2020-2021 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]
Courses
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RHET 399/3099 - Selected Topics (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Course addresses broad intellectual concerns, and is accessible to all students irrespective of major.
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RHET 345/3110 - The Writer’s Workshop (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course offers students a unique opportunity to learn the fundamentals of nonfiction writing, and to grow as critics, both on the page and in the classroom. Students engage life questions in a number of personal contexts, reflecting upon their places as individuals within the larger contexts of family, country, and/or region. They also practice writing formal critiques of peers’ narratives and participate in class workshop discussions.
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RHET 340/3120 - Life Narratives (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This reading-intensive course will familiarize students with writing in the genres of ‘life writing’. Students learn to write critical reviews of classic and contemporary memoirs, confessions, letters, diaries, and visual portraits as well as autobiographies and biographies, through key themes of self, identity, secrets, truth, inheritance and ethics. The course will consider how critical examinations of new paradigms that consider the self are expressed through writing. The course invites discussion about the social and cultural uses of life writing, from legal testimony to medical case history, and the pervasive ethical dilemmas that arise. In addition, using a variety of texts, the course explores the tensions between local identities rooted in culture, history and language, and global, trans-national identities, driven by the pressures of the modern inter-connected world.
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RHET 341/3130 - Travel Writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
In this course, students will become familiar with the genre of travel writing, the history, politics and economics of place, and how these influence culture. Through various reading, writing, and travel experiences, students will gain an understanding of themselves vis a vis the Other and develop an appreciation of how travel can transform the self. They will learn how to respond critically to travel narratives, identify credible sources to inform their writing, make original observations, and modify perspective to compose alternative texts.
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RHET 342/3140 - Writing Children’s Literature (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Students in this course will assess and write works of fiction and nonfiction addressing children through different media (picture books, plays, short stories, novellas). Students will explore who writes and illustrates for children and why, and the language used to address children during different stages. They will engage in projects to entertain children, while providing indirect instruction, and produce written works for organizations that serve the needs of children.
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RHET 380/3150 - Poetry Writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This workshop-based course encourages students to explore their ideas through the language and imagery of poetry. Students will experiment with rhythm, rhyme, modes of discourse and poetic form. Throughout the course, they will examine the work of poets from diverse traditions, and the impact of their own expression. In a final portfolio, students will show careful analytical thinking about their work and consideration for how their poems are situated in the larger literary and cultural context.
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RHET 390/3160 - Fiction writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course focuses on the craft and discipline of fiction writing. Students study writers in the Arab and Western literary tradition, and from that study, they learn the fundamentals of rhetorical and literary strategies in fiction, understand how to transform small ideas from daily life into fiction, consider how their cultural background affects how they tell stories, and develop a broadened familiarity with cultures different from their own. Students will also learn how to critique other students’ stories in workshops, and how to revise and develop their own work.
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RHET 320/3210 - Business Communication (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Today’s globalized and highly competitive world requires businesses, organizations, and individuals to excel in effective communication. This course focuses on helping students to master methods of persuasion that business professionals and administrators of organizations need. Students learn about and analyze various types of correspondences and documents to produce effective and appropriate business documents for professional and public audiences. They conduct research on real life topics and present findings in the form of proposals, formal reports, and presentations.
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RHET 225/3220 - Public Speaking (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course is designed to train students in the craft and practice of public address, focusing on the composition of well-researched speeches and their delivery. Students learn techniques of presentation and speech writing to address a specific rhetorical situation. Through a variety of instructional strategies - discussion, class workshops, readings, written analyses, and presentations - students learn the processes by which effective and coherent speeches are conceived, prepared, and delivered. Students prepare an informative speech on a critically-analysed topic, a well-reasoned persuasive speech on a complex social issue, a special-occasion speech that integrates diverse fields of knowledge, and multiple other exercises that hone their public speech construction and delivery. Students also practice methods of analytic and constructive peer evaluation, as well as self-evaluation of their video-taped speeches.
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RHET 321/3230 - Technical Communication (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020
; at least 60 credits; SSE major or instructor approval
Description
This course develops the knowledge and skills to produce documents that meet professional and ethical standards required by technical fields such as Engineering and the Sciences. Throughout the course, students will analyze and discuss the context, audience and conventions specific to technical communication. They learn how to produce documents in diverse genres, including proposals and formal reports.
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RHET 332/3240 - Principles of Mediation and Negotiation (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
In today’s world, conflict resolution and negotiation skills can be invaluable for the success of individuals and organizations. This course equips students with the interpersonal skills needed to create solutions for common mediation and negotiation situations. A student will learn active listening, problem solving, relational maintenance, and problem-solution presentation skills. Students will also learn the interpersonal skills necessary for third-party facilitation and mediation in contexts of business and community dispute.
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RHET 334/3250 - Digital Rhetoric (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This is a course in the rhetorical analysis of the increasingly important genres that comprise the practices of E-Writing, including: blogging, wiki-development, networked writing, hypertext, and social networking. The course offers students an opportunity to work within various online contexts, with attention to their evolving conventions, textual features, the relationship between discourse and social practice, and the importance of medium in terms of opportunities and constraints offered. Students analyze and write about the social and cultural implications of developments in electronic literacy. Assignments involve the critique and construction of texts using new media tools and the exploration of how communication practices, notions of audience, elements of argument, narrative and meaning-making are enriched and complicated by the new possibilities of a global, digital environment.
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RHET 310/3310 - Discourse and Power (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course reveals the power of words and what lies behind them. How can language be used to empower or disempower? Who controls the conversation? Students explore how discourse is constructed and how it maintains complex relations of power. As they develop strategies to become more articulate, confident and persuasive writers, students critically analyze various discourse resources - textual, aural and visual - for their intellectual, social and political power dimensions. The course guides students through key readings in rhetorical theory to provide a foundational knowledge of major questions, concepts and debates in the field.
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RHET 322/3320 - Writing in the Social Sciences (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course is designed for students who want to develop the writing and critical thinking skills acquired in the 1000-level courses to produce more advanced discipline-specific academic and public writing in the social sciences. The course may be theme-based, with each student approaching the theme from a perspective appropriate to his/her discipline, and abiding by the style and conventions of the particular discipline. Course readings and discussions allow students to explore social phenomena, adding valuable research to the existing body of knowledge, and stimulating public interest and action.
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RHET 323/3330 - Words that Change the World (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Which words have had the greatest impact on people? What theories inform the works of authors, artists, and filmmakers? Do the arts have an intrinsic value, or are they related to and serve a purpose in the wider world? Words that Change the World examines those questions by engaging students in contemporary discourse in the liberal arts. Students employ critical reading strategies for the analysis and discussion of key texts that have had an impact on the practice and conceptual understanding of the humanities and fine arts. Through art, photography, cinema, history, dance, architecture, and other modes of expression from countries and cultures around the globe, students critically explore these thematic connections and engage in contextualized arguments.
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RHET 325/3340 - Making Your Case: The Art of Persuasion (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course immerses students in the study of argumentation in the humanities and social sciences (philosophy, law, rhetoric, journalism and politics). It offers an overview and comparison of its theory, structure, mechanisms and practice. By approaching argument in a systematic fashion, students will be introduced to instruments for identifying differences of opinion, analyzing and evaluating argument, researching theory, and presenting coherent arguments in oral and written discourse.
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RHET 330/3350 - Writing and Cognition: The Mind and the Machine (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
This course explores the invention and reinvention of writing over time. Students look at the social and personal uses of writing, consider what writing makes possible, and the ways we take it for granted in daily life. By exploring different forms of writing, students experiment with writing, and research the different methods adopted by scientists and authors from different cultures, to gain new perspectives. By looking at the relationship between thought and language, the course surveys the ways written expression has been used as a tool for reconstructing perception, memory, and self in society. It also employs writing to explore and analyze complex issues in today’s rapidly-changing world.
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RHET 460/4060 - Independent Study (1-3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed; instructor approval, and if taken for CORE credit, then Core Director approval is also required
Description
In exceptional circumstances, students, in consultation with a faculty member and with approval of the Chair/Associate Chair (and approval of the CORE Director, if taken for CORE credit), may design or take a course that is not regularly offered. In such a case, the student, in consultation with the instructor, will propose a course of study, and work will culminate in one of the following: a scholarly research paper on some aspect of the history, theory, or application of rhetoric and composition; a practical application of writing, such as a grant or report submitted to an outside agency; a body of work that is normally expected in a listed course not being offered during the current term.
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RHET 450/4160 - Imagining the Book (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed or instructor approval
Description
Students in this course will propose and then initiate the writing of a book-length manuscript. Each student will design and generate a different project. Manuscripts, therefore, may span across genres (i.e., a group of personal narratives or short stories, a novel, a book of poetry, a collection of critical and/or academic essays, etc.) offering students the opportunity to respond to a variety of texts as they develop. Class workshops and various forms of analysis will allow for building as well as refining projects. Students in a number of writing contexts and disciplines, as well as those in the Writing Minor, are encouraged to take this capstone course.
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RHET 410/4260 - Writing for Project Funding (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent
Description
Grant writing skills may be used for fundraising, applying for scholarships and fellowships, starting new businesses, securing research and conference grants, and acquiring funding for the cultural, non-profit and non-governmental sectors. This course develops the skills of effective fund-seeking and proposal writing through a step by step service-learning activity, where students learn how to access donor funds to meet the needs of local non-profit organizations.
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RHET 480/4270 - Research and Writing Internship (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020
Description
This capstone course provides students with an applied, real-world writing experience that helps them transition smoothly from academic writing to work-place writing, and prepares them for the job market. The students may produce a variety of writing and editing work - manuals and tutorials, research papers, news articles, grant applications, reports, letters, policy documents, promotional brochures, creative works, book reviews or other materials as required by the internship. At the end of the semester, the students are issued a letter acknowledging their participation in an unpaid, credit-bearing internship.
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RHET 490/4280 - Advanced Scientific and Technical Writing (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed; SSE major or instructor approval
Description
This course strengthens and refines advanced scientific and technical communication skills for both academic and professional non-academic environments. Students develop capstone level proficiency in organizing, refining and formatting scientific reports, senior theses, articles for publication in scientific journals, and technical reports for the workplace. In addition, students build on basic oral and visual presentation skills acquired at the 300 level, in order to improve their performance in the oral defense of their theses in their science and engineering majors, and acquire greater competitiveness in the job market.
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RHET 400/4360 - Writing for Publication (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
RHET 1020 or its equivalent; at least 60 credits completed or instructor approval
Description
This course develops the skills to produce effective articles and presentations with a focus on journal submission requirements, journal review, and publication processes. It provides training in the integration of information technology for presentations, and in primary and secondary research methods.
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RCSS 501/5201 - Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics and Control (3 cr.)
Description
Robot mechanisms, End-effector mechanisms, Actuators and drives, Sensors. Robot forward and inverse kinematics. Differential motion and Jacobian (Velocities and forces). Simulation software and analysis. Acceleration and Inertia, Robot dynamics. Trajectory generation and control of robot manipulators. Robot planning and control. Task oriented control, Force compliance control. Robot programming, Robot work cell design and work cycle analysis. Robot vision, Teleoperation and Interactive haptics. Closed-Loop Kinematic chains, Parallel-link robot kinematics. Non-holonomic systems, Legged robots.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 502/5202 - Embedded Real Time Systems (3 cr.)
Description
Fundamentals of embedded control system design, embedded processor architecture and operation. General overview of existing families of micro-controllers, DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs. Selected embedded 8/16/32 processor architectures, and programming. Real-time, resources and management, I/O, Virtual memory and memory management. Concurrency, resource sharing and deadlocks. Scheduling theory. Real-time programming and embedded software. Real-time kernels and operating systems. Bus structure and Interfacing. Programming pervasive and ubiquitous embedded system. Designing embedded system. Discretization and implementation of continuous-time control systems. Networked embedded systems and integrated control.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 503/5203 - Modern Control Design (3 cr.)
Description
Basic linear system response: Analysis in time domain, stability analysis, Routh-Horwitz stability criteria of LTI. Feedback analysis and design continuous-time systems on the basis of root locus: analysis, design, lead/lag compensators, and Control synthesis in frequency domain: (Bode response, Nyquist stability criteria, sensitivity and design). Control design concepts for linear multivariable systems using state variable techniques. State space representation and transition matrices. Control system design in state space: controllability, pole method and pole placement design, observer/observability and compensators design. Optimal observer based feedback. Lyapunov Stability. The solutions to LQR problem, Kalman filtering problem. LQG and LTR based design methods. Discrete-time systems and computer control.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 504/5204 - Applied Estimation (3 cr.)
Description
Introduction to Probability, Probability theory, Bayes theorem, Bayesian Inference. Introduction to estimation. Linear Optimal Filters, Predictors, Smoothers, Nonlinear Filters. Kalman and Information filter, Continuous and Discrete Time Kalman Filter. Extended Kalman filter and implementation, Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF). Distributed Kalman filter over network. Particle filter, Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter (RBPF). Particle filter Fast SLAM. Case Studies.
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RCSS 521/5221 - Intelligent and Autonomous Robotic Systems (3 cr.)
Description
Autonomous and Mobile robots, Locomotion concepts and mechanisms, Degrees of mobility and steering. Non holonomic concept and constraint. Wheeled mobile robots: Kinematic and dynamic models. Trajectory generation and Control methods. Sensors, sensor models and perception. Mapping and knowledge representations. Control architectures and Navigation: Planning, Subsumption, Potential field, Motor Schemas, Probabilistic, Learning from observations and Reinforcement learning. Relative and absolute localization. Navigation and localization techniques. SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). Multi robotic system: navigation, cooperation and autonomy.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 522/5222 - Mechatronics Innovations and Experimental Robotics (3 cr.)
Description
Mechatronics innovations: Concepts and innovative ideas, design and hands-on experimentation. Sensors and intelligent sensor systems. Interfacing techniques. Controllers. Electrical motors: selection and control, encoders, and drivers. Power systems and control: pneumatic, electro-pneumatic, hydraulic and electro-hydraulic. Technologies and techniques associated with industrial and mobile robots. Joint space and operational space control. Velocity saturation, trajectory generation and tracking. Project work supporting design, simulation and experimentation.
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RCSS 523/5223 - Bioinspired Robotics and Multi Robotic Systems (3 cr.)
Description
Traditional and Biomimetic robots. Bioinspired robot design: actuators, sensors, and material. Bioinspired algorithms for robot control. Social Networks. Multi robotic systems (MRS): concept, homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures. MRS control architecture: MRS planning, Motor schema based MRS, Behavior based MRS. MRS and machine learning. Inter-robot communication and coordination. Auction-based task negotiation for MRS. Autonomy and cooperation. Task definition, decomposition and knowledge representation. Resource management and deadlocks. Collaborative Observation and Localization. Multi-Robot Navigation. Human-Robot Interaction. Biological inspired solutions: Ant colony and social insect behavior, Swarm intelligence and self organization.
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RCSS 524/5224 - Robotics and Intelligent Automated Manufacturing (3 cr.)
Description
Manufacturing systems: organization, facility layout, performance indicators. Robotics in Manufacturing. AGVs in Manufacturing. Robot work cells. Sensors in Manufacturing. Communication protocols. Agile manufacturing. Models and Metrics. Automation, NC/CNC. Design for Manufacturability. Manufacturing systems design: single cell, assembly line, group technology, cellular and flexible systems. Material transport and storage systems. Analysis of flow lines, assembly systems and line balancing. Quality measurement and reliability. Manufacturing support systems: CAD/CAM/CIM tools and product cycle, process and production planning, shop floor control, inventory control. Modern manufacturing systems: Push/pull systems, pull systems (KANBAN and CONWIP), Just-In-Time, TQM.
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RCSS 531/5231 - Teleoperation, Haptic Systems and Collaborative Control (3 cr.)
Description
Technical specifications: teleoperation and haptics systems. Haptics: Human, Machine, and Computer haptics, and their interrelation. Haptic systems: sensors, actuators and interfaces. Haptic device modeling and control. Event-based haptics. Rendering of stiff walls and friction, rigid-body and deformable body interaction. Haptic teleoperation. Bilateral teleoperation. Teleoperation and haptic systems architecture control approaches. Force control, impedance control, stiffness control Feed-forward control, Adaptive motion/force control. Performance specifications and stability issues, Stability and Transparency, stability against passive human and environment impedances. Design for time-delayed teleoperation. Robustness issues. Collaborative control and collaborated virtual environment.
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RCSS 532/5232 - Robust and Optimal Control (3 cr.)
Description
Linear system theory and robust control. System analysis: stability and performance, sensitivity function, integral quadratic constraints, small-gain argument, H2 and H∞ space and performance. NORMs. Robustness and Uncertainty. Robust stability, quadratic stability, and stability margin. Robust performance, controller parameterization, design constraints. Balanced Model Reduction, Modeling uncertainty. Linear fractional transform (LFT). Structured singular values, μ -Analysis, LMI analysis. μ synthesis. H2 optimal control, H∞ control and controller order reduction, H∞ loop shaping. Optimal control theory: optimization of static functions, calculus of variations, optimal linear regulators, dynamic programming.
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RCSS 533/5233 - Nonlinear and Adaptive Control (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor.
Description
Introduction to the analysis and design of nonlinear control systems. Linearization of nonlinear systems. Phase-plane analysis, Lyapunov stability analysis. Design of stabilizing controllers. Properties of adaptive systems, Adaptive control and real-time parameter estimation, Deterministic self-tuning regulators, model reference control, Adaptive observers, model reference adaptive control, gain scheduling controller modeling. Stability of adaptive control systems.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 534/5234 - Networked Control Systems: Design and Applications (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and
Description
Introduction to Networked Control Systems, real-time systems, network architecture, wired and wireless network protocols, international standards, NCS in industrial control, NCS in terrestrial transportation systems, Study of different software packages and simulation tools for NCS.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 541/5241 - Smart Systems and Computational Intelligence (3 cr.)
Description
Intelligent systems and evolutionary algorithms. Computational methods, intelligent behaviors and algorithms observed in nature and humans. Neural networks: Supervised and unsupervised Neural Networks (NNs), Single and Multi layer feed-forward NNs, Feedback NNs, Hopfield NNs, Associative memories (Kohonen networks), Learning vector quantizer (LVQ) Radial base function (RBF) NNs. Evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms. Fuzzy logic: memberships. reasoning, Fuzzy controllers, Neuro-Fuzzy networks, Fuzzy ARMAP. Swarm Intelligence and Colony optimization. Feature selection. Computational intelligence: imprecise and uncertain knowledge, learning, adaptive behavior and real time problems. Case studies.
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RCSS 542/5242 - MEMS/NEMS Technology and Devices (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Consent of instructor.
Description
Basic MEMS/NEMS fabrication technologies, various transduction mechanisms such as piezoelectric, pyroelectric, thermoelectric, thermionic, piezoresistive, etc. The theory of operation of few sensors including infrared detectors, radiation sensors, rotation and acceleration sensors, flow sensors, pressure and force sensors, and motion sensors. An introduction to different techniques for analyzing experimental data.
Cross-listed
Same as , .
When Offered
Offered in fall
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RCSS 543/5243 - Image Analysis and Computer Vision (3 cr.)
Description
Perception and image systems. Pinhole Camera Model. Auto-calibration. Digital image processing fundamentals. Image normalization, gray and binary image processing, RGB and IHS color space representations. Image enhancement: contrast stretching and digital filtering in the spatial and frequency domains. Image restoration. Coding and compression. Image segmentation. Image Convolution / Correlation Matching / De-convolution. Object classification and classifiers. Object recognition and interpretation. Estimating image field and image motion, Optical flow and motion. Stereo vision. Multi-view and motion-based 3-D object reconstruction. Dynamic vision: object tracking, recursive state estimation, autonomous navigation, discrete self-localization. Robotic Control via visual servoing.
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RCSS 544/5244 - Sensors, Perception and Smart Systems (3 cr.)
Description
Sensors and perception. Physical principles of sensing. Static and dynamic characteristics of sensors. Sensor classifications and selection. Interfacing techniques. Calibration and self-calibration of smart sensors. Sensors and intelligent systems: design trends in the field of smart sensors systems. Sensors for: intelligent and autonomous robots, smart systems, automotive and manufacturing industries, smart structures, and other modern industries and smart products. Sensor integration and data fusion. Sensors in remote control and real time systems. Wireless sensor networks, features, architecture and technology, topology, energy, communication protocols and security, distributed & collaborative signal processing, and applications.
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RCSS 545/5245 - Advanced Artificial Intelligence (3 cr.)
Description
Problem Solving by Search, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Planning, Quantifying Uncertainty, Probabilistic Reasoning, Learning from Examples, Learning Probabilistic Models, and Reinforcement Learning.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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RCSS 592/5930 - Selected Topics in RCSS (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Consent of the faculty advisor.
Description
Topics to be chosen according to specific interests. Maybe taken for credit more than once if content changes.
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RCSS 593/5980 - Capstone Project (3 cr.)
Description
Students are required to attend the library and the writing modules of SCI 5940 and , to undertake an engineering project approved by student’s advisor and the director of the program. A final report of the project should be submitted and orally defended in the presence of a supervisory committee consist of student’s advisor and two faculty members.
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RCSS 692/6930 - Advanced Selected Topics in Robotics, Control and Smart Systems (RCSS) (3 cr.)
Description
Advanced topics in the field of Robotics, Control and Smart Systems (RCSS) to be chosen every year according to specific interests and the evolution of knowledge and development trends in RCSS. May be taken for credit more than once if content changes.
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RCSS 699/6980 - Research Guidance Dissertation (3 cr.)
Description
Consultation on problems related to students thesis. To be taken 11 times for credit.
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SOC 199/1099 - Selected Topics for Core Curriculum (3 cr.)
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to students as part of the Freshman Level of the Core Curriculum.
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SOC 210/2005 - Arab Society (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
or concurrent.
Description
Description and analysis of social and cultural characteristics and problems of contemporary Arab Society, taking into consideration the specific historical, economic, and ideological forces that shape it. The social basis for Arab unity and identity. Introduction to basic concepts and principles for understanding social phenomena.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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SOC 299/2099 - Selected Topics for Core Curriculum (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
Course addressing broad intellectual concerns and accessible to all students, irrespective of major.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 201/2101 - Introduction to Sociology (3 cr.)
Description
General sociology concepts and theoretical issues. Survey of the field covering the sociology of small groups, the family, education, work, community structure, and political life; discussions on the uses of sociology.
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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SOC 240/2201 - Introduction to Community Development (3 cr.)
Description
Introduce the students to the different concepts and approaches to community development as well as to community organizing. Utilizes a critically reflective framework as part of the curriculum to overcome the potential division between theory and practice. Identifies the key issues that the students are likely to confront in community development and organizing work.
Cross-listed
Same as , .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC 203/2301 - Social Problems of the Middle East (3 cr.)
Description
Major theoretical perspectives in studying social problems. Systematic examination of the salient stresses and strains in Egyptian, Arab, and Middle Eastern societies. Discussion of selected concrete problems, such as population, bureaucracy, youth unrest, deviance, drugs, prostitution.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC 206/2302 - Arab Family Structure and Dynamics (3 cr.)
Description
The family as a social institution with emphasis on Middle Eastern characteristics, selected aspects of marriage and family life, special attention to the social consequences of changing family styles.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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SOC 301/3010 - Social Psychology (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
The extension of general psychological principles and methods to the study of interaction and social environment. The nature and methodology of research in social psychology. The major theoretical concepts and their applications and contributions to a variety of areas in the field including development and socialization, social perception and attribution of causality, attitude formation and changes, pro- and anti-social behavior, interpersonal attraction and intimacy, and the social effects and functions of groups.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 304/3025 - Development Agencies (3 cr.)
Description
The course examines the various agencies active in the field of development. It investigates how these organizations, such as NGOs, state bureaucracy and international development organizations shape the process of development.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 306/3030 - Sociology of Literature (3 cr.)
Description
The social bases of literary productions both oral and written and the functions of literature for social integration. The interrelationship of literary expression and movements for social change.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 321/3045 - The Urban Experience (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Three hours of Social Sciences.
Description
This course will explore a variety of approaches for the study of life in cities, providing students with tools to think critically about the meaning of urban life in the new century. Are cities the vibrant, vital centers of all that is exciting, new and provocative in modern life or are they the decaying, decadent and dangerous remnants of an industrial age whose time has passed? How do we link the lives of corporate elites and pop icons with crack dealers and shanty town dwellers? How do we place migration, world capital flows, transnational media, and global consumption in our studies of city life?
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 322/3050 - Rural Sociology (3 cr.)
Description
The Middle Eastern rural community and its relation to agricultural development, tenure systems, ecological processes, urbanization, migration, and changing technology.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 323/3055 - Fundamentals of Population Studies (3 cr.)
Description
Facts and issues of human population. Creates demographic literacy, and an ability to deal with population realities. Substantive knowledge covering processes and determinants of population structure, growth, and changes: fertility, mortality, and migration, as well as challenges of population growth.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC 332/3060 - Social Constructions of Difference: Race, Class and Gender (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Three hours of Social Sciences.
Description
The course will first introduce students to the vast theoretical literature on the concepts of race, class and gender from sociology and anthropology. Second, the course will expect students to shift focus away from looking at different cultures to analyzing cultural productions of difference. In the course we will be concerned with how racial, class and gender identities are shaped by diverse hegemonic systems, modes of resistance, and the structuring of social relations in different societies.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 370/3085 - Environmental Issues in Egypt (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Three hours of Social Sciences.
Description
The technical aspects of environmental issues in Egypt are examined taking into account the cultural, social, and political dimensions upsetting the balance of the environment. Major issues such as water scarcity, global warming, desertification, urban pollution, tourism, and demographic pressures are presented and analyzed.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC 309/3102 - History of Social Theory (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences, and junior or senior standing, or consent of instructor.
Description
The nature and function of social theory and its development, especially since the Enlightenment. Emphasis on the cumulative insights and ideas which have contributed to modern social theory. The essential aspects of the philosophy of social science, especially epistemological problems in the sciences of sociology and anthropology.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC 204/3103 - Social Statistics (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Three hours of Social Sciences
Description
This course is designed for students in the social sciences who do not have a background in mathematics except high school algebra. The course will provide an introduction to statistics as a tool for analyzing and understanding data related to social life. The course deals with basic concepts and procedures and integrates SPSS demonstrations and exercises.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC 310/3104 - Contemporary Sociological Theory (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
or consent of instructor.
Description
The main trends, basic problems, and unresolved issues of post-war sociological thought. Essential aspects of the logic of scientific inquiry; contemporary theories as model building in sociology including new functionalism, critical theory, structuralism and poststructuralism.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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SOC 381/3105 - Doing Survey Research in the Social Sciences (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
and . For sociology minors only: An equivalent statistics course may be substituted for SOC 3103 only with the permission of the instructor.
Description
.This course introduces students to the basic survey methods used in the social sciences. Emphasis is on the logic of social science and the implications of the major forms of quantitative research methodology. Allows students to recognize and analyze merits of research in the social sciences including public opinion and policy action research .
When Offered
Offered in spring
Notes
Students will be encouraged to conduct mini-scale surveys on the campus and beyond.
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SOC 340/3202 - Participatory Action Research in Community Settings (3 cr.)
Description
This course will introduce students to the appropriate research methodologies when dealing with community organizing and development, particularly the participatory action research approach to community development.
Cross-listed
Same as , .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC 303/3303 - Social Movements (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Three hours of Social Sciences.
Description
Basic processes by which societies initiate, consolidate, transform, and change their basic institutions and social structures. Anatomy of reform and revolutionary social movements, especially those affecting Arab and Third World societies.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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SOC 307/3304 - Social Class and Inequality (3 cr.)
Description
The basic theory and methods of the sociology of inequality. The nature and variety of stratification systems, major theories of stratification, empirical studies and social correlates of class phenomena, social mobility, and class conflict. Emphasis on Middle Eastern material.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC 000/3305 - Selected Topics in Sociology (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Three hours of Social Sciences
Description
This is a selected topics course that can vary according to the area and expertise of the faculty member.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit if content changes.
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SOC 405/4005 - Sociology of Work (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, 6 hrs. of social science or the permission of the instructor.
Description
The course examines the concept of work and how it is defined and understood in contemporary society. It investigates the changing nature of work, labor issues, changing management styles, and gender and the work place.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 406/4010 - Educational Sociology (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences, and junior or senior standing.
Description
The nature and interrelationship of educational agencies to other social institutions. The emergent structure of Middle Eastern educational programs and their implications for social change and integration.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 408/4020 - Criminology (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences, and junior or senior standing.
Description
Theories of crime and social control. Institutional programs charged with the custody and treatment of law violators. Problems of deviance as related to class structure and social change.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 422/4025 - Religion in a Global World (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing.
Description
Comparative study of religion in culture and society. The course will explore a variety of theories and controversies in the anthropological understanding of religion. Emphasis is on how religion may restrict but also empower believers, inform their social identities, and intersect with political and economic practices and institutions in a globalizing world.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC 431/4035 - Political Sociology (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences, and junior or senior standing
Description
Social bases of various political systems such as Western-type democracy, authoritarianism, and totalitarianism. Topics include: determinants of political behavior, power, elite formation, bureaucracy, and the political role of the military and intellectuals in Third World societies.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC 435/4040 - Gender and Power in Development (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisite: nine hours of social sciences, at least junior standing or the consent of the instructor.
Description
The course will examine the transformations in the lives of women and men through development and incorporation into global economic and political systems from a sociological perspective, particularly from the “Third World”. However, the focus is not limited to women, but rather concentrates on the structure and process of gender relations. In examining “gender politics”, we will explore the politicization of gender relations at various levels of society, from domestic settings to national contexts to the international sphere.
When Offered
Offered annually.
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SOC 455/4055 - Seminar in African Studies (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
9 hours of Social Sciences and Junior or Senior standing.
Description
Through the examination of a contemporary topic in African Studies, this interdisciplinary seminar examines epistemological and methodological issues in African Studies such as transformation, resistance, power, technology, and women and development. Original sources will be used to examine the theoretical assumptions, data, and methods underlying the literature. Prior course work in African Studies is recommended.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC 400/4099 - Selected Topics in Sociology (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences, and junior or senior standing.
Description
Topics to be chosen according to specific interests, such as sociology of medicine, sex roles, symbolic interaction, applied sociology.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit if content changes.
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SOC 450/4106 - Critical Approaches to Development (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: 9 hours of social sciences and junior or senior standing.
Description
Contemporary theories of development as they apply to and illuminate the problems of development in underdeveloped countries. The approach will be interdisciplinary.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
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SOC 495/4107 - Senior Seminar (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Senior standing and or or 12 hours of Social Sciences.
Description
Emphasis on current methodological trends in anthropology and sociology reflecting the research interests of the faculty and students, and drawing on the experience of the undergraduate career. Content may therefore vary from year to year.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in spring.
Notes
The student will be required to write a methodologically sound senior paper, preferably based on field research.
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SOC 440/4203 - Practicum in Community Development (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Six hours of social sciences or consent of the instructor.
Description
One semester, field experience in an approved international development agency, local NGO or other professional setting approved by faculty supervisor. Supervised by a faculty supervisor.
Cross-listed
Same as ANTH 4203 and PSYC 4203 .
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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SOC 402/4405 - Independent Study (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Prerequisites: a minimum B average, consent of the instructor, and approval by the Unit Head and the Department Chair.
Description
In exceptional circumstances some seniors and graduating seniors with department approval may arrange for independent study on a chosen topic in sociology that is not covered in the regular offerings for that academic year. Guided readings, research and frequent consultations held
When Offered
Offered in fall and spring.
Repeatable
May be repeated for credit if content changes
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SOC 445/4499 - Selected Topics in Coptic Studies (3 cr.)
Description
This course allows instructors to offer a topic in Coptic Studies. The topic will be chosen from year to year in coordination with the departments concerned and the dean of the School of HUSS, and according to the individual interests and areas of expertise of the instructors. Topics chosen may include various aspects of Coptic art and history, monasticism, folklore, or other subjects. The course may be taken more than once if the topic changes.
Cross-listed
Same as , , , .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
Notes
Students in these majors may petition preferably before registration to have the course included in their major requirements.
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SOC 460/4560 - Development Studies Seminar (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
12 credit hours of social science.
Description
Interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of development as a process and as a historical phenomenon. Critical evaluation of economic, political, social, and cultural technological and managerial factors that structure developmental change.
Cross-listed
Same as , .
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC/ANTH 507/5200 - Introduction to Migration and Refugee Studies (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Graduate standing or advanced undergraduate standing and permission of instructor.
Description
Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches in history, political science, sociology, economics and psychology, this introductory course examines the causes and consequences of population movements, and provides basic background , terminology and concepts for further studies in this field. It offers an overview of migrants’ trajectories across national boundaries, analyzes migrants’ integration and their transformative impact on as well as contribution to host societies. It examines the networks of relations migrants may maintain with their home countries. It also looks at the role of policies and practices of the humanitarian regime in shaping the experience and addressing the challenges faced by refugees, asylum seekers, and returnees.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC/ANTH 500/5201 - Classical Social Thought (3 cr.)
Description
An in-depth examination of classical sociological and anthropological theories of culture and society.
When Offered
Offered in fall.
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SOC/ANTH 501/5202 - Contemporary Social Thought (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Description
An in-depth examination fo contemporary sociological and anthropological theories of culture and society.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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SOC/ANTH 505/5203 - Ethnographic Fieldwork (3 cr.)
Description
Techniques of participant observation, non-participant observation, and in-depth interviewing used in anthropology and ethnomethodology. Issues include problems of access, grounded theory and ethical issues. Students will normally carry out a fieldwork project for the course.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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SOC/ANTH 506/5204 - Survey Research (3 cr.)
Description
Techniques and issues in survey research. Sampling, operationalization, questionnaire design, survey application and analysis of survey data. The course is designed to give students hands-on experience in every aspect of survey research.
When Offered
Offered in spring.
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SOC/ANTH 508/5208 - Special Topics in Migration and Refugee Issues (3 cr.)
Description
Topics discussed may vary depending on the instructor. Focus of the course will be announced prior to registration. Course may be repeated for credit if content changes.
Cross-listed
Same as .
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SOC/ANTH 000/5209 - Migration, Integration and Citizenship (3 cr.)
Description
This course will examine the challenges brought to citizenship theory by migrations and migrants integration. Diverging definitions of citizenry embody and express distinctive understandings of nationhood, be it state-centered and assimilationist, ethnocratic and ‘differentialist’ or multiculturalist, that are deeply rooted in the political and cultural history of different nations. The course will focus on the various conceptions of citizenship and how they influence the integration and the migrants’ identity (re)constructions well as, to a certain extent, trigger a redefinition of receiving countries ‘cultural and political norms, including the very meaning of Nation-State.
Cross-listed
Same as MRS 5209 .
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SOC/ANTH 510/5210 - Problems in Sociology-Anthropology (3 cr.)
Description
Problems discussed may vary depending on the instructor and the needs of the students. Focus of the class will be announced prior to registration. Course may be repeated for credit if content changes.
When Offered
Offered occasionally.
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SOC/ANTH 515/5215 - Kin, Friends and Neighbors (3 cr.)
Description
Principles underlying group formation at the local level, such as kinship, residence, and friendship and the resultant web of collective and dyadic relations; special emphasis on the articulation of these groups with class, occupational and ethnic groups, and the state.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 520/5220 - Gender and Sexuality (3 cr.)
Description
How sex roles and gender are socially constructed in cross-cultural perspectives: special emphasis on the impact of social-cultural change on gender relations.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 525/5225 - Religion, Ideology and Society (3 cr.)
Description
The relation of ideology and world religions to social action; special emphasis on the integrative aspects on society as well as their potential for change and transformation.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 530/5230 - Theorizing the State (3 cr.)
Description
This course offers a critical reading of the concept of the state, particularly in relation to governance and power, regulation of subjects and citizens, discourses and practices of normalization of social orders, and limits to state power.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 535/5235 - Maintaining Systems of Global Inequality (3 cr.)
Description
Theories of the growth of the new international division of labor and its relationship to socioeconomic change in both developed and developing societies.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 540/5240 - Revisiting the Rural (3 cr.)
Description
This course examines the remaking of rural communities in relation to historical shifts in capital and state dynamics, the organization and practice of everyday life, the politics of labor and property, and the production of desire and subjectivity.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 545/5245 - Cities: Structure and Dynamics (3 cr.)
Description
The structure of urban forms, patterns of city life, and the relationship of cities to the wider societies of which they are part.
Cross-listed
Same as .
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 550/5250 - Sociology of Knowledge (3 cr.)
Description
The epistemological foundations and social framework of knowledge; what is involved in “having knowledge” about society.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 555/5255 - Comparative Health and Healing Systems (3 cr.)
Description
Cross-cultural and multidisciplinary approach to the crucial issues which link the social sciences to health and healing systems. Special emphasis on issues of health and healing under conditions of social and cultural change; development and policy in the Middle East.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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SOC/ANTH 560/5260 - Population Dynamics (3 cr.)
Description
A consideration of the causes and consequence of the growth and decline of population through the analysis of fertility, mortality, and migration. Issues and research related to rapid population growth and labor migration will be emphasized.
When Offered
Offered in alternate years.
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