PPS 137 - ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP
Instructor: Alma Blount
Wednesday 6:00 - 8:30 pm, Sanford 150
Capstone seminar for students completing community-based research (CBR) projects through the Service Opportunities in Leadership program. Involves critical reflection on summer projects, exploration of leadership, politics, and policy design concepts. With students' experiences, questions, and insights as a starting point, this course explores how lives of commitment to the common good are formed and sustained. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, W, R] PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS144S - SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ACTION
Instructor: Tony Brown
Wednesday/Friday 1:15 - 2:30 pm, Sanford 102
The central goal of Social Entrepreneurship in Action is to provide students with knowledge, analytical perspectives, and experiences important to understanding social entrepreneurship as a major contemporary force addressing problems in our society. Grounded in the social sciences, PPS144's integrates theory and practice. The teaching method is interactive and experiential. Teams of students will define a promising idea and develop a compelling plan that addresses a real problem or opportunity in the Duke or Durham communities, with the objectives of creating meaningful learning experiences for themselves and something of enduring value for the community. Central PPS144's themes include students' education and development by working in teams to develop compelling plans (including credible data and actual results that validate the opportunity and the projects' potential). A number of students will decide to pilot-test and subsequently launch their projects following the end of the course. Others will decide not to continue with their projects. MARKETS AND MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE - CORE COURSE,SERVICE-LEARNING COURSE [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI] PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS 146 - LEADERSHIP, DEVELOPMENT, AND ORGANIZATIONS
Instructor: Tony Brown
Wednesday/Friday 10:05 - 11:20 am, Rubenstein Hall 153
This course is designed to provide an engaging and stimulating climate for students to explore leadership, leadership development and the other themes of the course. The core pedagogy of the course focuses on experiential learning activities, including a personal leadership plan, a team-based community leadership project, case discussions, readings, guest speakers, and personal reflection. Class topics include the meaning of leadership, leadership development, personal character and values, worldviews and citizenship, leadership attributes and behaviors, organizational change, strategy and planning, conflict resolution, and decision-making and judgment. MARKETS AND MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE - CORE COURSE, SERVICE-LEARNING COURSE [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]

PPS 168 - DOCUMENTARY ENGAGEMENT
Instructors: Alex Harris & Elena Rue
Monday 11:40 - 2:10 pm, Bridges House 104
In this seminar students will learn to use documentary photography and audio as tools for social engagement. The class will focus on the documentary work students create on one theme throughout the semester. Students will study policy issues related to that theme. They will also examine classic and contemporary documentary photography and audio to help give context and shape to their own documentary work. The fall 2011 seminar will focus on homelessness in Durham. Students will work closely with Housing for New Hope (HNH), a local agency that provides services for homeless and formerly homeless individuals and families. Working with HNH staff members, students will come to know and document the lives and stories of these individuals.  Students will learn and refine valuable technical skills such as photoshop and Final Cut Pro in order to complete a multi-media documentary project by the end of the semester. As a class we will develop a web-based multi-media portrait of homelessness in Durham featuring the combined photographs and audio portraits students produce.  SERVICE LEARNING COURSE [Areas of Knowledge: ALP] PERMISSION REQUIRED

PPS 194 - LEADING AS A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR
Instructor: Christopher Gergen
Tuesday/Thursday 4:25 - 5:40 pm, Rubenstein Hall 153
A dynamic introduction to social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial leadership, PPS194 is for students seeking an understanding of how innovative approaches to social change are created and implemented. Students will also be challenged to reflect on their own emerging leadership potential and how one embarks on a life of purpose. Through the course content and research assignments, students will be exposed to important examples of social entrepreneurs and their enterprises while gaining a comprehensive understanding of the social innovation process. Students will apply this knowledge by going through the process of identifying a community need, and embarking upon the beginning stages of developing a promising idea for innovative intervention. Students will also work to create an "entrepreneurial life plan," reflecting upon their personal path to creating an extraordinary life that is in line with their passions and goals while enhancing their communities as entrepreneurial leaders. MARKETS AND MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATE - ELECTIVE COURSE [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: EI]

HISTORY 72D - AMERICAN DREAMS/AMERICAN REALITIES
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
Monday/Wednesday 11:55 - 12:45 pm, Social Sciences 136
What does it mean to be an "American?" A French political scientist said, "To be a Frenchman is a fact; to be an American is an ideal." What commonly shared ideals, ideas, "myths" define us as "Americans?" This course examines the role of some commonly shared myths as "rags to riches," the "agrarian way of life," the "frontier", the "foreign devil" and the "City on a Hill" in defining the American character and our hopes, fears, dreams and actions through our history. Attention will be given to the surface consistency of these myths as accepted by each immigrant group versus the shifting content of the myths as they change to reflect the hopes and values of each of these groups. [Areas of Knowledge: CZ; Inquiries/Competencies: CCI]

HISTORY 196 - LEADERSHIP IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Instructor: Gerald Wilson
Tuesday/Thursday 4:25 - 5:40 pm, Soc Psy 128
The seminar will focus on political, social, business, and artistic leaders in American history and problems which have called for leadership. In addition to selected short reading, students will examine closely the following: James MacGregor Burns' "Leadership"; Walter Clark's "Ox Bow Incident"; Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince"; May and R. Neustadt's "Thinking in Time"; Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men"; Gary Wills' "Certain Trumpets"; and David Gergen's "Eyewitness to Power." [Areas of Knowledge: CZ; Inquiries/Competencies: EI, R] PERMISSION REQUIRED

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PPS 114 - POLITICAL ANALYSIS AND PUBLIC POLICY MAKING
Instructor: Ken Rogerson
Monday/Wednesday 2:50 - 4:05, Sanford 03
This course focuses on the political processes in public policymaking, including both processes and actors -- whether they are agencies, legislatures, individuals or interest groups. Learning to analyze politics involves understanding relationships between actors and how they see themselves having an influence (consciously or unconsciously) on the policymaking process. Emphasis will be placed on developing the skills necessary to perform political analysis and writing about it. The course will be divided into three sections: 1) actors and players in the policymaking process; 2) the policymaking process; and 3) policy issue areas. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: W]

PPS 124.01 Children in Contemporary Society
Instructor: Clara Muschkin
Tuesday/Thursday 10:05 – 11:20 am, Rubenstein Hall 149
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to examining the issues facing today’s youth, from childhood through adolescence. Students will begin by exploring the forces that shape the definition of childhood across place and time, and review how different social science disciplines study childhood. They will then consider the many social contexts of childhood, including the family, schools, the economy, race, and gender. One of the objectives of this course is to gain an understanding of issues of childhood adversity—including poverty, abuse and violence, deviance and delinquency, and health inequities—and some of the public policies that address these issues. [Areas of Knowledge: SS; Inquiries/Competencies: W]