Outside Classes
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These courses may have been taken by previous Social Work students or may have been identified as of possible interest to Social Work students. Some courses may be restricted and/or not open to
Social Work students. There are many other courses not listed offered elsewhere in the university that may be of interest. Interest in courses numbered below 500 should be checked for graduate
level status since many are only offered for undergraduate credit. You can check this by contacting the department offering the course or contacting the SSW Registrar.
The information may not be up to date or complete. Please seek additional information from the department where the course is offered and from the instructors of the course. We strongly
recommend you discuss your plans to take outside courses with your advisor to make sure they are a good fit for your educational program.
| School: |
American Culture (Graduate) |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Permission of instructor |
| Course Description: |
This course concentrates on a variety of ways of studying American society and its culture and provides an introduction to the conceptual frameworks and intellectual history of American Studies. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Fletcher, Matthew L M | Mon | 2401 MH | 24236 |
| School: |
Anthropology - Cultural |
| Prerequisites: |
400-level coursework in Anthropology; and graduate standing. |
| Course Description: |
Critical Theories of Criminalization and Punishment
Now more than ever, the phrases “prison industrial complex,” “mass incarceration,” “carceral state” and “abolition” are deployed frequently - evidence of heightened concern about the use of surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as catch-all responses to social, political and economic problems. While encouraging, there is also a danger that in “mass awareness,” analytic specificity may be lost. With an emphasis on ethnographic and anthropological contributions, this course will draw from a range of critical scholarship to examine the numerous processes, institutions, and techniques through which people are criminalized, caged, and controlled. In doing so, the course provides an opportunity to “deep dive” into distinct (and sometimes competing) explanatory frameworks on nature, purpose, and logic that uphold and expand the U.S. carceral regime, as well as its human impacts. Throughout, we will forefront the ways people have resisted and are resisting and consider the political stakes of different ways of understanding, explaining, and addressing the problem. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Keane, Webb | Wed | 210 WH | 34616 |
| School: |
Economics |
| Credits: |
4 |
| Prerequisites: |
ECON 101 and 102, and MATH 115. It is strongly recommended that students take ECON 401 before 402. |
| Course Description: |
This course in macroeconomics deals with the determination of broad economic aggregates such as national income, employment, the price level, and the balance of payments in both the short run and the long run. Rigorous analysis is used to understand the forces that determine these economic variables, and how they are affected by public policies. ECON 402 is a prerequisite for many other courses offered in Economics. Concentrators in economics are required to elect this course and are encouraged to complete it early in their concentration program. It is strongly recommended that students take ECON 401 before 402. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Zamulin, Oleg | - | 1800 CHEM | 11018 |
| 002 | Wagar, Clay | - | 1339 MH | 11020 |
| 004 | Iqbal, Razi | Fri | 1405 EQ | 11021 |
| 005 | Velasquez, Daniel | Fri | 3330 MH | 11023 |
| 006 | Kontar, Jana | Fri | 3330 MH | 11024 |
| 007 | Zamulin, Oleg | Fri | 1427 MH | 11025 |
| 008 | Olson, John | - | 3437 MH | 18061 |
| 009 | You, Niaoniao | Fri | LEC RM 1 MLB | 22698 |
| 003 | Zamulin, Oleg | - | 1339 MH | 26705 |
| 010 | Zamulin, Oleg | Fri | 3437 MH | 31758 |
| 011 | Wagar, Clay | Fri | 1505 NUB | 34091 |
| 012 | Zamulin, Oleg | Fri | R0230 BUS | 35082 |
| TBD | TBD | Wed | | 36324 |
| 013 | Zamulin, Oleg | - | 3242 LSA | 37620 |
| 014 | Zamulin, Oleg | - | 3242 LSA | 37621 |
| School: |
Economics |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
Emphasizes theory and evidence on government expenditure policy. Topics covered include the theory of public goods, state and local public goods, welfare economics and income distribution, political economy and voting mechanisms, and the design and evaluation of social insurance programs. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Hines Jr, James R | Mon, Wed | 171 LORCH | 15777 |
| School: |
Education C Behavioral Sciences in Education |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Permission of instructor |
| Course Description: |
This first semester of the proseminar encourages discussions of current topics in educational psychology with emphasis on classroom learning, motivation, and psychoeducational assessment. Invited speakers from education, psychology, and related departments present on their current research. A major focus of the course is on research methods and helping students initiate and complete their first-year research projects. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Matthews, Jamaal Sharif | Wed | 2225 SEB | 18780 |
| School: |
Education |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
Explores scholarship and research relevant to current issues in education. Issues vary by term and faculty. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Hannegan-Martinez, Sharim | - | 4212 SEB | 34500 |
| School: |
Education |
| Credits: |
3.0 |
| Course Description: |
Provides an overview of the postsecondary education system in the United States; examines the major features of this system and explores its effects; explores effects of various professional and disciplinary perspectives on the study of postsecondary education viewed as an interdisciplinary field. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Noble, Chelsea | - | 1315 SEB | 10220 |
| School: |
Education |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
Examines patterns of intellectual, social and emotional development and change among older adolescents and adults; reviews and research on learning and development among college and university students. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Perez, Rosemary Jane | Mon | 2229 SEB | 27226 |
| School: |
Education |
| Course Description: |
Many national organizations have defined the K-16 'pipeline' as a set of steps that must be taken by students who aspire to attend college. Typically this includes taking preparatory courses in high school, taking college entrance exams, and applying to college and for student aid. Based in part on studies that have considered correlations among variables related to these steps and college outcomes, some states have revised high school graduation requirements and implemented new encouragement and
financial aid programs.
In this seminar students will examine the policy agendas of various national advocacy groups, as well as the research on which they base their arguments. The course will also explore more complex policy issues and research related to: educational improvement in elementary, middle and high schools; postsecondary transitions, including mentoring, information services and student aid; and programs that encourage and support student engagement and success in colleges.
Students and faculty will also explore how advocacy and research are used in, and influence, formulation and revision of education and finance policies in states and at the federal level. We will explore the current political landscape in education, examine political agendas, consider the
research designed to support the underlying rationales and consider ways to better conduct research designed to address policy questions. Students will examine and compare research that has been completed by NCES and other groups to inform policy as well as research that evaluates the effects of
policies and reform programs. Interestingly, while many groups espouse policy agendas related to K-16 reform, very few studies actually assess the linkages between these policies (i.e., accountability, standards, graduate requirements, etc.) and the outcomes they are designed to influence
The seminar will have five separate segments. During the initial sessions(weeks 1-2) we will focus on cross-cutting issues, as well as the overall course design. The remainder of the course will be approached as four modules covering: national policy agendas (weeks 3-5); research used to
rationalize policy agendas (weeks 6-8); specific reform topics in K-12, college transitions, and college success (weeks 9-11); research related to the selected reform topics (weeks 12-14). During the last two modules, students will work on independent projects and share their work with each other. Extensive readings will be available through web linkages and there will be guest speakers will consider research and policy agendas, as well as disciplinary perspectives (from economics, sociology, education and
policy studies) on policy analysis and research. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Beal, Jesse | Mon | 2334 SEB | 25356 |
| 003 | Braunschneider, Theresa | - | 2320 SEB | 27690 |
| 004 | McCall, Brian P | Mon | 2346 SEB | 34216 |
| School: |
Education |
| Credits: |
3 |
| Course Description: |
Provides a view of the sociological and psychological issues affecting African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/as (Hispanics), Native Americans, and women in higher education. Topics include the racial and gender stratification of the higher education system and the emergence of institutions that serve special populations, a critical review of research on minority and women's achievement, research on women and minority faculty, campus race relations, and controversies in the policies and discourse regarding cultural diversity. |
Offerings
| Section | Instructor | Days | Location | U-M Class # |
|---|
| 001 | Bowman, Phillip Jess | - | 4212 SEB | 27692 |