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This course is an introduction to the major theoretical approaches and ongoing debates within organization theory. Organization theory draws on disciplinary roots in economics, political science, psychology, and sociology to explain the origins, persistence, and disappearance of the institutional structures that order economic life. We will read classic and contemporary statements of the major approaches and trace the history of ideas as the field has developed up to the present.

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This seminar is a required course for Commonwealth Honors College students where students participate in a topical seminar-style course designed by its instructor. While the subject matter of each section is different, advanced knowledge of the topic is not required. While the subject matter of each section is different, the requirements for each section are the same.

This course will explore the concept of environmental human rights, focusing on the environmental justice movement in the United States and its global linkages to environmental human rights law. Course materials focus on the similarities and differences between legislative, administrative, judicial and international organization responses to toxic and hazardous environmental conditions. Who has power, and how do those in power interface with communities most affected by environmental injustices?

Video I is an introductory video production course. Students will gain experience in pre- production, production, and post-production techniques and in looking, listening, and thinking critically about the making of the moving image. We will approach video in relation to emerging media forms and consider the internet as a venue for engagement, production, exhibition, and distribution, historically and in the present moment. We will examine how technology has and continues to influence concepts of narrative, performance, aesthetics, identity, community, and culture.

Introduction to the assumptions, language, logic, and methods of qualitative inquiry in educational settings. Students are required to conduct a small-scale qualitative research project.

Liberal democracy, like all systems of thought and action, carries some tensions and contradictions within itself. This course focuses on one of these areas in particular: the tension between the rights of individual and the rights of the group. We will examine this set of contradictions within liberal democratic thought by studying labor unions, which occupy a unique position in our society. On the one hand, unions have often been accused of being communist front organizations (seeking to impose the ?good?

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Social, cultural, political, and economic analyses of urban policies and practices. Various disciplinary approaches used for critiquing and developing appropriate policies, including urban planning, anthropology, geography, political science, media studies, sociology, and economics. Includes service learning component. Ms. Pader