Prerequisites:
STAT G6108
and the department's permission.
Available to SSP, SMP Topic to vary each time course is given.
Our world is shaped by interactions in cities, states, regions and countries that are increasingly diverse. Global events - immigration, security, and terrorism - are often played out at the local level. The objective of this seminar is to reflect on the impact of race on public policy in the United States and the United Kingdom. Leaders in the private, public and non-profit sectors have to not only conceptualize and make sense of the challenges but also devise solutions in a complex and diverse world. This framing, together with considering specific policy domains such as schools, criminal justice, citizenship, housing and community engagement, will provide a clear focus. Blending theory and practice during the seminar will challenge students to critically understand the importance of race and public policy and develop effective practical outcomes in different spatial contexts.
The changing definitions of race in America have been shaped by political institutions for centuries. Now, as since the founding of this nation, the U.S. (and societies abroad) are marked by racial inequality. Because of this persistent reality, politics and race continue to be intertwined. This course explores the various ways in which race and politics intersect (and possibly collide). We will observe how racial inequality - and the efforts to overcome it- affect various facets of American local, state, and national politics. Often, New York City will be the launching point for broader discussions and analyses pertaining to relationships between Blacks, whites, Latinos, and Asians. We will also pay particular attention to the causes of contemporary racial mobilization and to its consequences. We will explore the origins of race as an organizing concept before moving into a discussion of contemporary racial politics and policy. Using themes such as inequality and governance, we will attempt to further discern the institutions which support and perpetuate practices such as disenfranchisement, gentrification, tiered civil rights and liberties, and possibilities for economic and special mobility. We will take up several topics that have engaged students of politics and scholars of policy for the past few decades and examine their relationship to race. These include but are not limited to education, immigration, transportation, housing, health, elections, social movements, poverty and homelessness, political representation, justice and inequality. We will also dissect these topics in relation to party politics and elections, group consciousness, group conflict and prejudice, political representation, and political unity - and often disunity - among dominant and non-dominant groups. As we do so, we will explore changes as well as continuities in the intersection of race and politics.
The objective of this course is to understand the role of micro- and small-enterprises (SMEs) in developing economies and to identify and assess a range of policies and programs to promote their development. By tracing the evolution of development thinking in finance and SME development, students will be exposed to the intellectual underpinnings of -and practical tools used in- a wide variety of approaches to SME development. Students will also become familiar with the strengths and weaknesses of the most common private sector development approaches currently being used by donor organizations and committed private sector actors.
The course will provide an overview of managing global companies from CEO and/or senior manager's perspective. The focus will be on the key decisions and trade-offs that the CEO must make. The course is built around two main themes: developing a framework for integrated decision-making and managing change in a global corporation.
Prerequisites: Microeconomics sequence
Designed to enhance the student's ability to conduct social policy analysis by acquainting them with several tools of the trade, including benefit-cost analysis, reviewing literatures, social experimentation, regression analysis, and micro-simulation analysis.
In 2009, historian Elliott West offered the term “Greater Reconstruction” to link the Indian Wars in the American West to the process of reconstruction underway in the southern states in the aftermath of the Civil War. While provocative, the concept remains largely undeveloped. This course takes up the historiographical challenge. It explores, and attempts to define, the spatial, temporal and conceptual boundaries of Reconstruction by looking at the deployment of federal government power in processes of military conquest, state-building, and governance of people and territory in the South, the West and other parts of the rapidly expanding United States in the period after 1861.
This seminar deals with the connections between hermeneutics and rhetoric in Pascal. We will focus on the notion of Figure, which applies to both fields in a problematic way. We will use ancient hermeneutics and literary theory in order to define Pascal's general theory of interpretation
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Students will make presentations of original research.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission prior to registration.
Political structures, conflict and change in the region including discussion of selected countries, patterns of regime change and the involvement of the U.S.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Students will make presentations of original research.
The course introduces the major works in the history of computing and information technologies, with particular attention to transformative methodologically important texts. Students will be likewise introduced to major current works in the history of technology and media studies. The course along the way provides an outline of the development of computing from the late nineteenth century.