This is the study of the basic concepts in relations among the world's nations and forces that exist beyond the nation-state. Topics include nationalism, revolution, global corporations, security, the United Nations, arms limitations, and natural resource management in developing countries. This course covers the political aspects of an environmental issue, policy-making process, and assessment of political impact of various parties to an issue. There will be an extensive field experience. This is the historical approach to modern concepts of trespass, public access to great ponds, boundary lines of land and water properties, ownership implication of use, and limitations of use by government policy.
Public policy is the most controversial phase of forestry management and other resource questions.
This course is a survey of psychology as a science of behavior. Topics include basic principles underlying behavior and experience, learning, human development, motivation, personality, and psychotherapies. This course is a survey of development of the person across the entire age span from conception to death. For each stage physiological, intellectual, social, emotional, and psychological aspects of growth will be studied. Emphasis will be placed upon environmental influences that can promote the individual's growth and development.