Class
No. |
Course ID |
Title |
Credits |
Type |
Instructor(s) |
Days:Times |
Location |
Permission
Required |
Dist |
Qtr |
| 2402 |
FORG-105-01 |
Orgs & Private Governance |
1.00 |
SEM |
Muhoza, Florence |
TR: 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. |
| 2403 |
FORG-105-02 |
Orgs & Private Governance |
1.00 |
SEM |
Muhoza, Florence |
TR: 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. |
| 2915 |
FORG-201-01 |
Form Org & Mkt Behavior |
1.00 |
SEM |
Schneider, Arthur |
TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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This course will consider the likely behavior within Formal Organizations using the benchmark of economic thinking and market mechanisms. The course will discuss the role of prices, property, and profit and loss in a market economy, and it will ponder to what extent such arrangements might be applied within firms. It will discuss potential problems of organization when concerns for opportunity cost, economic calculation, or entrepreneurial thinking are lacking. Students will read classic and modern economic texts and then read business case studies to explore when and where the lessons of economics might apply. |
| 2916 |
FORG-280-01 |
College |
1.00 |
SEM |
Alcorn, John |
MWF: 12:00PM-12:50PM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 12 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Also cross-referenced with EDUC |
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An interdisciplinary analysis of selective liberal-arts colleges and kindred universities. Topics include rankings, admissions, diversity, athletics, social life, governance, and payoff. The course has a seminar format. The seminar serves as an introductory case study in formal organizations. |
| 2971 |
FORG-281-01 |
Morality & Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Alcorn, John |
MWF: 11:00AM-11:50AM |
TBA |
Y |
SOC
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Enrollment limited to 18 |
Waitlist available: N |
Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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An introduction to moral issues that markets and firms present. Markets and firms tend to foster mutual benefit, efficiency, consumer sovereignty, and entrepreneurship. But they can also foster greed, deleterious competition, negative spillovers, disruption, commodification, vice, self-defeating consumerism, and inequality. And they can either involve or dissolve discrimination, corruption, and coercion. We will examine and weigh these phenomena with interdisciplinary social-science and moral criteria from psychology, philosophy, and theology.
The course pedagogy is ‘academic coaching.’ Tutorials during office hours will prepare you to lead classes with presentations, debates, and roundtables. You will also do a research project. The seminar will equip you to make up your own mind about fraught issues, in light of key concepts and evidence, and through civil discourse and debate. |
| 2577 |
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. |
| 2578 |
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. |
| 2579 |
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. |
| 2917 |
FORG-291-04 |
Entrepreneurship & Markets |
1.00 |
SEM |
Kissel, Adam |
M: 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. |
| 2601 |
FORG-320-01 |
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. |
| 2920 |
FORG-360-01 |
Markets, Games, and Strat Beh |
1.00 |
LEC |
Schneider, Arthur |
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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Prerequisite: C- or better in Formal Organizations 201, or consent of instructor |
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Under the umbrella of bounded and theoretical rationality, this course will introduce students to the theory of games and strategic behavior. Our focus will be on the theory of bargaining and studying bargaining games including Volunteer and Traveler’s Dilemma, Public Goods Game as well as Dictator, Ultimatum, and Trust Games. We will explore the role of social preferences and study the adaptation processes that players exhibit in competitive strategic interactions as well as the rationale behind traits such as reciprocity, fairness, altruism, and trust. Students will learn methodology of research and design their own game experiments. |
| 1817 |
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. |
| 1693 |
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) |