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| HSS 121 | Cities and Civilization IClose
An examination of the origins, nature, and progress of urban society. Selected readings focus on recurrent and persistent urban problems: overcrowding, traffic congestion, political corruption, faulty sanitation systems, etc. A student may also engage in field analysis projects that relate either to hometown areas or to the North Jersey region. Group B, 100-level course.
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| HSS 122 | Cities and Civilization IIClose
A continuation of HSS 121. Major emphasis is on current economic, environmental, and social problems. Group B, 100-level course. |
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| HSS 128 | Introduction to Political Science II: Judicial ProcessClose
A survey of the evolution of juries and recent legal and social scientific analysis of jury rules. Case studies are used to explain the scope of issues decided by juries and conceptions of justice used to evaluate their performance. |
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| HSS 175 | Fundamentals of Psychology IClose
This course emphasizes the biological underpinnings of behavior and of mental processes. What do we know? How do we come to know? What do we want? Why do we act the way we do? In this course these fundamental questions of psychology are mainly looked at from a biological perspective that emphasizes the study of the brain and nervous systems. Historical, philosophical, and evolutionary perspectives on mental processes are considered, as well. Group B, 100-level course. |
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| HSS 176 | Fundamentals of Psychology IIClose
An introduction to issues and theories in Life Span Development, Personality Theory, and psychological disorders. Topics include cognitive and social development, attachment, moral thinking, and psychoanalytical theory. Focus is placed on those seminal theories that have had lasting import for psychology as well as other disciplines. These theories include, but are not limited to, those of Piaget, Erikson, and Freud. Group B, 100-level course. |
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| HSS 321 | Modern Urban CultureClose
This course examines aspects of modern subcultural American life including deviancy and delinquency, crime, drug abuse, and ethnicity. |
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| HSS 322 | Cultural StudiesClose
Drawing on theory and practice from such diverse disciplines as history, media studies, literary criticism, psychology, and sociology, Cultural Studies investigates the production, distribution, and consumption of cultural artifacts. Issues concerning race, class, gender, and sexual orientation are explored with attention to the analysis of social phenomenon. |
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| HSS 324 | Comparative Ethnic CultureClose
This course is a survey of various cultural traditions. Typical study units include Afro-American, Asian, Hispanic, and American ethnic cultures in historical perspective.
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| HSS 360 | Public Policy AnalysisClose
This course offers perspectives utilized in the analysis and evaluation of public policymaking and policy results. Policy approaches include cost-benefit allocations, budgetary procedures and feasibility impact studies. Normative constraints and political implications of systematic policy analysis are also examined, particularly in relation to public infrastructure projects. |
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| HSS 371 | Computers and SocietyClose
An introduction to arguments about the relationship between computing and society, the impact of computing activities on social relationships, and the evolution of institutions to regulate computer-mediated activities. |
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| HSS 373 | Social Choice TheoryClose
An introduction to the history of and theoretical principles associated with using voting techniques to resolve conflicts. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of operational rules. Student projects constitute a major part of the course. |
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| HSS 375 | History of PsychologyClose
An analysis of the historical development of psychology. Issues such as perception, learning, cognition, and memory are explored within the context of various schools of thought. |
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| HSS 376 | Theories of PersonalityClose
What is theory? What is personality? A review of Freud, Adler, Sullivan, Jung, Rogers, etc., on the nature of personality. |
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| HSS 377 | Cities and the Global EconomyClose
An analysis of major socioeconomic trends impacting modern American cities. Topics covered include: the nature of globalism, major economic and social trends, U.S. competitiveness, urban economic restructuring, and the roles of government. |
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| | HSS 379 | International PoliticsClose
An analysis of the contemporary international political framework. The course explores the character of the state system, the nation-state, the role of leadership personality, transnational actors, the balance-of-power, security and economic issues, the nature and limitations of power, the uses of terrorism, and Third World issues. |
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| HSS 401 | Seminar in Leadership StudiesClose
This course will study the human phenomenon of leadership, focusing on the two main (and oft-times competing) analyses of leadership: the Humanistic approach and the Behaviorist approach. |
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| HSS 410 | Arab Nationalism and the Formation of the Middle EastClose
This course will explore the birth, triumph, and fall of Arab nationalism, focusing not only on intellectual and political leaders of the movement, but also incidents in history which in one way or another shaped political and/or social traits of the movement. The factors that contributed to the development and/or decline of the movement that will be examined are: the rise of colonialism, the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, World War I and World War II, the Cold War, emergence of the state of Israel, and the recent incidents in the region and the world. The ideological links between Arab nationalism and modern radical movements will also be examined. |
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| HSS 415 | Islamic Political ThoughtClose
This course surveys the philosophical foundations and developmental stages of Islamic political thought from the Prophet to the modern ages. In the first part of this course, the theories of early ‘Muslim’ philosophers, i.e. Avicenna, Al-Farabi, Al-Ghazali, Averreos, and Ibn Khaldun, on the state, government, and politics will be examined. The second part will concentrate on pre-modern (Al-Mawardi) and modern Muslim intellectuals who contributed to the genre of Islamic political philosophy, including liberal and radical trends. |
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| HSS 477 | Psychology of ReligionClose
A survey of different approaches to the psychological interpretations of religious phenomena such as the image of God, rituals, myths, faith healing, meditation, mysticism, and conversion. |
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| HSS 481 | Cultural AnthropologyClose
An examination of the varieties of organization of human societies in a comparative ethnographic context. |
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| HSS 489 | Freud and JungClose
An in-depth and extensive study and discussion of the theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Each theory is examined individually; the nature of the unconscious, dream interpretations, religious symbolism, and the aim of psychotherapy are critically examined. Students read from primary sources including Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, Totem and Taboo, Jung’s Man and His Symbols and Modern Man in Search of a Soul, as well as from biographical material, and other secondary sources. Emphasis on points of confluence and of departure between the two. The course is limited to 15 students. |
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| HSS 495 | Seminar in Social ScienceClose
This course will provide more advanced students with an opportunity to pursue in-depth study of a particular problem and/or topic within the field of Social Science (Political Science, Psychology, Sociology) that has either not been covered in other courses or has only been superficially "touched upon." Entry to the class is provided only by instructor's permission. |
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