Three hours of lecture and one two hour lab per week. A study in depth of selected contemporary world problems. Emphasis is placed upon both the disciplinary and interdisciplinary nature of the problem. Topics covered include population, poverty, urbanization, and resources. The course is offered jointly by the Departments of Economics, Geography, Political Science, and Sociology.
Topics covered include government regulation, underdeveloped states, and civil rights.
An interdisciplinary course which deals with such problems as urbanization, poverty, human rights and the American society. 4 credit hours Emphasis on contemporary economic issues such as economic justice and pubic order, income maintenance and poverty, war, peace, and the draft, economic and political freedom. A study of American society, including an overview of the sources of prevalent political-moral values along with an assessment of American political behavior and policies. A study of American society, its culture and its people, its organization and patterns of disorganization. Topics under consideration include social influences in American culture upon the development of personality, a component analysis of the American population, family structure, social class and race differentials, collective behavior including mobs and race riots, American cities and urban problems, the industrial and technological effects upon American society and religious subcultures.