Courses

Introduction to the history, culture, music, and body movements of dances in the African American and African Diaspora tradition with a focus on African-derived dances, primarily from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and America. Instruction through classroom lectures, discussions, videos, readings, and movement sessions.

Evolution, classification, anatomy, and physiology of the invertebrates. Laboratory includes dissection of representative forms and a weekday or weekend field trip.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

Open to BBA majors or by permission of the department. An analysis of the types of securities available in the market covering both individual and institutional portfolio analyses and management. Considers the formulation of appropriate portfolio investment objectives, techniques for achieving them, and institutional, legal, and other constraints on portfolio strategies. Impacts of macroeconomic and microeconomic activity on portfolio performance, and measures of performance are discussed.

This course provides a detailed examination of portfolio management. Topics include: definition and measurement of risk, market efficiency, testing for inefficiencies, component and determinants of trading cost, mechanics of creating and managing a portfolio, and investment philosophies.

Course is intended to prepare students for the Level I CFA® exam.

An investigation of Celtic culture and its near destruction by the English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A study of Irish nationalism from the Battle of the Boyne to the present troubles in the North.

An introduction to the scriptures, tenets, practice and historical development of the religion of Islam and the principal genres of scholarly and religious expression in Islamic societies. Throughout the course, a chronological account will be paired with theme discussions on law, science, philosophy, mysticism and daily life. The status of Islamic religion in the culture and its influence on the formation and development of various institutions in society will be investigated.

Islamic history from the Ottoman conquest of Arab lands until the present day. Major themes will be the Ottoman Empire, European expansion into the Middle East, the Middle East during the World Wars, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, the Iran- Iraq war, and the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Introduction to the history of the Islamic conquest and expansion in the early Islamic period and the changes in Empire, from Spain to Iran, up through the Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk sultanate.