increasingly making connections between these different ideas of resilience and applying them to personal and societal responses to economic and environmental challenges. Each week we?ll read and discuss or debate an article that uses the idea of resilience.

Introduction to syntactic theory, with implications for universal grammatical theory in general. Topics include theories of phrase structure, the form and functioning of transformations, grammatical relations, anaphora and control, cord order problems, universals of grammar, relations between grammatical theory and learnability, language acquisition.

Cultivate your capacity to be a leader! In this interactive course, we will identify and build individual strengths to empower positive stress management and increase your resilience. Everyone manages stress, whether with health promoting behaviors of exercise or health threatening behaviors of substance abuse. Evidence indicates that building on positive stress management strategies is far more effective than focusing on problems. Using mindfulness and focused writing will help make us aware of our own emotional responses to life?s challenges.

Descriptive and inferential statistics through hypothesis testing. This course differs from ResEcon 212 in that students use additional statistical tools to understand the properties of estimators and the theory behind confidence interval estimation and hypothesis testing. Students also focus on a deeper understanding of statistical methods. Students will apply statistical tools and concepts to real world experimental or survey data.

What are the roots of ethnic prejudice and racism? DNA and genetics, neuroscience and environmental studies, classical studies and anthropology all have contributed to this important question. Students will learn how definitions of ethnicity arose in the Mediterranean world. This involves two interrelated questions. First, how did people construct their own sense of peoplehood, and second, how did people construct that of others?

Clinical Psychology integrates science, theory, and practice to understand and alleviate maladjustment, disability and discomfort among people of all types. For undergraduates interested in this broad discipline, it can be useful to appreciate early the distinctions among different clinically oriented careers. Furthermore, because clinical professionals have master or doctoral degrees, it is essential to understand the types of experiences that undergraduates should (and in fact need to ) explore to help prepare them for such advanced study.

How are Asians, particularly Asian Americans, depicted in cinema? How do we learn about the history of Asian/Pacific/Americans through the viewing and analysis of films and documentaries? This class focuses on oth the history of APA communities as seen through film and the issues of racism.