Courses

A basic understanding of how to use data to inform business decision-making. The course introduces descriptive (what happened?), diagnostic (why did it happen?), predictive (will it happen in the future?), and prescriptive (what should we do?) analytics across marketing, accounting, finance, and operations. It also introduces adaptive/autonomous business analytics, which is built on artificial intelligence, and considers data ethics.

The political, social, and religious history of Byzantium and exploration of the contributions of Byzantine culture in the fields of religion, literature, art, architecture, and music.

Wen-yen grammar and the reading of texts in Classical Chinese.

A continuation of Chinese 250

In this course, pre-service students will be introduced to seminal pedagogical frameworks in both early childhood and childhood classrooms. Students will have robust and diverse field-based opportunities to observe instruction in both settings.

A general introduction to the field of clinical psychology. The etiology, differential diagnosis, and methods of psychological treatment of various kinds of personality and conduct problems, emotional and social maladjustments, and problems of exceptional mentalities are considered. This course is especially recommended to students planning to do graduate work in clinical psychology.

A general introduction to biology in the areas of cell biology, genetics, development, vertebrate physiology, ecology, and evolution. No previous knowledge of biology or chemistry assumed. For students in all areas, including physical education majors and prospective biology majors who have not had previous high school biology or chemistry courses. Not open to students who have taken BIOL 8, 9, or the equivalent, except with permission of the chair.

Emphasis will be on a variety of writing forms, including narration, description, and analysis; attention will be given to matters of grammar, syntax, punctuation, and diction. The student will spend one hour per week meeting in conferences, small groups, or other formats for intensive writing instruction and practice. This course is designated for eligible ESL students.

This seminar, required of department Honors candidates, is organized around a broad theme, often interdisciplinary, and includes individual research projects, which are presented at a student conference in the Spring. The seminar is taken twice, in the Fall and Spring of the same academic year, and this two-semester sequence counts toward the requirements for Honors in English.

Comparative literature as a discipline has moved beyond its strictly philological origins and now encompasses a range of areas of inquiry from postcolonialism to cultural, cinema, and performance studies. This course's primary goal is to explore the various ways in which "literature" has been constructed as a field, within an explicitly transnational context.