This course explores diplomatic issues with developing and maintaining, securing, restricting and eliminating nuclear weapons.

A study of the relationship between industry performance and market structure, and the role and effect of the government's anti-trust policies.

This course rigorously examines the organization, financing, and management of the US health care system and programs, and emphasizes economic analysis contemporary health policy concerns. By the end of the semester, students should have the institutional knowledge and analytic tolls needed to contribute to current public policy debates about health and medical care. This course and ECO 724 Environmental Economics are the two courses that are the basis for the area in Environmental and Health Economics in the Ph.D. program in Economics.

Time series and stochastic processes, auto-correlation functions and spectral properties of stationary processes; linear models for stationary processes, moving average, auto-regressive and mixed autoregressive-moving average processes; linear nonstationary models, minimum mean square error forecasts and their properties; model identification, estimation and diagnostic checking.

An identification and analysis of current theories and programs of research in instructional systems design. Students will develop the skills necessary to conduct and write a scholarly literature review and identify potential areas and questions needing further study.

This course is designed to expand student understanding of the theory and practice of leadership, conflict management, and decision-making. It is also designed to focus on issues of cohesiveness, trust, motivation, vision, and goals. Students must integrate their personal ethics and definition of leadership in various course assignments and projects.

Study of diverse strategies and protocols used to identify authentic problems of practice in educational settings, diagnose potential options, determine innovation solutions, and assess impact by using diverse data sources.

EDL 707 examines theories associated with learning-centered leadership in P12 educational organizations with emphasis on the roles and responsibilities of principal in supervising and monitoring a school's instructional program, learning assessment, and evaluation and accountability processes to assure academic achievement by all students.

Advanced graduate students enroll in this topical seminar to enhance their portfolios for educational leadership through concentrated study of innovations in the specialized functions of leadership. These specializations include, but are not limited to, the study of curriculum and instructional leadership, educational law, personnel administration, school and community relations, education for diverse populations, budgeting and financing of schools. May be repeated up to a maximum of nine credits.

This course will provide a review of current educational and psychological theories of motivation. After examining various theories (e.g., attributions, goals, self efficacy, expectancy X value), the course will examine applications of these theories to contemporary issues such as violence, substance abuse, dropping out of school, health maintenance, etc.