Anthropology
ANT
121 (3) Peoples and Cultures of the World
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Case studies of global cultural diversity. Exploration of daily
life, rites of passage, marriage, family, work, politics, social
life, religion, ritual, and art among foraging, agricultural,
and industrial societies.
ANT
270/470 (1-6) Experience Credit
Instructor: Individual
Professor
Course Description:
A variety of internships, laboratory practicals, and directed
research can be taken through arrangement with individual professors.
Many projects involve participation in research projects. Open
to both majors and non-majors.
ANT
290/490 (1-6) Independent Study
Instructor: Individual
Professors
Course Description:
Students actively participate in well-focused research projects.
Projects are developed with individual professors.
ANT
442 (4) Method and Theory in Archaeology
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Formulation and conduct of archaeological research. Methods used
to obtain and analyze data. Theories and methods of fields fundamental
to archaeological interpretation. Laboratory included. Prereq:
ANT 141 or permission of instructor.
ANT
445/645 (3) Public Policy and Archaeology
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Proactive critique of public policy and implementation efforts
to preserve and protect archaeological and historical sites and
resources. Active research on legislation impacting local sites
and historic structures.
ANT
453/653 (3) Poverty, Policy and Human Services
Instructor: Michael
Freedman
Course Description:
National programs and local interventions that address poverty
related social conditions in Syracuse and Onondaga county. Field
study of current policies and practices in government and in health,
education, and human service agencies.
ANT
484/684 (3) Social Movement Research Methods
Instructor: John Burdick
Course Description:
A range of research methodologies relevant to the study of social
movements. Stimulates critical thinking about these metholodigies;
ethical implications. Students develop proposals for projects
carried out the following semester. Prereq: ANT 483/684. Course
is offered every other spring.
* For Graduate level
Anthropology courses, see the Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs course listing page.
Linguistics
LIN
471/671 (3) Dimension of Bilingualism and Multiculturalism
Instructor: Professor
Tej Bhatia
Course Description:
Foundations, theory, and practice of bilingual/bicultural education.
Critical concepts of linguistics, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic
issues and methods as applied to bilingualism/multiculturalism.
Additional work required of graduate students.
Political
Science
PSC 121
(3) American National Government and Politics
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
American political institutions. Basic principles embedded in
structure and practices of American government. Practical consequences
of this political system for the citizen.
PSC
317 (3) Local Internship
Instructor: Reeher
Course Description:
Students work in conjunction with members of Congress, state legislature,
or in local political campaigns. Representatives of these offices
come to seminars for discussions about working in government and
politics. Permission of instructor required.
Public
Affairs and Citizenship
PAF
101 (3) An Introduction to the Analysis of Public Policy
Instructor: William
Coplin
Course Description:
Techniques widely used by government, business, and public communications
to evaluate public policy; their application to a problem area
selected from research activities of Syracuse faculty in social
sciences and professional schools.
PAF
110 (1) Public Service Practicum
Instructor: Michelle
Walker
Course Description:
Students investigate the societal issues affecting members of
the Syracuse community by completing a 35 hour community service
requirement, attending 4 class meetings to reflect on their experiences,
and completing weekly journals and two paper assignments. This
course is available to all students.
PAF
200 (1) University Service Practicum
Instructor: David
M. Brown, Assistant Director of Residence Life
Course Description:
The Public Affairs Program offers this course in collaboration
with the Office of Residence Life to help students develop life
habits that will improve their effectiveness as communicators
and leaders.
PAF
315 (3) Methods of Public-Policy Analysis and Presentation
Instructor: William
Coplin
Course Description:
Opportunity to develop competencies in the application of social
science methods to public-policy problems. Students perform 50-80
hrs. of work for a community agency. Must have permission of instructor.
PAF
410 (3) Practicum in Public Policy: Government and Non-Profit
Organizations
Instructor: Frank
Lazarski
Course Description:
Tensions and collaborations between/among the public, private,
and nonprofit sectors as they identify and address public concerns.
Students are placed in community agencies and provide 10 hrs.
per week of service. Seminar meets bi-weekly. May be repeated
for credit. Must have permisison of instructor.
PAF
410 (3) Practicum in Public Policy: Community Benchmarks
Instructor: Carol
Dwyer (permission of Dept. Chair required)
Course Description:
Students develop skills and gain knowledge about organizations
that influence and implement public policy. Students are placed
in community agencies for about 100 hours of work or work in applied
research projects conducted by faculty. Prereq: permission of
instructor.
PAF
470 (1-6) Experience Credit
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Independent study.
Sociology
SOC
319 (3) Qualitative Methods in Sociology
Instructor: Prof.
DeVault
Course Description:
Field research methods including participant observation, unstructured
interviewing, life histories, and case studies. Preparation and
analysis of field notes and interview data.
SOC
399 (3) Upper Division Honors: Senior Research Seminar
Instructor: Prof.
DeVault and Prof. Zerai
Course Description:
Senior majors develop topics with seminar leaders’ assistance,
and conduct independent research with guidance from the seminar
leaders and other faculty mentors. Research papers are presented
at our annual Sociology Senior Research Symposium held in the
Spring. All senior sociology majors are encouraged to participate.
Those with 3.0 GPA and 3.5 Sociology GPA receive graduation with
"distinction in sociology." Sociology majors tell us
this is the single best experience they have as a major. For many
it has led to employment opportunities and/or decisions on whether
to go to graduate school. The seminar this year is co-facilitated
by two outstanding faculty. Open only to senior sociology majors.
VIP waiver required.
SOC
470 (1-6) Experience Credit
Course Description:
Participation in a discipline - or subject related experience.
Students must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination.
Limited to those in good academic standing. Prereq: permission,
in advance, of assigned instructor, department chair, or dean.
The Soling Program
The college’s Soling Program is open to all undergraduates
at the University. Students may enroll once or repeat the program
several times for credit, choosing new projects and learning new
skills each semester. It is a rare opportunity if you are attracted
to team problem-solving with a hands-on approach. The projects
reward initiative and creativity and are graded for full credit.
(taken from the 1996-97 Undergraduate Course Catalog)
Many of the Soling
Program projects deal with helping non-profit agencies or small
businesses. For more information contact Frederick W. Phelps,
Director, at (315) 443-3133.
Undergraduate
Research Program: Women’s Studies
WSP
270 (1-6) Experience Credit (Lower Division)
WSP 470 (1-6) Experience Credit (Upper Division)
Instructor (s): Diane
Lyden Murphy, Carol R. Awasu, Staff
Course Description:
WSP 270 and WSP 470 are extensively utilized as practice experiences
for students who wish to engage in community service with women,
or work on projects which are women related. These courses allow
Women’s Studies students to engage in feminist praxis both
on campus and off campus, strategizing, organizing and participating
in events which empower women to change their life circumstances
for the better.
Writing
Program
*
WRT 105 (3) Writing Studio I
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Develops abilities to use writing for learning, thinking, and
critical reading of complex texts. Workshop discussions and practice
in basic elements of the writing process.
WRT
205 (3) Writing Studio 2
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Introduces basic concepts of rhetoric and communication and applies
them to writing and collaboratively revising and editing longer
formal texts. Contrastive study of rhetoric across disciplinary
and professional communities. Prereq: WRT 105 or 109 or equivalent.
*
WRT 305 (3) Writing Studio 3: Advanced Studies in Writing
Instructor: Staff
Course Description:
Develops expertise in the rhetorical and intellectual skills and
arts of writing, examining relationships between general principles
and knowledge of content or situation. Sections select particular
arts, types, or problems of writing. Prereq: WRT 105, 205 or equivalent;
junior standing.
WRT
405 (3) Writing Studio 4: Professional and Technical Writing
Instructor:Staff
Course Description:
Prepares students for transition to postcollege writing; how rhetoric
functions in professional cultures and more broadly within a high-tech
“information society”. Students investigate, read,
write about, and practice writing for nonacademic settings. Prereq:
WRT 105, 205 or equivalent; junior standing.
WRT
400 (3) Select Topics
Lifewriting
in the Community
Instructor: Eileen
Schell
Course Description:
Constructing a Life in Contemporary America In Writing 400. We
will explore different genres of contemporary American lifewriting:
memoir, autobiography, biography, and oral history. The course
will be conducted in a seminar format where we read and analyze
20th century American writers and conduct workshops on class members'
writing projects. Course assignments will include: reader responses,
short lifewriting pieces, and an extended individual lifewriting
project. In addition, we will work with community residents at
a public school and in local retirement homes who wish to compose
their life stories.
*
WRT 428 (3)
Community
Literacy
Instructor: Margaret
Himley
Course Description:
This course offers students the opportunity to put knowledge into
action by becoming a literacy tutor in a public high school in
the city of Syracuse. Students will study composition theory and
pedagogy, learn to be a peer tutor, work in a high school English
class for 20 hours over the semester, and explore the many practical,
theoretical, and political questions this community learning experience
may prompt: What does literacy learning look like for teens in
urban settings? What strengths do they bring to the writing process?
What struggles? Why?. This experience offers SU students a chance
to improve their own writing skills and to understand more about
themselves and others, about language use and learning, about
public education, and about community activism. At the end of
the course we will design a collaborative project to bring together
what we have struggled with, questioned, learned, and accomplished.
Students must have a block of time free each week during the school
day to go to the public high school.
CAS
300 (2) Focus on Leadership
Instructor: Professor
Marvin Druger
Course Description:
Analysis of leadership styles and development of leadership skills.
Guest presentations, readings, project development, peer presentations,
self-analysis. Open to student leaders who have access to a specific
campus constituency. Prereq: permission of instructor.
As part of the course,
there will be readings and presentations by leaders in a variety
of fields. These presentations will provide insights about leadership
development in different career pathways, such as politics, business
and industry, etc. Also, each student leader will develop a practical,
meaningful project involving his/her constituency, in consultation
with a staff mentor. The proposed projects will be discussed and
critiqued in class discussions. During the spring semester, the
student leader will carry out the project, assess its outcomes,
and write a report. The report should discuss results, barriers
to change, strategies used, etc. Selected projects will be presented
at a symposium for student leaders at the end of the academic
year. The student leader will earn two additional credits for
completing the project, assessing it and writing the project.
* Several
sections of WRT 105, 205, 305 and 405, depending on instructor
may include a significant Service Learning component. Please check
with Writing Program staff regarding other Service Learning opportunities
of which there are many.
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