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Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center

(TBA) Director

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center was established in 1986 to pay tribute to Maureen and Mike Mansfield and to recognize their important contributions to U.S. Asian relations and public policy. The Center is an academic unit within The University of Montana and receives core funding from an endowment managed by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. Mansfield Center faculty offer classroom instruction, conduct research, provide training for Asian and U.S. government personnel, and organize various types of conferences, all with a focus on East Asia. The Center faculty collaborate with the University’s Asian Studies Program and several other campus units.

The Mansfield Center's Ethics and Public Affairs Program (formerly known as the Center for Ethics) focuses upon the relationship of values to public institutions and affairs. Its courses, seminars, lectures, conferences, and internships examine the role that ethical values can and should play in public life, moral quandaries faced by those who govern philosophical and practical dimensions of political ethics, and issues of leadership and character in public service.

Courses

U for undergraduate credit only, UG= for undergraduate or graduate credit, G=for graduate credit. R after the credit indicates the course may be repeated for credit to the maximum indicated after the R. Credits beyond this maximum do not count toward a degree.

Mansfield Center (MANS)

U 101 Critical Language: Elementary Pashto I 5 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., students must be grant eligible. This course is an intensive six-week course teaching Pashto.

U 102 Critical Language: Elementary Pashto II 5 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., MANS 101. Students must be also grant eligible. This course is an intensive six-week course teaching Pashto.

U 195 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-6) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr. Experimental offerings of new courses or one-time offerings of current topics.

U 201 Critical Language: Intermediate Pashto I 4 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., MANS 101 and MANS 102. Students must also be grant eligible. This course is an intensive five-week course teaching Pashto.

U 202 Critical Language: Intermediate Pashto II 4 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., MANS 101, MANS 102 and MANS 201. Students must also be grant eligible. This course is an intensive five-week course teaching Pashto.

U 240 History and Culture of Afghanistan and Pakistan 5 cr. Offered intermittently. Prereq., students must be grant eligible. This course is an intensive twenty-two week course teaching the history and cultures of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

U 395 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

UG 494 Mansfield Center Seminar Variable cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr.

UG 495 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-9) Offered intermittently. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

UG 496 Independent Study Variable cr. (R-6) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr.

G 595 Special Topics Variable cr. (R-12) Offered intermittently. Prereq., consent of instr. Experimental offerings of visiting professors, experimental offerings of new courses, or one-time offerings of current topics.

Faculty

Professors

Terry M. Weidner, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1980 (Mansfield Professor of Modern Chinese Affairs)

Philip West, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971 (Mansfield Professor of Modern Asian Affairs)

Adjunct Professors

Ambassador Mark Johnson, M.A., George Washington University, 1971 (Adjunct Mansfield Professor)

Steven Levine, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1972 (Adjunct Mansfield Professor of Modern Asian Affairs)

Registrar's Office

Lommasson Center 201

Phone: (406) 243-2995

Fax: (406) 243-4807