AUCS 110 -- Sources of Power
"Sources of Power" is an All-University Curriculum Course designed to explore the different perspectives (economic, psychological, sociological, cultural, historical and communication-related) that examine the phenomenon known as power. There are two related sets of goals for this course:
  • intellectual or substantive goals concern actual course content, and
  • student skill goals concern the development of an improved ability for oral and written communication and critical thinking

The chief intellectual rationale for the course is for students to recognize and understand the nature of power and how it is used in society, and to apply this understanding in their own lives. Growing from this goal, the course has three distinct, but interrelated levels of subject matter: it discusses the definition and forms that power takes; it defines the levels at which power manifests itself; it analyzes the processes and effects of power.
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