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In this course, students explore the relationship between history and culture as they survey major events, ideas, movements, and key individuals connected to the process of nation building. Readings and discussions include: the colonization of North America, the American Revolution, Western expansion, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the modern era. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

this course, students examine Chicago's socio-cultural and economic evolution from an industrial powerhouse and economic engine to a post-industrial, global city. Connections to globalized circuits of finance, trade, and immigration since the 1950s have shaped Chicago's more recent history, politics, and socio-economic development. Students examine the city’s transition from industrialization and manufacturing to a society based on leisure, tourism, and the consumption of goods, services, and information. The course further examines the contours of the new Chicago by analyzing the specific ways that race and ethnicity, cultural diversity, and identity politics shape the city’s health and prosperity. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

This course focuses on state and local governments within the context of the American federal system. Special emphasis is placed on federalism, the constitutional/legal relationships between state and local governments and the institutions, organizational forms and political processes in American state and local government. Counts in the Social Science Area of General Education Requirements. 5 quarter hours

Introduction to major topics in physical anthropology and aggregate or total sense-all markets taken together. Emphasis will be on contemporary issues such as unemployment, inflation, the business cycle, fiscal and monetary policy, the role of money, financial institutions, government operations, the stock market, gross domestic product, national income and the corporate world. Counts in the Social Science Area of General Education Requirements. Prerequisite: LAM 110 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours

This introductory course examines the issues of globalization and development through the interdisciplinary lens of economics, geography, and history. Students explore the principles of economics from a non-technical perspective and examine the costs and benefits of globalization; discover economic geography, with an emphasis on the distribution of human populations and natural resources, as well as the challenges related to the use of renewable and non-renewable resources; and debate the role of technological progress in our history and global economic development. Counts in the Social Science Area of General Education Requirements. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 5 quarter hours

This course is an analysis and study of economic behavior of the individual unit, i.e., the firm and the rational consumer. Microeconomics principles addressed include decision making of the firm, the household, labor, international trade, education and poverty. Special emphasis will be placed on the theory of supply and demand. Prerequisite: LAM 110 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours Counts in the Social Science Area of General Education Requirements.