Curriculum

ENGV 306 is a study of genre and rhetorical situation; advanced practice in expository writing.

BASV 319  is a sustained study of ethical issues that arise in relation to employment in the public and private sectors, including: allocation of resources, corporate and social responsibility, relationships, discrimination, and ethical and legal standards governing information technology. Students will also gain knowledge of ethical codes related to their professional field.  This course is a designated writing emphasis course.

CYBV 329 is a sustained study of ethical issues that arise in relation to employment in the public and private sectors, including allocation of resources, corporate and social responsibility, relationships, and discrimination.  This course is a designated writing emphasis course.  A main focus of this course will be on the ethical and legal standards governing information technology. New technology creates ethical challenges for individuals around the globe, and applies to most persons regardless of whether they are employed in the information technology field or a more traditional occupation.

BASV 314 examines applications of probability, statistics, data analysis, hypothesis testing, apportionment and scheduling to the applied sciences.

BASV 316 will introduce quantitative and qualitative analysis and evaluation in real world settings with a focus on evaluating research and program statements, designing evaluation plans and interpreting program evaluation data.

GPSV 301 examines American political ideas from colonial times to the present.

GPSV 498 is a culminating experience for majors involving a substantive project that includes an engagement experience and demonstrates a synthesis of learning accumulated in the major, including broadly comprehensive knowledge of the discipline and its methodologies.  Senior standing required.

GPSV 313 covers the structure, function, and processes of the Judicial branch of American government.

GPSV 461 conducts an analysis of the constitutional guarantees of civil liberties in the U.S. Constitution.

CYBV 301 will provide students with an introduction to Fundamentals of Cybersecurity, which will include an introduction to cyber security policy, doctrine, and operational constraints.  A broad survey of cybersecurity concepts, tools, technologies and best practices will be presented. Students will use hands-on activities to become familiar with and practice cybersecurity techniques and procedures.

CYBV 435 is an investigation of threat actors and the techniques they employ to attack networks. Students will research threat capabilities and objectives. Formal ethical hacking methodology including reconnaissance, scanning and enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privilege, maintain access and reporting is examined.

GPSV 302 provides students with an advanced study and analysis into the dynamics of American political institutions, including Congress, the presidency, the judiciary, the bureaucracy, and political parties. Students will analyze the cultural and constitutional foundations of American politics; its institutional structures; and the role of public opinion, political participation, elections, interest groups, and the media in American politics.  Course assignments are designed to help students improve their reading, writing, analytical, and critical thinking skills while mastering course content.

GPSV 462 is a development and analysis of constitutional law of the U.S.; problems of distribution of powers.

Structure, function, and processes of the Judicial branch of American government.

GPSV 321 provides an examination and analysis of local decision-making structures and their policy outputs

GPSV 365 examines the enduring tensions between social control and individual freedoms through analysis of the moral issues involved in administering justice in society.  Students will examine the nature of human rights and the rule of law, as well as the interrelationship between criminal and civil law in American society.  Students will explore the ways in which public and private institutions, including legislatures, courts, law enforcement agencies, and community service organizations, affect the balance between the exercise of individual rights and the interests of the community.

GPSV 388 conducts an analysis of constitutional, legal, historical and political consequences of U.S. immigration and refugee policy.  Recent trends.  Foreign and domestic policy effects of migration

Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.

Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work.

GPSV 433 is an examination of the manner in which attitudes about politics and political problems are acquired from exposure to music and television, and the manner in which such attitudes lead to political action.

 GPSV 441 provides an analysis of American Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the present; Congressional-Executive clashes over foreign policy control; approaches to policy analysis. This is a writing emphasis course.

GPSV 445 is a description and analysis of Mexico's political economy, its political system, and its foreign policy, with emphasis on Mexican-U.S. relations.

GPSV 446 describes and analyzes the Mexican-United States Borderlands emphasizing several elements of the Borderlands culture, society, economy, and policy, as well as the evolution of borderlands in comparative perspective.

Legal status of women in America, including constitutional protections, marriage and family relationships, educational and vocational opportunities, political rights, criminal law.

In HUSV 430, students will conduct an examination of issues surrounding substance abuse.  Course topics include: impact of use on the individual, families and society, models of addiction, drug classification, assessment methods, intervention models, support groups, confidentiality, and ethics.

An overview of mental disorders, etiology, prevalence, diagnostic criteria.  The impact of disorders on those diagnosed and their families.  An introductory course for those planning to work in paraprofessional settings.

HUSV 450 covers multicultural theory and principles within human service settings, including in development and multicultural paraprofessional counseling.

INTV 314 covers decision-making structures, processes, and outcomes relevant to American security policy; comparison with major foreign powers.

INVT 442 instructs students on the international state system; legal-political problems, including territory, environment, seas.

INTV 443 will survey the many issues surrounding the management and resolution of international and domestic conflicts.

INVT 471 provides students with an overview of the role of intelligence in the formulation and execution of US national security policy. Will include a detailed look at challenges facing both the analysis of intelligence information and the introduction of that analysis into the national security policy process. Will also entail close reading and discussion of selected declassified intelligence documents.

INTV 472 is intended to provide students with a framework for understanding how the United States came to have the intelligence system that it possesses today.  After briefly developing a concept of the basic functions of intelligence (the organized collection and analysis of information and conduct of covert action that support the formulation and execution of US national security policy) the course will look at the evolution of US intelligence activity as it increasingly embodied those functions.  The largely chronological approach will begin with early intelligence organization during the Revolutionary War, then proceed through halting developmental steps during the 19th and early 20th centuries.  It will finally look at the major organizational expansion of intelligence activity from the 1940s onward.  An overarching theme will be the linkage between the growth of intelligence organizations and the growing need for information by US policymakers increasingly involved in the international environment.  Each class meeting will include lecture and discussion.  Particularly in covering 20th century developments, the course will involve reading of declassified intelligence documents.

INTV 473 is intended to familiarize students with the basic purposes and nature of US covert action and to help them understand its historical development. More fundamentally, the course will seek to illustrate both covert actions' potential utility and its inherent limitations and challenges; challenges that in some respects have intensified with the rise of non-state actors, the information revolution, and other aspects of the post-Cold War environment. Finally, the course will draw implications for the role of covert action against current national security challenges, especially global terror networks.

INTV 474 is an introduction to theories of international relations as applied to the study of terrorism, including an examination of major discourses on the conduct of state systems, the foundations of modern terrorism and associated evolution of ideology, tactics, and strategies; and evaluation of terrorist ideologies and how that evaluation can develop a framework for critical analysis.

LASV 361 covers the evolution of the borderlands since the mid-nineteenth century, with emphasis on bi-national interaction and interdependence.

LASV 388 is an analysis of constitutional, legal, historical and political consequences of U.S. immigration and refugee policy.  Recent trends.  Foreign and domestic policy effects of migration.

LASV 445 provides students with description and analysis of Mexico's political economy, its political system, and its foreign policy, with emphasis on Mexican-U.S. relations.

LASV 446 describes and analyzes the Mexican-United States Borderlands emphasizing several elements of the Borderlands culture, society, economy, and policy, as well as the evolution of borderlands in comparative perspective.

LDRV 305 integrates classical and current organizational psychosocial theories and theories of organizations that provide an understanding of the effects that an organizational system has on the behavior choices of human beings in the work environment.

This course serves as an introduction to empirical and theoretical research on the psychology of judgment, choice, and decision-making. Research on judgment and decision-making is being used for a broad range of applications, from improvements in medical practice, environmental policy, and business decisions, to methods to increase satisfaction with decisions about one's personal life. The primary goal of this course is to teach students about the research methods that are used to study judgment and decision making processes, and the findings of scientific research on this topic.

PSYV 368 is an introduction to theory and research on the psychology of terrorism and cross-cultural psychology.  An interdisciplinary consideration of this contemporary problem, analysis, Post-Traumatic Shock, as well as conflict resolution procedures will be examined.

This course will provide a broad overview of the topic of child abuse and neglect. Including the assessment and treatment of physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect.

PSYV 471 is an overview of psychological theories of leadership. Reviews leadership as a process, leader and follower behaviors, and situational characteristics. Analysis of historical and modern case studies will be used to apply theoretical concepts.