Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: AP/OTH CREDIT IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A course that provides credit for students who have successfully completed approved examinations, such as Advanced Placement exams. This credit counts toward the total credit hours required for graduation.

Long Title: INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: A survey of fundamental ideas, theories and approaches that have shaped the intellectual heritage of the social sciences. A foundation course.

Long Title: SOCIAL SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey of how different disciplines in the social sciences treat public policy. Includes specific policy questions as a means of highlighting each discipline's approach to the study of public policy.

Long Title: POLICY ANALYSIS

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group II

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Familiarizes students with the analytical tools necessary for evaluating and analyzing public policies. Cross-list: POLI 338, POST 338.

Long Title: CONTEMPORARY PALESTIAN ISSUES: TRANS TOWARDS NATION BUILDING

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Long Title: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): (BIOS 201 OR BIOC 201) AND (BIOS 202 OR EBIO 202)

Description: An overview of environmental health issues including discussion of basic research methods; illnesses caused or exacerbated by environmental exposures; environmental justice; and the role of research in driving effective policies to protect public health. The course includes numerous guest lectures by area researchers, clinicians, and policy makers; a bus tour featuring disproportionately affected neighborhoods, air pollution monitoring stations and "green" initiatives; student presentations on issues of special interest; and critical reading of seminal environmental health studies. Cross-list: ENST 314.

Long Title: SOCIAL SCIENCES UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ENTERPRISE (SSURE)

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SSURE fosters research partnerships between Rice social sciences majors and faculty, to enhance future employment and educational opportunities for students. The program offers research budget to conduct independent scholarly projects on topics of their choosing with the advice and mentoring of a faculty. Only students with selected research proposals qualify for enrollment. Student presents paper on campus, and possibly nationally. Department Permission Required.

Long Title: MEASURING SUSTAINABILITY: TARGET HOUSTON

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The course will focus on the three legs of sustainability - environmental, economic, and social issues - and will address both theoretical and practical aspects of measuring sustainable development. Sustainability is one of the great challenges for humans in the 21st century and will be a key consideration in future settlement patterns and engineering design solutions. The course will focus on measuring sustainability using the Houston-area as a case study. Cross-list: CEVE 325, ENST 325.

Long Title: HEALTH CARE REFORM IN THE 50 STATES

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examination of those states that have undertaken comprehensive health system reform, have carried out more limited revisions, or have failed to even begin the process, assessing successes and failures. Includes general theories of state-federal relationships and the role of the federal government in state health reform.

Long Title: PHARMACEUTICAL POLITICS AND POLICY

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course will introduce students to pharmacy policy, as essential aspect of public health. The approval of new medications, the differences between brand name drugs, generic, and over-the-counter drugs is considered along with the "shift movement," (prescription to OTC status). The development, distribution, marketing and consumption of pharmaceuticals are influenced by policy. All aspects of these processes are affected by the pharmaceutical industry, government (the FDA), Congress, insurance companies, pharmacists, hospitals, physicians, consumer representatives and patients. Regulatory issues, controlling the costs, state - federal relationships, cross-border purchases, and the global market for medication are discussed. Normative issues and ethical dilemmas will be discussed. Course taught at the School of Public Health medical Center one mile from Rice University campus; attendance required.

Long Title: INTERNSHIP

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Independent Study

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Internship experience for upper-level social sciences majors only. The program allows students to work with companies, organizations, government agencies to apply the knowledge they gain in the classroom to real world problems. Dean's Office permission required. Department Permission Required.

Long Title: SOCIAL SCIENCES INTERNSHIP - ABROAD

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Internship/Practicum

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Internship experience for upper-level social sciences majors only. The program allows students to work with companies, organizations, government agencies while ABROAD to apply the knowledge they gain in the classroom to real world problems. Permission required from the Social Science Dean's office. Department Permission Required.

Long Title: FALL MEDICAL RESEARCH INTERNSHIP

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: Internship with a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) centering on a medical research topic involving the Social Sciences. Student-interns will spend up to 10 hours/week at BCM and will be required to submit a written report, evaluations and an example of research products (research posters, abstracts, paper drafts, manuscripts, etc.) both to their supervisor and the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences. Enrollment is limited to Rice undergraduate students who have declared a major within the School of Social Sciences and have been approved for participation in the internship partnership between Rice and BCM. Written approval of the research supervisor and the Dean of Undergraduates must be received by the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences at least 2 weeks prior to the start of classes. Department Permission Required.

Long Title: SPRING MEDICAL RESEARCH INTERNSHIP

Department: Social Sciences Division

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Course Type: Research

Credit Hours: 1 TO 3

Description: IInternship with a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) centering on a medical research topic involving the Social Sciences. Student-interns will spend up to 10 hours/week at BCM and will be required to submit a written report, evaluations and an example of research products (research posters, abstracts, paper drafts, manuscripts, etc.) both to their supervisor and the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences. Enrollment is limited to Rice undergraduate students who have declared a major within the School of Social Sciences and have been approved for participation in the internship partnership between Rice and BCM. Written approval of the research supervisor and the Dean of Undergraduates must be received by the Office of the Dean of Social Sciences at least 2 weeks prior to the start of classes. Department Permission Required.