The following courses will be used towards the Rural Policy
Concentration in the MPP and for the graduate and undergraduate
certificates.
ANTH 581 - Natural Resources and Community
Values [3 credits]
Investigates relations between human communities and the
values of community members. Resource issues integrate concepts
from social science, economics, and ecology. PREREQ: 3 credits
of social science.
ANTH 582 - World Food & Culture Implications
of Intl Ag Dev [3 credits]
Examines the ideological and theoretical bases of world
assistance programs and their effects on different sectors
and classes, including women. Causes of world hunger in
terms of agronomic, mainstream economic and radical economic
paradigms are developed and contrasted. PREREQ: Senior standing.
ANTH 584 - Wealth and Poverty [3 credits]
Summarizes the distribution of wealth observed cross-culturally
and through time. Determines the relation between wealth
distribution and economic productivity. Shows the impact
of industrialization and economic wealth distribution in
Western civilization and cross-culturally. Evaluates how
cultural practices affect wealth distribution in Western
and non-Western societies. PREREQ: 3 credits of social science.
AREC 554 - Rural Development Economics
and Policy [3 credits]
Theories of economic change in developed and less-developed
economies; natural resource sectors and the development
of rural regions, with emphasis on growth, diversification,
and instability; resource mobility and the spatial aspects
of development; poverty and inequality; rural development
policy. PREREQ: AREC 300 or AREC 311. Offered alternate
years.
FOR 564 - Private Forests in Society [3
credits]
Examines private forests as components of social systems
and ecosystems. All categories of private forests will be
considered, but the focus will be on nonindustrial private
forests. Students will develop an understanding of private
forests, their owners, and current social, economic, and
policy issues surrounding these forests.
GEO 520 - Geography of Resource Use [3
credits]
Functional concepts of resources, institutions affecting
resource use, role of resources; resource supply, bases
of controversy. Field trip(s) may be required; transportation
fee charged. PREREQ: 9 credits of upper-division geography.
GEO 523 - Land Use [3 credits]
Development of a conceptual framework for land use study;
analysis of land as a resource, land use trends in the U.S.,
land use principles, and management issues as related to
planning.
GEO 552 - Principles and Practices of Rural
and Resource Planning [3 credits]
Principles, techniques, and current practices of land use
planning for rural areas. Emphasis on resource issues, organization
of data, policy development, and decision-making. PREREQ:
GEO 423/523.
HDFS 547 - Families and Poverty [3 credits]
Examines families in poverty focusing on causes and consequences
of family poverty, including global economic factors, migration
patterns, discrimination, and policies and programs for
families.
SNR 511 - Sustainable Natural Resource
Development [1 credit]
Using readings, class discussions, and field trips,
we introduce the program sessions and pedogogical methods,
familiarize students with basic working definitions of sustainability,
and build capacity to work as as group on a common project.
SNR 520 - Social Sustainable Natural Resources
[3 credits]
Using readings, personal experiences, and class discussions,
students explore five principles of socially sustainable
forestry, and review the role they play in creating forest-based
sustainable communities.
SNR 521 - Economics of Sustainable Natural Resource
Management [3 credits]
Focuses on the sources of market failure, the means
of correcting market failure, and the real-world examples
of making progress toward sustainable resource use by means
of market mechanisms.
SNR 522 - Basic Beliefs and Ethics in Natural Resources
[1 credit]
Examines the basic philosophies and ethical systems in American
forestry, including Pinchot's agricultural approach and
Leopold's biotic forestry, and compares them to contemporary
public attitudes and considers their implications for sustainability.
SOC 499/599 - Rural Communities and Demography
[3 credits]
This course will explore the conceptual and quantitative
dimensions of rurality in America, focusing on the contemporary
demographic, cultural, economic, ecological, and social
psychological planes on which rural policy has been conceived
and evaluated. Class time will be devoted to both practical
and theoretical pursuits, including instruction in applied
demographic research methods such as mapping and spatial
analysis and discussion of the broader sociological trends
influencing rural communities.
SOC/GEO 507 - Contemporary Rural Issues
Seminar [1 credit]
This weekly seminar series will focus on issues, research,
programs, and policies, confronting rural Oregon. Weekly
lecturers will be drawn from the OSU community and beyond,
including public policy makers, rural stakeholders, and
non-profit organizations. Students will be expected to attend
9 of the 10 lectures.
SOC 560 - Comparative Societies [3 credits]
Comparative study of societies, with major emphasis upon
societies of the non-Western world. Focus upon factors shaping
social structure, patterns of change, and mutual influences
among societies. PREREQ: SOC 204.
SOC 566 - International Development-Gender
Issues [3 credits]
Examines roles and statuses of women and men throughout
the world and differential impact of development on men
and women. Evaluates traditional development policies and
programs and discusses theories of gender stratification
and of modernization. PREREQ: SOC 204.
SOC 575 - Rural-Urban Sociology [3 credits]
Views social life along the rural-urban continuum. Differences
and similarities in social behavior, organization and ecology
will be covered. Influence of urban ideas on smaller communities
will be explored. Worldwide focus. PREREQ: SOC 204.
SOC 581 - Society and Natural Resources
[3 credits]
Explores the complex interrelationships between humans and
natural resources, emphasizing how management decisions
and organizations are enmeshed in social and cultural contexts.
PREREQ: SOC 204.
SOC 585 - Consensus and Natural Resources
[3 credits]
Students will use a working group approach. They will select
a natural resource topic, study the team process and interaction
as a method of learning, explore the issue using systems
practice, and strive for consensus on solutions to their
issue.
Not all courses listed are offered every year.
