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Courses
Students will receive six credit hours as they study governance and
decision-making with acclaimed Oxford scholars and IU faculty.
Classes
include:
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Decision-Making in
Public and Private Contexts: the Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly (SPEA V450): An interdiscplinary approach
to decision-making that includes perspectives from
economics, psychology, history, sociology, and more.
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Governance
in Public and Private Contexts: Herding Cats (SPEA
V450): A fascinating look at how individuals and
organizations govern their cooperative relationships.
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2008
Course Information
Syllabus
SPEA
V450 Decision-Making
Schedule
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Readings
Assignments
SPEA V450
Governance
Schedule
(pdf)
(html)
Readings
Assignments |
The design of these courses
is, perhaps, more akin to a British course of study than an American class.
Students have a great deal of freedom with respect to what types of readings
they pursue and in what depth.
While there are minimum requirements for
the classes, they are rather open-ended with respect to the upper
limit of
inquiry. There is no neat packaging here. Students will have to find motivation from their own curiosity
and drive to excel rather than from the courses'
structure. If you are accustomed to being "spoon-fed" in
courses, this will be a
bit of a stretch for you. It will give you a foreshadowing of what graduate study might be
like.
We will also be
supplementing our class work with field trips, including visits to the
Parliament in London;
Magna Carta in Salisbury; and Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston
Churchill, in Woodstock.
Shorter local field trips may include a visit to
the Oxford Museum and Bodleian Library.
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