Examines criminal behavior, criminal law, the police, the courts and corrections, as well as selected issues in criminal justice. Examines models of perfect and imperfect competition and the determination of product price and quantities. Covers current microeconomic issues such as the effect of government regulation and environmental problems. Teaches strategies for understanding and remembering college lectures and text materials. Strategies include identifying the underlying discourse structure of the field, summarizing, comprehension, monitoring and transforming notes into test formats.
Students practice on their own course materials.
Students learn how to become independent, well-informed thinkers and how to make persuasive arguments, using their own course materials. Required of all Freshmen. Dual emphasis on eading and writing. Not for major credit. This course surveys various theories of value from Plato's republic and A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth,and Logic to Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice,Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Toni Morrison's Bluest Eye.