Transfer Student Courses in RC Social ScienceConsult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:34 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004. Fall Academic Term, 2004 (September 7 - December 23)Most seats in RC courses are reserved for RC students. RCSSCI 345. Community Strategies Against Poverty in the United States.
Section 001.Instructor(s): Kenneth Brown (krbrown@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Sophomore standing. (4). (SS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Developed as a collaboration of the Residential College and the Center for Community Service and Learning, this 4-credit-hour course analyzes the changing context of poverty and anti-poverty strategy in the United States, with an emphasis on community-level initiatives to improve standards of living. The first half of the course focuses on the nature and sources of poverty in the U.S. and on the historical evolution of efforts to combat poverty. The second half of the course addresses a variety of community-based initiatives in recent decades to overcome urban poverty. Throughout the course attention will be devoted to the complex inter-relationships between race, class and gender in urban America, as they affect poverty and efforts to overcome it — with examples drawn frequently from the experience of the Detroit metropolitan area. The course will meet twice a week, sometimes with all students together and sometimes in three separate discussion groups of roughly 15 students each. Before the Fall Break there will generally be presentations (and occasionally videos) during the first hour of each 2-hour session and discussion group meetings during the second hour. After the Fall Break the first weekly session (on Tuesday) will usually be devoted to a presentation by a guest lecturer with special expertise in the subject to be addressed. Guest lecturers will include faculty from various UM units, such as the College of LS&A, the School of Social Work and the School of Public Health, as well as outside experts on community-based approaches to social and economic change. For the second weekly session (on Thursday) the class will usually meet in discussion groups; but at times a relevant video will be shown to the full class in the first hour. Students are expected to send weekly e-mail messages on the assigned readings to their discussion group leader and to play an active role in classroom discussion. Students will also write one short paper and take an in-class exam (at the end of the first half of the course), and they will write one term paper (during the second half of the course). There are no prerequisites for this course, but a previous course in the social sciences is highly desirable.
RCSSCI 460. Social Science Senior Seminar.
Section 002 — Women and Higher Education. Meets with WOMENSTD 484.002.Instructor(s): Margaret L Steneck (msten@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: Senior standing. (4). (Excl). May be repeated for credit.
Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. Beginning with the colonial era and continuing to the present, this seminar will explore the experiences, problems and challenges encountered by women in seeking gender, racial, and ethnic equity in American higher education. As the first university of national importance to admit women, UM provides an ideal vehicle for exploring the history of women and higher education within the context of the long-standing debate over the place of women in American post-secondary education. Primary and secondary sources will be used to delineate the cultural and historical context of women's education nationally with particular attention given to the history of women at UM. Along with recent research on women and higher education nationally and at UM, students may choose to read from a selection of autobiographies and novels by UM alumnae and recent biographies on prominent UM and other national leaders in order to further understand this historical experience. Students will do independent research on a self-selected aspect of women's education utilizing the materials available for research in campus libraries and archives, including the Bentley Historical Library, the Center for the Education of Women, Women's Studies and CAAS.
RCSSCI 461. Senior Seminar.
Section 001 — Global Political-Economy of Energy and Iraq.Instructor(s): Thomas O'Donnell (twod@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~twod/energy Senior research seminar. The global "Information Society" rests on ancient solar energy, chemically captured in coal, gas and oil reserves, to feed its expanding electric grids and transport systems. Burning finite fossil fuels fosters global warming, pollution, urban sprawl, congestion, poverty, corruption, dictatorships, geo-political conflicts and war — notably the 1991 Gulf War, and the 2003 U.S.-British invasion of Iraq. But how does this global energy system work? We study global energy reserves, demand, productive capacity, depletion rates, price history; how electrical and transport networks and alternative technologies work (solar, wind, bio, nuclear, ...), and their limitations. We study past economies and today's capitalist political-economy of energy: its highly automobile- and oil-centered U.S. model, the less intensive EU model, the fast-growing Chinese and Indian economies, the oil-producing and -consuming nations' cartels (OPEC and the Kissinger-iniated IEA), the role of the "oil-price swing states," of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, UAE, Iran, ...; Latin-American producers; and finally, the U.S.-government-supported global "cheap oil" regime, and its opposition to fighting global warming. Discussion of readings, brief position papers, and a major research term paper.
Consult the new Course Guide at: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/cg_subjectlist/0,2030,8,00.html?show=20&termArray=f_04_1510&cgtype=ug This page was created at 12:34 PM on Wed, May 5, 2004.
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