Over the past four decades, Indigenous peoples have emerged as key actors in challenging and reshaping the law and politics of the Americas. Through grassroots organization, legal activism and innovative methods of political organization, mobilization, and theorizing indigenous groups and thinkers in Americas have fought against their dispossession from ancestral lands, exploitation of natural resources, violence, genocide, and countless other old and new modes of colonization to reshaping local, national, and global politics.

This course provides an introduction to the field of political psychology. It focuses primary attention on psychological explanations of individual political attitudes and actions, among both elites as well as the masses.

The relationships among reporters, publishers, and politicians, and how each uses the media. Using historical biographies and other texts, the class will examine past strategies by politicians and media figures. Topics include campaign strategies, Washington politics, day-to-day effectiveness in office, making arguments through the media, and how those not elected use the media.

An overview of city politics in the U.S. Focus on understanding urban political economy, including its relation to state and federal governments, the complexity of relations between public and private sectors, the structure of city governments, and decision-making processes. Includes such topical issues as education, housing, and economic development.

This course will explore the quantum dynamics of (mainly four-dimensional) gauge theories, beginning with Maxwell theory, then Yang-Mills theory, asymptotic freedom, confinement, anomalies, instantons, chiral symmetry breaking, etc.. Supersymmetry will be introduced as an important tool to understand non-perturbative dynamics and used to study holomorphy, Seiberg duality and other exact results as time allows.

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Students review classic research manuscripts in counseling/school psychology, review current manuscripts and identify trends and issues, evaluate quality of research designs, develop research proposals related to areas of special interest, conduct pilot research studies under faculty mentorship related to areas of special interest.

Students review classic research manuscripts in counseling/school psychology, review current manuscripts and identify trends and issues, evaluate quality of research designs, develop research proposals related to areas of special interest, conduct pilot research studies under faculty mentorship related to areas of special interest.

Students review classic research manuscripts in counseling/school psychology, review current manuscripts and identify trends and issues, evaluate quality of research designs, develop research proposals related to areas of special interest, conduct pilot research studies under faculty mentorship related to areas of special interest.

This course will examine the economics of socially constructed groups and the inequalities in income, wealth, and power between them. The course will include, as a central feature, an examination of inequalities based on race and ethnicity. However, the course will also explore economic dynamics and disparities between a range of socially constructed groups, including those based on gender, caste, nationality/citizenship, different concepts of class, and sexuality.