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21st Century American Government and Politics v.1.0

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21st Century American Government and Politics v.1.0

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Textbook focusing on American Government and the specificities of the American political system. In covering American government and politics, this text:
• introduces the intricacies of the Constitution, the complexities of federalism, the meanings of civil liberties, and the conflicts over civil rights;
• explains how people are socialized to politics, acquire and express opinions, and participate in political life;
• describes interest groups, political parties, and elections—the intermediaries that link people to government and politics;
• details the branches of government and how they operate; and
• shows how policies are made and affect people’s lives.

Subject:: Political Science
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: David L. Paletz; Diana Owen; Timothy E. Cook
Date Added:: 12/29/2012

AIDS and Poverty in Africa, Spring 2005

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AIDS and Poverty in Africa, Spring 2005

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This is a discussion-based interactive seminar on the two major issues that affect Sub-Saharan Africa: HIV/AIDS and Poverty. AIDS and Poverty, seemingly different concepts, are more inter-related to each other in Africa than in any other continent. As MIT students, we feel it is important to engage ourselves in a dynamic discussion on the relation between the two - how to fight one and how to solve the other.

Subject:: Political Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Bobbili, Raja
Date Added:: 01/01/2005

ANTH101: Free textbook and hub for teaching cultural anthropology

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ANTH101: Free textbook and hub for teaching cultural anthropology

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* a free alternative to expensive Introduction to Cultural Anthropology textbooks

* includes a full textbook and several original videos

* includes 10 "challenges" (assignments)

* a hub of original and found resources for teaching and learning anthropology

* a “connected course” of many faculty around the world sharing instructional materials

* an open course freely available to anyone online

* an emerging producer of original anthropological videos and other digital content

Subject:: Anthropology
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Michael Wesch; Ryan Klataske; Tom Woodward
Date Added:: 11/11/2019

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2011, Spring 2011

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Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Executive Training: Evaluating Social Programs 2011, Spring 2011

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This five-day program on evaluating social programs will provide a thorough understanding of randomized evaluations and pragmatic step-by-step training for conducting one's own evaluation. While the course focuses on randomized evaluations, many of the topics, such as measuring outcomes and dealing with threats to the validity of an evaluation, are relevant for other methodologies. About the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab J-PAL's goal is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is based on scientific evidence. Every day, evidence generated by J-PAL researchers is influencing policy and improving lives, sometimes very directly - for example through the scale-up of effective programs- but also in less direct but equally important ways. To date, our evidence has helped improve the lives of at least 30 million people around the world through the scale-up of highly effective policies and programs. By 2013, J-PAL aims to have positively impacted 100 million lives.

Subject:: Sociology
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther; Glennerster, Rachel
Date Added:: 01/01/2011

Abnormal Behavior

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This course will help to define abnormal and normal behaviors and to group these abnormal phenomena into 'disorders.' It will cover the basic concepts surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of abnormal psychological phenomena. The student will investigate the characteristics, epidemiology, controversy, and treatment of individual disorders. The student will begin by defining normal versus abnormal behavior and reviewing the historical context in which abnormal psychology emerged, then discuss the major theories or paradigms associated with abnormal psychology, the classification system used to differentiate and define disorders, and the research methods often utilized in the study of abnormal psychology. Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to: describe the historical context from which the current conceptualization of abnormal psychology has evolved; identify and describe the main theoretical perspectives/paradigms which have influenced the field of abnormal psychology; identify and differentiate the classification of psychological disorders; evaluate treatment approaches; explain the major research findings for each group of disorders and how they add to our knowledge of the causes and treatment of psychological disorders. (Psychology 401)

Subject:: Psychology
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Lecture; Lecture Notes; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

Abnormal Language, Fall 2004

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Abnormal Language, Fall 2004

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Introduction to the linguistic study of language pathology, concentrating on experimental approaches and theoretical explanations. Discussion of Specific Language Impairment, autism, Down syndrome, Williams syndrome, normal aging, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, hemispherectomy and aphasia. Focuses on the comparison of linguistic abilities among these syndromes, while drawing clear comparisons with first and second language acquisition. Topics include the lexicon, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Relates the lost linguistic abilities in these syndromes to properties of the brain.

Subject:: Linguistics; Psychology
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Hirsch, Christopher; Wexler, Kenneth
Date Added:: 01/01/2004

Abnormal Psychology

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Abnormal Psychology

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This text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from existing open educational resources.

Chapter 1: Defining & Classifying Abnormal Behaviour
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Defining Psychopathology
1.2 Cultural Expectations
1.3 Clinical Assessment
1.4 Diagnosing and Classifying Abnormal Behavior
Summary and Self-Test: Defining & Classifying Abnormal Behaviour

Chapter 2: Perspectives on Abnormal Behaviour
Chapter 2 Introduction
2.1 Historical Perspectives on Mental Illness
2.2 Therapeutic Orientations
2.3 The Biological Model
2.4 Psychopharmacology
2.5 Evidence Based Practice & Empirically Supported Treatments
Summary and Self-Test: Perspectives on Abnormal Behaviour

Chapter 3: Mood Disorders
Chapter 3 Introduction
3.1 Mood Disorders
Summary and Self-Test: Mood Disorders

Chapter 4: Anxiety Disorders
Chapter 4 Introduction
4.1 Anxiety and Related Disorders
4.2 Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Summary and Self-Test: Anxiety Disorders

Chapter 5: Schizophrenia & Related Psychotic Disorders
Chapter 5 Introduction
5.1 Schizophrenia & Related Psychotic Disorders
Summary and Self-Test: Schizophrenia & Related Psychotic Disorders

Chapter 6: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Chapter 6 Introduction
6.1 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Summary and Self-Test: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

Chapter 7: ADHD and Related Behaviour Disorders in Childhood
Chapter 7 Introduction
7.1 ADHD and Behaviour Disorders in Children
Summary and Self-Test: ADHD and Behaviour Disorders in Children

Chapter 8: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Chapter 8 Introduction
8.1 Autism: Insights from the study of the social brain
Summary and Self-Test: Autism

Chapter 9: Personality Disorders
Chapter 9 Introduction
9.1 Personality Disorders
Summary and Self-Test: Personality Disorders

Subject:: Psychology
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Jorden A
Date Added:: 07/09/2020

Abnormal Psychology

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Abnormal Psychology

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1 Psychological Research
1.1 Why Is Research Important?
1.2 Approaches to Research
1.3 Analyzing Findings
1.4 Ethics
2 Stress, Lifestyle, and Health
2.1 What Is Stress?
2.2 Stressors
2.3 Stress and Illness
2.4 Regulation of Stress
2.5 The Pursuit of Happiness
3 Psychological Disorders
3.1 What Are Psychological Disorders?
3.2 Diagnosing and Classifying Psychological Disorders
3.3 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
3.4 Anxiety Disorders
3.5 Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
3.6 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
3.7 Mood Disorders
3.8 Schizophrenia
3.9 Dissociative Disorders
3.10 Personality Disorders
3.11 Disorders in Childhood

Subject:: Psychology
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Delta College Elearning Office
Date Added:: 07/06/2020

Abnormal Psychology

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Abnormal Psychology

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Abnormal Psychology is an Open Education Resource written by Alexis Bridley, Ph.D. and Lee W. Daffin Jr., Ph.D. through Washington State University which tackles the difficult topic of mental disorders in 15 modules. After the first three foundational modules, a discussion of mental disorders ensues to include depressive, anxiety, personality, schizophrenic, eating, and obsessive-compulsive to name a few.

Part I. Setting the Stage
Module 1: What is Abnormal Psychology?
Module 2: Models of Abnormal Psychology
Module 3: Clinical Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Part II. Mental Disorders – Block 1
Module 4: Mood Disorders
Module 5: Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders
Module 6: Dissociative Disorders
Part III. Mental Disorders – Block 2
Module 7: Anxiety Disorders
Module 8: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
Module 9: Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Part IV. Mental Disorders – Block 3
Module 10: Eating Disorders
Module 11: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders
Part V. Mental Disorders – Block 4
Module 12: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
Module 13: Personality Disorders
Part VI. Mental Disorders – Block 5
Module 14: Neurocognitive Disorders
Module 15: Contemporary Issues in Psychopathology

Also available here: https://opentext.wsu.edu/abnormal-psych/

Subject:: Psychology
Material Type:: Textbook
Author:: Alexis Bridley; Lee W. Daffin Jr.
Date Added:: 07/06/2020

Advanced Animal Behavior, Spring 2000

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Advanced Animal Behavior, Spring 2000

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Reviews selected issues including learning, cognition, perception, foraging and feeding, migration and navigation, defense, and social activities including conflict, collaboration, courtship and reproduction, and communication. The interacting contributions of environment and heredity are examined and the approaches of psychology, ethology, and ecology to this area of study are treated. The relation of human behavior patterns to those of nonhuman animals is explored. Additional readings and a paper are required for graduate credit.

Subject:: Biology; Psychology
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Schneider, Gerald
Date Added:: 01/01/2000

Advanced Contract Theory, Spring 2005

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Advanced Contract Theory, Spring 2005

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Recent developments in contract theory. Includes advanced models of moral hazard, adverse selection, mechanism design and incomplete contracts with applications to theory of the firm, organizational design, and financial structure.

Subject:: Business and Communication; Economics
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Izmalkov, Sergei
Date Added:: 01/01/2005

Advanced Energy Policy

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Advanced Energy Policy

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Energy policy is typically evolutionary as opposed to revolutionary. We can look to historical policies to understand how we've inherited the policies governing our energy use today. But looking backward only tells us part of the story. In the face of climate change, we need to look ahead and instead envision a more revolutionary change to our energy systems and the policies that govern them. This class takes you on that journey to energy policies past, present, and future. We look at the political realities of addressing climate change at various scales of governance and work together to craft our own ideal scenarios of what a responsible energy future will be.

Subject:: Business and Communication; Environmental Studies; U.S. History; Economics
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: Penn State University
Provider Set:: Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (http:// e-education.psu.edu/oer/)
Author:: Brandi Robinson
Date Added:: 04/25/2019

Advanced Macroeconomics I, Fall 2012

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Advanced Macroeconomics I, Fall 2012

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This course is an advanced course in macroeconomics that seeks to bring students to the research frontier. The course is divided into two sections. The first half is taught by Prof. Ivn Werning and covers topics such as how to formulate and solve optimal problems. Students will study fiscal and monetary policy, among other issues. The second half, taught by Prof. George-Marios Angeletos, covers recent work on multiple equilibria, global games, and informational fictions.

Subject:: Economics
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: George-Marios Angeletos; Ivn Werning
Date Added:: 01/01/2012

Advanced Macroeconomics II, Spring 2007

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Advanced Macroeconomics II, Spring 2007

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Topics change from year to year. Most recent topics include: optimal fiscal and monetary policy; optimal capital taxation; time inconsistency and incentive incompatibility of optimal policies; redistribution and political economics; heterogeneous agents and incomplete markets; Real Business Cycle models and new-keynesian models; endogenous growth; aggregate fluctuations and propagation mechanisms; recursive methods and robust control in macro.

Subject:: Economics
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Lorenzoni, Guido
Date Added:: 01/01/2007

Advanced Phonology, Spring 2005

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Advanced Phonology, Spring 2005

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This course focuses on phonological phenomena that are sensitive to morphological structure, including base-reduplicant identity, cyclicity, level ordering, derived environment effects, opaque rule interactions, and morpheme structure constraints. In the recent OT literature, it has been claimed that all of these phenomena can be analyzed with a single theoretical device: correspondence constraints, which regulate the similarity of lexically related forms (such as input and output, base and derivative, base and reduplicant).

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Linguistics
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Albright, Adam; Steriade, Donca
Date Added:: 01/01/2005

Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS), Spring 2007

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Advanced Workshop in Writing for Social Sciences and Architecture (ELS), Spring 2007

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Advanced subject focusing on techniques, format, and prose style used in academic and professional life. Emphasis on writing as required in fields such as economics, political science, and architecture. Short assignments include: business letters, memos, and proposals that lead toward a written term project. Methods designed to deal with the special problems of those whose first language is not English. Successful completion satisfies Phase II of the Writing Requirement. This workshop is designed to help you write clearly, accurately and effectively in both an academic and a professional environment. In class, we analyze various forms of writing and address problems common to advanced speakers of English. We will often read one another's work.

Subject:: Architecture and Design; Arts and Humanities; Language, Grammar and Vocabulary; Political Science
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Brennecke, Patricia W.
Date Added:: 01/01/2007

Affect: Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of Feelings, Spring 2013

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Affect: Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects of Feelings, Spring 2013

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This course studies the relations of affect to cognition and behavior, feeling to thinking and acting, and values to beliefs and practices. These connections will be considered at the psychological level of organization and in terms of their neurobiological and sociocultural counterparts.

Subject:: Biology; Psychology
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Chorover, Stephan
Date Added:: 01/01/2009

Affective Priming at Short and Extremely Short Exposures, Spring 2003

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Affective Priming at Short and Extremely Short Exposures, Spring 2003

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This course is an investigation of affective priming and creation of rigorously counterbalanced, fully computerized testing paradigm. Includes background readings, study design, counterbalancing, study execution, data analysis, presentation of poster, and final paper.

Subject:: Psychology
Material Type:: Full Course
Provider:: M.I.T.
Provider Set:: M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:: Corkin, Suzanne
Date Added:: 01/01/2003

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African Art

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This course will introduce the student to the art and architecture of Africa from a Western art historical perspective. This course will emphasize the role of art as manifested in the lifestyles, spiritualities, and philosophies of particular African societies, while also broaching aesthetic principles and the study and display of African art. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: demonstrate an understanding of transitions in the national geography of the African continent from the 17th century to the present; demonstrate an understanding of the ethnic diversity and distinct cultural traditions among people of Africa; identify and discuss materials and techniques employed in the creation of a range of African artistic and architectural works; discuss the functions and meanings of a range of African art forms; identify traditional styles and forms strongly associated with particular cultural groups. (Art History 304)

Subject:: Arts and Humanities; Art History; Ethnic Studies
Material Type:: Assessment; Full Course; Homework/Assignment; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019

African Politics

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African Politics

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This course will provide the student with a broad overview of African politics placed within the context of Africa's recent history, taking into account Africa's colonial relationships and then the post-colonial period. This course will analyze on the internal workings and challenges of African states, including their movements towards democratization, their economic statuses, the connections between their governmental and non-governmental institutions/organizations, and the various ways in which their societies and cultures impact their politics. This course also asks questions about the nature of Africa's conflicts, reviewing larger trends within Africa's political economy, and inquiring about the promise of continental and sub-continental political integration efforts. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to: explain how colonialism and independence movements contributed to and shaped contemporary African statehood; identify the main causes of state and political failure in Africa; define underdevelopment and explain the causes of economic failure in Africa; discuss the causes of civil and interstate conflict in Africa; apply knowledge of Africa's history to explain current causes of crisis and the roles of different actors within the state and international community; compare and contrast economically and politically stable states with those that are unstable and identify the main features of stability; identify and explain some of the major social, cultural, and economic challenges (such as HIV/AIDS) that contemporary African states face, as well as the role international actors play in addressing these challenges. (Political Science 325)

Subject:: Political Science
Material Type:: Full Course; Lecture; Lecture Notes; Reading; Syllabus
Provider:: The Saylor Foundation
Date Added:: 04/29/2019