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Graduate Record 2016-2017 
    
Graduate Record 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

Course Descriptions


 

History-General History

  
  • HIST 9026 - Tutorial in 20th Century International History


    Readings in modern international history: topics will include war, peace-making, diplomacy, the role of non-governmental organizations in world politics, refugees, human rights, decolonization, and transnational ideologies.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIST 9027 - Tutorial in Marx’s Capital


    This tutorial will be a close reading of Capital vol. 1 with excerpts from Smith, Ricardo, and Malthus, as well as secondary sources on the texts. We will finish with historical & contemporary perspectives on Marx and Marxism. By the end students will be prepared to consider the quest of capitalist development outside the West, have a basis for continuing into cultural studies & post-colonial theory & the relationship between theory & history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIST 9275 - Legal History and the Scholarly Process I


    This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of new work in legal history.  Students are required to attend the legal history workshop and the legal history writing group and to write a number of short reaction papers in response to the work presented by legal historians over the course of the year.  There is no final exam.  Through the class, students will engage with a variety of legal history scholars.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIST 9276 - Legal History and the Scholarly Process II


    This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of new work in legal history. Students are required to attend the legal history workshop and the legal history writing group and to write a number of short reaction papers in response to the work presented by legal historians over the course of the year. There is no final exam. Through the class, students will engage with a variety of legal history scholars.



    Credits: 2
  
  • HIST 9960 - Readings in History


    This course is a graduate-level adaptation of an undergraduate course in history. The graduate-level adaption requires additional research, readings, or other academic work established by the instructor beyond the undergraduate syllabus.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIST 9961 - Supervised Reading and Tutorial


    Graduate study of the historiography of a particular topic or historical period, equivalent to a graduate-level colloquium course. Prerequisites: Approval of director of graduate studies or department chair.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIST 9962 - General Exam Preparation


    In this course, students will prepare for the general examination under the guidance of a faculty examiner. During the course, the student will identify relevant readings; complete and review those readings; and explore the larger questions raised by those readings and their fields more generally.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIST 9964 - Master’s Essay Revision


    This course is intended for PhD candidates to revise their master’s essays for publication under the guidance of a member of the graduate faculty. It is typically taken in first semester of the second year of study.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIST 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research


    For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.



    Credits: 3 to 12
  
  • HIST 9999 - Non-Topical Research


    For doctoral dissertation, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.



    Credits: 1 to 12

History-Latin American History

  
  • HILA 7001 - Colonial Latin America


    A readings course open to graduate students with a reading knowledge of Spanish.



    Credits: 3

History-Middle Eastern History

  
  • HIME 5052 - World War I in the Middle East


    World War I set the stage for many conflicts in the 20th-century Middle East. This course examines the last attempt to build a pluralistic, constitutional realm under the Ottoman empire; how that world crumbled in the Balkan wars and Great War; the Young Turks’ relations with Germany; Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt; the Armenian genocide; women and peasants’ suffering; the Balfour Declaration and start of the Palestine conflict.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIME 5053 - Slavery in the Middle East and Ottoman Empire


    This course explores the practice of slavery in its various forms in the Middle East and North Africa from pre-Islamic times through the abolition of the slave trade in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Topics include: sources of slaves and the slave trade; manumission; the social and legal position of slaves in Islamic societies; the slave-soldier phenomenon; captivity and ransom; gender and race; and the movement towards abolition.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIME 7011 - History and Historiography of the Middle East, ca. 570-1500


    Introduces the history and historiography of the medieval Middle East and North Africa (areas from Morocco to Iran) from the period immediately preceding the rise of Islam until the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. Primarily a readings-and-discussion colloquium devoted to political, social, economic, and cultural evolution of the regions and peoples situated in arid and semi-arid zones stretching from Gibraltar to the Oxus River. After surveying the general contours of the field, and isolating the principal scholarly approaches to it, the course proceeds chronologically, starting with the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires in the 6th century and concluding with assessment of the Turkic-Mongolian impact upon the historical configuration of the regions. Prerequisite: HIME 2001.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIME 7021 - History and Historiography of the Middle East, ca. 1500-Present


    Introduces the history and historiography of the early modern and modern Middle East and North Africa from the period of the Ottoman and Safavid Empires until the emergence of a system of nation-states in the 20th century. Primarily a readings-and-discussion colloquium devoted to the political, social, economic, and cultural history of the region. Prerequisite: HIME 2001, 2002, or HIME 7011.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIME 7031 - Colonialism and Nation-Building in the Arab World


    Debate on the effects of European colonial rule has been revived in the decade since the United States occupied Iraq. We W engage the debate by studying the effect of foreign rule on one region, the Arab world: French and British colonization of Algeria and Egypt in the long 19th-century; the League of Nations’ mandates in Syria and Iraq after World War I; and finally Americans’ effort to rebuild the Iraqi state since 2003. Prerequisite: One prior course on colonialism or on Arab history



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIME 9023 - Tutorial in the History of the Medieval Middle East and North Africa


    This tutorial surveys the historiography of the medieval Middle East and North Africa (broadly construed), from pre-Islamic Arabia through the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate, which reunified the eastern half of the Mediterranean for the first time in a millennium. Readings introduce the major dynasties between Iberia and Central Asia, from the Umayyads to the Ottomans, and the seminal texts that have shaped the field.



    Credits: 3.00
  
  • HIME 9024 - Tutorial in Ottoman History


    This tutorial surveys the history and historiography of the Ottoman Empire from its obscure origins in the fourteenth century up to the period of reforms known as the Tanzimat beginning in the first half of the nineteenth century. Readings introduce the major historiographical debates and trends in the field and cover the political, military, institutional, social, and cultural history of the Empire.



    Credits: 3

History-South Asian History

  
  • HISA 5021 - Historiography of Early Modern South Asia


    Analyzes historical sources and historians of political systems in Muslim India until the rise of British power.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HISA 5101 - Economic History of India


    Studies regional economic systems prior to European penetration; the establishment and growth of European trading companies in the 17th and 18th centuries; commercialization of agriculture; the emergence of a unified Indian economy in the 19th century; and industrialization and economic development in the 20th.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HISA 7111 - Peasant Movements in Modern India


    Considers agrarian relationships and the economic conflict in those relations that give rise to peasant movements in the 19th and 20th centuries. Discussions are based on texts concerned with peasant societies.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HISA 8061 - Social History of Modern India


    Research and writing utilizing gazetteers, settlement reports, censuses, and other sources.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HISA 8111 - Peasant Movements in Modern Indian History


    A workshop seminar on peasant movements in modern India, Bengla Desh, and Pakistan utilizing original documents.



    Credits: 3

History-United States History

  
  • HIUS 5022 - Economic Culture in Early America


    This discussion-based colloquium, open to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, examines economic life in colonial and Revolutionary America. Our readings–on topics that include market agriculture, transatlantic commerce, and the slave trade–will features works of history that describe economic behaviors and, at the same time, interpret production, trade, and consumption in cultural terms.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 5081 - Turning Points in U.S. History: Micro-Analytic Methods


    The course has two main objects. The first is to linger over several turning points in the history of the United States. The second is work on `micro-analytic’ methods to use in studying such critical episodes.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 6010 - Settlement of Am West, ca 1848-1900


    This course will examine the settling of the American West. Roughly 5 decades the course covers are some of the most turbulent in Am History-the Civil War, Indian Wars, and coming of railroads and millions pouring into land across the Mississippi.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6011 - Learning History


    This course is the 2nd in a series which will explore what it means to be a teacher leader in history education. There are 3 goals 1) planning and implementation successful history learning experiences, 2) continuing conversation about sharing effective instructional approaches, 3) introduction to observing instruction/reflecting on instruction.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6012 - Responding to Crises of Modernity: the US in the Progressive Era


    This course will explore how industrilization, urbanization, immigration, and technological changes of the late 19th and early 205h centruies led to a strong and diverse wave of reform in the roughly 2 decades preceding US entry into WWI. This course is restricted to Center for the Liberal Arts students.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6014 - The Progressive Era, the New Deal and the Transformation of American Democ


    This course will explore the first 4 decades of the 20th centruy, when a diverse array of government officials, academics, social activitists, and crusading journalists instigated changes in the ideas, institutions, and policies that shaped American politics



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6015 - Leadership in History


    This course is the third in a series that will explore what it means to be a teacher leader in history education



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6016 - Hearing the Civil Rights Movement


    This course explores key moments in the civil rights movement through sound and film recordings, related to them.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6017 - The Other Liberalism: The United States in Vietnam


    This course will cover the history of American involvement in Vietnam from 1945 thru 1975



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6018 - America and the Sixties


    This course will address those events and people crucial to understanding 1960’s America. From the promise of a Kennedy presidency to the Great Society of Lyndon B. Johnson to the quagmire of the Vietnam War, participants will consider not only American participation in Vietnam, but the impetus behind the war to eradicate poverty, and the important people, orgs, and battles in the cursade to end racial and social injustice.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6019 - The Paradox of Prosperity


    This course will explore how the growth of America into a dynamic nation was fraught with paradoxes and how paradox ironically inspired Americans from a variety of fields and walks of life to believe they could meet and conquer any challenge which might emerege.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6029 - Cold War Battle for Hearts and Minds


    The seminar will explore the internationa, intellectual, idealogical and cultural aspects of superpower struggle that consumed much of the 20th Century. It will trace East-West competition from roots to WWII and extends study past 1991 into Cold War World.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6030 - Voices of the Civil Rights Movement


    Explores key moments in Civil Rights Movement thru sounds and fil recording related to them. Among topcs are rhetoric of Rev King Jr. residencies of Kennety, Johnson and Nixon and reaction from the White House to severl civil rights crises.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6031 - The Origins of the US Welfare State


    Explore emergence and development of U.S. welfare state. Assess meaning of term “welfare state” in an American context: what counts as part of the welfare state, who is included in its benefits, and what rights–and obligations–does it suggest?



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6032 - Methods Teaching


    Provides teachers with overview of effective approaches to planning and implementing successful history learning experiences for students. Emphasis will be placed on exploring the relationship between educational theory and development of practical teaching techniques for every day use in the classroom.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6033 - Collaboration and Identity in Early America


    Participants will study the question of America from the founding and through the legacy of Jamestown and examine the collaborative effort that went into the formulation of America’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6034 - Meeting Challenges of World History Survey


    This short course will alert teachers of social studies in all grades to resources and approaches on which they might draw, considered in context of the intellectual challenges of transcending the, inevitably modern (and thus implicity euro-centric) approaches to the subject that will prevail in available materials.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6035 - The Progressive Era and the Reform Impulse


    This course will explore how the Progressive Era brought together diverse groups of people who sought to address and redeem the injustices of the Gilded Age and reform an America that marginalized many of its citizens, including, women, blacks, and the poor.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6036 - Methods Course in Teaching History


    This class provides teachers with an overview of effective approaches to planning and implementing successful history learning experiences for students. Emphasis will be placed on exploring the relationship between educational theory and the development of practical teaching techniques for every day use in the history classroom.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6037 - Methods Course in Teaching History


    This class provides teachers with an overview of effective approaches to planning and implementing successful history learning experiences for students. Emphasis will be placed on exploring the relationship between educational theory and the development of practical teaching techniques for every day use in the history classroom.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 6038 - The Executive Branch and National Policy


    This course will explore the impact of the executive branch on domestic and foreign policy making in the United States with an emphasis on developments during 1960s. It will focus on a range of topics, including health, care, civil rights and the war in Vietnam. In addition to exploring executive policy making in these areas, it will also address interactions between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches.



    Credits: 1
  
  • HIUS 7002 - Introductory Colloquium in American History


    American history from 1607 to the present, emphasizing various approaches and current problems in recent historiography.



    Credits: 6
  
  • HIUS 7021 - Comparative Cultural Encounters in North America, 1492-1800


    This course examines Spanish, French, Dutch, and British encounters with the native peoples of North America during the initial centuries of colonization: 1492-1800. It combines the “Atlantic” approach to early America with a “Continental” approach that accords dynamism and agency to native peoples in their interplay with colonizers.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7031 - Colonial British America


    This colloquium offers an introduction to themes, regions, and debates in the history of colonial and Revolutionary America. It will focus on colonization, development, and cultural encounter in early North America, West Indies, and the Atlantic World in the early modern period, ca. 1600-1800, from a variety of historical approaches.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7041 - The Early American Republic, 1783-1830


    Reading and discussion in national political history from 1789 to 1815.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7051 - Antebellum America


    Studies selected problems and developments in the period 1830-1860 through reading and discussion.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7071 - Civil War and Reconstruction


    Studies selected problems and developments through reading and discussion.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7072 - Civil War And The Constitution


    This course will examine the constitutional history of the United States from 1845 to 1877, paying attention to how the U.S. Constitution shaped the Civil War, and also to how the war left its mark on the Constitution.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7082 - Foundational Texts of the 19th Century US


    This course will acquaint students with foundational texts relating to 19th-Century U.S. history. The primary goal is to provide a sound understanding of books, essays, and other documents that often are mentioned but too seldom read carefully. The readings will convey crucial insights into the political, social, cultural, military, and economic history of the century–though they are not intended to offer comprehensive coverage of the era.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7101 - Early American Military History


    Introduces the military history of the American colonies and the U.S. between 1689-1815. Topics include the history of early conflicts with the Indians; the colonial wars; the American Revolution; and the War of 1812. Explores the significance of warfare for the emerging republican culture of the U.S., focusing on the social contexts of war as these have been revealed in the ‘new military history.’



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7131 - The Emergence of Modern America, ca. 1870-ca. 1930


    Studies the distinctive characteristics of American modernity as they emerged in the period from the end of reconstruction to the 1930s. Concentrates on the interplay between large national changes and local life as America became a world power. Investigates the reciprocal relations between society and politics, social organization and science and technology, large-scale bureaucratic organizations and the changing class structure, culture, and ideology.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7141 - America Since 1930


    Studies the rise and fall of domestic liberalism and the political economy that sustained it.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7231 - The American South Before 1900


    Surveys major themes and interpretations of the American South, especially 19th century.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7232 - The South Since 1900


    A colloquium on selected themes in 20th century southern history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7261 - American Political Development in Action


    Readings drawn from the leading works in this field that span history, political science, and sociology. Students will also attend colloquia where works in progress will be presented by leading scholars.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7451 - Urban History


    Reading and discussion of primary and secondary sources focused on different topics annually.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7471 - American Labor History


    Readings and discussion on U.S. working class, including its institutions, consciousness, social composition, politics.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7481 - Approaches to Social History


    Study of the relationships between social history and other disciplines through readings and discussions about broad interpretative problems in 19th and 20th century American society.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7611 - Women’s History


    Readings and discussion on selected topics in the history of women in the U.S.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7621 - Topics in United States Gender History


    This colloquium will survey foundational and cutting-edge scholarship on the social construction of femininity and masculinity in U.S. history, from the colonial era to 1900. We will explore how gender conventions take shape, and how they are perpetuated and contested. Our readings reconsider key events in women’s and gender history such as the Salem witch trials and Seneca Falls convention.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7641 - The American West Since 1850


    This is a graduate readings seminar in which students will become familiar with the major issues in the history of the American West including, but not limited to, American Indians, the environment, and the federal presence in the region.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7651 - The History of United States Foreign Relations


    Colloquium on selected themes and topics in the history and historiography of U.S. foreign relations.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7652 - Constitutional History I: From the Revolution to 1896


    The history and historiography of American constitutional development from the revolution to 1896.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7653 - Constitutional History II: The Twentieth Century


    The history and historiography of American constitutional development in the context of social, political, and cultural change in the twentieth century.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7654 - Civil Rights from Plessy to Brown


    Studies in the role of law and lawyering in the political, social, and cultural history of civil rights struggles from 1896 to 1954.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7655 - American Legal History


    Intensive study along topical and chronological lines of the ways in which fundamental legal forms (federalism or property or contract) have shaped (and been shaped by) American politics and society from the eighteenth century to the recent past.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7656 - Crime & Punishment in American History


    Studies in the history of American criminal justice



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7657 - Colloquium in Modern US History – Conservatism and the Right


    Studies selected aspects and problems in the history of American thought.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7658 - Nineteenth-Century American Social and Cultural History


    Reading and discussion of primary and secondary sources.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 7659 - Twentieth Century US Cultural Hisory


    This readings course introduces graduate students to the theory, methods, and historiography of cultural history through a survey of key texts in twentieth century US history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8002 - Topics in United States Political History Since 1840


    Graduate seminar to facilitate research papers on aspects of U.S. political history since 1840.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8021 - Research Seminar in Early American History


    This course offers JD/MA and PhD students an opportunity to research and write an article-length research essay of publishable quality on a topic in the history of early America, ca. 1500-1877. Research will be conducted with the guidance of the intended dissertation adviser. A revised version of essay can be submitted to fulfill the master’s essay requirement for students in U.S. History.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8022 - Research Seminar in Modern American History


    This course offers MA/JD and PhD students an opportunity to research and write an article-length research essay of publishable quality on a topic in the history of modern America, ca. 1877-present. Research will be conducted with the guidance of the dissertation adviser. A revised version of the essay can be submitted to fulfill the master’s essay requirement of students in U.S. History. Prerequisite: PhD students History or permission of instructor



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8041 - The Age of Jefferson


    Intensive study of different aspects of problems of this period of American history by means of discussions, readings, and research papers.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8051 - Antebellum America


    Research on selected topics in the period 1830-1860.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8141 - American History, 1929-1945


    A research seminar in which students write a major paper on some aspect of American history during this period. Prerequisite: Graduate status; at least one upper-division undergraduate course, including this period or a relevant graduate course.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8230 - The Nineteenth-Century South


    Research on selected topics in the history of the American South during the eras of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the New South.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8235 - Topics in Modern Southern History


    A research seminar. Prerequisite: HIUS 7232 or instructor permission.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8451 - The History of United States Foreign Relations


    A research seminar.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8755 - American Legal History


    Directed research in selected areas of American legal history.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 8756 - Lawyers in American Public Life


    Reading and biographical research on the legal profession and the role of lawyers in American government and politics since 1789.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9021 - Tutorial in Transnational US History


    Seminar rethinks United States history (18th century-present) by moving beyond the geographical boundaries of the nation. Thematic readings focus on way in which transnational and comparative scholarship is reshaping American historiography. Our goal is to better understand how assumptions and certainties of ‘America’ have been called into question by transnational history. Course is intended to help prepare students for general exams.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9022 - Tutorial in the History of American Capitalism


    Introduction to the history and historiography of capitalism in the United States. Readings span 18th century to the present with attention to the development of markets, labor, business, consumption and welfare.The course gives special attention to how historians have framed the central debates in American economic life. This course is designed to prepare graduate students for examination in the field of Capitalism in the United States.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9023 - Tutorial in Early American History to 1763


    The course examines the historiography of colonial British America and the Atlantic world from the late sixteenth century through the late eighteenth century. It surveys scholarship on the imperial and Atlantic contexts of early modern colonization and focuses on the regional histories of settlement and development in North America and the Caribbean with a special focus on Native Americans and African Slavery.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9024 - Tutorial in US Enviornmental History


    This course will survey the history and historiography of environmental policy and ecological change in the 20th century United States, with a focus on governmental and societal response to disaster, and the dynamic relationship between public understanding of health and environmental risks and emergence of new technologies.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9025 - Tutorial in Post-World War II U.S. Political History


    This course will survey the history and historiography of American politics and political economy from 1945 to the present. Readings and meetings will address major themes in American political history, including: liberalism and conservatism, education, housing, suburbanization and the urban crisis, racial inequality, and the culture wars.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9027 - Tutorial in Foundational Texts in 19th-Century United States History


    This course acquaints students with foundational texts relating to 19th-Century U.S. history. The primary goal is to provide a sound understanding of books, essays, and other documents that often are mentioned but too seldom read carefully. The readings will convey crucial insights into political, social, cultural, military, diplomatic, and economic history .



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9028 - Reading Alexis de Tocqueville


    Reading Democracy in America in depth, which US historians will want to do. European history graduate students will also want to explore either Tocqueville’s Recollections of the 1848 revolution or The Ancien Regime and the Revolution.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9029 - Tutorial in Civil Rights Movement History


    This course will survey the history and historiography of the civil rights movement in America. Readings and meetings will address major themes in the history and legacy of the Black Freedom Struggle.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HIUS 9030 - Tutorial in Race, Religion, the Law and the Struggle for Justice in the US


    This course examines the ways in which the U.S. legal system and American religion have shaped and challenged African Americans¿ conceptions of freedom and justice in the United States from the post-emancipation period to the present.



    Credits: 3

Human Resources

  
  • HR 5010 - Research and Evaluation


    Explores the following: research rigor in education; research project design and theoretical foundations of the various traditions; data collection and analyses; assessment and evaluation principles; forecasts; mapping techniques; and optimizing informational databases accessible to the public.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HR 5020 - Staffing and Career Management


    Examines the processes and techniques that establish and govern the flow of interrelated organizational staffing activities. Includes case studies covering the latest staffing models and systems, economic conditions that impact staffing, laws and regulations, strategy and planning, measurement, job analysis, internal and external recruiting, and decision making.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HR 5030 - Strategic Compensation


    Explores strategic choices in managing compensation through a pay model that is based upon the foundational policy decisions of the compensation system, the means of compensation, and the objectives of the compensation. Includes strategic perspectives, internal consistency, external competitiveness, employee contributions, and administration of the pay system efficiently, equitably, and in compliance with the law.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HR 5040 - Organizational Performance Management


    Examines the influence of human performance elements (such as quality of work-life, rewards and recognition, job design, teambuilding, and participative management) on organizational performance.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HR 5050 - Organizational Change and Development


    Enables the student to understand the behavioral concepts and theories that form the foundation of organization development, the process of change management, and the organizational development techniques and interventions designed to improve organization effectiveness. Explores such concepts and processes as power and influence, conflict, inter-group behavior, decision-making, and communication.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HR 5060 - Transformational Leadership in Human Resources Management


    Prepares leaders and managers to meet their organizations simultaneous need for stability and change. Reviews the components of the leadership process (goals, leader, followers, and activities), and the psychological, behavioral, sociological, and cognitive underpinnings of leadership strategies.



    Credits: 3
  
  • HR 5070 - Strategic Human Capital Management


    Prepares graduate level students for more responsible human resources leadership positions as seen from the perspective of top management. Discusses strategic human resources functions and processes designed to develop an effective strategic human capital plan.



    Credits: 3
 

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