With your upcoming graduation you will be seeking employment in an organization. However, little in your college experience has prepared you to see yourselves as a member and future leader in a corporate bureaucracy. To be a leader in an organization requires among other talents the confidence from knowing how to learn about the organization.The heart of your work will entail identifying an organization that you can use as a case study. The organization can be either private firm, public agency or non governmental organization (NGO). You will apply concepts derived from Agency Theory and Organizational Design to describe the current structure and operation of your organization and evaluate it as a potential site for your future professional career.

Globalization
Professor: WP Beaton
Section: 002

With your upcoming graduation you will find yourself in the grasp of an economy that is global. How does it differ from the economy that nourished you by supported your parents and grandparents?  That now long past economy probably formed the basis for your understanding of the world and how to survive in it. Our semester will be spent exploring and analyzing the forces that appear to be shaping both the economies of the world and our future professional lives. Our work will be centered on a Web based package integrating film, voice overlays, and interviews with political economic, social and historical figures. The central knowledge base will be the text and the PBS web program The Commanding Heights. The work, prepared by economists, is positive and promotes the globalist’s view globalization. Recognizing the understanding comes out of critical and disputatious argument, the contrary view is supplied by the author John Ralston Saul.  Out of the class dialogue, you will be required to confront your own professional path into the future.

Science Fiction to Science Fact
Professor: Lipuma
Section: 004

Science Fiction To Science Fact focuses on writing and the discussion of scientific principles that lead to creative exploration of future possibilities. Students will examine several modern technological advances and how they might lead to divergent alternate futures. This is a writing intensive course that discusses the theory and practice of writing fiction in the genre of science fiction and fantasy. Students will work on the various parts of the writing process to learn and hone skills as writers.

Where is Home?
Professor: Franck
Section: 006

Our homes give us shelter, security and feelings of identity and continuity. While the word “home” often refers to the abode in which we live, it also encompasses a range of larger areas – neighborhood, city, state and nation. By choice or by force of circumstance, we often move from one house or apartment to another or from one town, state or country to another. Then we must establish a new home and new feelings of being “at home.” Often this is difficult, particularly if we are in a new country. It is even more difficult when war, loss of income and natural disasters or human interventions into the environment leave us with no home at all.

In this seminar we explore different meanings of home and their role in creating identity and stability. We focus in some detail on the loss of home and the process of making a new one while remembering the old one. Students are asked to draw upon their own experiences and those of people they know as well as to study and reflect upon the assigned readings, their own research findings and those of their colleagues