Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.

Credit from this course applies to the following programs: Graduate

Faculty from different disciplines will provide in-depth coverage of selected topics in Hospitality and Dietetics Administration.

This course requires intensive independent scholarship in Nutrition and Food Systems (NFS) expressed in an individual, student-specific learning contract. The course learning objectives vary as needed depending on individual needs, interests, aptitudes, and desired outcomes. The course allows students to explore areas of interest related to nutrition and food systems.

Research work involving original investigation. May be repeated to a maximum of 18 credits.

This course will vary in content depending on special needs for faculty availability.

This course reviews how the policy community has measured the weak state, revealing discrepancies in the quantifiable parameters, definitions, and categorizations, and analyze the efforts taken to address state weakness, particularly foreign economic and security assistance. It will review the five theoretical approaches to the weak state in the literature, which are informed by the international community's concerns with state weakness: development, intervention, post-colonialism, globalization and terrorism.

This seminar course will explore how economic values and choices shape economic options, and the techniques used to pursue them in the diplomatic arena. Trade and fiscal techniques, financial policies, and sanctions will be explored in relationship to the interplay between economic and political/international relations theory, and the relevance of economic statecraft to achieving both economic and noneconomic goals.

This course uses the tools of economic analysis and economic statecraft to examine energy security. It will look at the connection between energy and the economy in both the USA and other states and the connections between energy and military security and power. It will include a detailed review of the US energy economy, the international energy market, the economics of the major Middle Eastern states, and the Russian economy.

Half-time to full-time work on thesis. May be repeated to a maximum of six semesters.