Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2761 |
FORG-105-01 |
Orgs & Private Governance |
1.00 |
SEM |
Muhoza, Florence |
MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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An interdisciplinary seminar about governance in private organizations. The first half will cover key social units: close-knit groups, households, communes, and religions. The second half will cover a broad range of market organizations: firms, criminal organizations, sports leagues, not-for-profit organizations, clubs, and online platforms. Topics include: hierarchy, informal control, freedom of contract, organizational autonomy, mission, diversity, tournaments, deviance, discrimination, and openness. The course has a seminar format. Students will conduct policy debates about contentious governance issues of private organizations. Students will complete two individual (or small-group) research projects on topics chosen in consultation with the instructor. |
| 2762 |
FORG-105-02 |
Orgs & Private Governance |
1.00 |
SEM |
Muhoza, Florence |
MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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An interdisciplinary seminar about governance in private organizations. The first half will cover key social units: close-knit groups, households, communes, and religions. The second half will cover a broad range of market organizations: firms, criminal organizations, sports leagues, not-for-profit organizations, clubs, and online platforms. Topics include: hierarchy, informal control, freedom of contract, organizational autonomy, mission, diversity, tournaments, deviance, discrimination, and openness. The course has a seminar format. Students will conduct policy debates about contentious governance issues of private organizations. Students will complete two individual (or small-group) research projects on topics chosen in consultation with the instructor. |
| 3016 |
FORG-213-01 |
Normative Analysis of Orgs |
1.00 |
SEM |
Stringham, Edward |
W: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Formal Organizations 201 and FORG minor, or consent of instructor. |
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In this course we will compare and contrast positive and negative assessments of
organizations by outstanding social scientists. Students will analyze their field experiences in light of concepts from these studies. We will also consider how a liberal-arts education might prepare students to achieve ethical standards in
organizations. This seminar is designed for students enrolled in internships in a formal organization (public or private; for-profit or not-for-profit) to place experiences in an academic perspective. This seminar complements your internship by helping you analyze and ground what you have learned in the time in your organization. |
| 3004 |
FORG-291-01 |
Entrepreneurship & Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Muhoza, Florence |
MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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The course evaluates the role and nature of entrepreneurship and the market process, and contemporary public policy issues concerning business culture and the entrepreneur in modern society. A variety of theories of market competition and the significance of the entrepreneur are developed and contrasted in terms of innovation, uncertainty, market coordination, and economic growth and development. Market and political entrepreneurship are contrasted, and the topics of social corporate responsibility, insider trading, the environment, and the global economy are discussed in detail. Historical and institutional examples are drawn upon throughout the course. |
| 3005 |
FORG-291-02 |
Entrepreneurship & Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Kissel, Adam |
M: 6:30PM-9:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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The course evaluates the role and nature of entrepreneurship and the market process, and contemporary public policy issues concerning business culture and the entrepreneur in modern society. A variety of theories of market competition and the significance of the entrepreneur are developed and contrasted in terms of innovation, uncertainty, market coordination, and economic growth and development. Market and political entrepreneurship are contrasted, and the topics of social corporate responsibility, insider trading, the environment, and the global economy are discussed in detail. Historical and institutional examples are drawn upon throughout the course. |
| 3006 |
FORG-291-03 |
Entrepreneurship & Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Kissel, Adam |
T: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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The course evaluates the role and nature of entrepreneurship and the market process, and contemporary public policy issues concerning business culture and the entrepreneur in modern society. A variety of theories of market competition and the significance of the entrepreneur are developed and contrasted in terms of innovation, uncertainty, market coordination, and economic growth and development. Market and political entrepreneurship are contrasted, and the topics of social corporate responsibility, insider trading, the environment, and the global economy are discussed in detail. Historical and institutional examples are drawn upon throughout the course. |
| 3007 |
FORG-310-01 |
Theory & Philosophy of Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Kissel, Adam |
M: 1:30PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Why are some nations rich and some nations poor? Why are some brimming with entrepreneurship and economic activity and others are not? To what extent or when should markets be considered immoral or moral? Building off of the economic ideas of the first famous economist, Adam Smith, this course will discuss the potential importance, or pitfalls, of institutions, private property rights, and contracts for economic innovation.The course will focus on the formal and informal organizations that underpin and help support exchange. Students will also focus on writing a case study of a formal or informal organization designed to advance economic activity. The course will be reading-intensive and discussion-based. |
| 3017 |
FORG-315-01 |
Prohibitions |
1.00 |
SEM |
Alcorn, John |
MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This seminar tackles two questions: Why do we outlaw some consensual
behaviors by adults? And should we? Our common work will focus on prohibitions against lifestyles, markets,international migration, and making and taking life. Topics in contested lifestyles are recreational drug use and free marriage.Topics in contested markets are sex, adoption, organs for transplantation, secrecy (blackmail), and wagering on political predictions. Topics in contested ways of making and taking life are genetic engineering, abortion, and assisted suicide. Students will conduct policy debates about various prohibitions. We will devote several weeks towards the end of the semester to individual (or small-group) research projects by students. The research projects may be about topics we have covered or about other prohibitions.
Note: Students who have completed FYSM 105, Prohibitions, may not enroll in this course. |
| 2892 |
FORG-320-01 |
Behav & Design Organizations |
1.00 |
SEM |
Schneider, Arthur |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Formal Organizations 201, or consent of instructor |
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Advanced topics in human behavior with particular emphasis on behavior within the constraints imposed within organizations. The interaction of the structure of such formal organizations as bureaucracies, matrix organizations, not-for-profit organizations, and organizations specializing in the production of knowledge with the expected behavior of internal and external participants. |
| 3029 |
FORG-320-02 |
Behav & Design Organizations |
1.00 |
SEM |
Schneider, Arthur |
TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 19 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Prerequisite: C- or better in Formal Organizations 201, or consent of instructor |
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Advanced topics in human behavior with particular emphasis on behavior within the constraints imposed within organizations. The interaction of the structure of such formal organizations as bureaucracies, matrix organizations, not-for-profit organizations, and organizations specializing in the production of knowledge with the expected behavior of internal and external participants. |
| 3028 |
FORG-381-01 |
America & Wealth of Nations |
1.00 |
SEM |
Alcorn, John |
MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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1776 was a year of wonders in the development of liberty. The Founders published The Declaration of Independence, inspiring the American Revolution. Adam Smith published his masterpiece, The Wealth of Nations, making the case for free markets. Prompted by the 250th anniversary of these watershed moments in liberty and social theory, this course examines the legacy of 1776 for private governance. We will focus on the roles of self-mastery, community, voluntary association, property, and the market in “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” We will give due attention alike to brilliance and blind spots. We will study classic texts by Founders, Adam Smith, and Alexis de Tocqueville, and fresh appraisals by scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
The course has a seminar format. |
| 1857 |
FORG-399-01 |
Independent Study |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Obtain registration form from the Registrar's Office. |
| 1732 |
FORG-466-01 |
Teaching Assistantship |
0.50 - 1.00 |
IND |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
Y |
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Enrollment limited to 15 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin.
(0.5 - 1 course credit) |