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ECON 134C CM - Global Finance This course is intended to provide students with the necessary foundation to investigate the risks and rewards of international finance from the perspective of investors (asset pricing) and firms (corporate finance). The use of derivative securities such as forwards, futures, options, and swaps to manage currency risk is covered extensively. However, while knowledge of derivatives pricing is beneficial, it is not required for the course and this material will be covered during class when necessary. Prerequisite: ECON134
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Offered: Every Year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON134C CM
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ECON 135 CM - Money and Banking An analysis of the role of commercial banks, the Federal Reserve, and financial intermediaries in the creation and control of money. The effect of monetary policy upon national aggregates is considered in the short- and the long-run.
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM and ECON 102 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON135 CM
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ECON 136 CM - Derivatives Course participants apply economic theory to the analysis of financial markets and the operation of a computer-simulated financial intermediary. Students learn to analyze financial statements, develop and implement asset/liability management strategies, and coordinate activities in management teams. Analysis of the operation of a simulated commercial bank is supplemented with analysis of actual financial intermediaries with the assistance of their officers. Students use spreadsheet programs and prepare and present written and oral reports.
Prerequisites: ECON 086 CM and ECON 134 CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON136 CM
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ECON 137 CM - Special Topics in Corporate Finance An advanced treatment and analysis of financial decisions made by corporations. Topics covered include an introduction to capital budgeting, asset pricing models, determination of the cost of capital, capital budgeting under uncertainty, capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, and risk management.
Prerequisites: ECON 086 CM and ECON 134 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON137 CM
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ECON 138 CM - Current Issues in Money and Finance Focuses on a number of major current issues in monetary and financial policy. Topics include the political and economic forces that stimulate inflationary pressures, the debate over the effects of fiscal deficits, and strategies for conducting monetary policy in a world of financial innovations and international interdependence. Practicum component requires collaboration on a research project that will be orally presented to an appropriate outside mentor.
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM , ECON 102 CM , and ECON 120 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON138 CM
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ECON 139 CM - Topics in Investments and Valuation An advanced treatment and analysis of capital markets, financial instruments and portfolio theory. Topics covered include asset valuation, risk measurement and control, and portfolio design for large institutions. Portfolio simulations are used to test theories. Computer background recommended.
Prerequisites: ECON 102 CM and ECON 134 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON139 CM
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ECON 140 CM - The World Economy A survey of international trade, financial markets, and monetary relations, including their analytical foundations, empirical and institutional manifestations, and policy implications.
Prerequisite: ECON 050 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON140 CM
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ECON 141 CM - International Economics A survey of international trade theory and policy, open-economy macroeconomics, and international financial markets.
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM and ECON 102 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON141 CM
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ECON 142 CM - Politics and Economics of Natural Resource Policy in Developing Countries This seminar course addresses the question of how countries dependent on natural resources ought to husband these resources and invest the proceeds productively. It employs the policy sciences framework to explore the political and economic-policy challenges of minimizing the abuse of resource endowments due to mis-pricing, corruption, intra-governmental conflicts, and perverse governance arrangements. It examines why governments seem to abuse natural resources willfully, what forms of privatization hold promise for better resource use, what fiscal and governance arrangements are optimal for the relationship between government and state natural-resource agencies, and whether resource abundance is actually a “curse” rather than an advantage for a country’s economic and political development. The cases will be drawn predominantly from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Also listed as GOVT 132E CM .
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM and GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON142 CM
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ECON 143 CM - The Chinese Economy This course examines China’s phenomenal economic growth since reforms began in 1978. In assessing China’s policy record and the challenges the country now faces, topics covered include population and employment; agriculture and rural development; enterprise ownership, governance, and performance; investment and finance; international trade; exchange rate issues and macro imbalances; monetary and fiscal policy; social equity and public services; local governance and civil society; and energy, resources, and the environment. Class format involves a mix of lecture, discussion, and student project reports.
Prerequisite: ECON 050 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON143 CM
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ECON 145 CM - International Money and Finance Presents basic elements of balance of payments and exchange rate theory and policy, open economy macroeconomics, international financial management, and the evolution of the international monetary system.
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM and ECON 102 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON145 CM
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ECON 148 CM - Regional Economic Integration From Europe and North America to Asia, regional trade and financial integration is a dominant form of trade policy for many countries. It is openly discriminatory and often violates international treaty rules, but it thrives. This course examines the costs and benefits of existing preferential economic integration in Europe, North America, and Asia and considers the future of proposed groupings like the Free Trade Area of the Americas. The increase in recent years of preferential trade arrangements between advanced and poor countries raises important questions about their role in economic development. For its part, financial and monetary integration is a reality in Europe and under serious discussion in many countries, where it is widely viewed as a superior alternative to existing exchange-rate arrangements. Course work includes readings and team-based area studies.
Prerequisites: ECON 141 CM or ECON 101 CM and ECON 102 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON148 CM
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ECON 149 CM - International Accounting, Taxation, and Transfer Prices An introduction to global accounting, cross-listing on national exchanges, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the cost of capital and international accounting standards, U.S. taxation of international transactions, and the allocation of international income among members of a controlled group.
Prerequisite: ECON 150 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON149 CM
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ECON 150 CM - Asset and Income Measurement (Intermediate Accounting I) This course examines both conceptual foundations and practical measurement of assets and income. The course mainly takes the financial statements preparer’s perspective using generally accepted accounting principles. However, a second theme in the course emphasizes interpretation and analysis of accounting information from a user’s perspective.
Prerequisite: ECON 086 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON150 CM
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ECON 151 CM - Strategic Cost Management Explores different systems for measuring organizational costs. Topics include traditional cost measurement systems, such as Job-Order, Process, and Standard Costing Systems, and newer cost measurement systems such as Activity Based Costing and Target Costing Systems. Emphasis is placed upon the use of cost data for managerial decisions.
Prerequisites: ECON 086 CM and ECON 101 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON151 CM
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ECON 152 CM - Tax Planning Surveys the consequences of a variety of tax plans based on discretionary principles of tax recognition and treatment. Basic planning concepts are introduced for addressing the tax interests of business units and individual investors.
Prerequisite: ECON 086 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON152 CM
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ECON 154 CM - Financial Statement Analysis Combines finance and accounting in a user-oriented, financial statement analysis approach. The goal is to expose students to the usefulness of accounting information for valuation and bankruptcy prediction. Part I introduces ratio analysis and discusses accounting information strengths and limitations. Part II is decision model oriented. It deals with the uses of accounting information for valuation of common stocks and corporate bonds in an efficient market.
Prerequisites: ECON 086 CM and ECON 150 CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON154 CM
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ECON 155 CM - Valuation and Reporting of Financial Liabilities and Equity (Intermediate Accounting II) This course examines both conceptual foundations and practical measurements of liabilities and equity. The course emphasizes the effects of alternative valuation and measurement techniques on the financial statements and the related impact on financial markets. An important theme of the course is the preparation and use of financial information for interpretation and analysis.
Prerequisite: ECON 150 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON155 CM
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ECON 157 CM - Advanced Management and Control Discusses decision making in the management and control of profit-making organizations. Explores optimal pricing and product-mix decision, compensation schemes for managers, and management control systems. Covers quantitative methods incluing models of uncertainty and use of financial and non-financial performance measures in the management and control of organizations. Relates ecomically prescribed judgements and decisions to actual human behavior observed in research.
Prerequisites: ECON 151 CM or equivalent with permission of instructor.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON157 CM
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ECON 158 CM - Auditing A study of standards and independent verification procedures for business, government, and tax-exempt organizations; methods for surveying adequacy and effectiveness of accounting systems and internal controls; practice in applying auditing procedures and preparing working papers.
Prerequisite: ECON 150 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON158 CM
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ECON 159 CM - Accounting Theory and Research An intensive study of the evolution and development of accounting standards, with emphasis on the normative rather than the descriptive model as well as enhancing the student’s research capabilities.
Prerequisite: ECON 150 CM or permission of instructor
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON159 CM
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ECON 164 CM - Economics of Strategy In a business economics setting, strategy is concerned with long-term “big picture” decision-making, including determining firm boundaries, evaluating the firm’s competitive environment, designing internal organization and compensation structure, and identifying the relation between strategy and organizational decisions. Besides exploring examples of strategic management decisions through case studies, the course develops a formal analytic framework for thinking about strategic management decisions based on recent developments in the fields of economics and strategy, including game theory.
Prerequisites: ECON 086 CM and ECON 101 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON164 CM
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ECON 165 CM - Industrial Organization Covers the latest theories and empirical evidence concerning the organization of firms and industries. It compares the traditional structure-conduct-performance paradigm with recent advances based on microeconomic theory including transactions cost economics, game theory, strategic behavior, contestability, and information theory. The focus is on applying theories of industrial organization to common business practices and on evaluating U.S. antitrust policy toward these practices.
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON165 CM
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ECON 167 CM - Law and Economics An analysis of the importance of law in the allocation of economic resources and of economics in the operation of the legal system. Topics include property and externalities, contracts, torts, criminal law, civil procedure, and the rationing of justice.
Prerequisite: ECON 101 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON167 CM
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ECON 171 CM - Environmental Economics The course explores the economic foundations for public decision-making regarding environmental quality utilizing tools from intermediate microeconomic theory. The course examines the role of the environment within the theory of market failure with particular focus on public goods, externalities, and asymmetric information. Economic incentive-based approaches to correcting environment-related market failures including pollution taxes, cap and trade programs, liability, and information disclosure requirements are emphasized. The course also examines the process of benefit-cost analysis and related methods for valuing improvements in environmental quality.
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM and ECON 120 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON171 CM
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ECON 173 CM - Economic Development This course explores contemporary economic thought and practice in the field of international development. It examines causes, consequences, and possible solutions of central problems of underdevelopment. In the first part of the course, we explore the meaning of “development”, analyze global patterns in economic indicators, consider causes of disparities across countries, and examine simple macroeconomic models. We then shift our focus to a microeconomic perspective for the remaining parts of the course, to investigate issues such as health, education, gender, informal financial tools, microfinance, and the environment. Emphasis is placed on assessing empirical evidence in the context of appropriate conceptual frameworks, and on understanding practical approaches to eradicating poverty – successes, failures, and the complexities involved.
Prerequisites: ECON 120 CM or equivalent, and either ECON 101 CM or ECON 102 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON173 CM
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ECON 174 CM - Economics of Entrepreneurship This course will provide students with a deeper understanding of different aspects of entrepreneurship, from a research economist’s perspective. We will study topics such as returns to entrepreneurship and behavioral aspects, networks and peer effects, the role of gender and family in entrepreneurship,innovation and intellectual property rights, productivity and job growth. Prerequisite: ECON101 and ECON120.
Prerequisites: and
Offered: Every Year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON174 CM
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ECON 175 CM - Labor Economics This is an introductory survey of modern labor economics. The first part of this course develops simple models of labor demand and supply. These analytical tools are then used to analyze the determinants of earnings inequality, including issues such as human capital accumulation, labor market discrimination, unionization, and worker-firm contractual arrangements.
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM and ECON 120 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON175 CM
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ECON 180 CM - Seminar in Research Methods This one-half credit course is a complement to preparation of a senior thesis in economics. The department strongly recommends this course for all majors who are preparing a senior thesis in economics, and the course is required for all students seeking to qualify for honors in economics. Students may take the course either the semester before enrolling in thesis, or take it concurrently with the senior thesis. Topics include identifying research questions, developing and testing hypotheses, analyzing and critiquing literature, empirical and theoretical methodology, and oral presentation. Course must be taken Credit-No Credit.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: ECON180 CM
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ECON 186 CM - Public Choice Economics Analysis of the role of government in the economy and problems of collective decision-making.
Prerequisite: ECON 101 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON186 CM
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ECON 187 CM - The Economics of Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination This class will explore issues of poverty and discrimination from an economist point of view. The first part of the class will focus on understanding the causes and consequences of poverty, along with the different policies that have been used to address these issues. We will then consider issues of inequality such as measurement, trends, and consequences. The final part of the course will focus on racial inequality and discrimination. Several theoretical models of discrimination will be developed and then evaluated within the context of the current empirical work. Finally, we will consider the various connections between the discrimination literature and the broader issues of poverty and inequality discussed at the outset of class.
Prereqisite: ECON 101 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON187 CM
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ECON 191 CM - Business Law An introduction to the American legal system emphasizing commercial transactions. Topics include: torts, property, contracts, sales, commercial paper, secured transactions, securities regulations, and bankruptcy.
Prerequisite: ECON 050 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON191 CM
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ECON 193 CM - Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital The course provides students an understanding of the economics of entrepreneurial finance and private equity, especially venture capital. We will address financing and strategic issues faced by entrepreneurs in the early stage of a firm. Financial modeling will be used to determine how much money can and should be raised and from what source, and how the funding should be structured. Specific topics include: methods of valuing private firms, simulation to make better strategic choices, business plans, economics of contracts that underlie new venture finance venture capital partnerships (agreements, term sheets, etc.), financing sources, creating value through financing contracting, and exit strategies (initial public offerings, merger, other).
Prerequisites: ECON 134 CM and ECON 086 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON193 CM
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ECON 194A CM - Seminar in Investment Management This year-long course is designed to add an academic component to the CMC student investment fund. The course is designed to be a blend of theory and practice. We will extend the basic principles of security analysis, asset pricing theory, portfolio construction, and performance evaluation necessary to manage a mutual fund. Half credit each semester. Course must be taken Credit/No Credit.
Prerequisite: ECON 134 CM and one prior year of participation in the student investment fund.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: ECON194A CM
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ECON 194B CM - Seminar in Investment Management This year-long course is designed to add an academic component to the CMC student investment fund. The course is designed to be a blend of theory and practice. We will extend the basic principles of security analysis, asset pricing theory, portfolio construction, and performance evaluation necessary to manage a mutual fund. Half credit each semester. Course must be taken Credit/No Credit.
Prerequisite: ECON 134 CM and one prior year of participation in the student investment fund.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: ECON194B CM
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ECON 196 CM - Advanced Macroeconomics An introduction to modern micro-founded theories of macroeconomic phenomena. Topics include equilibrium and wait unemployment theory, foundations of aggregate supply and demand, inflation and monetary policy, budget deficits and fiscal policy, business cycle fluctuations, and long-run growth. Concepts are illustrated with textbook mathematical models, complemented by discussion of academic papers reviewing empirical evidence. Students will complete a term paper exploring a topics of interest in depth.
Prerequisites: ECON 101 CM , ECON 102 CM , and ECON 125 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON196 CM
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ECON 197S CM - Special Topics in Economics These courses explore topics of current interest to faculty and students. Topics vary from year to year. The course is repeatable for different topics.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON197S CM
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ECON 198 CM - Research on Economic Process This course will focus on the development of skills and methods appropriate to conducting research on economics. The primary goal of the course is the development, in conjunction with the internship, of a research paper on a particular aspect associated with Silicon Valley. Taken as part of the Silicon Valley internship program.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: ECON198 CM
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ECON 199 CM - Independent Study and Research Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0.5 or 1
Course Number: ECON199 CM
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ENGL 012 AF - Introduction to African American Literature This course is a survey of major periods, authors, and genres of the American literary tradition. This course covers the major literature produced from the turn of the 20th century to the contemporary period.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ENGL012 AF
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ENGL 125C AF - Introduction to African American Literature: In the African-Atlantic Tradition See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: ENGL125C AF
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ENGL 140 PO - Literature of Incarceration See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: ENGL140 PO
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ENGL 170J PO - Special Topics in American Literature See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: ENGL170J PO
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ENGL 180 SC - Asian American Fiction See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: ENGL180 SC
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ENGL 183 SC - Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: ENGL183 SC
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ENGL 184A CH - Chicano Movement Literature Readings in Chicano literature from the 1940’s to the 1970’s. Special emphasis on the historical context within which texts are written, i.e., post-World War II and the civil rights era. Recently discovered novels by Americo Paredes and Jovit Gonzalez and the poetry, narrative, and theatre produced during the Chicano Movement will be subjects of inquiry. Taught in English.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ENGL184A CH
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ENGL 184B CH - Contemporary Chicana/o Literature Beginning with the ground-breaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back (1981), this survey examines how contemporary Chicana/o literature focuses on questions of identity, specifically gender and sexuality. Theoretical readings in feminism and gay studies inform our interpretation of texts by Anzuldua, Castillo, Cisneros, Cuadros, Gaspar de Alba, Islas, Moraga, and Viramontes, among others. Taught in English.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: ENGL184B CH
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FHS 010 CM - Freshman Humanities Seminar The Freshman Humanities Seminar (FHS) program aims to give first-year students an introduction to some of the questions fundamental to individuals in their relationship to society and the world. Each section engages one or more critical themes such as the notion of the self, the community, individual and communal values, modes of understanding, and creative expression, and the relationships each one has with the others. In doing so, all FHS courses include historically significant texts: texts that have become objects of academic discourse in part because of their enormous impact in non-academic contexts.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: FHS 010 CM
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FWS 010 CM - Freshman Writing Seminar The Freshman Writing Seminar, directed by the Department of Literature, aims to enhance the writing skills and literary acumen of first-year students through intensive composition and revision and the study of significant texts and models. Each seminar focuses on a literary theme chosen by the instructor, and each ranges across periods and genres. All of the seminars seek to instill rigor of argument, clarity of presentation, and stylistic grace. Students will be expected to write no fewer than seventy-five hundred words during the semester.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: FWS 010 CM
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FREN 001 CM - Introductory French Acquisition of four basic skills: comprehension, speaking, reading, writing, with emphasis on aural comprehension and oral communication. This course includes laboratory work and tutorial sessions each week. Letter grade only.
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN001 CM
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FREN 002 CM - Continuing Introductory French A continuation of FREN 001 CM . Intensive practice in speaking, reading, and writing. Laboratory work and tutorial sessions each week. Letter grade only.
Prerequisite: FREN 001 CM , or placement.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN002 CM
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FREN 022 CM - Intensive Introductory French Designed for students with some previous experience in French, who are too advanced for FREN 001 CM . Students will complete in one semester the equivalent of FREN 001 CM and FREN 002 CM , and then enroll in FREN 033 CM . The class includes laboratory work and tutorial sessions (times arranged). Letter grade only.
Prerequisite: Placement
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN022 CM
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FREN 033 CM - Intermediate French Review and reinforcement of basic skills. Emphasis on conversation, reading, and writing. Laboratory and conversation groups arranged. Letter grade only.
Prerequisite: FREN 002 CM , FREN 022 CM , or placement
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN033 CM
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FREN 044 CM - Advanced French: Reading in Literature and Civilization Readings in Literature and Civilization. Selected texts are read with emphasis on interpretation and comprehension. Development of correct personal style in students’ oral and written expression. Discussion groups with a native assistant arranged.
Prerequisite: FREN 033 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN044 CM
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FREN 100 SC - French Culture and Civilization See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN100 SC
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FREN 104 SC - History, Memory, and Loss: Vichy (1940-45) in Contemporary France See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN104 SC
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FREN 106 SC - The French Business World and Its Language See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN106 SC
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FREN 107 SC - Headline News: Advanced Oral Expression and Conversation of Current Events and Culture See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN107 SC
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FREN 110 SC - France in the Hood: Nationhood, Immigration, and the Politics of Identity in Fin-de-Siecle France See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN110 SC
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FREN 111 SC - French Cinema: Images of Women in French Film See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN111 SC
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FREN 117 CM - Novel and Cinema in Africa and the Caribbean This course will examine works by writers and filmmakers from French-speaking countries of Africa (e.g., Senegal, Cameroon and Burkina Faso) and the Caribbean (Martinique, Guadeloupe and Haiti). Special emphasis will be placed on questions of identity, the impact of colonialism, social and cultural values, as well as the nature of aesthetic creation.
Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN117 CM
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FREN 119 CM - Advanced French Creative Writing This course will allow students to improve their French writing skills and to expand their knowledge of the French language. Guided by various exercises, students will express their creativity by writing different types of texts, including poems, songs and short stories. Multiple drafts will be required for each writing assignment and individual attention will be given to each student.
Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN119 CM
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FREN 120 CM - Order and Revolt in French Literature A study of selected writers from the 18th century to the present who have confronted, in particularly significant ways, dominant social values and literary conventions. A historical perspective will be provided to explicate the various dimensions of the literary text in its relationship to society, history, and culture. Readings will include works by major French and Francophone authors.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN120 CM
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FREN 121 SC - The Politics of Love See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN121 SC
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FREN 124 CM - The Novelist and Society in France A study of the major trends in the French novel from the 17th century to the present. Particular attention will be given to the social and intellectual factors that influenced the evolution of the tradition of the novel in France.
Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN124 CM
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FREN 130 SC - Topics in French Theatre I: Theatricality and “Mise en Scene” See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN130 SC
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FREN 132 CM - North African Literature After Independence In the 1950s and 1960s the people of many colonized countries across the African continent waged struggles for national independence. In North Africa, as elsewhere, once independence was gained other struggles emerged though with different objectives and in different forms and contexts. After independence, national culture has been a central issue. Writers in particular have played a key role addressing some of the major debates concerning religion, national tradition, language, music, and even the form of everyday life. In the past decades, writers have been engulfed in a new wave of cultural change as the North African populace has been deeply influenced by new Islamicist movements, and the politics of Arabicization. In this course, we will examine the situation of the writer in North Africa, “post-Independence.”
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN132 CM
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FREN 133 CM - Africa in France: The French of African Ancestry through Text and Film Since the late 1960s, new generations of French citizens has emerged to redefine France and Frenchness. These new generations are French citizens whose parents or grandparents were originally from North Africa or sub-Saharan Africa, yet who grew up or were born in France, often in the suburbs of major French cities. This course will focus on their experience and more broadly the experience of being African in France in the 21st Century, an experience rooted in migration and colonial history between France and the African continent. Specifically, however, we will also examine the place this new generation occupies in France today through close readings of selected literary and critical texts and through a range of media, old and new, aural and visual.
Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM or higher.
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN133 CM
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FREN 135 CM - L’Art de la Nouvelle An introduction to critical reading, literary interpretation and analysis, and the application of various literary approaches to the genre. This course will allow students to perfect their reading comprehension and writing skills through the concentrated study of one genre: the short story. Focusing on some of the major French and Francophone short story writers such as Maupassant, Colette, Tournier, Yourcenar, Duras, Hébert, Djébar, Daviau, we will look at point of view, narrative structure, character development, and other issues related to style and language. The course also allows students to expand their knowledge of French language and style – and express their creativity – by writing a short story of their own.
Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM or equivalent
Offered: Every fall
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN135 CM
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FREN 137 CM - The Algerian War and the French Intelligentsia Since the 1950s the Algerian war and its consequences have been significant for the development of French culture and society. Indeed, the ghost of the Algerian war still haunts debates about immigration, French identity, the veil, and the idea of the French Republic. In this course we will investigate the ways the Algerian war has mediated and possibly shaped debates in literature, films, philosophy, and cultural life since the beginning of the war (including the events of May 1968 in Paris) until today.
Prerequisite: FREN 100 SC
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN137 CM
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FREN 148 CM - Special Topics in French Topics vary by semester and instructor.
Prerequisite: FREN 044 CM or equivalent
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN148 CM
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FREN 154 SC - The 18th-Century Novel: Experimentations in Form See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN154 SC
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FREN 172 SC - Baudelaire and the Symbolist Aesthetic See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN172 SC
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FREN 173 SC - Wit and Ridicule in the French Salon See Scripps College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: FREN173 SC
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FREN 199 CM - Independent Study in French Students who have the necessary qualifications and who wish to investigate an area of study not covered in regularly scheduled courses may arrange for an independent study under the direction of a faculty reader.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 0.5 or 1
Course Number: FREN199 CM
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GFS 061 CH - Contemporary Issues of Chicanas and Latinas In this interdisciplinary course we will look at the contemporary experiences of Chicanas and Latinas in the United States, addressing issues of culture, identity, gender, race, and social class. Readings and lectures provide historical background for our in-depth exploration of the latest exemplary works in Chicana Studies. Attention is given to diverse manifestations of cultural production in Chicana/Latina communities.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GFS 061 CH
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GEOL 020A PO - Intro to Geology: Geohazards See Pomona College Catalog for course description.
Credit: 1
Course Number: GEOL020A PO
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GOVT 020 CM - Introduction to American Politics Introduces the student to the scholarly study of government and politics with special reference to the political principles and constitutional structure of the American system, interpreted in the light of political philosophy, the dynamics of public opinion, interest groups, political parties, and public policy.
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT020 CM
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GOVT 030 CM - Internship in Government, Politics, and Public Policy Taken as part of one of the two off-campus government internship programs. Students gain experience in a government, political, or public policy setting through placement arranged with the program director (Professor Spalding for the Washington Program and Professor Lynch for the Southern California Program); or students may seek and propose a position in consultation with the appropriate director.
Prerequisites: GOVT 020 CM , ECON 050 CM , and participation on Washington, D.C. internship semester
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT030 CM
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GOVT 050 CM - Introduction to Public Administration An introduction to the structure, operations, and responsibilities of administration in the public sector. The organization of federal administration, methods of public personnel management, budget analysis, decision-making, and program evaluation. Additional topics in administrative law, administrative ethics, public policy and regulation, and the relation of administration to politics.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT050 CM
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GOVT 055 CM - Introduction to Research Methods in Political Science This course introduces students to the philosophy and practice of political science research. Students will learn how to identify a problem worthy of study, develop testable hypotheses, design a research strategy, gather data, analyze data, and interpret and present the results. The course focuses primarily on regression analysis, but also introduces students to the use of surveys, experiments, field methods, and case studies in political science research.
Prerequisite. GOVT 020 CM . This course is not available to students who have earned credit for any other course in statistics including: ECON 120 CM , MATH 052 CM , or PSYC 109 CM .
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT055 CM
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GOVT 060 CM - Introduction to Comparative Government This course introduces students to the basic concepts of comparative government that are used to analyze political institutions and processes. We will explore fundamental political phenomena such as power, authority, legitimacy, political culture, and the nation-state in order to understand better major world events and larger political trends. Special attention is given to democratization and socioeconomic change in either the developing world, or Europe and the industrialized world.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT060 CM
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GOVT 070 CM - Introduction to International Politics This course studies relations among states and between states and other groups through close reading and intensive discussion of books and articles about international theory, history, and philosophy. Among the topics examined are: the sources of global conflict; diplomacy; war; terrorism; religion in world affairs; and the politics of economic, social, and political development.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT070 CM
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GOVT 071 CM - Special Studies in International Relations This course allows students selected to be CMC Model United Nations Committee Chairs to earn 0.5 credit for the written work they produce as part of their Chair responsibilities. Working with a faculty reader, each student will select one or two current topics in international relations relevant to his or her committee’s focus, conduct research on the topic(s), and produce written product(s) consistent with the CMCMUN guidelines and with his or her faculty reader’s expectations. The students will develop in-depth knowledge of contemporary foreign affairs while further developing their research, writing, and critical thinking skills. The course will be offered each spring and can be taken no more than twice.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Offered: Every spring
Credit: 0.5
Course Number: GOVT071 CM
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GOVT 080 CM - Introduction to Political Philosophy An introduction to several fundamentally different philosophical understandings of political life, both ancient and modern. Authors studied include Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every semester
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT080 CM
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GOVT 090 CM - Introduction to Constitutional Law: National Powers An introduction to the Supreme Court’s treatment of the constitutional structure and powers of government in the United States, including such features as judicial review, states rights and federalism, separation of powers, and economic and environmental regulation. The course also considers the strengths and weaknesses of the legal method in examining public policy issues.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT090 CM
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GOVT 091 CM - Introduction to Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties An introduction to the Supreme Court’s treatment of constitutional rights and privileges, including freedoms of speech, press, religion, and association; criminal procedure; voting rights; equal protection of the laws; and due process guarantees. Like GOVT 090 CM , this course considers the strengths and weaknesses of the legal method in examining public policy issues. Although a natural sequel to GOVT 090 CM , it may be taken alone.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT091 CM
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GOVT 095 CM - Legal Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Law This course is intended to illuminate law by studying it with ideas and methods from several of the other disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. It is also intended to help the students unify their grasp of these disciplines by using them in the study of law considered as a central social phenomenon. Faculty members from several disciplines participate in the course.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT095 CM
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GOVT 101 CM - The United States Congress Examines congress in terms of participant roles, committee systems, party influence and leadership, legislative functions and representative democracy, legislative-executive relations, and current efforts at reform.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT101 CM
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GOVT 102 CM - The American Presidency Investigates the domestic and international sources of power which have led to the dominant position of the presidency, and the current reassessment of that position.
Prerequisite: GOVT020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT102 CM
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GOVT 104 CM - The Electoral Process An introduction to election politics in the United States, focusing on the organization, strategies, techniques, and financing of political campaigns. The course, which employs simulations, also involves consideration of party organization, election law, and problems of reform.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT104 CM
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GOVT 105 CM - Organization of Health Care and Public Policy This course will examine the evolution of health care occupations and organizations in the United States with comparative references to other industrialized nations. There will be a focus on the increasing bureaucratization of health care, the increased involvement of government, private reorganization around HMO’s and managed care, and the continued push for various forms of “universal health care.” Politics and policies regarding sources and allocations of costs and benefits, access and treatment of increasingly diverse populations, advent of health care teams, “wellness” movements and alternative health and medical treatments, and increasingly complex technology, and - related to this - ethical issues regarding birth, life, and death will be addressed.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT105 CM
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GOVT 106 CM - Politics of Interest Groups The course examines the role of interest groups in American politics, particularly how they influence the formulation and implementation of public policy. Specifically, the course focuses on strategies and tactics and other integrated requisites to building a viable interest group. In addition, numerous case studies are examined.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT106 CM
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GOVT 108 CM - Recent American Politics, 1970s to the Present Against the backdrop of the post-World War II years, this course explores American politics and political development from the pivotal 1970s to the present. Focus is on controversies arising from such interrelated areas as economic and social regulation; values issues (e.g., abortion, religion in public life, and the character and private morality of public officials); federal fiscal policies; foreign involvements, the “war on terror,” and presidential authority; judicial activism; and civil rights and “identity politics.” A major theme is the relationship of established patterns and ideologies to continuity and change, often in the face of unanticipated events. Cross-listed as HIST 124B CM .
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT108 CM
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GOVT 109 CM - Juvenile Delinquency and Public Policy This course examines the social and political changes that gave rise to the concept of “childhood,” the subsequent rise of the juvenile justice system, and further modifications of that system’s strategies for prevention and treatment. Course topics include the causes of juvenile delinquency, changes in the nature and distribution of juvenile crime and deviance, and the history and changing forms of gang activity in the U.S. Guest speakers and documentaries supplement lectures, discussion, and readings.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT109 CM
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GOVT 110 CM - American Culture Wars In recent decades Americans have been increasingly divided over such issues as abortion, gay marriage, and the appropriateness of religion in the public square. This course will explore the sources and origins of such divisions. For instance, do activists on the left and right really exist in two distinct cultures? What are the philosophical assumptions and beliefs that hold their various political opinions together? What is their view of the human person and how does it shape the way they see the world? Do they each offer equally rational ways of comprehending the world? We will also investigate how deeply our nation is divided. Is it the case, for instance, that only a handful of radicals wage these wars while most Americans are actually quite moderate? Are our political divisions really rooted in separate cultures? In addition, we will ask whether the culture wars have been good or bad for American democracy. For example, have the culture wars prevented a descent into mass apathy or coarsened public life?
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Occasionally
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT110 CM
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GOVT 111 CM - Politics and Population Explores the social and political implications of the population explosion. Touches on problems of social forecasting and problems of individual and institutional response to short-run and long-run needs. Considers the question of optimum population from social, economic, biological, and political points of view. Assesses current efforts and prospects for establishing and implementing population policies.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every third year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT111 CM
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GOVT 112 CM - Public Opinion and American Democracy This course is concerned with understanding the political opinions that citizens hold and the relationship between these opinions and American democracy. We will consider what public opinion is, how it is measured, and the many influences that form it.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every other year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT112 CM
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GOVT 113 CM - Inequality, Politics, and Public Policy: Class, Race, and Gender This course examines the basic dimensions of inequality and the history of changes in the distribution of wealth, power, and patterns of ethnic and gender relations, primarily in the United States but with particular reference to how emerging global markets may be changing inequality patterns in the U.S. Rates of social mobility (who moves up, down, sideways?) are examined. The course deals with current and emerging political and policy issues arising from such developments as: Proposition 187, the changing occupational structure and shifting career opportunities, changing policies on discrimination, affirmative action and work force diversity, generational divides, changes in crime and criminal justice, political and perceptual “gender gaps,” welfare issues and the “tax wars” (who pays, who receives?).
Prerequisites: Introductory level economics, psychology and/or sociology course recommended.
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT113 CM
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GOVT 114 CM - Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Nonprofits: Law, Public Policy and Leadership You will likely work or volunteer for, lead, or govern a not-for-profit organization. Including churches, universities, museums, and even the Salvation Army and the Gates Foundation, the size, strength, and breadth of the non-profit sector is uniquely American. Why and how do diverse individuals come together to fulfill both their individual needs and those of their communities? Who gives and volunteers and why? This course will broadly address key topics of the non-profit sector, including: leadership, governance, accountability, and the appropriate public policy framework for determining ideal allocations of social problem-solving among government, for-profit, and not-for-profit.
Prerequisite: GOVT 020 CM
Offered: Every year
Credit: 1
Course Number: GOVT114 CM
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