Emphasizes best practices and provides practical experience in resource development, including fundraising. Students will learn essential resource management skills, including strategic planning for annual giving, major gifts, and planned giving. Special attention is given to the following specific aspects of the fundraising process: prospect research, donor stewardship and retention, crowdfunding, case statements, direct mail, telephone solicitation, special events, lapsed donors, taxation and bequests, and capital campaigns.

Formerly known as Strategic Planning, this course introduces students to the public policy process and its key institutions and actors (such as legislative bodies, chief executives, administrative agencies, courts, interest groups, advocacy coalitions, and the media). Emphasizes key parameters of public policy formulation (agenda setting, policy formulation and design, implementation, evaluation) and theories of policy change. Students will be able to differentiate policy types and tools, effectively use evidence in shaping public policy, and will appreciate the importance of context (social, economic, political, and technological) in developing effective policies.

Vary per semester.

This course focuses on the assessment, development, prevention, and treatment of youth violence among children and adolescents. Understanding and preventing youth violence is a major focus of the nation's policy agenda and involves research and practice in the mental health, public health, psychiatry, and criminal justice communities. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the course reviews the biological, social, and psychological underpinnings of youth violence, and discuss how policy makers and practitioners at all levels deal with this problem.

Examines selected ethical problems and dilemmas facing public servants, including conflict of interest, confidentiality, deception, the appearance of impropriety, official disobedience, whistle-blowing, human rights, and the moral responsibilities of leaders and citizens.

Writing Intensive.

This course is about people living together in democratic communities and the particular role community service plays in support of those communities. Community service in a wide variety of settings has become a significant way in which we accomplish public goals. Critically examines the community service approach to public work and seeks to understand how service might be more effective in improving community life. Students will learn basic strategies and tactics utilized by individuals, groups, and organizations to maintain and improve the quality of life in their communities.

During interactive classes we will explore various aspects of forensic psychology. For example, criminal psychology, profiling, psychopathologies in offenders, screening and selection of potential law enforcement agents, investigative psychology, the role of psychologists in adult and juvenile proceedings and sentencing, child custody evaluations, and correctional psychology in institutions and in the community.

Examines the role of one's culture in various aspects of identity and development. Students examine the role of culture in psychology, look at the way in which psychologists have traditionally examined culture, and explore practices in various cultures throughout the world. This course will emphasize many real-world applications of cross-cultural psychology and will explore topics such as interpersonal relationships, social behaviors, and ethnocentrism.

Introduces the study of human cognition. Topics include perception, attention, memory, knowledge representation, language, problem-solving, thinking, and reasoning. How is the world represented, and what are the processes underlying those representations?  Considers the real-world implications of laboratory findings.

Interdisciplinary study of Latinx in the United States, including distinct immigrants, national origin, and ethnic groups.