See listing under Culture, Text and Language.

See listing under Culture, Text and Language.

See listing under Culture, Text and Language.

Anyone who wants to understand American politics needs to understand the ways in which the structure, values and history of American government create and constrain our present choices. This class provides an overview of the structure of American government, its historical development and critical questions regarding present day politics and future prospects. It is designed both for prospective teachers and students looking for a solid introduction to American politics.

This course is designed to help people understand the influence of economics on public policy. The class will develop an understanding of economic analysis with an emphasis on macro and microeconomics. In addition, this class focuses on the public policy implications that result from an understanding of basic economics. Students will be expected to regularly gather pertinent articles for class discussion. In addition, students will be expected to work in small groups and regularly make presentations that clarify fundamental economic concepts. This class serves as a prerequisite for graduate school including Evergreen?fs MPA and MES programs.

This course will prepare you to develop and write Individual Education Plans (IEPs) as required by IDEA-2004 that are legally correct, educationally useful and hold up to audits. You will interpret a disabled student?fs assessment and write an effective IEP including Present Levels of Performance, appropriate annual goals and short term objectives (when necessary). You will look at all stages of the IEP process and learn how to avoid crucial errors which can lead to due processes. You will differentiate between effective and problematic IEPs and see how an incomplete IEP could be interpreted as denial of FAPE. Transition (post high school) IEPs and 504 plans will also be covered.

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This is an introduction to business. We will examine the program title punctuated in different ways. Business Matters. - what business is and how it operates. Business Matters! - the role of business in the U.S. and global economies. Business Matters? - why is business important, are there alternatives? We will cover business concepts, introductory finance, basic microeconomics, business ethics and current issues related to business.

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Together we are going to work on communicating ideas consciously and effectively. We will become better speakers and writers. We?fll start by assessing what we have, need and want. We?fll learn some history of communication. We?fll work on listening: to each other, to our audience, and to ourselves. You?fll be able to work on projects, campaigns, or writing you?fre already developing. This will be a comfortable but serious space to improve how you get across to others what?fs important to you.

Students will learn to use QuickBooks and Excel to control their businesses. This experience will enable students to better integrate academic knowledge of business and/or accounting with practical applications. If you want to learn how to control cost, create budgets, manage cash flow, do bookkeeping, or just understand how to manage your personal finances, this course is for you.

This course will take a critical look at controversial issues in the criminal justice system, including police misconduct and interrogation, mandatory minimum sentencing, decriminalization of medicinal marijuana and prostitution, needle exchange programs, the insanity defense, children tried as adults, privatization of prisons and physician-assisted suicide. It will be taught via the Internet through a course web site, an electronic message board, a chat room for seminars and e-mail.

This intensive weekend course will explore the media and its intricate relationship to crime. We will examine the effect of tabloidization on public opinions and perceptions regarding crime and deviancy and how those opinions translate into tougher laws and harsher punishment. We will study the effects of media on behavior and aggression, glamorization of violence and gangster culture, and the characteristics of "responsible" and "irresponsible" programming. Students can expect to explore issues surrounding free speech, governmental intervention and parental authority in great depth. Students will replicate relevant public opinion research, analyze various media and participate in several small-group workshops.

This program will concentrate on immersion of the students into Latino-American cultures and politics by focusing on a variety of interrelated learning activities. The program, for intermediate and advanced Spanish speakers, will be conducted entirely in Spanish language. Students will have an opportunity to extend their knowledge of the language by actively learning about Latin American events, arts and cultural expressions. The program is preparatory for careers and future studies in social sciences, cultural studies, anthropology, education, community studies, Spanish language, history and politics.

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This course is designed to help people understand what is happening in the economy. The class will focus on current events and use fundamental economic concepts to explain how the economic system functions. There is a focus on both macro and microeconomics and their relationship to public policy. This class fulfills a prerequisite for graduate school including Evergreen?fs MPA and MES programs.

The government plays important roles in the economy and economic analysis plays an important role in framing governmental policy. In this class, we will examine how the government regulates the economy through control over spending, interest rates and the money supply. Additionally we will explore the usefulness and limitations of economic analysis in setting government policies that, for example, influence environmental regulations. In the process, students will gain an understanding and an appreciation of the power of both macro and microeconomics. This class fulfills a common prerequisite for graduate school including Evergreen?fs MPA and MES programs.

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The U.S. economy relies heavily on domestic capital markets for investments. Using these markets, willing buyers of corporate stocks and bonds provide financial capital to the country's enterprise system. Information provided in financial statements is critical to buyer's willingness to invest. Using current financial statements of actual firms, this course teaches basic financial statement analysis and allows students to experiment using this knowledge by managing an investment portfolio in online stock market simulation games.

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Human lifeways in the past were strongly influenced by local ecological factors. This course will explore the interaction between humans and their environment in the past. We will explore how different ecologies shape the options perceived and selected by past human populations in terms of subsistence patterns, diet and social organization. We will also examine how human behavior can also "over-ride" the local environment.

The success of an organization is dependent upon effective implementation of human resource management functions and laws. In order to accomplish this success, it is necessary to understand and be able to apply human resource management functions and laws. This program will examine recruiting, staffing, training and performance management while considering the role of discrimination, labor and safety laws in each of these areas. This program will also provide practical application through case analysis and class discussion.

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This program explores the importance of the increasingly globalized economy and its effects throughout the world. Students will study issues related to the effects of this development on both industrialized and less developed countries. We will explore issues of trade liberalization, labor and capital mobility, multinational corporations, the management of currency flows and the increasing environmental concerns across national borders. Students will regularly make presentations related to critical concepts and they will gather and present current articles dealing with events and issues around the world.

Many arguments that oppose tougher penalties for juvenile offenders suggest that juvenile delinquency is a larger issue that must be prevented through communities, families, education and the media. We will explore social and economic influences, positive and negative risk factors and past and current theories of delinquency and behavior, as well as emerging and promising programs that address prevention.