2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

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• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

The focus of this course is to impart a practical and "real life" understanding and application of public budgeting from the practitioner’s perspective. This course will examine public budgets (government and nonprofit agencies), budgeting systems, and budgeting processes, and how decisions are made. Topics will include: state and local budgets, public finance and policy goals, the role of government regulations, revenue sources, planning, and decision making, as these pertain to the budget.

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This course explores both the economic development of nations and the dynamic ways in which national economies, governments, societies and international institutions interact within the context of global economic interdependence. 

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This course explores the complexities of current global issues and the related great decisions that the United States and the world community must confront. The World Affairs Council of Western Michigan provides world renowned lectures on select critical global issues each week. Some of the issues covered include ISIS, the Syrian refugee crisis, and the Iranian nuclear deal. New issues are explored as the world faces new crises.

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This course will provide students the foundation knowledge they need to understand the role and purpose of nonprofit organizations in contemporary American society. Students will learn what distinguishes, both philosophically and practically, the nonprofit sector from business and government. Particular attention will be given to mission, organizational structure, funding, and culture.   

• Offered: Fall Winter
• Prerequisites: MSED150 with a “C” or better.
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Probability and statistics, formal and informal geometry and measurement.

• Offered: Fall Winter
• Prerequisites: MA 100 or equivalent.
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Set theory, numeration, operations on whole numbers, integers, rational numbers and real numbers, and problem solving.

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• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Integrative Thinking (INTT)

Human happiness is a focus of multiple traditions -- artistic, poetic, religious, philosophical, scientific, and social scientific. This course addresses the social and cultural factors that contribute to, or detract from, the experience of happiness. The emphasis is on social forces – interpersonal, institutional, and global -- that shape our human journey on a path toward well-being.  

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• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.
• General Education: This course applies towards the following general education requirement(s):
  • Integrative Thinking (INTT)

Human happiness is a focus of multiple traditions -- artistic, poetic, religious, philosophical, scientific, and social scientific. This course addresses the social and cultural factors that contribute to, or detract from, the experience of happiness. The emphasis is on social forces – interpersonal, institutional, and global -- that shape our human journey on a path toward well-being.  

Cross-listed as SO 287.

• Offered: Fall, odd numbered years
• Prerequisites: Two of the following courses: AN 100, AN 101, or AN 110.
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Students receive a general introduction to theory and criticism in anthropology and cultural studies, which includes central theories that shape the theory and practice of the social sciences. Students will critically evaluate writings in Marxism, Globalization, Ideology and Hegemony, Structuralism, Post Structuralism, Place and Identity, Technology and Identity, and the Politics of Difference as relayed through diverse theories of Feminism, Race, and Post-Colonial Theory and Criticism.

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This course introduces students to the sociological study of sports with particular emphasis on American society. The course covers topics such as culture, structure, social interaction, deviance, and power. The central theme, however, is differentiation and stratification by race, gender, and class. In short: students will use sociological theories, methods, and empirical data to better understand the social institution of sport and its relationship to individual and collective lives.